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New Light on Transatlantic Assassins: Lucianne Goldberg and Murder, Inc Click here for Full Issue of EIR Volume 25, Number 44, November 6, 1998 New light on Transatlantic assassins: Lucianne Goldberg and Murder, Inc. by Anton Chaitkin Lucianne Goldberg told Linda Tripp, a military intelligence Thunderball, in real life spook and George Bush political operative, that she should In the voluminous Ernest Cuneo papers, at the Franklin wiretap Monica Lewinsky; Goldberg then busied herself with D. Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, New York, there is to be arrangements for the resulting sex scandal, to be used in the found only a small fragment of the correspondence between inquisition against President Bill Clinton. Twenty-five years Lucianne Goldberg’s husband and the veteran British agent earlier, the same Lucianne Goldberg carried out a startlingly who brought him into the big time; the last letter in the file is similar dirty trick, in the campaign that ended up destroying from 1983. Well known in the spy world, Cuneo, code-name President Richard Nixon. “Crusader,” was the main World War II liaison between Brit- How did a New York “literary agent” get into the business ish Security Coordination (BSC), headed by Sir William Ste- of political intrigue at this level? An EIR probe has now phenson, and American agencies including the Federal Bu- brought to light the London-controlled apparatus, procurers reau of Investigation and the Office of Strategic Services. of Presidential assassination and Mafia blackmail, which has The U.S. government designated Cuneo the official liai- shaped Lucianne Goldberg’s career. son to Stephenson’s spy group. But the American native Cu- In 1972, when a gangland lawyer paid her to spy on Demo- neo, a lawyer ambitious to rise in the lucrative power-politics cratic Presidential candidate George McGovern, Lucianne associated with the Wall Street Anglophile brothers Allen and Goldberg was already employed by a syndicate front for Brit- John Foster Dulles, reportedly did sufficient favors for the ish spies and organized crime, the North American Newspa- British Empire so as to prove himself a British loyalist, and per Alliance (NANA). Her husband, Sidney Goldberg, was came to represent the Crown secret services. He married BSC the longtime chief executive of that syndicate. staff member Margaret Watson. Cuneo wrote that the “BSC NANA’s role in the murder of President John F. Kennedy . especially in the U.S., ran espionage agents, tampered is now under our intensive investigation. with the mails, tapped telephone[s], smuggled propaganda Lucianne Cummings (ne´e Lucianne Steinberger), reput- into the country, disrupted public gatherings, covertly subsi- edly a “blonde bombshell” who slept with politicians and dized newspapers . perpetrated forgeries . and possibly media men in pursuit of useful gossip and leverage, entered a murdered one or more persons in this country.”1 rarefied world of global intelligence warfare when she mar- Cuneo consciously betrayed his country in favor of British ried Sidney Goldberg in 1966. objectives. In an autobiographical letter to Sid Goldberg,2 The history of the Goldbergs’ mob/spy front group pivots Cuneo explicitly described his own work “negotiating with around three individuals: the Italians-in-Exile headed by Count Sforza,” and his role in • British secret service agent Ernest Cuneo (1905-88), President Franklin Roosevelt’s conflict with Winston the chief American manager for media subversion and politi- Churchill over the U.S. post-war aim to “liquidate the Euro- cal operations of Sir William Stephenson (“Intrepid”) within pean Empires.” Yet after FDR’s death, the Stephenson-Cuneo the United States. Cuneo hired Sid Goldberg into the NANA and American Anglophile apparatus succeeded in restoring syndicate in 1957. the British-sponsored Mafia to criminal life in Sicily and • Intelligence community “black propaganda” operator America, and helped engineer the subversion of U.S. strategic and tabloid pioneer Generoso Pope, Jr. (1927-88), whose and security policy so that the empires were never “liqui- father had helped Cuneo coordinate the Mafia with British dated.” global strategy. Cuneo gave Pope control over Sid Goldberg’s NANA syndicate in 1962. • 1. Ernest Cuneo Papers, box 107, CIA file, quoted in Thomas E. Mahl, Mob boss Frank Costello (1891-1973), partner of Desperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the United States, 1939- “Murder Inc.” chief Meyer Lansky; prote´ge´ of the British and 44 (Dulles, Virginia: Brassey’s, Inc., 1998), p. 16. the Anglophile faction of U.S. intelligence. Costello bank- 2. Undated letter, addressed “Dear Sid,” Sidney Goldberg file, Ernest Cu- rolled the Pope family media empire. neo Papers. EIR November 6, 1998 National 63 © 1998 EIR News Service Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. Lucianne Goldberg’s gang, procurers of Presidential assassination and Mafia blackmail, targetted President John Kennedy (left), and both George McGovern (center) and his