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Claims (59)
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
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
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
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
Jose Alleman spied_on
Santo Trafficante Jr. documented
“as well as Texas. In September 1962, Traficani made the statement to Jose Alleman, a wealthy Cuban exile in Miami, that Kennedy's not going to make it to the election. That's a direct quote. He then looked at him and said he's going to be h…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Kill Zone Part 3 @ 42:16
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
CIA offered_money_to
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 18 @ 59:04
Operation Eagle Claw targeted_for_regime_change
Santo Trafficante Jr. book_quoted
“Operation Eagle was a flashpoint. Launched in 70, Eagle targeted anti-Castro Cubans smuggling cocaine from Latin America to Traficante's organization in Florida. Of the dozens of traffickers arrested in June, many were found to be members o…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Grayston Lynch connecting Gladio to Cuban Exiles @ 29:14
Johnny Roselli passed_weapons_to
Santo Trafficante Jr. documented
“were crafted, 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 …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 18 @ 1:01:32
James O'Connell avoided_meeting_with
Santo Trafficante Jr. documented
“no doubt to avoid any direct link between the CIA and the mafia. O'Connell, who headed the operational support branch of the Sheffield's office, happened to be very senior for a case officer, another indication of the sensitivity. In fact, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 18 @ 59:35
Santo Trafficante Jr. operated_in
Hillsborough County host_asserted
“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. It was in Tampa in Hillsborough County. So the entire fucking DEA thing is screwed up. And…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 18 @ 1:16:31
Santo Trafficante Jr. considered
Tony Verona documented
“by taking bribes on casino license back during the Batista days. 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 us…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 18 @ 1:02:32
Santo Trafficante Jr. recruited
Juan Orta documented
“What happened in 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 …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 18 @ 1:02:03
Santo Trafficante Jr. did_business_with
CIA book_quoted
“You mean like Grayston? From his stable of underworld contacts, Saragusa again claimed to have refused, but drug traffickers, including some prominently Santo Trafficani Jr., were soon participating in the CIA attempted assassination of Fid…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Grayston Lynch connecting Gladio to Cuban Exiles @ 18:55
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
CIA did_business_with
Santo Trafficante Jr. book_quoted
“Prior to the coup, Lansky's syndicate narcotics boss, Santo Traficani Jr., had made the necessary arrangements in Southeast Asia and Mexico prior to starting the war on the Corsican mafia. Traficani's old partner, the CIA, had long since as…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 12 @ 2:11
Santo Trafficante Jr. supplied_arms_to
Mafia book_quoted
“The problem concerning who the mafia would supply for a hit was solved by Traficani. As a veteran in dealing with covert world of the CIA, instead of using mob hitmen, which would be easily traced, he, according to Craig Roberts, we know th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Kill Plot Part 5 @ 5:15
Santo Trafficante Jr. paid
Richard Nixon book_quoted
“who ran all of those things in Southeast Asia, had made payoffs to Nixon. The crime figure, he says, was the one who was apparently known as the so-called mastermind or architect of the Southeast Asian drug trade, who was very powerful and …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 12 @ 10:08
Santo Trafficante Jr. member_of
Lansky syndicate book_quoted
“Prior to the coup, Lansky's syndicate narcotics boss, Santo Traficani Jr., had made the necessary arrangements in Southeast Asia and Mexico prior to starting the war on the Corsican mafia. Traficani's old partner, the CIA, had long since as…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 12 @ 2:11
Santo Trafficante Jr. wanted_to_eliminate_competition
Mafia book_quoted
“He first focuses on the Lansky syndicate represented by Santo Traficani and the Cuban exiles. He says in addition to his motives shared by the CIA, Traficani had many other reasons to take part. Cheaper heroin. He wanted the Corsicans out b…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 12 @ 5:34
Santo Trafficante Jr. did_business_with
Jose Alleman documented
“as well as Texas. In September 1962, Traficani made the statement to Jose Alleman, a wealthy Cuban exile in Miami, that Kennedy's not going to make it to the election. That's a direct quote. He then looked at him and said he's going to be h…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Kill Zone Part 3 @ 42:16
Robert Maheu relationship_with
Santo Trafficante Jr. book_quoted
