Episode 148 Roselli and the CIA Mafia Plots to Kill Castro During the Bay of Pigs Part 1

JFK The Enduring Secret

Jeff Crudele

Coup D'etat, Documentary, Government, Ruby, History, Jfk, Murder, Kennedy, Mafia, President, Oswald, Dallas, Fbi, Society & Culture, Assassination, Cia, Johnson

4.6 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Episode 148 is the first of two episodes in a two part series related to the CIA/Mafia plots to kill Castro. Plots that were an integral part of the the Bay of Pigs invasion. Listen to this stunning story as Sheffield Edwards pitches the idea to use the mafia, and Richard Bissell buys into it. And how they then use a "cut out" operative Robert Maheu to engage Johnny Roselli, a mafia don, to get the plot rolling. Shortly thereafter, Sam Giancana and Santo Tr...

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0:00.0	Cocco Seco
0:02.0	Coco Seco
0:04.0	Cocoa
0:05.0	Cocoa The Welcome to JFK in The Enduring Secret.
0:53.8	I'm your host, Jeff Kudel.
0:59.6	Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the podcast.
1:07.4	Today's episode is episode 148, and yes, it is part one of a two-part episode about Johnny Roselli and the Castro assassination plots that were associated with the Bay of Pigs invasion.
1:22.8	We begin that story today in episode 148, and then we finish the story in episode 149.
1:31.6	So again, sorry for that head fake of sorts at the end of episode 147 about what was coming next.
1:39.9	The epilogue related to Pepe San Romaine and the Alabama National Guardsman is still coming,
1:46.1	but it now will be aired as Episode 150.
1:50.7	Honestly, I couldn't wait to get these episodes on the assassination plots out,
1:56.9	as it's one of the most interesting topics in this series.
2:03.1	It reads like a James Bond movie.
2:05.3	I hope you enjoy listening to it.
2:08.1	Enjoy it as much as I did making it. But putting that aside, the one takeaway from this whole story is that the plot to
2:13.6	assassinate Castro, the attempts that were specifically attached to the Bay of Pigs invasion
2:19.8	were a critical step in the invasion itself, a critical step that failed. It was a critical
2:27.0	step necessary to achieve success in the invasion itself. In some ways, it was a small,
2:34.1	logistical part of a highly complex invasion itself. In some ways, it was a small logistical part of a highly complex invasion
2:37.5	operation, a step that was left to the underworld. And once the government went down that rabbit
2:44.2	hole, they had to contend with the Alice in Wonderland place that they now found themselves in.
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