opponent, President Richard Nixon. Cuneo’s close friend, British Special Operations Execu- and Lucianne Goldberg, we must become familiar with the tive spy Ian Fleming, credited Cuneo with having originated gangster financial and political power backing the syndicate. the plot-line for Thunderball and other James Bond stories. Britain’s “Crusader,” Cuneo, was retained on the payroll Cuneo’s intermediary role between the British, FBI boss of Generoso Pope, Sr. during and after World War II.4 Pope J. Edgar Hoover (his devoted fan), and international orga- owned the Colonial Sand & Stone Company, which main- nized crime, ran parallel to the criminal operations of Mon- tained a racketeer-protected monopoly on the delivery of sand treal-based Col. Louis M. Bloomfield. As we shall see, and cement to New York City. Cuneo’s Cuban and other initiatives overlapped with Bloom- Pope reportedly controlled the Italian-American Demo- field’s Permindex organization, the central focus of New Or- cratic Party clubs in New York, but he was most widely known leans District Attorney Jim Garrison’s prosecution of Presi- as the publisher of the leading Italian-American newspaper, dent Kennedy’s assassins. Il Progresso, through whose pages he supported the cause of To continue his wartime operations, Cuneo in 1952 Benito Mussolini. bought the North American Newspaper Alliance (a news syn- When the British made their tactical switch in the late dicate which had been formed in 1922 by the pro-British San 1930s, withdrawing their previous support for Mussolini— Francisco “blueblood” publisher Loring Pickering). Cuneo’s Winston Churchill’s former darling—Pope was subjected to a idea for NANA may be understood from his boast to Stephen- nasty embarrassment. In a private meeting in Italy, Mussolini son, that during the war, “I controlled the world’s largest asked Pope to counter the rumors that he was anti-Semitic. newspaper and radio circulation, centering on Walter Win- Back in New York, Pope dutifully relayed this message to his chell and his near 1,000 papers and . Drew Pearson’s [syn- numerous Jewish contacts (including the Warburg-Sulz- dicated column] Washington Merry-Go-Round.”3 Cuneo berger circles of the B’nai B’rith and American Jewish Com- brought his British propaganda-channeler Pearson into the mittee, who had previously adhered to the British line of pro- NANA organization. tecting the Hitler and Mussolini regimes from foreign opposition). But shortly after his meeting with Pope, Musso- The Pope family and ‘Uncle Frank’ lini, having lost his British sponsorship, turned to Adolf Hitler NANA president Cuneo hired Sidney Goldberg, then age as an ally and, accordingly, put anti-Jewish laws into effect 26, as assistant editor in 1957. To follow the careers of Sid 4.Sept. 10,1943,Il Progressoletterhead, engagingCuneoas Pope’sattorney; 3. Cuneo Papers, box 107, Crusader to Intrepid file, quoted in Desperate regular memos with payments, to Dec. 1, 1950; Cuneo Papers, Generoso Deception, op. cit., p. 49. Pope file. 64 National EIR November 6, 1998 in Italy. In later years, Pope’s coordination with Cuneo got Pope family payroll.6 him lionized by columnist Drew Pearson, who described Pope New York Postcrime writer Leonard Katz, in his definitive as the leading anti-Fascist publisher! biography of Frank Costello, shows that the gangster boss Pope’s main “muscle” in all these arrangements came took his godson, Generoso, Jr., under his wing, gave him from his intimate alliance with New York mob leader Frank political protection, and financed his media operations. Cos- Costello. Cuneo and his allies used the political-criminal axis tello dined with Pope and his staff members twice every week; of Pope and Costello for global covert operations throughout this routine was only interrupted when Costello was impris- the 1940s. oned, and resumed in the 1960s after his release.7 The Sicilian immigrant Costello (born Franceso Castig- In 1952, Cuneo bought the North American Newspaper lia) rose in the nationwide American organized “Crime Com- Alliance, and Generoso Pope, Jr., meanwhile, bought the New mission,” in partnership with Meyer Lansky. Costello, Lan- York Enquirer. With thousands of dollars delivered in cash sky, and Benjamin (“Bugsy”) Siegel combined their criminal each week from Costello to Pope, the godson converted the money and murder forces to create the Sodom and Gommorah failed rag of a newspaper into the National Enquirer. Cuneo’s casino city of Las Vegas, Nevada. Lansky and Costello, work- NANA and Pope’s new tabloid, with its pornographic gossip, ing as partners, also set up the casino operations in pre-Cas- shared the intelligence community base of the Cuneo-Pope al- tro Cuba. liance. From the late 1930s, gangster leader Charles (“Lucky”) Pope would later bring over the London sewer media ex- Luciano languished in a New York state prison; Luciano pert, Iain Calder, as editor, to forge Pope’s National Enquirer served as a political hostage for the Dulles brothers and their into America’s premier British-modelled tabloid.
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