Robert Maheu person
also: Bob Mayhew, Maheu, Mayhew, Richard or Robert Mayhew, Robert A Maheu, Robert Mayhew
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Claims (65)
CIA funded
Robert Maheu documented
document
“The Support Chief confirmed that CIA "indirectly paid for the tap because "we paid Maheu a certain amount of money and he just paid it out of what we were giving him.…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.92
CIA recruited
Robert Maheu documented
document
“Colonel Edwards advised that in connection with CIA's operation against Castro he personally contacted Robert Maheu during the fall of 1960 for the purpose of using Maheu as a 'cut-out in contacts with Sam Giancana'…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.141
Robert Maheu recruited
John Roselli reported
document
“he was told that some high government official had given him word to recruit me if I would be willing to help the government…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.321
John Roselli paid
Robert Maheu documented
document
“Our evidence established that throughout his lengthy involvement in the plots Roselli paid for almost all of his expenses…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.322
Robert Maheu paid
Edward DuBois documented
document
“DuBois told FBI agents that Maheu had paid him a retainer of $1,000…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.91
Robert Maheu did_business_with
Howard Hughes documented
document
“He was also at the time of the plots cultivating Howard Hughes as a client…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.321
Sheffield Edwards met_with
Robert Maheu documented
document
“Colonel Edwards advised that in connection with CIA's operation against Castro he personally contacted Robert Maheu during the Fall of 1960 for the purpose of using Maheu as a 'cut-out' in contacts with Sam Giancana…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.344
Robert Maheu met_with
Sam Giancana documented
document
“Maheu obtained Sam Giancana's assistance in this regard and according to Edwards Giancana gave every indication of cooperating through Maheu in attempting to accomplish several clandestine efforts in Cuba…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.344
Robert Maheu recruited
Sam Giancana documented
document
“Maheu obtained Sam Giancana's assistance in this regard and according to Edwards Giancana gave every indication of cooperating through Maheu in attempting to accomplish several clandestine efforts in Cuba…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.141
CIA paid
Robert Maheu reported
document
“He stated a few days ago he had been advised by CIA that in connectionwith Giancana CIA had hired Robert A Maheu a private detective in Washington D.C. to approach Giancana with a propositionof paying $150,000to hire somegunmen to go into C…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.146
Robert Maheu did_business_with
Sam Giancana reported
document
“He stated a few days ago he had been advised by CIA that in connectionwith Giancana CIA had hired Robert A Maheu a private detective in Washington D.C. to approach Giancana with a propositionof paying $150,000to hire somegunmen to go into C…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.146
Robert Maheu worked_for
CIA documented
document
“Maheu had been involved in a wide variety of ventures for the CIA…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.321
Sam Giancana paid
Robert Maheu reported
document
“Shimon stated that Giancana had told him that Giancana had paid Mahen $5,000 for the tap…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.92
CIA recruited
Robert Maheu documented
document
“I reminded Watson that the Director had sent over to the White House some weeks back all of the information in our possession in connection with the CIA's attempts to use former agent Robert Maheu and his private detective outfit in contact…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.192
Robert Maheu met_with
Sam Giancana documented
document
“I reminded Watson that the Director had sent over to the White House some weeks back all of the information in our possession in connection with the CIA's attempts to use former agent Robert Maheu and his private detective outfit in contact…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.192
Robert Maheu met_with
Sam Giancana documented
document
“Maheu recalled that it was Giancana's job to locate someone in Castro's entourage who could accomplish the assassination... and that he met almost daily with Giancana over a substantial period of time…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.91
Robert Maheu worked_for
CIA documented
document
“Maheu recalled that he had initially asked the Support Chief if the CIA would handle the job…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.92
Robert Maheu recruited
Edward DuBois documented
document
“In late October 1960 Maheu arranged for a Florida investigator Edward DuBois to place an electronic "bug in a room in Las Vegas…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.91
Arthur J. Balletti met_with
Robert Maheu documented
document
“Balletti called Maheu in Miami tying "Maheu into this thing up to his ear.…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.91
