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1550822659.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1991012244New Haven Connecticut U.S.A.: Yale Univ Pr 1991. 325pp. a comprehensive history of military surveillance in the United States-traces the evolution of America's internal security policy during the past two hundred years. Joan M. Jensen discusses how the federal government has used the army to intervene in domestic crises and how Americans have protested the violation of civil liberties and applied political pressure to limit military intervention in civil disputes. Light fading to dj spine. Text clean. 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Yale Univ Pr Hardcover
1967List2964United States 1967. Approximately 108 items: Eighteen packets of carbon-copied documents totaling 114 pages; thirty-nine pages of handwritten notes; twenty-six letters from William Burke to Elwood Hammock; thirteen notes and letters from Elwood Hammock to Arthur Lea; fourteen packets of carbon copies of Burke's letters totaling fifty pages; two newspaper articles about the case; and three copies and one negative of a mugshot. Excellent. The story of Operation Homex an investigation by the FBI into a blackmail ring targeting gay men during the mid-to-late 1960's begins with the arrest of John Aitken by Detective James McDonnell in July of 1965. Police were called to the Grand Central Western Union where Aitken who had been impersonating a police officer while traveling with a 14-year-old boy was attempting to convince the boy's father to wire him $150 to fly him home. Aitken had a prior arrest for child molestation -to avoid doing hard time Aitken told McDonnell that he could tell the NYPD about something much more interesting than the crime he was currently committing.1<br /> <br /> The extortion ring Aitken told the NYPD about had been shaking down dozens of men across the country for almost a decade taking in over $2 million. Corrupt police-and men impersonating police known as "bulls"-used young men and boys known as "chickens" to lure in and blackmail prominent closeted gay men. Their victims included high-ranking military officers doctors professors entertainers and even a sitting Congressman. Over the next two years the investigation headed by the Manhattan District Attorney and the FBI would reveal an operation of unprecedented scope with activities in over a dozen cities.<br /> <br /> The present archive of correspondence is from the collection of Special Agent Arthur B. Lea who was based in Fayetteville North Carolina. The majority of the letters are written by William Joseph Burke an ex-con and ring member who was arrested as part of the first public wave of indictments in February of 1966 to "Bone" or "Bud" a.k.a Elwood "Buddie" Lee Hammock one of the three ringleaders primarily responsible for the whole of the extortion operation. According to a carbon copy of an FBI report included here Hammock was arrested in September of 1966. It would appear that he subsequently began cooperating with the investigation including forwarding Burke's letters to Special Agent Lea.<br /> <br /> Burke discusses the legal case with Hammock candidly and in great detail though using pseudonyms for most of the players. He tells Hammock:<br /> <br /> "Yes the Thumb mentioned your name I assume one of the two contracts he was inflating his ego with may have belonged to you but he was all confused like I told you. He appeared to be sure about one thing and that was that his victims would never show up and take the stand at the trial but when I told him that Murphy the Apple were going to plead guilty his chin dropped he asked me if the Apple was talking ." January 9 1966<br /> <br /> It was incredibly difficult to convince victims to testify a fact which Burke alludes to several times in his letters. One victim Admiral William Church committed suicide rather than even speak to investigators in New York. As Burke himself notes "the laws in the U.S. . tend to encourage Vice Squads etc. to shake down such people" and left them little recourse September 22 1966.<br /> <br /> Hammock's main concern which is shared by Burke is that he would face serious prison time despite his cooperation with the authorities. He tells Lea:<br /> <br /> "Somebody has got to do something for me Art. I've worked hard as hell breaking up this ring now they're going to toss me to the vultures that ain't right Art I aint got no money to hire me a lawyer or nothing - Thats why the Hebe flew away". No Date<br /> <br /> "The Hebe" is Sherman Kaminsky who skipped bail after Church's suicide and disappeared for 11 years his flight is the subject of much ire from both Burke and Hammock. According to Hammock investigators let Kaminsky out of the courtroom at lunchtime and left him alone while he sat on a bench reading the paper and feeding the pigeons. When they came to retrieve him "Boom No Hebe no where in sight" No Date.