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[Michael Bailey]

-- Dippy's international intrigue gig, putting together ahead of time a resistance in Sicily, would've been funded by foreign policy elements -

Adding State Dept to the Mob/FBI mix -
It seems like, for Them, as well as for Säure Bummer, "when you're this high and you need somebody to show up, they show up" (or words to that effect.

But (and I know you're not so much) I'm more interested in April qua April and as romantic interest for Hicks.



The mob played a key role in watching the ports and seacoast activity
for the FBI  during WW2. This increased Mob power at docking areas which
later was used to move highly enriched uranium to Israel for nuclear
weapons. Lansky and other mobsters were also key profiteers in Cuba,
whose many connections to the JFK murder have been noted by
investigators, starting with Dorothy Kilgallen who died under very
dubious circumstances, the 1st of many.  If the weirdly innocent April
represents a certain possibility for America, as suggested by this
repeated pattern in P satire, her 'protection/ownership claims' by this
particular conformation of shared interests reinforces that pattern.

On 4/19/26 3:02 AM, Michael Bailey via Pynchon-l wrote:
> Thus underscoring connections betwixt the Chicago/Milwaukee mob and the government agency presumably employing "the Dipster"