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	The American "MAFIA" - Tampa Crime Bosses
		Trafficante became a major force in the American Mafia after Prohibition, as crime bosses rushed to open gambling facilities in Havana, Cuba.
		Upon his release, Trafficante responded by conspiring with Chicago and New Orleans mafiosi and with American intelligence agencies on unsuccessful plots to remove or assassinate Castro.
		Trafficante died three hours after undergoing a triple-bypass at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston.
	www.onewal.com /maf-b-ta.html (654 words)

	Santo Trafficante, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Trafficante was born in Tampa, Florida to Sicilian parents Santo Trafficante, Sr.
		Trafficante was summoned to court in 1986 and questioned about his involvement with the King's Court nightclub operated by members of the Bonanno family from New York, including undercover FBI agent Joe Pistone, alias Donnie Brasco.
		Santo Trafficante was born in Tampa, Florida, on 15th November, 1914.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Santo_Trafficante,_Jr. (1015 words)

	Santo Trafficante, Jr. -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Trafficante was born in (A resort city in western Florida; located on Tampa Bay on the Gulf of Mexico) Tampa, (A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War) Florida to (A resident of Sicily) Sicilian parents Santo Trafficante, Sr.
		Santo Trafficante was born in (A resort city in western Florida; located on Tampa Bay on the Gulf of Mexico) Tampa, (A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War) Florida, on 15th November, 1914.
		Trafficante returned to Cuba but his casinos were closed down when (Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba (born in 1927)) Fidel Castro overthrew Fulgencio Batista in January, 1959.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sa/santo_trafficante,_jr.htm (894 words)

	Biography: Santo Trafficante
		Trafficante was necessary to get Castro because he had the connections inside Cuba, and Giancana was necessary to get Trafficante, because Trafficante had the stature of a "Godfather," and only a man of equal stature - like Giancana - could approach him for help.
		One fact, however, was indisputable: Santo Trafficante was the only survivor of the three mobsters recruited by the CIA to kill Fidel Castro.
		Trafficante chose Rolando Masferrer, a Cuban mercenary closely associated with Kohly and del Vane, to assist in the implementation of the JFK assassination scheme.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /JFKtrafficante.htm (3927 words)

	Laborers-LIUNA Mob Boss Santo Trafficante Dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Trafficante was a 1981 Miami indictment charging him with participating in a kickback scheme to bilk millions of dollars from a health and welfare fund set up for Laborers International Union of North America.
		Trafficante was Florida's "boss of bosses" and a leader of La Cosa Nostra were sensational exaggerations.
		Trafficante was questioned about the death of Albert Anastasia, a maverick who headed a group dubbed "Murder Inc." Anastasia's throat was slashed while he sat in a hotel barber chair.
	www.laborers.org /AP_Trafficante_3-19-87.html (438 words)

	Santo Trafficante, Sr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Trafficante was heavily involved in the illegal bolita lotteries which were popular in Florida at the time.
		Trafficante assumed control of the Tampa mafia after the death of boss James Lumia on June 5, 1950.
		Upon his own death from stomach cancer in 1954, control passed to his son, Santo Trafficante, Jr.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Santo_Trafficante,_Sr. (99 words)

	Frank Ragano
		Ragano was one of the first attorneys to tell his mob clients to not hide their face in public, and to walk proudly in front of the media, projecting an image of innocence.
		Although trafficante had refused to help Ragano, in 1986, Trafficante was targeted in a new federal crackdown and he convinced Ragano to help.
		Trafficante died in 1987 after telling Ragano that they had made a mistake in Killing John Kennedy, they should have killed Robert Kennedy.
	www.ipsn.org /ragano.html (655 words)

	[CTRL] [15] The Great Heroin Coup
		Trafficante engineered more attempts, including one in September 1962,[15] and his organization also provided Cubans for the Bay of Pigs invasion.[16] Never before had there existed a more remarkable, fanatical group of conspirators than that assembled to create, finance, and train the Bay of Pigs invasion force.
		Trafficante and company could agree that if the Corsicans were to be neutralized, it had to be done totally and effectively.
		Santo Trafficante, Jr.'s first important appearance in his role as overseer of the heroin traffic might have been at a 1947 summit in Havana reportedly attended by Auguste Ricord, alias Lucien Dargelles, the French Nazi collaborator who became Latin America's narcotics czar; see V. Alexandrov: La Mafia des SS (Stock, 1978).
	www.mail-archive.com /ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg29601.html (3757 words)

	The Mafia, the Cia and Castro - The Education Forum
		Santo Trafficante Jr., was perhaps the most important of f the three, for it was his men, both in Miami and Havana who were supposed to carry out the murder.
		Trafficante is generally identified as the don of southern Florida, but he is also one of the chiefs in the Mafia's loose national confederation.
		Santos opted therefore to remain in prison for a period of time paying Castro in dollars for his rather luxurious and definitely non-prison-like accommodations...
	educationforum.ipbhost.com /index.php?showtopic=2545 (4029 words)

