Thomas Maier is an investigative journalist and the author of a book Mafia Spies and its accompanying series on Paramount+ and Showtime. 🕵️‍♂️📺

Thomas is an expert on a top-secret mission by the CIA, Operation Mongoose, that involved hiring the Italian Mob to take out Fidel Castro in the 1960’s. He’s here to tell us the wild tale of notorious mobsters Johnny Roselli and Sam Giancana, the intricate details of the US government's attempts to conceal the CIA plot and every crazy story involved in carrying out this mission.
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Intro, Edited and Produced: Christos Papastefanou

TIMECODES
00:00 Intro
1:24 Operation Mongoose = CIA employed the mob to get Fidel?
16:40 CIA training Cuban exiles + Bay of Pigs
19:37 Honeypot assassination failed as well
24:39 Castro was always a step ahead + Double agents?
29:54 First meeting + Cuban Missile Crisis 35:40 From Eisenhower to JFK + Catholics hated Communism
36:43 Trying to embarrass Fidel instead
40:58 Cuban Missile Crisis resolving + JFK assassination changed things
45:21 Allen Dulles rivalry with JFK
48:09 Theories about JFK assassination + Sinatra's presence
54:02 Judy Campbell + Mob blackmail
1:03:14 Presidential Immunity for official acts is WRONG
1:06:32 What happened to Johnny Roselli & Santo Trafficante?
1:23:15 Why would Trafficante take out people?
1:25:30 What happened to Trafficante?
1:29:56 Other details about this time