Operation Underworld operation

“a key figure in the Bay of Pigs invasion. Carl Oglesby sees the origin of much of the CIA's sinister record and its alliance it forged almost immediately upon the birth. When Galen Organization and Operation Underworld, the Meyer Lansky Cri…”

“other countries and crimes against their own people. I would go so far as to say that we haven't had an honest or American military or government or political sphere since Operation Underworld when we partnered with the mafia in order to pu…”

“that he could visit him in prison. When Lansky proposed a deal guaranteeing his freedom at the end of the war, Luciano agreed to cooperate, thus began Operation Underworld. And we've talked about this before, but we'll briefly talk about it…”

“of basically the precursor to the DEA, were brought into the OSS and CIA and identified the apparatus. And here's a quote from his book. The intelligence mob collaboration established with Operation Underworld did not end in World War II. O…”

“So Lucky Luciano had been locked up two years earlier. So New York Governor Dewey, who was the one who prosecuted him, went and made a deal with Lucky Luciano and said, look, we'll let you out of jail if we can get the Sicilian mafia to hel…”

“They do. And hence gets birthed Operation Underworld. Operation Underworld is where they begin working with Lucky Luciano in order to not only secure the New York Harbor, but he also is involved in opening up what was at the time the non-ex…”

“He's the guy that was in Sicily in the immediate aftermath that was basically reactivating the mafia. Yeah, that's got a tie right into Operation Underworld. He had to have his fingerprints on that too, given the Sicily stuff. Yeah. But whe…”

“We're going to show you some things the Rockefellers did to tie an awful lot of things together. I just don't have that particular smoking gun on the hotel, but there's a lot there. And the other thing I was going to point out, and this is …”