Robert Maheu recruited
Johnny Roselli documented
“Bob Mayhew had worked with Johnny Ruzelli before. So Bob Mayhew and Jim O'Connell went to Miami the week of September 23rd. And Mayhew met with Sam Gold, later identified as Salvador Giacconi. Yeah, Giaccona. Sam Giaccona. He in turn introd…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (19) @ 54:25
Robert Maheu relationship_with
Howard Hughes host_asserted
“Moreover, they were not alone in the dreaming of overthrowing Castro. The CIA, in particular, let their imagination run and called on their old China hand, General Edward Lansdale. In 1960, the CIA had asked a contract agent, Robert Mayhew,…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 55:12
Robert Maheu did_business_with
Mafia host_asserted
“When they found him in the 50, I mean, he was mafia and he was going to go testify and they found him in a 50 gallon drum. That's what Robert Mayhew did. He was the go-between for the CIA and the mob. He hired all the hits. Why do you think…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 19 OKL bombing @ 1:38:01
Robert Maheu supplied_arms_to
Johnny Roselli host_asserted
“to Castro's revolutionary army for the CIA. Through this later assignment, Fioroni had made acquaintances with Traficani. In February of 61, Mayhew, Traficani, and Roselli met at Miami's Fountain Blue Hotel. There, Mayhew gave the Hoods unt…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 56:10
Robert Maheu had_contacts_with
Mafia documented
“Among their officers, Robert Cunningham knew a detective named Robert Mayhew. I've also written a lot about him that you can find on my ex profile. Richard or Robert Mayhew had close contacts with the mafia. O'Connell and Cunningham, like E…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 18 @ 56:45
Robert Maheu met_with
Sam Giancana documented
“Bob Mayhew had worked with Johnny Ruzelli before. So Bob Mayhew and Jim O'Connell went to Miami the week of September 23rd. And Mayhew met with Sam Gold, later identified as Salvador Giacconi. Yeah, Giaccona. Sam Giaccona. He in turn introd…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 18 @ 58:33
Robert Maheu worked_with
Johnny Roselli documented
“Bob Mayhew had worked with Johnny Ruzelli before. So Bob Mayhew and Jim O'Connell went to Miami the week of September 23rd. And Mayhew met with Sam Gold, later identified as Salvador Giacconi. Yeah, Giaccona. Sam Giaccona. He in turn introd…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 18 @ 58:33
Robert Cunningham knew
Robert Maheu documented
“Among their officers, Robert Cunningham knew a detective named Robert Mayhew. I've also written a lot about him that you can find on my ex profile. Richard or Robert Mayhew had close contacts with the mafia. O'Connell and Cunningham, like E…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 18 @ 56:45
Robert Maheu recruited
Johnny Roselli documented
“By the time Castro came to Harlem, he too was the target of increasingly ominous U.S. intelligence scrutiny. Just days before they checked into the hotel, Robert Mayhew, on orders of the CIA, met at another Manhattan hotel with Johnny Rosel…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 24:50
Robert Maheu kidnapped
Jesús de Galíndez documented
“That the intelligence agency used as a cutout to do dirty jobs on U.S. soil, where the CIA was, quote unquote, forbidden to operate, but did so anyway. Grabbed by Mayhew's agents who were waiting for him at his apartment, he was drugged and…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 17:55
Stavros Niarchos paid
Robert Maheu documented
“of the Onassis deal in the Saudi royal court. After the successful resolution of the case, a grateful Nyarkos gave Mayhew a big bonus, which was a Cadillac and a split-level house in Sleepy Hollow, Virginia. Mayhew would become the top paid…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 26:21
Howard Hughes hired
Robert Maheu documented
“who later hired him to run his Las Vegas empire. Despite his success, Mayhew liked to say that he never forgot where he came from. Mayhew did not socialize with the top CIA men like Helms and Angleton and Wisner. He met Dulles only once. He…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 26:51
Robert Maheu worked_for
FBI documented
“Georgetown Law and getting hired as a field agent by the FBI, where he worked on sensitive national security cases during the war. But Mayhew was not content to stay on under J. Edgar Hoover's leadership. In 1954, he opened up his own secur…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 24:50
Sheffield Edwards handled
Robert Maheu documented
“You can't have respect for the diplomatic pouch and be in the intelligence business at the same time. The State Department should have to know how you got the information. It was his CIA handler, Sheffield Edwards, who ran the agency's secu…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 27:22
Robert Maheu member_of
First Intercontinental Development Corp book_quoted
“tie to Murchison was his connection to First Intercontinental Development Corporation in Santa Monica, California. California journalist Mary Fricker said Murchison was the director of a company with Robert Nichols, an arms dealer and CIA o…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 1:07:06
