Sam Giancana person
also: Sam Giacano, Sam Giacono, Sam Gacchiana, Giancano, Sam Gacchione, Sam Giancano, Sam Gold, Salvador Giacconi, Sam Giaccona, Roselli, Sam Giacconi, Sam Giacana, Sam Giacomo, Giacone, Giacana, Giaccona, Giacomo, Sam Giacona
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Claims (18)
Sam Giancana member_of
Chicago Outfit documented
“One of the major players in the CIA Mafia Alliance, the former Chicago Mafia, Sam Giacana, was murdered a year earlier in his home shortly before he was to testify. Did no one think that Roselli might be in similar danger? The New York Time…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 5 @ 1:01:15
Sam Giancana funded
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“Lucky Luciano, which bridged the Italian mafia gap. There was a question, well, did the CIA was involved with killing JFK? And the other question was also brought up in New Orleans with Carlos Marcellos, Jack Ruby, and MKUltra dealing with …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Turkistan @ 1:12:15
Jack Ruby member_of
Sam Giancana host_asserted
“to win his presidency. And Bobby, they felt that they both turned their backs on the Italians for giving him the unions. And so that was another angle that wasn't discussed besides the Cuba and the CIA angle. Right. Well, Giancano, Ruby wor…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Turkistan @ 1:12:43
Sam Giancana ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“And he ended up in Miami. And there was the recorded telephone call or the recorded meeting in the Miami hotels with the CIA and Ruby. But Giancano was actually the one that was put in charge of supposedly put in charge of finding the assas…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Turkistan @ 1:13:14
Sam Giancana headed
Chicago Mob host_asserted
“would never have let him live long enough to become a general in Castro's army. Just as if they genuinely believed Johnny Roselli was acting on behalf of the Chicago mob boss, Sam Giacconi, the CIA would not have let Roselli live 13 more ye…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #8 @ 43:35
Johnny Roselli traded_network_to
Sam Giancana book_quoted
“He also says Roselli introduced Mayhew to Sam Giacomo and Santo Trapacani Jr. And of course, we know what they were involved in. They were involved in all of the opium coming in from Taiwan.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 1:19:43
Sam Giancana trafficked
Formosa host_asserted
“He also says Roselli introduced Mayhew to Sam Giacomo and Santo Trapacani Jr. And of course, we know what they were involved in. They were involved in all of the opium coming in from Taiwan.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 1:19:43
Sam Giancana ordered_assassination_of
John F. Kennedy guest_asserted
“Now, at long last, we may be coming closer to the truth. Filmmaker Nicholas Silazzi, the great nephew of Sam Giacano, says his great uncle Pepe and other members of the family have finally confided to him exactly how the mafia killed JFK, a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 33:05
Sam Giancana recruited
Pepe Giancana book_quoted
“But for two days in November 1963, he asked for help from his little-known brother, Pepe. He was only a humble, illegal bookie in the Giacono Empire, but Sam needed someone to chauffeur him around while the mobsters, who usually did so, wer…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 32:08
Pepe Giancana spied_on
Sam Giancana book_quoted
“Mammer to produce a new and what they believe to be the definitive version of the final 48 hours of Kennedy's life. The story I get from Pepe was the underbelly of what happened on those two days. From a man who was a fly on the wall listen…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 33:35
Sam Giancana member_of
Warwick Hotel documented
“Other prominent mafia figures stayed at the Warwick as well, such as Sam Giacconi from Chicago. Another author, Thomas Ross, who worked at the time at the Chicago Sun-Times, said Mecham's father and Joffrey's close friend and partner, John …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 20 @ 51:32
Johnny Roselli recruited
Sam Giancana host_asserted
“Roselli agreed to help for a fee of $150,000 and contacted Chicago Mafia boss, Sam Giacana, who made arrangements to have a poison pill to be able to kill Castro. That Richard Bissell was involved in a lot of the different outrageous things…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 38:35
Sam Giancana attempted_assassination_of
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“Roselli agreed to help for a fee of $150,000 and contacted Chicago Mafia boss, Sam Giacana, who made arrangements to have a poison pill to be able to kill Castro. That Richard Bissell was involved in a lot of the different outrageous things…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 38:35
Sam Giancana secretly_owned
Serv-U Corporation host_asserted
“The machines were manufactured and secretly owned by Sam Giacano.…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 1:12:32
Sam Giancana funded
John F. Kennedy book_quoted
“were having affairs with him over the same period of time that they supposedly were seeing JFK. Rumor had it that Giacono helped get JFK elected by exploiting the mob's power over the union vote. So he and his cronies were furious when Kenn…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 40:17
Santo Trafficante Jr. assassinated
Sam Giancana book_quoted
“Johnny Roselli. Traficani fled to the Caribbean, our sources said. But before Giaccona and Roselli could say anything that might link Traficani to Dallas, they were killed. Police concluded from the evidence that the men were hit by Trafica…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 29:25
