Meyer Lansky person
also: Jake Lansky, lansky, Lansky, Lenski, Mayor Lansky, meyerlansky, myers lansky, Myers Lansky, Rosenthal guy, Rosselli, trafficante
Explore in graph → Export claims (CSV) ↓
Related entities (most co-mentioned)
Lucky Lucianoperson · 9Cubacountry · 9Mafiaorganization · 6Lou Cheslerperson · 6Santo Trafficante Jr.person · 6CIAintelligence service · 6Miamiplace · 6United Statescountry · 6Bahamascountry · 5Hong Kongplace · 4World War IIevent · 4Castle Bank & Trustorganization · 4Fidel Castroperson · 4Miami National Bankorganization · 4Jerry Gordonperson · 4Paul Helliwellperson · 4Resorts Internationalorganization · 4Alvin Malnickperson · 3James Jesus Angletonperson · 3Caesars Palaceplace · 3Havanaplace · 3Fulgencio Batistaperson · 3Tampaplace · 2Frank Costelloperson · 2
Claims (90)
Meyer Lansky 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
Meyer Lansky met_with
Frank Rosselli documented
document
“Rosselli told the Support Chief that Trafficante believed a certain leading figure in the Cuban exile movement might be able to accomplish the assassination…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.94
David Atlee Phillips met_with
Meyer Lansky reported
document
“I am sure that I had discussed with Rosselli at least on a tentative basis by August the probable necessity of terminating this…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.119
Dino Cellini did_business_with
Meyer Lansky documented
“By the early 1960s, Lou Chesler would also be in business with Wallace Groves and Sir Stafford Sams, two prominent figures in the Bahamas who ran the Lansky enterprise there. This occurred after the mob was pushed out of Cuba by Castro. Ano…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 18-19 @ 17:35
Lou Chesler did_business_with
Meyer Lansky documented
“General Development Corporation. McCrary promoted a number of enterprises, including real estate, movie companies, casinos, and horse track racing. Chesler was also the point man for Meyer Lansky, the organized crime figure. Now, another th…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 18-19 @ 17:05
Meyer Lansky trafficked
General Development Corporation book_quoted
“However, aside from media relations, the agency had an initial, much more pressing problem, money. And this is where he goes back and starts talking about Paul Helliwell again and saying, during the summer of 1947, the terms of the working …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 36:38
Castle Bank & Trust laundered_money_for
Meyer Lansky host_asserted
“which laundered funds for both the CIA and organized crime. Castle Bank was only one in a series of banks in this role. It had complex links to Nugent Hand Bank in Australia, which we've covered extensively, and Washington banker George Olm…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 5 @ 40:09
Michael Steinhardt relationship_with
Meyer Lansky book_quoted
“about his own family ties to Meyer Lansky, a mobster, in his autobiography called No Bull, My Life In and Out of the Markets. He said that his father, Sol, S-O-L, Red McGee, though he even has a mafia nickname, Steinhardt, was Lansky's jewe…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 14 cont @ 19:21
Sol Steinhardt relationship_with
Meyer Lansky book_quoted
“about his own family ties to Meyer Lansky, a mobster, in his autobiography called No Bull, My Life In and Out of the Markets. He said that his father, Sol, S-O-L, Red McGee, though he even has a mafia nickname, Steinhardt, was Lansky's jewe…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 14 cont @ 19:21
Tex McCrary did_business_with
Meyer Lansky host_asserted
“a power player in organized crime with strong ties to Meyer Lansky. Incredibly, McCrary, M-C-C-R-A-R-Y, was also a senior level government advisor at the presidential level and a CIA conduit to foreign governments. McCrary, intimate connect…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 18-19 @ 11:36
Fidel Castro expelled
Meyer Lansky host_asserted
“the actual plan that he was actually building. So he stayed more neutral. Kennedy, knowing what they were planning on doing, took the hard line and stole the thunder. Who's that remind you of? Donald Trump. Hey, Russia, where's all those em…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 8 @ 46:12
Kuomintang laundered_money_for
Meyer Lansky book_quoted
“capital into real estate business is an old one. In the 50s and 60s, the KMT money from Thailand and Burma came via Hong Kong and was washed into Lansky's related property firms. And remember, Hong Kong is British. HSBC. The super mob, the …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 1:39:49
Richard Nixon did_business_with
Meyer Lansky book_quoted
“They point out in that book, The Secret World of Richard Nixon, that Nixon made financial deals with Meyer Lansky and other underworld crime figures. In another book, The Case Against Henry Kissinger, in Harper Magazine, it was arguing that…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 9 @ 8:18
Kuomintang did_business_with
Meyer Lansky host_asserted
“She was particularly close to the Chicago outfit of the mob. Mexico had become an important base of operations for drug smuggling with Castello and Carolla. Mexico had become a vital transshipment point for KMT's own drug trafficking during…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 1:34:57
Paul Helliwell did_business_with
Meyer Lansky host_asserted
“Lucky Luciano, the mobster, and Meyer Lansky. He really well creates a bank called Castle Bank in the Bahamas. And they begin flooding the United States with heroin. And the profits of the heroin is going to be used to pay for Operation Gla…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 1 and 2 @ 1:52:28
Lucky Luciano relationship_with
Meyer Lansky host_asserted
“Castro take over that nationalist movement and become a dictator? Absolutely. I'm not pro-Castro, but he did get rid of the mob. You have to acknowledge facts. So, onward. So there is set up a Luciano-Costellano-Lansky-Siegel alliance that …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 24:39
