Did a Far-Right/Industrial faction double-cross a Mob/Anti-Castro faction?

[Michael Clark]

 

This question popped into my head:

Did all the players get what they wanted?

I am suggesting no. I am suggesting that there were two general factions working together and one of them got double-crossed. I am suggesting that there was an anti-Castro Cuban / Mafia faction involved and they got double-crossed by a Far-Right / Industrial faction.

The Cubans and The Mafia wanted a war in Cuba.

The Indutrialists wanted a war in Vietnam.

Neither of them were going to get what they wanted with JFK.

The Cubans believed that the plan was to blame a pro-Castro Cuban / Communist conspiracy for the JFK hit, and Cuba would be invaded.

The industrialists (Oil, Aircraft, Oil, Ships, Oil) wanted Vietnam, 10,000 miles away. They were not interested in being close and cosy with a bunch of dark, Catholic, Spanish-speaking neighbors; nor were they interested in giving the Mafia their off-shore tourist-traps, casinos and drug-hubs. So, the Anti-Castro Cuban/ Mafia faction got double-crossed.

How was it pulled-off? By the myth of a lone-nut, white, American malcontent, with no real connection to Cuba, being accused of assassinating the President. LHO was a dirty trick.

Cheers,

Michael

 

Edited May 17, 2017 by Michael Clark

[Michael Clark]

I am thinking that this theory could help explain Watergate, if Nixon was a Prime-Mover in the double-cross. It seems likely that Nixon, early-on, was involved with Mafia concerns as well as Cuban interests. He may actually have been cought in the middle when the double-cross plan showed-up, immediately after the assassination.

The Cubans were probably held at bay through the LBJ Presidency, being told that Cuba would happen after Vietnam. They got impatient when they started to see that there was very little huger in America for another war, in Cuba, and they showed-up in the White-House, as Watergate perps, to light a fire under Nixons toosh, hoping to get him to move on Cuba.

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Edited April 10, 2017 by Michael Clark

[Roger DeLaria]

Sounds very interesting. The Cubans and Mafia get told a fairy tale(much as I believe Oswald was also told a fairytale) ensuring their willing participation), neither knowing what would really unfold, and getting double crossed. It's not like they would have anyone to turn to. Hmmm....

[Michael Clark]

I'll be adding points to this thread in support of my theory.

-My theory explains the Mexico City shenanigans.

----- Why go through the trouble of building an LHO trail to Mexico City and then discredit, obfuscate, abandon or not use it?

The Mexico City caper served to bolster confidence in the Cuban conspirators that LHO would turn-up, probably dead, at Dealy Plaza as part of a pro-Castro, Communist conspiracy, that would ignite the Cuba war.

When the evidence of MC actually turned-up, it wasn't Oswald, the pictures were of a blonde-guy. If LHO had made his way to MC at any time, and got in front of cameras, pictures of him could be used If necessary. As it turned-out, the double-cross plan got the green light, and no photos of Lee at the consulates were produced.

Cheers,

Mike

Edited April 9, 2017 by Michael Clark

[Michael Clark]

On 4/5/2017 at 3:59 PM, Roger DeLaria said:

Sounds very interesting. The Cubans and Mafia get told a fairy tale(much as I believe Oswald was also told a fairytale) ensuring their willing participation), neither knowing what would really unfold, and getting double crossed. It's not like they would have anyone to turn to. Hmmm....

Yup, they would have been told: "whatchagonnadoaboutit?", or, "we'll get to the Cuba thing after Vietnam".

[Paul Brancato]

3 hours ago, Michael Clark said:

Yup, they would have been told: "whatchagonnadoaboutit?", or, "we'll get to the Cuba thing after Vietnam".

Roger - Michael - Do you believe LHO was part of the plot? I don't. 

[Michael Clark]

1 hour ago, Paul Brancato said:

Roger - Michael - Do you believe LHO was part of the plot? I don't. 

Paul, That is too speculative right now; I don't really have a theory about what LHO thought was going on, and what he thought that he was supposed to do, when he went to work that morning. I believe that he knew there was going to be an attempt on JFK. His part in the attempt and what he thought his part in the attempt was going to be may have been different from one-another.

Gut-feeling? He wasn't going to kill Kennedy; nor did he want to see Kennedy killed.

For the purposes of this thread, as I want to present it, it doesn't matter.

