Lucky Luciano person
also: Charles Lucky Luciano, Luciana, luciano, Luciano, lucky, Lucky, Lucky Luciana, Lucky Luciano, Lucy, Lucy Luciano, Rosselli, Salvador Lucania
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Claims (66)
David Atlee Phillips did_business_with
Lucky Luciano documented
document
“Harvey had given the pills to Rosselli in Miami…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.164
Thomas Dewey did_business_with
Lucky Luciano documented
“So John Sr. resigns from the Senate seat in 1949 due to ill health. He gets replaced by a guy who's appointed to replace him, a senator of New York, a guy by the name of John Foster Dulles. And who appointed John Foster Dulles? Oh, I don't …”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Society Societies @ 26:28
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
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
Alfred McCoy exposed
Lucky Luciano book_quoted
“I just looked that up. It's 2000, like five or six, um, 2006. Okay. I mean, I, I think the, the first, um, okay. You had Alfred McCoy's book, you know, in 72 detailing the relationship with Lucky Luciano. And then you had Chris Simpson go i…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 @ 52:54
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
Lucky Luciano did_business_with
Corsican Mafia book_quoted
“And they use that as an excuse to basically become strike breakers. So to break the strike, Lucky Luciano made contact with Antone and Bartholomew. I'm going to butcher this one too. The leaders of the Corsican Mafia who initiated a series …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 3 and 4 @ 50:51
Lucky Luciano did_business_with
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey host_asserted
“was through the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. And I'm not a hundred percent, like I know that Giuliani came through New York in the 1980s and cleaned up the five families, but there was, you know, there was still the mafia in N…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner 911 Eve conversation @ 1:35:24
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
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
Mafia book_quoted
“It's a well-established fact that by the 1940s, the mafia had infiltrated labor unions and controlled many of the major ports. Chief among the effort to control New York docks was Lucky Luciano and his longtime friend and accomplice Meyer L…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed in Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 9 @ 3:50
CIA did_business_with
Lucky Luciano book_quoted
“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 with Lucky Luciano in prison. And then they make the deal that, hey, if you help us invade Italy with you…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed in Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 9 @ 6:18
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
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
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
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
Lucky Luciano operated_in
Sicily host_asserted
“He releases him to go and help organize during World War II the onshoring of the Allies into Sicily for their run up the Italian peninsula. And there could be a correlation that that's what he got in return for his. I'm not saying it is a p…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 28:16
Lucky Luciano headed
Five Families host_asserted
“or to be stored outside of the prying eyes of regulators. And whether it's Switzerland, Panama, BCCI, all these different places, it shifts depending on the lay of the land. But I guess the big picture is that market will always exist. So w…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 13; BCCI Pt. 3- The Cover-Up @ 4:42
Thomas Dewey covered_up
Lucky Luciano host_asserted
“Operation Underworld just happened a few years earlier. The Germans had blown up allegedly some ships in New York Harbor. The only way the military is going to be able to get control back of the port is they had to go through the mafia who …”
▶ The Shadow State 36 Secret Societies 20; The Groton School @ 41:13
Lucky Luciano participated_in
Operation Underworld book_quoted
“that he could visit him in prison. When Lansky proposed a deal guaranteeing his freedom at the end of the war, Luciano agreed to cooperate, thus began Operation Underworld. And we've talked about this before, but we'll briefly talk about it…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 2 @ 22:37
Lucky Luciano facilitated
Sicily Invasion book_quoted
“who became the liaison with naval intelligence. Luciano's contacts ensured the Allies a soft landing for their invasion in Sicily, because that's his old stopping grounds. In early 46, Luciano was rewarded. Dewey pardoned and deported him, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 2 @ 23:05
Thomas Dewey pardonned
Lucky Luciano book_quoted
“who became the liaison with naval intelligence. Luciano's contacts ensured the Allies a soft landing for their invasion in Sicily, because that's his old stopping grounds. In early 46, Luciano was rewarded. Dewey pardoned and deported him, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 2 @ 23:05
Lucky Luciano trafficked
Cuba book_quoted
“Sicily where they were ordered to haunt and the deported gangster every move and it wasn't long before the agents caught Luciano with a half ton of heroin being ready for shipment to Havana so this guy pressed for an arrest but no action wa…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 3 and 4 @ 30:49
