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 Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 6:56 am Post subject: How the CIA Enlisted the Chicago Mob to Put a Hit on Castro |
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How the CIA Enlisted the Chicago Mob to Put a Hit on Castro
Ever wonder about the sanity of America's leaders? Take a close look at
perhaps the most bizarre plot in U.S. intelligence history
By Bryan Smith
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 and his
swimming pool lights threw green wavy diamonds into the muggy Virginia
night, he knew that sleep was not what he needed. What he needed was to
think. To weigh. Good or bad. Right or wrong. Could he do it? Should he? The
questions had gnawed at him ever since the proposition had been made earlier
that evening.
The setting had been his recreation room, the comfortable redoubt where he
often took visitors to discuss potential assignments from his most reliable
client: the Central Intelligence Agency. On this occasion, the visit was
from James O'Connell-"Big Jim" to his friends-and Sheffield Edwards, two
operatives in the highest reaches of The Company, as the CIA was known. They
had an assignment for him, they said, one so top secret that even the
president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, had been kept in the dark.
The Fixer was no stranger to intrigue. As a former FBI agent turned private
eye, he had built his career on operating in the shadows. His fledgling
detective agency had a standing arrangement with the CIA: For $500 a month,
he would perform various "cut-out" operations-missions ordered by the CIA,
but with which the agency could deny official involvement. One such
assignment, for example, required him to procure "feminine companionship"
for Indonesia's President Sukarno during a state visit to New York, with the
understanding that the woman would use her wiles to gather information from
the leader. In another, he helped queer a deal that would have given
Aristotle Onassis, already one of the richest men in the world, control over
nearly all of the oil exports coming out of Saudi Arabia.
The Fixer served other clients, too, including one almost as secretive as
the CIA. Howard Hughes-the "phantom billionaire"-may have been the most
paranoid, reclusive public figure in the country at the time, but he trusted
The Fixer with his most sacred secrets.
Still, for all his covert, high-level adventuring, even The Fixer found the
operation the two CIA agents were now describing hard to believe. The
subject was Cuba. The target was Fidel Castro. The mission was
assassination. And The Fixer's role was to recruit the killer.
This was August 1960, about a year and a half after Fidel Castro had led the
revolution that overthrew Cuba's longtime strongman, Fulgencio Batista. At
first, much of the West celebrated the young revolutionary's success. But
quickly, Castro's leanings toward Communism became evident. He began cozying
up to the Soviet Union. Among the disturbing implications of this
partnership was the potential for a missile base 90 miles from U.S. shores-a
base from which Moscow could launch nuclear weapons at virtually any part of
America.
That must not happen, Edwards and O'Connell said. Castro and his regime
needed to be dealt with-"neutralized." Which was where The Fixer came in.
After taking power, Castro had kicked out all the CIA agents. As a result,
the best contacts left in Cuba belonged to the Mafia, which, with the
blessing of Batista, had largely run the island's hugely profitable casinos.
Castro had effectively robbed the Mafia of those profits by closing the
casinos-first temporarily, then permanently.
If he agreed to help, The Fixer would use his contacts in the underworld to
recruit someone who could get close enough to Castro to carry out the
assassination. The hit would be timed to coincide with the Bay of Pigs
invasion, loosely planned for some eight months from then. Killing the
leaders, the reasoning went, would improve the odds for the military
operation. The assignment obviously was considered "super eyes-only"-perhaps
only half a dozen CIA agents knew of it. Would The Fixer do it?
He was speechless. The CIA. In bed with the mob. With him as the matchmaker?
It was . . . crazy. How could an arm of the federal government team with
Murder, Inc.?
The two men acknowledged his discomfort, shared it, even. In a perfect
world, they would never have asked this of him or any citizen. But in this
case, the interests of national security justified it. Think of Hitler, the
lives that could have been saved had he been taken out before the launch of
World War II, they said.
