Sam Giancana person
· died in Dallas
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Claims (87)
Sam Giancana operated_in
Chicago documented
document
“Sam Giancana a known hoodlum in the Chicago area…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.141
Sam Giancana met_with
Fidel Castro reported
document
“the statement made by Giancana that in October 1960 he met with an individual who was to assassinate Castro in November 1960…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.142
CIA recruited
Sam Giancana documented
document
“By May 1961 however the Attorney General and Hoover were aware that the CIA had earlier used Giancana in an operation against Cuba…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.143
Sam Giancana operated_in
Cuba documented
document
“By May 1961 however the Attorney General and Hoover were aware that the CIA had earlier used Giancana in an operation against Cuba…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.143
John F. Kennedy relationship_with
Sam Giancana reported
document
“Evidence before the Committee indicates that a close friend of President Kennedy had frequent contact with the President from the end of 1960 through mid-1962 FBI reports and testimony indicate that the President's friend was also a close f…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.143
Sam Giancana relationship_with
John Roselli documented
document
“Evidence before the Committee indicates that a close friend of President Kennedy had frequent contact with the President from the end of 1960 through mid-1962 FBI reports and testimony indicate that the President's friend was also a close f…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.143
Sam Giancana paid
Robert Maheu reported
document
“Shimon stated that Giancana had told him that Giancana had paid Mahen $5,000 for the tap…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.92
Joseph Shimon met_with
Sam Giancana reported
document
“An acquaintance of Giancana's Joseph Shimon testified that Giancana had told him that Giancana had asked Rosselli to request Maheu to arrange for surveillance of the room…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.92
Sam Giancana had_affair_with
Fidel Castro reported
document
“The Support Chief testified that during the early stages of negotiations with the gambling syndicate Maheu informed him that a girl friend of Giancana was having an affair with the target of the tap…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.92
Federal Bureau of Investigation spied_on
Sam Giancana documented
document
“The FBI files on Giancana then contained information disclosing Giancana's connection with the CIA as well as his involvement in assassination plotting…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.144
CIA covered_up
Sam Giancana documented
document
“As a result of this request the CIA did object to the prosecution of those involved in the wiretap case thereby avoiding exposure of Giancana's and Rosselli's involvement with the Agency in an assassination plot…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.145
Felix Rodriguez met_with
Sam Giancana documented
document
“Maheu had been hired by CIA to approach Giancana with a proposition of paying $150,000 to hire some gunman to go into Cuba and kill Castro…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.17
Chicago Sun Times exposed
Sam Giancana reported
document
“On August 16 1963 the Chicago Sun Times carried an article claiming that the CIA had dealings with an underworld figure Sam Giancana…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.19
CIA did_business_with
Sam Giancana documented
document
“The White House also receives information originally from CIA relating to CIA' use of Maheu and Giancana in a plot against Castro…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.112
Robert Maheu met_with
Sam Giancana documented
document
“Maheu recalled that it was Giancana's job to locate someone in Castro's entourage who could accomplish the assassination... and that he met almost daily with Giancana over a substantial period of time…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.91
Robert Maheu did_business_with
Sam Giancana reported
document
“He stated a few days ago he had been advised by CIA that in connectionwith Giancana CIA had hired Robert A Maheu a private detective in Washington D.C. to approach Giancana with a propositionof paying $150,000to hire somegunmen to go into C…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.146
Robert F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of
Sam Giancana alleged
document
“He stated he then issued orders to CIA to never again in the future take such steps without first checkingwith the Department of Justice…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.147
Robert Maheu met_with
Sam Giancana documented
document
“I reminded Watson that the Director had sent over to the White House some weeks back all of the information in our possession in connection with the CIA's attempts to use former agent Robert Maheu and his private detective outfit in contact…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.192
John Roselli recruited
Sam Giancana reported
document
“Giancana must have been involved in the operation during the October period at the Kennilworth because... on October 18 the FBI sent a memorandum to Bissell stating that Giancana had been telling several people that he was involve in an ass…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.90
Frank Sturgis met_with
Sam Giancana reported
document
