Lucky Luciano person
also: Lucky Luciana, Lucky, Charles Lucky Luciano, Salvador Lucania, Luciana, Luciano, Lucy Luciano
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Claims (22)
Lucky Luciano member_of
Port Authority host_asserted
“And then we can use that to draw some link. Speaking of connections from the distant past, though, on 9-11, I mean, there's two that kind of have these Gladio links. And I think the first is the most, you know, is part of the central Gladio…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Charlie Kirk Shooting and PRE 9_11 conversation @ 1:35:06
George Whitman recruited
Lucky Luciano host_asserted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 5 @ 51:05
CIA funded
Lucky Luciano host_asserted
“Italy, in NATO, why the CIA was formed, you know, for this process, and of course the alliance with the Sicilian, you know, mafia, Lucky Luciano, and the drug running involved in all of it. And he basically walked everybody through the moti…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 5 @ 2:02:12
Office of Naval Intelligence recruited
Lucky Luciano host_asserted
“catches on fire. And that was used as the impetus to infiltrate and kind of collaborate with the mob. And they offered Lucky, if he would cooperate with the Office of Naval Intelligence, they would, after the war was over, basically allow h…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Italy @ 30:06
Lucky Luciano laundered_money_for
Mario Renda documented
“Charles laundered the money for Renda. He turned it into cash so it couldn't be traced back to Renda. Charles washed the money by first wiring it to bank accounts in Switzerland. After that, investigators lost track of it. But when it came …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 13 @ 39:50
Lucky Luciano laundered_money_for
Bonanno Mafia documented
“Charles was involved in laundering money for the mob in Nevada and was doing business in Florida with a member of the Bonanno Mafia family who got the first casino license in Haiti from Papa Doc. The Bonanno associates may have helped Charl…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 13 @ 47:37
CIA recruited
Lucky Luciano documented
“Duvier had Charles thrown in jail. Charles spent 10 years until he was released by Papa Doc's son. Then he was exiled. All the books say that Papa Doc threw his banker and back man in jail because Charles had gotten too big for his britches…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 13 @ 41:55
George de Mohrenschildt recruited
Lucky Luciano documented
“DeMorgan Shield arranged a meeting between Clamard Charles and Dorothy Matlack, who was the assistant director of Army Office of Intelligence and U.S. Army liaison with the CIA. According to DeMorgan Shield's CIA files, which the assassinat…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 13 @ 44:26
CIA recruited
Lucky Luciano host_asserted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 5 @ 51:05
Lucky Luciano founded
Iraq Intelligence Commission host_asserted
“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…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Italy @ 26:36
Lucky Luciano member_of
Mafia host_asserted
“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 …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Italy @ 34:24
Office of Naval Intelligence recruited
Lucky Luciano guest_asserted
“World War II when the naval intelligence was courting Lucy Luciano. And yeah. Correct. I have read now five books in a row on the mafia tentacles. And it becomes readily apparent that the model of our government and…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner_ The Great Heroin Coup Part 1 @ 1:40:57
Lucky Luciano member_of
Mafia book_quoted
“was Lucky Luciano and his longtime friend and accomplice Meyer Lansky. One of the best books on this is Operation Gladio by Paul Williams. He says this. But then how does he not say what Paul Williams also revealed in that book, which is th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 2:18
Thomas Dewey removed_from_power
Lucky Luciano book_quoted
“with his rule in the country in 1922. Not just the Mafia, but the Masonic Lodges as well. Though failing in Italy, the Mafia was a powerful entity in the United States. And then he goes on and talks about Dewey and putting Luciano in prison…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 3:48
CIA recruited
Lucky Luciano book_quoted
“dealing with Luciano and how the Navy intelligence was working on security at the New York docks. But the USS Normandy, a French ship, had been docked there. It gets set on fire and they use that as the impetus to start talking directly wit…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 4:19
United States recruited
Lucky Luciano caller_asserted
“And he was a very valuable intelligence partner during World War II, and at least according, I think, to the Kefauver committees, well after that, as well as Lucien Conine in his interview with Alfred McCoy in 71. Yeah, and Conine is the gu…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3 @ 1:00:23
Lucky Luciano 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
