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Show ... ... veliind tlie JJeacluneS racketeer influences infiltrating business and organized labor and fear that these could control defense de-fense subcontracting ifrms. The Mafia forces are already recruiting young toughs from the ranks of the growing gangs of juvenile delinquents, and Mafia forces have been circulating in Alaska, following reports that the potential 49th state is pondering pon-dering legalized gambling to balance the state's budget. Labor racketeers and Mafia forces are so blatant in Hawaii that they alone may cost,o r delay, Hawaiian Hawai-ian statehood. The gravest concern of law enforcement en-forcement officals is the enor- The world has been shocked by the Mid-East crisis, by the ruthless murder of the former Hungarian Titoist Premier, Imre Nagy, by the brutality and callousness cal-lousness of the Communist men-ance, men-ance, by the continuing danger of Communist subversion here at home, by the growing threat of the Red Chinese. The country has also been shocked or confused by the Sherman Adams-Bernard Gold-fine Gold-fine exchange of gifts, the pay- these efforts will fail as have others before unless the public wakes up. The Justice Department, FBI, Treasury Department, Internal Revenue and others and even the Defense Department and the UN are mobilizing their forces. Congress Con-gress is expected to approve a record $250,000 to enable the Justice Department to hire investigators in-vestigators for the crackdown on some 180 of the nation's top racketeers. mous recent increase in the traffic traf-fic in illicit narcotics. U. S. Narcotics Nar-cotics Commissioner Harry An-slinger An-slinger says Communist China is a principal source for nearly 100,000 addicts in the United States. This is even Red China's I principal source of American dollars. dol-lars. Mafia distributed dope from Red China nets Peiping $100,-000,000 $100,-000,000 a year! Moreover, the International Criminal Police Commission and the UN Narcotics Nar-cotics Drugs Commission reports a ten fold increase can be ex- ment oi notei Dins, oy tne peddling ped-dling of influence, the intercession interces-sion with federal regulatory agencies by public officials in behalf of private individuals, by a crisis in government ethical standards. Yet, all this has overshadowed the hearings of the now almost-forgotten almost-forgotten Senate Labor Management Manage-ment Practices Committee, presently pres-ently investigating an integral threat to the country that is now even worse than the Communist Attorney General William R. Rogers, protege of the racket-busting racket-busting ex-Governor Dewey of New York is personally directing direct-ing the drive, which followed the "Summit Conference" of 60 of the nation's syndicated crime czars at Apalachin, N. Y., last year. All the gangland figures were tagged as Mafia figures controlling control-ling organized vice in the East, South, Midwest and West Coast or representing those who do. That is the Mafia, shadowy international in-ternational organization Senator Kefauver says "lurks behind much of America's organized criminal activity. The Mafia is no fairy tale. It is ominously real, and it has 'scarred the face of America with almost every conceivable con-ceivable type of criminal violence, vio-lence, including murder, traffic in narcotics, smuggling, extortion, extor-tion, white slavery, kidnapping and labor racketeering." It is the Mafia's role in labor racketeering that is being investigated in-vestigated by the Senate Labor Rackets Committee. But the Department De-partment of Justice is also now launching one of the most intense in-tense drives ever attempted to smash the Mafia's octopus-like influence on every phase of our American life. In Washington, the nearly i unanimous prediction is that all' The FBI and other government agencies have become alarmed lately at the realization that the Mafia influences are penetrating! more and more areas of America life. Successors to Murray Olf, who brazenly served the underworld as a free spending Washington lobbyist, have poured in on the capital. The FBI says rackets' figures have been flooding Wash- J ington since Jimmy Hoffa took' up residence as Teamsters Presi- J dent opposite Capitol Hill. The Defense Department is alarmed at Mafia influences that keep; cropping up in cases of organ-' ized vice near military installa-1 tions and in military black mar-' keting at Allied bases abroad.' Central Intelligenre Agents have j accused European Mafia figures of espionage. I There is grave concern over pected. The deaths of two of President Eisenhower's closest friends in Latin America is also laid to the Mafia. While visting Washington this past March Guatemala's President, Presi-dent, Miguel Fuentes, warned thta Red China is seeking to use Central America as a base for its dope traffic into the U.S. He even declared that the Mafia Ma-fia was behind the assassinations of both his predecessor and of Panama's President F. Remon when they tried to curb gambling gam-bling and narcotics. Remon had been a long time friend of the President since Ike did a tour of duty in the Panama Canal Zone in the Twenties. Dr. Milton Eisenhower, the President's brother, is being told more about this during his trip to Central America. |