The analogy pricked The Fixer's conscience. Still, he said, "I have to think
about it, think very deeply. I'll give you my answer tomorrow." That night,
he recalls, "I told my wife I wouldn't be coming to bed. I went down to the
recreation room and locked myself in. I realized that if anything went
wrong, I was the fall guy. My family could be hurt. My friends could be
hurt. I could be hurt. Furthermore, I considered myself a reasonably good
Catholic, and I did not like the idea of getting involved with murdering
anybody. I put on some music and began to do some soul searching."
He reached his decision at dawn. As morally questionable as the plan was, he
agreed with the agents. Killing Castro would serve a greater good. That day,
The Fixer called with his answer: He was in.
Continued
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| Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 5:20 pm Post subject: Re: How the CIA Enlisted the Chicago Mob to Put a Hit on Cas |
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On Aug 17, 7:56 pm, "Firnando" <geovani_the_ital...@yahoo.com> wrote:
| Quote: | How the CIA Enlisted the Chicago Mob to Put a Hit on Castro
Ever wonder about the sanity of America's leaders? Take a close look at
perhaps the most bizarre plot in U.S. intelligence history
By Bryan Smith
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 and his
swimming pool lights threw green wavy diamonds into the muggy Virginia
night, he knew that sleep was not what he needed. What he needed was to
think. To weigh. Good or bad. Right or wrong. Could he do it? Should he? The
questions had gnawed at him ever since the proposition had been made earlier
that evening.
The setting had been his recreation room, the comfortable redoubt where he
often took visitors to discuss potential assignments from his most reliable
client: the Central Intelligence Agency. On this occasion, the visit was
from James O'Connell-"Big Jim" to his friends-and Sheffield Edwards, two
operatives in the highest reaches of The Company, as the CIA was known. They
had an assignment for him, they said, one so top secret that even the
president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, had been kept in the dark.
The Fixer was no stranger to intrigue. As a former FBI agent turned private
eye, he had built his career on operating in the shadows. His fledgling
detective agency had a standing arrangement with the CIA: For $500 a month,
he would perform various "cut-out" operations-missions ordered by the CIA,
but with which the agency could deny official involvement. One such
assignment, for example, required him to procure "feminine companionship"
for Indonesia's President Sukarno during a state visit to New York, with the
understanding that the woman would use her wiles to gather information from
the leader. In another, he helped queer a deal that would have given
Aristotle Onassis, already one of the richest men in the world, control over
nearly all of the oil exports coming out of Saudi Arabia.
The Fixer served other clients, too, including one almost as secretive as
the CIA. Howard Hughes-the "phantom billionaire"-may have been the most
paranoid, reclusive public figure in the country at the time, but he trusted
The Fixer with his most sacred secrets.
Still, for all his covert, high-level adventuring, even The Fixer found the
operation the two CIA agents were now describing hard to believe. The
subject was Cuba. The target was Fidel Castro. The mission was
assassination. And The Fixer's role was to recruit the killer.
This was August 1960, about a year and a half after Fidel Castro had led the
revolution that overthrew Cuba's longtime strongman, Fulgencio Batista. At
first, much of the West celebrated the young revolutionary's success. But
quickly, Castro's leanings toward Communism became evident. He began cozying
up to the Soviet Union. Among the disturbing implications of this
partnership was the potential for a missile base 90 miles from U.S. shores-a
base from which Moscow could launch nuclear weapons at virtually any part of
America.
That must not happen, Edwards and O'Connell said. Castro and his regime
needed to be dealt with-"neutralized." Which was where The Fixer came in.
After taking power, Castro had kicked out all the CIA agents. As a result,
the best contacts left in Cuba belonged to the Mafia, which, with the
blessing of Batista, had largely run the island's hugely profitable casinos.
Castro had effectively robbed the Mafia of those profits by closing the
casinos-first temporarily, then permanently.
