Echoes Of Laurel Canyon - Part Sixteen

Mossad Godfathers Vs. Italian Godfathers

In this series, I have written a lot about how cigar-chomping Air Force General Curtis Lemay and his relationship with his frontman, proxy, and runner, Reeve Whitson.

Whitson maintained a close relationship with Nazi assassination squad leader Otto Skorzeny, along with tight connections to Mossad-connected casino owner Charlie Baron and Sidney Korshak.

But the guys driving the changes in Las Vegas and Hollywood were Korshak and Baron.

🔍 Overall Summary

This article explores the covert transfer of power from the Italian Mafia to a network of Zionist-aligned operatives—dubbed the “Mossad Godfathers”—who gradually assumed control over Hollywood and Las Vegas from the 1950s onward.

Central to this shift are figures like Sidney Korshak, Reeve Whitson, Curtis LeMay, and Charlie Baron, who created a pipeline between CIA assets, Nazi fugitives, Mossad financiers, and Teamsters pension money.

The Godfather film franchise itself is portrayed as a mythologized distraction, crafted by those who truly won: not the Italians, but Mossad-connected Jewish mobsters who quietly took control of the studios, unions, and casinos.

This network allegedly includes characters like Les Wexner, Rahm Emanuel, and Charlie Bluhdorn, with strategic operations from Howard Hughes, Robert Maheu, and Otto Skorzeny, all working behind the scenes to rewire the infrastructure of Cold War America through money, movies, and murder.

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Sidney Korshak

• Chicago Outfit lawyer and the central figure in the rise of the Mossad-aligned network in Hollywood and Las Vegas.

• Korshak controlled unions like IATSE and helped move mafia influence westward by infiltrating studios and redirecting Teamster pension funds.

• He is credited with creating The Godfather franchise and was deeply tied to Mossad-linked figures, CIA operatives, and Hollywood producers.

• Korshak's power came from his ability to merge legal respectability, intelligence support, and organized crime muscle in a way that rendered him untouchable.

Reeve Whitson

• CIA asset and close associate of Curtis LeMay, Whitson acted as a handler and frontman for operations involving Nazis, Mossad, and Hollywood.

• He allegedly maintained surveillance on Sharon Tate’s house the night of the Manson murders and worked with the LAPD’s secret intelligence unit.

• Whitson served as a channel for hidden Nazi funds being reinvested into Vegas casinos and the film industry.

• He links intelligence agencies, Hollywood, and organized crime during the volatile 1960s in Los Angeles.

General Curtis LeMay

• U.S. Air Force general who worked closely with Whitson and had deep intelligence ties.

• He is portrayed as facilitating Nazi technological and financial reintegration into postwar American industries.

• His influence extended beyond the military into covert casino and Hollywood investments.

• LeMay’s role represents the militarization of economic and cultural power in post-WWII America.

Otto Skorzeny

• Former Nazi commando turned Mossad asset, Skorzeny helped funnel Nazi gold and scientific assets into Western economies.

• He worked as a go-between for ex-Nazis hiding in South America and American/Mossad financial channels.

• Skorzeny was central in laundering money into Las Vegas and L.A. investments, often using Whitson and Korshak as intermediaries.

• His conversion by Mossad is presented as a strategic coup in postwar intelligence realignment.

Charlie Baron

• Chicago Outfit mobster and casino operator tied to Mossad and Democratic machine politics via Jacob Arvey.

• He worked with Meyer Lansky, Sidney Korshak, and John Roselli, bridging mob and political influence across Vegas and Hollywood.

• Baron’s friendships with LeMay and other intelligence-linked figures positioned him as a key player in covert financial flows.

• He represents the transition point between classic mob operations and intelligence-guided racketeering.

Charlie Bluhdorn

• Austrian-born industrialist who bought Paramount Pictures and is suspected of laundering Nazi gold through Vatican Bank-linked SGI.

• He funded The Godfather and other major films, possibly using CIA-connected front companies and arms

Korshak told movie producers like Robert Evans to never bring Kissinger to a party he was at because someone might put the relationship between them together. Was Kissinger luring Nazi investments into Las Vegas with Korshak and Reeve Whitson? Read on.