Lucky Luciano trafficked
Cuba host_asserted
“Additional heroin would be packed in cans of sardines, cheese, barrels of olive oil. The drugs would arrive in Cuba. They would be cut in laboratories there by the Tropicani plant, which operated right here out of Tampa. The drugs would the…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 1 and 2 @ 2:16:05
Lucky Luciano trafficked
Sicilian Mafia book_quoted
“Much of the cash was handed in large suitcases to members of Lucky Luciana's syndicate, including clerics with affiliates with the Sicilian mafia. This money was used to buy votes. One reason for the secrecy Cardinal Francis Fillman of New …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 3 and 4 @ 27:24
Lucky Luciano did_business_with
Sammy L. Khoury book_quoted
“L. Corey, a slick Syrian opium merchant who had become the leading supplier of opium paste to the Middle East. Lucky Luciano met with him as soon as the strike was settled, created a business relationship, and immediately began flowing mill…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 3 and 4 @ 52:45
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
Harry Anslinger spied_on
Lucky Luciano book_quoted
“Sicily where they were ordered to haunt and the deported gangster every move and it wasn't long before the agents caught Luciano with a half ton of heroin being ready for shipment to Havana so this guy pressed for an arrest but no action wa…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 3 and 4 @ 30:49
General Development Corporation front_for
Lucky Luciano host_asserted
“And then we get into the actual workings of the plan in 1947. They've got all of the stuff in place. They've got Meyer Lansky in the U.S. They've got Lucky Luciano in Italy. They're working through the General Development Corporation as a s…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 1 and 2 @ 2:15:06
Roscoe Hillenkoetter covered_up
Lucky Luciano host_asserted
“And it said the heroin addicts rose in the United States from 20,000 to 150,000 during that time. So meanwhile, Admiral Hillen, not Nodder, insisted that the archivist at the Office of Naval Intelligence collect and burn all records concern…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 1 and 2 @ 2:18:29
Samuel Bronfman did_business_with
Lucky Luciano host_asserted
“now liquor empire. The empire continued to grow, including purchases of chemical companies, oil companies, and entertainment companies. Sam Brockman's rise from the global liquor baron also depended significantly on the ties he had forged t…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 2 @ 21:19
Chinese Tongs relationship_with
Lucky Luciano 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
Earl Brennan cited_as_source
Lucky Luciano book_quoted
“trying to protect the OSS in some of his testimony that he gave. And that according to another historian, Earl Brennan, an OSS officer in Italy, quote, was kept in the loop regarding negotiations between Luciano and the ONI. And that's just…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 29:19
Arnold Rothstein recruited
Lucky Luciano 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
Vito Genovese member_of
Lucky Luciano host_asserted
“we get to a guy by the name of Vito Genovese. He's Luciano's right-hand guy, and he operates as the translator at U.S. Army headquarters in Naples, Italy. New York's former lieutenant governor, Charles Pelletti, whom Lucky describes as one …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 1 and 2 @ 2:08:18
Thomas Dewey removed_from_power
Lucky Luciano book_quoted
“putting Luciano in prison for prostitution. And then about the attack on Pearl Harbor. And he talks about the false flag that was in the New York Harbor that got them dealing with Luciano and how the Navy intelligence was working on securit…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed in Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 9 @ 5:50
Thomas Dewey ordered_assassination_of
Lucky Luciano host_asserted
“The Germans had blown up allegedly some ships in New York Harbor. The only way the military is going to be able to get control back of the port is they had to go through the mafia who actually controls the docks. To do that, they went and l…”
▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY #35 @ 40:58
Thomas Dewey pardoned
Lucky Luciano host_asserted
“uh, set up does lend itself to be a CIA front company. So, um, hold on a second. I'll turn my ringer off. So we're just going to leave it at that. But, um, Dewey was involved in that. And did Dewey get, um, partial shares in that company be…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 27:41
United States installed
Lucky Luciano host_asserted
“Sicily. And at the time in Italy, it said, and I have not independently cooperated this, but this is the second book I've read that made this point, that a lot of the mafia had been taken care of by Mussolini. Mussolini had, because the maf…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 1 and 2 @ 2:07:20
James Forrestal did_business_with
Lucky Luciano host_asserted
“The mafia controlled all of the Italian ports. Hellywell's plan for the funding of the post-war intelligence agency, a plan which relied on Luciano's network of narcotic distribution within the streets of America. Secretary of Navy James Fo…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 1 and 2 @ 2:09:47
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
