Santo Trafficante Jr. person
also: Santo Trapacana, Santo Traficante, Traficani, Santos Trapacani, Santo Trafficani, Trafficani, Santo Traficani, Santo Trapacondi, Santo Trapicana, Trapacani, Santo Trafficano
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Claims (16)
CIA paid
Santo Trafficante Jr. documented
“Joe, who turned out to be Santo Trafficani, the Tampa slash Miami mob boss, who was already working with the CIA, by the way, on all of the heroin trafficking through Cuba. The agency offered $150,000 to assassinate Castro. O'Connell never …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (19) @ 54:56
Johnny Roselli recruited
Santo Trafficante Jr. documented
“Joe, who turned out to be Santo Trafficani, the Tampa slash Miami mob boss, who was already working with the CIA, by the way, on all of the heroin trafficking through Cuba. The agency offered $150,000 to assassinate Castro. O'Connell never …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (19) @ 54:56
Norman Rockman member_of
Santo Trafficante Jr. documented
“Miami mobsters Rosenthal and Norman Rockman. Rockman was a close associate of South Florida's mafia chieftain, Santo Trapicana. A memo in Posada's CIA file said Posada may have been moonlighting for Rosenthal. But in late 1968, he was trans…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 22:27
CIA recruited
Santo Trafficante Jr. host_asserted
“Cause, which included assassination plots with Santo Trafficani Jr., who had used his Savannah operations as a base for narcotics trafficking with the CIA. The CIA also trained an army of Cubans, meaning exile Cubans, which failed to defeat…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner LIVE RESEARCH INTO OPERATION GLADIO @ 9:20
Santo Trafficante Jr. member_of
The Enterprise host_asserted
“He operated with the protection of the CIA from the day the CIA was set up because he was running part of their covert drug network. And that's the reason why you're never allowed to go a certain level above in busting drug networks because…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19 @ 1:22:20
Johnny Roselli traded_network_to
Santo Trafficante Jr. book_quoted
“He also says Roselli introduced Mayhew to Sam Giacomo and Santo Trapacani Jr. And of course, we know what they were involved in. They were involved in all of the opium coming in from Taiwan.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 1:19:43
Santo Trafficante Jr. trafficked
Formosa host_asserted
“He also says Roselli introduced Mayhew to Sam Giacomo and Santo Trapacani Jr. And of course, we know what they were involved in. They were involved in all of the opium coming in from Taiwan.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 1:19:43
Juan Romanek member_of
Santo Trafficante Jr. documented
“An Interpol report identified Juan Romanek, a World Finance Director, as a Traficani associate. An affiliated company, Dominion Mortgage Corporation, which shared the same Coral Gables address and borrowed $2 million from World Finance to b…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 13 @ 8:20
Santo Trafficante Jr. member_of
Carlos Marcello documented
“66, Marcello was caught by New York police having lunch at La Stella's restaurant in Queens. Seated at Marcello's table was none other than Carlo Gambino, the boss of the biggest New York mafia family. Seated next to Marcello's left was San…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 20 @ 43:18
Santo Trafficante Jr. trafficked
Dominion Mortgage Corporation documented
“An Interpol report identified Juan Romanek, a World Finance Director, as a Traficani associate. An affiliated company, Dominion Mortgage Corporation, which shared the same Coral Gables address and borrowed $2 million from World Finance to b…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 13 @ 8:20
Santo Trafficante Jr. assassinated
Johnny Roselli book_quoted
“Johnny Roselli. Traficani fled to the Caribbean, our sources said. But before Giaccona and Roselli could say anything that might link Traficani to Dallas, they were killed. Police concluded from the evidence that the men were hit by Trafica…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 29:25
CIA trafficked
Santo Trafficante Jr. host_asserted
“Joe, who turned out to be Santo Trafficani, the Tampa slash Miami mob boss, who was already working with the CIA, by the way, on all of the heroin trafficking through Cuba. The agency offered $150,000 to assassinate Castro. O'Connell never …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (19) @ 54:56
Santo Trafficante Jr. assassinated
Sam Giancana book_quoted
“Johnny Roselli. Traficani fled to the Caribbean, our sources said. But before Giaccona and Roselli could say anything that might link Traficani to Dallas, they were killed. Police concluded from the evidence that the men were hit by Trafica…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 29:25
Santo Trafficante Jr. ordered_assassination_of
John F. Kennedy book_quoted
“In September 1963, he publicly warned that if the CIA continued its attempts to kill Cuban leaders, then American leaders would no longer be safe. Participants in the plot against Castro claimed that Castro then enlisted Traficani to turn t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 25:55