Robert Maheu headed
Howard Hughes book_quoted
“the Nevada operation for Howard Hughes, meaning all of his casinos. He just happened to graduate from Georgetown, which we know is a CIA recruiting place. It also says that he worked counterintelligence in Europe during World War II, you kn…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 1:17:27
Robert Maheu member_of
Allen Dulles book_quoted
“the Nevada operation for Howard Hughes, meaning all of his casinos. He just happened to graduate from Georgetown, which we know is a CIA recruiting place. It also says that he worked counterintelligence in Europe during World War II, you kn…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 1:17:27
Robert Maheu laundered_money_for
Bahamas book_quoted
“Yeah. So he's intimately involved in all of this. He also was involved in the money laundering in the Bahamas. And he had a house that he set up under the guise of it being associated with Howard Hughes in Arizona, where they were trafficki…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 1:20:05
Robert Maheu trafficked
Arizona book_quoted
“Yeah. So he's intimately involved in all of this. He also was involved in the money laundering in the Bahamas. And he had a house that he set up under the guise of it being associated with Howard Hughes in Arizona, where they were trafficki…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 1:20:05
Robert Maheu ordered_assassination_of
Jesús de Galíndez book_quoted
“What was his name? His name is, hold on a second. I'll find it here. Galendez. Galendez is the professor that was kidnapped and taken to Trujillo down in the Dominican Republic. He has several pages of that story as well. And Robert Mayhew …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 7 @ 5:22
Robert Maheu member_of
Howard Hughes host_asserted
“Who's Robert Mayhew? We've talked about him a lot. He's the guy that was the right hand of Howard Hughes and was basically the CIA handler for Howard Hughes. He worked as the go-between between CIA, Mafia, and also attempted to use Costa No…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 8 @ 51:16
Robert Maheu attempted_assassination_of
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“Who's Robert Mayhew? We've talked about him a lot. He's the guy that was the right hand of Howard Hughes and was basically the CIA handler for Howard Hughes. He worked as the go-between between CIA, Mafia, and also attempted to use Costa No…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 8 @ 51:16
Robert Maheu recruited
Johnny Roselli host_asserted
“And Roselli was one of their guys that worked directly with Robert Mayhew, who worked on behalf of the CIA to contract out those killings. Of course, Sam Giacana was involved in that as well. And it does say that the...…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 38:05
Robert Maheu ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro documented
“like it was a tortured process, but it actually sounded like a relative no-brainer for the security contractor. The CIA had made Robert Mayhew. He owed everything he had to the agency, even the stereo system. He wasn't about to give it all …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 27:15
Robert Maheu worked_for
Howard Hughes host_asserted
“who was hired by Hughes to run his Vegas operation in the 60s. Meyer claims he was introduced to Cesar in Las Vegas before the RFK assassination by Jack Hooper, Robert Mayhew's security chief. Meyer also stated that after Kennedy's murder, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 26 (Final) @ 37:57
Jack Hooper worked_for
Robert Maheu host_asserted
“who was hired by Hughes to run his Vegas operation in the 60s. Meyer claims he was introduced to Cesar in Las Vegas before the RFK assassination by Jack Hooper, Robert Mayhew's security chief. Meyer also stated that after Kennedy's murder, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 26 (Final) @ 37:57
Robert Maheu denied_accusations_by
John Meyer host_asserted
“And Robert Mayhew is a CIA contractor. But Mayhew strongly denied the accusation. Quote, everything about Meyer is a lie, unquote. He was a 14-carat phony. Cesar, too, has rejected Meyer's accusation, with Maldia speaking on behalf of the f…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 26 (Final) @ 38:27
Robert Maheu accused_of_fraud_by
Howard Hughes host_asserted
“Robert Mayhew pointed out that Meyer was accused of evading taxes on money he allegedly skimmed from the Hughes mining deals and was convicted of a related charge of forgery. Now, Mayhew was actually doing that, FYI, but it was Mayhew himse…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 26 (Final) @ 38:56
Robert Maheu allowed_cia_to_use_front
Howard Hughes host_asserted
“Mayhew was a no-good, dishonest son of a bitch who stole me blind. While running Hughes's gambling casinos, Robert Mayhew had made sweetheart deals with mobsters and allowed the CIA to pay off politicians with Hughes cash and to exploit Hug…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 26 (Final) @ 39:22
Robert Maheu testified_before
Church Committee host_asserted