“Maheu recalls that he first met 'Sam Gold (Giancana)' after November 1960 when he was staying at the Fountainebleu Hotel…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.89
Sam Giancana located_in
Chicago documented
document
“"Sam Gold was Momo Salvatore Giancana a Chicago-based gang ster…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.91
David Atlee Phillips met_with
Sam Giancana documented
document
“The Support Chief who was using the name "Jim Olds, said he had met "Sam and "Joe once and then only briefly…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.91
Frank Sinatra relationship_with
Sam Giancana reported
document
“the 'guttergossipwasthat thereasonnothinghadbeendoneagainstGiancana was becauseof Giancana'scloserelationshipwith Frank Sinatra…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.147
Sam Giancana met_with
Samuel Rosselli reported
document
“According to Shimon he Giancana Rosselli and Maheu shared a suite in the Fountainebleau Hotel…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.95
Sam Giancana operated_in
Miami reported
document
“According to Shimon he Giancana Rosselli and Maheu shared a suite in the Fountainebleau Hotel…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.95
Sam Giancana operated_in
Fountainebleau Hotel reported
document
“According to Shimon he Giancana Rosselli and Maheu shared a suite in the Fountainebleau Hotel…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.95
Sam Giancana did_business_with
CIA reported
document
“Shimon testified that Giancana subsequently told him 'I am not in it and they are asking me for the names of some guys who used to work in casinos * * * Maheu's conning the hell out of the CIA.'…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.96
Sam Giancana linked_to
Fidel Castro reported
document
“Did the Investigation of Giancana and RosselliRevealTheir Involve ment in the AssassinationPlots to the FBI Department of Justice Attorney General or the President…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.319
John Maheu did_business_with
Sam Giancana documented
document
“We know that efforts were made to employ this system in the Castro plots through the use of Maheu to initiate the contact with Rosselli and Giancana…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.328
Fitzgerald Bissell recruited
Sam Giancana reported
document
“He recalled that Bissell advised him at that time of a then going operation involving 'the names of Maheu and possibly Roselli and Giancana,' which was a part of the Agency's effort to develop * * * a capability for Executive Action.…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.333
David Atlee Phillips recruited
Sam Giancana documented
document
“the wiretap installed through Maheu at the request of Giancana was discovered…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.341
FBI spied_on
Sam Giancana documented
document
“The FBI commenced an investigation which soon led to both Maheu and Giancana…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.341
Sam Giancana met_with
Fidel Castro reported
document
“Giancana stated that Fidel Castro was to be done away with very shortly…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.342
Sam Giancana ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro reported
document
“Giancana stated that Fidel Castro was to be done away with very shortly…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.342
Robert F. Kennedy targeted_for_regime_change
Sam Giancana documented
document
“After becoming Attorney General Robert Kennedy singled out Giancana as one of the underworld leaders to be given the most intense investigation…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.343
Robert Maheu met_with
Sam Giancana documented
document
“Maheu obtained Sam Giancana's assistance in this regard and according to Edwards Giancana gave every indication of cooperating through Maheu in attempting to accomplish several clandestine efforts in Cuba…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.344
Sam Giancana operated_in
Cuba reported
document
“Colonel Edwards said that since the underworld controlled gambling activities in Cuba under the Batista government it was assumed that this element would still continue to have sources and contacts in Cuba which perhaps could be utilized su…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.344
CIA recruited
Sam Giancana documented
document
“the CIA's 'asssociated planning included the use of Giancana aainst Castro.…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.345
David Atlee Phillips met_with
Sam Giancana documented
document
“CIA has used Maheu as an intermediary in contacting Sani Giancana…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.345
CIA involved_in
Sam Giancana reported
document
“the CIA was not involved in authorizing the Giancana tap when it apparently did…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.347
Robert A. Maheu met_with
Sam Giancana reported
document
“approach Giancana with a proposition of paying $150,000 to hire some gunmen to go into Cuba to kill 'Castro.…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.347
Frank Rosselli met_with
Sam Giancana documented
document
“when Rosselli talked with Giancana after the wiretap had been discovered…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.93
David Atlee Phillips met_with
Sam Giancana reported
document
“According to Shimon he Giancana Rosselli and Maheu shared a suite in the Fountainebleau Hotel…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.95
Sam Giancana worked_for
CIA documented
