Blackmail

Well who is in these very high positions? Someone like Lyndon Johnson? He and Israel had alot to gain after the assassination. Hoover visited the Del Mar racetrack. He was known to frequent the track for relaxation and was described as a regular attendee, often placing bets through companions, including FBI agents, to avoid being seen making large wagers himself. He even brought his lover, Clyde Tolsen with him. He was Lansky’s insurance when Lansky blackmailed Hoover. Clyde was given Hoover’s entire estate!

Hoover was very successful in his bets. While he claimed to make only small $2 bets, insiders revealed that he often placed larger wagers, up to $200 per race, through intermediaries like FBI agents. There is no detailed record of his overall winnings, but his betting habits suggest he was well-informed and occasionally tipped on likely winners. Funny, because the mafia was prevalent at the Del Mar racetrack, particularly during its early decades. Figures such as Jimmy “The Weasel” Fratianno, Mickey Cohen, and other organized crime members frequented the track in the 1950s, using it as a gathering spot. Law enforcement monitored their activities closely, as mobsters from Los Angeles and beyond were often seen there. Some individuals involved in managing the track, like liquor distributor Al Hart, had alleged ties to the Chicago mob. Certain races were reportedly fixed under the control of Clint Murchison and Sid Richardson.

A who’s who of organized crime. What was the FBI director doing at a Mafia ran racetrack and getting massive wins on insider tips there? Isn’t he suppose to be going after these criminals? 

There is an account suggesting that James Angleton instructed Gordon Novel to inform J. Edgar Hoover that he had seen compromising photos of Hoover and Clyde Tolson. According to Novel, Angleton showed him the photos in 1967 and claimed they were authentic. (pages 280-281) Novel later approached Hoover at the Mayflower Hotel, where he mentioned the photos, causing Tolson to react visibly. This incident was reportedly intended to demonstrate that Hoover was not untouchable and that the CIA had leverage over him.

