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Sam GiancanaSam "Momo" Giancana (May 24, 1908 — June 19, 1975) was a famous and powerful mafioso. Throughout his life Sam Giancana was arrested more than 70 times. It is widely reputed that Giancana was recruited by the CIA during the latter days of the Eisenhower administration to assasinate Fidel Castro. It is also widely reputed that at roughly the same time Joseph P. Kennedy recruited Giancana to co-ordinate trade union support behind his son, John F. Kennedy's bid to secure the Democratic nomination for the 1960 Presidential election. There are also strong suggestions that JFK maintained links with Giancana as he continued the practice of covertly using the Mafia in a bid to assassinate Castro. The two men also shared the same lover, Judith Campbell who also apparently acted as a conduit between the two men, passing money and information between the two. Giancana was assassinated on 19 June 1975 at his home in Oak Park, Illinois. The assassin shot him in the head a total of seven times with a .22 caliber handgun. Although some suspected the CIA as being involved (as Giancana had a somewhat of a troubled history with the agency), CIA Director William Colby was quoted as saying, "We had nothing to do with it." Giancana, Sam Giancana, Sam Giancana, Sam
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