If he agreed to help, The Fixer would use his contacts in the underworld to
recruit someone who could get close enough to Castro to carry out the
assassination. The hit would be timed to coincide with the Bay of Pigs
invasion, loosely planned for some eight months from then. Killing the
leaders, the reasoning went, would improve the odds for the military
operation. The assignment obviously was considered "super eyes-only"-perhaps
only half a dozen CIA agents knew of it. Would The Fixer do it?
He was speechless. The CIA. In bed with the mob. With him as the matchmaker?
It was . . . crazy. How could an arm of the federal government team with
Murder, Inc.?
The two men acknowledged his discomfort, shared it, even. In a perfect
world, they would never have asked this of him or any citizen. But in this
case, the interests of national security justified it. Think of Hitler, the
lives that could have been saved had he been taken out before the launch of
World War II, they said.
The analogy pricked The Fixer's conscience. Still, he said, "I have to think
about it, think very deeply. I'll give you my answer tomorrow." That night,
he recalls, "I told my wife I wouldn't be coming to bed. I went down to the
recreation room and locked myself in. I realized that if anything went
wrong, I was the fall guy. My family could be hurt. My friends could be
hurt. I could be hurt. Furthermore, I considered myself a reasonably good
Catholic, and I did not like the idea of getting involved with murdering
anybody. I put on some music and began to do some soul searching."
He reached his decision at dawn. As morally questionable as the plan was, he
agreed with the agents. Killing Castro would serve a greater good. That day,
The Fixer called with his answer: He was in.
Continued
http://tinyurl.com/39alhh
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| Quote: | Sina's Challenge - I receive many emails from angry Muslims, who
sometimes beg me, and sometimes order me to remove this site. I consider
both, pleading and bullying, signs of psychopathology. Argumentum ad
baculum and argumentum ad misericordiam are both logical fallacies.,,If
you do not like this site and want me to remove it, instead of acting as
a bully or as a victim, disprove my charges against Muhammad logically.
Not only will I remove the site, I will publicly announce that Islam is
a true religion. I will also pay ,,$50,000 U.S. dollars ,,to anyone who
can disprove any of the dozen of the accusations that I have made
against Muhammad. I accuse Muhammad of being:,a narcissist a
misogynist a rapist,a pedophile a lecher a torturer -
http://www.faithfreedom.org/challenge.htm |
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| Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 11:22 pm Post subject: Re: Sina's Challenge - I receive many emails from angry Musl |
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Raptor wrote:
| Quote: | Sina's Challenge - I receive many emails from angry Muslims, who
sometimes beg me, and sometimes order me to remove this site. I consider
both, pleading and bullying, signs of psychopathology. Argumentum ad
baculum and argumentum ad misericordiam are both logical fallacies.,,If
you do not like this site and want me to remove it, instead of acting as
a bully or as a victim, disprove my charges against Muhammad logically.
Not only will I remove the site, I will publicly announce that Islam is
a true religion. I will also pay ,,$50,000 U.S. dollars ,,to anyone who
can disprove any of the dozen of the accusations that I have made
against Muhammad. I accuse Muhammad of being:,a narcissist a
misogynist a rapist,a pedophile a lecher a torturer -
http://www.faithfreedom.org/challenge.htm |
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| Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 8:20 am Post subject: Re: Sina's Challenge - I receive many emails from angry Musl |
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Raptor wrote:
| Quote: | Sina's Challenge - I receive many emails from angry Muslims, who
sometimes beg me, and sometimes order me to remove this site. I consider
both, pleading and bullying, signs of psychopathology. Argumentum ad
baculum and argumentum ad misericordiam are both logical fallacies.,,If
you do not like this site and want me to remove it, instead of acting as
a bully or as a victim, disprove my charges against Muhammad logically.
Not only will I remove the site, I will publicly announce that Islam is
a true religion. I will also pay ,,$50,000 U.S. dollars ,,to anyone who
can disprove any of the dozen of the accusations that I have made
against Muhammad. I accuse Muhammad of being:,a narcissist a
misogynist a rapist,a pedophile a lecher a torturer -
http://www.faithfreedom.org/challenge.htm |
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