Goodfellas: The Dark Tower and Beyond

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Goodfellas: The Dark Tower and Beyond

Postby American Dream » Sun Feb 11, 2018 11:30 am

Sunday, February 11, 2018
Goodfellas: The Dark Tower and Beyond Part I

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A few months ago I published a piece that examined, in part, President Donald J. Trump's brief control over Resorts International. Resorts was a curious creature that served as kind of bridge-way between both the Overworld and the Underworld. In addition to Trump, it also had close ties to another controversial Republican President: Richard M. Nixon. Nixon's longtime benefactor, Howard Hughes, also played a role in the Resorts saga during the 1970s.

At the same times Nixon was basking in the luxuries Resorts' Bahama casino (while Hughes was potentially being held prisoner there), the gambling interest also employed the bother of a close Lansky associate and counted among its shareholders William Mellon Hitchcock, a Mellon family heir who at one point was the financier for the largest LSD ring in the world (noted before here).

And then there was Intertel, a wholly owned subsidiary of Resorts. Intertel was a private intelligence agency staffed heavily with former FBI men and other assorted US intelligence veterans. It is most famous (or notorious, depending upon one's point of view) for spiriting Howard Hughes out of his Las Vegas penthouse in 1971 and keeping the reclusive billionaire under lock and key for the rest of his official life, nominally under the guise of providing Hughes with "security." It probably goes without saying, but Intertel is widely believed to have been an arm of the US intelligence community.

Intertel was still a part of Resorts in 1986 when Trump procured a controlling interest in the corporation. He would act as the company's CEO until 1988, when ownership passed to Merv Griffin after Trump played a key role in completing construction on Resorts most ambitions casino, the Taj Mahal, which he ended up the owner as part of his deal with Griffin. In addition to the spooks, it would seem that the Mafioso were still part of Resorts at this time as well. Hell, even Griffin had his own ties to the Gambino family, according to New York Times journalist Wayne Barrett in Trump: The Deals and the Downfall.

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Re: Goodfellas: The Dark Tower and Beyond

Postby stillrobertpaulsen » Mon Feb 12, 2018 6:44 pm

Down the rabbit hole indeed. Another brilliant bit of digging from VISUP, thanks AD! I'm going to crosspost this in The Russian Conspiracy as RI subject thread for greater visibility.
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Postby American Dream » Sun Feb 25, 2018 12:00 pm

Goodfellas: The Dark Tower and Beyond Part II

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Probably the strangest aspect of the Triad compound are the allegations encountered by state cop Ralph Ross, for years the lead investigator of Drew Thornton in Kentucky, of occult activity at the compound.

"Coincidentally, Ralph had suddenly been receiving complaints about suspicious activity on Triad. Neighbors had reported to state police that a cult of devil worshipers frequented the property, and that the constant firing automatic weapons could be heard..."
(The Bluegrass Conspiracy, Sally Denton, pg. 114)


This takes us into some truly muddy waters. As I'm sure fans of the late, great David McGowan are well aware, there have been allegations for decades of paramilitary training compounds spread out across the nation with an occult flavor that "trained" various serial killers.

These allegations probably originate with infamous serial killer Henry Lee Lucas, who in the 1980s claimed to a member of a cult he called the Hand of Death. As was noted before here, Lucas alleged that this cult trained out of a paramilitary compound located in the Florida Everglades. While nominally this claim seems ridiculous, it is important to remember that anti-Castro Cubans were being trained in paramilitary camps in the Everglades up until at least the early 1960s. What's more, this training was largely being overseen by the same mercenaries who would later gravitate to Robert K. Brown's Soldier of Fortune crowd. Brown himself was quite active in assisting the anti-Castro Cubans during the early 1960s as well.

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Carlos Lehder, the Hitler-worshiping Medellin Cartel associate who would end up supplying Thornton, also had an interesting connection to this anti-Castro Cuban crowd as well. During the height of his influence, he set up shop on Norman's Cay in the Bahamas, which was used as a base for Lehder's operations as well as resupplies for cocaine being shipped from Columbia to North America. As was noted before here, before Lehder took possession of the island, it was used by anti-Castro Cubans and American mercenaries to stage raids on Cuba. Robert Vesco, the fugitive financier who collaborated with WerBell in the 1970s and frequented visited Resorts' Paradise Island casino during that decade, was also a regular guest of Lehder's at Norman's Cay during the 1980s. But back to the matter at hand.

As was noted before here, Henry' claim was further bolstered by the discovery of Adolfo Constanzo's ranch near Matamoros, Mexico (which is directly across the border from Brownsville, Texas) in 1989. Constanzo was a Cuban-American occultist who became a major figure in the Mexican drug trade during the 1980s. Constanzo and his followers were believed to have performed human sacrifices at this ranch in addition to storing large amounts of contraband there. Prior to the discovery of the ranch, Lucas had alleged the Hand of Death kept a ranch near Matamoros for such purposes. It is also interesting to note that Constanzo was almost surely an affiliate of the Gulf Cartel, which the above-mentioned Los Zetas originally belonged to as enforcers before breaking away (noted before here).

