Friday, November 27, 2015

President Batista and the Mafia in Cuba. (Used Google translation from original at Presidente Batista y la Mafia en Cuba.

By Miriam Mata

November 27, 2015

guanabacoa@aol.com

There is a lot of misinformation in books on the administration of President Fulgencio Batista

and the Mafia from 1952 to 1958, as The Mafia of Havana: The Cuban Cosa Nostra By Luis Grave de Peralta Morell

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On page 98 previous picture speaks Batista's mandate ended in 1944, but

never let the title of strongest man in Cuba that ended in the coup not sangrineto of

March 10, 1952, to be president again. That was the beginning of a long cycle of dictatorship

and tyranny in the history of Cuba. Another ambitious young Fidel Castro who was released by the

Barricades attack on the Moncada Fulgencio Batista in 1953. Knowing that he could not win

in the election of 1958 was not a candidate, and in the early hours of January 1, 1959, escape

of Cuba, with a fortune stolen from public funds, and I buy an island in Portugal ......

Amazing how not only the history is changed, but much of it is hidden in a

single page of a book, with the result that those who does not know neither lived at that time in Cuba. Today after six decades as certain affirm what the author of the book said. Batista handed

power in 1944, and he was warned that if he was returning to Cuba his life was in danger.

So he went to live at Daytona in Florida. Batista was elected senator in 1948 while absent from Cuba, and went back after the election. The long cycle referred were only six years from 1952 to 1958.

The book does not mentioned that Batista held elections in 1954 and won the presidency, new Congress was elected and many opposition parties to Batista were elected.

Batista had money, it was not the theft of public funds as they say, but from private businesses commissions and perhaps even the casino business that led to a booming economy in Cuba during the era of 1954-1958, despite terrorist attacks and sabotage that suffered at the time by the guerrilla group named July 26. And the story that Batista bought an island in Portugal , it is not true , maybe he rented or bought a property to live but it is not the same. The island of Madeira in Portugal was not purchased by Batista, later he moved to Spain where he died in 1973.

We recommend reading The Growth and Decline of The Cuban Republic by Fulgencio Batista.

The Havana Hilton, largest hotel in Havana was not owned by the Mafia, but by the Gastronomy Workers Union.

The Downfall of the Havana Mob

Luciano HAD Been Deported from the US to Sicily after the war. In the US He Had Been in jail but HAD Helped the US war effort working for Naval Intelligence and using His influence in the New York Docks and and in Italy to snuff out the ship traffic in INFORMATION ABOUT Movements. I snuck back to Havana and from Sicily in 1946 Attempted to re-assert His position as 'Capo di tutti capi' working from Cuba. The US government HAD other ideas, and forced the Cuban Government to deport him again in 1947. Luciano died in Naples in 1962.

The president of Cuba from 1944 to 1948 was Grau San Martin.

The Nevada Daily Mail - February 3, 1975

The Sydney Morning Herald - Jan 4 198 0

Health, Politics, and Revolution in Cuba Since 1898

Trafficante was invited to the Havana Conference in December, 1946. Many of Trafficante's brothers Also Became Involved heavily in the Tampa crime family, Including prominent soldier and heir apparent, Henry Trafficante.

In 1946 Grau San Martin was president of Cuba.

As of 1958 the following Were the main casinos in Havana, Cuba:

to. The TROPICANA - operated by Wilber Clark and Frank BISCHOPE. Frank BISCHOFF has-been to Suspected narcotic trafficker. His main assistant in the casino was one Pierre CANAVESE Who Was Associated With Salvatore LUCANIA closely alias Lucky Luciano, FBN International List No. 198. (CANAVESE HAD Been Previously Deported from the USA to Italy but have subsequently Entered Cuba by Means of a fraudulent passport ). (Only the casino, Tropicana Night Club was owned by cuban Martin Fox)

b. The SANS SOUCI - operated by Santo Trafficante Jr. One of Santo Trafficante Jr.'s principal assistants in the operation of this club was one alias Sid JACOBS Syd Mathews.

c. The Riviera Casino - operated by Meyer LANSKIN FBN International List No. 169, Frank Erickson, Giordano Cellini Ed Levinson and one "Disty" PETERS. The Riviera Casino was one of the more honest gambling casinos in Havana. Meyer Lansky and Frank Erickson Suspected of Being Real Were the owners of the club. Represented ERICKSON racketeer Frank Frank Costello's interests.

