MAFIA KILLED JFK?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000300510142-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 20, 2004
• Sequence Number: 142
• Publication Date: May 16, 1975
• Content Type: NSPR

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by Victor Riesel
16 MAY? .1975
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WASHINGTON There's a So Jack Ruby had a vision in. wherever else there was political -In the federal records one can ?
getter case to be made for 1937. There always has been j and labor - power. . and the following, on Dorfn *t
:barges that he Mafia money in junk. scrap iron and i He as a buddy of Murder, "Dorfman is a major figure In
assassinated Jack Kennedy than, waste. Why not a union of junk: Inc. Is , long dead "Longy" the Chicago underworld. He is an'
-here is for profitable efforts to Collectors? Ruby lunched with a Zwiliman who had more political associate of most of the. leading
mplicate Bill Colby's Central lawyer friend, Leon Cook. It power in New Jersey and some gangsters in the Chicago area.
:ntelligence Agency. v: nuld be easy to get a federal national circles than has ever Hd is the contact man between
It isn't fashionable to write union charter, Ruby said. Cook' been recorded 'foe some dishonest union leaders and ,
Kindly of the CIA. these days . agreed. They went into business. mysterious reason. Red Dorfman members of the . Chicago un-
which even now must suffer the Soon the money rolled in. Ruby was alsp deep in the usual ac- derworid." .
New Delhi (India) Divine Light was secretary, Cook, treasurer. tivities since he always had the
Mission's accusation that the CIA They were good, too. So good, nod of Tony Accardo. Then the record 'discloses that .
as actually brainwashed the 17.: Cook got some slugs in the gut on' There also are links between Dorfman was close to Accardo,
tear-old Maharaj Ji. Dec, g, 1939, and died weeks Dorfman, the restaurant racket Zwillman and at least one:
The Mafia in general and the later. hoods, and the whole operation member of what is referred to as
rhicagounderworld in particular Ruby hung around for a while, which included "Needlenose" the Luchese family. in the.New i'
Dad motives. The CIA didn't, of wondering if bullet poisoning was j- Labriola, who frequented"Ruby's York garment district.
=ourse. The crime syndicate Of; catching: Then he finally caught C hangout in Dallas.
esteryear, before all the new ! the idea. He left for Dallas and i Incidentally,. it was in Ruby's . And, Dorfman once , said of'
sophisticated electronic bugging opened a joint. Later this was to 1 joint that the Chicago mob Ruby, "He's a nice guy." The
came. Into play, was a be the "casing" hangout. for -cased" Dallas and Texas? and question then is: with all these
iitherirgly arrogant combine. It Chicago, hoods -- like Paul, plotted using the big state as a contacts Ruby had, was he. asked
-eached everywhere - repeat, "Needlenose" Labriola?who.died base for fanning out. over by one of them, or did be get a
=verywhere. It operated -in grim' when the boys decided to cut his Oklahoma, Arkansas and message, to kill the kiiler.of Jack
:ertainty that no one was' above ? breathing off with some 'tight Louisiana. They did very well for Kennedy? If so,'why?.And why
recision by its, "hit" courts. wire. a while, and though they scat- . did some send "flowers to Lee.
At the beginning of this script it Bu the junk union was too good tered -and Labriola was mur- Harvey Oswald's grave?
-rust be recalled that the late to waste. So shortly after Ruby dered, some of their boys are still There's more to contemplate
rack Ruby, once owner of a pre- w technically removed from in business. And they've rarely 'here than in some contrived
J.nd killed Dallas joint, shot, office, the AFL Waste Material been probed' conspiracy discrediting-the CIA.
and killed assassin Lee Harvey Handlers Union 20467 was taken
Oswald in the cellar of the Dallas'
. over by Paul "`Red" Dorfman -- a,
Douce station. thick necked tough guy, indeed, .
In mob jargon, this was the who once almost broke my jaw in
'cutout. It eliminates the killer, a corridor of', Saa Fransicso's
he hit man, the contract' gun. Hotel Fairmount.
Dead men don't sing. So Oswald, ?
o whose grave at least one union I swing toe: fate Red Dorfman
official sent flowers, never did into this script.to limn the-milieu
et around to brooding and in which Jack Ruby had operated '
Derhaps deciding to disclose as a small-time, oft-frightened,
zersonally whether the Chicago thug. Dorfman has a
assassination was a one-man,: fascinating background.. There.
operation or a conspiracy. . area few Chicago labor people he .
Now back to Ruby. Before he didn't know, There also were few
.ecame a Dallas saloon keeper, Chicago Mafiosi he didn't know.
ith girls attached, on one of its . And all ? by , first- name. But
lain drags. Ruby was lossely Dorfman's horizons were higher
tart of the toughest of un- than Chicago. He moved in
'-erworlds the Chicago mob. It Washington, Detroit and .
::as then (back in the'30s) and is
_ow operated by Tony Accardo.
-ort of Al Capone's successor.
The mob had several account
xecutives in charge of the newly
-.mofitable labor rackets which
- gan making up for the big cash .
-st when the end of prohibition
r,cked off bootlegging. Approved For Release 2005/01f11 : CIA-RDP88-01315R000300510142-9