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All of this leads me to believe there is merit to these allegations of paramilitary compounds. Certainly both the Company and Mitchell WerBell maintained such places during the 1970s and were reported to have trained some curious figures there. Henry Lee Lucas' alleged Florida Everglades site has precedence with the sites used by anti-Castro Cubans in the early 1960s, a network that both Robert K. Brown and Mitch WerBell were deeply involved with.And of course there's the possibility that Constanzo, who was born in Miami during the early 1960s, was raised in such circles.

While this might seem like a strange digression, I would further expand of this serial killer cult theme in the next installment. Also up for consideration Bryant and Thornton's contacts in Lexington's upper crust as well as further ties Trump has to the Company. And finally, I may even get around to considering the implications of it all. Stay tuned dear reader.


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Postby American Dream » Sun Mar 11, 2018 11:09 am

Goodfellas Part III: Viva Las Vegas

By at least the early 1980s Trump would become a regular at the Kentucky Derby --which also attracted many key figures linked to the Company, including John Y. Brown, Dan Chandler, Jimmy Lambert, Anita Madden and of course Biff Halloran. In 1983 Trump was a guest at the Derby Eve Gala, hosted by John Y. Brown and also attended by Bill and Hillary Clinton. Reportedly at this event Jimmy Lambert had arranged for a considerable donations to Brown's reelection campaign by the Clintons and a certain reputed organized crime figure.

"In 1996, a published biography of Bill and Hillary Clinton, Partners in Power, reveals that Lambert had also been the conduit for some $300,000 in cash given to then-Governor John Y. Brown by Clinton and Brown intimate Dan Lasater, a fast-food and bond brokerage millionaire suspected of ties to organized crime and who would later be convicted himself on drug charges. According to FBI records, Brown through Lambert had asked for a million dollars at the time, but Lasater had decided to give 'only' $300,000, conveyed in a brown paper bag aboard Lasater's Lear Jet as he flew the Clintons to the 1983 Derby, where the two governors and their wives would socialize as usual..."
(The Bluegrass Conspiracy, Sally Denton, pgs. 369-370)


Brown and his then-wife, Phyllis George, would maintain close ties with the Clintons for years to come. However, in the immediate future, they would move into one of Trump's properties. After losing his reelection bid Brown and George became some of the first tenets at Trump Tower --which, as noted in part one, was fast becoming a center of money laundering in its own right.

While comparisons have often been made between Brown and Bill Clinton --and not unjustly as both men have a similar personal style --Brown seems to have served as something of role model for Trump as well. Both men are tycoons that had no political experience before being elected. Both men also leaned heavily on the business community to staff their administration with. And both men seem to have risen through the ranks thanks to similar shadowy interests.

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From the 1983 Derby Eve Gala, which appears to have been riddled with intrigue: John Y Brown, Phyllis George and Donald Trump are the three standing up; Hillary Clinton is seated at the far left


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Postby American Dream » Sun Mar 25, 2018 9:02 am

Goodfellas Part IV: Lavender Mafia Edition

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Can we then dismiss DeCamp's claims that Cohn was some type of sexual blackmail specialist out of hand? It is tempting, considering how problematic some of his allegations are concerning Robert Keith Gray, but as I kept digging into Cohn's activities, I turned up far more compelling evidence of such things. One of the most curious omissions from DeCamp's work is the known relationship between Roy Cohn and another notorious D.C.-based lobbyist named Craig Spence.

Spence originally began his professional career as a journalist, serving as ABC's Vietnam correspondent during the war's height in the late 1970s. He then left ABC and Vietnam in 1970 and relocated to Japan. There he developed contacts with the aristocratic Shiina family, who were very prominent in the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party, which has almost exclusively ruled Japan since the end of World War II. As was noted before here, the Liberal Democratic Party was very close to both the Yakuza and the old Asian People's Anti-Communist League clique noted above.

Spence used his ties with the Shiina family to establish himself as a powerful Republican lobbyist in the D.C. area by the early 1980s. It was the Shiina family that provided Spence with the money he used to procure his home in D.C.'s Kalorama area, which reportedly was used to entrap various VIPs in the city. Spence ran up a nearly $20,000-a month tab with a local homosexual escort service to provide entertainment at his famed parties there in addition to providing ample amounts of cocaine. More than a few guests believed that the drug-fueled sexual escapades were being recorded by an elaborate surveillance system Spence had throughout the house.

"... the Washington Times expanded considerable amounts of ink fleshing out Spence's blackmail enterprise: A Washington Times article from June 1989, 'Power Broker Served Drugs, Sex at Parties Bugged for Blackmail,' revealed the strange goings-on at Spence's DC home: 'Several former associate said his house on Wyoming Avenue was bugged and had a secret two-way mirror, and that he attempted to ensnare visitors into compromising sexual encounters that he could then uses leverage.'

"According to interviews conducted by Washington Times reporters, Spence had an eight-foot-long, two-way mirror overlooking his library they gave him a prime vantage point for 'spying on guests.' Bugs were also scattered throughout various nooks and crannies within his house...

