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carmencita ago

761 pages of FBI files dating from 1960 to 1975. The files chiefly covers the FBI's discovery of CIA plans to assassinate Castro with the help of underworld figures. The CIA believed that underworld figures, who had thieved in Cuba during the Batista regime, still had the contacts in Cuba to facilitate the naturalizing of Fidel Castro. A hotel employee inquiring about an unpaid hotel bill at the Riviera in Las Vegas, lead to the discovery of recordings of tapped phone conversations between Dan Rowan of the comedy team Rowan and Martin, and the former girlfriend of SAM GIANCANA,  Phyllis McGuire, of the singing act, the McGuire Sisters. The FBI traced this incident to CIA's dealing with Chicago LA COSA NOSTRA figures Sam Giancana and John Roselli.  In a memo, a FBI agent states that Attorney General Robert Kennedy said that because of the CIA involvement with Roselli and Giancana, "it would be very difficult to initiate any prosecution against Ginacana." Files show the FBI's concern that the CIA had compromised itself by dealing with Roselli and Giancana. A memo details a contentious confrontation between an FBI agent and Sam Giancana at Chicago's O'Hare Airport, when Giancana was approached about his knowledge of the bugging of Rowan. Files chronicle John Roselli going to the CIA for protection, when he was under pressure by the FBI.  THERE is much more in the link.   [http://www.paperlessarchives.com/castro.html](http://www.paperlessarchives.com/castro.html)   GIANCANA then advised that the United States Govt.  assisted Fidel Castro in his coup of Batista and that when Castro came into power, he would eliminate gambling in Cuba.  COULD this have been what it was all about?  Amazing.  So possibly Castro was doing the dirty work of the CIA.

argosciv ago

Just read what you quoted, will keep it in mind for sure.

Almost certainly ties into what we're looking at.

carmencita ago

Please read this recommended by Wisconsin http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/mob-havana-cuba-culture-music-book-tj-english-cultural-travel-180960610/ I am looking through it now.

argosciv ago

will do, thanks

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