Fulgencio Batista did_business_with
Meyer Lansky documented
“fake banks, and all kinds of stuff. Other big names in the mafia were welcomed by Batista, including Meyer Lansky, Santo Traficante Jr. The island exploded with gambling houses, erotic hotels, and large-scale prostitutions. And they were ba…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 18-19 @ 49:48
Meyer Lansky did_business_with
Lucky Luciano documented
“Basically, Meyer Lansky was the not Lansky. Sorry. What's the other guy? The guy Meyer Lansky worked for him. His name's going to escape me. But he's the one that was he was in jail for prostitution. He was in charge of the whole mafia. Luc…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 7 @ 1:09:05
Meyer Lansky spied_on
Clyde Tolson book_quoted
“Hoover, and Lansky's widow later claimed that her husband had acquired them, which were, quote-unquote, hard proof of Hoover's homosexuality and used to neutralize the FBI threat to his own operations, unquote, speaking about her husband La…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 2 @ 1:03:23
Meyer Lansky did_business_with
Tiber Rosenbaum host_asserted
“Let's see. It was alleged that Mafia boss Meyer Lansky was a member of the 1001 Club, which was not true, although Lansky did work with four Mossad agents and 1001 Club member Tiber Rosenbaum. Tiber Rosenbaum was a very good friend of Princ…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with COLONEL TOWNER - World Wildlife Fund Part 1 @ 1:36:55
Meyer Lansky supplied_arms_to
Brothman family host_asserted
“A cozy relationship with Meyer Lansky had occurred. Lansky's wife later recounted how Brofman had thrown lavish dinner parties for her husband. And in 1923, when Lansky bought Sam prize tickets to the boxing championship between Jack Dempse…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 2 @ 26:26
Meyer Lansky worked_with
Office of Current Intelligence host_asserted
“You just said another gobsmacking moment. Was Mayor Lansky, Florida and Las Vegas, was he a CIA asset? So he worked, obviously he worked with the Navy. I don't know if you know his story, but he worked with the Office of Naval Intelligence …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA, and George Bush Part 15 @ 1:09:44
Lou Chesler front_for
Meyer Lansky documented
“The White's Out of Context Industries in 85, Harold White was doing real estate deals with People's Savings and also a key Bistain restaurant owner named Donald Berg. Berg was an associate of Richard Nixon's banker, B.B. Roboso, and of Lou …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 21 @ 20:38
Meyer Lansky laundered_money_for
Flamingo Hotel documented
“which apparently is this common thing that you and I don't get. I promise I won't break the law anymore if you forgive me for breaking the law this time. That only goes to the crooks. Also in 1971, a Sarowitz aide, Jerry Gordon, was indicte…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA &George Bush Part 12 @ 43:34
Meyer Lansky member_of
Mafia caller_asserted
“The Stardust. That's where that Rosenthal guy, he had a sports book at the Sahara. I mean, this whole town was ran by mobs. My ex-husband was from Shaker Heights and he's Jewish. And his father came over from Russia, supposedly in the early…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 13 @ 1:22:52
Bank of New York leased
Meyer Lansky host_asserted
“of Paul Dorfman and Alan Dorfman. The National City Bank itself had once leased its racetrack in Havana, which they lost to Castro, and also through a subsidiary, the Hotel Nacional in Cuba, the casino, which they leased to Meyer Lansky of …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 1:18:32
John Hauser laundered_money_for
Meyer Lansky host_asserted
“where his fellow directors included Joseph Benz of U.S. Life. Benz was also involved in the Bahama land deals and speculations of Meyer Lansky's business partner, Lou Chesler. Also involved was John Hauser, an intelligence officer from the …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 1:20:25
Sam Cohen member_of
Meyer Lansky documented
“This begins in 1971 when 23-year-old Ray Corona returned to Miami to start his banking career at Miami National Bank. At the time, this bank was controlled by Sam Cohen, an associate of mob financier Meyer Lansky. Cohen was indicted in 71 a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 20 @ 20:30
Meyer Lansky member_of
Office of Naval Intelligence host_asserted
“What Bridget just said, another gobsmacking moment, was Mayor Lansky, Florida and Las Vegas, was he a CIA asset? So he worked, obviously he worked with the Navy. I don't know if you know his story, but he worked with the Office of Naval Int…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 1:09:49
Meyer Lansky laundered_money_for
Vito Rizzuto host_asserted
“Risotto traveled regularly back and forth between Italy and Venezuela. Quintero went to see Meyer Lansky in Rome. The two men were already had met in Toronto. This time he solicited Lansky's counsel on laundering the profits from the drug c…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner LIVE RESEARCH INTO OPERATION GLADIO @ 1:14:26
Frank Wisner recruited
Meyer Lansky book_quoted
“However, aside from media relations, the agency had an initial, much more pressing problem, money. And this is where he goes back and starts talking about Paul Helliwell again and saying, during the summer of 1947, the terms of the working …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 36:38
James Jesus Angleton recruited
Meyer Lansky book_quoted
“However, aside from media relations, the agency had an initial, much more pressing problem, money. And this is where he goes back and starts talking about Paul Helliwell again and saying, during the summer of 1947, the terms of the working …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 36:38
James Jesus Angleton recruited
Meyer Lansky documented