"A former Reagan administration official who worked at the US Information Agency attended soirees at Spence's home, and he disclosed to Washington Times reporters that he personally observed a cornucopia of recording and taping equipment. 'It was my clear impression that the house was bugged,' he said. An Air Force sergeant whom Spence employed as a bodyguard corroborated accounts of blackmail: 'The house was definitely bugged. I can't say what he was doing with the information. I don't know that. But he was recording whatever occurred there.' "

(The Franklin Scandal, Nick Bryant, pgs. 301-302)


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Later, it was alleged that Spence had even provided midnight guided tours of the White House for several of the escorts in his employment. Unsurprisingly, Spence claimed ties to the CIA and darkly hinted at Agency approval for what appears to have been a major blackmail operation.

Spence has also been fingered as an associate of former Nebraska state representative Larry E. King by numerous eyewitnesses. King was the head of the now defunct Franklin Community Federal Credit Union in Omaha, Nebraska. Franklin collapsed in 1988 as part of the unfolding savings and loan crisis of the late 1980s. As investigators began to take a look at King and Franklin, allegations began to emerge that King was a leading figure in a nationwide pedophile ring that recruited children from the Omaha area. Several of these kids would go on to allege encounters with Spence via King.

Henry Vinson, the so-called "D.C. Madam" who provided many of the male escorts for Spence's parties, also alleged to have seen King and Spence together and to have overheard them speaking of a pedophile ring they were both involved in. He also alleged that Spence repeatedly pushed him to procure underage boys for his parties, which Vinson refused to do.

The allegations concerning King, often referred to as the "Franklin scandal," remain highly controversial. Charges against King involving pedophilia were thrown out years ago, but several of his reputed underage prostitutes managed to successfully sue King in the late 1990s and numerous witnesses have come forward over the years to corroborate the claims against him. As such, many astute researchers consider Franklin to be a cover-up of epic proportions. And at the heart of it was Spence, who appears to have been the key figure for this ring in Washington D.C.

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And it would seem that Spence was close to Roy Cohn as well.

"... Spence's soirees also attracted high-ranking military and intelligence officials. In fact, CIA Director William Casey seemed to be particularly fond of Spence and his high-flying get-togethers. Spence once threw a glitzy birthday bash for his friend and right-wing closet homosexual Roy Cohn, and his friend William Casey was one of the guests of honor. Larry King, as you will recall, discussed his friendship with William Casey in an article in Omaha's Metropolitan."
(The Franklin Scandal, Nick Bryant, pg. 296)


Thus, Cohn was not only friendly with Spence, but the infamous Bill Casey would attend a birthday bash for Cohn as a guest of honor. As was noted in the prior installment, Cohn was instrumental in setting up media mogul Rupert Murdoch as a propagandist for the CIA during the Reagan years. Casey was the CIA director during this time and personally participated in the talks to sponsor Murdoch, along with US Information Agency director Charles Wick, a friend of Gray's. It is likely Cohn used his relationship with Casey to make these arrangements.



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Re: Goodfellas: The Dark Tower and Beyond

Postby stillrobertpaulsen » Wed Apr 04, 2018 5:35 pm

American Dream » Sun Mar 11, 2018 10:09 am wrote:
Goodfellas Part III: Viva Las Vegas

By at least the early 1980s Trump would become a regular at the Kentucky Derby --which also attracted many key figures linked to the Company, including John Y. Brown, Dan Chandler, Jimmy Lambert, Anita Madden and of course Biff Halloran. In 1983 Trump was a guest at the Derby Eve Gala, hosted by John Y. Brown and also attended by Bill and Hillary Clinton. Reportedly at this event Jimmy Lambert had arranged for a considerable donations to Brown's reelection campaign by the Clintons and a certain reputed organized crime figure.

"In 1996, a published biography of Bill and Hillary Clinton, Partners in Power, reveals that Lambert had also been the conduit for some $300,000 in cash given to then-Governor John Y. Brown by Clinton and Brown intimate Dan Lasater, a fast-food and bond brokerage millionaire suspected of ties to organized crime and who would later be convicted himself on drug charges. According to FBI records, Brown through Lambert had asked for a million dollars at the time, but Lasater had decided to give 'only' $300,000, conveyed in a brown paper bag aboard Lasater's Lear Jet as he flew the Clintons to the 1983 Derby, where the two governors and their wives would socialize as usual..."
(The Bluegrass Conspiracy, Sally Denton, pgs. 369-370)


Brown and his then-wife, Phyllis George, would maintain close ties with the Clintons for years to come. However, in the immediate future, they would move into one of Trump's properties. After losing his reelection bid Brown and George became some of the first tenets at Trump Tower --which, as noted in part one, was fast becoming a center of money laundering in its own right.

While comparisons have often been made between Brown and Bill Clinton --and not unjustly as both men have a similar personal style --Brown seems to have served as something of role model for Trump as well. Both men are tycoons that had no political experience before being elected. Both men also leaned heavily on the business community to staff their administration with. And both men seem to have risen through the ranks thanks to similar shadowy interests.

