Final_Judgment

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In any case, Johnny Rosselli never lived long enough to tell the true
story of the CIA-Meyer Lansky Crime Syndicate operations in the
Caribbean—and in Dallas. On July 28, 1976, Rosselli disappeared in
Miami. On August 7, the flamboyant mobster's butchered corpse bobbed up
in a drum from the bottom of the ocean.
Charles Rappleye and Ed Becker note that there have been suspicions
that it was indeed Trafficante, again, who may have even arranged the hit on
Rosselli. However, they point out that there are many in the Mafia who do
not believe this necessarily to be the case.
In the judgment of Rosselli's biographers, "The CIA certainly had the
contacts in Cuban Miami to pull off Rosselli's execution, and as it had
demonstrated by enlisting him in the first place, it had the will. Even the
evidence pointing to Trafficante did not rule out collaboration by the spy
agency. ” 382
As the authors point out, Trafficante did indeed have very close
connections with the CIA—connections that went above and beyond his
dealings with the spy agency in anti-Castro operations. In Chapter 12 we
shall see, indeed, that Trafficante, as Lansky's primary lieutenant in the
Southeast Asian drug smuggling racket, developed even closer and more
intimate ties to the CIA following the JFK assassination.
Only Santo Trafficante, Jr., Meyer Lansky's subordinate, remained alive
and, as the Giancana family notes, "conducted business without so much as a
whisper of legal difficulty." 383
The Giancanas point out: "One had only to read the newspapers to see
that the focus of underworld crime busters was not on Tampa, Florida, but
on its highly visible New York and Chicago cousins to the north." 384
And by this time—the mid-1970's—Lansky himself was ailing and
almost infirm. Trafficante himself died of kidney failure in 1987—just four
years after Lansky.
THE MAFIA AND THE MOSSAD
The bottom line: anyone who attempts to view the JFK assassination
as a "Mafia hit" is making a big mistake, failing to calculate in the role of
Mossad-connected Meyer Lansky, his Chicago associate Hyman Lamer, and
their allies in Israel's Mossad, not to mention the CIA itself.
So, once again, the Mossad connection is very much there, although
there are few "JFK assassination experts" who are willing to admit it. But
there's more.