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New Century Brings Fresh Leads in Ex-FBI Agent's Murder
Jan 02, 2000

The new year brings hope for many, but for the family of a victim of an unsolved murder there is a hole in the heart that time cannot heal.

The 1972 car-bombing of former FBI agent and Binion's Horseshoe landlord William Coulthard was one of those homicides. But there is no statute of limitations on murder.

Coulthard was killed instantly when he turned the ignition on his Cadillac, parked in a stall on the third floor of the Bank of Nevada building downtown. The blast was so powerful it damaged nearly half of the 20 automobiles parked on the floor and blew a hole in the steel-and-concrete reinforced parking structure. Coulthard's body was burned beyond recognition, and the black smoke that billowed from the parking garage could be seen for miles.

The July 25 explosion rocked Las Vegas metaphorically as well, for Coulthard wasn't some two-bit hoodlum or no-name ambulance chaser.

At 56, he was a successful attorney who had been the FBI's first resident agent in Southern Nevada. After leaving the bureau in 1945 to pursue a legal career, he became known as a well-connected lawyer and civic leader. He helped run the water district, served two terms in the state Assembly, was a member of the Legislative Counsel Bureau, had been a deputy city attorney and even was mentioned as a potential U.S. Senate candidate.

Instead of public office, Coulthard pursued private practice and became rich. He eventually would move his family from a home on South Sixth Street to posh Rancho Circle. Coulthard also married well, becoming the husband of Lena Silvagni, whose family owned the ground on which Binion's Horseshoe stood.

After her death, he inherited the Horseshoe real estate and at one time owned 37 percent of the property, according to published reports.

But Coulthard was better known as the former FBI man who had been the president of the Nevada Bar Association.

The murder investigation went nowhere fast. Las Vegas homicide detectives were all but deafened by the explosion. They developed a couple of suspects, but no charges were ever filed.

Complicating matters was that the Coulthard killing came only weeks after Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles died from wounds he suffered in a car-bombing in Phoenix. Bolles' gambling-related investigations were perhaps coincidentally linked to Las Vegas. It was also a time that saw nonunion restaurants in Southern Nevada bombed by Tom and Andy Hanley, who later were convicted of murdering Culinary union leader Al Bramlet.

Police eventually called in bomb experts, but the evidence gathered seemed inconclusive.

Community leaders and Chamber of Commerce members offered a reward for information leading to the conviction of Coulthard's killer, but the up to $75,000 in cash wasn't enough to break the silence. If anyone knew the names of the killers, they weren't talking.

What evidence existed led to a grand jury proceeding, which did not result in a murder indictment, but in the federal indictment of Bobby Pinkston and Buddy Turman, who were caught with an illegally obtained copy of the grand jury transcript. They eventually were convicted of theft, but the men never admitted they were working for someone else -- someone who was anxious to know how much information the cops had gathered.

By 1975, the reward money was returned.

The Coulthard murder investigation was cold.

There it sat for a quarter century. The homicide detectives who worked the case retired. A few years later, one Metro detective noticed that pieces of the case file were missing. A section of the file was discovered later stuffed behind a desk drawer.

No matter. The bombers had gotten away. The Coulthard case appeared destined to remain unsolved.

Until now.

On this January day, the 27-year-old murder case is suddenly warm again. Whether it will rock the city again remains uncertain, but here is what is known:

Sources confirm the Las Vegas office of the FBI is investigating fresh leads and new information in the William Coulthard bombing case.

Perhaps the agents are motivated in part by the knowledge that one of their own was murdered by persons so arrogant and brazen as to order the man bombed in the middle of a downtown parking garage. Someone who believed their power made them above the law.

That was a long, long time ago. We might have changed centuries, but there is still no statute of limitations on murder.

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There was a saying that the Horseshoe would take any bet...there was no maximun set...yeah they probably also would take any HIT if the money was right...
Benny must have been pretty mad at the governement when he got out of prison for doing a 4 year stint in Leavenworth Kansas for Federal Income tax evasion...
The family would do anything to keep that casino afloat...Benny said he didnt want anyone outside the family to own it...

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Lyndon Johnson said of his first hectic weeks as president after JFK's assassination: "Ain't near as bad as being vice president. Not being able to do anything will wear you down sooner than hard work."

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Two scenes in the White House, 1968: An evening in April. Lyndon Johnson has invited Nelson Rockefeller and his wife to the executive mansion. Three weeks earlier, Johnson had announced he would not run for re-election. Now, over dinner in the family quarters, the president -- dissatisfied with all the Democratic candidates hoping to succeed him -- urges Rockefeller to go after the Republican nomination. Johnson tells the New York governor that he would never campaign against him because "you've been a longtime friend."

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Footnote from Mooo:

The Rockefeller Commission did do extensive investigation on the assassination...me thinks its was a way to alleviate any suspicions off of themselves...especially when Nelson had the Money and the Power...




