The Chicago Syndicate: Johnny Roselli
Showing posts with label Johnny Roselli. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Johnny Roselli. Show all posts
Monday, December 30, 2019

Mafia Spies: The Inside Story of the CIA, Gangsters, JFK, and Castro

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From bestselling author and the producer of the hit cable series Masters of Sex , Thomas Maier, comes a true story of espionage and mobsters...
Thursday, November 15, 2018

How "Handsome Johnny" Roselli Infiltrated Hollywood for the Mob, Pulled Off a Major Scam, and Got Whacked

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On July 28, 1976, “Handsome Johnny” Rosselli , a mobster who rose up through the ranks with Al Capone , had brunch with his sister in Miami ...
Wednesday, November 14, 2018

HANDSOME JOHNNY—The Life and Death of Johnny Rosselli: Gentleman Gangster, Hollywood Producer, CIA Assassin

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A rich biography of the legendary figure at the center of the century’s darkest secrets: an untold story of golden age Hollywood, modern Las...

Hollywood and the Mafia

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Bollywood's connections with the underworld are common knowledge. There is a certain level of romanticism attached to the lives of the m...
Monday, January 30, 2017

How the Mafia Dealt with J. Edgar Hoover?

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Excerpt from Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover , by Anthony Summers: To Costello, and to his associate Meyer L...
Wednesday, July 01, 2015

The Mob Mentality that Tried to Shut Down the Filming of The Godfather

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Death threats, shootings, strikes and bomb-scares ... John Patterson explains how - and why - the mafia tried to shut down the filming of Th...
Monday, November 18, 2013

The Top Five Conspiracy Theories on JFK Assassination

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As the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination draws nearer , the debate over who actually pulled the trigger rages on. Did Lee Harvey Osw...
Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Robert Maheu, Who Hired the Chicago Outfit to Kill Castro, Dies at 90

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For one simple reason, nearly all of the notable and notorious from Robert Maheu's life couldn't make it to his funeral over the wee...
Monday, July 28, 2008

Frank 'The German' Schweihs - "A Killer, That's All, A Killer of a Girl"

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Diane Pappas learned that Chicago isn't Camelot a lifetime ago when a tugboat captain found her sister's murdered body in the Chicag...
Saturday, December 15, 2007

Will the Chicago Outfit Assign Hitmen to Compose 'Trunk Music' Against the Writers Guild?

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Daily Variety editor-in-chief Peter Bart has come up with a novel idea to end the six-week-old writers’ strike – bring in the Chicago mafia ...
Tuesday, October 30, 2007

How the CIA Enlisted the Chicago Mob to Put a Hit on Castro

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The Fixer couldn't sleep. But in that shadow hour when his wife still slumbered and the 101 Strings murmured over his rec room speakers ...