d. CASINO INTERNATIONAL - National Hotel, operated by Wilbur Clark. His principal assistants in the operation of this club GOFFREDO CELLINY Were Edward and Merle Jacobs. As far as Could be ascertained, CLARK, Cellini and JACOBS Do not have any criminal records.

and. The Sevilla Biltmore, operated by Amletto Battisti, a Cuban citizen of Italian extraction. BATTISTI was kingpin of the "ball" racket (lottery). He was the owner of the Biltmore Hotel Sevilla Which He Had leased to a Chicago concern. Also BATTISTI owned and operated a bank in the hotel.

F. CAPRI CASINO HOTEL - operated by Nicholas Di Costanzo and Charles TURIN Believed to be identical With racketeer Charles TOURAINE [Tourine] Charley alias Blade. It was George Believed That Rafz, the movie star, owned a substantial interest in this club.

g. NATIONAL CASINO - operated by Jack LANSKY brother of notorious racketeer Meyer Lansky, FBN International List No. 169. Jack and Meyer Lansky owned the major portion of esta casino and HAD in Their employ a number of technicians from Las Vegas, Nevada. It was esta Said That casino was run strictly "on the level" Because the habitues Were the "boys" who Demanded to square game When They felt like gambling.

h. HILTON CASINO HAVANA - Operated by Clifford Jones of Las Vegas, Nevada, Senator Kenneth Johnson of Nevada and one of New York Sidney ARCB Two Cuban wealthy industrialists, Ramon Mandoza and Marcos MENDOZA HAD substantial interests in this club. Santo Trafficante Jr. and Joseph Silesi alias Joe Rivers, of New York, NY, Were rumored to Have In This piece had a casino. However, This was not verified.

The Havana Hilton, largest hotel in Havana was not owned by the Mafia, but by the Gastronomy Workers Union.

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Here is another web site with Lies About Batista.

Santo, Jr., established a solid relationship With Cuban President Fulgencio Batista. From 1931 to 1934, Batista was a high-ranking officer in the Cuban military Who Took part in a series of Revolts to overthrow the Cuban presidency.In 1940 I resigned from the army to run for the presidency and was Elected. At the end of His term in 1944, I have abided by the country's constitutional Provisions, stepped down as president and Went into exile in the United States.

Eight years later, Batista, Who Had Remained a behind-the-scenes force in Cuban politics, Seized power in a bloodless coup, and under His rule, the Mafia influence in Cuban mushroomed. Batista's government investments outside Agreed to match dollar for dollar in Cuba, as well as grant an operating license to any establishment worth more than a million dollars. Lansky and his fellow mobsters Took advantage of the arrangement and built many hotels, Including the Hotel National, Sevilla Biltmore and the Havana Hilton. Inside, gambling casinos flourished.

Batista was not a president from 1931 to 1934. Batista was Elected senator in 1948 and Went back to Cuba. Lansky did not built Havana Hilton, it was owned by The Havana Hilton, largest hotel in Havana was not owned by the Mafia, but by the Gastronomy Workers Union.

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**************BOOK CUBA BETRAYED BY FULGENCIO BATISTA.***************

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Gerardo Machado was Elected in 1924, and in 1925 communists tried to kill him as it was published.

The best president ever had since 1902 in Cuba was Gerardo Machado he resigned in August 1933.

In August, 1933 there was then a general strike and the generals abandoned him. I fled to Nassau on August 12, 1933, with ABC terrorists shooting at His plane as it taxied on the runway! He died in Miami Beach, Florida in 1939.

Some newspapers clips about Cuba from 1933 to 1940 (A must read to Know About Cuba)

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ULTIMATE SACRIFE or more lies about JFK’s assassination.

By Carlos J. Bringuier

A recently published book “Ultimate Sacrifice” caught my eyes and as I do with all the ones that deals with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy I perused its pages to find out what it says about me. If what it said is true I buy it if it is one that lies about me I discard it as a science fiction political book or as a communist propaganda book.

