Johnny Roselli person
also: Johnny Ruzelli, Roselli, mafia Johnny Roselli, Rosali, Johnny Roselli, Gentleman Gangster, John Johnny Roselli, Mr. Roselli, Rosalie, Johnny, Handsome John
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Claims (25)
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
Robert Maheu recruited
Johnny Roselli 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 17 (19) @ 54:25
William Harvey supplied_arms_to
Johnny Roselli book_quoted
“and operated a network of paramilitary training bases as well as safe houses in posh Coral Gables and Key Biscayne neighborhoods. So Operation Gladio embedded in U.S. neighborhoods. Harvey provided Roselli with vials of poison, guns to pass…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 24:18
Grant Cooper member_of
Johnny Roselli documented
“one of Bobby's closest advisors, who was shot the night that he was killed. In 2016, Shrave testified in support of Sirhan's parole, stating his belief that a second shooter killed Kennedy and that Sirhan was intended as a distraction from …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Operation Gladio look into RFKs Murder @ 13:31
Robert Maheu recruited
Johnny Roselli host_asserted
“And Roselli was one of their guys that worked directly with Robert Mayhew, who worked on behalf of the CIA to contract out those killings. Of course, Sam Giacana was involved in that as well. And it does say that the...…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 38:05
Johnny Roselli recruited
Sam Giancana host_asserted
“Roselli agreed to help for a fee of $150,000 and contacted Chicago Mafia boss, Sam Giacana, who made arrangements to have a poison pill to be able to kill Castro. That Richard Bissell was involved in a lot of the different outrageous things…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 38:35
Robert Maheu recruited
Johnny Roselli documented
“By the time Castro came to Harlem, he too was the target of increasingly ominous U.S. intelligence scrutiny. Just days before they checked into the hotel, Robert Mayhew, on orders of the CIA, met at another Manhattan hotel with Johnny Rosel…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 24:50
Johnny Roselli attempted_assassination_of
John F. Kennedy book_quoted
“This is another quote. Roselli was tasked with shooting Kennedy if Oswald missed, while Nicoletti's job was to dispose of Oswald afterwards. As noted by the House Select Committee on Assassinations, Oswald was connected to the mafia through…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 41:41
William Harvey worked_with
Johnny Roselli book_quoted
“The prior cop, now CIA agent, and Roselli formed a tight bond. Harvey invited Roselli to dinner at his family's spacious Chevy Chase home, where little Sally took to calling him Uncle Johnny. The two men had secret rendezvous in Miami, wher…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 23:48
Joseph Breen member_of
Johnny Roselli book_quoted
“Here's another quote from that article. The possibility that the CIA may have had Mr. Roselli killed to keep him from disclosing damaging facts about the agency is discounted by those who knew him best, including his closest friend, Joseph …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 5 @ 1:03:18
Johnny Roselli member_of
U.S. Congress book_quoted
“Although the story he was telling seemed to be falling apart, as detailed in the New York Times article about his death. Quote, three months before his death, April 23rd, 1976, Mr. Roselli was questioned by the Kennedy assassination by repr…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 5 @ 1:05:16
Johnny Roselli spied_on
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“The manuscript of Mr. Roselli's testimony has been classified top secret, but a copy of it supposedly was examined by the Times. How's that happen? Mr. Roselli testified that he had told some people he believed that Fidel Castro was behind …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 5 @ 1:05:45
Johnny Roselli member_of
Chicago Outfit book_quoted
“was the mob's man out West helping the Chicago mafia known as the outfit operate in Las Vegas and Hollywood. He and his friends with Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe and had, excuse me, he was friends with Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 36:56
Johnny Roselli member_of
Chicago Mob host_asserted
“would never have let him live long enough to become a general in Castro's army. Just as if they genuinely believed Johnny Roselli was acting on behalf of the Chicago mob boss, Sam Giacconi, the CIA would not have let Roselli live 13 more ye…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #8 @ 43:35
Johnny Roselli attempted_assassination_of
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“It also says that he worked with mob boss Johnny Roselli. There you go. Yeah. Yeah. Roselli would later get implicated in trying to assassinate Castro in the late 60s. And then he would get assassinated right before he was going to testify …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 1:19:18
Johnny Roselli traded_network_to
Sam Giancana 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
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
William Harvey supplied_arms_to
Johnny Roselli book_quoted
“acquired more poison capsules from the CIA technical services. Bill Harvey, let's see, was acquiring them for mafia Johnny Roselli in April 1962, two months after getting a handover from Sheffield Edwards. Harvey and Edwards' deputy went to…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 38:13
CIA paid
Johnny Roselli host_asserted
“Roselli agreed to help for a fee of $150,000 and contacted Chicago Mafia boss, Sam Giacana, who made arrangements to have a poison pill to be able to kill Castro. That Richard Bissell was involved in a lot of the different outrageous things…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 38:35
Gary Hart exposed
Johnny Roselli documented
“Gary Hart took the murder of Johnny Roselli harder than any other member of the church committee. He believed that it was crucial to find out whether Roselli had been murdered because of the church committee testimony, especially after Sam …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 b @ 1:03:00
Robert Maheu ordered_assassination_of
Johnny Roselli host_asserted