“by publishing CIA-vetted literature, and by eliminating the intellectuals and leaders who espounded these ideas. One day shortly after Fidel Castro took over power in Havana, Angleton had a brainstorm. He summoned two Jewish CIA officers, i…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 56:17
Alvin Malnick member_of
Meyer Lansky book_quoted
“Others believe he faked his death and fled the country. The Houston Post found that Florida mob associate Malvin Malnick, the protege of Meyer Lansky, had invested some money with Baker, but it turned out to be not a lot of money, and one o…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA&Bush Part 5 @ 37:41
Meyer Lansky member_of
Mafia host_asserted
“Thanks to Meyer Lansky and Santo Trafficani and a few others, they definitely got involved in it. And yes, Meyer Lansky was part and parcel of this whole operation. They work as the, so technically you can think of them as the domestic CIA.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 1:10:42
Meyer Lansky member_of
Asian Development Bank host_asserted
“All right, jumping back to banks. So we've got Sindona. He goes to New York City in the 50s, builds up a bunch of networks, gets to know a bunch of right-wing politicians, New York bankers, becomes a banker for the Gambino family. It's kind…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 13; BCCI Pt. 3- The Cover-Up @ 26:16
Meyer Lansky founded
Cuba host_asserted
“A war to kill off all the Corsicans. Chapter 15, The Cubans of Florida. Meyer Lansky, the syndicate's financial wizard and chairman from 1947, began building his Cuban empire in his early 40s. When free elections chased his close friend, di…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 43:58
Meyer Lansky acquired
Bahamas host_asserted
“hearings was a front for their narcotics trafficking. After losing his Havana paradise, Meyer Lansky used straw men to buy up the Grand Bahama Island and erected a new gambling city in the city of Nassau. But though Lansky and Traficani eac…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 54:45
Meyer Lansky appointed
Trafficante crime family host_asserted
“to Lansky, who appointed him manager of his own Florida interest in addition to those in Cuba. Lansky needed to spend increasingly large amounts of time in New York and Las Vegas, Rome, Versailles, Beirut, and Geneva. Interesting locations …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 47:06
Meyer Lansky entrusted
Trafficante crime family host_asserted
“A war to kill off all the Corsicans. Chapter 15, The Cubans of Florida. Meyer Lansky, the syndicate's financial wizard and chairman from 1947, began building his Cuban empire in his early 40s. When free elections chased his close friend, di…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 43:58
Meyer Lansky relationship_with
Fulgencio Batista host_asserted
“A war to kill off all the Corsicans. Chapter 15, The Cubans of Florida. Meyer Lansky, the syndicate's financial wizard and chairman from 1947, began building his Cuban empire in his early 40s. When free elections chased his close friend, di…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 43:58
Meyer Lansky promoted
Fulgencio Batista host_asserted
“The older mafia dons deemed initially didn't want to do it, but hey, everybody's making money, so we're in. When Florida's illegal casinos were shut down in 1950, Lansky promoted Batista's return to power in Cuba. You know, so much for your…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 45:01
Meyer Lansky secretly_owned
General Development Corporation book_quoted
“was invested in Florida's explosive development, much of it, by the way, of a company called General Development Corporation, which was controlled by Meyer Lansky, another money laundering operation. It's important to note the alliance of S…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 15:27
Meyer Lansky trafficked
Cuba host_asserted
“Santo Sr. Lansky and Batista settled in Hollywood, Florida, just north of Miami. Before long, Lansky was running an illegal casino empire on the coast. And in 47, he eliminated Bugsy Siegel and moved into Las Vegas. All the while, Lansky ex…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 44:31
Meyer Lansky did_business_with
Santo Trafficante Jr. host_asserted
“that they don't control. And they can make arrests and they can put you in jail for a very long time if you're doing it outside their controlled network. By early 1970s, Southeast Asian produced heroin was ready to be tested. And the first …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 9 @ 26:42
Meyer Lansky moved_to
Israel host_asserted
“And then he made haste to Israel to avoid being held accountable. On July 4th, Lansky's Narcotics Associates reportedly made their investment plans for Southeast Asia at a 12-day meeting with representatives from the whole mafia network wor…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 9 @ 27:16
Meyer Lansky eliminated
Bugsy Siegel host_asserted
“Santo Sr. Lansky and Batista settled in Hollywood, Florida, just north of Miami. Before long, Lansky was running an illegal casino empire on the coast. And in 47, he eliminated Bugsy Siegel and moved into Las Vegas. All the while, Lansky ex…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 44:31
Albert Anastasia attempted_assassination_of
Meyer Lansky host_asserted
“Lansky's ever-increasing power and wealth, among them Murder, Inc. Chairman of the board, Albert Anastasia. In 1957, he tried enlisting Traficani's aid in removing Lansky from the Havana scene. That was his last move. Traficani arranged a f…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 47:35
Trafficante crime family member_of
Meyer Lansky host_asserted
“became Lansky's right-hand man and manager of his Cuban interest. And oh, by the way, the whole restoring Batista to Cuba was CIA assisted. So they have all of this casino trade going on in Cuba. They had a base for running Havana's tourist…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 45:30