	Encyclopedia: Santo Trafficante, Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York and abbreviated NYC) is the most populous city in the United States, and is at the center of international finance, politics, communications, music, fashion, and culture.
		The United States Department of the Treasury is a Cabinet department, a treasury, of the United States government established by an Act of U.S. Congress in 1789 to manage the revenue of the United States government.
		Donnie Brasco (L) and Sonny Black Napolitano (R) in Florida (FBI photograph) Donnie Brasco was the alias of FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone, who worked undercover for years to infiltrate the Bonanno family, a branch of the Mafia in New York City.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Santo-Trafficante,-Jr. (2901 words)

	Untitled
		A couple of weeks later, Santo Trafficante, the mob boss from Tampa and personal friend of Marcello, during a conversation expressed similar plans.
		At some stage in their conversation, Trafficante belittled Robert Kennedy for his war against Hoffa and made mention of the fact that he and his brother, the President were due some serious trouble.
		The man Trafficante was speaking to supported President Kennedy’s actions and thought he would probably be re-elected.
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	Scott M. Deitche, author of Cigar City Mafia A Complete History of the Tampa Underworld and The Silent Don: The ...
		The group also gave rise to one of the most powerful, yet least known mob bosses in crime history, Santo Trafficante Jr., who ran the crime family from 1954 to his death in 1987.
		After the fall of Batista and the rise of Castro, Santo became embroiled in the shadowy matrix of covert CIA operations, drug trafficking, plots to kill Castro, and ultimately the JFK assassination.
		Trafficante’s erudite understanding of the interwoven network of corrupt politicians, heads of state, non-traditional ethnic crime groups, and the Mafia enabled him to become one of the pivotal figures in the American Mafia during it’s heyday of power.
	www.scottdeitche.com /order.htm (327 words)

	The CIA and The Politics of Heroin
		Santo Trafficante is believed to have been heavily involved in narcotics importation operations in a general kind of way as somebody who was very heavily involved in Cuba.
		But Trafficante kind of ran it, providing a certain amount of protection and order for organized crime because he was southern Florida and it was a natural territory for him to expand into.
		Trafficante is believed, according to Hong Kong police intelligence, to have explored getting an Asian heroin connection.
	www.lycaeum.org /drugwar/DARKALLIANCE/ciah2.html (3052 words)

	Hell in Miami
		In 1962 Aleman was a wealthy Cuban exile in Miami.
		Aleman told them that he thought Trafficante was not guessing, that "he knew Kennedy was going to be killed," and that Trafficante was hinting that Hoffa was going to make the hit.
		Aleman hedged in his testimony, affirming that Trafficante said Kennedy "was going to be hit," but claiming that the don may have meant JFK was "going to be hit with a lot of votes from the Republicans or something."
	www.hobrad.com /acrehell.htm (1046 words)

	LUNCH
		Then, according to Ragano, Trafficante told him, "I came up here to meet with these friends of mine in New York to straighten out a problem that Carlos and some of his friends were having with my friends in New York.
		Trafficante, in addition to the restaurant arrest, was wanted for questioning in the Albert Anastasia murder that took place nine years prior in October 1957.
		Trafficante had stayed at the Warwick Hotel for several days, where Anastasia maintained an office, and checked out the morning Anastasia was killed.
	crimemagazine.com /artichokes.htm (2268 words)

	Santo Trafficante - TheBestLinks.com - Florida, Mafia, 1914, 1987, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Santo Trafficante - TheBestLinks.com - Florida, Mafia, 1914, 1987,...
		Santo Trafficante, Florida, Mafia, 1914, 1987, 1886, 1954, Tampa, Florida...
		Santo Trafficante was the name of two powerful Tampa, Florida Mafia bosses, father and son:
	www.thebestlinks.com /Santo_Trafficante.html (123 words)

	AmericanMafia.com 26 Mafia Cities - Tampa, Florida
		Trafficante ruled until his death in August of 1954 from stomach cancer.
		Trafficante was present at the Little Apalachin meeting of top bosses.
		Ragano won Trafficante an acquital, but it was a short lived victory.
	www.americanmafia.com /Cities/Tampa.html (906 words)

	Part One: The Mysterious Death of CIA Scientist Frank Olson by H.P. Albarelli Jr.
		Santo Trafficante Sr., who was slowly dying of stomach cancer, had come to the United States in 1902 at the age of 16 from Allessandria della Rocca, Sicily.
		After all, Santo had learned from a master, his father, and neither man, despite their myriad illicit enterprises and several court appearances had ever spent a day in prison.
		Even more amazing is that Trafficante, while awaiting deportation from Cuba, was visited in prison in early September 1959 by Jack Ruby, who was reputedly in Cuba as part of a shadowy gun-running operation involving a number of American soldiers of fortune who had fought with Castro's rebel forces.
	crimemagazine.com /olson.htm (12307 words)

	Probe V2N5: Gunrunner Ruby & the CIA, Part 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		At that time, Santo Trafficante was being held at the Trescornia detention center in Cuba.
		But Trafficante was one of the "gangsters" who participated in the CIA's Castro assassination attempts, according to the CIA Inspector General's report.
		To all of the following, Trafficante's response was, "I respectfully refuse to answer that question pursuant to my constitutional rights under the 1st, 4th, 5th, and 14th amendments." This is the legal outlet allowed when a truthful answer will be self-incriminating, and Trafficante used it throughout.
	www.webcom.com /ctka/pr795-ruby.html (2777 words)