Cheers,

Michael

Edited April 7, 2017 by Michael Clark

[Michael Clark]

18 minutes ago, Paul Brancato said:

Roger - Michael - Do you believe LHO was part of the plot? I don't. 

Paul, Sorry for two answers but, generally speaking, he was "part of the plot". Even a patsy is "part of the plot".

Cheers,

Michael

Edited April 7, 2017 by Michael Clark

[Paul Brancato]

Why? Because he says the word patsy? 

[Paul Brancato]

I view Oswald as a tragic figure. I don't see him as a left or right extemist. He intersected mostly with the right, but doesn't appear to be one of them. His leftist bonafides were manufactured, but seemingly based on some political philosophy. He worked for US Intel at times and in some capacity. He was not, in my opinion, part of a plot to kill JFK. But he seems to have been aware, at least after the fact, of the danger he was in. Looks to me like he thought he was spying on someone, aware of a plot but not aware that it was a deadly operation. That is only my opinion of course. 

[Michael Clark]

35 minutes ago, Paul Brancato said:

Why? Because he says the word patsy? 

Paul,  I wrote, in quotes, that he was "part of the plot". The plotters knew he was "part of the plot". Beyond that, I don't know. Yet, If I were Lee, and I saw someone bring a rifle to that building that Thursday, and I had NFC what was going on. I would have come down with the flu by Friday morning. But, thanks to 11-22-63, I have the benefit of paranoia.

Cheers,

Michael

Edited April 7, 2017 by Michael Clark

[Michael Clark]

14 minutes ago, Paul Brancato said:

I view Oswald as a tragic figure. I don't see him as a left or right extemist. He intersected mostly with the right, but doesn't appear to be one of them. His leftist bonafides were manufactured, but seemingly based on some political philosophy. He worked for US Intel at times and in some capacity. He was not, in my opinion, part of a plot to kill JFK. But he seems to have been aware, at least after the fact, of the danger he was in. Looks to me like he thought he was spying on someone, aware of a plot but not aware that it was a deadly operation. That is only my opinion of course. 

Paul, You digress. What do you think of my theory?

Cheers,

Michael

[Paul Brancato]

Michael - You're theory is close to mine, even if you use different words. I suggested to Cliff somewhere on my Lifton thread that the anti Castro crowd were used to organize the plot, and the planners who used them had another objective - Vietnam. If a Cuban invasion had been the goal of the planners, they need not have killed JFK. An attempt on his life, pinned on Pro Castro assassins, would have sufficed. The fact that JFK was killed leads in the direction of your theory. 

[Roger DeLaria]

I don't think LHO was part of the plot to kill JFK. I think he was told some kind of fairytale, where he thought he was to watch/infiltrate a group of persons who were running guns out of the TSBD, and might be making a move on Kennedy(real or not), to foment going against Cuba. Oswald is placed there under false pretenses and is unwitting about the true nature of will happen. His clueless, deer-in-the-headlights demeanor after he's hauled in says a lot. Thinking of what he is on film saying(visibly upset), "I emphatically deny these charges!"

[Michael Clark]

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David Yaras 

http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?/topic/14955-david-yaras/

I have always considered Dave Yaras an important figure in the assassination of JFK. As a young man he became friendly with Jack Ruby. Yaras later worked as a hit man for Mafia boss Sam Giancana. Yaras was also a close associate of Jimmy Hoffa, president of the Teamsters Union and helped establish Teamster Local 320 in Miami. 

After the Second World War Yaras worked for the Mafia in Cuba. According to a federal narcotics officer, Yaras "ran a number of gambling operations on the island". After the fall of Fulgencio Batista, Yaras was the "Chicago mob's liaison to the Cuban exile community". 

Yaras, considered to be the prime suspect in several gangland killings, was arrested 14 times by the police. In 1947 he was arrested for the murder of James M. Ragen, the national manager of the Continental Press Service, an organization that was in conflict with Mafia leader, Carlos Marcello. As G. Robert Blakey and Richard Billings have pointed out in their book, The Plot to Kill the President: "Four witnesses identified Lenny Patrick, Dave Yarras, and William Block as the gunmen, but after one witness was murdered, two recanted, and another fled, the indictment was dropped." Yaras was released and no charges were ever brought against him for the killing. When the Kefauver Senate Committee later investigated the murder of Ragen, something they regarded as a landmark syndicate event, another key witness in the case was murdered. 