<br /> <br /> Among the other items included here are two mugshots a photo negative and the complete FBI file of Jimmy Michael Haithcock one of the chickens whose name is included on the aforementioned FBI report. There are many pages of Lea's hastily written notes numerous photocopies of letters from Burke and a substantial stack of call records from Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company. An unusual collection to be sure with much to glean about a fascinating and largely forgotten episode of American history.<br /> <br /> 1 William McGowan "The Chickens and the Bulls" Slate July 11 2012. unknown
200650902Washington DC: GPO 2006. very good. 103 wraps appendix. Serial No. 109-125. H.R. 4239 was introduced in response to a growing threat commonly referred to as ecoterrorism. Animal rights supporters have employed tactics to disrupt animal research and related businesses by terrorizing their employees. GPO paperback
1971382242Washington: Government Printing Office 1971. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Multiple Special House Reports 91st Congress 2d Session bound in one volume. Thick octavo. Complete as issued in the original publisher's cloth. Some toning near fine. Contains two important investigative reports by the Committee on Internal Security i.e. the renamed House Un-American Activities Committee: Anatomy of a Revolutionary Movement: "Students for a Democratic Society" No. 1565: vii 175 xiii pp. with photographs; and Report of Inquiry Concerning Speakers' Honoraria at Colleges and Universities No. 1732: xii 52pp. Both were conducted under the direction of Richard H. Ichord the Committee's Chairman a fervent anti-Communist who crusaded against the Peace Movement during the Vietnam War. The report on Students for a Democratic Society and associated New Left groups includes an illustration of FBI Wanted Poster for William Charles "Bill" Ayers that was used by House Republicans to discredit President Barack Obama. The report on Speakers' Honoraria undertaken to investigate the possibility that New Left radical groups and organizations were financing their activities through speaking engagements includes the Dissenting View of African-American Congressman Louis Stokes of Ohio. Also included in this volume are three timely reports by the Select Committee on Crime on drug use and related criminal activities among urban and counterculture youth: Juvenile Justice and Corrections No. 1806: v 85pp.; Amphetamines No. 1807: v 44pp.; and Heroin and Heroin Paraphernalia: Second Report by the Select Committee on Crime No. 1808: v 83pp. A nice copy scarce in the trade. Government Printing Office hardcover
1967201118-MB52California Trial Lawyers Association 1967. Very Good Hardcover 254 pages panel discussions from CTLA Second Annual Convention February 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Cover. California Trial Lawyers Association Hardcover
1967104New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1967. First American Edition 1st Printing.<br /><br />Octavo 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches; 215 x 142 mm 252 pages in quarter cloth over boards gold titles to spine. With the dust jacket and the scarce "In Transit Docket."<br /><br />Strange things take place in a Paris brothel involving not only sex but also.nuclear weapons. The book includes the top secret "In Transit Docket" which lays out a U.S. plot against the Chinese. A typically fast-paced Deighton thriller. <br /><br />CONDITION: Small closed tear in pages 29-30 a couple of small stains on the fore edge some fading to the titles on the spine. Dust jacket unclipped with slight offsetting from the red end papers onto the front flap a bit of rubbing to the top of the front and rear panels. "Transit Docket" is Fine Overall a Very Good copy. G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
1967012884NY: Putnam 1967. 1st edition so stated preceding the British edition. Quarter bound in red cloth cover decorated grey card boards. Near fine in dust jacket not price clipped $4.95 intact very minor edgewear. "Top secret in Transit Docket" laid in which relates events that took place before the beginning of the story. Paris in the 1960s caters for every taste and nowhere more than at the private "clinic" run by the enigmatic Monsieur Datt on Avenue Foch which supplies psychedelic drugs and sexual favors to the city's elite -- all the while secretly filming guests in order to blackmail them. Into this decadent underworld steps a bespectacled British spy. Sent on what seems like a simple mission he soon finds himself playing a game where the rules are unknown -- and even victory could be fatal. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Putnam Hardcover