Was Reeve Whitson a conduit for Nazis in hiding to invest in Las Vegas casinos and even the movie business in the 1960s? We will explore all of Curtis LeMay’s frontman, Reeve Whitson, and his intriguing set of connections to Mossad Godfathers, Manson Murder victims, FBI liaisons, and the Los Angeles Police Department’s secret Intelligence Unit in 1968 and 1969.

Reeve Whitson’s connection to Las Vegas casino magnate and Chicago Outfit mobster Charlie Baron will also be explore more deeply, along with his close Chicago Outfit mob cohort Sidney Korshak. Although not well known to this day, the key man behind making “The Godfather,” Sidney Korshak, is actually one of the Mossad Godfathers who inherited the Las Vegas casinos and movie franchises.

Baron served as a protégé to Democratic Party ward boss Jacob Arvey. Baron was an associate of Meyer Lansky.(see: Peter Dale Scott, 1993:199) He was also a close associate of Patrick Hoy, a Henry Crown employee of General Dynamics who was later able to arrange a job for Sidney Korshak at the Hilton Hotels.[1]

Baron was identified as an associate of John Roselli during the Kefauver Hearings, in the 1950s.[1] According to Jack Ruby and Baron associate Tony Zoppi, Baron knew U.S. Air Force General Curtis LeMay.(see: Peter Dale Scott, 1993:199, 355)

https://jfkcountercoup2.blogspot.com/2020/01/brigadier-general-charles-babe-baron.html

General Curtis LeMay and CIA Agent Reeve Whitson weren’t creating a social club in Las Vegas or Los Angeles where Jews and Nazis could work out their differences and mend wounds from World War II. Otto Skorzeny had been turned by Mossad in the mid-1960s, and he acted as a good between to Nazis in hiding in South America. Nazis in hiding were turning over their aviation and rocket technology along with their hidden, stolen gold from World War II to invest in Las Vegas and Los Angeles through Skorzeny.

The Mossad-connected Las Vegas casino owners like Sidney Korshak wanted to attract Nazi gold investment from South America and other hiding places around the world. Just as Sidney Korshak had emptied the Teamsters Union pension fund in the 1950s with Jimmy Hoffa into casinos from bootlegging profits, now it was the Nazi’s turn to be targeted in the mid-1960s.

https://www.nytimes.com/1976/06/28/archives/korshaks-power-rooted-in-ties-to-labor-leaders.html?auth=login-google1tap&login=google1tap

Sidney Korshak also went after Howard Hughes’ empire after his death, with much of the wealth being Nazi cash stashed by Hughes's money manager and CIA operative, Robert Mahue.

As you might guess, this is quite the trick. I detail exactly how this was done with annotations in the paid section of this Substack.

Friday, June 7, 2024, I am George Webb, and today, wow, today is gonna be fun.

The Mossad Godfather - that's more fun than a barrel of monkeys. Mossad Godfather - I mean, that sounds like a new movie that sounds like a movie that's gonna be bigger than The Godfather.

As a discerning reader, you don't necessarily want to watch movies about The Italian Godfathers—who all get killed or eliminated from action and don't win anything. The Mossad Godfathers would even get the profits from the movies about the Italian Godfathers.

You'll spend oodles of time or maybe have already spent watching the Godfather Series, the story of the losing team, and the Italian Godfathers. The Mossad Godfathers versus the Italian Godfathers is a fascinating story, and the Mossad Godfather story fighting it out between the Italian Godfathers is very complicated.

Who all gets killed and eliminated by being sent to prison? Sometimes a Mossad Godfather like Meyer Lansky gets another one out of the way like lilling Bugsy Siegel. (Sound like IB Hale with that military rifle?). Or was the Cleveland Jewish mobster Moe Dalitz responsible for Siegel’s death, as some say? You will learn about both here and how they built Las Vegas.

dalitzinvegas.com

Either way, the 1947 murder of Bugsy Siegel made way for an elaborate scheme to move Teamster pension money to build Vegas casinos and a scheme for investment from unlikely sources like Otto Skorzeny and his network of former Nazis.

