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People (72)

  • Alan Williams Alan Williams, known as 'The Welsh Witch,' was a British child trafficker who operated in Amsterdam during the 1980s and 1990s.
  • Angelo Commito Individual under FBI investigation for extortion, insider trading at MCA/Universal, narcotics trafficking, and ties to organized crime.
  • Ben Kalka Kalka estimated he produced 8,000 pounds of drugs worth $10 million, using ingredients that federal agents had allegedly arranged for him to buy.
  • Bobby Baker On October 8, 1963, Baker was forced to resign as a Senate investigation into his outside business activities began to reveal numerous questionable deals.
  • Calvin Robinson On December 12, 1991, Robinson filed a 'Pro Per' affidavit in the U.S.
  • Carlos Marcello Carlos Marcello was the boss of the New Orleans crime family who was identified by the HSCA as having both the motive and means to arrange President Kennedy's assassination - he had threatened Kennedy according to FBI informants, was deported to Guatemala by Robert Kennedy in 1961, returned illegally, and was eventually convicted on racketeering charges in the FBI's BRILAB sting in 1981.
  • Cheri Seymour Cheri Seymour is an investigative journalist and author whose book The Last Circle documented Danny Casolaro’s investigation into the PROMIS software scandal and the alleged criminal network he called The Octopus.
  • Chris Denning Chris Denning was a former BBC Radio One DJ who was good friends with Jimmy Savile and, according to Czech police, head of an international pedophile network running a child porn operation from his Prague apartment.
  • Clarence Henry Osborne Clarence Henry Osborne was a retired stenographer and civil servant in the Australian state of Queensland, Australia, who for years had transcribed government hansards and supreme court proceedings.
  • Claude Kirk Governor of Florida from 1967 to 1971 who put George Wackenhut and his company's detectives in charge of a war on crime paid for by private donors, which the FBI refused to recognize.
  • Clint Murchison, Sr. Powerful Texas oilman who cultivated relationships with Hoover, Nixon, and Johnson, with business dealings intersecting organized crime figures including the Genovese Crime Family.
  • Clint W. Murchison, Jr. His family cultivated relationships not only with powerful figures on the far right but also with individuals such as J.
  • Cyril Smith Cyril Smith was a former Liberal MP for Rochdale who was posthumously exposed as a serial violent sexual abuser of boys in 2013.
  • Danny Casolaro Joseph Daniel Casolaro (1947-1991) was a freelance journalist whose investigation into the PROMIS software scandal expanded into a unified theory of an intelligence-criminal network he called 'The Octopus,' found dead in a Martinsburg, West Virginia hotel room on August 10, 1991, with both wrists slashed twelve times in a death officially ruled suicide.
  • Don Berlage Don Berlage was the district attorney for Charlevoix County, Michigan, during the 1970s.
  • Edward Brongersma Edward Brongersma was a Dutch Senator and prominent advocate for the legalization of pedophilia in the Netherlands.
  • Edward Levinson Las Vegas gambler and lieutenant of Meyer Lansky whose Fremont Hotel was financed through a Jimmy Hoffa loan, connecting Bobby Baker networks to organized crime.
  • Edward Sciandra Sciandra was mentioned in FBI wiretaps, which captured conversations between Eugene Giaquinto and Martin Bacow.
  • Elmer Wayne Henley Elmer Wayne Henley (born May 9, 1956) served as a teenage accomplice to serial killer Dean Corll in the Dean Corll Murders from 1970 to 1973.
  • Ernesto Samper Pizano Three audio tapes of conversations between Rodriguez and Samper's campaign manager, Santiago Medina, were handed over to U.S.
  • Eugene Giaquinto President of MCA's home entertainment division whose calls with the labor negotiator Marty Bacow were wiretapped in a 1987-89 strike force inquiry; he was never prosecuted.
  • Eugene Hale Brading California parolee detained across from the Texas School Book Depository minutes after the assassination, who gave the name Jim Braden and had told his probation officer the day before that he planned to see Lamar Hunt.
  • Francis Shelden Ann Arbor millionaire, owner of North Fox Island and director of Brother Paul's Children's Mission, who fled Michigan charges of sexual conduct with boys in 1976 and died in Amsterdam.
  • Gary Glitter Gary Glitter was a British glam rock artist whose career was helped to success by Chris Denning, who catapulted him to the Top of the Pops in the 1970s.
  • Geoffrey Dickens Geoffrey Dickens was a Conservative (Tory) MP in Margaret Thatcher's government who became known for his campaigns against child pornography and his efforts to expose VIP pedophile networks within British institutions.
  • Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela Co-leader, with his brother Miguel, of the Cali cartel, whose lawyers Michael Abbell and William Moran were convicted of laundering the organization's money.
