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	Sam Giancana
		Giancana's nickname "Momo" was derived from the slang term "Mooney" (which meant "crazy") as Giancana had long had a reputation for very unstable and unpredictably vicious behavior.
		It is widely reputed Giancana and other mobsters had been recruited by the CIA during the waning days of the Eisenhower administration to assassinate Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, who had taken power in January 1959.
		Returning to Chicago, Giancana was assassinated on 19 June 1975 in the basement of his home in Oak Park, Illinois (which had been under close FBI and Chicago Police observation) shortly before he was to appear before a Senate committee investigating CIA and Mafia links to plots to kill Castro.
	sam-giancana.zdnet.co.za /zdnet/Sam_Giancana (345 words)

	Sam Giancana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Giancana's nickname "Momo" was derived from the slang term "Mooney" (which meant "crazy") as Giancana had long had a reputation for very unstable and unpredictably vicious behavior.
		Giancana was subsequently buried in a family mausoleum at Mount Carmel Cemetery in the Chicago suburb of Hillsdale, Illinois.
		Giancana is the subject of several biographies, one of which, Mafia Princess, was written by his daughter Antoinette and filmed in a poorly reviewed TV movie starring Tony Curtis as Giancana.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sam_Giancana (473 words)

	Sam Giancana
		In another of his unstable moments Giancana was said to have put out a "contract" on Desi Arnaz because he produced the television show called The Untouchables, which glorified federal agent Eliot Ness and vilified, from Giancana's viewpoint, the Italian gangsters of the Capone mob.
		Giancana captured the most attention because he was an excellent "wheel man" who considered no obstruction too large when he was driving, especially in making an escape from the scene of a crime.
		One of Giancana's daughters said it was all very unfair to her father, that he deserved a medal for the good works he had done for the government.
	www.carpenoctem.tv /mafia/giancana.html (1196 words)

	Cast of characters
		Giancana had ample documented dealings with the CIA, and was one of the key figures in the foiled CIA/Mafia plots to assassinate Fidel Castro.
		Giancana, Roselli and Nicoletti were murdered in the 1970's shortly before they had had been scheduled to testify for a government commitee investigating the assassination of JFK.
		Marcello was a partner of Sam Giancana and has long been suspected in the conspiracy to kill JFK and setting up Lee Harvey Oswald as the patsy through Guy Banister, a retired FBI agent relocated from Chicago to New Orleans.
	www.jfkmurdersolved.com /cast.htm (2990 words)

	GANGSTERS INCORPORATED - SAM 'MAD SAM' DESTEFANO
		Now I've told you about Sam and his tools, I told you he was notorious I think now it's time to tell you some of those stories that made Sam earn the nickname Mad Sam and made him the most deranged, sick, notorious and feared hitman in the history of the Chicago Mafia.
		Sam DeStefano lived in a nice far west side suburb of Chicago with his wife and three children, he looked everything like the normal family man. But that's because people couldn't look in his basement, if they had looked there they probably wouldn't live to tell the story.
		Sam began to alienate the judge and jury.
	gangstersinc.tripod.com /MadSam.html (1531 words)

	Judith Exner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Judith was born Judith Katherine Inmoor on January 11, 1934 to a family of a German architect in New York.
		The FBI had her followed and recorded her calls from Giancana's home to Kennedy.
		She later said that she began the affair with Giancana but when he proposed to her, she turned him down.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Judith_Exner (566 words)

	The Murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy: There Never was a Camelot by Thomas L. Jones
		Giancana said that the conspiracy went right to the top of the intelligence agency and it also included Lyndon Johnson and one-day-to-be-President Richard Nixon, who just happened to be in Dallas the day Kennedy was shot.
		According to Sam Giancana, the man who fired the shots from the sixth floor of the Book Depository was not Oswald, but Richard Caine, a Chicago-based ex-police officer and close associate of the mob boss.
		Giancana cannot be questioned about it, because on June 1975, he himself was executed, shot six times in the head, while frying sausages in the basement kitchen of his luxurious home in Chicago.
	www.angelfire.com /nh/hca/jfk.html (2452 words)

	Sam Giancana
		Giancana was purportedly hired by Joseph P. Kennedy to "deliver" Chicago to John F. Kennedy in order to obtain the presidential nomination of his party.
		Giancana's behavior was too high profile for the Mafia's taste, and attracted far too much federal scrutiny.
		After an exile in Mexico, Giancana was murdered in his basement with multiple gunshots to the head, before he could give Senate testimony on CIA plots to assassinate Fidel Castro.
	www.nndb.com /people/979/000113640 (93 words)

	Democratic Underground Forums - Sam Giancana was released from jail to work for Israel in 1966
		In 1966, Sam Giancana was released from custody from the feds.
		Sam Giancana agreed to do it and fund a gun-running operation for $1 million to the Israeli army.
		Giancana was released in 1966 because the witness against him died of a heart attack not because of an order by LBJ.
	www.democraticunderground.com /duforum/DCForumID30/6290.html (620 words)