Which Italian Godfathers don't end up owning anything? So, if you have already watched the Godfather movie series, you may as well learn about the Mossad Godfathers, who ended up getting rid of all the Italian Godfathers, right?

Why don’t the Mossad Godfathers want you to know the other half of this story? That's the part of Hollywood that they never want you to know. That part is the secret of the American backbone of American Cold War history, which runs through the Kennedy’s years and all through the Cold War. Bay of Pigs, you name it.

This chain of Mossad Godfathers passed from Sidney Korshak to his nephew, Les Wexner, going all the way to now, to Les Wexner in Columbus, Ohio, and almost Jeff Epstein. Unfortunately for Jeff Epstein, who had too high a profile for Mossad’s liking, he didn't quite make Mossad Godfather status.

I won't go through all of that. I'll only discuss the most significant people in this story and the most important turning points in the Mossad Godfather vs. Italian Godfather story.

This is a story about one side motivated by ideology, the continued existence of Israel, and, for some, the expansion of Israel - the Mossad Godfathers. But if you are an Italian Godfather, for whatever reason, you're not motivated by ideology or national mission, just Family survival and prosperity.

The Mossad Godfather is also motivated by survival and money, but also by mission and a Zionist ideology, which is a whole different thing. And even more fascinating is these two mobs worked together for most of their existence until somebody got murdered or died suspiciously.

To keep the story simple, I'm not saying it isn't more complicated. But by following the Mossad Godfathers, you really get a great idea of how American history unfolded.

And if you think about it, if you have one group of Godfathers, let's say, fighting for something bigger than themselves, Or at least in their own mind. They're fighting for the fighting for Israel's right to exist. They're sometimes also fighting for Israel's potential expansion of Israel's Zionist dreams.

Some Zionist mobsters might have even more expansive dreams about Chabad Lubavitch's dreams, the Black Sea all the way to the Baltic, in a 300-mile swath called the Pale. But for whatever reason, if you're not motivated just by money, If you're motivated by mission, ideology that's going to mean a whole different thing.

Some might argue the heir apparent Mossad Godfather is now Igor Kolomoisky, head of the Azov Battalion in Ukraine and a key proponent of the Chabad Lubavitch dream of a Zionist Pale from the Black Sea to the Baltic. I don’t think that transition has occurred yet, but Igor is from my same Cleveland, and for the Mayfield Road Cleveland Syndicate, I have been familiar with as a child.

And suppose you're motivated just by money, which is the key difference between the Mossad godfathers and the Italian godfathers. In that case, it is more difficult to enlist the United States government and its snipers in your cause. The Italian Godfathers’ money mainly came from bootlegging days; we all know the story. I happened to grow up in the center of this struggle between a Jewish mafia and an Italian mafia, all in the city I was born in—Cleveland, Ohio.

I saw the dynamic as a kid with Cleveland Teamsters and Jackie Presser, the key Teamster informant for the FBI Family Secrets case.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105553/

Presser paid my dad for his work on his invention of the cordless phone, so he came over to our house occasionally to check on the progress. More than occasionally, really. Perhaps his wife has her hair done at our house, where my mother had her beauty shop in the basement. Big Italian guys with bent noses came over frequently, and I remember my father and mother being afraid of the enforcers. It might have been Presser’s way of “encouraging” my Dad on the development of the cordless phone.

https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/mobbed-jackie-pressers-high-wire-life-teamsters-mafia-and-fb

Seeing Presser’s FBI testimony later on, I learned he used Teamster Union pension funds to invest in speculative ventures. So Jackie Presser would come over to our house in Euclid, Ohio, and I remember that I was afraid of him, and so was my mother.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105553/

But the Cleveland mafia had Italian leaders, including Licavoli, who worked with the former “admiral of the Jewish bootlegging navy,” Mo Dalitz. At least that is where the Jackie Presser Teamster Pension fund money seemed to go to Las Vegas casinos.

So, just out of pure luck and association, I happened to be right in the crucible, mainly through my dad's tangential contact with the Cleveland Mafia, getting money to do his invention. That we were really at the crux of the whole thing.

