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- From: jac54@cas.org ()
- Subject: Re: Does FBI still ignore Cosa Nostra?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.113325.11085@cas.org>
- Keywords: FBI, Mafia
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- Organization: Chemical Abstracts Service, Columbus, Ohio
- References: <1992Dec22.182616.4854@stiatl.salestech.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 11:33:25 GMT
- Lines: 40
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- In article <1992Dec22.182616.4854@stiatl.salestech.com> gst@stiatl.salestech.com (Greg Tucker) writes:
- > We know that Herbert Hoover vigorously pursued
- >civil rights activists, bank robbers, and communists
- >during the 50's and 60's while ignoring and even
- >denying the existence of the Mafia.
-
- I think you mean J.Edgar Hoover. Herbert Hoover
- was dead by this time. The Mafia had actually
- done a very good job of going underground and
- they were quietly earning the dishonest dollar
- until an astute copper in New Jersey (I think)
- stumbled upon a meeting of Capos.
-
-
- >
- > We know that the FBI is currently still engaged
- >in campaigns against environmentalists, Indian
- >rights activists, and other rights groups.
- >
- > My question for netland is "Does the FBI still
- >have a hands off approach to the Mafia?"
- >(From my perspective it appears that they do.)
-
- From my perspective it appears that they
- don't. Recent cases, including that against
- John Gotti have badly hurt the Mafia, especially
- in the North-East.
-
- >
- > Second question: Why do they have a hands off
- >approach? Have they been bribed? Blackmailed?
- >During Hoover's time, anyone who persued the Mafia
- >became Agent Non-Grata and was demoted. Is this
- >still true? Does the Mafia have control of the
- >higher echelons of the FBI and CIA?
- >
- Second question is irrelevant in the light
- of my answer to first.
-
- Alec Chambers.
-