{"id":221,"date":"2008-03-27T10:39:06","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T17:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/03\/more-hells-angels-jagger-death-plot\/"},"modified":"2008-03-27T10:39:06","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T17:39:06","slug":"more-hells-angels-jagger-death-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/27\/more-hells-angels-jagger-death-plot\/","title":{"rendered":"More Hells Angels Jagger Death Plot"},"content":{"rendered":"

from New York Times blog The Board<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The Hells Angels Vs. The Rolling Stones<\/h2>\n

By\u00a0LAWRENCE DOWNES<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0A small, strange news item earlier this month caught my eye:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cA plot by the Hells Angels to kill Mick Jagger nearly 40 years ago failed when the would-be assassins, traveling by boat, encountered a storm and were thrown overboard, according to a new BBC radio series.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Talk about your memorable mental images: a tiny boat in churning seas, stuffed with large men in leather vests, their bare, hairy arms flailing at the waves with paddles \u2014 or are those pool cues? The big capsize, the long dogpaddle to shore, the dejected ride home, chastened hit men shivering on their Harleys, dripping from beard to boots.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe the story is true, but I doubt it. It\u2019s based on a 1985 F.B.I. interview with John Joseph Miller, a former Hell\u2019s Angel who became a government informer.<\/span><\/p>\n

By his account, the Angels were furious at being fired as bodyguards for the Stones after the group\u2019s disastrous 1969 concert at the Altamont Speedway in California, where Angels beat and fatally stabbed a fan. They plotted murderous revenge by sea, Mr. Miller said, because that was the easiest way onto Mr. Jagger\u2019s heavily guarded Long Island estate.<\/span><\/p>\n

The F.B.I. report is on\u00a0The Smoking Gun<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Miller\u2019s account is dubious, for a few reasons beyond the simple fact that bikers generally aren\u2019t sailors, and vice versa. It\u2019s a secondhand account \u2014 Mr. Miller said he never was a member of the Angels\u2019 New York City chapter, which supposedly hatched the plot. And Mark Young, the former agent who relates the tale to the BBC, said it happened on Long Island Sound. Mr. Jagger\u2019s home was in the Hamptons, on the Atlantic Ocean.<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019re grateful to Mr. Young and Mr. Miller, though, because they led us to the radio series on BBC4 that rehashes the plot. It\u2019s called \u201cThe F.B.I. at 100,\u201d and it\u2019s a lot of fun.<\/span><\/p>\n

The British reporter is named Tom Mangold, and it\u2019s hard to listen to him and not think of Opal, the BBC reporter played by Geraldine Chaplin in Robert Altman\u2019s great 1975 movie, \u201cNashville.\u201d You may recall her walking through a school-bus parking lot, talking into a tape recorder while trying to capture the essence of America, or something:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe buses! The buses are empty and look almost menacing, threatening, as so many yellow dragons watching me with their hollow, vacant eyes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The sonorous Mr. Mangold reaches almost as far in his portentous enthusiasm. This is him on the F.B.I.\u2019s campaign against organized crime:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Mafia was the rotten core of America, and its fat cats fed free off the body of the nation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

And on that motorcycle gang:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere was one group of organized criminals the bureau. had never tackled. They may have had a slightly wacky and romantic image, but in truth they were violent, dangerous, largely impenetrable, and at the extremes, drug dealers and killers on an industrial scale: THE HELL\u2019S ANGELS.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019d share more but I don\u2019t want to ruin it for you. A series about the F.B.I. from a country where a \u201choover\u201d is a vacuum cleaner \u2014 you don\u2019t see such a thing very often, and it\u2019s something to savor, or rather savour.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how to hear this odd bit of radio:<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Go to the BBC4\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0to find two saved recordings: \u201cThe F.B.I. at 100\u2033 and \u201cThe F.B.I. at 100 Omnibus.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

2. To the right of \u201cThe F.B.I. at 100 Omnibus\u201d (NOT \u201cThe F.B.I. at 100) click on \u201cListen to latest show.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Then click on \u201cListen using stand-alone Real Player\u201d (you\u2019ll find this option in the column on the left-hand side of the page) to download the program. You\u2019ll be able to hear the Jagger Death Plot beginning at about 14:45. But it\u2019s worth it to listen to the whole 57:57.<\/span><\/p>\n

[ click to read article at NYT’s<\/a>\u00a0The Board<\/a>\u00a0]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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