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From the 1983 Derby Eve Gala, which appears to have been riddled with intrigue: John Y Brown, Phyllis George and Donald Trump are the three standing up; Hillary Clinton is seated at the far left


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I really had no idea of a possible connection between Cohn and Permindex. I'm not a believer in the veracity of the Torbitt Document (certainly not in its entirety) but Visup View does a great job checking out all the angles:

While the claims made by Torbitt concerning Permindex remain highly, highly controversial, it seems all but certain the corporation was tied to both the US intelligence community and the Fascist International and that it has been linked to at least two very notable assassinations.

"...When the announcement for Permindex was first made in Switzerland in late 1956, its principal backing was to come from a local banker named Hans Seligman. But as more investigation by the local papers was done, it became clear that the real backer was J. Henry Schroder Banking Corporation. This information was quite revealing. Schroder's had been closely associated with Allen Dulles and the CIA for years. Allen Dulles's connection to the Schroder banking family went back to the thirties when his law firm, Sullivan and Cromwell, first began representing them through him. Later, Dulles was the bank's General Counsel. In fact, when Dulles became CIA Director, Schroder's was a repository for a fifty million dollar contingency fund the Dulles personally controlled. Schroder's was a welcome conduit because the bank benefited from previous CIA overthrows in Guatemala and Iran. Another reason that there began to be a furor over Permindex in Switzerland was the fact that the banks founder, Baron Kurt von Schroder, was associated with the Third Reich, specifically Heinrich Himmler. The project now became stalled in Switzerland. It now moved to Rome...

"...The Board of Directors was made up of bankers who had been tied up with fascist governments, people who worked the Jewish refugee racket during World War II, a former member of Mussolini's cabinet, and the son-in-law of Hjalmar Schact, the economic wizard behind the Third Reich... There were at least four international newspapers that exposed the bizarre activities of Permindex when it was in Rome. One problem was the mysterious source of funding: no one knew where it was coming from or going to. Another was that its activities reportedly included assassination attempts on French Premier Charles de Gaulle. Which would make sense since the founding member of Permindex, Ferenc Nagy, was a close friend of Jacques Soustelle. Soustelle was a leader of the OAS, a group of former French officers who broke with de Gaulle over his Algerian policy. They later made several attempts on the de Gaulle's life, which the CIA was privy to. Again, this mysterious source of funding, plus the rightwing, neo-Fascist directors created another wave of controversy. One newspaper wrote that the organization may have been 'a creature the CIA... set up as a cover for the transfer of CIA... funds in Italy for illegal political-espionage activities.' The Schroder connection would certainly suggest that."

(Destiny Betrayed, James DiEugenio, pgs. 385-386)


Permindex's link to the JFK assassination came via one of its most notorious members: international business man and reputed CIA asset Clay Shaw. Shaw was famously one of the individuals charged in attorney Jim Garrison's investigation in the Kennedy assassination in New Orleans. In the Oliver Stone film JFK Shaw was portrayed by Tommy Lee Jones.

The "Torbitt document" also alleges that Roy Cohn was a key member of Permindex, but I have been unable to confirm this. Among other things, the "Torbitt document" claims that Cohn was using the Lionel Corporation to funnel money to Syndicate interests in Vegas. I initially found this claim to be ridiculous as Lionel was chiefly known for making children's toys, most notably their legendary toy trains. And yet I later found that there was some merit to these claims:

"... Roy Cohn, former chief counsel to Senator Joe McCarthy – and a close friend of both Hoover and H. L. Hunt – was indicted by a federal grand jury in September 1963 on eight counts in a stock-fraud case... Cohn's Lionel Corporation was deeply enmeshed with Las Vegas gambling interests, which provided the basis for his indictment."

(The Man Who Knew Too Much, Dick Russell, pg. 523)
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Re: Goodfellas: The Dark Tower and Beyond

Postby American Dream » Wed Apr 04, 2018 8:31 pm

I'm not sure what to say about the Torbitt Document. I'll stay agnostic for now. Looking around, I did remember this, which is intriguing:

Quixotic Joust: Permindex and Double-Chek Agents and Activities
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Postby American Dream » Sun Apr 08, 2018 9:07 am

Goodfellas Part V: The Bedroom Dick

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In theory, Gladio and related networks were established in Western Europe by the Pentagon and CIA to wage guerrilla war against the Soviet Union in the event of the invasion. In actuality, considerable evidence has emerged over the years that these networks were engaged in terror campaigns in NATO nations to ensure that said nations remained vassals of the United States during the Cold War. Frequently these networks recruited heavily among "former" fascists and Nazis, who in turn engaged in what is often referred to as a "strategy of tension." In many instances, fascists infiltrated left wing and communist organizations and used them to carry out terror campaigns that were then linked to the Soviet Union by equally compromised intelligence services in NATO nations. Much more information on how these networks functioned can be found in my series concerning the infamous Propaganda Due Masonic lodge whose grand master, Licio Gelli, was linked to Permindex along with Roy Cohn (noted in part three of this series).

The above-mentioned Klaus Barbie was a key part of the initial efforts to establish the German component of the "stay behind" networks.

