Word: mafia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next incident was the disappearance of Hoffa himself. Police prepared to question one of his old friends, Anthony ("Tony Jack") Giacalone, 56, who has been identified as a top henchman of Joseph Zerilli, the godfather of the Detroit Mafia. Hoffa had reportedly gone to Machus Red Fox Restaurant last Wednesday to have lunch with Giacalone, although Giacalone denied any such plan. In Hoffa's heyday, the Teamsters were so often linked to the Mob that a Senate committee once concluded that a criminal record was a "prerequisite" for "advancement in the Teamsters firmament." Police were also interested in Giacalone...
...Houston, who had been general counsel for the CIA from its founding in 1947 until his retirement in 1973. One of the "old boys" of the agency and the confidant of one director after another, Houston related to newsmen how he had told Robert F. Kennedy about plans for Mafia hoodlums to assassinate Cuba's Fidel Castro (TIME, June 30). Houston said Bobby Kennedy "didn't seem very perturbed" about the plotting against Castro, criticizing only the CIA's use of the Mafia. Nonetheless, the former CIA lawyer did not link assassination plots to either...
That rubdown was inspiration-and the initial field research-for a projected 800-page magnum opus on sex, a work that Talese hoped would do for Eros what his earlier books had done for the New York Times and the Mafia. Instead, it has become perhaps the most famous unwritten volume in publishing history. Four years and a thousand orgasms later, not a word of Talese's vast researches has appeared in print...
...involved in foreign assassination plots, a subject that the Rockefeller commission sidestepped while concentrating on the agency's domestic transgressions. Roselli was an invaluable witness, particularly since his partner in the planned crime was no longer available for questioning. Two weeks ago, Sam Giancana, 66, the onetime Mafia don in Chicago and Roselli's friend since their days in the old Capone gang, was shot to death by persons and for reasons still unknown...
...Pursuit. Roselli told the Senators how he had taken part in four or five separate attempts to kill Castro in the early '60s, usually by poisoning, confirming the accounts previously reported by TIME and other publications. The testimony of the Mafia's genial old soldier dovetailed with other information gathered by the committee and strengthened the view that at least in the case of Castro, the CIA had tried to instigate what Senator Church bluntly calls murder...