John Pullman did_business_with
Meyer Lansky book_quoted
“And one of his Geneva contacts was Meyer Lansky's syndicate financial brain, John Pullman. And that's really interesting because if you start looking into these people, they make a very interesting network of weapons trafficking, money laun…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 6 @ 21:44
Office of Current Intelligence did_business_with
Meyer Lansky host_asserted
“The Office of Naval Intelligence is the ones that was working with Meyer Lansky in World War II. These things have been done before we ever had a CIA. We have had covert intelligence collection before we ever had the CIA. And they were unde…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 6 @ 1:38:04
Meyer Lansky did_business_with
Paul Helliwell book_quoted
“And this is where he goes back and starts talking about Paul Helliwell again and saying during the summer of 1947, the terms of the working relationship between the CIA and mafia were ironed out by Frank Wisner and Angleton. Meyer Lansky an…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed in Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 9 @ 38:31
Meyer Lansky did_business_with
Mossad host_asserted
“Let's see. It was alleged that Mafia boss Meyer Lansky was a member of the 1001 Club, which was not true, although Lansky did work with four Mossad agents and 1001 Club member Tiber Rosenbaum. Tiber Rosenbaum was a very good friend of Princ…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with COLONEL TOWNER - World Wildlife Fund Part 1 @ 1:36:55
Meyer Lansky spied_on
J. Edgar Hoover book_quoted
“American intelligence operatives and organized crime had competed and then collaborated to blackmail Hoover, which we see play out in this example. So Lansky was credited with obtaining the first compromising photos of Hoover in the 1940s i…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 2 @ 1:02:52
Meyer Lansky did_business_with
J. Edgar Hoover host_asserted
“And it also allowed people like Meyer Lansky to blackmail Hoover, which we will get into in a little bit. So according to Whitney, Stevenson basically was cultivating Donovan to basically work for the British interests as well, if not overt…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 39:06
Meyer Lansky headed
Bank of World Commerce host_asserted
“and the Bank of Perrin. And let's see, I'm just kind of getting the highlights here. It also had dealings with the Intermaritime Bank in Florida. And we come across a future CIA director, William Casey's friend, Bruce Rappaport, involved in…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 2:05:35
Meyer Lansky did_business_with
Michele Sindona host_asserted
“All right, jumping back to banks. So we've got Sindona. He goes to New York City in the 50s, builds up a bunch of networks, gets to know a bunch of right-wing politicians, New York bankers, becomes a banker for the Gambino family. It's kind…”
▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster PART 3 @ 25:58
Meyer Lansky lived_in
Tampa documented
“There were like the number two site for the Traficani group. That all happened out of Tampa. That's where Meyer Lansky was living for about 25 years. Yeah. So Tampa is only number two to Miami when it comes to this type of activity. So they…”
▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster PART 1 @ 14:33
Dole DeLitz relationship_with
Meyer Lansky host_asserted
“Another investor in Marina Real was Nate Dolan of Cleveland, Ohio. Dolan achieved notoriety in 1970 when a firm he was connected to, Realty Equities, ran a fraud scheme in conjunction with Rosenbaum's ICB. Dolan had a business relationship …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 3 @ 1:23:34
Lewis Rosenstiel relationship_with
Meyer Lansky book_quoted
“Rosenstiel was particularly close to Lansky. They owned points together in different mob-operated businesses. He was closely related to Frank Costello, who attended meetings. One of Rosenstiel's ex-wife, this woman, God bless her, Susan Kau…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 2 @ 41:18
Virginia Hall relationship_with
Meyer Lansky host_asserted
“She made frequent trips to Mexico City in the 40s in the company of Virginia Hill, who was an inside player in organized crime circles with Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky. Hill became intimate with a number of the Mexico top politicians, arm…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 1:34:28
Sidney Korsak did_business_with
Meyer Lansky host_asserted
“been involved in Dollet's network since at least the 1960s. Lou Wasserman would later marry Edith Meckerman, whose father was Dollet's attorney. Wasserman's closest friend, Sidney Korshak, also had close ties to Dollet and was partners with…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 10 @ 1:04:56
Gerald Smith did_business_with
Meyer Lansky host_asserted
“Do you get a nine times return on your investment? I don't. Well, maybe one or two. Loan money from, okay. So Cosmos would loan money from the bank and go freely with loans from the mob controlled Teamsters. So Goldsmith was closely linked …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 16 @ 41:49
Sidney Korsak succeeded
Meyer Lansky host_asserted
“been involved in Dollet's network since at least the 1960s. Lou Wasserman would later marry Edith Meckerman, whose father was Dollet's attorney. Wasserman's closest friend, Sidney Korshak, also had close ties to Dollet and was partners with…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 10 @ 1:04:56
Chinese Tongs relationship_with
Meyer Lansky host_asserted
“associated with Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciana. So that's just a tease for upcoming shows. Yeah, I'm looking forward to that one. It'll tie into a series I've been watching called Empires of Silver, and we'll be complimentary on that one to…”
▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY @ 58:37
Arnold Rothstein recruited
Meyer Lansky host_asserted