Santo Trafficante Jr. funded
Knights of Columbus guest_asserted
“He just kind of casually mentioned that when he moved down to Central Florida, that there was an agreement with Santo Trafficani that he was to come to our area and set up a Knights of Columbus for four years.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 50 (52) @ 1:23:26
Santo Trafficante Jr. headed
Mafia host_asserted
“So they kind of controlled the entire Gulf Coast of mafia-related activity.…”
▶ Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1 @ 35:52
Mentions (39)
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is the mob boss down in New Orleans that was best friends with the Herman Beebe guy. And he basically controlled a lot of what went on with the mafia in Texas as well. Because, you know, New Orleans is right around the corner from Houston. …
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So they kind of controlled the entire Gulf Coast of mafia-related activity. Okay, I think, well, yeah, there's a little blurb here about Walter Mishner Sr., Houston developer, banker, power broker, who headed Allied Bank, Corson's former fa…
▶ 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. …
▶ 1:21:50
covert side of the CIA, but they operated in that with the protection of the CIA. And we just talked about it. We were just reading about it. All of those people begin working outside of the CIA with the CIA's protection in the thing called…
▶ 1:24:36
Oh, and by the way, that was in Tampa, which is Hillsborough County. So all of this shit, Santo Traficante is Hillsborough County. This is where the heart of the drug mafia resided in Florida, not in Miami. He went down there all the time. …
▶ 1:25:03
And I know Traficani is not there anymore, but it's still a hub of drug trafficking because it's a port city. You're going to make that guy the DEA. It just it has to be called out because it's absolutely right. So what else we got? Anybody…
▶ 9:44
If in the long run, it would seize a bigger haul. A couple of the books that talk about this is called The Strength of the Wolf, The Secret History of America's War on Drugs. And another one is called The Strength of the Pack, The Personali…
▶ 1:19:43
He also says Roselli introduced Mayhew to Sam Giacomo and Santo Trapacani Jr. And of course, we know what they were involved in. They were involved in all of the opium coming in from Taiwan.…
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Miami mobsters Rosenthal and Norman Rockman. Rockman was a close associate of South Florida's mafia chieftain, Santo Trapicana. A memo in Posada's CIA file said Posada may have been moonlighting for Rosenthal. But in late 1968, he was trans…
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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…
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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…
▶ 8:53
and closed the mafia-owned casinos in Havana. Then Castro declared his commitment to communism, putting a Soviet ally only 90 miles from American territory. The CIA's Western Hemisphere Division got the job of ridding Cuba of Castro, and th…
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While maintaining ties to the CIA and other U.S. agencies, some of the Cuban exile warriors adapted their clandestine cells to the cocaine importation business. In collusion with the CIA, they became foot soldiers for Traficani's drug armie…
▶ 1:26:16
Oh, yeah, right here. Footnote four. Here it is. In addition to the CIA connections to World Finance, there was also evidence of mafia ties. The DEA and congressional investigators found links to Santo Trafficani, the mafia boss in Florida,…
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an affiliated company, Dominion Mortgage Corporation, which shared the same Coral Gables address and borrowed $2 million from World Finance, and that's the CIA front, by the way, to buy an office building there, worked with the Traficani fa…
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90 of the 95 original co-defendants settled with plaintiffs. In addition to CIA connections, world finance, there was also evidence of mafia ties because they're inseparable. The DEA and congressional investigators found links to Santo Traf…
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An Interpol report identified Juan Romanek, a World Finance Director, as a Traficani associate. An affiliated company, Dominion Mortgage Corporation, which shared the same Coral Gables address and borrowed $2 million from World Finance to b…
▶ 54:56
Joe, who turned out to be Santo Trafficani, the Tampa slash Miami mob boss, who was already working with the CIA, by the way, on all of the heroin trafficking through Cuba. The agency offered $150,000 to assassinate Castro. O'Connell never …
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tested on monkeys. And they worked. They killed the monkeys. A pencil was also hollowed out and prepared as a device, which could be used to smuggle the capsules into Cuba. The CIA inspector general proved unable to determine exactly when t…
▶ 57:57
