http://gangstersinc.ning.com/photo/1975-murder-of-sam-giancana1975: Murder of Sam Giancana
Giancana had been extradited from Mexico to the US. He had been running gambling operations there on his own, without sending money back home to the Chicago bosses. Before that he had been ordered to leave the US by Outfit boss Antonino Accardo. Chicago had enough of Giancana. On
July 19, 1975 Giancana let a friend into his house, and made him and his guest some dinner. His friend shot him in the head and fled the scene.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_GiancanaSalvatore Giancana (born Salvatore Giangana; June 15, 1908 – June 19, 1975),[1] better known as Sam Giancana, was an American mobster and boss of the Chicago Outfit from 1957–1966. Among his other nicknames were, "Momo", "Mooney," "Sam the Cigar," and "Sammy."
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Alleged CIA connectionsIt is widely reputed, and partially corroborated by the
Church Committee Hearings, that
during the Kennedy administration, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) recruited Giancana and other mobsters to assassinate Cuban president Fidel Castro. Giancana reportedly said that the CIA and the Cosa Nostra were "different sides of the same coin."[8]
The association between Giancana and JFK is indicated in the "Exner File" written by Judith Campbell Exner.
Exner was reputed to be mistress to both Giancana and JFK and claimed she delivered communications between the two regarding Fidel Castro.[9]
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CIA documents released in 2007 confirmed that in the summer of 1960, the CIA recruited ex-FBI agent
Robert Maheu to approach the West Coast representative of the Chicago mob, Johnny Roselli. When Maheu contacted Roselli, Maheu hid the fact that he was sent by the CIA, instead portraying himself an advocate for international corporations. He offered to pay $150,000 to have Castro killed, but Roselli declined any pay. Roselli introduced Maheu to two men he referred to as "Sam Gold" and "Joe." "Sam Gold" was Sam Giancana; "Joe" was Santo Trafficante, Jr., the Tampa, Florida boss and one of the most powerful mobsters in pre-revolution Cuba.[12][13] Glenn Kessler of The Washington Post explained: "After Fidel Castro led a revolution that toppled a friendly government in 1959, the CIA was desperate to eliminate him. So the agency sought out a partner equally worried about Castro—the Mafia, which had lucrative investments in Cuban casinos."[14]
Jimmy Hoffa, president of the Teamsters Union, and mobsters Carlos Marcello, Sam Giancana, Johnny Roselli, Charles Nicoletti, and Santo Trafficante Jr.—all of whom say Hoffa worked with the CIA on the Castro assassination plots—top the list of House Select Committee on Assassinations Mafia suspects
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After about seven years of exile inside a lavish villa in Cuernavaca, Mexico,
Giancana was arrested by Mexican authorities in 1974 and deported to the United States.[24][25] He arrived back in Chicago on July 21, 1974.[26]
Giancana had another sitdown with the Outfit with no resolution. The Outfit requested him to give a share of his money and he refused.[23]
After his return to the U.S., Giancana joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a witness in the prosecution of organized crime in Chicago. The police detailed officers to guard his house in Oak Park, Illinois. However, on the night of June 19, 1975, someone recalled the police detail.[27]
A gunman later entered Giancana's kitchen and shot him in the back of the head as he was frying sausage and peppers.[28] After Giancana fell to the ground, the gunman turned him over and shot him six more times in the face and neck. Investigators suspected that the murderer was a close friend whom Giancana had let into the house. One reason for this suspicion was that Giancana, due to his heart problems, could not eat spicy foods. Therefore, he might have been cooking for a friend.
Giancana was killed shortly before he was scheduled to appear before a U. S. Senate committee investigating supposed CIA and Cosa Nostra collusion in plots to assassinate President John F. Kennedy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_MaheuRobert Aime Maheu (October 30, 1917 – August 4, 2008) was an American businessman and lawyer,
who worked for the FBI, CIA and as the chief executive of Nevada operations[1] for the industrialist Howard Hughes.
