WHOSE MAFIA?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000300510120-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 20, 2004
• Sequence Number: 120
• Publication Date: June 2, 1975
• Content Type: NSPR

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WASHINGTON - Point. Is
who in the Central In
telligence Agency "contracted
out" to the Mafia for p "hit" on
Fidel Castro when CIA had all the
facilities, mighty lethal too, and
political justification for at-
tempting to destroy the Cuban
Communist dictator?
It was in early 1961 when the
They had their man on the enough trouble. Al Gallo said you
Mafia's national commission. ; got me wrong officer, I'm duly
They ran so high in. money as a authorized. And he told him he
result of the rackets in con- was really a community relations
struction, in bars, taverns, official. And he was.
restaurant night spots, even That was just about the time
hospitals that Sam Giancana was; the authorities were attempting
able a decade ago and more to' to put his late brother, Crazy
run around with $6,000 and $7,000' Joey Gallo, and Colombo in
cash "bank rolls." prison. But it went all over the
They shook down Hollywood neighborhood that Al really was
hood officially described as "a. for over a million. They ran the immune and powerful and had
fast rising syndicate killer" was. Bioff-Brown mob. They gave, top city hall blessing. Colombo
contacted. He was one of the late orders to . unions in New York, never did go to prison. He and
Al Capone's "Young Bloods." New Jersey and Massachusetts. Joey both were gunned down.
And in effect, he was the boss of They were cruel. More than a So now back to Sam Giancana
the Chicago underworld and has thousand men were executed'in who has been given strange
been thus described frequently. Chicago over the years - and shadowy protective treatment
His name, one of many aliases, these killings rarely were solved. ever since 1961. The CIA "con-
is Sam "Mooney" Giancana. tract" included a Southern
President of the U.S. was John They were tied in with Californian, John Roselli, for the
Kennedy. The Attorney General Florida's Santo Trafficante, final Cuban hit.
who ran much of the White House reputed crime boss of much of I've just returned from the San
was Bobby Kennedy. I the South and Caribbean. There Diego-Hollywood-Los Angeles
Younger brother Kennedy, who are reports of links with Meyer area. Word there is that Roselli,
today would be described as the Lansky, grandfather of the in the early 60s shortly after the
Oval Office chief of staff, didn't Godfathers. . contact was made, went about
hesitate to call over to the CIA on Certainly they had gambling saying he's in. HP had CIA
many matters. casino interests in Cuba. But why
Who then - and why - use a Chicago hood for the Castro
picked the Chicago crime boss, a hit? Why this particular one? If
cocky, brutal bantam, for the neither Jack nor Bob Kennedy
hit? We're told by former CIA knew what Allen Dulles' spooks
director John McCone that there were doing, does it mean that
never was any real discussion of CIA directors have such deadly
the matter. But how would he policymaking powers?
However, if the President and,
his brother knew'' it, does this {
mean that they were willing to
order a "sit. down" with , the
untouchables?
At this point there should be reported an incident during John
Lindsay's mayoralty reign in
New York. There was racial
friction in a section of Brooklyn.
Someone came up with the idea
of ideas.
Why not get one of the so-called
mobsters to step in and keep
family - and I'm a New Yorker, community relations commission
so that's saying much. contacted the Gallo faction of the
That Chicago syndicate ran so-called Colombo syndicate
local unions as though they were) family. Al Gallo went into the
mom and pop stores. They used) area. A cop spotted him and told
the labor outfits as enforcement him to get the hell out. There was
really know? He came in towards
the end of 1961'and it took him
months just to catch up on the
secret combination to some inner
office safes.
Why was Giancana chosen?
The Allen Dulles CIA knew that l
in 1943 a Chicago draft board had
classified "Mooney" 4-F because
it thought him in a "con-
stitutional psychopathic state."I
He had been arrested 17 times
by 1960. He had served time. 'He
had helped run the nation's
tightest, toughest Mafia crime
arms.
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protection, he allegedly boasted.
That aura hovered over
Giancana. He still has some. very
powerful friends high in I
Washington's political circles.
And at 66 he's reputed to, be }
Chicago's Mr. Big though his old
friend Tony Accardo allegedly :
carries the title.
,Get it clear The 1961 CIA. was
the Allen Dulles-Kennedy CIA. 1 .
isn't William Colby's CIA of 1975.
But Colby owes this nation the
full story, right out of the old.
files. Sam Giancana is still
healthy, cocky and apparently .
untouchable.
Maybe still has his old Mexican
tan from the days he lived it up in
the sun and reportedly ran the
Chicago operation long distance.
And many of of the anti-
organized crime crowd say he's
more influential than ever. Is he
still protected? And would the old
CIA crowd have us believe that
the Mafia and its cruelties,
myths?
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