The Arrogance of Power (109 page)

Reginelli:
(background)
NYT,
May 4, Newark
Evening News,
May 25, 1956; (221 cases) “List of Criminal Actions Defended by Chotiner & Chotiner in the Superior Ct. of the State of CA, & the County of LA, 1949–June 1, 1952,” Murray Chotiner file, 1956, Box 178C, File 4, McClellan Collection, Ouachita Baptist University, AK, article by William L. Roper,
Nation,
July 2, 1955; unid. clip, “Chotiner's Dual Role in California Politics Told,” by Mary Ellen Leary, DPP; Drew Pearson letter to radio stations, Apr. 1956, DPP; (RN claimed) Nichols to Tolson, May 1, 1956, FBI 63-2766.

RN/Chotiner relations:
(“no contact . . .”) Drew Pearson column, Nashville
Tennessean,
May 1, 1956; (“on behalf of the VP . . .”) ibid., (Seelye) int. Howard Seelye; (letters to RN)
Washington Post Times Herald,
Apr. 29, 1956; (dropped) Washington
Daily News,
May 8,
NYT,
May 22, June 3, 4, 1956; (“tragedy”) Alsop, op. cit., p. 193; (rift) int. Jerry Pacht by FB, FBP; (“without guts . . .”) Bellino Papers; (1960) Cleveland
Press,
Oct. 26, 1960; (1962) int. John Rothmann,
AMI,
p. 656–; int. Chapin in eds. Strober,
Nixon,
op. cit., p. 340; ('62 forecast)
SF Chronicle,
Nov. 24, 1964; (1968) Richard Whalen,
Catch the Falling Flag,
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1972, p. 53; Garment, op. cit., p. 156; undated story by Vera Glaser, DPP; (RNC chairmanship?) Rowland Evans and Robert Novak,
Nixon in the White House,
London: Davis-Poynter, 1972 p. 71; (FBI check) FBI HQ 161-6284; (pay)
WP,
Apr. 11, 1969.

Chotiner misdeeds:
(“brilliant”)
MEM,
pp. 39, 87; (Hughes) memo, DeOreo to Lenzner, Dec. 7, 1973 and int. John Meier, Oct. 23, 1973, WSPF(H-R); (extortion) Sam Ervin, Jr.,
The Whole Truth, The Watergate Conspiracy,
New York: Random House, 1980, p. 264;
NYT,
May 3, 1974 and—dating back—
Nation,
July 2, 1955; (Greek exile) ints. Elias Demetracopoulos, Stanley Kutler,
The Wars of Watergate,
New York: Knopff, 1990, p. 207; (Townhouse) memo, Ruff to McBride, Aug. 3, 1973, Box 23, Folder 4, Archibald Cox Papers, Harvard Law School Library and Victor Lasky,
It Didn't Start with Watergate,
New York: Dell, 1977, p. 349; (IRS) Joan Hoff,
Nixon Reconsidered,
New York: Basic Books, 1994, p. 278; (Goldberg)
WP,
Aug. 21, 24, 1973, Jan. 23, Feb. 4, 1998, and see Aug. 13, 1972 entry
AOP,
p. 129; (Vesco)
Boston Globe,
Apr. 3, 1974, citing Vesco; Dan Moldea,
Interference,
New York: William Morrow, 1989, p. 458; (mafiosi) int. John Dean in U.S., June 14, 1977;
Scanlan's Monthly,
Sept. 1970;
NYT,
May 26, 1970; int. Michael Ewing; John Dean,
Blind Ambition,
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1976, p. 36; (scam) Oakland
Tribune,
May 4, 1973; Blumenthal and Yazijian, op. cit., p. 135; (Hoffa)
WP,
May 3, 1973; int. Harry Hall; Clark Mollenhoff,
Game Plan for Disaster,
New York: Norton, 1976, p. 45;
Newsweek,
Nov. 26, 1973 and Chotiner int, May 24, 1973, FBI WFO 58-1344; (Marcello) Walter Sheridan,
The Rise and Fall of Jimmy Hoffa,
New York: Saturday Review Press, 1972, pp. 492, 504; (Pajamas)
WP,
May 3, 1973; (offices)
NM,
p. 6; (telephone) Winzola McClendon,
Martha, The Life of Martha Mitchell,
New York:
Random House, 1979, p. 167; (woman on payroll) Washington
Star-News,
Aug. 19, 1973; (Chapin) int. Chapin in eds. Strober,
Nixon,
op. cit., p. 340.

