MAFIA BOSS' ROUNDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000300510039-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 20, 2004
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: June 14, 1976
• Content Type: NSPR

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NEW YORK - Neither
CIA operational briefings
at the Hotel Plaza here nor
poison pills, nor girls and
under-bed wiretaps, nor
undercover trips to
Miami's Hotel Fon-
tainebleau, nor indirect
liaison with Bobby Ken-
nedy could keep the late
Chicago Mafia boss Sam
(Mooney-Homo) Giancana
from his appointed rounds
in this big town.
What rounds did this
"Youngblood," who ran
Chicago's underworld,
With the advise but not
often the consent of the late
I'aul (The Waiter) Ricca
and Tony (Big Tuna)
Accardo, make in the Big
Apple -- and elsewhere?
A Chicago friend has
-rushed me a catalogue of
.an upcoming art gallery
auction of Giancana's
finest. This collection of
,exquisite dishes, Royal
d)oultons and gold carvings
all were in his Oak Park,
[11., home the night he was
:ut down by seven .22
:aliber bullets right in the
-read, in his basement, the
.very evening before he was
scheduled to testify before
--he Senate intelligence
committee. He was hit
June 19, 1975.
Now mind you, before 1'
tell you of the fine taste this
thug had, note that he
wasn't hurt when he talked
only about the Mafia to the
highest federal authorities
and a grand jury. He was
killed only before lie was to
the other bosses'
operations, the federals
say. And he met with such
comrades in don-ship as
Carlo Gambino and with
bosses of crew chiefs of the
Genovese and Luchese
families.
He had an eye for
shapely things, Giancana
t.erl the Senate Select In- did. His girlfriend, for
telligence Committee all he example, was a warbling
knew about the CIA Chief lady (and I don't mean
of the Operational Support,, Judith Campbell Exner)
Division of the Office of who is a close friend of that
Security and of the CIA's blue-eyed dreamy crooner
plans to assassinate Castro
during Bobby.. Kennedy's
clays of power.
This was a
caper. It could
$150,000
be that
some of the money paid
went into that fine
collection Giancana picked
up between hits, plots and
time spent with the so-
called crime syndicate's
national commission,
according to the best in-
forrned federal authorities.
For example, imagine
Morro wandering around
New York's Madison Aver
art shops with nothing but
hundred-d(Alar bills after
he met here with the top
bananas in January 1965.
Ile flew into town to delimit
still close to some . of
America's most powerful
figures.
So well did ,Morro do as a
collector that when the
appraiser Went over to his
home recently, even after
it was sort of emptied of
some objets d'art, the glass
and porcelain and musical
bird boxes and Meissen
dinnerware were still
worth some $50,000. Now
it's all up for sale at that
Chicago auction next week.
It's fun just to list the
kind of fragile mugs and
sculpted glass fondled by
the hand that wielded an
automatic as a scepter to
control Chicago -- an un-
derworld throne which was
passed on to alleged crime
chiefs Jack (Skippy)
Cerone and Joe (Joey
O'Brien) Anippa, ac-
cording to the federal
lawmen.
I wonder, what the new
bosses collect. Sam (known
in the Castro caper as Sara
Gold) has an "outstanding
collection of antique
porcelains: Meissen,
Sevres, Bisque, ):tonal
Vienna, Royal 1)oulton,
Royal Bonn, Capo di
'Monte, Dresden.'" 'There's
much snore, What (!(,you
think of that What or who
can tell You snorer about the
private life of a public
enemy?
Well, the ('EA men,
chiefs, covers. et al., an-
swerable to the \Vhite
Ilouseeduring the final days
of the late CIA director
Alan Dulles and the man
who often Was chief of
state, Bobby Kennedy, can
tell the nation much about
Giancana's private life.
For example, what of the
Florida don Santos Traf-
ficante, who was one of
Morno's Cutban con-
nections? Santos repor-
tedly was held in a Castro
prison in the dictator's
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early days. Well,.
reports indicate I
Trafficante had mi comfortable digs and
exactly .Jr Devil's n]
solittin- cenfinemurrt.
The CIA bas a report(
debriefing of a} 13ri
newsman who was trap
in the neo-Comrnui
Cuba in the early (1<
Reportedly he says I
someone who looked
sounded mighty Tike J
Ruby, killer of Lee liar
Oswald, killer of J~
Kennedy, came flown
talk to the alleged Saar
Well, we discover t
Jack Ruby"also trave into New ark pond: 1
some good connectii
With the top cornmiss
peopl . Sa it all must
sorted out -- like all
porcelain and I.t:o
Doulton.. It, would makt
fine collection of fm
These could tell us %s
wanted to kill a Presidr
and why --- and it might i
be just a simple cub
connection.
That connection rnif
turn out to be a collection
connections on t
mainland, now buried de
in politics-