Reply #37: "you have to believe...that the CIA was in bed with the mafia"

[Minstrel Boy]

Where have you been?

Do you remember the revelations in the mid-70s of CIA/Mafia plots to kill Castro? In 1960 Allan Dulles and Richard Bissell contacted Sam Giancana to get the assassination ball rolling. Lots of made men, like Johnny Roselli, did contract work for the Agency. Roselli told some of his part in the anti-Castro plots to the Church Commission.

Remember what became of Roselli before he was due to testify for a second time? Strangled, cut into pieces and stuffed into a drum off the shore of Miami.

The network of spooks, mobsters and Cubans which came together to kill Castro was turned on Kennedy. It wasn't an ad hoc conspiracy of unlikely partners. It was already in place.

And the strategic allegiance of spooks and crooks goes way back. Think of how Lucky Luciano was sent to Sicily to build up the Mafia after the fall of Mussolini to be a counterweight to communism.

The best book on this nexus is Scott's Deep Politics and the Death of JFK.