“American organized crime figures arrive in China and begin organizing the lucrative global narcotics network. The first to arrive was Arnold Rothstein. Now, I didn't look him up. So if Julie, that's Arnold and you spell his last name R-O-T-…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 56:47
Samuel Bronfman did_business_with
Meyer Lansky host_asserted
“A cozy relationship with Meyer Lansky had occurred. Lansky's wife later recounted how Brofman had thrown lavish dinner parties for her husband. And in 1923, when Lansky bought Sam prize tickets to the boxing championship between Jack Dempse…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 2 @ 26:26
Moe Dalitz relationship_with
Meyer Lansky host_asserted
“which was run by Moe Dallitz, D-A-L-I-T-Z, mobster, and Meyer Lansky, who, per the FBI, was powerful people in the Lansky criminal enterprise. So this Moe Dallitz guy was second only to Lansky himself among members of the Jewish mob. Stone'…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 10 @ 1:04:25
Wallace Groves did_business_with
Meyer Lansky host_asserted
“was American millionaire ex-convict Wallace Groves, G-R-O-B-E-S. He was the owner of the Grand Bahama Island, whose casino there and in Nassau were operated by mobster Meyer Lansky. And of course, we run across Meyer Lansky in the whole dru…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chap 10 @ 39:15
Lou Chesler partner_of
Meyer Lansky documented
“telephone company for names behind the telephone numbers called by Freeman, they found Louis Chesler. They apparently didn't know who the mobster was because there's no mention of him in the reports on Freeman, Chesler, Meyer Lansky's partn…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 19B @ 48:20
Mary Carter Paint Company relationship_with
Meyer Lansky book_quoted
“It worked closely in developing businesses in the Bahamas with Meyer Lansky front men. James' brother, Peter Crosby, was a notorious confidence man with an impressive roster of criminal contacts. So it's also, based on what you're reading, …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 27:10
Lewis Rosenstiel did_business_with
Meyer Lansky book_quoted
“Rosenstiel was particularly close to Lansky. They owned points together in different mob-operated businesses. He was closely related to Frank Costello, who attended meetings. One of Rosenstiel's ex-wife, this woman, God bless her, Susan Kau…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 2 @ 41:18
Miami National Bank laundered_money_for
Meyer Lansky documented
“one of which was Helly Well and another bank called Miami National Bank. Founded with a loan from Teamsters Pension Fund, Miami National was identified in 1969 as having served between 63 and 67 as a conduit for syndicate money laundering t…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 1:38:47
Overseas Services did_business_with
Meyer Lansky host_asserted
“who also they put money against just to hedge their bet because they didn't really care whether the person was a Democrat or a Republican. They just wanted to own them. And we know that to be a fact. So after being defeated by Reagan, Pat B…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 1:57:01
Edward DiBartolo did_business_with
Meyer Lansky documented
“It looks like everything that we've seen as far as the Gladio networks. The Bartola organization, specifically the parts of his empire based in Florida, had reported ties to Carlos Marcello, Santos Tropicani, and Meyer Lansky. Because its e…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 13 and 14 @ 1:29:40
Roy Cohn member_of
Meyer Lansky host_asserted
“And just looking to his mentor, Roy Cohn was. The Blue Room, the Plaza, who was, I mean, literally, Roy Cohn was involved in the Lansky group, the kosher-nostra blackmailing Hoover, who was a cross-dressing homosexual in the first place. Th…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras Part 2 @ 1:29:00
Meyer Lansky appointed
Resorts International host_asserted
“and was a very close friend of Resorts International president and founder James Crosby. There was also the Meyer Lansky. Meyer Lansky was basically hired to run the casinos, the mafia guy. So there is also Resorts International set up its …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 1 @ 56:14
Meyer Lansky member_of
CIA host_asserted
“which had a big stake in the future of drug traffic and how the outcome of the KMT and Chiang Kai-shek arrangements. These figures in turn played a central role and had deep connections to U.S. intelligence, meaning the CIA. No one was bett…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 5 @ 52:25
Paul Helliwell associated_with
Meyer Lansky host_asserted
“but describes him only as a lawyer. Imagine talking about Paul Hellywell and only listing him as a lawyer. Ignoring this significant relationship he developed with organized crime, including Meyer Lansky's bank. Furthermore, while confirmin…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 2:51
Carmine DeSapio relationship_with
Meyer Lansky host_asserted
“And that's interesting because he has long ties with some gentlemen by the name of Frank Costello, Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, the Genovese family. Yeah, Frank Costello shows up in Operation Gladio all the time and his Wikipe…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Society Societies @ 36:30
Paul Helliwell laundered_money_for
Meyer Lansky host_asserted
“Defense Force and allowed the use of their sea and airports in Thailand for the transportation of all of these drugs. And that's where we spent $35 million, bribing all of those people. But for years, Heliwell was also a legal counsel to Me…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 5 @ 39:09
Chinese Tongs member_of
Meyer Lansky host_asserted
“associated with Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciana. So that's just a tease for upcoming shows. Yeah, I'm looking forward to that one. It'll tie into a series I've been watching called Empires of Silver, and we'll be complimenting on that one to…”
