wanted a halt to underground nuclear testing, presumably because it upset the roulette wheels in his Las Vegas casinos. | mentioned the Bobby Kennedy information to Maheu, and he said, “Uh-oh, the boss will have to keep a sharper eye on Aim." It was poetic irony that while Bobby Kennedy was giving official permission to J. Edgar Hoover to spy on Martin Luther King, | was giving unofficial permission to Hoover to spy on Kennedy. That is to say, Robert Maheu may have been working for Howard Hughes, but he had also continued working for the FBI. So when he referred to “the boss,” | asked, “Which one?" Maheu smiled and held up his arms, two fingers from each hand extending up into the air. “Both,” he said. This was the exact moment | decided to use that gesture for the crowds. Winston Churchill had used the V-sign to signify Victory. Then the antiwar protesters perverted its meaning to signify Defeat. Now | was restoring its original victorious symbolism by co-opting the co-opters. Or so | believed. kok OF HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015104