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Maheu was born in Waterville, Maine, and held degrees from Holy Cross and Georgetown University. In 1941, during his law studies at Georgetown, he was hired by the FBI and worked as a counter-intelligence officer in Europe during World War II.[2] He left the FBI in 1947, becoming a self-employed business owner, consultant and investigator. His contract with the Hughes company started in 1955, after Howard Hughes hired him to investigate an alleged suitor of his fiance Jean Peters.[3]
Maheu was a confidant to President John F. Kennedy and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy.[4] Although Maheu was for years a close confident of Howard Hughes, he never met Hughes face-to-face, as they worked via memo and telephone.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKmaheu.htm
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Maheu served as Hughes's bagman and among those who received money was Bebe Rebozo, a close associate of Richard Nixon. Hughes via Maheu also provided $205,000 to the politician's brother, Donald Nixon in January 1957.
In 1960 Richard Bissell and Allen W. Dulles decided to work with the Mafia in a plot to assassinate Fidel Castro. Maheu was employed by the CIA to organize the conspiracy. The advantage of employing the Mafia for this work is that it provided CIA with a credible cover story. The Mafia were known to be angry with Castro for closing down their profitable brothels and casinos in Cuba. If the assassins were killed or captured the media would accept that the Mafia were working on their own.
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http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2008-08-06/news/36825024_1_robert-maheu-hughes-s-tycoon-s-aide...
Robert Aime Maheu was born Oct. 30, 1917, into a French-speaking family in Waterville, Maine. After he graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., he analyzed aerial photographs for the Department of Agriculture before joining the FBI.
During World War II, the FBI assigned him to monitor a French spy who became a double agent and helped deceive the Nazi high command with false radio transmissions.
By the mid-1950s, Mr. Maheu said he did undercover work for the CIA -- "those jobs in which the agency could not officially be involved," he wrote in his autobiography.Recently declassified CIA files confirm that Mr. Maheu was present at a 1960 meeting in Miami Beach, Fla., between organized crime bosses Sam Giancana and Santo Trafficante Jr., as part of an abortive CIA effort to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro. The plan was dropped after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961.
"If anything went wrong," Mr. Maheu wrote in his memoir, "I was the fall guy, caught between protecting the government and protecting the mob, two armed camps that could crush me like a bug."
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Mr. Maheu disclosed that in 1970 he delivered $100,000 to Charles G. "Bebe" Rebozo, a close friend of President Richard M. Nixon's, in return for possible future favors for Hughes. Mr. Maheu entertained Nixon's vice president, Spiro Agnew, on his yacht and regularly played tennis with then-Nevada Gov. Paul Laxalt (R), who became a U.S. senator.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Campbell_Exner
Billy Campbell and Judith Exner
Judith Exner (January 11, 1934 – September 24, 1999) was an American woman who claimed to be the mistress of U.S. president John F. Kennedy and Mafia leaders Sam Giancana and John Roselli. She was also known as Judith Campbell Exner
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Church Committee[edit]
Exner received national media attention when she testified before the Church Committee in 1975.[4] The Senate Church Committee on Government Operations and Intelligence was investigating CIA assassination attempts.[5] Roselli testified to the committee about Mafia involvement in the CIA attempt on Fidel Castro's life.[1]
When the Church Committee report was released in December 1975, it said that a "close friend" of President Kennedy had also been a close friend of mobsters John Roselli and Sam Giancana."[1] Campbell's identity as the close friend was leaked to the Washington Post, which publicized it.[1] William Safire in The New York Times also published it.[6] The Committee had sent Exner a subpoena to make her testify. By then married to Dan Exner, Judith Exner called a press conference that month and denied any knowledge of Mafia involvement with Kennedy.
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In a 1988 interview with Kitty Kelley of People magazine,
Exner told a very different story about Giancana and Kennedy.[1] She said that she had lied to the Church Committee and in her memoir out of fear of Mafia retaliation...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_RoselliJohn "Handsome Johnny" Roselli (born Filippo Sacco; July 4, 1905 – August 9, 1976), sometimes spelled John Rosselli, was an influential mobster for the Chicago Outfit who helped them control Hollywood and the Las Vegas Strip.