▶ The Shadow State #17 Secret Societies Pt. 1; w Colonel Towner-Watkins @ 58:52
Meyer Lansky member_of
Iraq Intelligence Commission caller_asserted
“Lucky Luciano, Frank Costello and Meyer Lansky ran the commission. And as the colonel said that Lucky Luciano was bailed out of prison to help overthrow the Italian government to retain a American friendly leader. So, yes, it's all connecte…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Congo and Belgium’s role @ 1:48:45
Meyer Lansky member_of
Bay Street Boys host_asserted
“These players want to find a new Caribbean home. And they decide on the Bahamas. And Meyer Lansky goes over there with some others. Who else is involved in that? Sedona is, of course, involved. It becomes an offshore banking center. It had …”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 13; BCCI Pt. 3- The Cover-Up @ 44:28
Meyer Lansky carried_out_attack
Operation Hake host_asserted
“And naturally, they blame it on the old families. And what do they do? You know, the FBI, oh, we're opening up a new task force. And what does that do? It wipes out a lot of, like, the old apparatus. But, you know, the apparatus over in Chi…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed in Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 9B @ 2:13:43
Meyer Lansky carried_out_attack
Operation Husky host_asserted
“And naturally, they blame it on the old families. And what do they do? The FBI, oh, we're opening up a new task force. And what does that do? It wipes out a lot of the old apparatus. But the apparatus over in Chicago survived. The outfit ov…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 b @ 2:19:08
Meyer Lansky member_of
Italian Mafia caller_asserted
“Well, and Jeff, that's a fantastic and very important point you bring up. And how they did it by playing neutral, they set up a money laundering ability that actually used the Israeli mafia through Meyer Lansky and the Italian mafia, who he…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Congo and Belgium’s role @ 1:47:01
Meyer Lansky member_of
1001 Club host_asserted
“Let's see. It was alleged that Mafia boss Meyer Lansky was a member of the 1001 Club, which was not true, although Lansky did work with four Mossad agents and 1001 Club member Tiber Rosenbaum. Tiber Rosenbaum was a very good friend of Princ…”
▶ Operation Gladio - World Wildlife Fund - Africa- Erik Prince (Redo) @ 1:36:34
Meyer Lansky member_of
Israeli mafia caller_asserted
“Well, and Jeff, that's a fantastic and very important point you bring up. And how they did it by playing neutral, they set up a money laundering ability that actually used the Israeli mafia through Meyer Lansky and the Italian mafia, who he…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Congo and Belgium’s role @ 1:47:01
Meyer Lansky funded
Switzerland caller_asserted
“gave way to the Israeli Swiss bank, and that was funded by Lenski Crime Syndicate money. You follow that bank through all of this stuff, and it'll link through all of these things, including how they moved those scientists and how that bank…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Congo and Belgium’s role @ 1:47:49
Mentions (60)
▶ 1:47:01
Well, and Jeff, that's a fantastic and very important point you bring up. And how they did it by playing neutral, they set up a money laundering ability that actually used the Israeli mafia through Meyer Lansky and the Italian mafia, who he…
▶ 1:47:21
They said that he was the godfather that was never named. And if there was any Italian mafia godfather they wanted gone, Meyer Lansky got close to them, got inside their funds, and they got nailed or they got taken out. He had an entire cri…
▶ 1:47:49
gave way to the Israeli Swiss bank, and that was funded by Lenski Crime Syndicate money. You follow that bank through all of this stuff, and it'll link through all of these things, including how they moved those scientists and how that bank…
▶ 1:48:15
That's so true what you said about Meyer Lansky and his involvement with Copacabana in Cuba with the Riviera Hotel before Fidel Castro took over in 59. Santo Traficante was the main black, dark intelligence figure of the mafia in that era. …
▶ 1:29:00
And just looking to his mentor, Roy Cohn was. The Blue Room, the Plaza, who was, I mean, literally, Roy Cohn was involved in the Lansky group, the kosher-nostra blackmailing Hoover, who was a cross-dressing homosexual in the first place. Th…
▶ 8:23
was very much against getting into the drug trade. They thought it was beneath them. So you had Lucky Luciana and Meyer Lansky and Paul Helliwell decided that they were all going to open a bank called Castle Bank in the Bahamas. And Paul He…
▶ 26:36
And he created a thing called the Commission with Meyer Lansky. The Commission eventually governed organized crime activity in the United States. It took basically so that, you know, there was a lot of in-house killing back and forth. So th…
▶ 34:24
And Lucky Luciano's reappearance in Italy aids in that reestablishment because he's basically now viewed as a wartime hero as well. So in October of 1946, and this is very important, Lucky traveled to Cuba where he met Frank Costello, Vito …
▶ 1:36:34
Let's see. It was alleged that Mafia boss Meyer Lansky was a member of the 1001 Club, which was not true, although Lansky did work with four Mossad agents and 1001 Club member Tiber Rosenbaum. Tiber Rosenbaum was a very good friend of Princ…
▶ 2:51
but describes him only as a lawyer. Imagine talking about Paul Hellywell and only listing him as a lawyer. Ignoring this significant relationship he developed with organized crime, including Meyer Lansky's bank. Furthermore, while confirmin…
▶ 1:18:32
of Paul Dorfman and Alan Dorfman. The National City Bank itself had once leased its racetrack in Havana, which they lost to Castro, and also through a subsidiary, the Hotel Nacional in Cuba, the casino, which they leased to Meyer Lansky of …
▶ 1:20:25