Pat disapproval:
PAT,
p. 92; (letterhead)
AMI,
p. 124.

Cohen:
(principal story) SAC Sacramento to director, Apr. 22, 1969, FBI 161-6284-21, (hereafter “Sacramento FBI”); SAC LA to director, Oct. 10, 1962, FBI 92-3156-338; ed. John Peer Nugent, Mickey Cohen,
In His Own Words,
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1975, p. 231; Reid, op. cit.; (Siegel) George Carpozi, Jr.,
Bugsy,
New York: SPI, 1992; Fox, op. cit., p. 283–; Rappeleye and Becker, op. cit., p. 100 et al.; (“a power”) Nugent, op. cit., p. 78; (Goodfellow's/pols.) Nugent, op. cit., p. 96, (Goodfellow's/meeting) Sacramento FBI,
supra.;
(Irvine)
NYT,
Oct. 17, 1959;
History of the Irvine Ranch,
pamphlet,1965, Troop 36, Irvine Ranch, history, 1953; www. ocbsa.org., Charlie S. Thomas file, corr. files; Series 320, Box 753, VP, NA; (footnote on Chotiner cases)
Nation,
July 2, 1955;
Behind the Scenes
magazine, Mar. 1956 [issued January 1956] FBI HQ 161-6284, Apr. 18, 1969, p. 74; (letter) Carey McWilliams to Drew Pearson, June 23, 1955, Box G230, DPP; (Sicas et al.) FBI 161-6284-21 and name entries, Sifakis, op. cit.; (Samish) Stephen Fox,
Blood
&
Power,
New York: Morrow, 1989, p. 126; (Pearson background) Oliver Pilat,
Drew Pearson,
New York: Pocket, 1973, esp. p. 3;
NYT,
Sept. 2, 1969; (1956) Chotiner letter to radio station WTSP, St. Petersburg, FL, May 23, 1956, Pearson letters to radio stations, May 23, 31, June 5, 13, 1956, Box G230, DPP; (1959) Chotiner letter to Pearson and subsequent corr., Box G281, DPP; (1962) Sacramento FBI,
supra.,
Nugent, op. cit., p. 231; (1968) ibid., and
WP,
undated, prob. Oct. 31, 1968; (first lead) P. Thafker telegrams to Pearson, May 8, 23, 1956, Box G230, DPP; (“I don't know . . .”) LA
Examiner,
May 14, 1956 (refused), FBI 161-6284-21 and undated Pearson memo, May 1956, Box G198, DPP; (“ratting”) SAC LA to director, Oct. 10, 1962, FBI 92-3156-338; (Chotiner demand) Pearson blind memo, June 16, 1959, Box G281, DPP.

Syndicate control?:
(“the proper persons . . .”) Nugent, op. cit., p. 80; (Costello/Lansky) ints. Hank Messick, Lansky biographer and Richard Hammer, Luciano biographer, for author's book
Official
&
Confidential,
op. cit., p. 240; (Sheridan) Miami
Herald,
Jan. 22, 1983; int. Pete Hamill by Julie Ziegler.

RN backing:
(“I want you . . .”)
MO,
p. 314; (Schuyler) int. Schuyler in ed. Schulte, op. cit., pp. 247, 248–, 264; (Stout)
MO,
p. 284.

Safire:
Christopher Andrew,
For the President's Eyes Only,
New York: HarperCollins, 1995, p. 351.

