Supermob

by Gus Russo

31. Re Villa Venice: Russo, Outfit, 43-434; Re Korshak and Fisher: FBI airtel, SAC Las Vegas to director, 10-3-62 (#92-143-144); and FBI Las Vegas report, 11-16-64 (#92-084-61), Korshak file.

  32. Roemer, Enforcer, 172.

  33. FBI Las Vegas airtel to director, 7-24-62 (#92-903-86), Korshak file.

  34. FBI memo, DELETED to SAC L.A., July 1967 (#166-1048-166), Korshak file.

  35. Reid, Mickey Cohen, 42, 45; and confidential int. of friend of Eli Schulman, 4-24-05.

  36. FBI memo, DELETED to SAC L.A., 6-14-66 (#92-742-66), Korshak file.

  37. FBI memo, DELETED to SAC L.A., 12-3-63 (#91-742-138), Korshak file.

  38. FBI memo, SAC San Diego to director, 11-25-69 (#92-742-276), Korshak file.

  39. For a profile of McCulloch, see Felch and Tevlick, "Unsung Hero," American Journalism Review, 6-29-04.

  40. Ibid.

  41. Int. of Knut Royce, 4-22-03.

  42. Int. of Ed Guthman, 1-19-04.

  43. Int. of Frank McCulloch, 1-5-05.

  44. Rabbi Edward Feinstein Archives, City of Angels, Rosh Hashanah, 2000.

  45. McDougal, Last Mogul, 241.

  46. FBI L.A. Field Office, Korshak bio, 8-13-63, 23.

  47. See McDougal, Privileged Son.

  48. Int. of Frank McCulloch, 1-5-05; see also McDougal, Privileged Son, 246-49.

  49. Ronald Kessler, Washington Post, 12-16-73.

  50. Moldea, Hoffa Wars, 107-8; and Summers and Swan, Arrogance of Power, 211-12.

  51. Int. of Tom Zander, 12-8-03.

  52. Investigated by Summers and Swan, Arrogance of Power, 253—59.

  53. Tobin and Blake, Los Angeles Times, 5-17-62.

  54. Letters from McCulloch to Peterson, 5-23-62, 6-6-62; from Tobin to Peterson, 5-2-62; and Parker to Peterson, 5-4-62.

  55. McDougal, Privileged Son, 246-49.

  56. Int. of Ed Guthman, 1-19-04.

  57. Int. of Connie Carlson, 10-20-04.

  58. Int. of Frank McCulloch, 1-5-05.

  59. McDougal, Privileged Son, 249.

  60. FBI HQ Korshak file, 3.

  61. Chicago Tribune, 11 -25-64.

  62. Int. of Leo Geffner, 3-18-05.

  63. Confidential int., 1-4-05.

  64. FBI teletype, Salt Lake City to L.A., 1-16-61 (#92-143-57).

  65. FBI report of John Roberts (Chicago), 8-31-62.

  66. FBI airtel, Chicago SAC to director, 12-8-61 (#92-113-636).

  67. FBI memo, DELETED to SAC L.A., 4-25-63 (#92-113-2155), Korshak file.

  68. FBI teletype, SAC Las Vegas to director, 2-2-63.

  69. Confidential int., 1-14-05.

  70. Smith, "Bob Kennedy's Role"; also, Touhy, When Capone's Mob Murdered Roger Touhy, 252-54.

  71. McDougal, Last Mogul, 286.

  72. Robb DOJ cache.