Jackie Presser was the key informant who took down the Italian Mafia. The key Family Secrets case was run out of Cleveland, where I've taken my researchers many times. It was down in the Cleveland public building, the Federal Building. Now it's moved again. Kolomoisky owns the Federal Building. How is that possible?

My mother ran a beauty shop in the basement of our house, and everyone seemed to know Licavoli had people killed and the Teamster money was going to Las Vegas. Moe Dalitz was part of the “Cleveland Four” that took the Great Lakes bootlegging and mafia rackets money and built many Las Vegas casinos.

The Cleveland mob liked to dump bodies in Euclid because we had a small police department that was very good at looking the other way. Val Kilmer made an excellent movie called “The Irishman,” which described the fight between the Irish longshoremen in Cleveland and the Italian Licavoli mob. However, the movie missed the Jewish element of the Cleveland mob, which was a frequent topic of Sunday conversation at our house in Euclid as I grew up.

And If you've seen the movie “The Irishman”, not the one that Robert De Niro made, which was very long and boring, and cut the CIA totally out of the story, the one that was created with Val Kilmer in Cleveland, it really does tell you the whole story.

https://www.amazon.com/Kill-Irishman-Blu-ray-Ray-Stevenson/dp/B004UVYQZA

Jimmy Fratiano was from there, too. Mo Dalitz was from there as well, giving the orders. They had both gone to Los Angeles and Las Vegas later on, but they were very critical in this takedown. And this is something I wrote about. More than that, maybe 15 years ago, when I was writing my dad's biography. So I've done a lot of research.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24267456-war-radio-and-me

I've gone to where a lot of the car bomb hits were. The C-4 military explosive devices were used in the car bombs in this gangland war. Detroit is a big part of this, along with the Purple Gang and the gangsters. But I will try to tell a simple story today between the Mossad Godfathers vs the Italian Godfather instead of the all-Italian Godfather movie that you've been allowed to see.

I grew up at ground zero, knowing the key, secret FBI Informant for the Family Secrets case in Cleveland. This case wound up taking down the Italian Godfathers across the country. Instead of clearing the corruption away, the FBI Family Secrets case replaced the Italian Godfathers with the Mossad Godfathers countrywide.

https://www.amazon.com/Family-Secrets-Case-Crippled-Chicago/dp/1569765456

It's like you've seen half of a story and half of a story that other people that ended up losing. It's like watching a basketball, baseball, or football game, where one of the teams is whited out, and you can only see one of the teams playing. So, if you were watching this whiteout sport, you would think there is no other team.

It's just one team. No. There's two.

And it's interesting how this all developed. Let's go back to our story to start telling the story. The Kennedys, right? The Kennedys, of course, are getting into researching the mob. Jack Kennedy is a senator from Massachusetts in the late 1950s. He's got the Rackets committee. He's looking into the mob, right?

And Frank Sinatra's as connected as you can be, right? Peter Lawford is there too with these same mobsters, connected as you can be. Bobby Kennedy's the chief counsel, right? They enlist the help of the mob to get elected. They ended up with several mob characters that undermined Adlai Stevenson and helped John Kennedy with the nomination, including Sydney Korshak and Charlie Baron. (Korshak’s connections to the Italian Godfathers and the Chicago Outfit go back to Al Capone, and we will see how Robert Mahue and Howard Hughes enter into the Korshak future by getting RKO Pictures from Joseph Kennedy and then Howard Hughes.)

From Gus Russo’s “SuperMob”, page 162.

So, in the 1960 Election, the Chicago outfit began helping the Kennedys. Sam Gianicana, Johnny Roselli, and Tony Accardo—all those guys from the Chicago outfit helped. Kennedy was elected, and Mayor Daley punched John F. Kennedy to be the president. The Chicago Outfit expected, hey, we put you in there, JFK. We expect you to look the other way on the Mafia Rackets as far as illegal stuff that's going on with us.

