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_ - f EDITORIAL ART DIRECTOR: Ken Kelley EDITOR: Craig Pyes FEATURE EDITOR: David Weir MANAGING EDITOR: Alison Weir COPY EDITOR: Cheryl Bishop DESIGN CONSULTANT: Bob Roth POETRY EDITOR: Anne Waldman MUSIC EDITOR: Alec Dubro PHOTOGRAPHERS: Detroit Annie, Gary Weineke CONSULTING EDITOR: Abbie Hoffman WANDERING HISTORIAN: Harvey Wasserman BUSINESS BUSINESS CONSULTANT: Charles Fracchia ADVERTISING MANAGER: Jay Odell OFFICE MANAGER: Aloma Sue DISTR IBUTION MANAGER: Keith Wilson BUSINESS STAFF: Tia Odell, Tamara Baltar, Sharon Murphy PUBLICITY: Kathy Streem
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ing court files, National Archives records, and both private and govern- and private both and records, Archives National files, court ing organized crime. crime. organized
nary men, and a substantial number of them have connections with with connections have them of number substantial a and men, nary
over a hundred people, and examined thousands of documents, includ- documents, of thousands examined and people, hundred a over
intertwined circle of men who are directly and indirectly linked to to linked indirectly and directly are who men of circle intertwined
ment intelligence files on organized crime. crime. organized on files intelligence ment
closest personal, business, and political ties have been with a thoroughly thoroughly a with been have ties political and business, personal, closest organized crime." crime." organized
doing by Nixon. It is rather a clear, accurate portrait of a man whose whose man a of portrait accurate clear, a rather is It Nixon. by doing
Nixon's ascendancy to the pinnacle of American power has required required has power American of pinnacle the to ascendancy Nixon's
Mafia," starting on page 30, "one indisputable fact emerges—Richard emerges—Richard fact indisputable "one 30, page on starting Mafia,"
Nixon, " writes Jeff Gerth in this issue's cover story "Nixon and the the and "Nixon story cover issue's this in Gerth Jeff writes " Nixon, twenty-five years of care and feeding by some very wealthy and reactio- and wealthy very some by feeding and care of years twenty-five
The evidence in the article is not "circumstantial" proof of any wrong- any of proof "circumstantial" not is article the in evidence The
Through his research, Jeff Gerth has become a premier authority authority premier a become has Gerth Jeff research, his Through
Gerth's investigation took him to eleven cities, where he interviewed interviewed he where cities, eleven to him took investigation Gerth's
"After a six-month investigation into the long career of Richard Richard of career long the into investigation six-month a "After
Wasserman and Feature Editor David Weir. Weir. David Editor Feature and Wasserman
he has traveled for more than twenty-five years," Gerth concludes, concludes, Gerth years," twenty-five than more for traveled has he
"it is accurate to say that organized crime has elected its own own its elected has crime organized that say to accurate is "it
investigations, including a bachelor's degree in business from from business in degree bachelor's a including investigations,
Northwestern and graduate-level study at Columbia. Columbia. at study graduate-level and Northwestern
on Nixon and his ties to organized crime. A twenty-seven-year old old twenty-seven-year A crime. organized to ties his and Nixon on President in Richard Nixon." Nixon." Richard in President
researcher and free-lance writer, Gerth has extensive training in financial financial in training extensive has Gerth writer, free-lance and researcher
The major editing of the story was done by Contributing Editor Harvey Harvey Editor Contributing by done was story the of editing major The "In light of his personal business dealings and the milieu in which which in milieu the and dealings business personal his of light "In
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