François Duvalier appointed
Lucky Luciano host_asserted
“Aircraft sales. Weird. How do you smuggle airplanes out of the United States? Duvier rewarded Charles with a private bank, Banque Commercial, along with the monopoly on compulsory car and old age insurance and the control of Port-au-Prince,…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 13 @ 40:54
François Duvalier removed_from_power
Lucky Luciano host_asserted
“Duvier had Charles thrown in jail. Charles spent 10 years until he was released by Papa Doc's son. Then he was exiled. All the books say that Papa Doc threw his banker and back man in jail because Charles had gotten too big for his britches…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 13 @ 41:55
Operation Underworld involved
Lucky Luciano host_asserted
“We're going to show you some things the Rockefellers did to tie an awful lot of things together. I just don't have that particular smoking gun on the hotel, but there's a lot there. And the other thing I was going to point out, and this is …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 59:19
Thomas Dewey prosecuted
Lucky Luciano host_asserted
“who was a prosecutor in New York City who prosecuted Lucky Luciano, or it was at least on the prosecution team, I think that was involving Thomas Dewey. That may have involved him. He winds up being chief of station in Rome in the 1960s. An…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 50:15
Lucky Luciano attempted_coup_against
Italy 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
Mentions (57)
▶ 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. …
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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…
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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…
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All it took was that label. And by any means necessary is what they meant, because their next step was basically to approach the mafia and come to an understanding. Charles Lucky Luciano, having been born in Sicily, his name was Salvador Lu…
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So Luciana put an end to it by arranging the elimination of mafia chiefs and laying down laws to basically get with the program that they set up or you were going to get assassinated. So Lucky began importing heroin from the Chinese warlord…
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Most of the mafia, as I said earlier, were not all that interested in drug peddling. So there was some discussions, some meetings, and basically that got overruled. In the meantime, Lucky was involved in sex trafficking with prostitutes, an…
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catches on fire. And that was used as the impetus to infiltrate and kind of collaborate with the mob. And they offered Lucky, if he would cooperate with the Office of Naval Intelligence, they would, after the war was over, basically allow h…
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He was able to basically help them out during all of that. And at Donovan's request, Commander Happenden, who was part of the ONI contingent, the Office of Naval Intelligence, basically worked to negotiate with Lucky in his jail cell.…
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we get the introduction of a guy by the name of Vito Genovese. He happened to be Luciana's right-hand man and chief translator. He also was at the army headquarters in Naples. The New York former lieutenant governor, a guy by the name of Ch…
▶ 33:30
You know, there's, for lack of a better word, a show trial. And then you have in the summer of 1946, Luciano arrives back in his hometown of Sicily and to a hero's welcome, right? Because now he's a hero because he helped with the World War…
▶ 33:59
to get Italy free from Mussolini. So now, you know, you've elevated not only, and for whatever it's worth, Mussolini outlawed the mafia and outlawed all Masonic lodges in the country of Italy during his reign. Not saying he's a good guy, ju…
▶ 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 …
▶ 2:26:53
Even the Sicily war facts about the one, the Lucky Luciano, that helped the Allies entry.…
▶ 1:26:49
So that is unequivocally true, SR-71. So thank you for bringing that up. Jeff, go ahead. Colonel, you were speaking on the French connection, the course connection for the heroin that was brought into the United States. I believe that was y…
▶ 1:12:15
Lucky Luciano, which bridged the Italian mafia gap. There was a question, well, did the CIA was involved with killing JFK? And the other question was also brought up in New Orleans with Carlos Marcellos, Jack Ruby, and MKUltra dealing with …
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privacy because you have very wealthy people with horses and the mafia running the horse tracks so they come together they plan their events under the guise of being at the track and then they part their ways and there's not a lot of um any…
▶ 4:03
