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William Hundley, journalist Mike Royko, and former agent William Turner, discussed Life magazine reporter Sandy Smith. On the FBI and the Supreme Court, I used the Now It Can Be Told syndicated TV program, Sept. 16, 1991, and Cloak and Gavel, by Alexander Charns, Chicago, Univ. of Illinois Press, 1992. An unpub. ms. by Robert Bevin was useful on surveillance of Congress, as was the unpub. ms. The Intruders, by Edward Long, and draft chapters for a book from Bernard Fensterwald’s personal papers. Bernard Fensterwald signed an affidavit on Oct. 22, 1990 about the alleged DeLoach visit to Sen. Long. The discussion of Sandy Smith drew on Playboy, 1981, Wm. Helmer to Turner, Sept. 1980, with enclosures, SAC Chicago to H., Mar. 16, DeLoach to Mohr, Mar. 16, 1965, FBI file 07–455829, and A Life memo by Smith, Aug. 21, 1968.

Chapter 21

Cartha DeLoach described H. weeping. Mrs L. B. Brown described her husband’s ordeal, and former agents Wm. Turner, Nate Ferris, Gordon Liddy, Joseph Schott, Francis Flanagan, Jack Shaw, Bernard Conners, and Nelson Gibbons discussed agent conditions. Dr Robert Choisser and Marilyn Bell spoke about H.’s health. John Dowd, Joseph Griffin, Homer Boynton, Mrs Leo Gauthier, John Dunphy, Martin Kaiser, and Assistant AG Harold Tyler discussed the 1977 FBI corruption probe. Documents used included Nelson Gibbons’ FBI file, held by his attorney, AG Griffin Bell’s statement on release of the US Recording Report, Jan. 10, 1978, and the Nov. 11, 1976 report to Michael Shaheen, Council on Professional Responsibility, by John Dowd, Special Attorney, Crim. Div., DJ, obtained under Freedom of Information Act.

Chapter 22

The Lombardozzi quote was obtained for the author by attorney Wm. Pepper. Guy Hottel discussed H. and horseracing, and former agents Pete Pitchess, Wm. Roemer, and Neil Welch described early FBI attitudes to organized crime. Former Assistant Cttee. Counsel Joseph Nellis, Wm. Turner and Jack Anderson were interviewed about Sen. Kefauver. Former AGs Herbert Brownell, Wm. Rogers, and Ramsey Clark, NY DA Robert Morgenthau, former LA Police Chief Tom Reddin, crime consultant Ralph Salerno, former Justice Dept. officials Robert Pelaquin, Wm. Hundley, and Edwin Guthman, Prof. Fred Inbau, former FBI Assistant Directors Courtney Evans, Mark Felt, and Cartha DeLoach, and fourteen former FBI agents, were consulted about H.’s inaction against organized crime. Herman Klurfeld, and Mrs Meyer Lansky, reported by Michael Fooner, discussed Winchell’s links to the mob. Restaurateurs Jesse, Grace, and Jo-Ann Weiss discussed H. and Joe’s Stone Crabs. Allan Witwer talked about Ed Levinson, Wm. Gallinaro about Art Samish and John Daly, Robert Baskett, Win. Wilson, and Wm. Gallinaro about Dub McClanahan. Irving Davidson and Bobby Baker were interviewed, and former agent Wm. Roemer reported Murray Humphries’ comments about H. and Murchison. Among 22 interviewees on H. and horseracing, Virginia Linthicum, Effie Cain, Bud Brubaker, Guy Hottel, Curly Harris, Cliff Wickman, and Chick Lang were especially helpful. H.’s request to Phil Kovolick was reported in interviews and corr. with Hank Messick. Reporter Fletcher Knebel and former Justice Dept. aide Ed Guthman added to reports that H. placed larger bets than he publicly admitted. For the massive body of specialist literature on organized crime used, readers are referred to the hardback edition. This chapter drew on an uned. ms. in the papers of Leon Turrou, held by his son, the Harold Robinson Papers, HSTL, H.’s testimony to the the US Sen. Cttee. to Investigate Crime in Interstate Commerce, Mar. 26, 1951, pp. 524ff., and – on Kefauver – the Apr. 21, 1952 report by Auerbach to H., and Sullivan to Belmont, Dec. 28, 1961, in FBI file 62–77208. Del Webb’s registration at the Del Charro was seen in Allan Witwer’s collection, and Dallas Conspiracy, an unpub. ms. by Prof. Peter Dale Scott, VI, 16, provided information on John Drew. Reporting on Del Mar used the Hearings, Cal. Sen. Factfinding Cttee. on Govt. Admin., Examination of 22nd Agricultural Assn., 1960, and orig. Life