THE MOBSTER CIA HIRED AS HIT MAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000300510153-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 20, 2004
• Sequence Number: 153
• Publication Date: March 13, 1975
• Content Type: NSPR

CHICAGO TRIBUYE 1-5 ? !
13 MARCH 1975._.^
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_OBSfER JOHN Rosselli says he He doesnt want to hurt the cause of Further, whenever Uncle Sam has.
&t't want to be deported to Italy, .he United States." .. - leaned on him since his ouster from a
he won't play his one ace in the Actually. Rosselli's concern for the. Mexican sanctuary a year ago, Gian-
? to save himself-Es claim to, have naticnal imae appears to be a facade. : Cana has repeatedly demanded consider-
m a--chitect of an alleged assassina- He has al. eady used the- allegation of, ation because of his self-proclaimed
i plot on Cuban strongman Fidel having i.een a cooperative tool of the role as an undercover agent for the
CIA in la al efforts to stave off depor-! CIA.
moo.
T'hat's what intimates of the one- tation to his native Italy from whence: ' If one believes the story, the two
e Chicago and Los Angeles Mafia ie was brought here as an infant. mobsters used their connections in Ha-
_zster have toad this column as na- In Ro4selii was convicted in. Los. vana to help fashion three unsuccessful
aal controversy over reported Cen- Angeles of failing to comply with alien hits on Castro-twice by using poison
al L-telligence agency execution', registrstiorr laws and was finally or- and. once by a round from a.high-pow-
merces swirled about the retired, 70- =eyed derorted last Jan. 10. eyed rifle.
.r-old hoodlum's head this week. However, in an appeal from the de-i And Rosselli would like folks to think
:cssaLi, who sometimes spells his portation order, Rosselli has claimed' he was so patriotic he dug into his own
me Roselli, but whose real moniker that he assisted the CIA in a plot to pockets to finance landing assassination
rkippo Sacco, maintains he did, in murder Fidel Castro and is therefore teams on the Cuban coast and that
:, make arranements for at .least entitled to political asylum to avoid Giancana was influential in paving the
ee akempts on' Ca tro's life before ?execution in Italy. way for their penetration to within a
d after the abortive CU sponsored Further. I.:e wants the U.s. lmmigraw' few hundred yards of Castro's Havana
y of Pigs invasion of the Caribbean ticn and Naturalization Service to sub- lair.
rena co,uirn'st Jack Anderson to con- ROSSELLI and Giancana are not
fir i ^is account. Anderson first rep affinity with the CLL.
-;E BOASTS privately that he acted ed allegations of the supposedly Mafiaort . alone e in n n, the claiming affinity ih:: the
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ty-e behest of L .e CL-,,, which needed managed murder contracts- on Castro; Richard Cain, e for
investigator later
Cuban connections and those of ex- in 1971. bared as a Mafia double agent, also
ica,o crime sy r d cate boss Salvatore "You listen to these stories and you spread the word he had labored for the.
wonder which came first, the chicken agency in Mexico before his gangland
or the egg," observed one investigator st
le murder in 1973.
y
;,= ` Estyly.. "You wonder if Rosa?elli at the Cain claimed the CL-% had solicited
idea from Anderson's column or vice Giancana's aid in developing a spy net-
versa." work inside Cuba a year before the
In any event, Rosselli undoubtedly j 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion. And Cain
has the underworld credentials to have was supposedly appointed by Giancana
given a helping band to any attempt to -to act as his liaison with Havana
wipe out the Cuban dictator. sources, also coitferrui; with Gianca-
After a lifelong criminal career, he is! na's business associate from Havana
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`. t ? well connected with mob chieftains : casino days, Miami mobster .Meyer
thruout the country, including Giancana Lanky.
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Trafficante, both of, whom enjoyed cor- ! Plantation. Fla., near to" Lau
dial relations with the pre-Castro re-, He spends a lot of time fishing. But in
Lrime of Fulgenclo Batista in the days ; his day, he was a remarkable mobster.
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