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A Straight Dope Classic from Cecil's storehouse of human knowledge


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Is the Trilateral Commission the secret organization that runs the world?
06-Nov-1987


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Dear Cecil:

This may sound off the wall, but how about the straight dope on the Trilateral Commission? All my life I've heard about this "secret" organization that supposedly actually runs the world. What's the real story? --Alton F., San Antonio, Texas

Cecil replies:

Alton, you wound me. You should know by now the only person remotely together enough to run the world is ... well, modesty forbids, but you just wouldn't believe what you can accomplish with a home computer these days. (Sorry about that blip in the stock market, by the way--I definitely gotta keep those floppies out of the taco sauce.)

But on to the Trilateral Commission, or TLC, as it's often coyly referred to. For starters, unless you're a lad of very tender years, it's a safe bet you haven't been hearing about the commission all your life, inasmuch as it was founded in 1973. Second, as you probably already recognize, an organization that everybody already knows about hardly qualifies as "secret." They're in the New York phone book, and if you ask they'll send you a bunch of literature about the organization. Third, while it's your constitutional right to be paranoid, you might at least try to be paranoid about something reasonably up-to-date. The TLC-as-world-conspiracy theory peaked during the early 80s, and has now pretty much gone the way of the hula hoop.

The Trilateral Commission is based on the quintessentially American notion that if we could just get together and talk about stuff, we could solve all the world's problems. Accordingly David Rockefeller, chairman of the Chase Manhattan bank, got together several hundred opinion leaders from North America, Western Europe, and Japan (hence the "tri-" in trilateral). They meet annually to hear speeches, participate in seminars, and exchange idle gossip. In between times the commission puts together task force reports on pertinent issues and publishes a magazine.

The TLC's first executive director was Zbigniew Brzezinski, and such well-known figures as Walter Mondale, Caspar Weinberger, and Paul Volcker have been members. Also on the rolls at one time, mainly because the commission needed some representation from the South, was the then-governor of Georgia, Jimmy Carter. The prospect of spending hours cooped up with the likes of Walter Mondale would probably send most of us screaming for the exits. But Carter was an impressionable sort who found both the commission's meetings and its members deeply fascinating. He got chummy with many of the latter and appointed more than a dozen to posts in his administration, including Cyrus Vance, Michael Blumenthal, and of course the redoubtable Brzezinski.

All of this was noted with great interest by the conspiracy buffs, but what really got their juices flowing was the revelation during the 1980 presidential campaign that not only was Carter a member of the commission, so were two of his potential opponents, John Anderson and George Bush. Holy Illuminati, they screamed, the power elite is conspiring to enslave us! They heaped poo on Jimmy and friends and flocked to nonmember Ron Reagan. But then Ron went and signed up Bush and Weinberger, which set off the howling anew.

Among true believers, opinions about what the Trilateral Commission is up to fall roughly into two categories: the merely dubious and the totally insane. The John Birch Society and its confreres see the commission as the latest manifestation of the international conspiracy that is trying to create a one-world totalitarian state, or at least a New World Economic Order. (Before the TLC it was the Council on Foreign Relations and an annual meeting of Western business leaders called the Bilderberg Conference.) The less extreme view is that while the Trilateralists may be well intentioned, the clubby atmosphere tends to create a climate of opinion (either socialist or fascist, depending on whether you're on the far right or far left) that is inimical to America's real interests.

The controversy died out after a short time. Reagan even had a reception for commission members in the White House in 1984. But obviously in a few dark corners the anti-Trilateral flame still burns bright.

REPORT FROM (AS USUAL) BALTIMORE

Dear Cecil:

Twice in recent weeks you have mentioned the Illuminati in your column. In your answer to the question about the Trilateral Commission, you stated that "an organization that everybody already knows about hardly qualifies as secret."

If you know anything at all about the workings of the Illuminati, you must surely know that they virtually always hide their "secrets" in plain sight.

They do this as a sign of their power, and also as a great cosmic joke at the expense of the public (or "robots," as they condescendingly refer to them) because they know that the vast majority of people are too dim to pick up on it.

All the clues are right under our noses and always have been. We just have to open our eyes. An example is the "3172" that can be seen in the bushes at the left side of the Lincoln Memorial on the reverse side of the five-dollar bill. It's a numerical anagram of the 17/23 correlation.

This is an ideal way for the Illuminati to protect themselves.

Anyone who is perceptive enough to figure out what is going on is immediately branded a crackpot and censured by the public or worse, a paranoid schizophrenic, and is thereby censured by the state, i.e., hospitalized, where Illuminati-trained operatives have special techniques designed to actually drive the person insane.

It puzzles me that a man of your intelligence and knowledge could scoff at the Illuminati and compare the TLC conspiracy to a fad like the hula hoop. Have they gotten to you too?

Just in case, and to avoid any further attention from the Secret Chiefs of the Order, I'll sign this ... --Adam Kadmon, Baltimore

Dear Adam:

The 17/23 correlation?

--CECIL ADAMS

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Illuminati - 666
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