DC debut:
(
Washington Times-Herald
) Jan. 21, 1947; (Reedy) int. George Reedy by FB, FBP; (suits/shoes) Kissinger,
White House Years,
op. cit., p. 662;
FB,
p. 59; Crowley,
Nixon in Winter,
op. cit., p. 4; int. Hugh Sidey in eds. Miller Center, op. cit., p. 305; Safire, op. cit., p. 606; (Trohan) int. Walter Trohan and Walter Trohan,
Political Animals,
New York: Doubleday, 1975, p. 367; (arrival DC)
PAT,
Ch. 10; (thing of the past)
PAT,
p. 97; (attic)
MO,
p. 356; int. George Reedy by FB, FBP; (“suppose . . . elated”) Christopher Mathews,
Kennedy
&
Nixon,
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996, p. 45; (“lost feeling”)
MO,
p. 356; (“smash . . . bosses”) Costello, op. cit., p. 179; (champions bill)
MO,
p. 344.

“pacing”:
Time,
Aug. 25, 1952.

Eisler:
MO,
p. 344; Allen Weinstein,
Perjury,
New York: Random House, 1997 (hereafter
PERJ
), p. 77–.

Hiss main sources:
PERJ;
Sam Tanenhaus,
Whittaker Chambers,
New York: Random House, 1997; John Chabot Smith,
Alger Hiss, The True Story,
New York: Penguin, 1977; Morton and Michael Levitt,
A Tissue of Lies,
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979; William Reuben,
The Honorable Mr
.
Nixon and the Alger Hiss Case,
New York: Action Books, 1957; Nixon,
Six Crises,
op. cit.

Hiss detail:
(Great Fear) David Caute,
The Great Fear,
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978; (“A Lesson”)
MO,
p. 500; (RN told aides)
PERJ,
p. 554; (“How he loved”) Haldeman and DiMona, op. cit., p. 49; (Dean) int. John Dean and WHT, Feb. 28, 1973, WSPF, NA.

job seeking:
(NY law firms)
MEM,
p. 21;
MO,
p. 179–; Toledano,
One Man Alone,
op. cit., p. 31; Mazo, op. cit., p. 26; (Donovan) Thomas Troy,
Donovan and the CIA,
Frederick, MD: Aletheia Books, 1981, p. 23; G.J.A. O'Toole,
Honorable Treachery,
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991, p. 417; (“highest hope”) Mazo, op. cit, p. 26 and cf.
SF Chronicle,
Nov. 4, 1968; (Dulles) Peter Grose,
Gentleman Spy,
Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994; Leonard Mosley,
Dulles,
New York: Dial Press/James Wade, 1978; (“very particular”) Grose, op. cit., p. 92; (Wise) David Wise,
The American Police State,
New York: Random House, 1976, p. 130fn; (Loftus) John Loftus and Mark Aarons,
The Secret War Against the Jews,
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994, pp. 220–, 557; int. John Loftus; (Dulles fall 1945) Grose, op. cit., p. 256; (Phleger) William Ackerman to FB, Jan. 2, 1979, FBP; Lurie,
The Running of Richard Nixon,
op. cit., p. 163;
Who's Who in America,
1982, p. 2653; (toured
Europe) Grose, op. cit., p. 280; Parmet, op. cit., p. 326; Mosley, op. cit., p. 243; (dinners)
JA,
p. 246; (brief RN) Mosley, op. cit., pp. 394, 466; William Corson,
The Armies of Ignorance,
New York: Dial Press/James Wade, 1977, p. 36; (RN met brothers)
MEM,
p. 57.

Hiss OSS counsel?:
Troy, op. cit., p. 80.

warnings about Hiss:
(Donovan)
Spectator
[London], Nov. 23, 1996; (Dulles) ibid.; (run-in) Grose, op. cit., p. 297fn; (close touch) ibid, p. 272; (advisors) ibid, p. 288; Mosley, op. cit., p. 218.

