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...Vegas contact, John Roselli, failed to collect the money, the dons ordered Roselli killed; he was asphyxiated in 1976 (Roselli gained notoriety in 1975 when he told a Senate committee that he and another mobster had been recruited by the CIA in the 1960s to assassinate Cuban Premier Fidel Castro). Next, the bosses turned to Rizzitello for help. Just as he began pressuring the casino owner, the FBI, tipped by Fratianno, intervened and scared Rizzitello off. Further, Fratianno has told the FBI that he and his West Coast associates extorted payoffs of up to $50,000 from another Las Vegas...
...that were ordered or approved by higher authorities. The abortive Bay of Pigs invasion was approved by Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy. It is still debated whether Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson knew of or supported assassination attempts against foreign leaders, such as the bizarre plan to supply poisoned cigars to Fidel Castro. L.B.J. approved Operation Phoenix, in which agents directed the killing of Viet Cong terrorists. In Chile, the CIA gave money and other help to opponents of Marxist Salvador Allende. But there is no evidence connecting the CIA to the coup that overthrew and killed Allende in 1973, though...
Some 1,000 Russians and 2,000 Cubans arrived with the hardware, and they may not all be just advisers: both Eritrean and Somalian rebel forces claim to have captured Cuban combat troops. Underscoring Moscow's new urgency about the battle of the Horn, Raul Castro, Fidel's brother and Cuba's Defense Minister, arrived in mid-January, apparently to help Mengistu run his dual war against the rebels and his political opponents in Addis Ababa...
...shot Oswald, asked a notorious Teamster racketeer from Chicago, Barney Baker, to "straighten out" a troublesome union dispute at Ruby's Dallas night club. (The commision might have been more interested, of course, had the FBI disclosed that the CIA had recruited Chicago gangsters to kill Cuban Premier Fidel Castro.) There is no evidence that organized crime had anything to do with the Kennedy murder, but the commission's failure to investigate the possibility left a fertile field in which conspiracy theories have flourished...
...Sherr-lee Mah-klen, Sherr-lee Mah-klen," gasped the Russian visitor, recognizing the smiling redhead in the lobby of the Havana Riviera hotel. It was indeed Shirley MacLaine, autographing napkins for guests and talking up her new film, The Turning Point. Would she have a chance to meet Fidel Castro? "Oh, I'll see him at the Cuban premiere of my picture -the Premier at the premiere, I guess-tomorrow night. That's at the Carlos Marx theater." As it happened, Fidel did not catch the flick but caught the star, inviting her to the Palace...