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The CIA and the Mob

The plan for the CIA and the mob to team up, it kind of predated Kennedy. It had started with Eisenhower,. And in September 1960, the plan becomes real. This is before Kennedy is elected. But anyway, but San Giancana wasn't the only mob boss the CIA worked with. They also had Santo Traficantes from the Traficante family, which was big, yes, in Atlantic City, Philadelphia. So what did the Kennedy brothers do? Now that they get the White House, they return the favor by initiating re-colon investigations on the mob.

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