By Alex Constantine
(Posted previously as a chapter on the Lexington Comair crash of 2006)
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There was a temptation some couldn't possibly ignore ...
Lexington's clutch of CIA-guns-and-drugs-running, mercenary-training, witness-disappearing, Dixie-Mafia Company Dons fixed the 2005 Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs ...
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Jerry Moss, for instance, owner of Giacomo.294
Moss heads up A&M Records.294
A&M Records is a division of MCA Universal – the mobbed-up mass entertainment production complex that gave us Robert Strauss, the crooked Houston attorney, James A. Baker III's former partner, and J. Livingston Kosberg's Gibraltar Savings co-conspirator (see parts 1, 17-suppl., 31 & 36)].
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Jerry Moss, of course, is an iconic figure in the record business. In 1961, Moss and Herb Albert of Tijuana Brass fame founded Carnival Records, the antecedent of A&M, the most successful independent record company in the biz.295 Moss was born in New York City on May 8, 1935. As the A&M site relates: "He was the second son of Irving and Rose Moss. Jerry's parents were poor, living in the South Bronx area near Yankee stadium. He worked his way through college, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Brooklyn College. After college, he entered the U.S. Army and was discharged in August of 1958. He was hired by record promotion man Marvin Cane at $75 per week to hype records to radio stations on the east coast. His first assignment was to promote 'Sixteen Candles' by the Crests. Moss didn't think much of the recording, but he worked hard promoting the record up and down the east coast. In January, 1959, the song rose to the No. 2 spot in the Billboard charts, due in large part to the efforts of Moss. Jerry Moss worked for a year and a half with Cane, learning the 'ins and outs' of record promotion. He left Cane and moved to California in the spring of 1960, and became a record promo man on the West Coast. In 1961, Moss met Herb Alpert, and was impressed with his trumpet playing."296 A&M (for Alpert and Moss) was born.
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Stipkovich: "After the war, the family moved to Washington, D.C., where father Miles and a small nucleus of intelligence officers were given the task of organizing a central intelligence gathering organization combining the best of the various forces intelligence corps including the O.S.S. This resulted in the foundation of the C.I.A." The Copelands "alternated between Middle East posts and Washington D.C. In 1953, father Miles Jr. was loaned by the C.I.A. to Gamal Abdul Nasser (President of Egypt) to organize the Egyptian secret intelligence, The Muhabarat. He soon became Nasser’s closest western advisor. It was here that Lorraine Copeland took up archeology and Miles III took up an interest in collecting anything ancient, from mummy parts to coins. It was also here that young Miles became friends with Col. Hasan Tuhami, Nasser’s machine gun toting bodyguard who lived next door. In later years, this friendship became extremely useful as Mr. Tuhami became Vice Prime Minister of Egypt and came to the rescue of The Police, whose equipment was stuck in Egyptian customs, jeopardizing a concert at the Cairo University that night. Father Miles’ exploits are recounted in three books: Game of Nations, The Real Spy World and his autobiography, The Game Player."297
Some racing industry whistle-blowers maintain that the Kentucky Derby has been fixed in the past. Ben Radstein, a horse race commentator, writes that the 2003 Kentucky Derby ended in an upset when 12-1 long shot "Funny Cide defeated the heavily favored Empire Maker. No gelding had won the Derby since Clyde Van Dusen in 1929. Many were angered one week later whan a photo seemed to show jockey Jose Santos holding a foreign object along with his whip. To try to get to the bottom of this, I spoke to Manny Macklin, an industry insider, and publisher of the tipsheet, Mad
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"Oddsmakers consulted racing form data and thoroughly examined the prior times of every horse in this years Kentucky Derby. Bellamy Road was the choice of oddmakers across the board, especially in light of his 30 length victory margin in the last race before the run at Churchill Downs.
"Oddsmakers acknowledged in their oddsmaking at that moment that Bellamy Road would win the Kentucky Derby.
"And he most certainly would have, at least if the race had been fairly and LEGALLY run. What happened instead was the BIGGEST CRIME IN THE HISTORY OF HORSERACING, and the collective media silence which has followed is the greatest fourth-estate failure ever on our soil.
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"George Steinbrenner [whose horse finished seventh in the Derby] isn't capable of conceiving and executing such a grandiose crime? Wake up. THEY DID IT. The silence of traditional media on this subject is enough to establish their newfound bankruptcy. ... Is there any greater imperative than to reverse this crime and reestablish the opportunity for a legitimate contender for the Triple Crown? Why the mass silence? Let's go to work with the circumstantial evidence, begin to narrow from the outside in, and find some witnesses who will turn. ..."300
"Giacomo's victory beyond strange," reported Rick Bozich at the Louisville Courier-Journal. "Giacomo? ... he was some faceless 50-1 also-ran from California owned by a Hollywood record producer. This one is going to take some time to explain — or understand. ... The 131st Kentucky Derby was won by a horse that had been beaten in his last five starts, a colt whose only win in seven career starts had been a maiden race last October, a horse whose only memorable credential was that he was named after the youngest son of the musical star Sting."301
Many other commentators in the press have stated openly that they believed the race was fixed.
NEXT ...
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NOTES
293.) Jack Shinar, "Giacomo's First Win Since Derby a Nail-Biter," Blood-Horse Magazine, July 24, 2006.
http://bloodhorse.com/viewstory_plain.asp?id=34539
294.) Jay Hovdey, "ANN & JERRY MOSS," Gregson Foundation site, April 24, 2006.
http://www.gregsonfoundation.com/jerryandannmoss-honored.htm
295.) Patrice Eyries, Dave Edwards, & Mike Callahan, "A&M Album Discography," A&M Records site, August 9, 2001.
http://www.bsnpubs.com/aandm/aandmstory.html
296.) Ibid.
297.) Aaron Stipkovich, "Miles Copeland: Profile."
http://www.milescopeland.net/content/publish/mc/article_2.shtml
298.) Ben Radstein, "Kentucky Derby was Rigged."
http://www.uncoveror.com/derby.htm
299.) Gary Mihoces and Tom Pedulla, "Roswell native Smith feels force," USA Today, May 8, 2005.
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/horses/triple/derby/2005-05-08-notebook-roswell_x.htm
300.) Jim Lampley, "THE SECOND BIGGEST STORY OF OUR LIVES," Huffington Post, May 11, 2005.
http://wizbangblog.com 2005/05/11/the-second-biggest-story-of-our-lives.php
301.) Rick Bozich, "Giacomo's victory beyond strange," reprinted at USA Today site, May 7, 2005.
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/horses/triple/derby/2005-05-07-giacomo-strange_x.htm
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