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68. Trento, The Secret History of the CIA, 395 (Helms), 344 (cadre). Shackley by this time was operating in conjunction with the secretive International Freedom Foundation, a group created by lobbyist Jack Abramoff (David Teacher, Rogue Agents: The Cercle Pinay Complex, 1951–1991, available at http://www.isgp.eu).

69. Block, Masters of Paradise, 191.

70. Block, Masters of Paradise, 192: “The major Pritzker link to the Teamsters was crafted by Stanford Clinton,” a lawyer “who represented some of Chicago’s leading hoodlums” and also had a Castle account.

71. Block, Masters of Paradise, 195.

72. Block, Masters of Paradise, 171, cf. 32–33.

73. Block, Masters of Paradise, 172–73, 182.

74. Scott, The War Conspiracy, 46–47, 60, 64–68, 263, 278–79.

75. OSS officer and Corcoran friend Ernest Cuneo, quoted in David McKean, Peddling Influence: Thomas “Tommy the Cork” Corcoran and the Birth of Modern Lobbying (Hanover, NH: Steerforth, 2004), 286.

76. “Lawyers and Lobbyists.” Fortune, February 1952, 142, quoted in Scott, The War Conspiracy, 47.

77. Joseph J. Trento, Prelude to Terror: The Rogue CIA and the Legacy of America’s Private Intelligence Network (New York: Carroll and Graf, 2005), 9.

78. Scott, The War Conspiracy, 278–79.

79. Block, Masters of Paradise, 170.

80. “In October 1934 Treasury Attaché Nicholson submitted reports implicating Chiang Kai-shek and possibly T.V. Soong in the heroin trade to North America” (Douglas Valentine, The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America’s War on Drugs [London: Verso, 2004], 37).

81. McKean, Peddling Influence, 140–43; Scott, The War Conspiracy, 64–65.

82. McKean, Peddling Influence, 149–50.

83. Bruce Cumings, The Origins of the Korean War, vol. 2 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990), 107, 153; Trento, Prelude to Terror, 9.

84. Oral history interview with Arthur R. Ringwalt, June 5, 1974, Truman Library, http://www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/ringwalt.htm.

85. Daniel Fineman, A Special Relationship: The United States and Military Government in Thailand, 1947–1958 (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 1997), 214–15, cf. 206.

86. Bertil Lintner, Burma in Revolt: Opium and Insurgency since 1948 (Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 1999), 192; Scott, Drugs, Oil, and War, 51, 187, 192–93.

87. Lernoux, In Banks We Trust, 82–83.

88. Anthony Summers with Robbyn Swann, The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon (New York: Viking, 2000), 242.

89. Memo of August 18, 1976, to Chief, Security Analysis Group, NARA #104-10059-10013; also partially released as p. 6 of Meyer Lansky Security File, 1993.08.13.17:42:12:560059.

90. Memo of August 18, 1976, to Chief, Security Analysis Group, NARA #104-10059-10013; Reid, The Grim Reapers, 119–23.

91. Jeff Gerth, “Richard M. Nixon and Organized Crime,” in Government by Gunplay: Assassination Conspiracy Theories from Dallas to Today, ed. Sid Blumenthal and Harvey Yazijian (New York: New American Library, 1976), 138.

92. Summers, The Arrogance of Power, 242, 252; Jim Hougan, Spooks: The Haunting of America—The Private Use of Secret Agents (New York: William Morrow, 1978), 398. Cf. Denny Walsh, New York Times, January 21, 1974; Gerth, “Richard M. Nixon and Organized Crime,” 137–39.

93. Block, Masters of Paradise, 94–96; Summers, The Arrogance of Power, 244–45.

94. Summers, The Arrogance of Power, 244–45, 253–54.

95. Block, Masters of Paradise, 46, 101.

96. Inspector-General’s Report on CIA Plots to Assassinate Fidel Castro, NARA #104-10213-10101, 29–30, quoted in Scott, Deep Politics II, 60.

97. San Francisco Chronicle, March 3, 1967, 41, quoted in Scott, Deep Politics II, 67.

98. David Kaiser, The Road to Dallas: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 2008), 206–8.

99. Block, Masters of Paradise, 100–101.