  73. For extensive details of the Kennedy-Raskin relationship, see Hersh, Dark Side of Camelot.

  74. McDougal, Last Mogul, 317-18.

  75. Quoted in Andrew, Power to Destroy, 214.

  76. Mills, Disorderly House, 84.

  77. Ibid., 86.

  78. Hersh, New York Times, 6-29-76.

  79. Summers and Swan, Arrogance of Power, 228-30; also, Miller, Breaking of a President, 157-58.

  80. McWilliams, Nation, 6-2-62.

  81. Louella Parsons, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, April 15, 24, 1963.

  82. Chicago Crime Commission, memo from Virgil W. Peterson, 6-6-62.

  83. FBI H Q Korshak file, 18.

  84. Exner, My Story, 277-81.

  85. Ibid.

  86. Int. of Milton Ebbins, 1-17-05.

  87. Rappleye and Becker, All American Mafioso, 209; Summers, Goddess, 268 (NAL paperback version); and Gi­ancana and Giancana, Double Cross, 311-16.

  88. Roemer, Man Against the Mob, 175; and Russo, Outfit, 431-32.

  89. Russo, Outfit, 375-78, 389-90.

  90. Chicago Tribune, 6-8-63.

  C h a p t e r Twelve

  1. Int. of Andrew Furfaro, 10-20-04.

  2. Andrew, Power to Destroy, 4-5, 141-42.

  3. Reid and Demaris, Green Felt Jungle, 77.

  4. FBI report of DELETED, 9-11-64 (#161-171-9), Korshak file.

  5. Reid, Grim Reapers, 254.

  6. IRS int. of Sidney Korshak by Furfaro, 10-23-63.

  7. Chicago Tribune, 1-20-80.

  8. FBI H Q Korshak file, Korshak bio, 9-17-63, 11.

  9. IRS report of Furfaro and Turner, 10-23-63.

  10. Quoted in Zolotow, Billy Wilder in Hollywood, 225.

  11. Bistro records from California Division of Corporations, file #1922461.A, filed on 8-1-63; and California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, lie. #47-3071.

  12. Niklas, Corner Table, 21, 33.

  13. Ibid., 334-35, 339.

  14. "The Bistro's Secret of Success," Los Angeles Times, 1-30-72.

  15. Niklas, Corner Table, 10-11.

  16. Ibid., 22-26.

  17. Int. of James Bacon, 1-14-04.

  18. Int. of Casper Morcelli, 2-20-04.

  19. Int. of Jimmy Murphy, 2-6-04.

  20. Int. of Leo Geffner, 3-18-05.

  21. Int. of Hennie Burke, 1-24-04.

  22. Int. of Timothy Applegate, 4-12-04.

  23. Ints. of Steve Allen, January and February 1997; see also Allen, Hi-Ho, Steverinol, 132-48, and Allen, Ripoff, passim.

  24. Demaris, Last Mafioso, 525.

  15. Int. of Dick Brenneman, 12-2-03. Brenneman, a former reporter for the Sacramento Bee, extensively researched Korshak and located sources who were aware of Korshak's phone habits. "SK's chauffeur used to drive him around L.A. with a bag full of coins to use pay phones," Brenneman said. "He often used the phone belonging to Harry Drucker."