2004008494Jackson Mississippi U.S.A.: Univ Pr of Mississippi 2004. At the close of World War II Allied forces faced frightening new German secret weapons---buzz bombs V-2s and the first jet fighters. When Hitler's war machine began to collapse the race was on.Clean. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Univ Pr of Mississippi hardcover
1330408098.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0265615054.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1990002644New York NY U.S.A.: Harper & Row 1990. 375 pages/photos. Detailed rare book on the KEYHOLE satellite program. Clean and tight. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harper & Row hardcover
1990004063New York NY U.S.A.: Harper & Row 1990. 375 pages/photos. Detailed rare book on the KEYHOLE satellite program. Clean and tight. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harper & Row hardcover
1990004110New York NY U.S.A.: Harper & Row 1990. 375 pages/photos. Detailed rare book on the KEYHOLE satellite program. Clean and tight. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harper & Row hardcover
1990006746New York NY U.S.A.: Harper & Row 1990. 375 pages/photos. Detailed rare book on the KEYHOLE satellite program. Clean and tight. . Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harper & Row hardcover
1990008553New York NY U.S.A.: Harper & Row 1990. 375 pages/photos. Detailed rare book on the KEYHOLE satellite program. Clean and tight. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harper & Row hardcover
173327715Namur Belgium 1733. Ephemera. Very good condition. An unusual survival of an 18th century swindle and subsequent execution. The manuscript letter is written by Mme de Douglas to an unknown "Monsieur" from Namur Belgium dated early January 1733. Mme Douglas was the widow of one of two brothers who inherited their fathers' rich estate from the East Indies. Upon the brothers' death in order to prevent the estate being distributed to the daughter of her brother in law she paid a wet nurse and others to falsify testimony implying that the daughter was illegitimate. The daughter was imprisoned but later found to be not guilty and the courts in Holland Belgium indicted Mme Douglas. Ultimately "The verdict was that she be hanged and that her 80 year old father be brought onto the scaffoled in order to watch the execution; and her 300000 florin fortune is not sufficient to save her from her fate." Translation of an article in "Kurz-gefaßter historischer Nachrichten zum Behuf der neuern Europäischen Begebenheiten auf das Jahr 1735" vol. 45 November p. 893.<br /> <br /> Written in unaccomplished French bifold 7 1/4 x 6" 4pp. <br /> Translation from French:<br /> From Namur the 1st of Jan 1733<br /> As I learned a few days ago that you also took possession of all the property of your father-in-law by agreement with your brother-in-law I have the honor to write you these lines to know if your intention to lodge with me was false as you assured me of demonstrating the desire if it were up to you and I assured Monsieur Questand also agreeable that you appeared to me that we could easily arrange for your interests and mine. If you come to Namur it would require us to confer together. I am lodging at the moment with Mr Canon Paradis near St. Aubain I shall await a response to this letter my compliments if you please to Madame your wife and I wish you both all good wishes in this year that we are beginning according to your desires having the honor to be <br /> with a perfect esteem Sir your very humble and very obedient Countess<br /> of Douglas<br /> <br /> In 1717 Veselovsky one of Peter the Great's entourage on his second visit to the Low Countries lodged in Namur 'chez M. le chanoine Paradis.' See Charles Maroy 'Les voyages de Pierre le Grand' L'Expansion Belge 6/4 1913: 209 199-211. <br /> <br /> Further reference to this case is made in a European history published in Nurnberg in 1744 summarizing important events in European history from 1734 to 1744 Ref. below.