"The U.S. Army's General Staff Top Secret March 28, 1949 Overall Strategic Concepts highlighted that Germany 'has an excellent potential of trained men for both underground and Secret Army Reserves [stay-behind units]. Effective resistance can and should be organized.' On the orders of the Pentagon in Washington the newly created US Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) tracked down German Nazis and brought them to the Nurnberg trials, while the CIC also secretly recruited selected right-wing extremist for the anti-Communist army. This practice of the Pentagon was revealed only in 1986 when the US Department of Justice in a large press conference – which had maybe drawn the biggest crowd of journalists in Washington since the Watergate days – admitted that the CIC had recruited a high-ranking Nazi in the post-war years. Specifically a 600-page long study, compiled by Allan Ryan for the US Justice Department, confirmed that SS and Gestapo officer Klaus Barbie had been recruited by the CIC in 1947, had thereafter been hidden from the war crimes investigators and had then been spirited out of Europe to Argentina through a clandestine 'ratline' in 1951.

"Barbie was saved not because the United States secret service officers were impressed with his moral record, but because he was most useful in the setting up of the German stay-behind network. 'Among those who were recruited and did some recruiting for the scheme in the first years,' the British press reported during the Gladio revelations, 'were and ex-SS Obersturmfuhrer, Hans Otto, and other smaller fish. But the prize catch was Klaus Barbie who functioned as a recruiter for ex-Nazis and members of the fascist Bund Deutscher Jugend (BDJ).' Barbie, during the war known as the 'Butcher of Lyon,' had during his stay in the French town from 1943 to 1944 been responsible for the murder of at least 4,000 resistance workers and Jews, as well as the deportation of another 15,000 to concentration death camps. Barbie was condemned to death in absentia by a French court soon after the war for crimes against humanity as witnesses described him as a sadistic torturer, who terrified men, women and children with his whip and Alsatian dog."

(NATO's Secret Armies, Daniele Ganser, pg. 190)


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On the Far Side of the Psychosphere Part I


Consider the strange and terrible saga of Charles Harrelson, Woody's dad:

"Ladies man, raconteur and natural born killer Charles V. 'Charlie' Harrelson got out of Leavenworth Penitentiary in 1978, where he been caged for two years after serving several years in various jail and state prisons on a murder charge. Charlie was ready and raring to go. He moved to Dallas and hooked up with Peter Kay, his childhood friend from Huntsville, Texas. Kay was a member of the Dixie Mafia, a confederation of ex-cons known for violence across the Gulf Coast. They engaged in high-profit burglaries and contract killings, illegal gambling, pornography and drugs, in league with Mafia bosses in Dallas. Kay was also closely connected to the Banditos motorcycle gang.

"While in Dallas in late April and early May 1979, Kay set up a card game between Jimmy Chagra and Charlie Harrelson, who had put his hours in prison to good use perfecting card tricks. During this period they also plan the murder of federal Judge John Wood, the presiding judge in Chagra's pending drug case.

"Why? Jimmy's motives may have been revenge, for he certainly could not prevent a jury from convicting him by killing Judge Wood. Or, he could have been doing the bidding of the hardened criminals to whom he owed his life. Charlie's motive was purely financial. According to some observers, Jimmy Chagra, Charlie Harrelson and Jo Ann Starr were pawns of a larger plot managed by Pete Kay on behalf of organized crime. In any event, Jimmy and Charlie agreed, and Charlie's wife Jo Ann Starr (Kay's former lover) purchased the rifle allegedly used to kill Judge Wood.

"The murder plot was already in motion when a grand jury returned an indictment on May 22, 1979, charging Jimmy with masterminding an extensive drug trafficking empire in Texas and Florida. Wood scheduled the trial for May 29 in San Antonio. That morning, as Wood walked to his car, which was parked in front of his condo, he was shot in the back with a high-powered rifle.

"Three years later at Harrelson's murder trial, cab driver Wesley Coddington would claim that he had picked up Charlie at the airport on May 28 and driven him to the townhouse complex where Wood lived. Another witness, Chrys Lambros, a 28-year-old attorney, recalled bumping into Harrelson in the condo parking lot less than an hour before the shooting that left Judge Wood dead on the sidewalk. Their testimony, along with that of Hampton Robinson IIII and a few other witnesses, would lead to Harrelson's conviction in 1982.

"The peculiar thing is that three days after the assassination, Robinson called FBI Agent Robert Wyatt. An independently wealthy heroin addict and occasional criminal, Robinson socialized with Dixie mobsters Peter Kay and Charlie Harrelson. However, he had developed a grudge against Charlie after Charlie seduced his girlfriend. Seeking revenge, he told FBI Agent Wyatt that Charlie had bragged about having just done 'a job' and was coming to stay with him. Wyatt inferred that the job was killing Judge Wood, at which point Wyatt opened the FBI's investigation of Charlie Harrelson."