“he still treated the CIA like his top client. Robert Mayhew never concealed his hatred for the Kennedys. He even accused JFK of homicide during his testimony before the church committee for withholding air support at the Bay of Pigs. As far…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 26 (Final) @ 39:54
Robert Maheu transported
Jesús de Galíndez documented
“that was especially equipped to fly long distances, stopping for refueling after midnight in West Palm Beach before continuing on to the Dominican Republic. After landing, Galendez, still half-conscious, was transported to the dictator's fa…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 18:22
Robert Maheu appointed
Howard Hughes book_quoted
“tie to Murchison was his connection to First Intercontinental Development Corporation in Santa Monica, California. California journalist Mary Fricker said Murchison was the director of a company with Robert Nichols, an arms dealer and CIA o…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 1:07:06
Robert Cunningham recruited
Robert Maheu documented
“Among their officers, Robert Cunningham knew a detective named Robert Mayhew. I've also written a lot about him that you can find on my ex profile. Richard or Robert Mayhew had close contacts with the mafia. O'Connell and Cunningham, like E…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (19) @ 52:37
Robert Maheu member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“And it says that he created his own association under the guise of a private investigative firm in Washington, D.C., you know, where the CIA is. And he is linked to, let's see, under the CIA work, it says that he was summoned to then Vice P…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 1:17:49
Robert Maheu traded_network_to
King Hussein of Jordan book_quoted
“It says that Mayhew's investigation agency was supposedly the model for Mission Impossible TV series. It says that he was running the honeypot you're talking about because he was tasked when the King Hussein came from Jordan to set him up w…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 1:18:46
CIA recruited
Robert Maheu host_asserted
“in all the newspapers. I do like the fact that he did catch the part about the mafia piece of them being recruited and that FBI former, quote unquote, former FBI agent, Robert Mayhew, although he's misspelled his name, was involved and met …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 37:08
Robert Maheu member_of
CIA book_quoted
“tie to Murchison was his connection to First Intercontinental Development Corporation in Santa Monica, California. California journalist Mary Fricker said Murchison was the director of a company with Robert Nichols, an arms dealer and CIA o…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 1:07:06
CIA contacted
Robert Maheu host_asserted
“Moreover, they were not alone in the dreaming of overthrowing Castro. The CIA, in particular, let their imagination run and called on their old China hand, General Edward Lansdale. In 1960, the CIA had asked a contract agent, Robert Mayhew,…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 55:12
Robert Maheu introduced
Johnny Roselli host_asserted
“Roselli was introduced to Mayhew and Traficani and not introduced to him. They're all they all know each other. Mayhew, Traficani, Giacana all together. The agency had previously stationed an agent on Cuba who was to flash green lights when…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 55:41
Robert Maheu did_business_with
Howard Hughes book_quoted
“for the series Mission Impossible. He would earn, in his heyday, as a salary, this didn't include bonuses, half a million dollars per year, like in the 60s, when he was working for Howard Hughes, who, weirdly enough, was what we would consi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 1 @ 22:36
Robert Maheu relationship_with
Carlos Marcello book_quoted
“A lot of information about that. And then the author moves on to, let me get past Mayhew. There's two chapters of nothing but Mayhew information. And his relationship with Santo Traficani, Carlos Marcello in New Orleans, blah, blah, blah. O…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 7 @ 5:54
Robert Maheu relationship_with
Howard Hughes book_quoted
“Then it talks about how Robert Mayhew became Howard Hughes' main man. Now, if you look at Howard Hughes' other activities, a lot of the work that he did, he was at the time the Elon Musk of his time. He was the largest government contractor…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 7 @ 2:55
Robert Maheu relationship_with
Santo Trafficante Jr. book_quoted
“A lot of information about that. And then the author moves on to, let me get past Mayhew. There's two chapters of nothing but Mayhew information. And his relationship with Santo Traficani, Carlos Marcello in New Orleans, blah, blah, blah. O…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 7 @ 5:54
Robert Maheu member_of
CIA host_asserted
“He won 100 percent of CIA. Are you familiar with Robert Mayhew? The name rings a bell. I think he's connected somehow to the JFK assassination. But I don't quote me on that. I don't have his file right in front of me. Yeah. So just real qui…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 1:16:58
Robert Maheu ordered_assassination_of
Johnny Roselli host_asserted