“A lot of information about that. And then the author moves on to, let me get past Mayhew. There's two chapters of nothing but Mayhew information. And his relationship with Santo Traficani, Carlos Marcello in New Orleans, blah, blah, blah. O…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 7 @ 5:54
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
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
CIA funded
Santo Trafficante Jr. host_asserted
“It also became a transit point for Traficani's narcotics traffic, meaning the Dominican Republic. The CIA, according to agents of the BNDD, which we've said repeatedly turns into the DEA, helped organize the drug routes by providing IDs and…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 9 @ 2:24
CIA did_business_with
Santo Trafficante Jr. host_asserted
“the island of Cuba, to the Dominican Republic. They were put in charge of narcotic operations in the Dominican Republic for shipment to Florida. It's also important to note the CIA's close cooperation with Traficani's Cuban mafia, whose ove…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 9 @ 2:54
Santo Trafficante Jr. funded
Communist International host_asserted
“International Anti-Communist Brigade, IACB. It was financed through a combination of Traficani and CIA funds. According to Richard Whatley, a brigade member hired for the invasion, Traficani would order Sturgis to move his men and he'd do i…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 9 @ 3:55
Santo Trafficante Jr. did_business_with
Triads host_asserted
“He made sure he made connections with all the CIA buddies over there. He also was dealing with what's referred to as the Triads, which is the Chinese gangs. They're mafia. In Hong Kong, Traficani opened doors with Fershi's help, who gave hi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 9 @ 23:27
Santo Trafficante Jr. did_business_with
Frank Furschi host_asserted
“at the snap of a finger. In 1968, Traficani himself went on an extended business trip to the Far East. His first stop was Hong Kong, where he had located Frank Farsi, his agent. In 1965 through 1966, Farsi had made great headway in his netw…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 9 @ 20:45
Santo Trafficante Jr. did_business_with
Corsican Mafia host_asserted
“And his conclusion at the end of Traficani's tour was they needed to be eliminated. So Santo Traficani began his war against the Corsicans, which of course was helped by the Nixon administration and Pompidou and the CIA, because they were a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 9 @ 24:28
Santo Trafficante Jr. did_business_with
Fraschini family host_asserted
“He had set up a chain of heroin labs in Hong Kong. From Hong Kong, Traficani journeyed to Saigon, registering at the Continental Palace Hotel, owned by a fellow friend of his, the Corsican mafia family called Fraschini. His last stop was Si…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 9 @ 22:24
Santo Trafficante Jr. member_of
CIA documented
“Quote, the committee's extensive investigation led to the conclusion the most likely family bosses of organized crime to have participated in such unilateral assassination plan were Carlos Marcello, the guy in New Orleans, and Santo Trafica…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 9 @ 12:37
Santo Trafficante Jr. did_business_with
Chiang Kai-shek host_asserted
“Several doors had been opened to gain access to the opium treasures. The first led to the CIA-controlled Taiwan regime, Chiang Kai-shek, the world's largest heroin network. The second was to the Golden Triangle's KMT army that was still ope…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 9 @ 22:55
Jack Ruby did_business_with
Santo Trafficante Jr. host_asserted
“The most important was his association with Jack Ruby, who visited him in Havana prison in 1959. His statement to Cuban exile financier, Jose Allman, that Kennedy is going to be hit. That's a quote. And his close association with fellow maf…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 9 @ 13:08
William J. Polk did_business_with
Santo Trafficante Jr. book_quoted
“In deference of a State Department refusal of authorization, he just stepped up and filled the gap. All were either directly or indirectly connected to Polly. He also rubbed elbows with the U.S. heroin mafia when in 1963, he and Santo Trafi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 19:04
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
John Martino did_business_with
Santo Trafficante Jr. host_asserted
“Claire Chennault's Flying Tigers in Southeast Asia to help out the drug trade there, he named his yacht Flying Tiger 2. They're not unrelated. The crew also included John Martino, a well-known mafia guy, who had operated the roulette wheels…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 9 @ 10:19
Lauren Hall did_business_with
Santo Trafficante Jr. host_asserted
“Mike and Ken. Also involved was Rolando Martinez, again, and a dozen other Cuban exiles like Eddie Bayo, Eduardo Perez, many of whom eventually disappeared, like out of thin air. Lauren Hall, another former Traficani casino employee, claime…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 9 @ 10:54
Santo Trafficante Jr. trafficked_in
Cuba 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 18 @ 59:04
Sam Giancana introduced
Santo Trafficante Jr. documented