(The Strength of the Pack, Douglas Valentine, pgs. 359-360)


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This was hardly the only peculiarity in Harrelson's conviction, or the murder in general. Wood's assassination and the legendary Jimmy Chagra's drug empire have also been compellingly linked to a crime syndicate known as "The Company." Founded by former Army officer Drew Thornton, and filled with various law enforcement personnel, The Company would become heavily involved in drug and arms trafficking by the early 1980s. There has long been suspicion that the Company had some type of tactical approval by elements within the US intelligence community at some point as well. Even stranger are the links researcher Peter Levenda made between The Company and the long alleged Son of Sam cult in the third book of his groundbreaking Sinister Forces trilogy.

The alleged Son of Sam cult is far beyond the scope of this series to address in depth, but it almost surely served as some type of inspiration for True Detective. First advanced by researcher Maury Terry in his 1986 work The Ultimate Evil, the Son of Sam cult was allegedly an offshoot of the notorious Process Church of the Final Judgment. Allegedly this cult was not only behind the Son of Sam murders, but also the Manson killings, the Arlis Perry murder, the Atlanta child murders, and a host of other offenses. While this researcher has expressed serious skepticism concerning Terry's theory, some compelling links have been unearthed over the years.

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both David Berkowitz (top) and Charles Manson (bottom) have been linked to some type of "serial killer cult" over the years that bears some similarity to the cult depicted in True Detective

Interestingly, one of the individuals linked by Terry to the Son of Sam cult was William Mentzer, a low level criminal who was eventually convicted in the murder of producer Roy Radin in what the press dubbed the "Cotton Club murders" (due to Radin's initial involvement in the film). Prior to this incident Mentzer had worked as a bodyguard for pornographer Larry Flynt (who may have had dealings with The Company to boot). Woody Harrelson would of course go on to achieve great acclaim (and an Oscar nomination) for his portrayal of Flynt in The People vs. Larry Flynt.

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Postby American Dream » Sun Jun 17, 2018 9:54 am

Goodfellas Part VI: Cliveden Games

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Several years after the Profumo affair blew up, Getty would become one of the chief financial patrons of infamous filmmaker and occultist Kenneth Anger. Anger was a devotee of Aleister Crowley and his films often featured occultic and fascist themes. In the wake of the relative success of 1963's Scorpio Rising, Getty brought Anger to the UK where he quickly made in roads among high society:

"The screenings also opened up new streams of finance, as younger heirs to foundational American fortunes became entranced with the burgeoning hippie movement and wanted to participate, or at least invest. One such scion, John Paul Getty Jr., invited Anger to London, where he was scooped up by the demimonde and soon found himself at parties with the art dealer Robert Fraser, hanging with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and eventually living with Mick Jagger and his girlfriend Marianne Faithfull, and later Keith Richards and his girlfriend Anita Pallenberg. Both couples soon became interested in the occult movement and devil worship, dabbling in it to the extent that Anger’s teachings pushed them to record a new song called 'Sympathy for the Devil,' with new converts Faithfull and Pallenberg singing backup."


Anger would go on to make his most famous film, Lucifer Rising, several years later. Initially set to feature a soundtrack by Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, the film starred Mansonite and convicted murderer Bobby Beausoleil (who ultimately did the soundtrack, from prison, as well). Anger is now widely considered to be an icon of underground and gay cinema, the inventor of the "Midnight Movie," an an enormous influence on the then-emerging 1960s counterculture.

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The scion of at least one other wealthy and powerful American family that would play a key role in bank rolling the American counterculture also appears to have been a part of Ward's circle. His name was William Mellon Hitchcock, whose name should be familiar to those of you who have been following this series. As was noted in the examination of Resorts International, "Mr. Billy" (as Hitchcock was known to his family and friends) had been an early investor in Resorts' Paradise Island casino.

Around the time of Profumo affair going public, Mr. Billy had hooked up with Timothy Leary and had opened up his estate at Millbrook to Leary's psychedelic evangelicalism. Mr. Billy would later become the banker for the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, which by the end of the 1960s had become the largest LSD syndicate in the world. To say that Mr. Billy played an enormous role in the spread of LSD would be an understatement. And given the curious interests of the Astor and Getty families, he would have certainly been in receptive company. More on Mr. Billy's role in the Profumo scandal will be noted in a moment so do keep him in mind.


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Postby American Dream » Sun Jul 08, 2018 6:46 pm

Goodfellas Part VII: Jack and Bobby

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Welcome to the seventh installment in my "Goodfellas" series. When I began this project in November of 2017 it was intended to explore the ties between President Donald J. Trump and organized crime. But over the preceding months it has taken on a life of its own, now encompassing the network (cult?) behind Trump's rise to power. For those of you just joining us, here is a brief recap of what has already been addressed:

The project began with a standalone piece that considered Trump's links to Resorts International, a notorious gaming interest with extensive ties to both organized crime and the US deep state. Beginning as the Mary Carter Paint Company in the early 1960s, the company was widely believed to be a CIA front used for anti-Castro operations in Florida during that era. By the end of the decade Mary Carter had become Resorts and had established its own little gaming fiefdom on the Bahamas' Paradise Island. Important early backers included billionaire Howard Hughes, President Richard M. Nixon, "rogue" financiers such as Robert Vesco and Richard Mellon Hitchcock and the inevitable Lansky lackeys. Resorts also established Intertel, it own private intelligence agency that was heavily staffed by "former" US operators, around this time.