“That's what Robert Mayhew did. He was the go-between for the CIA and the mob. He hired all the hits. Why do you think we call governments protection rackets? And they're not protecting you, the voters and the taxpayers. They're protecting t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 18 OKL bombing pt II @ 1:37:43
Robert Maheu member_of
CIA host_asserted
“They would have shot him down in the street or blown him up in his car to make a point, not stuffed him in a barrel and threw him in the bay, said Detective Ojeda, a member of the Miami homicide team investigating Roselli's murder. The Cuba…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 5 @ 1:01:42
Mentions (74)
▶ 1:16:27
You know, there there is this whole honeypot thing going on that then connects him later, you know, with Iran Contra. And then it's it's only one link from there or two links to get you to the Franklin scandal and Craig Spence. And you know…
▶ 1:16:58
He won 100 percent of CIA. Are you familiar with Robert Mayhew? The name rings a bell. I think he's connected somehow to the JFK assassination. But I don't quote me on that. I don't have his file right in front of me. Yeah. So just real qui…
▶ 1:18:19
to do some things with the National Security Council, which, of course, we know what they were doing in 1954 at the National Security Council. They were overthrowing Guatemala. It also says that he worked to interfere with an agreement with…
▶ 1:18:46
It says that Mayhew's investigation agency was supposedly the model for Mission Impossible TV series. It says that he was running the honeypot you're talking about because he was tasked when the King Hussein came from Jordan to set him up w…
▶ 1:19:43
He also says Roselli introduced Mayhew to Sam Giacomo and Santo Trapacani Jr. And of course, we know what they were involved in. They were involved in all of the opium coming in from Taiwan.…
▶ 27:23
That was at least the golden rule. We know the CIA did whatever they wanted to. The decision makers inside the committee were Richard Bissell, Deputy Director of Plans of Covert Operations, J.C. King, Director of Western Hemisphere, and She…
▶ 27:53
The Hughes organization assigned former FBI agent Robert Mayhew, who we've spent a lot of time talking about recently, to handle the details. At this point, the 5412 committee passed the ball down to the newly formed Operation 40 staff. Ope…
▶ 28:23
did not have the assets on hand to accomplish the mission. Therefore, it was decided to call upon the mafia. The CIA mafia connection back to World War II and OSS and the Sicilian and Corsican mafia had worked together multiple times. Mayhe…
▶ 28:51
He was the one that was going to do, he was going to be Robert Mayhew's point of contact. Roselli had worked for Sam Giacconi, Santo Traficani, and other mafia kingpins. Now, of course, Santo Traficani had a personal interest in Cuba becaus…
▶ 55:37
Two different insider sources told author Lisa Pease that Robert Mayhew, and this is the guy that works for Howard Hughes, was the mastermind of the entire assassination. A lifelong Republican, Mayhew was a top advisor to Howard Hughes. He …
▶ 56:07
they turned to Mayhew. His company, Robert Mayhew Associates, which I've written extensively about, the Inspiration Behind Mission Impossible television series, fronted the CIA activities and provided a cover for CIA operatives. Mayhew furt…
▶ 56:33
He knew Thane Cesar, who worked for the Bel Air Patrol, which Mayhew owned. Cesar was listed as a CIA contract agent in the CIA database. John Meyer, a top aide of Howard Hughes from 66 to 70, recounted a meeting between Mayhew and Don Nixo…
▶ 57:01
On June 6, 1968, Mayhew was all smiles and Don Nixon walked in all smiles. They embraced each other and Don Nixon said, well, that prick is dead. And Mayhew said, well, it looks like your brother is in now. Yeah, because the Republican nomi…
▶ 57:31
then joked that they should now be calling Don Nixon Mr. Vice President. Ha ha ha. This conversation does not prove Mayhew was behind Kennedy's killing, but provides a clear motive, one he shared with his former boss, Howard Hughes. Hughes …
▶ 58:00
into my gut since the very beginning of my business activities. I hate to be quick on the draw, but I see here an opportunity that may not happen again in a lifetime. I don't aspire to be president, but I do want political strength. And it …
▶ 52:37
Among their officers, Robert Cunningham knew a detective named Robert Mayhew. I've also written a lot about him that you can find on my ex profile. Richard or Robert Mayhew had close contacts with the mafia. O'Connell and Cunningham, like E…
▶ 53:16
before he became a contract CIA guy that was the liaison to Hittman. Mayhew had let go his CIA retainer a little before this operation, but he was happy to do any work for the CIA. And Chef Edwards had told Richard Bissell that he had a man…
▶ 54:25
Bob Mayhew had worked with Johnny Ruzelli before. So Bob Mayhew and Jim O'Connell went to Miami the week of September 23rd. And Mayhew met with Sam Gold, later identified as Salvador Giacconi. Yeah, Giaccona. Sam Giaccona. He in turn introd…
▶ 10:37
with locks of every conceivable kind. And three doors further down is a room packed with state-of-the-art counter surveillance devices. All of the offices of Dektor was equipped with metal blinds on whose purpose is not so much to soften th…