Sid Korshak arranged for Sinatra to sing JFK’s campaign song, “High Hopes”, and well as putting in this fix for JFK’s election in Chicago with Giancana, Roselli, Accardo, and Wasserman. (Superman, Gus Russo, page 168).

Of course, Bobby Kennedy doesn't pursue that route. Bobby Kennedy immediately starts going after Sam Trafficante in Tampa, Carlos Marcello in New Orleans and Dallas, and various folks in Los Angeles like Giancana and Roselli. And this backfires, doesn't it, because it seems people were hired to kill Castro a year before by Richard Bissell of the CIA. Now, this is how Bobby Kennedy and John F. Kennedy went after Castro and signed the authorization for Operation Mongoose in Thanksgiving of 1961 to go after Castro, but it boomerangs on them. Of the over twenty-four Castro assassination plans from Operation Mongoose, one involved Ernest Hemingway’s farm outside Havana.

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/old-man-and-cia-kennedy-plot-kill-castro/

Operation Mongoose gets turned around on the Kennedys to go after them.

For the U. S. military. The U. S. military, the FBI, and the CIA are doing the finding and fixing, and the mob is doing the finishing, right? And that's the story of the death of John F. Kennedy, and it's the story of the death of Robert F. Kennedy. It's a combination of military and mob, right? So it's important to history.

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This history also unwinds the death of Martin Luther King. It also unwinds the death of Malcolm X. So it's important to history, just for the sake of this, to put it right, to get to the bottom of these murders. The murders are the metadata; that is the important part.

We are unwinding not just the sixties and seventies history here—it's right now. So, let's get into the juice. The person I will call the Mossad Godfather today, Les Wexner, nephew of Sid Korshak, is directly connected with Curtis LeMay and Reeve Whitson for setting up the Intelligence Unit in the LAPD, right? Reeve Whitson, the guy who has the home of the Sharon Tate home under surveillance the night of the Helter Skelter murders, and the Manson murders, is directly connected through a guy named Charlie Baron, best friends with Sidney Korshak. The Sharon Tate surveillance operation was directed by the LAPD SIS Division, and Reeve Whitson worked with James Hamilton of LAPD SIS, the same man who briefed JFK and RFK on the Marilyn Monroe murder investigation.

It is this author’s opinion the CIA and FBI also had Sam Giancana, Johnny Roselli, and Marilyn Monroe under surveillance at all the frequented Los Angeles, Palm Springs, and Nevada Casino location like Cal-Nev.

And I'm going to suggest Lex Wexner and Rahm Emanuel are really just Mossad Godfathers in training. The real Mossad godfather is Sidney Korshak, taking over Chicago from Al Capone, Sam Giancana, and Johnny Roselli (working with Tony Accardo, I believe). And it had to combine a move from the Italian Godfather headquarters of New York and Chicago to Los Angeles, for many reasons. A Kaddish is a Jewish prayer in praise of God, and California and Los Angeles answered Sidney Korshak’s prayers.

Korshak came out to Los Angeles from the beginning to move the Chicago Outfit West and get into casinos and movies. The Kefauver Mob Hearings in the 1950s had caused the flight of the Mob to Cuba for the New York crime families and Las Vegas for the Chicago Outfit. My thesis was that the rug was always planned to be pulled out on the New York families in Cuba, shifting the balance of power once and for all to Los Angeles. This move was aided by the Israeli Intelligence services of Mossad every step of the way. The Mossad had made the decision that they had to, in terms of Israel's right to exist, Israel's PR campaign, if you will, that they needed to take over Hollywood.

Now, the people who came out and started Hollywood were already Jewish. All the studios' founders, except Walt Disney and RKO, owned by JFK’s father, Joe Kennedy, were all Jewish. So it wasn't a hard sell for the Mossad to base operations in Los Angeles.

But Sidney Korshak created the Godfather series and turned around Paramount. And Korshak brought a man, Charlie Bluhdorn, from Grand Rapids, Michigan (but really Vienna), to buy Paramount Pictures, a guy closely associated with the Teamsters and Jimmy Hoffa. Bluhdorn had purchased 150 companies somehow with his thick German accent, leading some to believe he was clearing Nazi gold through the Vatican Bank.

