MAFIA SPIES: THE INSIDE STORY OF THE CIA, GANGSTERS, JFK, AND CASTRO By Thomas Maier Skyhorse, $25.99, 416 pages Although mobster Johnny Roselli was murdered in 1976, his body discovered in a 55 ...

"Johnny [Roselli] laid very low, and his name was not on anything. Johnny was a unique personality. Yes, he was a mobster and got stuff done, but he was also very charming and ingratiating.

Nick Annunziata as Johnny Roselli in "Mafia Spies." Sinatra was also very close to the Kennedys — he even had a helipad built at his house for when President Kennedy came to visit.

Chicago Outfit boss Sam Giancana and his mob pal Johnny Roselli got recruited by the CIA during the Cold War to kill Fidel Castro. Thomas Maier explores new details in the first of three parts ...

And Roselli, known as “Handsome Johnny” for his movie star looks, served as the mob’s smooth-talking man in Hollywood before overseeing its casinos in Las Vegas.

Chicago gangster Sam Giancana and his mob pal Johnny Roselli hoped their involvement with a secret CIA plan to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro in the early 1960s would earn them a “Get out of ...

The case bears all the marks of the Mob's operating practices in the 70s. "It's almost a carbon copy of what happened to a mobster named Johnny Roselli," says Schumacher.

The new TV series "Mafia Spies" will premiere on Paramount+ on Tuesday, as well as weekly on Showtime, beginning July 22.

In some two hours of gripping political theater in downtown Chicago, the investigative journalist Hillel Levin, once the editor of Chicago magazine, lays out his potent dramatic case that President… ...

The series mainly revolves around two top gangsters, Johnny Roselli and Sam Giancana, who were hired for the Castro job. As they plan and scheme with the CIA, they also find themselves cleaning up ...