  • Hank Messick Miami Herald crime reporter fed leads by the FBI, who joined Wackenhut's Florida crime war in December 1966 and quit after six weeks calling it a cruel hoax upon the people of Florida.
  • Harold Okimoto Okimoto's company, Island Tobacco, was said to sell cigarettes at the Casino du Liban, which was controlled by the Syrian mob and used as a front by narcotics people.[1]
  • Irving Azoff On July 24, phone conversations took place in which Azoff, Sal Pisello, and the investigation of the record division of MCA were discussed.
  • Jack Ruby Jack Ruby (born Jacob Rubenstein) was a Dallas strip club owner with organized crime connections who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement of Dallas Police headquarters on November 24, 1963 in front of live television cameras, was convicted of murder but died of cancer in January 1967 before retrial, and whose pre-assassination contacts with mob figures remained a focus of the HSCA's conspiracy investigation.
  • Jimmy Hoffa Prominent American labor union leader whose loans financed deals involving Clint Murchison, Sr., Richard Nixon, and Meyer Lansky.
  • Jimmy Hughes Former security director of the Cabazon tribe's casino and bingo operations, later a missionary in Honduras, charged in 2009 with the 1981 murders of Fred Alvarez, Ralph Boger and Patricia Castro; the case was dismissed in 2010.
  • Jimmy Savile BBC disc jockey and hospital fundraiser who died in 2011; a 2013 police report recorded 214 crimes by him over six decades, and NHS inquiries found decades of free hospital access.
  • John David Norman Dallas and Chicago procurer who ran boy-prostitution services under the Odyssey Foundation and Delta Project names; the State Department destroyed a client file of more than 30,000 cards seized in 1973.
  • John Gay Bristol associate of Alan Williams and Lee Tucker, jailed in 2000 at Swindon Crown Court for twelve years on thirteen counts of buggery and indecent assault of boys and supplying drugs; he died in prison.
  • John Gotti Prominent figure associated with the Gambino Crime Family who enjoyed a special relationship with MCA president Eugene Giaquinto per FBI wiretaps.
  • John Reed Campbell John Reed Campbell was an artist and child abuser who fled after his conviction in New Orleans.
  • John Stamford John Stamford was a British former Anglican priest who became one of the most significant figures in international child trafficking networks during the 1970s through the 1990s.
  • Johnny Roselli Chicago Outfit man in Las Vegas and Hollywood recruited by the CIA through Robert Maheu in 1960 against Castro, who testified to the Church Committee and was found in an oil drum off Miami.
  • Jose Santacruz Londono Londono was a target of a major DEA Centac investigation, which led to his indictment in Los Angeles and New York in 1978.
  • Kenneth Hellstrom Kenneth Hellstrom was as a victim of child sexual abuse perpetrated by John David Norman in the early 1970s within Norman's network of operations in Chicago, Illinois.
  • Kuhn Sa Laotian warlord associated with the Golden Triangle drug trade, investigated in connection with CIA drug trafficking allegations.
  • Lee Tucker Courier and associate of Alan Williams and John Gay, sentenced in absence at Swindon Crown Court in 2000 to eight years for abusing boys after jumping bail; arrested in South Africa in 2016.
  • Lew Wasserman Wasserman was a major contributor to and sat on the board of the Reagan presidential library, along with Edwin Meese and others.
  • Lewis Sialle Lewis Sialle served as an associate of Troop 137 in New Orleans during the mid-1970s.
  • Manuel Schadwald Manuel Schadwald was a 12-year-old German boy who disappeared from Berlin in July 1993, becoming one of Europe's most infamous missing child cases and a pivotal figure in exposing international child trafficking networks.
  • Martin Allen Martin Allen was a 15-year-old boy who disappeared in 1979 while approaching Kings Cross station in London.
  • Martin Bacow Bacow was described in the wiretaps as 'the back door liaison Teamsters connection to the movie industry.' He was under investigation in 1987 for various suspected offenses, including extortion, insider trading (MCA/Universal), the purchase and sale of narcotics/controlled substances, and the alloca
  • Martin Smollners Martin Smollners was a particularly sadistic pedophile and client of Lothar Glandorf's child trafficking operation who murdered a boy in 1986.
  • Marvin Rudnick Los Angeles Organized Crime Strike Force prosecutor who twice convicted MCA's middleman Sal Pisello of tax evasion and was removed from the Justice Department by letter on July 6, 1989.
  • Michael Abbell Former head of the Justice Department's Office of International Affairs who became a Washington lawyer for the Rodríguez Orejuela brothers of the Cali cartel and was convicted in 1998 of conspiring to launder its money.