Stay Behind Unit concept a couple of years ago. And that's how I found this book. Because when you do a search on Yandex for Stay Behind Units, one of the first things that comes up is Operation Gladio. And that's how I found this book and …
▶ 1:35:06
And then we can use that to draw some link. Speaking of connections from the distant past, though, on 9-11, I mean, there's two that kind of have these Gladio links. And I think the first is the most, you know, is part of the central Gladio…
▶ 1:26:36
They orchestrated the entire thing. And either way, at the end of the day, you can make either one of those arguments. They still need to be destroyed. I believe inept was the word you were looking for. Colonel, you haven't even gotten to L…
▶ 59:56
But there does seem to be this link going further back. It definitely is. And who got rid of the P1 and the Mafia in Italy? That was Mussolini. Yeah. That's wild. And then Mussolini's gone. It comes right back. There you go. I mean, we send…
▶ 1:00:07
fascinating story. I had no idea what it was. It came up in like two books ago and I'm like, what the hell is it, Tom? It's fascinating, actually. I highly suggest that you go read that article. In the 1930s, the national president of the H…
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other countries of CIA penetration, and more importantly, through and to agencies and groups that have been classified as CIA assets. In the 1950s, opium from Indochina traveled through Iran and Lebanon to the Corsican Mafia and to the Sici…
▶ 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…
▶ 2:02:12
Italy, in NATO, why the CIA was formed, you know, for this process, and of course the alliance with the Sicilian, you know, mafia, Lucky Luciano, and the drug running involved in all of it. And he basically walked everybody through the moti…
▶ 14:14
The drugs, when they were brought into the United States, had to be distributed. And then I come up with the drug connection, and I start digging into organized crime. And I realized that Lucky Luciano, during World War II and Vito Genovese…
▶ 14:40
There was a huge meeting of the mafioso in Cuba in 1997, and it was a huge event to honor Luciano, and Traficanti was there, and the Genovese were there, and Frank Sinatra was there. You know, I mean, it was a huge thing. And that was when,…
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with the mafioso, with the organized crime families. We work with Lucky Luciano during World War II to launch the invasion of Italy at Anzio. So, you know, our friend is down in Cal, the leading mafioso in Italy. You know, these people, you…
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The books, bank accounts where he and Schwimmer put their money skimmed from the union pensions fund deposits. The money was then wire transferred to a bank in New York and next wired to a man by the name of Clemard Joseph Charles. Charles …
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Charles laundered the money for Renda. He turned it into cash so it couldn't be traced back to Renda. Charles washed the money by first wiring it to bank accounts in Switzerland. After that, investigators lost track of it. But when it came …
▶ 40:23
Duvalier is the CIA propped up stooge in Haiti. They describe him in addition to being his personal banker as his business partner and financial advisor, as well as a bag man who delivered payoffs. It seems that Charles first gained Papa Do…
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Aircraft sales. Weird. How do you smuggle airplanes out of the United States? Duvier rewarded Charles with a private bank, Banque Commercial, along with the monopoly on compulsory car and old age insurance and the control of Port-au-Prince,…
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He's the guy in charge of everything coming and going to include human trafficking. Charles was also placed on the board of directors of 14 major companies and became the exclusive agent to General Electric, Simmons, Simons, and Toyota. He …
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Duvier had Charles thrown in jail. Charles spent 10 years until he was released by Papa Doc's son. Then he was exiled. All the books say that Papa Doc threw his banker and back man in jail because Charles had gotten too big for his britches…
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DeMorgan Shield arranged a meeting between Clamard Charles and Dorothy Matlack, who was the assistant director of Army Office of Intelligence and U.S. Army liaison with the CIA. According to DeMorgan Shield's CIA files, which the assassinat…
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rep. DeMorganshield attended the meeting with the CIA to Matlack's surprise. She did not know what role DeMorganshield was serving, but felt that he dominated Charles in some way, like he's his handler. Finally, the kicker in the CIA memo. …
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That put Charles' ability to obtain two aircraft from the U.S. despite the embargo and would be a factor in his subsequent 1967 jailing by Duvier in a whole new light. For it was in 67 that Mitch Warbell, along with some Haitians and Cuban …