document
“the fact that Giancana and Rosselli had been involved in a CIA operation directed against Cuba was brought to the attention of the FBI…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.120
CIA linked_to
Sam Giancana reported
document
“An August 16 1963 Chicago Sun Times article claimed that the CIA had had a connection with Giancana.…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.121
CIA recruited
Sam Giancana reported
document
“Edwards told the FBI that the CIA had relied on Giancana because of Giancana's contacts with gambling figures who might have sources for use in connection with CIA's clandestine efforts against the Castro government…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.140
E. Howard Hunt spied_on
Sam Giancana documented
document
“Rosselli testified that Maheu had given him two explanations for the tap on different occasions…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.93
Sam Giancana met_with
Frank Rosselli documented
document
“Rosselli testified that Maheu had given him two explanations for the tap on different occasions First that Giancana was concerned that his girl friend was having an affair…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.93
Federal Bureau of Investigation spied_on
Sam Giancana documented
document
“After discovering the Las Vegas wiretap on October 31 1960 the FBI commenced an investigation which quickly developed that Maheu and Giancana were involved in the case…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.140
Arthur J. Balletti carried_out_attack
Sam Giancana documented
document
“The wiretap was placed on the telephone by Arthur J Balletti…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.139
Robert Maheu recruited
Sam Giancana documented
document
“Maheu obtained Sam Giancana's assistance in this regard and according to Edwards Giancana gave every indication of cooperating through Maheu in attempting to accomplish several clandestine efforts in Cuba…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.141
Sam Giancana ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro reported
document
“Giancana stated that Fidel Castro was to be doneaway with very shortly…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.93
Alberto Sicilia Falcon did_business_with
Sam Giancana book_quoted
“who they learned often met with and conversed by telephone with a mystery man just south of Mexico City. When a lemonade bottle bearing the man's fingerprints was sent to the FBI, the Bureau informed Mexican authorities that the man was Sam…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 11 @ 27:59
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 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
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
Lauren Hall did_business_with
Sam Giancana host_asserted
“Mike and Ken. Also involved was Rolando Martinez, again, and a dozen other Cuban exiles like Eddie Bayo, Eduardo Perez, many of whom eventually disappeared, like out of thin air. Lauren Hall, another former Traficani casino employee, claime…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 9 @ 10:54
Sam Giancana member_of
Mafia host_asserted
“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 brought in when his best evil henchman had to go out of town…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilght of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 30:53
Lewis Rosenstiel did_business_with
Sam Giancana book_quoted
“which is money laundering your ill-gotten gains into legitimate businesses. So some of the people that he dealt with, Frank Costello, Sam Giacana, Santo Traficante, Meyer Lansky. Lansky addressed Rosenstiel as the supreme commander, a name …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 2 @ 42:15
Nicholas Solosi relationship_with
Sam Giancana host_asserted
“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, and just as importantly, allowed him to reveal it. He is working with Pulitzer Prize w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilght of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 31:22
Pepe Giancana relationship_with
Sam Giancana host_asserted
“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 brought in when his best evil henchman had to go out of town…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilght of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 30:53
Robert Maheu met_with
Sam Giancana documented
“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…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 18 @ 58:33
Sam Giancana secretly_owned
Serv-U Corporation host_asserted
“The machines were manufactured and secretly owned by Sam Giacono. 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…”
▶ Operation Gladio and the 1968 Election PART 2 @ 1:12:46
Sam Giancana introduced
Santo Trafficante Jr. documented
“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…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 18 @ 58:33
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
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
Carlos Marcello relationship_with
Sam Giancana book_quoted
“horse racetrack gambling, and gambling casinos. When his partner, Sam Carolla, was deported back to Sicily in 1947, Marcella took control of the New York interest. At this time, his main national crime contacts were Joe Civella of Dallas, w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Kill Plot Part 5 @ 2:36
Carlos Marcello relationship_with
Sam Giancana book_quoted