In their book, Deadly Secrets (1992), Warren Hinckle and William Turner argue that the McClellan Senate Rackets Committee "credited" Yaras with playing a significant mob role in Havana. The historian, David Kaiser, pointed out in The Road to Dallas (2008) that Yaras was linked to Sam Giancana: "Bugs and phone taps revealed his associations with hit men Lenny Patrick and David Yaras of Chicago (both childhood friends of Jack Ruby)." 

In 1962 an electronic eavesdropping device installed in a Mafia hangout by the FBI picked up a conversation where Jackie Cerone commissioned Yaras to murder Frank Esposito. Yaras said on the tape: "Leave it to us. As soon as he walks in the door. Boom! We'll hit him with an ax or something. He won't get away from us." According to a FBI informant, Yaras and Lenny Patrick were responsible for the killing of City Alderman, Benjamin F. Lewis on 13th February, 1963. One official report stated that Yaras was one of "more than a score of top-rated exterminators who work strictly on contracts for the board of directors." 

The night before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Yaras telephoned another hit man, Robert Barney Baker. A few days earlier, Jack Ruby also received a 17 minute telephone-call from Baker. Yaras was interviewed by the FBI and admitted that he had known Ruby for about 15 years in Chicago. However, as Bernard Fensterwald has pointed out: "The FBI never asked Yaras about his own Mafia connections, but did ask him whether he thought Ruby was connected with the syndicate. Yaras, as one might guess, stated that he doubted that Ruby had such connections."

Jack Ruby's sister, Eva Rubinstein Grant, told the Warren Commission that Yarras and Lenny Patrick, were two of his closest friends in Chicago. This evidence was ignored and General Counsel J. Lee Rankin told Commission members that Ruby only had links to "the minor underworld". 

According to Peter Dale Scott, the Warren Commission covered-up Ruby's connections with Yaras. In his book Deep Politics and the Death of JFK (1993) he wrote: "The Commission did not receive an important interview with Luis Kutner, a Chicago lawyer who had just told the press (correctly) about Ruby's connections to Chicago mobsters Lennie Patrick and Dave Yaras. All the FBI transmitted was a meaningless follow-up interview in which Kutner merely said he had no additional information. Apparently the FBI also failed to transmit a teletype revealing that Yaras, a national hit man for the Chicago syndicate who had grown up with Ruby, and who had been telephoned by one of Ruby's Teamster contacts on the eve of the assassination, was about to attend a 'hoodlum meeting' of top East and West Coast syndicate representatives, including some from the 'family' of the former Havana crime lord Santos Trafficante." 

Dave Yaras was murdered in 1974. Lenny Patrick gave a deposition in 1978. He claimed he did not have any relevant information on Jack Ruby. However, he did accept that his friend, Yaras, "was closer to Ruby than he was".

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Another article about another, possibly unrelated, Yaras...

Mobster Slain As Rackets Boss Enters Custody

January 11, 1985|By Philip Wattley and William B. Crawford Jr.

A REPUTED CRIME SYNDICATE gambling boss who once was an associate of mobster Joseph DiVarco was shot to death Thursday, the day DiVarco was ordered into federal custody as a danger to the community.

The gangland-style killing of Leonard Yaras, 44, of 6400 N. Cicero Ave., Lincolnwood, and the action against DiVarco, 73, prompted authorities to reconsider a string of past gangland killings for possible relationships to the two men.

But police said a motive for the Yaras killing was still under investigation.

Yaras was slain by two men wearing ski masks as he sat in his car in the 4200 block of West Division Street moments after leaving the building that houses A-1 Industrial Uniforms Co. and three other laundries, at 4224 W. Division, witnesses told police.

YARAS ONCE told authorities he was a ``consultant`` to A-1 Industrial Uniforms, investigators said.

Chicago police said Yaras was once regarded as a lieutenant to DiVarco, who was convicted of gambling charges and tax violations on Wednesday in U.S. District Court here.

But police said Yaras had moved up in recent years and operated on about the same level as DiVarco.

Yaras reputedly was a syndicate gambling boss in the Rogers Park and north suburban areas. DiVarco is in charge of mob gambling in the Near North Side nightclub area, including Rush Street, according to police.

Federal agents said Yaras had been interviewed some time ago by members of the U.S. Justice Department`s Organized Crime Strike Force, but he was not a federal informant.