FBI:
(application) Apr. 23, 1937, FBI 67-102459, in Hoover Official & Confidential file 8, NA; (Dean) Horack to Hoover, May 11, 1937, Richard M. Nixon Collection, Duke University Archive; (“Not Qualified”) investigation brief, Aug. 10, 1937, O & C 8, FBI 67-102459; (explanations) Hoover introduction of RN at FBI National Academy, June 11, 1954, FBI 298948- 80; John Mohr testimony, Inquiry into the Destruction of Former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's Files, FBI Recordkeeping, Hearings, House Government Information and Individual Rights Subcommittee on Government Operations, 1975, p. 70;
MEM,
p. 21; (Assistant Directors) William Sullivan and Bill Brown,
The Bureau,
New York: Norton, 1979, p. 196; Norman Ollestad,
Inside the FBI,
New York: Lyle Stuart, 1967, p. 57; (another account) notes of Carmine Bellino, citing Agent Roy Morgan, Bellino Papers, held by family—FBI documents show Vincent was SAC; (Richfield) application form,
supra.;
Hoover to SAC Los Angeles, July 23, 1937; inspector's interview, Aug. 2, 1937, FBI 67-102459-15; (incoming congressman) Summers,
Official
&
Confidential,
op. cit., p. 194; (“good man”) Ovid Demaris,
The Director,
New York: Harper's Magazine Press, 1975, p. 121–; the attorney was Bradshaw Mintener; (meets Hoover)
MEM,
p. 595;
Newsweek,
June 9, 1947; (RN/Hoover relations) Summers,
Official
&
Confidential,
op. cit., pp. 180, 262, 293, 368; (RN feared) ibid., p. 371 [citing Pete Pitchess] and Demaris, op. cit., p. 96 [citing William Sullivan]; (“Constitution . . . in such danger”) Merle Miller,
Plain Speaking,
New York: Berkley, 1973, p. 416.

Hiss suspicions:
(alleged Communists)
PERJ,
p. 311–; (mail)
Nation,
Fred Cook article, Oct. 11, 1980, p. 342; (Agents interviewed)
PERJ,
p. 302; (code clerk) ibid., p. 311; (Bentley) ibid., p. 316; (top leaders) ibid., p. 307; (tailing)
Nation,
Oct. 11, 1980, p. 342; (Chambers reinterviewed/leaks)
PERJ,
p. 327.

RN claimed:
Nixon,
Six Crises,
op. cit., p. 4 and cf. Notes of RN int. by Herbert Parmet, Parmet papers.

Cronin:
MO,
pp. 351, 396 et al.; Garry Wills,
Nixon Agonistes,
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969, p. 26–; (within month) Kornitzer, op. cit., p. 172–; Frank Donner,
Age of Surveillance,
New York: Vintage, 1981, p. 174fn, Cronin int. in “The Trials of Alger Hiss,” History on Film, [documentary script], 1979, supplied to author by Producer/Director John Lowenthal, p. 40–; de Toledano,
One Man Alone,
op. cit., p. 76; Mazo, op. cit., p. 51; (“stacked deck”)
Esquire,
Nov. 1975, p. 76, citing Cronin int. 1974; (“hard-core”) Lowenthal script,
supra.,
p. 41; (Hummer)
Esquire,
Nov. 1975, p. 76, but see
JA,
p. 155, Gellman, op. cit., p. 234 and RN int. by Parmet,
supra.;
(Nichols/former agents) Nichols to Tolson, Dec. 2, 1948; Ladd to director, Dec. 9, 1948; FBI Hiss file in FBI Reading Room.

Russell:
(triggered?) Seattle
Post-Intelligencer,
Feb. 17, 1954; Jerris Leonard memo, July 19, 1974, Jim Hougan Collection; (traveled with RN) int. William Birely; (phone with RN) int. Jean (Russell) Hooper; (reported to Hoover) Hottel to Hoover, Sept. 2, 1948; Nichols to Tolson, Dec. 2, 1948; Ladd to Hoover, Dec. 9, 1948; Hiss file,
supra.;
Nichols to Tolson, Jan. 14, 1949, FBI [hard to decipher] ?37816-260; (Democrat) int. William Birely; (“liberal”) Robert Carr,
The House Committee on Un
-
American Activities, 1945–1950,
Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1952, p. 268; see also int. Gordon Hess by Jim Hougan, Hougan Collection, and cf. refs. in
MO
and Smith,
Alger Hiss,
op. cit.