  26. Int. of Timothy Applegate, 4-12-04.

  27. Rappleye and Becker, All American Mafioso, 62.

  28. Ibid., 162.

  29. Int. of Don Wolfe, 1-5-05.

  30. Int. of Ira Silverman, 3-10-04.

  31. Int. of Andy Anderson, 11-6-03.

  32. Bruck, When Hollywood Had a King, 359-60.

  33. Int. of Duke Zeller, 4-8-03.

  34. E-mail from Andy Anderson, 2-14-05.

  35. Int. of Andy Anderson, 11-6-03.

  36. Int. of Nancy Czar, 1-25-04.

  37. Int. of Gianni Russo, 4-28-03.

  38. Int. of Leo Geffner, 3-18-05.

  39. Bruck, When Hollywood Had a King, 359.

  40. Int. of Mike Wacks, 4-22-03.

  41. Quoted in Vanity Fair, April 1997.

  42. Int. of Fran Marracco, 2-27-04.

  43. Bruck, When Hollywood Had a King, 351-52.

  44. Hersh, New York Times, 6-30-76.

  45. Int. of David Schippers, 5-11-04.

  46. Int. of Adam Walinsky, 12-3-03.

  47. Bruck, When Hollywood Had a King, 390-91.

  48. FBI memo of surveillance, 4-26-79 (#183-96-&C-l), in FBI Korshak file.

  49. Int. of Marvin Rudnick, 4-2-04.

  50. Int. of Mike Wacks, 4-22-03.

  51. Int. of David Schippers, 5-11-04.

  52. Int. of Peter Vaira, 4-12-04.

  53. Int. of Tom Zander, 12-8-03.

  54. Int. of Andrew Furfaro, 10-20-04.

  55. Int. of Connie Carlson, 10-20-04.

  56. Int. of John Van DeKamp, 3-28-04.

  57. Int. of James Grodin, 12-8-03.

  58. Niklas, Corner Table, 19.

  59. Chicago Tribune, 11-4-63.

  60. Int. of Leo Geffner, 3-18-05.

  61. Int. of Carol Felsenthal, 7-1-04, author of June 2004 Chicago Magazine profile of Kupcinet; see also James Ellroy, "Glamour Jungle," GQ, December 1998, 291.

  62. Kelley, His Way, 329-31.

  63. Int. of Ron Joy, 1-19-04.

  64. Sinatra, Frank Sinatra, 181.

  65. Niklas, Corner Table, 348.

  Chapter T h i r t e en

  1. Quoted in Reid, Grim Reapers, 208-9.

  2. FBI airtel (Chicago to L.A.) of electronic surveillance (ELSUR), 7-16-64 (#92-149-A-3), Korshak file.


  3. FBI Korshak Correlation Summary Report, 8-12-68.

  4. FBI memo from DELETED to SAC L.A., 10-19-65 (#92-742-169), Korshak file.

  5. FBI teletype from Chicago to director, 3-1-65 (#92-149-47), Korshak file.

  6. Confidential int., 1-14-05.

  7. Bruck, When Hollywood Had a King, 360.

  8. Douglas, Ragman's Son, 403.

  9. Johns, Palm Springs Confidential, 82.

  10. FBI memo from DELETED to SAC L.A., 3-8-77.

  11. Various issues of the Las Vegas Sun, August 1965 to March 1966, copied at Library of Congress.

  12. FBI radiogram from SAC L.A. to director, Chicago and Las Vegas, 3-2-66, in FBI HQ Korshak file.

  13. Summers, Official and Confidential, 247-53; also numerous mob biographies, especially Lacey, Little Man,66, 97, 99.

  14. Los Angeles Times, 4-11-66.

  15. Ints. with UFW communications director Marc Grossman, 1-24-05, and Chavez film biographer Rick Tejada- Flores (producer, The Fight in the Fields), 1-24-05; various California newspapers from June 1966, especially LosAngeles Herald-Examiner, 6-21-66; also, UFW history at Web sites ufw.org and cesarchavezfoundation.org.6-21-66; also, UFW history at Web sites ufw.org and cesarchavezfoundation.org.

  16. Int. of Paul Schrade, 1-24-05.

  17. Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times, 851.

  18. Int. of Leo Geffner, 3-18-05.

  19. Dunne, Delano, 90-91.

  20. Levy, Cesar Chavez, 215-17.

  21. Int. of Leroy Chatfield, 1-24-05.

  22. Int. of Wayne "Chris" Hartmire, 2-7-05.

  23. Levy, Cesar Chavez, 215-17.

  24. Bart, New York Times, 4-6-66.

  25. Confidential int. with former Rosensteil attorney, 1-24-05.

  26. Re Korshak and Chavez: Levy, Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa, 215-17; Griswold del Castillo and Garcia, Cesar Chavez, 52-53; Ferriss and Sandoval, Fight in the Fields, 121-22; Taylor, Chavez and the FarmWorkers, 175-76; Dunne, Delano, passim.