Joseph Kennedy Sr. traded_network_to
Sam Giancana caller_asserted
“since the early 1940s. That's great. Thanks, Colonel. Sure. Jeff, go ahead. Good morning, Colonel Towner. How are you doing this morning? Good. I wanted to elaborate on what you were speaking on from yesterday's podcast that John F. Kennedy…”
▶ Operation Gladio -France Part 2 @ 1:44:10
Sam Giancana ordered_assassination_of
John F. Kennedy book_quoted
“In September 1963, he publicly warned that if the CIA continued its attempts to kill Cuban leaders, then American leaders would no longer be safe. Participants in the plot against Castro claimed that Castro then enlisted Traficani to turn t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 25:55
Mentions (40)
▶ 1:07:48
which, by the way, is a CIA front, to establish casinos in the Dominican Republic. Baker arranged for Ed Levinson, who was an associate of Meyer Lansky and Sam Giacano of the mafia, to become involved in this deal. So this is the CIA gettin…
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And he did run for both. And he was reelected as a senator at the same time he and JFK was elected to the president and vice presidents. So it goes on to say, in 1960, when Johnson was reelected, or excuse me, elected to vice president, Bak…
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The machines were manufactured and secretly owned by Sam Giacano. The president of Servu Corporation was Eugene Hancock, who was a business partner of Grant Stockdale's and George Smathers of Automatic Vending Services. Questions were asked…
▶ 1:34:29
Thank you. Thank you, Mike. Oh, super. Thanks guys. And, and, uh, yeah. And then the last thing was the financing part. Like, I guess what helped me kind of understand a thing in that documentary is to look out for how the financing works, …
▶ 1:37:48
Don't want to use YouTube. I also uploaded the documentary in two parts here on Twitter. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, I try to avoid YouTube whenever I have a chance. And for those of you listening that don't know, Sam Giancano was …
▶ 1:44:45
the Italians, Sam Gacchione in particular. And then before that, he was the bootlegger that worked with the Rothstein guy and the Italians to import liquor into the United States during Prohibition. So their ties with the underground is qui…
▶ 1:12:15
Lucky Luciano, which bridged the Italian mafia gap. There was a question, well, did the CIA was involved with killing JFK? And the other question was also brought up in New Orleans with Carlos Marcellos, Jack Ruby, and MKUltra dealing with …
▶ 1:12:43
to win his presidency. And Bobby, they felt that they both turned their backs on the Italians for giving him the unions. And so that was another angle that wasn't discussed besides the Cuba and the CIA angle. Right. Well, Giancano, Ruby wor…
▶ 1:13:14
And he ended up in Miami. And there was the recorded telephone call or the recorded meeting in the Miami hotels with the CIA and Ruby. But Giancano was actually the one that was put in charge of supposedly put in charge of finding the assas…
▶ 1:13:42
There was some speculation that Sam Giancana's girlfriend slept with JFK, too, as well, along with Marilyn and that whole fiasco. Yeah, there was that rumor. Anymore, though, it's even rumors like that. I hate to say it this way. You have t…
▶ 1:19:43
He also says Roselli introduced Mayhew to Sam Giacomo and Santo Trapacani Jr. And of course, we know what they were involved in. They were involved in all of the opium coming in from Taiwan.…
▶ 54:25
Bob Mayhew had worked with Johnny Ruzelli before. So Bob Mayhew and Jim O'Connell went to Miami the week of September 23rd. And Mayhew met with Sam Gold, later identified as Salvador Giacconi. Yeah, Giaccona. Sam Giaccona. He in turn introd…
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what happens to the quote-unquote witnesses um in all of these regime change operations inside the united states they're eliminated i mean roselli um turned up in a barrel chopped up so there were a couple of assassinations right before wit…
▶ 51:00
had purchased Ponsatrain State Bank from Beebe, the mobster. Mecham also owned Warwick Hotel in Houston. When Marcello would come to Houston for his visits, one of his favorite places to stay was Warwick. He would be comped, meaning given f…
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And Roselli was one of their guys that worked directly with Robert Mayhew, who worked on behalf of the CIA to contract out those killings. Of course, Sam Giacana was involved in that as well. And it does say that the...…
▶ 38:35
Roselli agreed to help for a fee of $150,000 and contacted Chicago Mafia boss, Sam Giacana, who made arrangements to have a poison pill to be able to kill Castro. That Richard Bissell was involved in a lot of the different outrageous things…
▶ 43:35
would never have let him live long enough to become a general in Castro's army. Just as if they genuinely believed Johnny Roselli was acting on behalf of the Chicago mob boss, Sam Giacconi, the CIA would not have let Roselli live 13 more ye…
▶ 30:29
at Midway Airport in Chicago on December 8, 1972, which also took the lives of 42 other passengers. Testifying about the activities of the CIA does seem to have a dreadful consequence, like dying in plane crashes, being shot in your home by…
▶ 1:01:03
postscript of the church committee. And that came on the hills of the death of Sam Giacana and Orlando Lettier, who, as we know, was the ambassador from Chile that was assassinated by the CIA's Cuban exile group in Washington, D.C.…
