Interview At The Luxor
Listen to a veteran Las Vegas "craps" dealer describe how he was taught in the 1960s to hustle gamblers for
"tokes" -- tokens of appreciation -- even though asking for cash or side bets was not permitted.
Interview With Thomas Silverstein
Thomas Silverstein entered the federal prison system in 1975 after he was convicted of three bank robberies that
he pulled with his father and his uncle. He was 19 years old. Three years later, he was convicted of murdering an
inmate who had run afoul of the Aryan Brotherhood, the most feared white gang in prison. Silverstein was identified
as a member of the AB, convicted, and sent to the federal prison in Marion, Illinois, the harshest in the country at
the time. A judge later overturned this conviction after ruling that the witnesses against Silverstein, which included
a prison guard, were not believable. His ruling came too late, however. By then, Silverstein had been convicted of a
second prison murder -- this time the strangulation of a black prison gang member. Another murder soon followed. It involved
Raymond "Cadillac" Smith, the national leader of a black prison gang who had sworn to avenge his fellow gang member's
death. Prison records show that Smith made several attempts to murder Silverstein, yet prison officials kept
the two men in cells close to each other. Silverstein and another inmate, Clay Fountain, broke out of an exercise area
and caught Smith as he was leaving a shower area. They stabbed him 67 times and then dragged his body up-and-down the
prison tier so that other prisoners, still locked in their cells, could see the bloody corpse. Officer Merle Eugene
Clutts was assigned to help bring order to the cellblock where Silverstein and Fountain were housed. Silverstein
claims Clutts immediately began harassing him, but an investigation by the federal Bureau of Prisons and FBI would
later clear Clutts of any wrongdoing. Silverstein would claim those two probes were whitewashes. Regardless,
Silverstein became obsessed with Clutts and spent months plotting his murder. On October 22, 1983, with the help of
other inmates, Silverstein slipped off his handcuffs while he was being led to a shower. Brandishing a home make
"shank" -- knife -- Silverstein broke free from the two guards escorting him and attacked Clutts, who was not
carrying any weapons. An autopsy later showed Clutts had been stabbed forty times.
Interview With Aldrich Ames - Part 1
These recordings were done without the CIA or FBI's knowledge with Ames immediately after his
arrest while he was in jail. In this tape, he describes two secret CIA operations that had never been exposed
until after my book was published. CK - Absorb was a $60 million covert project where the CIA filled a cargo
container on a train going west on the TransSiberia railroad with highly sensitive electronic sensors that were
supposed to take readings of Soviet warheads that were being shipped by rail eastward on the same train line.
The project never produced any useful information because Ames tipped off the Soviets before it was fully developed.
He also describes CK - TAW an operation where the CIA was able to wire tap the KGB in Moscow. The "CK"
designation was used as a prefix by the agency to denote a secret operation.
Interview With Aldrich Ames - Part 2
In this clip, Ames describes the CIA "assets" he betrayed, including several who the KGB
immediately arrested and executed. He identified them by the cryptonyms -- code names -- that the CIA had
assigned them. You will hear him discussing GT Accord -- later identified as Vladimir Vasilyev -- who was in
the GRU (Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravlenie -- Soviet Military Intelligence), which sounds like "ga-new" on
the tape when Ames says it. One of his most sensational revelations is the story of GT Fitness --- Gennady Varenik
-- an officer in Germany who warned the CIA about a KGB plot to plant bombs near US military bases.
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