sam giancana and john roselli
... John and Robert Kennedy wanted Castro out of power so they created Mongoose and gave Brig. ... The CIA then sent arranged to have mobster John Roselli got to Florida in 1961 and 1962 to organize teams to assassinate Castro. Roselli got Chicago mobster Sam Giancana and Santos Trafficante, the Costra Nostra chieftain for Cuba, in on the deal. ... Giancana was then supposed to find someone who could get close enough to Castro to slip pills into his drinks. Trafficante was to be the courier who helped make arrangements for the murder in Cuba, and Roselli was the link between all of them. ... SAM “MOMO” GIANCANA (1908-1975) Sam Giancana was born on May 24, 1908 in an Italian ghetto in Chicago’s west side nicknamed “The Patch. ... His mother, Antonia Giancana died when he was only two years old, his father remarried to Mary Leonardi only a short time later. Sam’s father, Antonio Giancana, beat him daily, tending to blame to would be mob boss for everything that has gone wrong in his life. Sam stopped going to school when he was 14 and joined a street gang called the 42’s, which he eventually led. ... On September 26, 1933, Giancana married and would eventually have three daughters with Angeline DeTolve. In 1944, Ricca went to prison and was succeeded by Anthony Accardo, so Giancana drove for him. ... Sam did not join the Army. Sam soon commanded the largest numbers operations in Chicago by kidnapping Eddie Jones, the man who ran the rackets, and held him for ransom, the ransom being the policy wheels and control of the numbers rackets. ... The rackets had earned the underworld over $150 million, so Accardo gave Giancana a place on the ‘board. ... He later on made sure John F. ... At this point, Giancana shared a girlfriend, Judith Cambell, with John Kennedy. Cambell admitted to carrying satchels of cash from Jack Kennedy to Giancana to be used in the West Virginia primary.