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Cosa Nostra organization

also: American Costa Nostra, Apostrophe N-D-R-A-N-G-H-E-T-A, Costa Nostra, D'Agnostica, De Nostra Zeta, Draconetta, mafia, mob, Sicilian Costa Nostra, Sicilian Mafia Commission

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Italycountry · 7Quintero and Cariana clanfamily · 5Cubacountry · 5Michele Sindonaperson · 3Institute for the Works of Religionorganization · 3Sicilyplace · 2Corsican Mafiaorganization · 2Richard Nixonperson · 2H.L. Huntperson · 2Fidel Castroperson · 2Marcinkusperson · 2Che Guevaraperson · 1Odessa, Texasplace · 1Robert Kennedy assassinationevent · 1William J. Polkperson · 1Meyer Lanskyperson · 1Lucky Lucianoperson · 1Franklin National Bankorganization · 1Gambino crime familyorganization · 1Montrealplace · 1Illinois Continental Bankorganization · 1John Gotti Jr.person · 1Manhattanplace · 1Robert Muellerperson · 1

Claims (12)

Cosa Nostra attempted_assassination_of Fidel Castro book_quoted
“and the mafia in the spy agency's attempt to use Costa Nostra members to assassinate Fidel Castro. So there you've got the narcos, the mafia, and the CIA all tied together. And the Murchison's factor really huge in Texas politics.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 1:07:35
CIA recruited Cosa Nostra book_quoted
“and the mafia in the spy agency's attempt to use Costa Nostra members to assassinate Fidel Castro. So there you've got the narcos, the mafia, and the CIA all tied together. And the Murchison's factor really huge in Texas politics.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 1:07:35
Michele Sindona funded Cosa Nostra host_asserted
“You have to have some kind of banking or tax haven. We talked about Liechtenstein. We talked about Switzerland. It was Shanghai for a bit. And it always seems to shift. Cuba seemed to be a haven for it. So we're in the 1960s. And this guy, …”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 13; BCCI Pt. 3- The Cover-Up @ 37:24
Marcinkus laundered_money_for Cosa Nostra host_asserted
“is basically in bed with the mafia in the United States. It was called the Illinois Continental Bank or something like that. And so a lot of money laundering going on there. And you have Marcinkus get selected to be in charge of the IOR. He…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 13; BCCI Pt. 3- The Cover-Up @ 41:40
Francesco Fonti member_of Cosa Nostra host_asserted
“to the task with curious dispensation. So he mentioned almost in passing that a Francesco Fonte, F-O-N-T-I, who was a prominent member of the Draconetta, it's a…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with COLONEL TOWNER -NATO's Dagger at the Heart of Europe PART 5 @ 9:11
Michele Sindona funded Cosa Nostra host_asserted
“You have to have some kind of banking or tax haven. We talked about Liechtenstein. We talked about Switzerland. It was Shanghai for a bit. And it always seems to shift. Cuba seemed to be a haven for it. So we're in the 1960s, and this guy S…”
▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster PART 3 @ 37:05
Quintero and Cariana clan trafficked Cosa Nostra host_asserted
“not only joined by mafia bonds, but also blood ties. According to the Mafia Commission, the Klan played a central role in international drug trafficking that went from Italy to Canada to Venezuela. And this is one that the CIA worked with c…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner LIVE RESEARCH INTO OPERATION GLADIO @ 54:35
Marcinkus did_business_with Cosa Nostra host_asserted
“is basically in bed with the mafia in the United States. It was called the Illinois Continental Bank or something like that. And so a lot of money laundering going on there. And you have Marcinkus get selected to be in charge of the IOR. He…”
▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster PART 3 @ 41:21
Venezuela front_for Cosa Nostra host_asserted
“In Italy's major mafia trials ended in the non-convictions of most of the mafia bosses. Some of the clan went to the Italian mainland, a seashore resort near Rome. Some went to the UK. Some remained in Caracas, while others remained in Mont…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner LIVE RESEARCH INTO OPERATION GLADIO @ 1:00:25
Institute for the Works of Religion laundered_money_for Cosa Nostra host_asserted
“So Vatican becomes the money laundering destination for the Paul Helliwell apparatus that has been set up in the Golden Triangle with Chiang Kai-shek. And so basically in the original structure, the Vatican was getting all of the money to l…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 13; BCCI Pt. 3- The Cover-Up @ 42:09
Bay Street Boys laundered_money_for Cosa Nostra host_asserted
“It became a huge mecca for all of this international trade, whether it be drug trafficking or money laundering. The Colombian cartels get involved there. And this is the environment that exists on the international banking system when BCCI …”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 13; BCCI Pt. 3- The Cover-Up @ 45:25
Fulgencio Batista funded Cosa Nostra host_asserted
“corrupt Batista land deals that stole the people's land. And this Cuban exile group that came and wreaked havoc in Florida and all over the country, as a matter of fact, because they blew up a former ambassador in downtown D.C. and killed A…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 13; BCCI Pt. 3- The Cover-Up @ 29:08

Mentions (21)

