Deep Politics and the Death of JFK by Peter Dale Scott

Author:Peter Dale Scott [Scott, Peter Dale]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Politics, History
ISBN: 9780520205192
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Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1993-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Fassoulis, to become an officer of Commerce International China, a company which "had definite ties with

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Army intelligence." [19]

Cumings, The Origins of the Korean War, vol. II, 512; cf. Block, Perspectives on Organizing Crime, 213 (deep cover); Scott, War Conspiracy, 210 (officer).

Fassoulis thus became a principal agent in the "private" procurement of military supplies and advisers for Chiang Kai-shek in Taiwan, a project originally proposed to the U.S. government by William Pawley. Funds for CIC's "volunteers" came "through 'Texas oil people,' presumably including H. L. Hunt"; and many of the advisers came from General Charles Willoughby's intelligence G-2 in Japan, itself working with elements from Japan's yakuza underworld. [20]

Cumings, The Origins of the Korean War, 509, 512, 522; David E. Kaplan and Alec Dubro, Yakuza (New York: Macmillan, 1986), 55-63.

http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft5g500702&chunk.id=0&doc.view=print 7/22/2006

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Fassoulis and his associates continued through the decades to be named in major mob financial scandals. In the 1970s a witness before a Senate committee investigating stolen securities linked Fassoulis to the Texas-Adams stock swindle, a case for which Paul Roland Jones was under indictment in 1963, at the time of the assassinations. [21]

Stolen Securities Hearings, 715-16, cf. 856 (Fassoulis); 9 AH 518 (Jones).

(Some of those named by the witness would in the 1980s be accused of nationwide looting in the savings-and-loans scandal.)[22]

Pizzo et al., Inside Job, 259-60, 362.

We shall return to the possibility, for which there is other corroboration, that White addressed himself to the intrigues of the Ragen killing, not just or even primarily to make drug cases, but to "turn" some of those involved into intelligence assets.

One of these assets may have been Ruby himself, who has been linked to Rosselli and others in the postwar intelligence-mob connection. At the time of Ragen's shooting on June 24, 1946, George White was still in the U.S. Army. His diaries show that White left the army three days later, on June 27, and, in his new appointment as FBN Chief in Chicago, immediately immersed himself in the Ragen case. [23]

George White Diaries, Foothill College, Los Gatos, California.

One suspects that White somehow already knew that this shooting would play a key role in the postwar reorganization of organized crime—as was confirmed when Lansky (White's collaborator in Operation Underworld) and the New York and Chicago mobs decided they had to kill Bugsy Siegel, for his attempt to take over the national wire service. [24]

Rappleye and Becker, All-American Mafioso, 123; see Chapter 9.

George White's diaries contain the following entry, possibly important but as yet undeciphered, concerning the situation in Chicago:

Tues July 23 1946 Met Ruby—Interview Kehler def. Chicago Miller say met Kehler. Pete o.k.'d R's for $25/week. Intv Dr [?] M. Boyer. Says Pete o.k.'d R for Kehler and Woodin It is not clear that this Ruby is our Jack Ruby, who did not officially change his name from Rubenstein (giving as a reason that he was "well

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known" as Jack L. Ruby) until December 30, 1947 (WR 793–94). We have

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