on January 19, 2015 in World News
CIA and The Mafia: Old Business Pals
CIA and The Mafia: Old Business Pals The relationship between the CIA and organized crime is a well-established one. The overlap between Washington’s covert operations and the mafia’s black market business interests seems to be a fertile environment for trading and profiting off drugs, vice, arms, extortion, protection, contract killing, double-crossing and most importantly, avoiding any prying eyes. Before its revolution which ended in 1959, Cuba was the offshore playground for both the CIA and a number of organized crime families. That’s where the story begins… According to recently declassified documents: “The CIA conspired with a Chicago gangster described as… View Article
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