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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 6 Num. 90
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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DOUBLE CROSS
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*Double Cross* by Sam and Chuck Giancana.
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(New York: Warner Books, 1992)
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Either (a) Salvatore Momo "Mooney" Giancana was lying to his
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little brother Chuck when he told him these stories, or (b)
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little brother Chuck, co-author of this book, is lying to his
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readers, or (c) these stories are substantially correct. I opt
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for "c" -- these stories are substantially correct.
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The University of Illinois, besides its notoriety as home of "the
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Chief", a student who dresses in the supposed costume of an
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American Indian chief and does funny dances for beered-up sports
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fans, now has another claim to fame: it has its own connection to
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the *murder* of Marilyn Monroe. (Well, actually, it's the Chicago
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Circle branch of the University of Illinois that can add this to
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its resume.) "Mooney said the CIA and Outfit [Mafia] shared the
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talents of a University of Illinois chemist and researcher, a man
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whose lethal chemical concoctions had been utilized many times
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over the years by both organizations."
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But to understand the why of Monroe's murder, you have to
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understand the "double cross" done by the Kennedy clan to
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Giancana and other mobsters. It is fairly well-known that behind-
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the-scenes moneymen and others of influence will often back both
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candidates in an election. That way, whoever wins, the hidden
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backers still have control; the elected official will be
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"connected". "Being connected meant you did business with the
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Outfit [Mafia]. Leon Marcus was connected. Joe Kennedy was
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connected -- as were Abe Pritzker and Moe Annenberg. According to
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Mooney, all the Presidents of the United States since Teddy
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Roosevelt had been connected."
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Joe Kennedy, father of JFK, allegedly came to Giancana asking for
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the mob's help in getting his son elected. "[Joe] Kennedy's ties
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to the underworld intersected at a hundred points. Besides making
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a fortune in bootlegging [during Prohibition], Kennedy had made a
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financial killing in Hollywood in the twenties -- with the help
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of persuasive behind-the-scenes New York and Chicago muscle." In
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return for helping get his son elected, Joe Kennedy promised that
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federal watchdogs would be reined in and that Giancana and his
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pals would have things easy.
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And, according to authors Sam and Chuck Giancana, mobsters *did*
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pull out all the stops to help JFK become president.
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But here comes the "double cross": Once elected, Giancana and
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associates took it as a troubling sign that their hated nemesis,
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Robert F. Kennedy, was appointed Attorney General. This news came
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to Mooney "like a rabbit punch in the dark... It had occurred to
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Mooney that Joe Kennedy, 'the wily old bastard,' had had a
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brainstorm. By putting Bobby in charge of the Justice
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Department... Bobby would be utilized as henchman, with a virtual
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army of FBI agents at his disposal to destroy all those to whom
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the Kennedys owed favors."
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"'It's a brilliant move on Joe's part,' [Mooney Giancana] said
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ruefully. 'He'll have Bobby wipe us out to cover their own dirty
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tracks and it'll all be done in the name of the Kennedy <<war on
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organized crime>>. Brilliant. Just fuckin' brilliant.'"
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Marilyn Monroe, allegedly, had been exploited by both mobsters
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and the CIA to compromise world leaders. This would be
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accomplished, for example, by using surveillance of Monroe's
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liaisons with these leaders as material for subsequent blackmail.
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The authors claim that "Marilyn and the President had been
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connected romantically since the Democratic National Convention
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-- and that in March of 1962, Bobby Kennedy had become involved
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with her, as well."
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Monroe's career was languishing by June of 1962 and she had
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become increasingly troubled. "Later, Chuck would surmise that
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Marilyn Monroe's knowledge of CIA-Outfit collaborative efforts
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coupled with her increasingly severe emotional instability had
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become a dangerous combination. And that by July, thanks to a
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failing relationship with Bobby Kennedy, she had become not only
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expendable but -- when Mooney received reports of her threats to
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Bobby Kennedy to 'blow the lid off the whole damn thing' -- a
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frightening liability, as well."
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The CIA, claim the authors, asked Giancana and associates to
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eliminate Monroe. And Mooney saw this also as an opportunity to
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get back at the Kennedys: he apparently hoped to have RFK
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implicated by association in a faked "suicide" of Monroe.
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On August 4, 1962, Bobby Kennedy visited Monroe in California,
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accompanied by a man who may have been a doctor. Mobsters
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listening in on the meeting say that Monroe became more and more
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hysterical. Kennedy instructed the man with him to give Monroe a
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shot to "calm her down". RFK and his companion then left Monroe
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sedated in her home.
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The mob's assassins then moved in for the kill: sometime before
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midnight, they entered Marilyn's home. "She struggled at first,
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it was said, but already drugged by the injected sedative...
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their rubber-gloved hands easily forced her nude body to the bed.
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Calmly... they taped her mouth shut and proceeded to insert a
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specially 'doctored' Nembutal suppository into her anus. Then
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they waited."
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"The suppository... prepared by the same Chicago chemist who
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concocted the numerous chemical potions for the Castro hit, had
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been a brilliant choice. A lethal dosage of sedatives
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administered orally, and by force, would have been too risky,
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causing suspicious bruising during a likely struggle, as well as
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vomiting..."
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Mooney Giancana had hoped that a proper investigation would have
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unearthed Bobby Kennedy's visit to the starlet's home just prior
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to her death. "[It] might also be suspected that the attorney
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general, along with a confederate, had administered a lethal dose
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of sedatives into Marilyn Monroe's bloodstream."
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"Instead, the killers listened over their wiretaps in the hours
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following the murder as a series of phone calls alerted Bobby
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Kennedy to Marilyn's death and ultimately mobilized a team of FBI
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agents to avert the impending disaster..."
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What about the assassination of JFK? Was it the mob or the CIA?
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"Mooney leaned forward. 'Look, this is one of the Roman gods.
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This one has two faces... two sides. That's what we are, the
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Outfit and the CIA... two sides of the same coin. Sometimes our
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government can't do shit on the up-and-up. Sometimes they need a
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little trouble somewhere or maybe they need some bastard taken
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care of... Jesus, they can't get caught doin' shit like that.
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What if people found out? But we can. Guns, a hit, muscle...
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whatever dirty work needs to be done. We're on the same side,
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we're workin' for the same things... we just look different.
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So... we're two sides of the same coin... If you think we had
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Truman... let me tell you... we got this deal sewn up. Ike, all
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he does is play golf.'"
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"'So that's what you like about the guy,' Chuck teased."
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"'Shit, he's a pigeon... it's Nixon that's got the power. He's
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the one with the backing of the big money, like Hughes and the
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guys in California and the oilmen in Texas... Hump says Nixon's
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gonna call us if he needs a little hardball behind the scenes.'"
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"'From now on you can call me Sam Giancana, civil servant.'"
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