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Serve-U-Corporation, which would provide vending machines for companies working on federally granted programs.
The machines were manufactured by a Chicago-based corporation secretly owned by Tony americanmafia.com/Feature_Articl…
Serve-U-Corporation, which would provide vending machines for companies working on federally granted programs.
The machines were manufactured by a Chicago-based corporation secretly owned by Tony americanmafia.com/Feature_Articl…
Accardo, Paul Ricca, Gus Alex and Sam Giancana and others.
Baker's connection to the Serve-U-Corporation is what caused his life to come tumbling down in October of 1963 when he was forced to resign his senate post after a vending machine contractor named Baker in a civil
Baker's connection to the Serve-U-Corporation is what caused his life to come tumbling down in October of 1963 when he was forced to resign his senate post after a vending machine contractor named Baker in a civil
suit as the person who strong-armed them out of defense contractors' plant when they refused to kick back enough money.
It turned out that if Baker went down he could have brought John Kennedy and his entire administration with him because Baker was instrumental in
It turned out that if Baker went down he could have brought John Kennedy and his entire administration with him because Baker was instrumental in
introducing John Kennedy to a suspected Russian spy named Ellen Rometsch. Suite 8F helped to coordinate the political activities of other right-wing politicians and businessmen based in the South. In the early 1950s Baker worked closely with Fred Black. He also became involved in
helping the Intercontinental Hotels Corporation to establish casinos in the Dominican Republic. Baker arranged for Ed Levinson, an associate of Meyer Lansky and Sam Giancana, to become involved in this deal.
OF THE 88 privately-held rooms at The Lamar Hotel, Suite 8F wasn’t
OF THE 88 privately-held rooms at The Lamar Hotel, Suite 8F wasn’t
especially noteworthy: two bedrooms, a dining room, and a living room, all in need of updates. “Don’t touch it,” George Brown used to say. “Just leave everything the way it is.”
Who cared about the appliances, anyway? It’s the discussions inside Brown’s corner pad that mattered.
Who cared about the appliances, anyway? It’s the discussions inside Brown’s corner pad that mattered.
In the ’50s and ’60s, 8F was known to some as the secret capital of Texas. Bankrolled by Brown & Root, it’s where Houston’s most high-profile business and civic leaders relaxed, played cards, and shaped the city’s development, electing to meet in an even more private setting
than the nearby, already-quite-private Houston Club or Petroleum Club. Trujillo was assassinated on May 30, 1961[94] with weapons supplied by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).[105]
In February 1963, a democratically elected government under leftist Juan Bosch
In February 1963, a democratically elected government under leftist Juan Bosch
took office but it was overthrown in September. On April 24, 1965, after 19 months of military rule, a pro-Bosch revolt broke out.[106]
Days later U.S. President Lyndon Johnson, concerned that communists might take over the revolt and create a "second Cuba," sent the Marines,
Days later U.S. President Lyndon Johnson, concerned that communists might take over the revolt and create a "second Cuba," sent the Marines,
followed immediately by the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division and other elements of the XVIIIth Airborne Corps, in Operation Powerpack.
In 1959 the Cuban Revolution took place, led by Fidel Castro, causing a major political, economic and social upheaval in the Caribbean island. Cord Meyer, a CIA official, was chief of International Organizations Division, a CIA sponsored front for manipulating international
groups.[13] He used the contacts with Bosch, Volman, and Figueres for a new purpose – as the United States moved to rally the hemisphere against Cuba's Fidel Castro, Rafael Trujillo, the strongman caudillo that ran the Dominican Republic for 30 years had become expendable.[13]
The United States needed to demonstrate that it opposed all dictators, not just those on the left. Circa 1949, Meyer started working for the Central Intelligence Agency, joining the organization in 1951 at the invitation of Allen Dulles. At first he worked at the Office of
Policy Coordination under former OSS man, Frank Wisner
According to Deborah Davis in her 1979 book Katharine the Great, Meyer became the "principal operative" of Operation Mockingbird, a plan to secretly influence domestic and foreign media.[7] Meyer befriended James Angleton,
According to Deborah Davis in her 1979 book Katharine the Great, Meyer became the "principal operative" of Operation Mockingbird, a plan to secretly influence domestic and foreign media.[7] Meyer befriended James Angleton,
who in 1954 became the CIA's counter-intelligence chief. From 1954 until 1962, Meyer led the agency's International Organizations Division.[8] Meyer headed the Covert Action Staff of the Directorate of Plans from 1962.
On 18 December 1956, Meyer's nine-year-old son, Michael, was hit by a car and killed. Meyer and his wife Mary divorced in 1958. On 12 October 1964, his former wife Mary was shot dead by an unknown assailant alongside the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.[9] Her sister and brother-in-law
Benjamin C. Bradlee, later the executive editor of The Washington Post, caught Angleton breaking into Pinchot's residence.[6] Angleton apparently was looking for Mary Meyer's diary that allegedly contained details of a love affair with John F. Kennedy, the recently assassinated
U.S. President.[He retired from the CIA in 1977. Following retirement, Meyer became a syndicated columnist and wrote several books, including an autobiography. Some insiders incorrectly suspected that Cord Meyer was Deep Throat, a key informant in the Watergate Scandal.
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