“That's what Robert Mayhew did. He was the go-between for the CIA and the mob. He hired all the hits. Why do you think we call governments protection rackets? And they're not protecting you, the voters and the taxpayers. They're protecting t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 18 OKL bombing pt II @ 1:37:43
Johnny Roselli member_of
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“Johnny Roselli's personal lawyer, mobster. Roselli, he said, was a mobster who ran the assassination program for the CIA against Castro. That's true. I mean, he basically was operating for the CIA. Roselli's name comes up in a lot of our Op…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Operation Gladio look into RFKs Murder @ 14:03
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 supplied_arms_to
Johnny Roselli host_asserted
“It's all an airtight little package until you realize the CIA and particularly Ted Shackley's boss, William Harvey, was in charge of all the parts of the narrative. It's Harvey who picked Shackley to head the Miami station chief in charge o…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 29:50
Johnny Roselli ordered_assassination_of
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“This chapter must have derived a lot of its information from the House Select Committee on Assassination. Yes. Because you've got, you know, Mayhew there. Yes. Who later gets fingered in, you know, some of the assassination of Kennedy. You'…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 1:17:13
Mentions (63)
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It also says that he worked with mob boss Johnny Roselli. There you go. Yeah. Yeah. Roselli would later get implicated in trying to assassinate Castro in the late 60s. And then he would get assassinated right before he was going to testify …
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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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Johnny Roselli's personal lawyer, mobster. Roselli, he said, was a mobster who ran the assassination program for the CIA against Castro. That's true. I mean, he basically was operating for the CIA. Roselli's name comes up in a lot of our Op…
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One of many, but he was involved with them. Cooper pressured Sirhan to plead guilty so that there would be no trial. Kennedy believes the real assassin was Thane Eugene Cesar, an employee of Lockheed's Burbank facility, which manufactured t…
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The Dulles briefing then happened. The CIA inspector generals comment at this point, quote, it is appropriate to conjecture as to just what the director did approve. It is safe to conclude, given the men participating and the general subjec…
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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…
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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…
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In the spring of 1961, Edwards had word sent to Roselli that the project had gone on to the back burner. There would be no neutralizing Castro. The Cuban operation would have to succeed on its own. And we'll stop right there. Dang, that's g…
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acquired more poison capsules from the CIA technical services. Bill Harvey, let's see, was acquiring them for mafia Johnny Roselli in April 1962, two months after getting a handover from Sheffield Edwards. Harvey and Edwards' deputy went to…
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By the time Castro came to Harlem, he too was the target of increasingly ominous U.S. intelligence scrutiny. Just days before they checked into the hotel, Robert Mayhew, on orders of the CIA, met at another Manhattan hotel with Johnny Rosel…
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to develop a plan to assassinate Castro. Mayhew and Roselli was joined at the Plaza Hotel meeting by Jim O'Connell, Mayhew's CIA handler. O'Connell posed as an American businessman who had been predispossessed by Castro's revolution and was…
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He quickly figured out that the mafia was being recruited by the CIA. Once again, Robert Mayhew found himself at the center of a lethal CIA operation. Near the end of his life, he recalled that he went through when the CIA asked him to serv…
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This chapter must have derived a lot of its information from the House Select Committee on Assassination. Yes. Because you've got, you know, Mayhew there. Yes. Who later gets fingered in, you know, some of the assassination of Kennedy. You'…
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Among those he sought out were safecrackers and break-in specialists. Harvey would soon be dealing with men whose skills were very violent. November 1961, Harvey was put in charge of a top-secret CIA operation to kill Castro called ZR Rifle…
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The prior cop, now CIA agent, and Roselli formed a tight bond. Harvey invited Roselli to dinner at his family's spacious Chevy Chase home, where little Sally took to calling him Uncle Johnny. The two men had secret rendezvous in Miami, wher…
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and operated a network of paramilitary training bases as well as safe houses in posh Coral Gables and Key Biscayne neighborhoods. So Operation Gladio embedded in U.S. neighborhoods. Harvey provided Roselli with vials of poison, guns to pass…
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Nothing ever came of the two men's Cuba schemes and Castro continued to thrive. But Harvey never lost faith in his mafia partner. Regardless of his criminal background, Roselli was a man of integrity as far as I was concerned, Harvey would …
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When his wife, sorry, C.G. Harvey was interviewed in her Indianapolis retirement home in 1999. It was the year before she would die. My husband always used to say that if I had to ride shotgun, that's the guy I'd take with me. As he definit…
