On pages 4 and 5 of Newsletter #31 I made reference to some entities and individuals without actually identifying them. Let me do so now. “Entity A” refers to Associates Financial Institutions Community Bank in Los Angeles and Union Bank, later Inter-West Bank, in Tucson. “Mr. B” is Charles Cook. “Entity C” is Gemini Industries … Continue reading
I now am appending three more pages of Newsletter No. 31 with significant annotations by CIA analyst Dr. Frederick Von Bodungen. These are pages 4, 8, and 12. To make sense of all this, some additional clarification is in order based on my subsequently improved understanding of three clandestine operations since the Newsletter initially was … Continue reading
Two-plus years after I released my private newsletter “On The Death Of Danny Casolaro,” there was a remarkable development. I learned in February 1994 from journalist George Williamson — then with the Washington, D.C., bureau of the San Francisco Chronicle — that a copy of my newsletter somehow had ended up at CIA headquarters in … Continue reading
After having been silent for some years, I have decided to do some additional posting on this website. And I will be doing so with the crucial assistance of colleague Nick Bartlett, still in Phoenix, for which I am very grateful. I produce in analog fashion. He then processes it into the requisite digital format. … Continue reading
Some time ago, I took part in a feature length documentary film titled Who Killed Don Bolles?, by Arizona filmmaker Nicholas Bartlett — a film that explores the 1976 murder of investigative reporter Don Bolles, who I’ve written extensively about over the last few decades. The film is now available on Amazon Prime Video, Apple … Continue reading
John Adamson wasn’t Carl Verive’s only non-Mafia sidekick. Another such local fellow was Jim Burdick, reportedly a business partner of Verive in both a salvage yard on West Buckeye in Phoenix and an area apartment maintenance service. Burdick also was said to have developed considerable skills in electronics while employed for a time by General … Continue reading
Starting to attract too much attention from Chicago law enforcement officials, Mafia enforcer and killer Carl Verive opted to move west by 1970 — if not a bit sooner — to Phoenix, a growing town rapidly becoming a desert colony of the Windy City mob. But also noticed here by Phoenix PD intelligence officers, he … Continue reading
In a move that professional magicians might admire, ranking officials of the Arizona AG’s office actually managed to make a crucial Don Bolles case witness completely “disappear.” The man who effectively vanished at that wave of the AG’s wand was Danny O’Keefe. I first heard of O’Keefe as such a potential witness from DENVER POST … Continue reading
John Adamson’s numerous acquaintances in the Valley of the Sun with penchants for criminal activities included William Rocco “Rocky” D’Ambrosio and Frank Mossuto. They were Chicago mob guys who back in the 1970s had acquired a lounge in Scottsdale called La Versailles. They were the ones who also procured the dynamite used in the car-bomb … Continue reading
A research colleague of mine recently revisited the old Normandy Place neighborhood in Evanston, Illinois, where Motorola founder Paul Galvin, his wife Lillian, and son Bob all were living when Lillian was shot to death in October 1942. Household maid Edna Sibilski similarly was killed there at the same time. In this latest visit, my … Continue reading