where his fellow directors included Joseph Benz of U.S. Life. Benz was also involved in the Bahama land deals and speculations of Meyer Lansky's business partner, Lou Chesler. Also involved was John Hauser, an intelligence officer from the …
▶ 1:23:50
The Miami National Bank was identified in 1960 as having served between, let's see, 1963 and 67 as a conduit which hot syndicate money, meaning money to be laundered, by Meyer Lansky and his couriers was laundered through the interlocking e…
▶ 1:24:49
had a wealthy syndicate league that a guy by the name of Mike Coppola was investing in Florida real estate for the syndicate. He said that he had a company called General Development Corporation that Meyer Lansky's business associates blew.…
▶ 1:25:47
a hotel casino that everybody believed at the time was controlled by Jimmy Hoffa. The same associations, if they were exposed, might cast a light on unexplained 1968 business trip to Hong Kong and Southeast Asia of Santo Trafficani, who was…
▶ 1:26:16
that was intimately involved in the drug trafficking in Southeast Asia. Trapacani had been preceded in 1965 by John Pullman, Meyer Lansky's courier to the Miami National Bank. And in April 1965, Pullman visited a hotel in Hong Kong where th…
▶ 5:30
with oil prominent in the overt level and the mob and drug links at a deeper covert level, oftentimes play reoccurring roles in this story. For example, there is a striking continuity between the activities of Paul Helliwell of the OSS, the…
▶ 39:09
Defense Force and allowed the use of their sea and airports in Thailand for the transportation of all of these drugs. And that's where we spent $35 million, bribing all of those people. But for years, Heliwell was also a legal counsel to Me…
▶ 39:37
While representing Thailand, and I just mentioned that he was the official Thai consul in Miami, at a time when KMT money from Thailand and Burma came via Hong Kong to be washed through Meyer Lansky's properties. Money laundering. Still lat…
▶ 46:43
Once the CIA, not even the CIA at the time, the U.S. interest around this began, also drew people like Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano. These contacts with the U.S. mob were apparently not wholly broken by World War II. They were clearly ren…
▶ 51:05
as one of the small group of FBN officials who used their knowledge of the drug world to create mobsters, to recruit mobsters for intelligence purposes. A key example was Williams' former subordinate, George White, who, with the aid of Meye…
▶ 52:25
which had a big stake in the future of drug traffic and how the outcome of the KMT and Chiang Kai-shek arrangements. These figures in turn played a central role and had deep connections to U.S. intelligence, meaning the CIA. No one was bett…
▶ 29:22
until Cuba was gone. Then he goes on to explain the stuff that we already know about Meyer Lansky and him helping the World War II. But he says that, of course, Meyer Lansky had a lot of activity in Cuba as well and definitely wanted Batist…
▶ 29:57
When Santo Traficani Sr. died in 54, his family crime business went to his son, Junior. By the end of the decade, Junior was well entrenched in Cuba. He owned a substantial interest in a night spot managed by Johnny Roselli and was in partn…
▶ 1:14:26
Risotto traveled regularly back and forth between Italy and Venezuela. Quintero went to see Meyer Lansky in Rome. The two men were already had met in Toronto. This time he solicited Lansky's counsel on laundering the profits from the drug c…
▶ 20:38
The White's Out of Context Industries in 85, Harold White was doing real estate deals with People's Savings and also a key Bistain restaurant owner named Donald Berg. Berg was an associate of Richard Nixon's banker, B.B. Roboso, and of Lou …
▶ 21:08
telephone book. Berg also told Newsday that he was well acquainted with Chesler. Berg and Roboso, along with former U.S. Senator George Smather's brother, formed Cape Florida Development Company, in which Richard Nixon invested. In a book c…
▶ 22:33
In 82, Skinner pled guilty to two misdemeanors in the so-called Outrigger scandal involving loans to organized crime associates from the Miami National Bank, the bank formerly controlled by Lansky's associate in which Ray Corona got his sta…
▶ 22:53
involved in Resorts International, which was a mafia casino with ties to Meyer Lansky. Lazar had also purchased shares from Resort International predecessor company, Mary Carter Paints, which was a CIA front. What's more, Lazar was an assoc…
▶ 23:53
who also owned stock in Resorts International and had accounts at Castle Bank too. Lasser was called the head of the California LSD market. Finally, Lasser had worked for Louis Chesler. Uncle Lou is what he was referred to. He was one of th…
▶ 24:24
start up the gambling in the Bahamas after the mob was kicked out of Cuba. Another of Chesler's casino partners was Wallace Groves, a mobster, convicted felon, and Lansky associate who had been on the CIA's payroll from 1965 to 1972. He was…
▶ 37:41
Others believe he faked his death and fled the country. The Houston Post found that Florida mob associate Malvin Malnick, the protege of Meyer Lansky, had invested some money with Baker, but it turned out to be not a lot of money, and one o…
▶ 43:34
which apparently is this common thing that you and I don't get. I promise I won't break the law anymore if you forgive me for breaking the law this time. That only goes to the crooks. Also in 1971, a Sarowitz aide, Jerry Gordon, was indicte…
▶ 44:03
Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas. The charges against Gordon were dropped when he turned state's evidence and he continued to work at Caesars. Caesars and Perlman then got into a great deal of hot water because their business dealings with Alvin…
▶ 45:30
Texas Secretary of State in 1985 shows that Victor Roger was a director of Caesar's Palace. One of his fellow officers and director included Harry Wald and Albert Basito, who were charged with SEC violations along with the others. The recor…
▶ 56:14
