22-10-2008, 03:26 AM
Prior to the invasion of Cuba, Castro was supposed to be murdered by the introduction of a poisoned pill into his drink. I read that the guy who was supposed to drop it in the drink got cold feet.
IMO, the envelopes that Judith Campbell carried back and forth between the President and Sam Giancana in the summer and fall of 1961 were questions and their responses in regard to the CIA/Mafia plot to kill Castro. I believe that the President found out about the plot from Campbell, who was the girlfriend of Giancana, a man who had first-hand knowledge of the plot. I also believe that it was the information that Sam Giancana provided that convinced Kennedy that he had been deceived and resulted in the firings of Dulles & Cabell and the re-assignment of Bissell.
Giancana, for his part, may have believed that by helping the President, he was earning a "get out of jail free" card, but such was not the case. The Kennedys were not about working with Organized Crime, they were about destroying it. Giancana's frustration that the Kennedys wouldn't cut him some slack was evident in the several times he appeared before a TV camera and complained about them.
If the CIA was arranging assassination attempts on foreign leaders, without the President's knowledge or approval, then Giancana was the only man outside the government who knew that for certain.
Again, this scenario is only my opinion based on what I've read on the subject, but it's not too difficult to understand why it was that Roselli and Giancana couldn't be allowed to tell their stories to the HSCA.
IMO, the envelopes that Judith Campbell carried back and forth between the President and Sam Giancana in the summer and fall of 1961 were questions and their responses in regard to the CIA/Mafia plot to kill Castro. I believe that the President found out about the plot from Campbell, who was the girlfriend of Giancana, a man who had first-hand knowledge of the plot. I also believe that it was the information that Sam Giancana provided that convinced Kennedy that he had been deceived and resulted in the firings of Dulles & Cabell and the re-assignment of Bissell.
Giancana, for his part, may have believed that by helping the President, he was earning a "get out of jail free" card, but such was not the case. The Kennedys were not about working with Organized Crime, they were about destroying it. Giancana's frustration that the Kennedys wouldn't cut him some slack was evident in the several times he appeared before a TV camera and complained about them.
If the CIA was arranging assassination attempts on foreign leaders, without the President's knowledge or approval, then Giancana was the only man outside the government who knew that for certain.
Again, this scenario is only my opinion based on what I've read on the subject, but it's not too difficult to understand why it was that Roselli and Giancana couldn't be allowed to tell their stories to the HSCA.