<br /> <br /> 'How sharply dishonesty is treated in Holland is illustrated by an example in the person of Madame Douglas. There were two Douglas brothers both married who received a rich inheritance from the East Indies. One questioned the legitimacy of the inheritance the other accepted it. The two were so hostile towards each other that guardians had to be appointed. After awhile both brothers died one of whom was survived by a daughter. Because however the other widow wanted the entire fortune for herself and her children she corrupted a wet-nurse and other witnesses who finally testified that the child presumably of the dead brother was illegitimate. The mother of the child was put in jail and the sister-in-law received the entire inheritance. After further investigation the imprisoned woman was found not guilty and the lying of the widow and her false witnesses was exposed. She the widow was prepared to pay 300000 guilders for her life but Madame Douglas ended up having to pay far more. Her 80 year old father was forced to watch the execution of her daughter on the scaffold because he had given his daughter the offending attorney Streich. Nine of the false witnesses were beaten with a broom and seven were branded.' Translation of a passage on pp. 638-639 in Andreas Lazarus von Imhof Des Neu-eröffneten historischen Bilder-Saals Zehender Theil. Nürnberg 1744. unknown
1952866New York: Ballantine Books 1952. First Edition First Printing. <br /><br />12mo 7 3/8 x 4 3/4 inches; 185 x 120 mm 247 3 pages gray quarter cloth over black boards in an unclipped photo-illustrated dust jacket hard cover.<p>Communist agent arrives in the U.S. to persuade a scientist to defect to the Soviet Union. He also gets involved with some American women who suspect he's up to no good. As far as Cold War fiction goes it's not bad at all. Published during the McCarthy era this book actually goes easy on the lurid anti-Red hysteria of so much Cold War fiction. The author Stanley Baron worked as a political analyst for the U.S. government so presumably had a keen insight into the psychology and motivations of Communist agents and fellow-travellers.<br /></p><p>CONDITION: Near Fine in a bright Near Fine dust jacket that has a bit of rubbing and a couple of nicks. The flap edges are slightly trimmed but the $1.50 price remains intact on the front flap. </p><p>An attractive copy of a Ballantine hardcover. Unfortunately Ballantine didn't credit the artist who designed the striking photomontage dust jacket. <br /></p><p><br /></p> Ballantine Books hardcover
1979A47734Portland OR: Bls Publishing Co. 1979. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the publisher Ray deAutremont on the front endpaper with a short inscription. This book is in Very Good condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean bright condition. There is some noticeable rubbing and wear to the spine ends corners and edges of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright with the exception of several spots of toning to the bottom edges of the first ten pages. The dust jacket has several edge tears nicks spots of wear rubbing and several chips to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. There is a bit of light sunning / fading to the spine of the dust jacket. "The DeAutremont Brothers Roy March 30 1900 – June 17 1983 Ray March 30 1900 – December 20 1984 and Hugh DeAutremont February 21 1904– March 30 1959 were a criminal gang based in the Pacific Northwest during the 1920s. Their unsuccessful robbery of a Southern Pacific Railroad express train and the murder of four crew members known as the Siskiyou massacre was subject to one of the largest and most extensive investigations in the region. The brothers were eventually identified with the assistance of forensic scientist Edward Heinrich and they were captured after a four-year nationwide manhunt" from Wikipedia; B&W Illustrations; 185p. pages; Pictured 1/21/24; Biographee . Signed by Biographee . Bls Publishing Co. hardcover
1979007565New York: Putnam 1979. 323pp. This is the story of the CIA's secret airline that emerged out Claire Chenault's Flying Tigers in Southeast Asia during the Second World War through years of secret missions in Burma Tibet Indonesia Laos Cambodia and eventually the Vietnam War. The author has put this story together from interviews with scores of ex-Air America pilots. This is the first published account of the organization's top secret activities. DJ has several tears. Text clean. First Printing. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Putnam hardcover
1993029900South Africa: Cosaw Publishing 1993. No marks or inscriptions. Creasing to covers and spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 190pp. Autobiography of South African writer Stephen Gray who survived a burglary where he was tied up and nearly lost his life. He wrote this account of his life during the long months spent searching for his would-be killers. Very scarce. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. 7.75 x 5 inches. Cosaw Publishing Paperback