“was a CIA aircraft. It was reported that David Ferrari was his pilot on the CIA aircraft. Marcella declared war against the Kennedys. Then an opportunity presented itself via Johnny Roselli and Sam Giacana to get revenge. It was exactly wha…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Kill Plot Part 5 @ 4:09
Sam Giancana secretly_owned
Serv-U Corporation host_asserted
“The machines were manufactured and secretly owned by Sam Giacano.…”
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Sam Giancana assassinated
Johnny Roselli 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 Twilght of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 27:36
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. did_business_with
Sam Giancana host_asserted
“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 newsflash for you. Accusatio…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilght of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 39:00
Santo Trafficante Jr. relationship_with
Sam Giancana book_quoted
“then American leaders would no longer be safe. Participants in the plot against Castro claimed that Castro then enlisted Traficani to turn the mafia against Kennedy. Traficani allegedly got the assistance of two other mafia godfathers, Sam …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilght of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 24:14
CIA covered_up
Sam Giancana book_quoted
“The Mexicans agreed to a French extradition request for Giacana, but when his Paris-bound plane stopped over in Houston, Giacana was whisked away by U.S. agents. Soon after, he was found murdered in Chicago. Mexican interior minister offici…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 11 @ 28:30
Sam Giancana died_in
Dallas host_asserted
“These were two of the main mafia players, Sam Giacconi and Johnny Roselli. From the field action team, both of the Grassy Knoll shooters were killed. Roscoe White was killed in a fire in Arkansas in 75, which would have been right about the…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Kill Zone Part 6 @ 49:56
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
Church Committee exposed
Sam Giancana guest_asserted
“He was in Indochina in the early days of Vietnam. Before the war even started, his kids were partly raised in what is now Vietnam. Yep. And Italy, also in Italy. For Operation Gladio. He was deep within the CIA. And then just to switch topi…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 16 @ 43:49
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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…
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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, …
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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 …
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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horse racetrack gambling, and gambling casinos. When his partner, Sam Carolla, was deported back to Sicily in 1947, Marcella took control of the New York interest. At this time, his main national crime contacts were Joe Civella of Dallas, w…
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was a CIA aircraft. It was reported that David Ferrari was his pilot on the CIA aircraft. Marcella declared war against the Kennedys. Then an opportunity presented itself via Johnny Roselli and Sam Giacana to get revenge. It was exactly wha…
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that Erwin Weiner was a longtime associate of none other than Jack Ruby. Both had at one time worked for Sam Giacana in Chicago and through a chain of command still did at the time of the assassination. By charting out associates and connec…
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He was the one that was going to do, he was going to be Robert Mayhew's point of contact. Roselli had worked for Sam Giacconi, Santo Traficani, and other mafia kingpins. Now, of course, Santo Traficani had a personal interest in Cuba becaus…
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He was directly associated with Carlos Marcella, Louis McWillie, Johnny Roselli, Sam Giacana, and Santo Traficani. It is not hard to comprehend just how Ruby entered the picture. In the words of a mobster, if the mob tells you to make a hit…
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These were two of the main mafia players, Sam Giacconi and Johnny Roselli. From the field action team, both of the Grassy Knoll shooters were killed. Roscoe White was killed in a fire in Arkansas in 75, which would have been right about the…
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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…
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who they learned often met with and conversed by telephone with a mystery man just south of Mexico City. When a lemonade bottle bearing the man's fingerprints was sent to the FBI, the Bureau informed Mexican authorities that the man was Sam…
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The Mexicans agreed to a French extradition request for Giacana, but when his Paris-bound plane stopped over in Houston, Giacana was whisked away by U.S. agents. Soon after, he was found murdered in Chicago. Mexican interior minister offici…
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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...…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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. …
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…