“Bob Mayhew had worked with Johnny Ruzelli before. So Bob Mayhew and Jim O'Connell went to Miami the week of September 23rd. And Mayhew met with Sam Gold, later identified as Salvador Giacconi. Yeah, Giaccona. Sam Giaccona. He in turn introd…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 18 @ 58:33
Lawrence Freeman handled_money_for
Santo Trafficante Jr. documented
“Malone got the impression that Cobra was a prominent organized crime figure from Tampa, which would be Trapacani. Another law enforcement report based on an interview with DeVoe states that Malone told DeVoe and Freeman at one that he, Free…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 19B @ 46:14
Fulgencio Batista did_business_with
Santo Trafficante Jr. 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
Lewis Rosenstiel did_business_with
Santo Trafficante Jr. book_quoted
“which is money laundering your ill-gotten gains into legitimate businesses. So some of the people that he dealt with, Frank Costello, Sam Giacana, Santo Traficante, Meyer Lansky. Lansky addressed Rosenstiel as the supreme commander, a name …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 2 @ 42:15
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. involved_in_overthrow_of
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“And Traficani both worked hard on the same thing, one of which was the overthrow of Fidel Castro. But also, Traficani made multiple trips to Thailand and Vietnam to work with Chiang Kai-shek's opium network. Traficani wanted his Havana hote…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 19B @ 46:47
Edward DiBartolo did_business_with
Santo Trafficante Jr. 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
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. relationship_with
Sam Giancana book_quoted
“then American leaders would no longer be safe. Participants in the plot against Castro claimed that Castro then enlisted Traficani to turn the mafia against Kennedy. Traficani allegedly got the assistance of two other mafia godfathers, Sam …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilght of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 24:14
Santo Trafficante Jr. ordered_assassination_of
John F. Kennedy book_quoted
“But the false trail kept being laid with either the Cubans working with the mafia or the mafia working on its own. The well-known political columnist Jack Anderson thought he had the Kennedy assassination figured out in 88 and published his…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilght of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 23:15
Paul Helliwell worked_with
Santo Trafficante Jr. host_asserted
“And Traficani both worked hard on the same thing, one of which was the overthrow of Fidel Castro. But also, Traficani made multiple trips to Thailand and Vietnam to work with Chiang Kai-shek's opium network. Traficani wanted his Havana hote…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 19B @ 46:47
Santo Trafficante Jr. did_business_with
Robert Vesco book_quoted
“While Vesco and Warble were hatching their weapons deals, Bosch's base of operation just happened to be Vesco's kingdom of Costa Rica. Shocker. That also was one of Santo Traficani's favorite places to go as well. Traficani Jr. was reported…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 11 @ 50:39
Santo Trafficante Jr. worked_with
Chiang Kai-shek host_asserted
“And Traficani both worked hard on the same thing, one of which was the overthrow of Fidel Castro. But also, Traficani made multiple trips to Thailand and Vietnam to work with Chiang Kai-shek's opium network. Traficani wanted his Havana hote…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 19B @ 46:47
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. 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
Santo Trafficante Jr. relationship_with
Carlos Marcello book_quoted
“then American leaders would no longer be safe. Participants in the plot against Castro claimed that Castro then enlisted Traficani to turn the mafia against Kennedy. Traficani allegedly got the assistance of two other mafia godfathers, Sam …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilght of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 24:14
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 (59)
▶ 35:19
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. …
▶ 35:52
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.…
▶ 22:27
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…
▶ 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…
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horse racetrack gambling, and gambling casinos. When his partner, Sam Carolla, was deported back to Sicily in 1947, Marcella took control of the New York interest. At this time, his main national crime contacts were Joe Civella of Dallas, w…
▶ 4:41
He couldn't do it with his own local resources. It'd be too easy to trace. He knew the CIA hierarchy and he knew many people inside the CIA. Behind the scenes, they would also refuse any support legally if he was ever implicated. But Marsal…
▶ 5:15
The problem concerning who the mafia would supply for a hit was solved by Traficani. As a veteran in dealing with covert world of the CIA, instead of using mob hitmen, which would be easily traced, he, according to Craig Roberts, we know th…
▶ 28:51
