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What is stunning about the work is book one. The National Crime Syndicate, which most people do not know of and not just Operation Underworld but everything surrounding the Bahama’s, Castle Bank, Lansky, Cellini, Paradise Island and Crosby.
Most people think of organized crime as the Mafia but Webb understands that the Mafia was only one vote in the National Crime Syndicate set up in 1933 by Meyer Lansky.
Taking this information and connecting it to Dewey, Nixon, Bebe Rebozo, and showing just how spooks and the National Crime Syndicate work in tandem we can see into the murky world that spawned Reagan and the 1980’s, death squads, blackmail etc.
Wexner, for example was part of the Mayfield Road Mob out of Cleveland. He owned Victoria Secret and Abercrombie and Finch.
He too was and still is, a member of the National Crime Syndicate which is why you never hear of him anymore.
He helped build Newport KY, the first Las Vegas in the forties.
Hank Messick did the best work on organized crime in America from the thirties to the 70’s. He wrote many books and was an investigative reporter during the Kefauver Committee in 1951 that could, had it not been overthrown, reveal whopping connections.
Also, read Spooks by Jim Houghan if you can find it.
Written in 1978 when the Safari Club was started it fills in the actual details of how the CIA works with heroin smugglers and the National Crime Syndicate for illicit operations.
Tremendous work. The story really starts with Arnold Rothstein and the 1919 Black Sock scandal and his eventual murder by Lansky but, hey!
It is up there with The Great Heroin coup.
Thanks Whitney.
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