European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 16, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes thursday june 16, 1977 William Safire Exner s Book links crime politics show Biz. A. Tifi inn of the Hoilo Wood i oin late 1975, a fascinating Story that had been carefully buried on Page 6 of the Washington Post ignored by the National Media when covered by the Scripps Howard newspapers and brushed aside in a footnote by the Senate committee investigating the Cia was Given serious treat ment in this space. The Story was about the close relation ship Between president John f. Kennedy and a Beautiful woman who was also the Friend of Sam Giancana and John Rosella mafia Bosses who had been hired by the Cia to murder Fidel Castro. Now More details of that hard to believe connection Are available in Judith Exner my  a Grove press Book i picked up the other Day Over the counter in a . Erncr s self serving confessions As told to Ovid Demaris will be dismissed As distasteful seedy unnecessarily sensational unfairly selective salacious by gossipy perhaps psychologically sick. All of which they  there is a Core of checkable truth to this Story that exposes for the first time from near the inside the cancerous connective tissue that exists to this Day be tween the underworld show business and . Exner. Then Judy Campbell first met Frank Sinatra on nov. 10, 1959, upon his invitation to spend a weekend with Himin Hawaii. For More than a year she was one of Frank s girls part of the hat pack John p. Roche we re Foo Soff on Havana Hanoi forgive me if i sound in american but recent gambits by Castro and Hanoi americans held in his Model jails and review the charges against 20 More. From All accounts they Are either hop Heads or skyjacker. In my perhaps quaint View our response should be keep them but release cuban political prisoners notably the dying Hubert Matos. Similarly in Paris Hanoi has drawn on its casket Cache and produced the bodies of 20 More mias. Their operating premise seems to be that As Long As they keep the coffins moving from what is doubtless a sizable inventory the United states will shut its official Mouth As they cheerily massacre the Cao Dai. The catholics or other anti social  do you realize the full implications of these actions what assumptions about american character they Are based on the picture undoubtedly developed by Kab psychiatrists looks like this the United states despite All its Long winded disquisition on human rights is More concerned with reclaiming an american drug Gie or the remains of a dead Soldier than it is in the welfare of the cuban or Viet namese  the Bottom line comrades they Are a selfish autistic Crown of impotent moralists concerned Only about themselves ," their report could conclude May Well get the americans to Fork Over a few billion Bucks if the casket Supply holds out. Castro s problem is a Short fall of bodies but maybe he can open up the tourist Industry then seize a number of new ones As  Short the key to  which we will define in a moment is re leasing american hostages dead or alive. As far As the live ones Are concerned they May richly deserve to remain in Castro s slammers certainly if senator George Mcgovern and other american Liberal Visi tors to Cuba can be believed those Are doubtless progressive  far As the americans missing in Southeast Asia Are concerned May god columns comments rest them and Comfort their families. But to predicate our relationship with Vietnam on their status is in essence to betray the very principle for which they died namely that the United states was As concerned with the Freedom of dark skinned asians As of White europeans. I reacted strongly when former presi Dent Nixon made the status of the mias a key to our relations with Hanoi and i recently predicted Here that Hanoi had us spotted As a sucker for this play and would turn up in Paris with a new inventory of corpses and i am simply shamed that it seems to have  return to normalization what the hell s the Rush my objection is not to diplomatic representation i d Send an ambassador to hell to keep track of the Devil and i have a few candidates for the Posi Tion but to behaviour which can Only be described As fawning. Take the Vietnam Ese body count As an example their Refus Al to release this information is simply barbarous. Even the nazis informed the red Cross of the Fate of mias. But instead of excoriating them in very available forum we behave like Cocker spaniels thrown a Bone. Let Hanoi rot in squalor Deal with acute food shortages and beg their socialist friends for alms. If they re in trouble it could t have happened to a More sinister Crew of gangsters. The same to Fidel. We need normalization with Cuba like a wooden Nutmeg. The Best estimates Are that supporting Cuba is costing our potential adversaries i Moscow about $5 million a Day. As one who has Long believed in sharing the wealth. I submit this activity by Moscow should be encouraged indeed they should be urged to do More for their ally. One of the questions the talkative ambassador Young might also raise is Why the Fidelita leadership is Bianco look for a Black face on the politburo while the peasants and army privates Are Gener ally Black the Spanish abolished slavery in Cuba after our civil War. Bui cuban class Structure even under Castro s ver Sion of socialism is that of the ancient regime could we not. Then have a moratorium no normalization live and Fellowship with Moscow s mafiosi for at least a year by then Hanoi and Havana May have gone into bankruptcy under chapter 11 and there is never urgency in bankruptcy proceedings. Section of the Hollywood crowd. On feb. 7 1960, she was invited to Las vegas by Sina tra and in Dean Martin s hotel suite found herself being introduced to presidential candidate John f. Kennedy. � Sinatra was evidently not possessive mrs Exner says her affair with Kennedy began in new York on March 7, i960, eve of the new Hampshire primary. The following week Judy Exner flew to Miami at Sinatra s invitation. In his room was Joe fish Joseph Fischetti brother of dead mafiosi Charles and Rocco Fis Chitti and Cousin of Al Capone. Sinatra aware of her new Kennedy relationship advised her get with it. Swing a  on March 27. As she was still puzzling Over Sinatra s admonition to Wake up and realize what you be got in the Palm of your  the Singer introduced her to Man he called Sam flood one of the aliases of Momo Salvatore Sam Giancana a mobster who had begun As Driver for machine gun Jack Mcglum became Tony Accardo s chief lieutenant and in i960 was undisputed Boss of Chicago s underworld with extensive gambling interests in , under Sinatra s Aegis began the most startling dual relationship in the his tory of crime and politics for almost two years one woman was simultaneously seeing the nation s most powerful mobster and the nation s most powerful political  the Start mobster Giancana knew exactly with whom he was sharing the Young woman s affections. Since the appearance of Power is a form of Power hews Able to use his Girlfriend s Access to the presidential candidate and later to the White House itself to make a lasting impression on his mafia  myth protectors can no longer deny the relationship documented in Drcar detail by mrs. Exner and govern ment records but insist that it was pure coincidence that the mafia chief chosen by the Cia to assassinate Fidel Castro was Giancana along with another close Friend of mrs. Exner a John Roselli. Mrs. Exner denies she was the go be tween in this matter but cites other in stances where entertainers such As Jerry Lewis and Eddie Fisher terrified of mob Power used her to pass messages to Gian Cana. Great fun while it lasted As the Young woman accepted gifts from the Irish mafia and the real mafia one Day reciprocating they both smoked Schimmin Permick cigars. 1 went to a jeweler in Beverly Hills and had two solid Gold Cigar cases made and gave them each  but the Piper had to be paid. Through the Kennedy she became a patient of the notorious or. Feelgood or. Max Jacob son. Whose drug injections were exposed a few years ago by reporter Martin Torchia through Sam Giancana she suffered Clow Fri surveillance and was sent by the mobster to lawyer Sid Korshak whose my " serious Showbiz underworld links were exposed by reporter Seymour Hersh. Skip the gossip end study the pattern that emerges a series of links exist be tween underworld and political world through the world of show business. At j. Edgar Hoover s Behest. John Ken Nedy finally dropped her she denies that after her usefulness As a White House link ended. Giancana and Sinatra drifted away. Of Judy s fiends. Jack Kennedy was shot possibly in retaliation for Sam Giancana s cuban efforts Giancana was executed by the mafia just before he was to testify John Host Ali was murdered afterwards. The Lone survivor the matchmaker w Bluc eyes himself Frank Sinatra. 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