	The Columnists.com has columns about entertainment, television, music, and screen classics
		When Antonia Giancana gave birth to Salvatore “Sam” Giancana on May 24, 1908, little did she know that he would turn out to be the battiest boy in town.
		Sam was anything but a loving man–his claim to fame was that he’d have a guy killed in a second.
		Sam’s brother and daughter flatly state that because the code of “omerta” ran so strongly through Sam Giancana’s Sicilian veins, that “informing” would never be his way out.
	www.thecolumnists.com /murcia/murcia42.html (2755 words)

	Cumberland House Publishing (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The second assassination was carried out by the CIA and the mob to prevent Giancana from testifying before the Church Committee hearings regarding his role in the CIA's plot to kill Fidel Castro.
		Written by an insider with access to key figures, it names the assassins and traces the assassination team's movements on November 22, 1963, and discusses the team leader's life, his taped confession, and his face-to-face meeting with Antoinette in the Joliet state prison where he is serving a life sentence for killing a policeman.
		The second came from Giancana's driver who fired a CIA prototype handgun with a telescope (called a "fireball") from the grassy knoll, using a frangible bullet, which explains why there was such a massive wound to Kennedy's head.
	www.cumberlandhouse.com /history/babyfacenelson.asp (521 words)

	Article 9176 of alt.conspiracy Subject JFK-1 Giancana Date Mon, 16 Mar 1992 040131 GMT Sen (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sam said they did this on purpose to be entertaining and appeal to a much broader audience than a documentary fact listing scenario which turns off so many of the regular short attention span public.
		Giancana agreed to help once Joe swore on his and his son's life that Jack would be exclusively Giancana's man once in the white house.
		Giancana knew this and was upset but Joe kept assuring him that everything was under control and no harm would be done.
	www.skepticfiles.org /socialis/jfkgianc.htm (2828 words)

	Press Release: 30 Seconds by Sam Giancana and Bettina Giancana (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Now Sam Giancana returns with wife and co-author Bettina Giancana to bring readers a book that is a gripping, frighteningly plausible novel of intrigue.
		They met in the field of advertising, where Sam was an executive and Bettina worked as a TV sales representative.
		Sam is the godson and namesake of Sam "Momo" Giancana, the notorious Chicago mafia boss and the co-author, with Chuck Giancana, of the bestseller Double Cross.
	www.twbookmark.com /books/43/044651716X/press_release.html (472 words)

	La Cosa Nostra
		Sam Destefano was a Mob loan shark, enforcer, extortionist, hijacker, sadist and hit-man. It is said that Destefano was the worst torture murderer the Mob ever had.
		Sam then phoned the man's family and invited them all to a luxurious dinner at the restaurant in the man's honor.
		Sam figured that this would make a suitable example to others who thought they could steal from him.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Lobby/9880/d.html (987 words)

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		Giancana himself had been murdered the night before he was to meet a lawyer for the Church committee.
		"Sam Giancana." A week later, she was staying with Kennedy at his house in Washington.
		Giancana responded to news of her pregnancy by asking her to marry him.
	www.blythe.org /nytransfer-subs/97cov/The_Dark_Side_of_Camelot-Seymour_Hersh-excerpt (3281 words)

	The Biography Channel - Sam Giancana Biography (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gilorma (Sam) Giancana was a leading crime boss of 1950âs Chicago, the archetypal mobster with connections to political and business circles, least of all the US government.
		In 1966, Giancana was forced to step down as Mafia boss because he refused to share the profits of his Latin American gambling operations.
		Giancana was meant to appear before a Senate committee investigating CIA and Mafia links to kill Castro.
	www.thebiographychannel.co.uk /biography_home/816:0/Sam_Giancana.htm (1119 words)

	Frank Sinatra and the Mob by J.D. Chandler
		Giancana was often annoyed by the attention Sinatra generated and thought he had a ''big mouth,'' but he was a regular at Sinatra’s legendary parties.
		According to FBI files, the autobiography of Antoinette Giancana and the testimony of Johnny Roselli to the U.S. Senate Church Commission in 1975, it was Giancana, along with a few other mobsters, who conspired with the CIA to assassinate Fidel Castro in the early 1960s.
		Giancana was murdered in 1975 after his role in the Castro plot came to light, but before he could testify at congressional hearings investigating the CIA.
	crimemagazine.com /sinatra.htm (8469 words)

	DESTEFANO
		In William Brashler’s The Don: The Life and Death of Sam Giancana, he gives this description of DeStefano: "The mob was full of psychopaths and morons, and keeping order among them was a challenge to the mettle of any boss, be he an elderly don like Paul Ricca, or a power broker like Giancana.
		Sam found that when these people went into hiding, they were the easiest to find and frighten because wives were always eager to help the collectors find their husbands.
		When this was done, they took him upstairs just as Sam was completing his speech and pushed him, naked, burned, bloodied, and dripping with urine into the room in front of his wife.
	crimemagazine.com /destefano.htm (1463 words)

	AmericanMafia.com 26 Mafia Cities - Chicago, Il
		Giancana refused to cooperate and was jailed for a year.
		Sam Giancana, after returning to the U. in 1974, died of unnatural causes in the basement of his Oak Park home on June 19, 1975, after visiting with Dominic "Butch" Blasi.
		Sam Carlisi was convicted in 1993, and was replaced around that time (or according to some accounts earlier) by John DiFronzo.
	americanmafia.com /Cities/Chicago.html (5304 words)