and was a very close friend of Resorts International president and founder James Crosby. There was also the Meyer Lansky. Meyer Lansky was basically hired to run the casinos, the mafia guy. So there is also Resorts International set up its …
▶ 1:22:21
I was in the space with you. And yes, I did go through it. Yeah. That, that was one of the reasons why I wanted to bring that up too. And also like Howard Hughes had the gaming license, but Trump could never get when Steve Wynn kept blockin…
▶ 56:17
by publishing CIA-vetted literature, and by eliminating the intellectuals and leaders who espounded these ideas. One day shortly after Fidel Castro took over power in Havana, Angleton had a brainstorm. He summoned two Jewish CIA officers, i…
▶ 56:45
the organized crime chief financial officer who had been forced to flee Havana ahead of Castro's revolutionaries, leaving behind the mafia's highly lucrative casino empire. Lansky was part of the Jewish mob, but had close business ties to t…
▶ 57:15
Angleton's emissaries met with Lansky, but the crime mogul drove too hard a bargain for his services and the deal fell through. It was only the beginning of the CIA's endless quest to kill Castro. Castro would never stop haunting the dreams…
▶ 1:03:12
being involved with the mafia and working directly with Meyer Lansky and everything. On the one hand, I believe it. On the other hand, to a lot of people out there, that's a wild claim. I mean, particularly prior to, you know, some of the l…
▶ 49:45
A certain recent Sicilian immigrant who landed there a couple years ago after being pardoned for work with the United States Navy. Meyer Lansky? No, no, I was thinking Lucky Luciano. You're right. I'm sorry. I got the wrong one. There's so …
▶ 58:10
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…
▶ 1:09:49
What Bridget just said, another gobsmacking moment, was Mayor Lansky, Florida and Las Vegas, was he a CIA asset? So he worked, obviously he worked with the Navy. I don't know if you know his story, but he worked with the Office of Naval Int…
▶ 1:10:42
Thanks to Meyer Lansky and Santo Trafficani and a few others, they definitely got involved in it. And yes, Meyer Lansky was part and parcel of this whole operation. They work as the, so technically you can think of them as the domestic CIA.…
▶ 20:30
This begins in 1971 when 23-year-old Ray Corona returned to Miami to start his banking career at Miami National Bank. At the time, this bank was controlled by Sam Cohen, an associate of mob financier Meyer Lansky. Cohen was indicted in 71 a…
▶ 21:17
Kavanaugh, according to the Miami Herald, was a controversial outfit that sold Florida swampland in the 70s and tried unsuccessfully to get a casino built down there. Klein also was connected to organized crime figures in Philadelphia. One …
▶ 30:48
and a two-acre track in Atlantic City that Polulo wanted to develop as a casino. To that purpose, Polulo had made an agreement with Resorts International, which was a casino company linked to Meyer Lansky, the mob. Like any good mobster, wh…
▶ 1:47
eliminate the Corsican Mafia, ensuring that the CIA's preferred mafia, the Sicilian Mafia, got sole distribution of drugs not only into Europe, but also into the United States. So, no, they weren't tricked into anything. It's a well-establi…
▶ 2:48
I just find that laughable. During Prohibition, Luciano and Lansky gained control of the New York docks and longshoremen unions by means of muscle and blood and ran all kinds of contraband, liquor from Canada and other things. So he goes on…
▶ 36:38
However, aside from media relations, the agency had an initial, much more pressing problem, money. And this is where he goes back and starts talking about Paul Helliwell again and saying, during the summer of 1947, the terms of the working …
▶ 2:19:08
And naturally, they blame it on the old families. And what do they do? The FBI, oh, we're opening up a new task force. And what does that do? It wipes out a lot of the old apparatus. But the apparatus over in Chicago survived. The outfit ov…
▶ 58:52
associated with Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciana. So that's just a tease for upcoming shows. Yeah, I'm looking forward to that one. It'll tie into a series I've been watching called Empires of Silver, and we'll be complimenting on that one to…
▶ 44:19
Starts working with some New York bankers, gets involved with the Gambino crime family, sets up shop in Cuba where he works with Batista and Meyer Lansky was actually involved in that too. Basically, this is a fantasy world for consenting a…
▶ 50:33
So donors involved with the rise of the Bahamas in the 1960s, especially replacement for Cuba, didn't quite happen. But they did set up an offshore banking center. I'd been there since Prohibition. Meyer Lansky had lost everything in Cuba. …
▶ 14:33
There were like the number two site for the Trapacani group. That all happened out of Tampa. That's where Meyer Lansky was living for about 25 years. Yeah. So Tampa is only number two to Miami when it comes to this type of activity. So they…
▶ 5:37
But one of the gentlemen we've talked about is Meyer Lansky. And of course, he dies penniless in Florida. He was shunned by Israel. But Lansky was involved in all that going back like five or six decades. And his quote, one of the last thin…
▶ 26:16
All right, jumping back to banks. So we've got Sindona. He goes to New York City in the 50s, builds up a bunch of networks, gets to know a bunch of right-wing politicians, New York bankers, becomes a banker for the Gambino family. It's kind…
▶ 44:28
These players want to find a new Caribbean home. And they decide on the Bahamas. And Meyer Lansky goes over there with some others. Who else is involved in that? Sedona is, of course, involved. It becomes an offshore banking center. It had …
▶ 52:32
in 79 on 68 counts of fraud yeah it's because the franklin national bank went insolvent uh because they were making bad loans apparently and um everyone dropped cindona he lost a ton of money for the mafia a ton of money for the vatican and…