Mafia Spies

A revolution is at hand in Havana. Young attorney Fidel Castro sizes power, spelling game over for the American Mafia embedded in Cuba with rich outsized profits. Meanwhile, the CIA must grapple with orders from President Eisenhower to have Castro eliminated as the country is gripped by Cold War paranoia. The CIA makes a fateful decision, and a new game begins that will have deadly consequences...

The CIA works with a rogues’ gallery of nefarious characters in its secret mission to eliminate Fidel Castro, including the American Mob. Foremost among them is legendary fixer, “Handsome Johnny” Roselli, who carries secrets of his own. To get the job done, he must enlist the help of bosses Sam Giancana and Santos Trafficante, Jr. and angry Cuban exiles. Meanwhile, newly elected JFK pushes the ...

The risqué private life of Chicago mob gangster and spy, Sam Giancana gets unwanted attention from the FBI and the press just as the CIA prepares its top-secret invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs.

Humiliation at the Bay of Pigs leads the Kennedys to ratchet up their actions against Castro. William Harvey is put in charge of ‘Mongoose,’ a massive new CIA operation in Miami. He begins an unlikely friendship with Mob fixer, Johnny Roselli. For Roselli, with allies now in a Havana prison after the Bay of Pigs, this mission has become personal. He decides to take matters into his own hands.

Conflict between the United States and Fidel Castro reaches a boiling point when the CIA’s covert actions in Cuba lead to JFK’s biggest crisis: a showdown with the Soviet Union that takes us to the brink of nuclear war. Gangster Johnny Roselli must protect a friend after he receives news of a national tragedy in Dallas. Meanwhile, the FBI closes in on Roselli’s secrets, threatening to blow the ...

Roselli gets caught up in yet another scandal as the FBI pursues him. Meanwhile, Giancana has his own problems. As the lid blows off their involvement in the Castro assassination plots, both gangsters begin to face the consequences of their actions and pressure from the government to tell what they know. But Johnny and Sam also know that, in the Mob, “you talk, you die.” Series finale.