Word: roselli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...acknowledged, however, that he had been recruited by Gangster John Roselli in the early '60s for the CIA-backed plot to murder Cuban President Fidel Castro. He joined, he said, chiefly out of patriotism: "It was like in World War II. They tell you to go to the draft board and sign up. Well, I signed up." Besides, he had a grudge to settle against Castro for closing down the casinos after seizing power in 1959. According to Trafficante, the mobsters considered "poison, planes, tanks. I'm telling you, they talked about everything." Eventually they chose poison pills...
...since 1951. Most were disciplinary actions aimed at small-fry mobsters. He has also given authorities a firsthand account of the Mafia's Las Vegas rackets. He has described how Chicago Mob bosses demanded $1 million from an unnamed casino owner. When their regular Las 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...
...There has always been a tradition of MIT being able to discipline its students, and very few people would question their authority," Roselli said yesterday. Roselli added that he does not regret having run the article, but regrets having printed the names of the men mentioned...
...Roselli said he believes the faculty committee on discipline, which sent letters to the students yesterday afternoon, viewed itself as an official representative of the University...
...Roselli said no one has filed a libel suit about the article, even though lawyers contacted yesterday say the piece is potentially libelous...