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It's impossible to talk about sexual blackmail in American politics of the 20th century without addressing the man who was behind the MLK 'suicide letter', the longtime director of the FBI, Jay. Edgar Hoover. Hoover ran the FBI from its founding in 1935 until his death in office in 1972 and he became one of the most powerful figures in the entire federal government during his tenure. Besides being the sole director of the biggest domestic espionage and law enforcement organization in the United States, Hoover maintained an extensive database of compromising material about politicians, journalists, and celebrities gathered by FBI agents across the country and kept in a safe in Hoover's office which he used to consolidate his power through both blackmail and strategic leaks. During the presidential election of 1960 between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy, Hoover decided to throw his weight behind the more conservative Nixon, slipping the Republican vice president his blackmail file on JFK's sexual indiscretions, including surveillance photographs the FBI had taken of him and his mistresses, and even tapes from bugs they' planted in hotel rooms where JFK had consummated the affairs. Hoover's treachery was only revealed years later when the famous journalist Jack Anderson gave a TV interview in which he admitted that affiliates of the Nixon campaign had approached him and other journalists with the blackmail material, hoping to get it published in one of the big American newspapers before the election. Anderson accepted the dossier but declined to publish it, picking up some details about Hoover's blackmail methods in the process. It was rather a friendly approach, pretending to be trying to protect the president. It would be something like, "There's some information that we've heard that your enemies might get, Mr. president and we would like you to know we're helping to guard this information so that it won't get out. It was a way of letting the president know that Jay Edgar Hoover also had that information and then when he needed an appropriation, wanted a presidential pardon, well, he always got them. I know how he operated. This characterization of Hoover's blackmail operation that he approached politicians under the guise of a concerned friend looking to protect their reputation was reiterated by Watergate burglar G. Gordon Litty, whose FBI career included a stint at the division known as the crime records department, which much of the blackmail material passed through on its way to Hoover. As Ly recounted to Anthony Summers in the book Official and Confidential, say there was a bank robbery someplace, an informant might tell us the man to look for was holed up in the Skyline Motel about six blocks south of the capital in Washington. Agents search the motel and in the process they come across Senator X in bed with Miss Lucy Schwarzoff, age 15 and a half. They make their apologies and withdraw, but everything has to go into the record. The supervisor who gets the report may think there's no need to keep stuff on the pecadillos of Senator X, but he has no authority to destroy it. The report has to go up to the director's office. In Edgar's office, said Litty, a summary would be prepared for Miss Gardner of crime records. Those involved in congressional liaison, like Litty himself, would come across it sooner or later. Say the director was expecting to meet Senator X or if the senator's name had come up in some way, I would have to prepare a memorandum. I would check out the card held by Miss Gardner and if there was something noteworthy, I would write a note, perhaps a blind memorandum for the director only. It would say something like, "The director may wish to recall that Senator X was involved in such and such an incident and is not very discreet." "Sometimes," said Edgar might send an official to meet with the compromised politician soon after receiving the initial report. The messenger would simply say, "Mr. Hoover apologized for the intrusion into the senator's privacy, assure him it came up in the course of legitimate inquiries, and tell him not to worry. This had been removed from the file. The whole point was to let the senator know that Hoover knew. That's why when Hoover would go before the appropriations committee and say he wanted something, they'd give him anything, anything, because they were afraid of what he had. When it comes to proving who exactly Hoover blackmailed in this way, and to what ends, the majority of the evidence is almost certainly lost to history. Some of the most precise details that have appeared in the public record, come from Anthony Summers's book, Official and Confidential. Emanuel Geller of Brooklyn, a Democratic congressman for 50 years, many of them as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, told New York Post publisher Dorothy Schiff that he was afraid to speak his mind about Edgar's abuses because the FBI had a hold on him. In public, he continued to speak of Edgar as a most exemplary public servant. It was not uncommon, said veteran agent Arthur Myrtto, to learn of some politically damaging information about some leading figure in politics as having been developed by the bureau, and then always at a time when it would be most damaging to the individual, the information would in some way show up in the Chicago Tribune or some other friend of the bureau. Walter Trowan, the Chicago Tribune reporter who was close to Edgar, recalled talking with some of the victims of such tactics. Some of Hoover's overwhelming support on the Hill was due to what I can only call blackmail, polite blackmail. Senator Sam Irvin, remembered for his presiding role during the Watergate hearings, behaved differently in 1971 when his chairman for the subcommittee on constitutional rights. He vetoed a probe of FBI abuses. I think he said of Edgar, he has done a very good job in a difficult post. According to William Sullivan, Irvin was quote in our pocket. It was financial, something like the Abe Foris affair. This is why he came out praising the bureau. Edgar liked to send dirt on politicians to the White House. I know he had a dossier on me, recalled former Florida Senator George Smatters. Because Lyndon Johnson read it to me. Johnson called me in the middle of the night. He loved to do that and said, "These are rumors the FBI have been picking up about you." He also read me the file on Senator Thirsten Morton, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee and the one on Barry Goldwater. There was a lot about Nixon in there, too. A lot of people were very nervous. The journalist Jack Anderson would later report that after Kennedy's electoral victory over Nixon in 1960, Hoover began feeding JFK compromising material about other politicians. The editor of the Washington Post, Ben Bradley, related a conversation he'd had with Kennedy in which the president had said, "Boy, the dirt Hoover has on those senators, you wouldn't believe it."

Blackmail Rings

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Blackmailed Silly Billies

J Edgar, JFK, LBJ, MLK, Marilyn Monroe, Mark Lane

Bill Clinton - In February 1997, before the existence of Bill Clinton's affair with (((Monica Lewinsky))) had been publicly revealed, Clinton held a scheduled Oval Office meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu. Shortly afterward, Clinton's Secretary Betty Curry reached out to Lewinsky and invited her to an Oval Office meeting, saying Clinton had something important to tell her. At the meeting, Clinton told Lewinsky that a foreign embassy had tapped his phone and was now in possession of recordings of their conversations. Clinton didn't specify which embassy, but a meeting with Netanyahu had occurred just a month earlier, in which he hosted Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat for a summit at Y River, Maryland. Towards the end of the summit, at 7:00 a.m. after a long night of final negotiations, Netanyahu approached Clinton privately to demand the release of convicted spy Jonathan Pollard and implied that if Pollard wasn't freed, the tapes of Clinton and Lewinsky might find their way to the media. According to the book Clinton, Inc. by Washington Examiner editor Daniel Halper. After demanding Pollard's release, Netanyahu brought up the Lewinsky tapes unprompted and told Clinton not to worry because Israeli intelligence had gotten rid of the recordings. But the calculated reference to the tape's existence was obviously intended as an implicit threat of blackmail, and Clinton understood it as such. On the last day of the Y River meetings, Clinton initiated the process of pardoning Pollard and only backed down when CIA director, George Tenet, threatened to resign if Pollard was released.