▶ 11:10
who he says normally dresses like a French banker. He radiated presence. He had an authority about him. The author spoke with Mayhew many times, and the material produced from those interviews is spattered throughout this entire book.…
▶ 11:36
He says that entering a Washington restaurant at Mayhew's side is like arriving in the jungle of New Guinea. The ordinary clamor of the place stiffens to a sudden silence. You can feel people staring at you. At a nearby table, a woman is me…
▶ 12:06
Robert Mayhew was intimately involved with. A bottle of vintage wine arrives, compliments from the restaurant owner as he comes by and pays his dues. Bob Mayhew is that strangest of things, a clandestine celebrity, kind of like an oxymoron.…
▶ 21:21
John Frank, he used an alias John Kane, and he's touted as a quote-unquote former CIA officer, but not a lot was known about him. But he does show up in the book a couple of times. Bell, Mayhew, Warbell, and the others, they seem implausibl…
▶ 21:59
Bell was certified as lethal with his hands. He's a sniper, brilliant interrogator, meaning ruthless, and very imaginative when it came to creating devices for surveillance. He invented quite a few of them. And Mayhew, it is alleged, was th…
▶ 22:36
for the series Mission Impossible. He would earn, in his heyday, as a salary, this didn't include bonuses, half a million dollars per year, like in the 60s, when he was working for Howard Hughes, who, weirdly enough, was what we would consi…
▶ 39:40
Also, he brings up in Virginia that DECTOR, Counterintelligence Company, D-E-K-T-O-R. It was led by Colonel Bell, who handled secret assignments for industries. So, and of course, DECTOR is going to be involved in Howard Hughes, Richard Nix…
▶ 23:11
Chile, which they did. That ITT, International Telephone and Telegraph. Those executives were working with Intertel to discredit Jack Anderson's revelations about ITT's role in Chile. So just thought I'd add that in there. Robert Mayhew is …
▶ 47:47
That he turned around and blamed on his partner, Bobby Hall and Richardson. So all hell's breaking loose out there. People's phones were being bugged largely by Hall. And there's a little bit about Bobby Hall had handled contract work for R…
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at LAPD that we know to have been infested with the CIA. So supposedly he was enticed away from being in one CIA entity posing as the intelligence unit at the LAPD and then went to work for another CIA associated Robert Mayhew with Howard H…
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do on this book's spooks. You literally could do this whole book, but again, we're not going to because most of this material we've covered. The next chapter in the sequence is a deep dive into Robert Mayhew and the roles he played in situa…
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Then it talks about how Robert Mayhew became Howard Hughes' main man. Now, if you look at Howard Hughes' other activities, a lot of the work that he did, he was at the time the Elon Musk of his time. He was the largest government contractor…
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to see anything and everything. And Robert Mayhew, who we know is attached to the CIA, was his right-hand man. And so that made for some very interesting dealings. And one of the things, as Howard Hughes got more eccentric and became basica…
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was a subsidiary of Resorts International, which is also CIA. So it gets to be a very interesting kind of semicircle where you end up realizing that most of the wealth of Howard Hughes was controlled by the CIA in one aspect or another, whe…
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What was his name? His name is, hold on a second. I'll find it here. Galendez. Galendez is the professor that was kidnapped and taken to Trujillo down in the Dominican Republic. He has several pages of that story as well. And Robert Mayhew …
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A lot of information about that. And then the author moves on to, let me get past Mayhew. There's two chapters of nothing but Mayhew information. And his relationship with Santo Traficani, Carlos Marcello in New Orleans, blah, blah, blah. O…
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Kidnapping was a sophisticated operation ran by Robert Mayhew, M-A-H-E-W, the guy we've come across repeatedly, the CIA. He was a private detective firm staffed with former, quote, and I'm going to use air quotes, former CIA and FBI.…
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That the intelligence agency used as a cutout to do dirty jobs on U.S. soil, where the CIA was, quote unquote, forbidden to operate, but did so anyway. Grabbed by Mayhew's agents who were waiting for him at his apartment, he was drugged and…
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made sure the CIA's director's request was carried out, and the papers inside of his briefcase was delivered to Dulles himself. Kennedy made it clear to the detective that he was to keep his mouth shut about the errand. John Frank, the Mayh…
