S2 Ep6: Santo Trafficante (Part 2)

Mafia

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True Crime, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 1 August 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

At the Warren Committee hearings, looking into the deaths of Fidel Castro and JFK, Santo Trafficante kept his lips sealed. And yet the connections kept coming up. Trafficante had every reason to want to kill the man who had shut down his Cuban casinos - but had the CIA really ordered him to assassinate Castro? And what exactly was his connection to Jack Ruby? Our sponsor for this episode is the [Black Tux](theblacktux.com/mafia). Mafia's theme is "Spellbound Hell" by [Damiano Baldoni](damianobaldoni.altervista.org). Music in this episode is "Gates" and "Misery" by Damiano Baldoni; "Universe in Hands", "Low Horizon", and "January" by [Kai Engel](http://www.kai-engel.com/); "Wastelands" and "Gates" by [Sergey Cheremisinov](https://www.s-cheremisinov.com/); "Faster Does It" by [Kevin MacLeod](http://incompetech.com). Covert's theme is "Anxiety" by [Kai Engel](http://www.kai-engel.com/). Sound effects from [freesfx.co.uk](freesfx.co.uk). Licensed under [Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

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0:30.4	Previously on Mafia.
0:33.9	The 1978 House Select Committee on Assassinations was investigating conspiracy theories linked to the killing of President John F. Kennedy.
0:42.9	In reality, the way that the CIA were operating at that time,
0:46.1	there was, there were dealing with a lot of unsavory characters.
0:49.3	So while it's certainly surprising, and I think still to this day,
0:52.2	people get kind of kind of shocked by it.
0:54.6	If you look at how what the CIA was doing,
0:57.0	and some of the people they had to deal with to achieve their objectives,
1:00.3	it's not that out of the mainstream of their operations at that time.
1:06.6	The committee was also looking at Florida mob boss Santo Trafacante.
1:11.6	He had lost his casino empire in Castro's Cuban Revolution,
1:15.8	and had allegedly been offered assistance in killing the Communist leader,
1:20.5	and that the offer had come from none other than the CIA.
1:25.0	When the US government was looking for somebody to assassinate,
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