  27. Dan Swinton, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, 5-29-66.

  28. Ibid.

  29. FBI memo from DELETED to SAC L.A., 9-14-66 (#92-438-63), Korshak file.

  30. Los Angeles Times, 9-15-69.

  31. Niklas, Corner Table, 406.

  32. Hill, Dancing Bear, 214.

  33. FBI memo from DELETED to SAC L.A., 11-17-66 (#92-742-214), Korshak file.

  34. McDougal, Last Mogul, 331.

  35. Int. of Henry Denker, 8-30-04.

  36. San Francisco Chronicle, 6-9-02; also the Web site http://sfgate.com.

  37. Jim Drinkhall, Wall Street Journal, 8-1-80; Paul Wilner, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, 8-2-80; and Howard Kohn and Lowell Bergman, Rolling Stone, 8-26-76.

  38. Undated FBI memo cited in Moldea, Dark Victory, 227.

  39. Drosnin, Citizen Hughes, 474.

  40. Korshak testimony before the SEC, 6-23-70, 419-20.

  41. Int. of Edward Becker, 1-1-03.

  42. FBI airtel from SAC L.A. to director, 5-17-67; secondary docs: airtel from SAC L.A. to director, 6-5-67; HSCA outside-contact reports of Ed Reid, 1-1-78, 10-20-78; FBI memo, Rosen to DeLoach, 5-15-67; and HSCA, vol.

  11 (Organized Crime), 78-92.