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If you don't think that the CIA is sending a signal to the people in Congress, you're deaf, dumb, and blind. Two days after Roselli's body was found, Senator Howard Baker called for both the CIA and FBI to provide any information they had o…
▶ 1:03:00
Gary Hart took the murder of Johnny Roselli harder than any other member of the church committee. He believed that it was crucial to find out whether Roselli had been murdered because of the church committee testimony, especially after Sam …
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Roselli's murder centered on the fact that another participant in the Castro assassination plots, Sam Giacana, a former mafia boss of Chicago, had been murdered in his home a year earlier. Mr. Giacana was killed shortly before he was schedu…
▶ 1:01:15
One of the major players in the CIA Mafia Alliance, the former Chicago Mafia, Sam Giacana, was murdered a year earlier in his home shortly before he was to testify. Did no one think that Roselli might be in similar danger? The New York Time…
▶ 1:06:40
slash mafia operation. It is conceivable that the CIA and mafia would have a mutual interest in seeing both Giacana and Roselli dead. On with the article. Mr. Giacana was killed because he tried to reassert his authority in the Chicago mob …
▶ 1:07:10
Nevertheless, his pursuers were persistent. They would catch his movements for a couple of weeks, leave him alone for a few months, and then go back and watch him. The mafia figure said, Roselli was careful, but nobody can be that careful. …
▶ 25:55
In September 1963, he publicly warned that if the CIA continued its attempts to kill Cuban leaders, then American leaders would no longer be safe. Participants in the plot against Castro claimed that Castro then enlisted Traficani to turn t…
▶ 27:55
The CIA and the mafia sent in six assassination teams, all of which failed. We don't know why they failed. The claim is that Traficani had secretly made a deal with Castro over the CIA. Traficani then enlists the aid of two other mob godfat…
▶ 28:54
Then CIA Director John McCone shared the shocking report with Robert F. Kennedy and the new president, LBJ. In the 1970s, a congressional committee investigated CIA's use of mafia hitmen to kill Castro. Senate investigators asked questions …
▶ 29:25
Johnny Roselli. Traficani fled to the Caribbean, our sources said. But before Giaccona and Roselli could say anything that might link Traficani to Dallas, they were killed. Police concluded from the evidence that the men were hit by Trafica…
▶ 31:38
Relative of mob boss sheds new light on the president's assassination nearly 60 years later. Aren't you trembling with anticipation now that after all these years, you're finally going to get the truth? Here's a quote from that. As the most…
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But for two days in November 1963, he asked for help from his little-known brother, Pepe. He was only a humble, illegal bookie in the Giacono Empire, but Sam needed someone to chauffeur him around while the mobsters, who usually did so, wer…
▶ 32:36
become a seminal moment in the 20th century, unquote. You've got your exciting book. Sam Giacono was the biggest, baddest mafia chieftain since Al Capone. But this heartless villain had a soft spot for his little brother, Pepe, who he broug…
▶ 33:05
Now, at long last, we may be coming closer to the truth. Filmmaker Nicholas Silazzi, the great nephew of Sam Giacano, says his great uncle Pepe and other members of the family have finally confided to him exactly how the mafia killed JFK, a…
▶ 34:06
Unquote. Now, let me be clear about this. I can't tell you if everybody in the story is being honest or not. I wasn't chauffeuring Giacana around in 1963. But as a former CIA investigator, when a crime family says they're going to finally t…
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According to Nicholas Solosi, Ruby was one of the members of a crucial triangle in the Mafia's JFK operation that also included two Sam Giacono Stooges and assassins Johnny, Handsome John, Roselli, and Charles, Chucky, the typewriter, Nicol…
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at a secret camp in the Florida Everglades. Both Giacono and Roselli had been deeply involved in running mob-controlled casinos in Cuba and were furious when Castro kicked them out and closed them down. According to the CIA documents releas…
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throwing mud at the victim of the crime, President Kennedy. The article went on. While, quote, while other mafia chiefs kept a low profile, Giacomo reveled in the limelight, especially when he was out with one of his glamorous mistresses. A…
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were having affairs with him over the same period of time that they supposedly were seeing JFK. Rumor had it that Giacono helped get JFK elected by exploiting the mob's power over the union vote. So he and his cronies were furious when Kenn…
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Some accounts of that story, it was JFK's father, Joseph Kennedy, who approached Giacomo to help with the 1960 election. And JFK and Bobby were appalled when they found out about it, banishing their father from the White House. And here's a…
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told his great-nephew that Oswald watching the Kennedy motorcade from an upper floor window of the Texas book repository was supposed to shoot him. But knowing he was unreliable, Giaconis sent down Roselli as a backup. According to Pepe, th…