	Sam Giancana (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Giancana is believed to have had connections with the Kennedy family and to have assisted in John F. Kennedy's Presidential election in 1960.
		It appears Giancana may have good reason to feel that he was betrayed by the Kennedy Administration, as Attorney General Robert Kennedy put enormous legal pressure on the Chicago crime lord.
		Giancana eventually fled the United States for Mexico in 1966, turning the Family back over to Accardo but continuing to participate from a distance.
	www.onewal.com /w-gianca.html (347 words)

	JFK AND SAM by Giancana, Antoinette
		Subtitled The Connection Between the Giancana and Kennedy Assassinations, this is a tale of two murders as told by the daughter of one of the individuals of the title.
		According to Antoinette Giancana, the first was ordered by her father, Sam, to avenge his betrayal by the Kennedys.
		The second assassination was carried out by the CIA and the mob to prevent Giancana from testifying before the Church Committee hearings regarding his role in the CIA's plot to kill Fidel Castro.
	www.gamblersbook.com /weblink.cby/detail/452004.html (223 words)

	TNT to air mini-series on Sam Giancana (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Hollywood Reporter says the series will depict Giancana as a family man in both senses of the word -- showing the gangster who ruled the Chicago crime world in the 1950s and 1960s and the father who raised his three daughters after his wife's death.
		Giancana, nicknamed "Momo," was known for his friendships with Frank Sinatra and other celebrities and his relationship with Judith Exner, who said she was a mistress of President John F. Kennedy.
		Giancana is also said to have delivered the state of Illinois, and thus the 1960 election, to Kennedy.
	www.softcom.net /webnews/wed/bh/Uus-momo.Rk1j_Fl5.html (143 words)

	April 26, 1962
		Sam Giancana arranged for Maheu and Rosselli to meet with a "courier" who was going back and forth to Havana.
		Sam Giancana was present during parts of these meetings.
		Several months after this period Maheu told me that Sam Giancana had asked him to put a listening device in the room of one Phyllis McGuire, reported to be the mistress of Giancana.
	www.jfklancer.com /cuba/wiretap4-26-62.html (1222 words)

	Sam Giancana: Fondless Memories
		Born not long after the Horatio Alger Age, when America’s polyglot melting pot dreamed of a life of serenity with room to grow, Giancana thrived on disorder.
		When Oscar Wilde’s anti-hero Dorian Gray gazed upon his painting in its full oily blossom of evil, the caricature of his soul, he might well have been looking at a portrait of Sam Giancana incarnate.
		Oddly, whenever he heard of a gang-initiated killing (even those he caused), he would utter dry-voiced, "Live by the sword, die by the sword," as if he didn’t recognize that more as his own platform.
	www.crimelibrary.com /gangsters/sam/sammain.htm (920 words)

	Josh Becker: "Head Shot" (page 1 of 5) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sam, a bunch of his men, and some good-looking gals are all dressed up and watching the election returns on a fl and white TV.
		Sam Giancana has a paneled office in his basement and is smoking a cigar and watching TV.
		Sam and his men are shown inside and the butler takes their hats and coats.
	www.beckerfilms.com /HeadShot-p1.htm (1793 words)

	Author! Author! Article: Sam Giancana (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The reign of notorious Mob boss, Sam "Mooney" Giancana, may have ended in 1975, but in Chicago, among the Outfit's old guard, Mooney's legacy -- as well as his vision of an international crime syndicate -- still lives on.
		Mooney Giancana may have dreamed of a global future for the Outfit, but truth is, he only dabbled in international deals.
		But, as Mooney Giancana's story in Double Cross pointed out so clearly: For crime to exist, one must have "partners." And Mooney, like his counterparts today, had plenty of those: politicians and kings, common laborers and intelligence agencies.
	www.twbookmark.com /authorslounge/articles/1999/april/article7813.html (1155 words)

	Sam Giancana
		According to Chuck Giancana, Capone -- and not the rival gang -- had been behind the attempted Torrio assassination.
		While no other source mentions Momo's participation in the massacre, Chuck Giancana claims in Double Cross that Momo was asked to serve double duty as both driver and assassin.
		The opportunities of the Roaring Twenties had provided Momo Giancana with the stuff a gangster's dreams are made of.
	www.bugsysclub.com /club/community/info_giancana.htm (1514 words)

	Pat Metheny Group Listener Network (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Giancana was willing to oblige, delivering his home turf as well as West Virginia where his outfit had enough sway to influence the election.
		Giancana had a habit of wooing the wives and girlfriends of men he wanted to control.
		But when SAM Giancarno realised that Tommy Dorsey (jazz bandleader) needed a singer for one of his songs SAM GIANCARNO forced Tommy Dorsey - this is your new singer referring to Frank Sinatra - scared shitless of the threats from the MAFIA Tommy Dorsey agreed.
	www.patmethenygroup.com /pmg/forum/subjectView.cfm?subNum=16765 (16022 words)

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