Roselli was also involved with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) plot to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro in the early 1960s. Many conspiracy researchers believe he was also involved with John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
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On August 9, 1976, Roselli's decomposing body was found in a 55-gallon steel fuel drum floating in Dumfoundling Bay near Miami, Florida. Roselli had been strangled and shot, and his legs were sawn off. Some believed that boss Trafficante ordered Roselli's death. According to this theory, Trafficante believed that
Roselli had revealed too much about the Kennedy assassination and Castro murder plots during his Senate testimony, violating the strict Mafia code of omertà
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In this video frame grab provided by WTVJ-TV in Miami, a covered
55-gallon drum that Dade County authorities said contained the body of underworld figure Johnny Roselli is removed from the area on Dumbfoundling Bay near Miami, Fla, Aug. 8, 1976, on the back of a wrecker. The barrel was found by fishermen. Police say Roselli had been shot at least once. (AP Photo/Courtesy of WTVJ-TV)
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Bill Bonanno, the son of Cosa Nostra mafia boss Joseph Bonanno, claimed in his 1999 memoir, Bound by Honor: A Mafioso's Story, that he had discussed the assassination of President John F. Kennedy with Roselli and implicated him as the primary hitman in a conspiracy instigated by the mob.
According to Bonanno, Roselli fired at Kennedy from a storm drain on Elm Street.
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http://history-matters.com/archive/contents/contents_church.htmThe Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, known as the "Church Committee" after its chairman Frank Church, conducted a wide-ranging investigation of the intelligence agencies in the post-Watergate period.
The Church Committee took public and private testimony from hundreds of people, collected huge volumes of files from the FBI, CIA, NSA, IRS, and many other federal agencies, and issued 14 reports in 1975 and 1976.
Since the passage of the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act in 1992, over 50,000 pages of Church Committee records have been declassified and made available to the public. These files contain testimony and information on U.S. attempts to assassinate foreign leaders, on the Church Committee's investigation of the intelligence agencies' response to the JFK assassination, and related topics.
Also available is the report of the Rockefeller Commission, which preceded the Church Committee and issued a brief report on CIA activities within the U.S.
The AARC sells a CD-ROM, produced by History Matters, which contains the 14 Church Committee Reports and over 1000 pages from released files, along with sophisticated search tools. See the Catalog.
http://www.aarclibrary.org/Catalog/AboutChurchReports.htm
The Church Committee Reports Summary
This CD-ROM collects together electronic copies of all 14 hard-to-find published reports of the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activites. In the mid 1970s, the so-called Church Committee documented a variety of abuses by the intelligence agencies.
Also included is over 1000 pages of Church Church Committee documents released under the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act. Some of these records were declassified as recently as the summer of 2000. Additional Reports and Documents:
•Rockefeller Report. Report by the President's Commission on CIA Activities Within the United States (Rockefeller Report)
•Finding Aids. Table of contents of all 56 boxes of Church Committee records declassified under the 1992 JFK Assassination Records Collection Act. Nine of these boxes were released as recently as the summer of 2000.
•Church Committee depositions: ◦Thomas Parrott, head of the White House "Special Group" from 1957 to 1963
◦David Phillips, CIA propaganda specialist and founder of the Association of Retired Intelligence Officers
◦James Angleton, chief of CIA's Counterintelligence Division from 1954 to 1974
◦Jane Roman, subordinate of Angleton and handler of cables related to Lee Oswald's purported trip to Mexico City in the fall of 1963
◦CIA case officer for AMLASH, the code-name for a Cuban official recruited by CIA to kill Fidel Castro
•Other Church Committee files: ◦References to FBI Review of Tapes of Oswald's Oct. 1, 1963 Mexico City Conversation
◦Committee Report: The Intelligence Agencies and the Assassination of President Kennedy
◦Preliminary Report of Investigation into the Assassination of President Kennedy
◦Oswald in New Orleans
◦J. Lee Rankin Letters to CIA (Correspondence File)
◦J. Lee Rankin Letters to State Department
◦and more....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_y_bquD08sMae Brussell -Frank Sinatra Connection to JFK- (5-30-88) Recorded May 30, 1988.
