C.F. Marciano·Aug 10The Chicago Pipeline: How the Outfit Quietly Took Over VegasLas Vegas tells a polished story about itself. Neon, glamour, reinvention. A place where fortunes rise and fall under chandeliers and…A response icon1A response icon1
InThe ApparatusbyJ Gray·Jun 26The Del Charro File — J. Edgar Hoover’s Nearly Twenty Summers as Clint Murchison’s GuestJ. Edgar Hoover spent nearly twenty summers as a Texas oilman’s guest at a hotel that also drew gamblers and racketeers. He never paid.
InMade MenbyJ Gray·Jun 19What Choosing Giancana Tells You — How the CIA Built the Map the FBI Said Didn’t ExistTo choose Sam Giancana in 1960, the CIA needed a comprehensive intelligence map of the American national crime syndicate — who ran what…
C.F. Marciano·Feb 25Sam Giancana, Phyllis McGuire, and the Cost of Craving the SpotlightPower, in the underworld, is supposed to be quiet.
C.F. Marciano·Jan 3The CIA-Mafia Plot to Kill Castro: Spies, Hitmen, and the Dark Marriage of Cold War AmericaIt sounds like a Hollywood thriller: the CIA hires the Mafia to kill a foreign leader. Except it happened. The mission was real. The plot…
Vincent Tesi·Aug 12, 2025Mobster Sam Giancana, President Kennedy, and Judith Exner CampbellChicago Mafia boss Sam Giancana was murdered in his home on June 19, 1975.(1) When the news of Giancana’s death was made public, CIA…
C.F. Marciano·Jul 17, 2025The Code of Silence: How the Mafia Shielded Its Client Lists from Law and JusticeIn the underworld of organized crime, power isn’t just measured by bullets and bodies — it’s measured by secrets. And none were more…