Trump eventually became Resorts CEO in 1987. The gaming interest had most recently played a key role in opening up Atlantic City to legalized gambling as it had in the Bahamas during the prior decade. Intertel and the mob were still in league with Resorts at this time as well, giving the Orange One quite a rogue's gallery of collaborators.

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In many ways Trump's CEO-ship of Resorts represented a kind of coming out party. As was noted in the first installment of this series, Trump had spent much of the prior decade cultivating contacts among organized crime circles prior to taking over Resorts. In the second and third installments I suggested that one such contact Trump made in the late 1970s involved "The Company," a drugs and arms trafficking network launched by former police and US military personnel in Kentucky during the late 1970s. Various members of "The Company" boasted of CIA links and appear to have had extensive contacts within the administration of Kentucky governor John Y. Brown. Trump himself befriended Brown during this time and became a regular on the Kentucky Derby scene, along with the Clinton family.

As I was wrapping up part three I began to consider the man who initiated Trump into this netherworld, former McCarthy attorney Roy Cohn. Cohn is widely credited as Trump's political mentor. He introduced the Orange One to many individuals who would become key figures in Trump's quest for the White House, most notably Rupert Murdoch, Paul Manafort and Roger Stone. Cohn also had extensive ties to organized crime, the US intelligence community, the Fascist International (personified by networks such as the American Security Council, the World Anti-Communist League and Le Cercle) and a deep seated rivalry with the Kennedy family.

During the fourth installment I began to consider Cohn's source of power: sexual blackmail. There Cohn's ties to CIA director William Casey, Republican lobbyists Robert Keith Gray Craig Spence and other key figures in the infamous Franklin scandal were considered. For those of you unaware, Franklin was believed to be a nationwide pedophile ring based out of Nebraska that thrived during the Reagan/Bush years. And Cohn appears to have been very close to several key figures involved in it.

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As was noted in the prior installment, RFK had brought the full force of the Justice Department to bare against Cohn during the early 1960s. RFK was effectively in a stealth civil war with Cohn and his longtime patron, J. Edgar Hoover. Hoover, being aware of JFK's indiscretions with Judith Campbell and Marilyn Monroe, was already somewhat protected, but Cohn does not appear to have had an insurance policy until Profumo. What's more, Profumo would have been far more damaging to JFK than affairs with either Campbell or Monroe. Soviet and British intelligence were also at work in Profumo in addition to the hints of occultism and the fact that many of the women used in this ring were barely legal (and in some cases, still minors when they started). Profumo was essentially full blown Eyes Wide Shut and could have easily brought down both governments in the US and the UK.

But in addition to Kennedy, it is likely Cohn and his allies in the American far right saw it as an opportunity for some house cleaning across the Atlantic. At the time the British Conservative Party, as was indicated in part five of this series, was still heavily influenced by Lord Astor and other Round Table fellow travelers. It would seem that Profumo took out many globalists and paved the way for a much more conservative approach from the Tories that became evident by the early 1970s with the launch of the far right Monday Club. As was noted before here, many Tories used the Monday Club to forge ties with Le Cercle and other components of the Fascist International. This transformation would ultimately result in Brexit decades later.

Profumo then provided much needed ammunition to Roy Cohn in his war with RFK while also paving the way for a firm nationalist component in a major political party in a crucial US alley. This was no small feet for Cohn, and several crucial players in the Profumo affair would end up launching Resorts International by the end of the decade, that mysterious gaming interest that would solidify Donald Trump as a major player by the mid-1980s. As such, Profumo was clearly a pivotal event of 20th century deep politics even though it remains shockingly under examined by most alternative researchers.

But in addition to the deep politics, there's also the curious figures in Ward's ring such as the Astor family, William Mellon Hitchcock, Paul Getty Jr. and possibly even Mary Ann DeGrimston that would play such key roles in launching the 1960s counterculture and New Age movements just a few years later. These elements would once again aide Cohn in the late 1970s and early 1980s during a series of shocking murders that unfolded across the United States --murders that appear to have been the work of a well connected and well funded cult. In the next installment we shall consider such things. Stay tuned dear reader.

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Re: Goodfellas: The Dark Tower and Beyond

Postby Elvis » Sun Jul 08, 2018 6:56 pm

I meant to say earlier that this is a great series and great thread, thanks. Some excellent info and deep dots connected.
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Re: Goodfellas: The Dark Tower and Beyond

Postby American Dream » Sun Jul 22, 2018 9:41 am

Goodfellas Part VIII: Sons of Cohn

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For years Roy Cohn appears to have been a key intermediary between Overworld figures such as Hoover, Aristotle Onassiss and Trump on the one hand and on the other with underworld forces such as the Syndicate and The Company. But beyond this, Cohn was also a key key player in what appears to be a sex ring catering to extreme tastes (i.e. sadomasochism, pedophilia, etc) with both a national and an international scope.