  • Michael Rossi Michael Rossi was an employee of John Wayne Gacy who lived with him at his Norwood Park home and was named by Gacy as an accomplice in the rape, torture, and murder of young men during the 1970s.
  • Michele Sindona Michele Sindona was a Sicilian financier, P2 member, and Vatican Bank associate known as 'the Pope's Banker' whose acquisition of Franklin National Bank produced its 1974 collapse - then the largest U.S. bank failure - and who was murdered in Voghera prison by cyanide poisoning in March 1986 while serving sentences for fraud and for ordering the assassination of Italian liquidator Giorgio Ambrosoli.
  • Peter Deegan Peter Deegan was the district attorney for St.
  • Peter Howells Peter Howells conducted activities as a convicted pedophile integrated into the international child trafficking frameworks of the late 20th century, specifically within the exploitative environment of Amsterdam's red-light areas and canal networks.
  • Peter Righton Peter Righton was a social services director and the top UK government adviser on child protection services.
  • Philip Arthur Thompson Thompson was originally hired by Patrick Moriarty at $10,000 per month to bodyguard Michael Riconosciuto.
  • Phillip Paske Paske acted as custodian of The Delta Project during periods when Norman was imprisoned, managing its activities which included recruiting local Chicago, Illinois, boys for prostitution and pornography.
  • R.C. Horsch Philadelphia pornographic filmmaker, counterfeiter and fugitive who lived in New Zealand under a stolen identity, said he wiretapped for Wackenhut in the 1960s, and whose Olney house is the center of a 2026 missing-women investigation.
  • Robert Booth Nichols Businessman and self-described intelligence operative who was a principal source for Danny Casolaro, the subject of an FBI organized-crime investigation, and in 2004 the recipient of a ten-million-dollar fee from the Bayou hedge-fund fraud.
  • Robert Kennedy Robert Kennedy was an American politician who served as Attorney General during his brother John F.
  • Robert Lang Robert Lang served as a scout leader in New Orleans, Louisiana, associated with Troop 137.
  • Robert Maheu Robert Maheu was a former FBI agent who became the CIA's primary cutout for sensitive operations requiring criminal networks, recruited Sam Giancana, Johnny Roselli, and Santo Trafficante Jr. into the CIA's anti-Castro assassination program in 1960, and simultaneously served as Howard Hughes's most trusted executive managing his Nevada operations from 1966 to 1970.
  • Roberto Calvi Roberto Calvi was the chairman of Banco Ambrosiano, Italy's largest private bank, and a member of Propaganda Due whose bank collapsed in June 1982 with a $1.3 billion deficit after his offshore shell company network - backed by guarantees from the Vatican Bank - was exposed; he was found hanging from scaffolding under London's Blackfriars Bridge on June 18, 1982, eight days after fleeing Italy on a forged passport.
  • Roy Ames Roy Clifton Ames operated as a prominent child pornographer based in Houston, Texas, where he managed a large-scale production and distribution network exploiting young boys.
  • Russell Tricker Russell Tricker operated a coach service called 'Toff's Travel' across the English Channel in the 1980s, smuggling boys into Amsterdam for sexual exploitation.
  • Sal Pisello When a grand jury indicted Pisello on a second round of tax charges on July 9, 1987, Rudnick 'opened fire on MCA.' His press release announcing the indictment documented MCA's payments to Pisello's company, Consultants for World Records, which Rudnick stated was 'shared' with New York organized crim
  • Salvatore La Russa Sicilian-born Philadelphia barber, bar owner and restaurateur, a friend of mob boss Nicodemo Scarfo, whom R.C. Horsch named as the main backer of his 1973 pornographic feature.
  • Sam Giancana Sam Giancana was the boss of the Chicago Outfit from 1957 who was recruited by the CIA through Robert Maheu and Johnny Roselli in 1960 to plan the assassination of Fidel Castro under ZR/RIFLE, and who was shot seven times in his Oak Park, Illinois home on June 19, 1975, days before he was scheduled to testify before the Church Committee.
  • Santos Trafficante, Jr. Santo Trafficante Jr. was the Tampa organized crime boss who held pre-revolutionary Cuba casino interests, was recruited by the CIA in 1960 for anti-Castro assassination plots alongside Sam Giancana and Johnny Roselli, and whose attorney Frank Ragano claimed he made a deathbed confession of involvement in John Kennedy's assassination.
  • Tom Watson Tom Watson was a Labour MP who played a key role in exposing the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World.
  • Warwick Spinks British procurer who ran the Gay Palace on Amsterdam's Spuistraat, was jailed in 1995 for abducting a London runaway and selling him to a brothel, and told an undercover officer about snuff films.