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had begun his career as an FBI agent during World War II before going to work for the CIA. The 42-year-old Frank lived in Washington where Mayhew's detective agency was based, but he kept an office in Trujillo's salmon-colored Italian Renai…
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firm. Frank won the trust of Trujillo, who made him his bodyguard during state visits to Europe and the U.S. Mayhew's agency was also given a lucrative contract to upgrade his security in the Dominican Republic. Frank liked to play tennis w…
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Men like Frank and his boss, Mayhew, were CIA contractors entrusted with the agency's most risky and squalid task. They were not the sort of men to play tennis on Allen Dulles' backyard court. Mayhew later claimed that the Mission Impossibl…
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Bob Mayhew fit the profile of an FBI gumshoe more than a CIA spook. He was eager to please his audience, but his eyes could go suddenly dead and his jaw could become grimly set. He came from humble beginnings of a devout Catholic French-Can…
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Georgetown Law and getting hired as a field agent by the FBI, where he worked on sensitive national security cases during the war. But Mayhew was not content to stay on under J. Edgar Hoover's leadership. In 1954, he opened up his own secur…
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The CIA used Mayhew and associates as a front, putting undercover agents on his staff. The agency also directed a stream of highly sensitive and rewarding contracts to Mayhew, including a major job for a Greek shipping tycoon Stavros Niarch…
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Nayarko's business rival, Onassis, and the Saudi royal family that the international oil cartel and the Dulles brothers feared would corner the oil shipping business and harm their customers' interest. The oil caper involved a series of sha…
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of the Onassis deal in the Saudi royal court. After the successful resolution of the case, a grateful Nyarkos gave Mayhew a big bonus, which was a Cadillac and a split-level house in Sleepy Hollow, Virginia. Mayhew would become the top paid…
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who later hired him to run his Las Vegas empire. Despite his success, Mayhew liked to say that he never forgot where he came from. Mayhew did not socialize with the top CIA men like Helms and Angleton and Wisner. He met Dulles only once. He…
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You can't have respect for the diplomatic pouch and be in the intelligence business at the same time. The State Department should have to know how you got the information. It was his CIA handler, Sheffield Edwards, who ran the agency's secu…
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These were the cops of the CIA, tough men, many of them FBI and Catholic, who, like Mayhew, were not afraid to get their hands dirty. The CIA had an elite reputation within the organizations. There was a distinct class system, Ivy League ty…
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On Saturdays, Mayhew would invite Edwards, O'Connell, and other Washington security types like Scott McCloy, the zealous anti-communist watchdog who had been hired by John Foster Dulles to clean out the State Department during the McCarthy …
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that would find themselves in cheerful conversations with a curious range of special guests, from senators to gangsters. They were all part of Mayhew's colorful world. Working with Sheffield Edwards' team and their contacts in the New York …
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tie to Murchison was his connection to First Intercontinental Development Corporation in Santa Monica, California. California journalist Mary Fricker said Murchison was the director of a company with Robert Nichols, an arms dealer and CIA o…
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By the time Castro came to Harlem, he too was the target of increasingly ominous U.S. intelligence scrutiny. Just days before they checked into the hotel, Robert Mayhew, on orders of the CIA, met at another Manhattan hotel with Johnny Rosel…
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to develop a plan to assassinate Castro. Mayhew and Roselli was joined at the Plaza Hotel meeting by Jim O'Connell, Mayhew's CIA handler. O'Connell posed as an American businessman who had been predispossessed by Castro's revolution and was…
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He quickly figured out that the mafia was being recruited by the CIA. Once again, Robert Mayhew found himself at the center of a lethal CIA operation. Near the end of his life, he recalled that he went through when the CIA asked him to serv…
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Mayhew recounted a long night of soul searching as he wrestled with the CIA request. Chef Edwards and Jim O'Connell framed their pitch to Mayhew in terms of a good Catholic would understand. Killing Castro was an act of just war, they said.…
