Episode 149 Roselli and the CIA Mafia Plots to Kill Castro During the Bay of Pigs Part 2

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

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🗓️ 24 January 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Episode 148 is the second 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 T...

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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.
0:52.3	I'm your host, Jeff Crudell.
1:03.5	Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the podcast.
1:07.4	Today's episode is episode 149, and it's part two of a two-part episode related to
1:14.6	Johnny Roselli and the CIA Mafia Plots to Kill Castro, those that took place in the
1:22.2	context of the Bay of Pigs invasion.
1:25.4	So, without further ado, let's listen to episode 149 of JFK, The Enduring Secret.
1:34.2	The Enduring Secret.
2:05.1	Thank you. After that news, perhaps it should not have been a surprise to anyone that the Castro plot moved slowly, and that was much to the distress of the CIA.
2:11.1	Originally, the planning anticipated that Fidel would be eliminated by late November or
2:17.3	at latest by Christmas, with the secret invasion
2:20.9	by the exiles to occur shortly after the assassination. Soon it was pretty clear to the CIA
2:28.5	that this was not something that was going to happen on a scheduled basis, particularly with the mob characters that
2:35.8	were involved. Traficante was the leading mafia character in this play as it relates to Cuba,
2:43.3	and that was natural. As I mentioned, he spoke fluent Spanish, and he was in a fact a second generation Cuban. He had the deepest
2:52.9	contacts and so Joe the courier was center stage and yet he kept coming up with excuse after excuse
3:01.2	as to why one potential assassin after another was not going to be optimal or had perhaps backed out.
3:10.5	Months went by, and with everyone getting antsy, including the CIA,
3:15.1	Roselli would begin to talk amongst other connections that they had within the Cuban
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