Meyer Lansky and Organized Crime in Havana

…by Jonas E. Alexis and Mark Dankof

There was an undeniable link between the late Senator John McCain and Meyer Lansky, one of the Jewish leaders of organized crime. A little background on Lansky.

He had had a history of buying politicians and sending

“large sums of gambling money to the ADL, which would in turn accuse anyone who claimed Lansky and Dalitz were gangsters of anti-Semitism. In addition to being steady contributors to the ADL, the Jewish gangsters of this era also supported Israeli terrorist organizations: ‘With support from Meyer Lansky, Hank Greenspun had become a gunrunner for Israel in 1948 and thereafter performed as an Israeli operative. Bugsy Siegel reportedly gave $50,000 to support Irgun while ‘celebrity gangster’ Mickey Cohen sponsored an Irgun fundraiser in 1947.’

“The Israeli newspaper Haaretz claim that ‘Jews control crime in the United States,’ but Meyer Lansky had the backing of the ADL when he claimed that ‘there was much anti-Semitism behind the campaign to convict him.’”[1]

So Lansky was essentially aiding and abetting the Israeli regime and was funding thought police institutions like the ADL. Surprisingly, McCain was tied to the gangster mob. How? The late Michael Collins Piper pointed out:

“McCain’s father was a highly-placed fixture in the Arizona branch of the national organized crime syndicate: He was the chief henchman of the late Kemper Marley, Arizona point man for infamous mob chief Meyer Lansky and his powerful partners-in-crime, the super-rich Bronfman family of Montreal.”

Jerome R. Corsi, a Zionist shill, had at least some sense to say that McCain’s fortune could be tied to “organized crime.” Citing the Phoenix New Times, Corsi wrote that

“The father of McCain’s wife, James Hensley, was convicted by a federal jury in U.S. District Court of Arizona in March 1948 on seven counts of filing false liquor records. Hensley also was charged with conspiracy to hide from federal authorities the names of persons involved in a liquor industry racket with two companies he managed, United Sales Company in Phoenix and United Distributors in Tucson.

“The umbrella company, United Liquor, at that time held a monopoly in Arizona, organized and managed by Kemper Marley, who was accused of mob ties by a reporter who was murdered in 1977.”

The inextricable ties between McCain and Lansky were undisputable, and it is no accident that McCain became a thoroughly Zionist puppet throughout his political career. Corsi continued:

“According to Marley’s longtime public relations man, Al Lizanetz, the Marley liquor empire was founded by the Bronfman family dynasty of Canada which operated Allied Finance Company, Northern Export Company and Distillers Corporation – the Seagrams, Ltd. empire.

“As chronicled by the ‘Rumrunners and Prohibition’ video shown popularly on the History Channel, during the 1920s, the Bronfman family made millions in bootlegging, accounting for half the illegal liquor crossing the border, working in a profitable distribution deal with the infamous mobster Meyer Lansky, who later moved on to establish the crime syndicates in the casinos of Havana, Cuba, in the 1940s and 50s.”

McCain was part of the organized crime which was created by Meyer Lansky to unleash social and political terror in America and elsewhere. In other words, Lansky, who was named “the Thinking Man’s Gangster,”[2] was McCain’s real boss.

Lansky was also part of the “Havana Mob,” which served as a haven for organized crime in Cuba in the 1940s and 50s. With the help of Charles “Lucky” Luciano, they forged the “Havana Mob,” which was widely known as one of most criminal groups in the world. As writer T. J. English points out in his Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution, Lansky and Luciano wanted Havana

“to serve as the front for a far more ambitious agenda: the creation of a criminal state whose gross national product, union pension funds, public utilities, banks, and other financial institutions would become the means to launch further criminal enterprises around the globe.

“The Havana Mob could then bury the profits from these criminal operations underneath the patina of a ‘legitimate’ government in Cuba and no one would be able to touch them.”[3]

English argues that it is highly possible that Lansky and others established their criminal base in Havana back in the 1920s. “Both Luciano and Lansky made trips to Havana in the 1920s to oversee their bootlegging operations…”[4] Lansky fixed his eyes on the island in 1928 and revealed his plan for Havana to Luciano then. For them, Havana meant big business: booze, bootlegging, cabarets, casinos, prostitution, and, of course, organized crime.

“By early 1932, the city’s two old-time Mafia bosses had both been murdered in gangland hits engineered by Luciano and Lansky: Masseria was gunned down while eating past at a restaurant in Coney Island, having been lured there by Lucky [Luciano]. Maranzano was stabbed and shot to death in his Manhattan office by four Jewish gangsters disguised as New York City policemen….

