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Bibliography Dark Quadrant: Organized Crime, Big Business, and the Corruption of American Democracy Bibliography Archives and Unpublished Documents Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Oral History Interviews -Ambassador Joseph S. Farland, January 31, 2000 -Henry Dearborn, April 24, 1991 Central Intelligence Agency - Reading Room, at https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/ Dwight Eisenhower Library Papers -Robert Anderson -Jacqueline Cochran -Floyd Odlum -William Rogers Federal Bureau of Investigation Files -Sen. Howard W. Cannon -Louis Chesler -Roy Cohn -Henry Crown -Morris Dalitz -Abraham Feinberg -Hank Greenspun -Henry Grunewald -Murray Humphreys -Sydney Korshak -Meyer Lansky -Charles Rebozo -John Rosselli -Anthony Salerno -G. David Schine -Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel Jonathan Marshall, Dark Quadrant: Organized Crime, Big Business, and the Corruption of American Democracy -Al Schwimmer -Frank Sinatra -George Sokolsky -Abner Zwillman Harry S. 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