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the CIA. He said the distinction was that he got paid by a private group, not directly from the CIA, just wanted their proprietary. The charges against Warbill for planning the invasion of Haiti were later dropped because of course they wer…
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on another Haiti operation. This indicates that Warbel and Charles and the CIA had been working together to get rid of Dovier in 67. Papa Doc found out about it and clapped Charles in jail. After Charles got out of jail, he apparently put h…
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Charles was involved in laundering money for the mob in Nevada and was doing business in Florida with a member of the Bonanno Mafia family who got the first casino license in Haiti from Papa Doc. The Bonanno associates may have helped Charl…
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which means you know it has zero to do with peace. It was a non-profit company which filed to do business in 1988. One of the officers in that organization was Watergate burglar Frank Sturgis, who has a long-standing tie to both the mafia a…
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Freeman also was involved in the $200 million land deal that we'll get into later in Florida with the DuPont family. As for Charles' long time and constant desire to be president of Haiti, it came to naught. After baby Doc abdicated in 86, …
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That developed, you know, between the OSS, later the CIA, and Lucky Luciano and the Sicilian Moscow. Yes. Yes. We also saw it with the gangs that arose out of the illicit drug trafficking in the United States. They're not going to have any …
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father to Operation Gladio. It also ties him to the approach of Lucky Luciano and the arrangement with the Mafia and it goes to…
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I just looked that up. It's 2005 or 2006. Okay. I mean, I think the first – okay, you had Alfred McCoy's book in 72 detailing the relationship with Lucky Luciano. And then you had Chris Simpson go into more detail on the 48 Italian election…
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was running the Rome station from. And then, of course, now we find out all these other connections that are slowly coming out about Epstein's connections to Iran-Contra. And you see how there's an extra link now. Not just this tangential t…
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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 …
▶ 50:15
who was a prosecutor in New York City who prosecuted Lucky Luciano, or it was at least on the prosecution team, I think that was involving Thomas Dewey. That may have involved him. He winds up being chief of station in Rome in the 1960s. An…
▶ 59:19
We're going to show you some things the Rockefellers did to tie an awful lot of things together. I just don't have that particular smoking gun on the hotel, but there's a lot there. And the other thing I was going to point out, and this is …
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When he originally published this book, this is a quote instructed by his own experience of collaboration with the American intelligence services. Lucky Luciano used to recommend to his honorable correspondents scattered from Beirut to Tang…
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World War II when the naval intelligence was courting Lucy Luciano. And yeah. Correct. I have read now five books in a row on the mafia tentacles. And it becomes readily apparent that the model of our government and…
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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…
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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…
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with his rule in the country in 1922. Not just the Mafia, but the Masonic Lodges as well. Though failing in Italy, the Mafia was a powerful entity in the United States. And then he goes on and talks about Dewey and putting Luciano in prison…
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dealing with Luciano and how the Navy intelligence was working on security at the New York docks. But the USS Normandy, a French ship, had been docked there. It gets set on fire and they use that as the impetus to start talking directly wit…
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hey, if you help us invade Italy with your mafia dons in Sicily, then we'll let you out of prison at the end of World War II as long as you won't fight deportation and we send you back to Italy. So that was all worked out. That's the Reader…
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They have informants in the press, which, of course, we know this to be true. And he likens that back to the use of Lucky Luciano and Santo Trafficani basically being used by the CIA, telling them, quote unquote, state secrets in order for …