1961. Oh, that's right. JFK is now president. By then, the plot had already failed. The mafia men in Havana, Juan Orta, director general of Castro's personal office, had been slated as the hitman to poison Castro. Orta had apparently gotten…
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But Fidel fired him on January 26th after the CIA had no way to deliver the poison. Castro always seems to be one step ahead of these guys. Weird. Traficani briefly favored using a prominent exile identified as Tony Verona as the assassin. …
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He just kind of casually mentioned that when he moved down to Central Florida, that there was an agreement with Santo Trafficani that he was to come to our area and set up a Knights of Columbus for four years.…
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And I mean, Santo Trafficani was not just any mafia boss. He was probably one of the top three in the United States. Tell someone as part of their mafia duty to go set up a Knights of Columbus in an area that didn't have one.…
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the Corsicans' influence in the worldwide narcotics traffic, which of course we've talked about many times on the show, and to create a virtual monopoly of the U.S.'s CIA and the Italian mafia connection through figures like Santo Traffican…
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which had grown up in the 1960s between the De Gaulle intelligence services and the CIA. You know, during the time they tried to kill him over 30 times. Lamond had no difficulty spelling out the American side of this, even though the CIA ac…
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and Mexican mafia as it relates to heroin, rather than to eliminate the trade and to use Cuban exiles and Santo Traficani's mafia under the operational arm of the CIA, well known by the Nixon White House. This is another quote from the book…
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That was a car bomb in Washington, D.C. that killed the former Chilean ambassador and an American who was serving as his aide, sanctioned by the CIA in America. To support his argument that the traffic once dominated by record was simply re…
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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.…
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66, Marcello was caught by New York police having lunch at La Stella's restaurant in Queens. Seated at Marcello's table was none other than Carlo Gambino, the boss of the biggest New York mafia family. Seated next to Marcello's left was San…
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Let's see, Bridget got kicked out. Let me get her back up here. They must be messing with us again. Yeah, that's really crazy. Another meeting occurred in which other players came together in Southeast Asia. According to sources that have o…
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that the operation continued long after the Americans pulled out, which of course we know it did. He also goes on to say the convenient business arrangement with the Miami mafia, Traficani, continued after the fall of Vietnam. The significa…
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ZR Rifle is the actual name of the stuff we were just talking about yesterday or the day before. So you have heard about it. It's the William Harvey, when we were talking about him and Sam G. O'Connor and Santo Trapacondi and Roseli. That i…
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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 …
▶ 25:24
This is a quote. The killers were handpicked by Santo Trafficani, who had been the mafia boss in the pre Castro Havana. After six hit teams failed, the CIA reportedly learned that Trafficani had tipped off Castro. The CIA cut the mafia out,…
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In September 1963, he publicly warned that if the CIA continued its attempts to kill Cuban leaders, then American leaders would no longer be safe. Participants in the plot against Castro claimed that Castro then enlisted Traficani to turn t…
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The CIA and the mafia sent in six assassination teams, all of which failed. We don't know why they failed. The claim is that Traficani had secretly made a deal with Castro over the CIA. Traficani then enlists the aid of two other mob godfat…
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Then CIA Director John McCone shared the shocking report with Robert F. Kennedy and the new president, LBJ. In the 1970s, a congressional committee investigated CIA's use of mafia hitmen to kill Castro. Senate investigators asked questions …
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Johnny Roselli. Traficani fled to the Caribbean, our sources said. But before Giaccona and Roselli could say anything that might link Traficani to Dallas, they were killed. Police concluded from the evidence that the men were hit by Trafica…
▶ 30:41
Are you genuinely supposed to believe that in the immediate aftermath of the Kennedy assassination in 1963, the CIA knew that Santo Trafficano, Carlos Marcello and Johnny Roselli were involved and simply let them go on living until Congress…