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His son, Wyatt's son, my dad would sometimes talk about Harvey in the context of Kennedy's assassination. He talked about the connection between Harvey and the mafia, not just his involvement with Johnny Roselli, but in the mafia in Italy, …
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Of course that DeMorgan Shield died by suicide, but his violent demise incited heated speculation. His death came amid a flurry of other sudden exits during the season of renewed congressional inquiry into the Kennedy case. Witnesses succum…
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in all the newspapers. I do like the fact that he did catch the part about the mafia piece of them being recruited and that FBI former, quote unquote, former FBI agent, Robert Mayhew, although he's misspelled his name, was involved and met …
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in a 50-gallon barrel just prior to the reinvestigation of the assassination of JFK. Because between Robert Mayhew and Johnny Roselli, there was a lot of hit jobs that were paid for by the CIA inside the United States to be carried out by t…
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And Roselli was one of their guys that worked directly with Robert Mayhew, who worked on behalf of the CIA to contract out those killings. Of course, Sam Giacana was involved in that as well. And it does say that the...…
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Roselli agreed to help for a fee of $150,000 and contacted Chicago Mafia boss, Sam Giacana, who made arrangements to have a poison pill to be able to kill Castro. That Richard Bissell was involved in a lot of the different outrageous things…
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But if it's a business model, it's identical. I don't know. Even when the government's doing it, they hire the mafia to kill you. Well, it depends on which government, which time period, but yes. I mean, that's what happened to Rosali when …
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would never have let him live long enough to become a general in Castro's army. Just as if they genuinely believed Johnny Roselli was acting on behalf of the Chicago mob boss, Sam Giacconi, the CIA would not have let Roselli live 13 more ye…
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at Midway Airport in Chicago on December 8, 1972, which also took the lives of 42 other passengers. Testifying about the activities of the CIA does seem to have a dreadful consequence, like dying in plane crashes, being shot in your home by…
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Within a few years of joining the agency, to be able to whisper answers into the ear of this CIA director and to have his words repeated verbatim was an excellent addition to his resume. With Barr on attack, Church's situation continued to …
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If you don't think that the CIA is sending a signal to the people in Congress, you're deaf, dumb, and blind. Two days after Roselli's body was found, Senator Howard Baker called for both the CIA and FBI to provide any information they had o…
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And not a single person was ever convicted. That's not true. Letty Ayers' person was convicted. And they ended up being Cuban exiles, which are CIA assassins. So, crazy, crazy. And then it says, one person who found these events highly dist…
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Gary Hart took the murder of Johnny Roselli harder than any other member of the church committee. He believed that it was crucial to find out whether Roselli had been murdered because of the church committee testimony, especially after Sam …
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Hart was shocked that no federal agency seemed interested at all in Roselli's murder. Not the FBI, not the CIA, no one. It seemed pretty obvious to me that Roselli was killed because of his testimony before the committee. Same with Giacone.…
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A quote from the Cuban operation. Harvey and Shackley drove in an arms-filled U-Haul truck through the wet streets of Miami to a drive-in restaurant parking lot. Harvey passed the keys of a mob-linked hoodlum named John Johnny Roselli, who …
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It was on to more official U.S. government business, unquote. So that's basically, then he goes on to say, this is another quote from that book. On July 28th, 1976, handsome Johnny Roselli, a mobster who rose up the ranks with Al Capone, ha…
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But when they got to see the third man, someone Roselli didn't know from Chicago, strangled the 71-year-old gangster to death. He wasn't even on the vessel an hour and he was dead, rubbed out by a mafia hitman who sawed off his legs, stuffe…
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It's a bad day when you want to go fishing, but instead you end up strangled, your legs sawed off, placed in a 55-gallon drum and dumped overboard. And that's literally how he was found in that barrel. Quote, part of Roselli's assignment in…
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Harry Cohn. They socialized together and Johnny was often at the studio advising the mogul on his gangster pictures. When Cohn needed a large loan in a hurry, it was Johnny that put him together with the East Coast mobster Abner Zellman. Th…
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Tortured to death, supposedly by his own hand, depending on what story you believe, unquote. Another hit job. So he's just kind of priming the pump to tell you how all of this goes down. So he goes on to say basically that Roselli was a vir…
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Roselli knew most of the big show stars who played in the showroom. Sinatra, Dean Martin were personal friends of his. Frank and Dean sponsored Johnny's membership into the Friar Club. The congressional hearings in the early 50s was the fir…
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the mafia and the syndicate were, corrupting every area of the country. The investigation from Washington hauled in top gangsters, including Johnny Roselli. Unlike most of the mobsters who tried to play it tough and not say anything, and so…
