Shortly after the take-over, Davis and Gay made public a “Dear Chester and Bill” letter supposedly from Hughes reiterating his…
Maheu began by taking his grievances into court, letting out bits and pieces of information. Meier began by talking to…
Intertel agents raided Maheu’s command post at The Frontier Hotel, the staff fled out the back. Resorts International owned Britannia…
Maheu was not even told of Hughes’s disappearance until December fourth, when, in a dramatic scene resembling a South American…
Intertel (associated with Ludwig) stormed some eleven cashier’s cages before Maheu and the Clark County Sheriff’s Office evicted them. Local…
Maheu had evidence that Hughes had been kidnapped. He knew that Gay had long been on the outs with Hughes,…
Maheu and Meier both thought that an emaciated Hughes was carried out by Intertel agents, who sent a decoy caravan…
Thanksgiving eve Hughes suddenly vanished, having methodically worked to take over not only the city of Las Vegas but the…
Hughes’ memos and phone calls to Maheu and Meier, which had been tapering off since September, abruptly stopped in mid-November.…
In response to Maheu’s firing, Davis drafted a proxy turning over control of the Hughes-Nevada Operations to himself and Gay.…
Hughes never called him back about his latest big reports on Donald Nixon and his friend O’Callaghan the new Nevada…
Hughes had also sent Maheu a memo giving him “full authority” to take over the TWA case from Davis which…
Meier returned to Honolulu with Mr. and Mrs. O’Callaghan, who stayed until November 15. Meier sent his report to Hughes…
Howard Hughes was a very sick man, he was near death. His health had been failing since his mysterious operation…
A friend of Meier’s named Mike O’Callaghan, in an upset victory (not expected or funded by Hughes), won the governorship…
Meier told Donald Nixon that if President Nixon doesn’t help Hughes with the AEC, Hughes will leave the U.S., continue…
Meier and his wife had arrived in Honolulu and checked into the Kahala Hilton Hotel. They were joined there the…
During the Nevada period, Howard’s orders outside Nevada were frequently ignored. He could have his little half-billion-dollar playground in Nevada,…
Howard Hughes is finally able to buy AirWest thanks to intervention by the Nixon Administration – overruling the Civil Aeronautics…
Hughes ordered Meier to take the anti-nuclear crusade to foreign countries. Hughes told the CIA to vacate his hangars and…
As agreed upon during Donald Nixon’s fundraising trip to the DR in October 1969, Nixon upped the Dominican sugar quota…
Danner, Hughes’ bagman (via Maheu) goes to the Justice Department to meet with Attorney General John Mitchell. The moment he…
While Meier was at the Fontainebleau in Miami with his wife and their room was broken into. Meier’s files were…
The CIA wanted to use the Hughes Tool Company as a front to build a high-tech “The Hughes Glomar Explorer”…
Maheu and the clique of Mormon executives ran the Hughes-Nevada businesses – the Mormons handled Hughes business that was outside…
Donald Nixon, the President’s irrepressible brother, showed up in the Dominican Republic in October, 1969, to talk business with President…
Joaquin Balaguer, President of the Dominican Republic wanted a better deal on sugar and ore exported to the U.S. Hughes…
Another A-Bomb detonated in Nevada. Hughes let Nixon know he was leaving Nevada but wouldn’t go quietly. …
Danner, Hughes’ bagman (via Maheu) met Bebe Rebozo in Florida and deposited the second of the bribe, again $50,000 in…
At the height of the reports of the Chappaquiddick incident, two Las Vegas papers were about to report the Kennedy…
The Secret Service had already tapped Don’s telephone because of his connections with Hughes, and as early as July 1969,…
Danner, Hughes’ bagman (via Maheu) met Bebe Rebozo on the patio of the Western White House in San Clemente, California…
Nixon press aide, Herb Klein, gave a speech promoting the Anti-ballistic Missile program and more underground tests. Hughes was mad…
Dr. Luis Gonzalez Torrado (U.N. Ambassador of the Dominican Republic) and President Balaguer played for Meier and Don Nixon a…
CIA dirty tricks team, headed by Cuban-American Virgino Gonzales, took pictures of Ted Kennedy having sex with a woman at…
Hoover wrote a memo saying that the Las Vegas Nevada FBI office received information that after Hughes’ people met with…
Attorney General John Mitchell secretly met with Howard Hughes emissary Richard Danner – a former FBI agent, turned mafia-connected Miami…
At the Airport Hotel in Miami, Ken Wright (the head of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute) gave Bebe Rebozo a…
Hughes (Maheu) hires Richard Danner in February 1969, just a few weeks after Nixon’s inauguration. He was put in charge…
Howard Hughes purchases Las Vegas’ Landmark Hotel and Casino rather than check out. He agreed to pay off the nearly…
The Justice Department in a dramatic turnaround just three days before Nixon’s 1969 inauguration agreed not to oppose Hughes’s proposed…
HAC pioneered the synchronous-orbit satellite, built the first space satellites, and the surveyor spacecraft that made the first soft landing…
One of the last actions of the LBJ Justice Department informed Hughes’s attorneys that the Government intended to oppose in…
Meier returned to Vegas after greasing the wheels for Mike Merhage in Ecuador. Merhage came back to the home office…
On August fifth, Maheu told Meier that a man named Michael Merhage, a new young Toolco executive, would be handling…