SCHICKLGRUBER, ADOLF H., Marina Oswald, Commission Exhibit #106, The Mind of Adolf Hitler, Walter Langer, Hitler's grandfather was Schicklgruber, grandmother worked for Baron Rothschild, funded Hitler. NAZIS GO UNDERGROUND, 1943. Richard Condon, wrote Winter Kills, "Manchurian Candidate", J.F. Kennedy assassination, R.F. Kennedy, Jack Ruby, Adlai Stevenson, Hubert Humphrey, Lawrence Harvey, Marilyn Monroe, Sinatra, Peter Lawford, Judith Exner, Sam Giancana, John Rosselli, Robert Maheu, Nelson Rockefeller, murders. Sinatra connection, Marilyn Monroe, R.F. Kennedy, blackmail sex tapes, Exner and blackmail of J.F. Kennedy, Lucky Luciano and Sinatra in Naples and Cuba, Hotel Nacional, Carlos Marcello, Ruby, Santos Trafficante. Sen. Estes Kefauver, R.F. Kennedy, mob investigation. Mind Control by Navy and CIA, MKULTRA. "Suddenly" with Sinatra on paid assassins. Sinatra and Bugsy Siegel, Murder, Inc., Harry Cohn and "From Here to Eternity", Richard Nixon, Republicans, Giancana, Maheu, Guy Bannister, Frank Sturgis/Fiorini, warning to J.F. Kennedy, Arthur Krim and United Artists. Fred Otash, Peter Lawford, Marilyn Monroe, Ralph H. Greenson psychiatrist for Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe. Goddess, Anthony Summers says Greenson part of cover-up. Sinatra dating Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Uris Theatre, Jilly Rizzo, 21 Club, Rainbow Grill. Sinatra, Earl Wilson.
http://www.maebrussell.com/
Suddenly - Sinatra - 1954
The Manchurian Candidate - Sinatra - 1962
http://www.crimemagazine.com/havana-conference-%E2%80%93-1946
The year 1946 was a busy one for Mafia chieftain Charles "Lucky" Luciano. He was released from prison after serving 10 years, deported and paroled to his native Sicily, and, within eight months, had made it all the way to Havana, Cuba as part of his plan to get back to the United States.
This stopover, on the way to his intended final destination – New York City – would be the site of an important mob summit – the "Havana Conference" – and would bring the wrath of the U.S. government down on the tiny island. The Feds made it clear that having Luciano just 90 miles from the U.S. mainland was too close and demanded that Cuban officials send him back to Italy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana_Conference...
In December 1946, the Havana Conference started as planned. To welcome Luciano back from exile and acknowledge his continued authority within the mob, all the conference invitees brought Luciano cash envelopes. These "Christmas Presents" totalled more than $200,000. At the first night dinner hosted by Lansky, Frank Costello, and Joe Adonis, Luciano was presented with the money.
The official cover story for the Havana Conference was that the mobsters were attending a gala party with
Frank Sinatra as the entertainment. Sinatra flew to Havana with Al Capone cousins, Charlie, Rocco and Joseph Fischetti from Chicago. Joseph "Joe Fish" Fischetti, an old Sinatra acquaintance, acted as Sinatra's chaperone and bodyguard.
Charlie and Rocco Fischetti delivered a suitcase containing $2 million to Luciano, his share of the U.S. rackets he still controlled.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1325739/Frank-Sinatra-dangerous-flirtation-Mafia.htmlIn his book and film of The Godfather, the flagging career of a singer named Johnny Fontane is rescued when he gets an important film part — thanks to a blood-dripping racehorse’s head left by the Mafia as a warning in the studio boss’s bed.