Operation Gladio meets Mr Truthbomb
▶ 59:57 But he was friends with Kallstrom, with Giuliani, who were big Trump allies. And they all kind of worked to take out the Gambino crime family, and John Gotti and so on. And Mueller was part of that. So they were part of the gang that took o…
The Colonel's Corner LIVE RESEARCH INTO OPERATION GLADIO
▶ 44:22 That's not true. The Italian Costa Nostra clans were among the first foreign organized crime groups to establish a presence in Venezuela. Now, the Costa Nostra's Italian gang, that's the family that was taken down in 2019 that I've talked t…
The Colonel's Corner LIVE RESEARCH INTO OPERATION GLADIO
▶ 53:27 The next thing that she had sent me, let's go over there. Let's see. This is the mafia clan that was mentioned in that article. The Cosa Nostra held key positions in illicit drug trade money laundering in the 1980s and 90s. Actually, it wen…
The Colonel's Corner LIVE RESEARCH INTO OPERATION GLADIO
▶ 54:05 when they were all taken down. The Italian press baptized the clan, the Rothschilds of the mafia, the bankers of the Costa Nostra. Italian prosecutors described this mafia clan as an international holding, a holding which secured certain se…
The Colonel's Corner LIVE RESEARCH INTO OPERATION GLADIO
▶ 54:35 not only joined by mafia bonds, but also blood ties. According to the Mafia Commission, the Klan played a central role in international drug trafficking that went from Italy to Canada to Venezuela. And this is one that the CIA worked with c…
The Colonel's Corner LIVE RESEARCH INTO OPERATION GLADIO
▶ 1:00:25 In Italy's major mafia trials ended in the non-convictions of most of the mafia bosses. Some of the clan went to the Italian mainland, a seashore resort near Rome. Some went to the UK. Some remained in Caracas, while others remained in Mont…
The Colonel's Corner LIVE RESEARCH INTO OPERATION GLADIO
▶ 1:00:56 family as if it's a Sicilian territory. According to the Italian police, the structure and hierarchy of the mafia has been entirely reproduced in Venezuela. The Quintero and Cariana clan had direct links to the ruling commission of the Sici…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15
▶ 1:07:35 and the mafia in the spy agency's attempt to use Costa Nostra members to assassinate Fidel Castro. So there you've got the narcos, the mafia, and the CIA all tied together. And the Murchison's factor really huge in Texas politics.…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15
▶ 1:08:03 And there were allegations that they threw a huge party the night before, you know, Kennedy was assassinated. Yes. And who was implicated? The mafia, the CIA, and the Cuban exiles. J. Edgar Hoover attended that party, allegedly. And, you kn…
The Shadow State Pt 13; BCCI Pt. 3- The Cover-Up
▶ 27:42 you know everything that my government had ever told me about communists and who the communists were was legitimate and only to find out that whole bubble got burst so the same thing with fidel castro and shea calvera so my research in oper…
The Shadow State Pt 13; BCCI Pt. 3- The Cover-Up
▶ 28:11 of cuba and most people don't understand at that time you think of the shangri-la kind of environment in cuba you know where um there's casinos down there and mafia and frank sinatra goes down there and sings like a little dog on a leash an…
The Shadow State Pt 13; BCCI Pt. 3- The Cover-Up
▶ 30:00 Those were these elite people in bed with the mafia that William that William Polly had working for him that were kind of like the middle class, upper middle class people like Felix Rodriguez. Look into that man's background. He was not a p…
The Shadow State Pt 13; BCCI Pt. 3- The Cover-Up
▶ 30:25 All of his siblings went to boarding schools. They were very wealthy, and they got wealthy off of the mafia going down there who was prostituting little kids to include little boys to perverts. They brought all of the vices that the normal …
The Shadow State Pt 13; BCCI Pt. 3- The Cover-Up
▶ 31:16 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…
The Shadow State Pt 13; BCCI Pt. 3- The Cover-Up
▶ 37:24 You have to have some kind of banking or tax haven. We talked about Liechtenstein. We talked about Switzerland. It was Shanghai for a bit. And it always seems to shift. Cuba seemed to be a haven for it. So we're in the 1960s. And this guy, …
The Shadow State Pt 13; BCCI Pt. 3- The Cover-Up
▶ 41:12 So the way I heard it described in one article is now you've had the servant of the underworld becomes the financier of God. And so are we going to talk about Marcinkus? Go ahead. All right. Marcinkus is the Archbishop of Chicago. You know,…
The Shadow State Pt 13; BCCI Pt. 3- The Cover-Up
▶ 41:40 is basically in bed with the mafia in the United States. It was called the Illinois Continental Bank or something like that. And so a lot of money laundering going on there. And you have Marcinkus get selected to be in charge of the IOR. He…
The Shadow State Pt 13; BCCI Pt. 3- The Cover-Up
▶ 42:36 war on drugs of the nixon administration in the early 1970s they took out the um french mafia the uh corsican mafia that had the monopoly on the number four heroin refinement um there and they shifted that so nixon's war on drug was actuall…
The Shadow State Pt 13; BCCI Pt. 3- The Cover-Up
▶ 43:06 all of the top three echelons of the Corsican Mafia in drive-by shootings, assassination in restaurants. It was bloody murder along the Marseilles coast part right there. And so they move all of the refinement of or processing of the number…
The Shadow State Pt 13; BCCI Pt. 3- The Cover-Up
▶ 43:34 world market that was going to be eventually going into Europe and into the U.S. under the control of the CIA using Sicily and the Vatican Bank. I'm just curious if there's any coincidence or because they overlap between the Korshkin Mafia,…
The Shadow State Pt 13; BCCI Pt. 3- The Cover-Up
▶ 52:32 in 79 on 68 counts of fraud yeah it's because the franklin national bank went insolvent uh because they were making bad loans apparently and um everyone dropped cindona he lost a ton of money for the mafia a ton of money for the vatican and…
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