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‘Mafia Spies’ Creators Explain the Real Reason for JFK’s Cold War Threesome in Havana, Castro Assassination Attempts and the CIA’s Mob Ties
'Mafia Spies' explores the mob conspiracy with the CIA to assassinate Fidel Castro, JFK's threesome in Havana and Sinatra's role in that dalliance
Paramount+’s “ Mafia Spies ” unravels a hidden conspiracy between the CIA, the Chicago mob and Frank Sinatra’s Rat Pack to assassinate Cuba’s Communist leader Fidel Castro at a critical time in the Cold War. The series is adapted from Thomas Maier’s “Mafia Spies: The Inside Story of the CIA, Gangsters, JFK and Castro” book, which drew upon material contained within declassified files about the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, released in batches by the National Archives in 2017-2018. The docseries relies heavily on the declassified National Archive documents as well as numerous expert talking heads and cinematic recreations to chart a Cold War game of cat and mouse from Vegas to Miami to Havana that pitted Washington figures against the 20th century’s most notorious gangsters.
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