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Mayhew realized that he would have blood on his hands. Not that that bothered him because he killed lots of people. To ponder the moral difficult question, Mayhew went down to the recreation room in the basement of his Virginia home where h…
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like it was a tortured process, but it actually sounded like a relative no-brainer for the security contractor. The CIA had made Robert Mayhew. He owed everything he had to the agency, even the stereo system. He wasn't about to give it all …
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Castro's blood on his hands after all, or Rayol Castro, or Che Guevara. It was the beginning of a long U.S. intelligence campaign to kill the Cuban leader, stretching over several presidencies and involving untold numbers of accomplices, in…
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Among those he sought out were safecrackers and break-in specialists. Harvey would soon be dealing with men whose skills were very violent. November 1961, Harvey was put in charge of a top-secret CIA operation to kill Castro called ZR Rifle…
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is simply not true. Maldia emailed the author of this book in 2015, adding that he now acts as Cesar's spokesperson and his power of attorney. Yeah, so he's not an independent person. John Meyer, a former executive in Howard Hughes' Las Veg…
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who was hired by Hughes to run his Vegas operation in the 60s. Meyer claims he was introduced to Cesar in Las Vegas before the RFK assassination by Jack Hooper, Robert Mayhew's security chief. Meyer also stated that after Kennedy's murder, …
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And Robert Mayhew is a CIA contractor. But Mayhew strongly denied the accusation. Quote, everything about Meyer is a lie, unquote. He was a 14-carat phony. Cesar, too, has rejected Meyer's accusation, with Maldia speaking on behalf of the f…
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Robert Mayhew pointed out that Meyer was accused of evading taxes on money he allegedly skimmed from the Hughes mining deals and was convicted of a related charge of forgery. Now, Mayhew was actually doing that, FYI, but it was Mayhew himse…
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Mayhew was a no-good, dishonest son of a bitch who stole me blind. While running Hughes's gambling casinos, Robert Mayhew had made sweetheart deals with mobsters and allowed the CIA to pay off politicians with Hughes cash and to exploit Hug…
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he still treated the CIA like his top client. Robert Mayhew never concealed his hatred for the Kennedys. He even accused JFK of homicide during his testimony before the church committee for withholding air support at the Bay of Pigs. As far…
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Another CIA tie to Murchison and his connection to First Intercontinental Development Corp in Santa Monica, California. A journalist, Mary Frichter, said Murchison was a director of the company with Robert Nichols. Who's Robert Nichols? Oh,…
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Who's Robert Mayhew? We've talked about him a lot. He's the guy that was the right hand of Howard Hughes and was basically the CIA handler for Howard Hughes. He worked as the go-between between CIA, Mafia, and also attempted to use Costa No…
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in all the newspapers. I do like the fact that he did catch the part about the mafia piece of them being recruited and that FBI former, quote unquote, former FBI agent, Robert Mayhew, although he's misspelled his name, was involved and met …
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in a 50-gallon barrel just prior to the reinvestigation of the assassination of JFK. Because between Robert Mayhew and Johnny Roselli, there was a lot of hit jobs that were paid for by the CIA inside the United States to be carried out by t…
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And Roselli was one of their guys that worked directly with Robert Mayhew, who worked on behalf of the CIA to contract out those killings. Of course, Sam Giacana was involved in that as well. And it does say that the...…
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But if it's a business model, it's identical. I don't know. Even when the government's doing it, they hire the mafia to kill you. Well, it depends on which government, which time period, but yes. I mean, that's what happened to Rosali when …
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They would have shot him down in the street or blown him up in his car to make a point, not stuffed him in a barrel and threw him in the bay, said Detective Ojeda, a member of the Miami homicide team investigating Roselli's murder. The Cuba…
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And I did a whole expose on Robert Mayhew. That guy is fascinating. And it points out that he wasn't touched and he knows much more than everybody else. Quote, I think Castro is sophisticated enough to know the historical context in which t…