POLICE GAVE this account of Yaras` killing:

Yaras came out of the laundry at 10 a.m. and entered his late-model Oldsmobile on the north side of Division Street.

As soon as he shut the door, a tan Chevrolet swung in front of his auto, preventing it from going forward.

Two men wearing ski masks got out, and one opened the driver`s side door of Yaras` car. The men shot Yaras four times in the face and once in the throat.

Yaras fell toward the passenger seat and was shot two more times, once in each leg. Some bullets missed or went through him and broke the passenger-side window.

YARAS FELL on top of a bundle of files and a calendar. Police and federal agents examined the items Thursday night.

The gunmen got back in the Chevrolet, driven by a third man also in a ski mask, and drove away. The car and license plates had been stolen earlier Thursday in Burbank, police said.

A short time after Yaras was shot, the Chevrolet was found burning in an alley near North and Latrobe Avenues, about a mile northwest of the shooting. POLICE SAID the Chevrolet apparently had been firebombed and was completely burned. Witnesses told police they saw four men get into another auto and speed away.

Police said the four men probably included the three involved in Yaras`

killing plus another man who drove the second getaway car.

Yaras was the second member of his family shot to death.

His brother, Ronnie, 36, who authorities said operated a string of massage parlors in Miami, was found dead in his Miami home on April 18, 1974. Their father, David Yaras, who suffered a heart attack while playing golf and died in Miami in January, 1974, had been charged with murder (in Chicago), robbery and extortion but was never convicted.

A FEW HOURS after Leonard Yaras was shot, DiVarco appeared in federal court and was linked by FBI agents to the gangland slaying of mob figure John DeJohn, 51, in April, 1981, and to the botched assassination attempt on former gambling boss Ken Eto.

After the testimony, U.S. District Court Judge Milton Shadur ordered DiVarco, of 4275 W. Jarvis Ave., Lincolnwood, into custody.

The order means that DiVarco, who was admitted to a Chicago hospital for heart problems Thursday, has federal agents outside his hospital door 24 hours a day. He faces sentencing Feb. 27 on the Wednesday gambling conviction. If he is released from the hospital before then, he will be taken to the Metropolitan Correctional Center.

Shadur`s decision came after a hearing that also resulted in the jailing overnight of Ronald Ignoffo, 35, reputedly a top DiVarco lieutenant, who was convicted Wednesday along with DiVarco and four other men.

THE JUDGE ORDERED that Ignoffo be held in the Metropolitan Correctional Center until a hearing Friday to determine the extent of Ignoffo`s alleged role in mob terror activities and whether he, like DiVarco, poses a threat to society.

Judith Dobkin, a U.S. Department of Justice attorney in the Organized Crime Strike Force in Chicago, initiated the hearing by invoking a new provision of the federal criminal code. Under the new law prosecutors can ask that defendants be jailed immediately after conviction upon a showing that they pose a danger to the community, even if they have posted bail.

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January 11, 1985|By Philip Wattley and William B. Crawford Jr.

FBI agent Scott Jennings testified that he had been told by Timothy Joyce, a former mobster, that Ignoffo was present in a car when DeJohn, a reputed drug peddler, was slain in the spring of 1981 at the request of DiVarco. The agent`s testimony indicated that DiVarco allegedly ordered DeJohn`s killing out of fear that the victim had become emotionally unstable and no longer was to be trusted.

In reference to the botched assassination attempt on Eto, which took place Feb. 10, 1983, Elaine Smith, another FBI agent, testified that DiVarco had arranged a dinner meeting between Eto and the two men who allegedly tried to kill him, Jasper Campise and John Gattuso.

THE NIGHT of that meeting, Campise and Gattuso allegedly shot Eto three times because mob bosses feared that Eto was about to become a federal witness.

Eto survived the attack and is in the government`s witness protection program. Campise and Gattuso later were found slain, their throats slit, in the trunk of Gattuso`s car. By testifying that DiVarco had arranged the dinner engagement, FBI agent Smith apparently was attempting to show that DiVarco had a role in the attempted killing of Eto.

DiVarco, Ignoffo, of 1733 N. Keating Ave., and the four other men were convicted Wednesday of running an illegal sports betting parlor on the Near North Side that took in as much as $200,000 a day from 1978 to 1980.

Edited April 10, 2017 by Michael Clark