He was the one that was going to do, he was going to be Robert Mayhew's point of contact. Roselli had worked for Sam Giacconi, Santo Traficani, and other mafia kingpins. Now, of course, Santo Traficani had a personal interest in Cuba becaus…
▶ 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…
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According to various sources, Traficante was directly responsible for recruiting 10 sharpshooters from the Cuban community in Miami for Operation 40. The action team snipers were selected to use precision belt takedown Belgian rifles, train…
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as well as Texas. In September 1962, Traficani made the statement to Jose Alleman, a wealthy Cuban exile in Miami, that Kennedy's not going to make it to the election. That's a direct quote. He then looked at him and said he's going to be h…
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He was directly associated with Carlos Marcella, Louis McWillie, Johnny Roselli, Sam Giacana, and Santo Traficani. It is not hard to comprehend just how Ruby entered the picture. In the words of a mobster, if the mob tells you to make a hit…
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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…
▶ 9:49
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,…
▶ 1:26:43
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…
▶ 8:20
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…
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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 …
▶ 57:25
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…
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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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A lot of information about that. And then the author moves on to, let me get past Mayhew. There's two chapters of nothing but Mayhew information. And his relationship with Santo Traficani, Carlos Marcello in New Orleans, blah, blah, blah. O…
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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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heroin began flowing into europe and the u.s and canada was just even the minor bus was exploding none of it from mexico that's how our government lies to us the dea was aware of santo trafficani's dealings in southeast asia…
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The Chiang Kai-shek, KMT, the coalition, of course, they build that as Chinese, not Taiwanese and not Chiang Kai-shek. They loved using Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese descendancy heritage to blame China for shit Taiwan was doing. The coalition i…
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While Vesco and Warble were hatching their weapons deals, Bosch's base of operation just happened to be Vesco's kingdom of Costa Rica. Shocker. That also was one of Santo Traficani's favorite places to go as well. Traficani Jr. was reported…
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Lansky, courier beat up, unquote. Several things point to Vesco's involvement in a longstanding partnership with the CIA, Lansky, Traficani, Cuban exiles, Warbell, DEA, the whole nine yards, in a drugs for guns terror deal to step up armed …
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Prior to the coup, Lansky's syndicate narcotics boss, Santo Traficani Jr., had made the necessary arrangements in Southeast Asia and Mexico prior to starting the war on the Corsican mafia. Traficani's old partner, the CIA, had long since as…
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He first focuses on the Lansky syndicate represented by Santo Traficani and the Cuban exiles. He says in addition to his motives shared by the CIA, Traficani had many other reasons to take part. Cheaper heroin. He wanted the Corsicans out b…
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mob, mafia, whatever you want to call it, didn't want to see a repeat of what had just gone on, which again, he doesn't talk about it, but it was basically the Syntac. Syntac had been operating for the previous five years and was making maj…
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were seized in February of 1972 en route to Traficanis, Florida. And again, I explained that was part of Syntax's operation. So then he asks a question. How guilty was Richard Nixon who presided over the heroin coup? The author believes tha…
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in the narcotics trafficking with Santo Trafficani, unquote. And it's interesting that he brings up Alexander Haig. If you go back and you look at his history, he is one of the least talked about central figures across decades of nefarious …
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even have been connected to this. It was. We've read about that in other books. The victims had opposed Orlando Bosch's drive to power because he's a part of the approved network. Also a member of this new approved network, of course, was S…
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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 …
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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…
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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…