	The Education Forum > The Fidel Castro theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Trafficante may have paid the odd Castro double agent, but if Marita Lorenz is to be believed, it seems that LANSKY, NIXON and TRAFFICANTE sent Frank Sturgis to Dallas with weapons in 1963.
		First, a qualification on Trafficante and organized crime, I'd go further Shanet and say he did not just have dealings with organized crime but by 1963 he was organized crime in the SE, inheriting Lansky's network and very efficiently running serious organized crime (the big money stuff like sports gambling and more importantly narcotics).
		Jul 12 2005, 10:18 AM Mark, as an example, on the thread: "Who Was In Prison with Santos" James Richards yesterday posted a great picture of Santo Trafficante in 1959, flanked by a hispanic on one side and a uniformed fl man on the other side.
	educationforum.ipbhost.com /lofiversion/index.php/t4331.html (3710 words)

	Santo Tirso - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Santo Tirso (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Santo Tirso - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Santo Tirso.
		Santo Tirso (Parish) is a city and municipality located in the north of Porto Metropolitan Area, Oporto District, Portugal.
		In the Ave Valley, there is a large center of textile industry.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Santo-Tirso.html (145 words)

	Tampa Tribune articles on Sicilians in Tampa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		These silent markers and mausoleums are now home to the cigar workers, the grocers, the barbers, the shoemakers, the dairy farmers, the vegetable growers, the peddlers, the labor organizers, the politicians and the gambling kingpins who lived and died in Tampa during a raucous and exuberant era that is rapidly fading into distant memory.
		Santo Trafficante, above, left, was detained after fidel Castro came to power in 1959.
		In his interview, Trafficante said that he'd never met the judge or his wife prior to that sale, and that a business associate of his had attended the real estate closing without him.
	home.comcast.net /~antinori/TampaSicilians.htm (10257 words)

	Laborers-LIUNA Angelo Fosco, Former Secretary-Treasurer, Terrence J. O'Sullivan and Anthony Accardo Acquitted (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Five are still to be tried, the most prominent being Santo Trafficante Jr.
		Trafficante, who is 68 years old and lives in Tampa, Fla., has been identified by witnesses testifying before various Congressional committees as one of the last of the old-time Mafia dons, the head of one of 26 organized crime families in this country.
		Santo Trafficante Sr., who had lived in Tampa since 1904, took over the Tampa interests after Mr.
	www.thelaborers.net /newspapers/nyt_FoscoAcquited_6-19-82.html (659 words)

	MAFIA and GAMBLING history of USA. History of New York casinos. Dutch Schultz, Lanski. Genovese Family, Wise Guys, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Recent, unconfirmed information has it that Santo TRAFFICANTE Jr.'s is "absolutely broke" and that he owes money to his associates.
		However, when the Cuban authorities arrested him he denied the use of the name SANTOS or that he had attended the Apalachin meeting.
		TRAFFICANTE is allegedly CASTRO'S outlet for illegal contraband into this country.
	www.policygame.net /article.shtml?mafia/santo_trafficante.txt (2367 words)

	Hillsborough: 'Police eyed the pallbearers with curiosity'
		After seeing him parade before the cameras in the years preceding his death, it was hard to comprehend that this frail old man was still an immensely powerful Mafia chieftain.
		Trafficante was buried in a mausoleum in the L'Unione Italiana cemetery in Ybor City.
		Among them were Frank Albano and Santo Jose Trafficante, nephew of the boss.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/01/03/Hillsborough/_Police_eyed_the_pall.shtml (272 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Carlos Marcello (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Just before Kennedy was assassinated on 22nd November, 1963, Jack Ruby made contact with Marcello, and another Mafia leader, Santos Trafficante, about a labor problem he was having with the American Guild of Variety Artists (AGVA).
		Blakey came to the conclusion that Marcello, along with Chicago mob boss Sam Giancana and Tampa, Florida mafia leader Santo Trafficante, Jr.
		In his autobiography, Mob Lawyer (1994) (co-written with journalist Selwyn Raab) attorney Frank Ragano added that in July, 1963, he was once again sent to New Orleans by Jimmy Hoffa to meet Marcello and Santo Trafficante concerning plans to kill President John F. Kennedy.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=Carlos_Marcello (1016 words)

	Treasury Department History of Santo Trafficante Jr 1961
		One of Santo TRAFFICANTE Jr.'s principal assistants in the operation of this club was one Sid JACOBS alias Syd Mathews.
		On January 23, 1958 the Department of Investigation, Havana, Cuba notified the Bureau of Narcotics that Santo TRAFFICANTE Jr.
		As matters stand, the allegations as to Santo TRAFFICANTE Jr.'s status with Fidel CASTRO are varied, conflicting and, of course, unconfirmed.
	cuban-exile.com /doc_126-150/doc0126.html (2362 words)

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