Word: giancana
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...means the agency could devise. Two obvious possibilities: fomenting political upheaval or plotting an assassination. Similarly, the State Department and possibly the FBI and the Pentagon were told that ways should be found to get rid of Castro. The CIA did work with two U.S. Mafia leaders, Sam Giancana and John Roselli, in unsuccessful attempts to kill the Cuban leader...
...Cain was a Chicago detective in the 1950s, and later became chief investigator in the Cook County sheriffs office. In the mid-1960s he was dismissed from the sheriffs office for concocting a phony drug raid, and he became the chief operative of Chicago Mafia Overlord Momo Salvatore (Sam) Giancana. In 1966 Giancana left Chicago for Mexico to avoid federal heat and counseled the Chicago syndicate from his exile; Cain was a trusted aide...
Throughout his tenure in the sheriffs office, Cain was collecting $1,000 a month from Giancana to divert Ogilvie's attention from mob activities and to feed inside police information to the syndicate. But he also told the police about out-of-favor mob figures whom he wanted to have arrested in order to solidify his position within the syndicate...
Cain was jailed in 1969 on charges of conspiracy, concealment of evidence and acting as an accessory to a robbery. Paroled in 1971, he resumed his role as Giancana's right-hand man, serving both as international courier and scout for gambling operations and investments in corporations in Europe and elsewhere...
...reasons still not clear, Cain's influence in the Mob had waned by early in 1973. Some longtime Mafia observers believe that Giancana and Cain had a serious dispute. Others believe that a band of jewel thieves he had fallen in with decided that he could no longer be trusted. Why was he killed? Said one Chicago police investigator: "He knew too much." Added Charles Siragusa, executive director of the Illinois Legislative Investigating Commission: "He may have committed the unpardonable sin-talking to both sides...