Charlie Bluhdorn was suspected of investing Nazi reserves through Societa Generale Immobiliare (SGI) into none other than the Watergate Hotel. This same Nazi gold may have financed a few CIA overthrows in the Carribean as well.

Fans of The Godfather Part Three may remember that Michael Corleone bails out the Vatican Bank in the movie. The exact opposite was true when making the movie, where Bluhdorn put Paramount land assets to the Vatican Bank’s SGI to finance the film.

But Korshak’s first target before Bluhdorn would be Hoffa, the Teamster Pension Funds, to get a foothold with his first studio - RKO. Korshak and CIA Operative Robert Mahue conspired to wrest control of RKO Pictures from Howard Hughes through infiltration in the Hollywood theatrical union, IATSE.

Paramount Pictures is how Roman Polanski got started. Producer Robert Evans is the famous Polanski got started with Rosemarie’s Baby and then Chinatown with Roman Polanski. Korshak then had Robert Evans create the Godfather series with Francis Ford Coppola. So I've introduced these other characters before, but Charlie Barron is an important guy in this story.

And so is Korshak because Korshak literally says that, by infiltrating himself into the IATSE theatrical union in Los Angeles, Korshak basically takes control of Los Angeles.

You can stop the production of any movie at any time by going through the IATSE theatrical union. You call a strike. You can call a strike of the lighting and electrical workers and the other supporting theatrical personnel, not necessarily the actresses and the writers, but the people who actually turn lights, cameras, and action.

https://iatse.net/teamsters-and-iatse-reaffirm-mutual-aid-and-assistance-pact/

IATSE is closely associated with the Teamsters Union, allowing Sidney Korshak to parlay his insider status at the Teamsters Union into an insider position at IATSE.

If you turn the lights off, you turn the cameras off, you turn off the folks doing all the logistics, you turn off Hollywood. The original plan was to take 20% of Hollywood. The original plan for the course track was to take 20% of Hollywood, and then it was so successful that we decided to do 50%.

So, Korshak’s production of The Godfather is super important, and I'll stop here and say where the speculation starts and where the facts are. So far, all facts. Korshak is the guy who constructs the Godfather. Korshak talks a Michigan businessman into creating Gulf and Western, which buys struggling Paramount Pictures. This opens the way for Roman Polanski’s career, Robert Evans, Francis Ford Coppola, and The Godfather.

But I wanted to talk about a couple of other players who are involved in this, like Charlie Bluhdorn, who came out of nowhere to finance the Paramount and the Godfather, who I think answer history's mysteries, whose murder is still unsolved murders, and who I think bring a lot of the picture together.

There's this Austrian guy named Charles Bluhdorn with a very big German accent, and he's making bumpers in Grand Rapids. Michigan Plating, Bluhdorn is making bumpers in Michigan.

Bluhdorn becomes the wealthiest guy in Michigan, right? Bluhdorn knows Max Fisher, and Bluhdorn knows Henry Kissinger, but Bluhdorn happens to come in and get into the auto business. Now, all of a sudden, Bluhdorn is making these zinc electroplated bumpers, then copper electroplating, and then chrome electroplating, and they are just bumpers. No guns, right? Or maybe Bluhdorn was making guns for Castro and made a lot of money from the CIA, shipping the guns to Castro in Cuba from the Dominican Republic?

But that’s the cover story of how you make the money in Michigan - bumpers. Zinc is also used in weapons and ammunition manufacturing. And Bluhdorn knows Kissinger. Bluhdorn also has a close friendship with Fidel Castro. Was Bluhdorn making guns for Castro in 1960 to pull the rug out on the New York Crime Families that had already invested in Cuba in the 1950s? Does that money then get invested into making a movie about what Bluhdorn just did?

Notes - You may not know Charlie Bluhdorn, but I bet you will recognize his movies.

https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/02/archive-march-2015-charlie-bluhdorn

And Charlie Bluhdorn communicated with Kissinger enough to be prominently featured in the Nixon tapes.

This series will continue with the Godfather Saga to the Mossad Godfathers of Los Angeles in the next Substack.