I've compared the Profumo affair at times to Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, but the New York-based ring of Roy Radin, Thomas Corbally and likely Cohn himself appears to be a more apt comparison. In point of fact, Kubrick may even have partly based the film on insider knowledge he had of this ring. Eyes was nominally based on a novella called Traumnovelle by the Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler and Kubrick remained fairly faithful to its plot line.

One of the major points of departure, however, was the location: while Traumnovelle is set in Vienna, Kubrick relocated the film to New York City and the surrounding area. The infamous sex party depicted in the film takes place at an isolated country mansion outside of the city, and features several other elements present in the Stephen Ward and Radin circles, including masks and S & M. What's more, it is reputed that Ward's girls also worked out of New York City in the early 1960s, potentially servicing JFK, among others. This researcher suspects that Kubrick was well aware of this history and picked the New York setting with it in mind.

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But beyond the sex rings, there's the even more ominous connection between Cohn and the alleged Son of Sam cult. While superficially this may seem incredible, it must be put into context.


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Re: Goodfellas: The Dark Tower and Beyond

Postby American Dream » Sun Aug 05, 2018 7:43 am

Trump Mansion Sold to “Mobsters Sans Frontières”

BY DANIEL HOPSICKER · PUBLISHED JUNE 26, 2008 · UPDATED FEBRUARY 27, 2018


Deep politics. Secret history. The morals of an alley cat.

Trump himself had first come to prominence with his 1987 purchase of the Resorts International gambling empire. With his colorful personality and (literally) over-the-top comb-over, Trump soon became a household name.

But while the name “Trump” appeared in advertising and headlines, the real ‘movers and shakers’ behind Resorts International were suspected of remaining hidden from public view.

Pulling no punches, New Jersey magazine called Resorts International, in print, “a mismanaged, unscrupulous, mob-tainted company with the morals of an alley cat.

Ouch! Resorts International responded—in a move all-too-familiar to readers of The madcowmorningnews—by promptly filing a lawsuit.

At the time of Trump’s purchase, Resorts International was widely reported to have deep ties to the CIA. Its previous owner, James Crosby, founded Intertel, an internationally-known security company often described as a private Central Intelligence Agency, which listed among its clients billionaire recluse Howard Hughes, the Shah of Iran and Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza.

“We can close the barn door now. The horse is gone.”
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In a December 29, 1980, story headlined “Showdown in Atlantic City,” Fortune business magazine reported, “At Bally, the Lansky organization is far in the background, but it begins to move forward at Resorts International and Caesars World.”

The real story of the sale of Donald Trump’s Palm Beach mansion concerns the rapidly-accelerating growth of international Organized Crime, which has created a transnational crime curve which intelligence and law enforcement agencies have fallen 5-10 years behind.


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Re: Goodfellas: The Dark Tower and Beyond

Postby Wombaticus Rex » Sun Aug 05, 2018 12:32 pm

This is fantastic, thank you. I am currently re-re-reading Hougan's Spooks, specifically that huge word salad middle passage where Jim tries to parse out exactly this nexus.

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But the CIA wasn't the only father confessor to Robert Bennett. In the wake of the Watergate bust he became a covert source of information for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, as well as for Washington lawyer Edward Bennett Williams. According to his CIA case officer, Bennett established a "back-door entry" to Williams by feeding information to another Washington attorney, Hobart Taylor.

At the time, E. B. Williams was all over the Watergate board, and before long his list of clients would prove exotic enough to satisfy the interlocking fantasies of any conspiracy theorist. Not only was the the attorney for The Washington Post, credited with "breaking" the Watergate story, but he was also in charge of the DNC's civil suit against CREEP. Sen. Edward Kennedy, bete noir of the Nixon White House and one of the plumbers' primary targets, was also a client. Soon Nixon vizier John Connally would have need of Williams' services, as would FBI chieftans under investigation for "black bag" activities. Former CIA director Richard Helms would one day come aboard.

And so, of course, would the Detroit Kid himself: Robert Vesco, Watergate's own Rosetta Stone. It was an interesting and lucrative practice, although one wonders how Vesco, a fugitive whose assets are subject to seizure in the United States, could actually manage to pay the high-priced Williams. Not that Williams always charges his clients. Helms was a "pro bono" case, and there have been others as well.

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This isn't to say that Williams was engaged in a conflict of interest situation, but that the situation was packed with conflict and quite interesting is certainly true. Similarly, one can only wonder at the conceptual juggling required of Williams by his representation of The Washington Post, Vesco, and the DNC. Why he found the need, as he apparently did, to seek out Intertel's services to investigate the Watergate affair is anyone's guess.

Intertel, whose clients include Howard Hughes' Summa Corporation and ITT, reportedly rejected the offer. After all, how could they investigate the Watergate affair without investigating their own client, Huges, and very likely their parent company, Resorts International, as well?

More than anyone else, Edward Bennett Williams may be said to have the keys to America's secret history. Besides Watergate, Jimmy Hoffa, and the Teamsters, Williams might shed great light upon a number of people and events, including the Kennedy family, the destruction of Sen. Joseph McCarthy, the intrigues of Robert Maheu, the secret war against Onassis, and the politically explosive murder of USS Major William Holohan.
As we'll see, several of those matters remain relevant today.
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