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ITAK.NIW5, SUNBAY. I'll. II, Hit but of gambling al le and stale i Kolar wag asked last spring a congressional' the federal government By JOSEPH E. MOHBAT BERNARD GAVZER Denied, scratched, a little scared-but tremendously rich and powerful. That's the status of organized crime in America today de spite all the muscle of the federal government and unprecedented public exposure.

It seems destined to flourish 1 as long as man and money. The names--Mafia. La Cosa Nostra, change. mob, syndicate-- may nents, perhaps even convic- Jons, for notorious Cosa Nostra leaders. Bui La Cosn Noslra is 110 fly- ay-night purse-snatching ring.

It is a smoothly run, monopolistic corporation, as organized as General Motors, as well financed as ATT, as enduring as a national government. When one leader falls, the "family" lias another groomed to lake his ace. Eventually, Ally. Gen. Hamey-Clark's strike force will va- ate Buffalo.

There is no re- Kaces may go behind bars--or vanish. But Ihe roots are deep. The financial well is bottomless. The clientele is boundless. Not Victims ThosS who play with the mob are not victims but willing cus tbmers, docile, compliant, si lent.

They like to gamble. They create their fix. they need quick money whatever And they don't cry out when squeezed. They prize their lives secret files of Ijwestigatiye agencies hold fa dossiers ori'. more than gangsters with organ ized.

crime-'Yet most o( them aire walking around free. '-For nearly a decade now, public has been made dramati cally aware ol the mob. the. televised McClella; Hearings of the 1950s, lo hoot lum Joe Valachi's babblings 60s, to former Ally F. Kennedy's or g'anized crime drive, the prob lem has been bared in detail.

federal pressure contin uesl The latest innovation is th multiagency "strike force," syhich top-level federal invest gators go into one to and analyze their information i Hopes of rooting out La. Cos Nostra. Miny Indictments It claimed several dozen in djctmenls alter one year in Bu falo. This month it pits its wi against thi well-entrenched mo of Detroit. There will be indie bankroll from gambling alone is conservatively estimated at $20 Increased federal pressure on the obvious criminal activities of La Cosa Nostra, mob- slers take their gambling bankroll and move into legitimate ind pseudoJegitimate busi- lesses.

--Evidence, the kind thai con- icts Cosa Nostra big shots, is ncredibly difficult to obtain. The crime syndicate is organ- zed so that top-level members are carefully insulated from law en for cement. Every effort is made to ensure that law enforcement will be unable to obtain live witnesses. The fool soldiers of the Maia are kept silent by fear; their 'amilies are fed and financed if are put away, thus ensuring their loyalty and silence. Documentary evidence also is iiani to obtain.

Bookies don't keep records. --No stale or local police agency is adequately staffed to combat organized crime effectively. One major case may lake two or three years to devel- xmsible official in the Depart icnt of Justice who will say La osa Nostra will be gone, too. "urt, maybe. Bui there.

In theory, believes Clark-- ubbed by President in the Icderal anti rime war--organized crime is radi cable. "It's an identifiable target, an xposed one. There are other in- uslrialized, highly urbanizec ocieties that don't have the iroblem," Clark says. "Bui I don't think the federal overnmcnt alone can eliminate t. We can't do much more than hake it up pretty seriously, am think we've done that." Corruption Cilcd Tlie nub of the problem? Many believe it is corruptibility lines.

The President's Crime of local police. "I don't believe," said Clark an interview, "that organized crime can flourish where it's are aware of organized crime's ability to corrupt law enforce ment." --There is a continuing lack of public and rjolitical commitment to fighting organized crime. The public, the Crime Commission noted, demands 'action only spo- op--and several more to prosecute and appeal. Jurisdictions are many and fragmented. One syndicate gambling operation may cross several municipal and stale Commission said police agencies do not cooperate with or trust each other "because they rle moves into areas of cqm-i morcial crime, where Die victim is brought into tho web of conspiracy, made a parly to the crime.

