The Cold Six Thousand - James Ellroy [230]
RFK ECHOES KING: DECRIES WAR IN SPEECH
DOCUMENT INSERT: 10/1/67. San Francisco Chronicle subhead:
RFK MUM ON PREZ’L PLANS
DOCUMENT INSERT: 10/2/67. Los Angeles Times headline and subhead:
NIXON TO PRESS:
KEEPING ′68 OPTIONS OPEN
DOCUMENT INSERT: 10/3/67. Washington Star subhead:
SOURCES CITE LBJ’S “CONSTERNATION”:
PREZ PUZZLED OVER KING’S BROADSIDES AGAINST WAR
DOCUMENT INSERT: 10/4/67. FBI field report. Marked: “Confidential”/“Eyes Only”: Director, SA D. C. Holly.
Sirs,
Per spot-tail Subject Ward J. Littell.
Subject Littell continues to divide his work time between Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Washington, D.C. He is currently working on the Las Vegas end of negotiations for the purchase of the Castaways Hotel and on the Washington end of conferences pertaining to appeals on the behalf of Teamster President James R. Hoffa. Subject Littell also continues to be intimately involved with Janice Tedrow Lukens. I have concluded, along with the other assigned agents, that Subject Littell assumes the presence of sporadically initiated tails and thus drives different workday routes in order to thwart them. That said, I should also state that Subject Littell has not been seen engaging in any sort of activity that might be deemed suspicious.
Spot-tails to be continued on the ordered basis.
Respectfully,
SA T. V. Houghton
DOCUMENT INSERT: 10/9/67. Hate-mail extract. Compiled by: FATHER RABBIT. Sealed and marked: “Destroy Without Reading in the Event of My Death.”
Mail sender: Anonymous. Postmark: St. Louis, Missouri. Recipient: Dr. M. L. King. From page 1 (of 1):
Here’s another ditty for you, Coon;
The Bounty Man’s going to get your black ass soon;
Fear the NSRP, John Birch and the Klan;
Fear the wrath of the righteous All-White Man;
Better get your shroud and wait for Judgment Day;
The White Man says you’ve outlived your stay;
Grab your pickaninnies, your wine and your dope;
Grab your watermelons and don’t you mope;
Better head for Africa lickety-split;
The White Man’s going to tar your hide in shit;
When that happens all the white folks will go hooray!
And say we killed that nigger who outlived his stay!
DOCUMENT INSERT: 10/30/67. Hate-mail extract. Compiled by: FATHER RABBIT. Sealed and marked: “Destroy Without Reading in the Event of My Death.”
Mail sender: Anonymous. Postmark: Pasadena, California. Recipient: Senator Robert F. Kennedy. From page 8 (of 8):
THE WORLDWIDE JEWISH PIG ORDER HAS CHRISTENED YOU WITH THE BLESSING OF THE RAPIST POPE AND THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION WHO HAVE CAST A SPELL OF PUS OVER THE CHILDREN WHO DARED TO FIGHT THE JEW INFIDEL IN THE NAME OF THE ARAB DIASPORA. YOUR UGLY MOTHER KNOWS YOU ARE THE SPAWN OF THE HEBREW COCKSEED AND THE RABID GOAT. THE JEWISH CANCER MACHINE FEARS THE HEADACHE DOCTOR. HE SMOKES MARLBORO CIGARETTES NOT GEFILTE FISH. HE SAYS RFK MUST DIE! RFK MUST DIE! RFK MUST DIE! RFK MUST DIE!!!!!!!
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(Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., New Orleans, Mexico City, 11/4/67–12/3/67)
Dominoes: the Dl/the Sands/the Castaways. On tap: The Frontier.
Ten pins: Non-Mormon skim men snitched to the Feds. Old skim hands in custody.
Littell planned. Littell sowed. The Boys reaped. Bribes/PR/extortion. Blackmail/philanthropy.
It took four years. Drac owns Las Vegas now. It’s Drac’s kingdom complete.
Three units down. More up. Eight pending. Drac buys Vegas. Drac owns Vegas—cosmetically.
The Boys exult. The Boys praise Littell. The Boys co-opt Wayne Senior. Wayne Senior deploys. Wayne Senior recruits:
Mormons for the DI. Mormons for the Castaways. Mormons for the Sands. Mormon floor men/Hughes-vetted/legit. Mormon skim men/non-vetted/non-legit.
More hotels on tap. More Mormon hires pending. Drac gets the inked deeds. Drac gets the glory. The Boys get the money.
Littell braced the Boys. The Boys agreed: Let’s suspend the skim. Let Drac move in. Let the ink dry. Let the shouts subside.
Skim then. Rig the vacuums. Put the hose to Drac.
Littell said we’re ready. I’ve pegged sixty-one businesses. They’re pension-fund-indebted. They