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But maybe it's not surprising that even though he was a known criminal figure because of his appearance in the 1950s, before that congressional hearing, the CIA would recruit him in the 60s and put him to work with Shackley. And when Rosell…
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Roselli's murder centered on the fact that another participant in the Castro assassination plots, Sam Giacana, a former mafia boss of Chicago, had been murdered in his home a year earlier. Mr. Giacana was killed shortly before he was schedu…
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One of the major players in the CIA Mafia Alliance, the former Chicago Mafia, Sam Giacana, was murdered a year earlier in his home shortly before he was to testify. Did no one think that Roselli might be in similar danger? The New York Time…
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They would have shot him down in the street or blown him up in his car to make a point, not stuffed him in a barrel and threw him in the bay, said Detective Ojeda, a member of the Miami homicide team investigating Roselli's murder. The Cuba…
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Here's another quote from that article. The possibility that the CIA may have had Mr. Roselli killed to keep him from disclosing damaging facts about the agency is discounted by those who knew him best, including his closest friend, Joseph …
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He had checked with the CIA, I mean, oh my God, including Bill Harvey, his CIA contact prior to his appearance, and they told him to tell whatever he knew because it was going to come out anyway. The agency, he said, would have no reason to…
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That's exactly what the New York Times reporter did with Shackley's good buddy, the gift shop owner at the mob's casino and Roselli's CIA handler, Bill Harvey. Hey, CIA, did you have anything to do with killing this guy? Nope, not us. Okay,…
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Although the story he was telling seemed to be falling apart, as detailed in the New York Times article about his death. Quote, three months before his death, April 23rd, 1976, Mr. Roselli was questioned by the Kennedy assassination by repr…
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The manuscript of Mr. Roselli's testimony has been classified top secret, but a copy of it supposedly was examined by the Times. How's that happen? Mr. Roselli testified that he had told some people he believed that Fidel Castro was behind …
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Rosalie was caught in a trap. He'd been trained as an assassin and our president had been assassinated. He was exactly the kind of person that had the skill set to do it. And perhaps more importantly, he was doing a bad job of pointing the …
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slash mafia operation. It is conceivable that the CIA and mafia would have a mutual interest in seeing both Giacana and Roselli dead. On with the article. Mr. Giacana was killed because he tried to reassert his authority in the Chicago mob …
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Nevertheless, his pursuers were persistent. They would catch his movements for a couple of weeks, leave him alone for a few months, and then go back and watch him. The mafia figure said, Roselli was careful, but nobody can be that careful. …
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with roselli and what was going on and all the assassinations in this from the cia no doubt that took place at that time with these people in the mafia it seems to me that what they were doing at that time and what was going on at that time…
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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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It's all an airtight little package until you realize the CIA and particularly Ted Shackley's boss, William Harvey, was in charge of all the parts of the narrative. It's Harvey who picked Shackley to head the Miami station chief in charge o…
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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…
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According to Nicholas Solosi, Ruby was one of the members of a crucial triangle in the Mafia's JFK operation that also included two Sam Giacono Stooges and assassins Johnny, Handsome John, Roselli, and Charles, Chucky, the typewriter, Nicol…
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raised by generations of conspiracy theorists can be answered, but in a way that doesn't make you question the basic foundations upon which your current government is built. Everybody's a winner, including the intelligence agencies. And sin…
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at a secret camp in the Florida Everglades. Both Giacono and Roselli had been deeply involved in running mob-controlled casinos in Cuba and were furious when Castro kicked them out and closed them down. According to the CIA documents releas…
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How else do you explain that in 1971, Nixon commuted the prison sentence of union mafia boss Jimmy Hoffa, who was accused of investing union pension funds with the mafia's Las Vegas operation? Context is everything. Otherwise, I think the a…
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told his great-nephew that Oswald watching the Kennedy motorcade from an upper floor window of the Texas book repository was supposed to shoot him. But knowing he was unreliable, Giaconis sent down Roselli as a backup. According to Pepe, th…
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who was lurking with a rifle near the infamous Grassy Knoll, where a second gunman had been alleged to have been waiting. He realized he'd been set up. He fled the building and on seeing Nicoletti and J.T. Tibbetts, a corrupt Dallas police …
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of Dallas police officer J.D. Tibbetts has always been something of a mystery to me. But here's an explanation. Oswald knew the police officer with Nicoletti was there to kill him. Solosi wants us to believe that Oswald was intended as the …