  43. FBI L.A. memo of conversation, 12-18-70, Korshak file.

  44. Int. of Sandy Smith, 11-11-03.

  45. Hersh, New York Times, 6-30-76.

  46. Unsigned memo in CCC Korshak file, 11-15-66.

  47. FBI teletype, SAC Chicago to director, 11-4-66.

  48. CCC memo, from William K. Lambie Jr., 10-9-79.

  49. Sandy Smith, "The Mob," Life, 9-1-67.

  50. Felch and Tevlick, "Unsung Hero," American Journalism Review, 6-29-04.

  51. Bruck, When Hollywood Had a King, 165-66.

  52. Int. of Jan Amory, 3-5-03.

  53. Bart, Who Killed Hollywood?, 113.

  54. Bluhdorn, "The Gulf and Western Story" (speech before the Newcomen Society, 6-7-73).

  55. News week, 5-31-65.

  56. McDougal, Last Mogul, 231, 367.

  57. Biskind, Easy Riders, 144-45.

  58. Dick, Engulfed, 102.

  59. Biskind, Easy Rider, 147.

  60. Vanity Fair, April 1997.

  61. Evans, Kid Stays, 98.

  62. Ibid., 106.

  63. Int. of Dana Wynter, 3-17-03.

  64. Biskind, Easy Rider, 146.

  65. James Mills, Life, 3-7-69.

  66. Moldea, Interference, 466; and Hersh, New York Times, 6-29-76.

  67. Bruck, When Hollywood Had a King, 359.

  68. Ibid., 355.

  69. George Ciurley, "Afternoon of a Golden Girl," Neiv York Observer, 10-27-03.

  C h a p t e r Fourteen

  1. Int. of MJ Goldblatt, 6-6-04.

  2. Int. of Dean Elson, 5-3-04.

  3. Int. of Gray Frederickson, 2-28-03.

  4. Int. of Gianni Russo.

  5. Int. of Jimmy Murphy, 2-6-04.

  6. Niklas, Corner Table, 31; Kup quoted in Vanity Fair, April 1997; and int. of Virginia Korshak, 1-20-04.

  7. Exner, My Story, 278-79.

  8. FBI memo, DELETED to SAC L.A., 10-19-65 (#92-742-169), Korshak file.

  9. Jill St. John, SEC testimony, 8-21-69, 60.

  10. Bruck, When Hollywood Had a King, 297.

  11. Int. of Nancy Czar, 1-25-04.

  12. Int. of Fred Sidewater, 5-6-03.

  13. FBI airtel, SAC L.A. to director, 3-4-66 (#92-742-180), Korshak file.

  14. FBI memo, DELETED to SAC L.A., 10-19-65 (#92-742-169), Korshak file.

  15. Niklas, Corner Table, 31.

  16. Heymann, Poor Little Rich Girl, 283.

  17. Ibid., 33-34.

  18. Niklas, Corner Table, 33-34.

  19. Int. of Gray Frederickson, 2-28-03.

  20. Ibid.

  21. Maxine Cheshire, "Sinatra-Agnew," Washington Post, 2-35-72.

  22. See especially, Christopher Hitchens, Trial of Henry Kissinger.

  23. Maxine Cheshire, "Too Many Cooks," Washington Post, 9-17-72.

  24. Int. of Jan Amory, 3-5-03.

  25. Int. of Jack Clarke, 1-31-04.

  26. Int. of Tom Mankiewicz, 4-4-03.

  27. Niklas, Corner Table, 31-32.

  28. Bruck, When Hollywood Had a King, 297-98.

  29. Ibid., 297.

  30. Int. of Missy Chandler, 2-27-04.

  31. Int. of Ron Joy, 1-19-04.

  32. FBI memo, DELETED to SAC L.A., 12-9-71 (#92-742-328), Korshak file.

  33. Nick Tosches, "The Man Who Kept the Secrets," Vanity Fair, April 1997.

  34. Int. of Virginia Korshak, 1-20-04.

  35. Confidential int., 1-14-05.

  36. Int. of Ed Becker, 1-1-03.

  37. FBI memo, DELETED to SAC L.A., 10-12-66 (#92-792-207), Korshak file.

  38. Doris Lilly, "Party Line" column, Los Angeles Times, undated clipping.

  Chapter F i f t e en

  1. Los Angeles Times, 6-24-70.

  2. Testimony of Richard F. Gliebe before Illinois Board of Investigation, 7-15-70, 166-68, 183.

  3. Chicago Sun-Times, 7-16-70.

  4. Testimony of Gliebe, 195.

  5. Chicago Today, 6-24-70.

  6. Testimony of Gliebe, 161-63; Robert Glass, "Hint Mob Role in Hotel Sale," Chicago Today, 7-15-70; and Chicago Sunday Times, 7-16-70.

  7. Testimony of Gliebe, 179.

  8. Ibid., 183.

  9. Confidential int., 2-22-05.

  10. Fletcher Wilson, Chicago Sun-Times, 7-16-70.

  11. Int. of Nancy Czar, 1-25-04.

  12. Korshak, SEC testimony, 7-23-70, 425.

  13. Messick, Politics of Prosecution, 90.

  14. Glass, "Hint Mob Role."

  15. Los Angeles Times, 6-24-70.

  16. Int. of Jack Clarke, 1-31-04.

  17. Moldea, Interference, 222.

  18. Overdrive magazine, April 1975.

  19. Haber, Los Angeles Times, January 28, 29, 1969.

  20. Testimony of Gliebe, 223.

  21. The Canadian report
s are included in the personal files of the late IRS "Operation Tradewinds" investigator Sally Woodruff, supplied to author. For more on this operation, read Block, Masters of Paradise; see also Messick, Lansky, 263-64.

  Int. of Jim Grodin, 12-8-03.

  Chicago Tribune, 7-15-70.

  Transcript of Hughes press conference, 1-7-72.

  Los Angeles Times, 5-9-69.

  Messick, Lansky, 152.

  Moldea, Interference, 471.

  28. See #17181, U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit, Additional Appendix, 109-20; New York Times Index, "U.S.

  Intelligence Agency," 1967; and Final Report by the Special Subcommittee on House Res. 920, of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, 91st Cong., 2nd sess., 9-17-70, 18-21.