A fascinating figure, part Dashiell Hammett character, part Red-Baiting McCarthyite super snoop and GOP opposition researcher, Chotiner was a product of LA of the 1940s. Completely ruthless, he met his end one day in January 1974 sitting in a sedan parked beside the road next to the McLean, VA Kennedy Compound with a line of sight to the room where Ted Kennedy took his calls and received guests. Too bad he had chosen to park in the very spot that a large, speeding truck would also momentarily occupy. Fitting end for one of America's most shadowy political operatives.


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