Following the failed hit, Maheu became Howard Hughes’s Director of Operations and began buying up Las Vegas hotel/casinos, with Hughes ultimately becoming the largest property owner in Nevada. In 1968, Hughes attempted to buy his seventh Ho…Many other political crimes in which involvement by high officials is suspected have gone uninvestigated or unpunished. Examples of suspected SCADs include fabricated attacks on U.S. ships in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964 (Ellsberg, 2002, pp. …
David Corn
journalist · 2 mentions across 1 reading
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Based on the fragmentary excerpts provided, David Corn appears as a passing reference within discussions of suspected state crimes and political conspiracies, though his specific role in these readings remains unclear from the given material. The excerpts jump between Howard Hughes's Las Vegas operations and unexamined political crimes without clearly attributing analysis to Corn himself. Without fuller context, it's difficult to determine whether Corn is being cited as a historian of surveillance and intelligence failures, or whether his presence here is merely incidental to larger arguments about accountability in American power structures.
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