George Whitman cited_as_source
Lucky Luciano book_quoted
“being the forerunner to the CIA, and that there was a lot of overlap between who ended up in the OSS and the mafia. An author by the name of George White says that there's federal testimony that Luciano was…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 28:45
Allen Dulles did_business_with
Lucky Luciano host_asserted
“The mafia controlled all of the Italian ports. Hellywell's plan for the funding of the post-war intelligence agency, a plan which relied on Luciano's network of narcotic distribution within the streets of America. Secretary of Navy James Fo…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 1 and 2 @ 2:09:47
Fulgencio Batista did_business_with
Lucky Luciano documented
“Having originally served as the elected president of Cuba from 40 to 44, Batista seized power by a military coup in 52. The island had become a mafia stronghold after the arrival of Lucky Luciano after World War II. Once in Cuba, the mafia …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 18-19 @ 49:19
Benito Mussolini removed_from_power
Lucky Luciano documented
“In the lead up to World War II, they work a deal with intelligence that he's going to go to Sicily and he's going to lay out the whole crime families in Sicily's help to basically overthrow Mussolini's forces there. Because keep in mind, Mu…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 7 @ 1:09:34
Paul Helliwell did_business_with
Lucky Luciano 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
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
Lieutenant Commander Hafferty did_business_with
Lucky Luciano host_asserted
“The mafia controlled all of the Italian ports. Hellywell's plan for the funding of the post-war intelligence agency, a plan which relied on Luciano's network of narcotic distribution within the streets of America. Secretary of Navy James Fo…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 1 and 2 @ 2:09:47
Murray Irvine did_business_with
Lucky Luciano host_asserted
“The mafia controlled all of the Italian ports. Hellywell's plan for the funding of the post-war intelligence agency, a plan which relied on Luciano's network of narcotic distribution within the streets of America. Secretary of Navy James Fo…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 1 and 2 @ 2:09:47
Lucky Luciano relationship_with
Frank Costello 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
Lucky Luciano founded
Operation Underworld book_quoted
“They do. And hence gets birthed Operation Underworld. Operation Underworld is where they begin working with Lucky Luciano in order to not only secure the New York Harbor, but he also is involved in opening up what was at the time the non-ex…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 20:19
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
Chinese Tongs member_of
Lucky Luciano 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
Carmine DeSapio relationship_with
Lucky Luciano 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
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
Lucky Luciano headed
Green Gang host_asserted
“So we get prohibition ends. And of course, the mafia has got to find new markets. This is when Lucky Luciano takes over the five families in New York. We know all about Operation Underworld, so I won't go into that. What's going on across t…”
▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster PART 3 @ 4:45
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 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
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 (63)
▶ 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. …
▶ 1:48:45
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…
▶ 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…
▶ 26:06
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…
▶ 27:37
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…
▶ 29:06
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…
▶ 30:06
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…
▶ 31:06
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.…
▶ 31:33
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 …
▶ 32:47
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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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 …
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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Operation Underworld just happened a few years earlier. The Germans had blown up allegedly some ships in New York Harbor. The only way the military is going to be able to get control back of the port is they had to go through the mafia who …
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That was right after the lucky Luciano got prosecuted by Dewey. So that's Karamasinas' background. During World War II, he's in the OSS, of all things, in World War II because he spoke Greek. Helps have another language. Gets the CIA's in c…
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or to be stored outside of the prying eyes of regulators. And whether it's Switzerland, Panama, BCCI, all these different places, it shifts depending on the lay of the land. But I guess the big picture is that market will always exist. So w…
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And it's important to remember, I don't think we point this out enough, an awful lot of those drugs were coming through on U.S. military cargo planes. Correct. So the Pentagon at this point in time, you know, Operation Underworld had happen…