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+---
+category: "City"
+aliases:
+  - "Las Vegas, Nevada"
+tags:
+  - City
+  - Nevada
+  - OrganizedCrime
+  - CIA
+  - Accelerationism
+summary: "Nevada gambling city where the CIA had the prosecution of Robert Maheu's wiretappers dropped, Pat Price died in 1975, and an FBI informant hosted Atomwaffen Division's 2019 leadership meeting."
+location: "Las Vegas, Nevada, United States"
+created: 2026-09-22
+updated: 2026-09-22
+---
+
+### The Syndicate
+
+The Fremont Hotel was financed through a loan from [[Jimmy Hoffa]] and tied to [[Meyer Lansky]], whose lieutenant, the Las Vegas gambler [[Edward Levinson]], joined a 1963 lawsuit against [[Bobby Baker]].[^1] [[Robert Maheu]], who had known [[Johnny Roselli]] through Las Vegas gambling circles, recruited him for the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]'s plots against [[Fidel Castro]] in September 1960. When Maheu's men were arrested for a wiretap in Las Vegas, done as a favor to [[Sam Giancana]], the agency's director of security, [[Sheffield Edwards]], asked that the prosecution be dropped; a CIA memorandum records, "At our request, prosecution was dropped." The case was the occasion for the briefing Edwards and the general counsel, [[Lawrence Houston]], gave Attorney General [[Robert F. Kennedy|Robert Kennedy]] on the operation on May 7, 1962.[^2][^3]
+
+### Remote Viewing
+
+[[Pat Price]], the retired Burbank police commissioner whom [[Hal Puthoff]] and [[Russell Targ]] of [[Stanford Research Institute]] considered their most productive subject, died of a heart attack in Las Vegas on July 14, 1975.[^4] The real estate developer [[Robert Bigelow]], born in Las Vegas in 1944, later held, through [[Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies]], a [[Defense Intelligence Agency]] contract to study anomalous phenomena.[^5]
+
+### Trials and Plots
+
+The former Special Forces officer [[Bo Gritz]], indicted in May 1987 for using a false passport in the name of Patrick Richard Clark, told the court at his arraignment in Las Vegas that he had "proper authorization" for his travels, and was acquitted; the contractor [[Patrick Moriarty]] was subpoenaed to testify for him.[^1]
+
+In about September 2019 [[Joshua Caleb Sutter]], a paid [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] informant, organized the [[2019 AWD Nuclear Congress]] of [[Atomwaffen Division]] in Las Vegas, with FBI-provided funds covering members' travel and lodging; [[James Mason]], author of *[[Siege]]*, made his first documented appearance with the group there.[^6] On August 8, 2019, the FBI's Las Vegas Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested [[Conor Climo]], who had been in contact with the [[Feuerkrieg Division]] since late 2017 and had planned to firebomb a Las Vegas synagogue and attack an LGBTQ bar; he was sentenced to two years in November 2020.[^7] On January 1, 2025, the active-duty soldier [[Matthew Livelsberger]] detonated a Tesla Cybertruck loaded with fireworks and fuel outside the Trump International Hotel on the Strip, in the [[Cybertruck Trump Hotel Bombing]].[^8]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal.* TrineDay, 2010.
+[^2]: Central Intelligence Agency, "Family Jewels," memorandum of Howard J. Osborn, Director of Security, to the Executive Secretary, CIA Management Committee, May 16, 1973, with attachments. Released June 25, 2007.
+[^3]: U.S. Senate, Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities. *Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders: An Interim Report.* S. Rept. 94-465, 1975, pp. 133-134.
+[^4]: As stated on the Pat Price page, which gives no source for the date and place of death.
+[^5]: Lacatski, James T., Colm A. Kelleher, and George Knapp. *Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: An Insider's Account of the Secret Government UFO Program.* RTMA, 2021.
+[^6]: "New Video May Signal Dangerous Change For Neo-Nazi Terror Cell Atomwaffen." *Vice,* September 2019. https://www.vice.com/en/article/new-video-may-signal-dangerous-change-for-neo-nazi-terror-cell-atomwaffen/ ; "FBI Bankrolled Publisher of Occult Neo-Nazi Books, Feds Claim." *Vice,* 2021. https://www.vice.com/en/article/fbi-bankrolled-publisher-of-occult-neo-nazi-books-feds-claim/
+[^7]: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Nevada. "Las Vegas Man Pleads Guilty To Possession Of Bomb-Making Components." February 2020. https://www.justice.gov/usao-nv/pr/las-vegas-man-pleads-guilty-possession-bomb-making-components ; "White supremacist sentenced to 2 years in bomb plot case." *Las Vegas Sun,* November 13, 2020. https://lasvegassun.com/news/2020/11/13/white-supremacist-sentenced-to-2-years-in-bomb-plo/
+[^8]: "Fireworks, gas tanks and camping fuel used in Tesla Cybertruck explosion outside Las Vegas Trump Hotel," archived at https://archive.is/nxAPd