These crimes, really, you have to deal with differently. I -call them consensual crimes, or viclimless crimes." Vinson, who heads the Justice Department's Criminal Division, said syndicate leaders to day "employ lawyers and accountants in Ihe establishment of very inlricalc business setups. They use modern public relations techniques. They join Ihe country club and are very good about supporting local charities. They make every effort to be looked on as pillars of the community.

the facade of legitimacy and above layers of insulation in the organization, the illegal methods are Take a conservative estimate of 520 billion in gross gambling receipts, Vinson said, and a con servative percentage of profit "and you have in the hands o. these people at leasl 56 billion And that really is their bankroll "That money can be used foi any purpose they fee fit. cai ie used for purposes of cbrrup lot afforded some immunity rom local law enforcement. Organized crime has to deal with arge numbers of people in, say gambling. "If the police want to find ou about can." An Associated Press survey of radically, usually when moved experts in law enforcement by sensational disclosures of tended to corroborate Clark's violence, implication: Federal Investigative agencies do not deal confidently with most local police departments.

Police departments often do not trust one another. There is even friction among the federal agencies supposedly united in the organized crime drive. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, for example, to place its agents under the Justice Department's strike force leadership. It provided intelligence when requested--but agents solely under the authority of Director J. Edgar Many Obstacles Other obstacles to banishment of Ihe criminal empire, (lie AP survey showed: --Millions of Americans and'demand thc'serviccs organized crime.

The annual ion. It can be used to bankroll hylocking operations. It can be sed to bankroll narcotics oper- tions." The list of legitimate busi- lesses.that become mobsler havens is lengthening. "They are probably heavy on service-type business," i aid. "Ljnen service, for exam)Ie.

They have been known to lave interests in security dealerships. Dairies. Trucking con cerns. Brokerage houses, soiling applies or lood to retailers Night clubs, taverns, rcslavir anls. With these operations, cleanse their illegitimate money, giving them an apparent source of income for tax purposes." of local police, Vinson said, is "fairly common As the crime commission made, clear, where organized crime flourishes, you may be sure you have some corrup tion." Despite some legislative proposals by President Johnson this year to curb gambling and the narcotics traffic, Ihcre is little feeling, in Washington thai new legislation will help much.

"Take the test few said Ramsey Clark. "The con- Jons known Coso Nostra members in the past 10 years are under 200--around 180. II you put the total membership at 4,000 or that tells you that more of their guys- are being Hurt in. aulo accidents than by Ihe government. "I assume organized crime will be a major federal rcspon sibility for years.

It's a conlri bution the federal governmem can make. "But it won't be wiped out In a year or two or ten. It is a lo more than just a police prob em. It's one of the burdens urbanization. To eradicate it you'll have await the emer of truly vital city govern ment." William A.

Kolar, director the Internal Revenue 'Service' Intelligence Division, says Cos Nostra-to which his l.TOt agents devote 20 per cent their time--rides high "becaus the public just doesn't give A must in combatting the'syi the former FBI agen said, "is more stringent en Is winding or loping tbe war against, the mob. "I would- he replied carefuljy, "that we are losing a little." THE CARDIAC LEAQUE I'. A Guttd of the Huntington Memorial Hotpital presents 'A Benefit Concert BY I I 5 3 I PAT PAULSEJV 1 HARPER'S BIZARRE I AT Pasadena Civic Auditorium Saturday, February 24, 1MB, 8:39 p.m. J5.50, 4.50, 3,50, 2.BO" on sale Box Office, Tel. 449-9473 Wallichs All Mutual Agencies WEATHER REPORT Faiodtna end ontf warmer today nlghl and wrly moi dcwdl.

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Sometimes businessmen have availed hemselves of unique Mafia services to battle unions, "ne- sweetheart contracts, or 'smooth over problems with city and slate governments. Labor has done the same in reverse. Today's racketeer, said Asst, Atty. Gen. Fred M.

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