#236 - Operation Mongoose: Inside CIA's Failed Mafia Conspiracy to Kill Castro | Tom Maier

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🗓️ 14 September 2024

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(***TIMESTAMPS in description below) ~ Tom Maier is an award-winning author, investigative journalist and television producer, with two hit TV premium shows in recent years from his highly-acclaimed books. TOM'S LINKS: Book: https://www.amazon.com/Mafia-Spies-Inside-Gangsters-Castro-ebook/dp/B07FR1HSVW?ref_=ast_author_mpb Mafia Spies TV Show: https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/mafia-spies/ EPISODE LINKS - Julian Dorey PODCAST MERCH: https://juliandorey.myshopify.com/ - Support our Show on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/JulianDorey - BUY Guest’s Books & Films IN MY AMAZON STORE: https://amzn.to/3RPu952 FOLLOW JULIAN DOREY INSTAGRAM (Podcast): https://www.instagram.com/juliandoreypodcast/ INSTAGRAM (Personal): https://www.instagram.com/julianddorey/ X: https://twitter.com/julianddorey JULIAN YT CHANNELS - SUBSCRIBE to Julian Dorey Clips YT: https://www.youtube.com/@juliandoreyclips - SUBSCRIBE to Julian Dorey Daily YT: https://www.youtube.com/@JulianDoreyDaily - SUBSCRIBE to Best of JDP: https://www.youtube.com/@bestofJDP Get $150 Off The Eight Sleep Pod Pro Mattress / Mattress Cover (USING CODE: “JULIANDOREY”): ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://eight-sleep.ioym.net/trendifier⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ****TIMESTAMPS**** ****TIMESTAMPS**** 00:00 - Getting into Kennedy’s & Churchills, Mafia, and Spies (Masters of Sex) 10:57 - Mafia & CIA Relationship to K1ll Castro 18:53 - Southern Florida Epicenter for Cuban Exile Plan, Allen Dulles Story & Becoming Head of CIA (Operation Mongoose) 26:32 - Communist vs Fascist Hatred During WW2, First Minority President of USA, Fear of Nuclear War (90 Miles Away) 32:50 - Why Mafia Hated Fidel Castro, Kennedy’s Historic Election & Possible Mafia Involvement (Frank Sinatra’s Espionage Role) 39:23 - Evidence JFK Inherited Plans to Get Rid of Foreign Leaders/Fidel Castro, Bay of Pigs Disaster Explained, Santo Traficante (Mafia Spy) 45:34 - Fontainebleau Hotel Beginning of CIA & Mafia, Fidel Castro Failed Assassination Attempt 53:49 - Howard Hughes Connection to John Roselli, Frank Sinatra Fist Fight Story 01:07:03 - Bobby Kennedy Monitoring Cuban Exile Plot, Oliver Stone’s JFK Movie “Not Accurate”, James Bond of CIA (Bill Harvey) 01:18:26 - Story of Map in Tom’s Kitchen, Sam (Mafia) After Wife's Death Goes to Las Vegas, Mafia Spies 01:37:09 - JFK’s Affairs, Who Was John Roselli, Sam G. Canna Get Subpoenaed 01:51:37 - Why Tom Chose to Write About 2 Mobsters, Murder of John Roselli, Santo Traficante Possible Hitman 01:57:17 - John Roselli Knowing he was a Target, Albert Anastasisa (Murder Inc.) 02:09:34 - Closes Mission they got to Fidel Castro, Marita Lorenz 02:19:49 - Gerald Ford Attempting to Leave Assassination Business, Death of JFK and Entering Vietnam War, Tom Visiting Cuba 02:32:33 - Family Jewels Memo (Assassinating Foreign Leaders), Frank Sinatra and Gangster Connection 02:41:20 - Kennedy & Churchill’s Falling out, Tyler Kent Case 02:57:11 - Find Tom CREDITS: - Host, Producer, and Editor: Julian Dorey - In-Studio Producer: Alessi Allaman - https://www.instagram.com/allaman.docyou/ Julian Dorey Podcast Episode 236 - Tom Maier Music by Artlist.io Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What was the closest they came to getting Castro in this mission?
0:04.5	They recruited a woman named Marita Lorenz, who was a young woman whose family.
0:10.3	They had a boat that landed in Havana, a big boat in Cuba.
0:14.1	Castro was invited and he met Marita Lorenz and courted her a little bit there,
0:18.9	and they eventually became lovers.
0:21.3	Lorenz went back to New York, recruited by the CIA.
0:25.0	Lorenz winds up in a hotel room with her former lover, Fidel Castro.
0:29.3	She was given two poison pills that were put into cold cream, a jar of cold cream, that she brought with her.
0:37.6	So when she's in this hotel room with Castro,
0:40.4	and she goes to the bathroom, she excuses herself,
0:43.3	and she goes in, she opens up the jar of coal cream,
0:47.4	these capsules filled with poison.
0:49.7	They actually dissolved in the moisture.
0:52.1	She realizes she can't do anything about it. And when she comes
0:55.2	out of the bathroom, Fidel is lying on the bed. He's got a gun lying on the table. And he said,
1:00.8	you came here to kill me. Tom, you have just written a book that is now a docuseries on premium television that is right up my alley.
1:14.0	We are talking mafia.
1:15.3	We are talking CIA.
1:16.7	We are talking world leaders that the CIA doesn't like.
1:19.3	And we're talking murder and mystery and canaries that are dead and can't talk in the middle of it.
1:24.7	So I'm very, very excited to have you here today.
1:27.4	Well, thank you so much for inviting me. I really appreciate it.
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