Two authors get credit for its writing: 1) Lamar Waldron, producer of programs for the Discovery Channel; 2) Thom Hartmann, whose national program, syndicated by Air America Radio (not Al Jazeeba) is carried on more than eighty stations across the US and draws some three million listeners.

On the back cover appear four endorsements for the book: 1) “IT’S FINDINGS ARE REMARKABLE. An important new analysis, with credible new disclosures…Waldron and Hartman report that our government had a secret plan for a Cuban insider”-named in this new edition for the first time-“to kill Fidel Castro on December 1, 1963-just days after JFK’s assassination. It would be followed by an invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles aided by the U.S. military. It was managed off the books by Robert Kennedy and a select group of government officials…The Mafia learned of it, and…had (Kennedy) killed in Texas , knowing that our government could not disclose the real facts without admitting its own provocative plans and risking nuclear retaliation”. – San Francisco Chronicle (from review by Ronald Golfarb, Mafia prosecutor for Attorney General Robert Kennedy)

2) “Until the CIA and Kennedy papers are all finally released in 2017, this book will do as ‘the last word’’’-Liz Smith, Syndicated columnist.

3)-“A truly remarkable book…there is no doubting the compelling logic of its conclusion”.-The Sunday London Telegraph.

4) “Compelling, often breathless reading”-The Dallas Morning News.

As I mentioned at the start I always read what it is written about me in a book. When I read it I was shocked. How can the writers write so many lies but immediately came to my mind Section A of the Cuban Department of State Security (Departamento Cubanode Seguridad del Estado, Sección A). Section A of the KGB was the one in charge of discrediting anti-communist individuals. Section A of the KGB was the one in charge of planting in the world media the falsehood about John Edgar Hoover’s transvestite experiences and the liberal press bit the lie and spread it all over the world. Section A of the KGB was the one in charge on November 22, 1963 of manufacturing lies about anti-communist involvement in the assassination of JFK and the liberal press took as a holy duty to spread the lies all over the world.

Now I was reading something that could have been manufactured by Section A of the Cuban Department of State Security as a response to the enlighten documentary “Rendezvous with Death” by laureate German producer Wilfried Huismann. By the way this excellent documentary has been shown in more than 40 countries but not in the USA .

On page 538 I read: “Bringuier was a friend of David Ferrie”.

Truth: I was never a friend of David Ferrie.

On page 540 I read several of the most incredible lies about me: “As noted earlier, by August 1963 the CIA was resuming contact with Briguier’s old colleage from the original DR student group and the Cuban revolution, Rolando Cubela (AMLASH). Since storming the Cuban Presidential Palace together, Bringuier and Cubela had followed different paths, with Bringuier becoming an anti-Castro exile with the DRE while Cubela remained in Cuba , an increasingly irrelevant mid-level official who was able to travel freely throughout the world. However since 1961 –when Cubela had contacted the CIA about helping them against Castro- both Cubela and Bringueir had essentially been on the same side.”

Truth: A)I have never in my life met Rolando Cubela.

B) I never stormed the Cuban Presidential Palace, even more I never set a foot inside the Cuban Presidential Palace (I was very little when my great uncle Dr. Federico Laredo Bru was President of Cuba ). I never participated in the storming of the palace in any form. At that time I was an Officer of the Court at Fifth Criminal Court of Havana .

C) I became a member of the Cuban Student Directorate (Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil) in mid 1962 not in 1957 (year of the storming of the Cuban Presidential Palace) as charge by the authors.

But for Ronal Golfarb these are “credible new disclosures”. For Liz Smith this book is “the last word”. For The Sunday London Telegraph “A truly remarkable book”. And for the Dallas Morning News is “Compelling, often breathless reading”. I don’t know if you can put these four with all the useful idiots mentioned by that great Cuban writer, Humberto Fontova, in his books but I believe that Section A of the Cuban State Security could have had a hand behind this book and its endorsers.

There was a Cuban say: “El papel lo aguanta todo” which freely translated means you can put in paper anything. But I want to come out and expose these lies and I will continue to do so as long as I am alive.

August 12, 2007

Note by the author: On a day like today in 1959 was executed in Matanzas , Justo Díaz. In 1963 were executed in the Havana GE, Saturnino Gallardo y Marcelo Valle. In 1969 was assassinated at sea Carmelo Morales.