188626Akron OH: H. G. Canfield 1886. 8vo 92 pages printed wrappers; the penultimate leaf of detective Burlison's text is defective and lacks text but the following leaf tho defective retains the full woodcut image of Burlison. Rare. <br/><br/>"On the night of April 3d 1865 the Safe of the Ohio Farmers Insurance Company at Le Roy Medina County Ohio was cracked and some $61000.00 taken therefrom. . Samuel M. Felker was arrested in Chicago by Detective Pinkerton and brought to Medina and lodged in jail where he confessed that he knew where all the bonds and money were and that he could and would provide the same on condition that he should be released." ". the guilty and self-confessed thieves were permitted to escape and protected in the enjoyment of their ill-gotten gains has thus far remained a mystery. This little book proposes to give a true and faithful history of the whole matter which will read like a romance - Preface." This tale was 20 years in the telling. The prefatory Note is dated 1864. There may have been an 1885 edition the tipped-on copyright notice is dated 1885. WorldCat cites only 3 copies of any edition of this booklet - all in Ohio. Includes much correspondence with Allen Pinkerton. H. G. Canfield unknown
1777029800London: S. Hooper 1777. Two volume set. No added marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers creased/rubbed spines. Very clean very tight pages with some marking to boards see image all board edges decorated gilt see image original bindings sound page edges brown and minor bumping to corners. 280 279pp. Author was gardener to Sir Thomas Gascoigne. Second corrected and greatly enlarged edition. Chapters on the nursery forest trees fruit trees mushrooms cabbages carrots turnips vines and fence management. Second Edition. Leather. Very Good -. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. S. Hooper Hardcover
1941019975Garden City New York: Crime Club Doubleday 1941. 1st American edition. Slight spine slant black boards lighly rubbed and soiled else a vefry good-near fine copy in homemade acetate dust jacket. English title: Pray Silence 1940. The 2nd Tommy Hambledon adventure. A HAYCRAFT-QUEEN CORNERSTONE SELECTION. Goebbels doesn't trust the Chief of the German Police. Hitler loves him. The British are just plain confused. Joseph Goebbels is fuming. It's the mid-1930s and the Nazi Minister of Propoganda has a nice little racket going. He and his cohorts are allowing Jews to slip out of Germany in return for 80 percent of their assets. But longtime Nazi party member Klaus Lehman the Chief of the German Police. is too much of a prig to let him get away with it. And given that Lehman was one of Hitler 's earliest supporters he's virtually untouchable. In the meantime British Intelligence is going around in circles. Someone in Germany is sending them messages in a code that hasn't been used since World War I. When it was first published in 1941 in the U.S. A Toast to Tomorrow along with its predecessor Drink to Yesterday was heralded by famed critic Anthony Boucher as "a single long and magnificent novel of drama intrigue and humor." Howard Haycraft the dean of mystery historians called the two books "superior" examples of the new wave of realistic spy-and- intrigue novels told with a "mood of subtle understatement." A current critic mystery bookseller Barbara Peters of the Poisoned Pen called it her "favorite espionage novel of all time." This darkly humorous novel was the work of two Hampshire neighbors Adelaide Oke Manning and Cyril Henry Coles and based in part on the Coles' adventures in the British Intelligence. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Book. Crime Club Doubleday
197129106Chicago: Chicago Crime Commission. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1971. 1st Edition. First Printing. Soft Cover. Publisher's blue printed wraps. Illustrated with numerous maps charts and tables. xiii 373 A12 B36 C31 D7 pp. First edition 1971 with publication authorization date of February 4 1972. . Former owner's signature Don Behnke on cover which is lightly rubbed and soiled. NB: Daniel W. Behnke was Associate Director of the Illinois Law Enforcement Commission at the time this study was prepared and was on the Project Staff see page iii. The volume is otherwise unmarked tight square seemingly unread and clean. Scarce. NEAR FINE . Maps charts tables. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Signed by One Author . Chicago Crime Commission paperback