Roy Cohn Establishes Blackmail and Intimidation Network
In early 1953, Roy Cohn begins developing a systematic blackmail infrastructure during the McCarthy Senate hearings, leveraging anti-communist hysteria and homophobic tactics to gather compromising information on political and cultural figures. As 24-year-old chief counsel to Senator Joseph …
Roy Cohn
Joseph McCarthy
J. Edgar Hoover
FBI
Genovese Crime Family
blackmail
political-manipulation
mccarthy-era
intelligence-operations
organized-crime
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