Organizations (6)

  • Bufalino Crime Family The Bufalino Crime Family is a La Cosa Nostra crime family based in northeastern Pennsylvania that was reportedly connected to the alleged organized crime penetration of Music Corporation of America, surfacing in FBI wiretaps related to that investigation.
  • Gambino Crime Family The Gambino Crime Family is a prominent La Cosa Nostra crime family that was reportedly involved in the alleged organized crime penetration of Music Corporation of America.
  • Genovese Crime Family The Genovese Crime Family is a prominent New York La Cosa Nostra organization whose chief lieutenant Gerardo Catena owned nearly 20 percent of the Murchison Oil Lease Company in Oklahoma, connecting the family to Texas oil money and intelligence-linked networks.
  • Intertel Private intelligence company formed by Justice Department organized crime lawyers Robert Peloquin and William Hundley as a subsidiary of the Bahamian casino operator Resorts International, staffed from the IRS operation that had investigated the islands.
  • Music Corporation of America The Music Corporation of America was a major entertainment corporation that became entangled in investigations related to organized crime and the broader network that Danny Casolaro termed 'The Octopus.'
  • Yakuza The Yakuza is a Japanese organized crime syndicate that was implicated in the broader network investigated by Danny Casolaro as 'The Octopus.

Programs (1)

  • Operation Tradewinds IRS intelligence operation run from Jacksonville from 1965 against American money in Bahamian banks, which used paid informants in violation of Bahamian law and was called off after the Castle Bank briefcase theft.

Concepts (1)

  • The Octopus The Octopus is a term used by investigative journalist Danny Casolaro to describe a sprawling alleged criminal network linking the PROMIS software theft, Iran-Contra, the October Surprise, BCCI, and intelligence-connected drug trafficking under a single self-perpetuating criminal enterprise.

Places (1)

  • Las Vegas Nevada gambling city where the CIA had the prosecution of Robert Maheu's wiretappers dropped, Pat Price died in 1975, and an FBI informant hosted Atomwaffen Division's 2019 leadership meeting.

Misc (1)

  • The Erotic Memoirs of a Male Chauvinist Pig 1973 pornographic feature shot in Philadelphia by Ray Hoersch, later R.C. Horsch, and John Butterworth, which Horsch said was financed by the Philadelphia bar owner Salvatore La Russa.