To many people, Fontane just had to be a dead ringer for Frank Sinatra.
The photo that apparently links
Frank Sinatra to the Mafia: Pictured with the singer are Tommy 'Fatso' Marson, Don Carlo Gambino 'The Godfather', and Jimmy 'The Weasel' Fratianno
Pleasure palace:
The National Hotel in Havana, Cuba, which had links to the Mafia - and where Sinatra stayed as a guesthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zGe-y2mfms2008 John H. Meier: Howard Hughes involvement with RFK Assassination, Onassis Schacht King of Tonga
http://realhistoryarchives.blogspot.com/2008/06/john-meier-says-howard-hughes.htmlThe Gemstone File June 1, 2008 Nuku'alofa, Tonga -
John H. Meier, former advisor to the recluse billionaire industrialist Howard Hughes, claims that the Hughes organization (Onassis Schacht Skorzeny Hauge) was involved in the assassination of Robert Kennedy in 1968 (and JFK's assassination in 1963).http://www.amazon.com/The-Enemy-Within-Mcclellan-Committees/dp/0306805901
The Enemy Within: The Mcclellan Committee's Crusade Against Jimmy Hoffa And Corrupt Labor Unions Paperback
by Robert F. Kennedy (Author)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy...
In 1960, he published the book The Enemy Within, describing the corrupt practices within the Teamsters and other unions that he had helped investigate; the book sold very well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_MonroeMarilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 –
August 5, 1962)
http://stevenhager420.wordpress.com/2012/08/04/the-truth-about-the-jfk-assassination/The assassination was directed within the CIA through James Jesus
Angleton’s “Executive Action” program, which was headed by William Harvey, and through the Sicilian “Men of Honor” society via head of the Chicago outfit, Sam “Mooney” Giancana. This might have been a result of the oligarchies running North America and Europe reaching a consensus Kennedy needed to be eliminated or it could have been a much smaller conspiracy deep inside the NSA, Pentagon and/or Sullivan and Cromwell.
After JFK and RKF discovered William Harvey was still working with Johnny Roselli on plans to assassinate Castro (after the CIA was told to back off), they wanted Harvey sacked from the CIA, so Angleton transferred him to Italy. Soon thereafter, the Executive Action program was put back into action, only this time, the target was JFK, not Castro.
The connection between Roselli and Harvey had been initiated through Howard Hughes’ second-in-command Robert Maheu in discussions with Chicago Godfather Giancana.
Maheu had started his career as Chicago FBI second-in-command under Guy Bannister, who also figures in the assassination. The connections between the Sicilian and Jewish organized crime families and the CIA run much deeper than people realize (Giancana called them “two heads of the same coin”), although the proposed assassination of Castro was first time this alliance had surfaced since it first appeared when
Lucky Luciano cut a deal with Naval Intelligence during WWII. Oswald was an expendable patsy who worked undercover for both Angleton and Hoover.
Like Giancana, Roselli made his bones under Al Capone as a triggerman. He evolved into Giancana’s eyes and ears, first in L.A., then in Vegas. Once when Roselli was up on a murder charge, the witness and the investigating DA both turned up unexpectedly dead. Charles Nicoletti, one of Giancana’s favorite hitman in Chicago, was also recruited for the JFK job.
Roselli confessed his role several times, to his mistress and to Bill Bonanno while in jail. Roselli turned up dead before he could testify to Congress a second time (he’d already broken omerta by revealing the CIA-mob plot to kill Castro).
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_King_Harvey
William King "Bill" Harvey (September 13, 1915 – June 9, 1976) was a Central Intelligence Agency officer, b
est known for his role in Operation Mongoose. He was known as "America's James Bond."...
Harvey was also posted to West Berlin as Chief of Base in the 1950s, where he led the operation that built an underground tunnel to the Soviet sector, to spy on their communication channels. This operation was called PBJOINTLY.
In 1975, he testified before the Church Committee on some of the CIA's past operations.Harvey died in Indianapolis, Indiana on June 9, 1976 from a heart attack
