July 4, 1905 - John Roselli
Few organized crime figures moved as fluidly between worlds as Roselli did — from Chicago Outfit operations to the back rooms of Hollywood studios and Las Vegas casinos, and ultimately into the orbit of American intelligence. His recruitment by the CIA to help plan the assassination of Fidel Castro placed him at one of the Cold War's more unsettling intersections: a government agency enlisting the mob to do what it could not officially do itself. He was murdered in 1976, his body found in an oil drum in Miami's Dumfoundling Bay, shortly after testifying before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
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John "Handsome Johnny" Roselli (sometimes spelled Rosselli; born Filippo Sacco; July 4, 1905 – August 7, 1976) was an Italian-born mobster for the Chicago Outfit who helped that organization exert influence over Hollywood and the Las Vegas Strip. Roselli was recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in a plot to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
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