“Luciano, Lansky, and a few others in New York were seen as the masterminds of this dramatic new direction and were therefore established as prominent members of the Commission, a governing body composed of like-minded Mob leaders from Chicago, Cleveland, Kansas City, Philadelphia, Boston, New Orleans, and just about anywhere else where the American underworld enforced its will.”[5]

This criminal base operated through “the judicial use of political repression, violence, and murder…”[6] Through these acts of violence and murder, the mobsters created “the most organic and exotic entertainment era in the history of organized crime” in Cuba.[7]

Those mobsters also created local cabarets, which featured “scantily clad, voluptuous, and sometimes obtainable” dancers,[8] who were too happy to be used and reused as machines or sex toys. Luciano himself was indulged in those activities, and they ended up creating what one might call the sex industry which “became the hallmarks of a thriving tourist business” in Havana.[9]

The Havana Mob, argues English, “brought about a stratification of sex that was a culmination of everything that had come before. At the top of the pyramid were the showgirls from the most prestigious clubs…”[10]

As Lansky declared, “Charlie liked pussy. It was one of his weaknesses.”[11] Because of the criminal underground which people like Al Capone and others have established, one can say that Havana was almost like the Weimar Republic in Germany. English writes:

“There was also sex. Mostly, male tourist left their wives at home. Joe Stassi—a Mafioso from the Lower East Side of Manhattan who would later become an important man in Havana—remembered his first trip to the city in 1928: ‘Beautiful young whores everywhere, every street corner, every bar. In one club, there were twenty-five girls. You picked the one you wanted to be in a live sex show.”[12]

In order to create a voluptuous atmosphere, the mobsters invited a number of musicians who created a fad named “the mambo.” “The mambo was both a type of music and a dance, a sensual transaction between two people engaged in mutual seduction. The mambo was the unofficial dance of the Havana mob…”[13]

All of this was all right to then Cuba’s president, Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar, who gave Lansky and his henchmen the license to do whatever they pleased. It was obvious to many Cubans that Zaldívar needed to be overthrown—and he was overthrown during the Cuban Revolution. Batista

“had taken the government by force [in 1952], suspended the constitution, and was in the process of creating a capitalist Shangri-La in Havana. To those who opposed his fraudulent regime, the casinos, nightclubs, sex trade, and mobsterism in the capital city became everything they despised about the plundering of Cuba by outside interests.”[14]

Batista’s mobsterism and his attachment to the world-wide criminal organization inspired Fidel Castro to start a revolution and a rebel group. William Galvez Rodriguez, who was a rebel leader, recounted:

“It would not be accurate to say that the [mobsters] in Havana were the reason for the Revolution—there were deeper reasons that went back to the beginning of Cuba’s formation.

“But it is a fact that the casinos and the money—and most importantly the connections among the U.S. gangsters, U.S. corporations, and the Batista regime-became a symbol of corruption to us.

“Even though we were away in the mountains, we knew of the prostitution, the sealing of government funds, the selling of the country to outside interests. We vowed that when—if not; when—we were in power, this was going to change.”[15]

Rodriguez was telling the truth. Lansky essentially owned Batista. As a result, Batista allowed the Havana Mob to degrade Cubans through sexual manipulation. As English puts it, “The sexual degradation of Cuban citizens for the entertainment of North American and European tourists was the dirty secret of the Havana Mob…The whores and sex performers were the underbelly of the casinos and show places: it was all part and parcel of the same universe.”[16]

Once again, Batista allowed the Havana Mob to flood Cuba with what ought to be called sex slavery. Joseph “Doc” Stacher, one of Lansky’s associates, remembered:

“Lansky and I flew to Havana with the money in suitcases and spoke to Batista, who hadn’t quite believed we could raise that kind of money…Lansy took Batista straight back to our hotel, opened the suitcases and pointed at the cash. Batista just stared at the money without saying a word.

“Then he and Meyer shook hands and Batista left. We had several meetings with him over the next week and I saw that Meyer and Batista understood each other very well. We gave Batista a guarantee of between $3 and $5 million a year, as long as we had a monopoly on the casinos at the Hotel Nacional and everywhere else on the island where we thought tourists would come. On top of that he was promised a cut of our profits.”[17]

Reputable historians now agree that Nazi Germany was a reaction to Bolshevism, and we can say for certainty that Fidel Castro’s creation was a reaction to mobsterism and gangsterism which were created by Jewish criminals like Lansky in Havana:

“To the enemies of the Batista regime, a moral rot had taken hold in Havana that was a natural consequence of the president’s unholy relationship with what Castro referred to as desfalcadores (embezzlers), his term of choice for those behind the economic plundering of the island.”[18]

Castro sympathized with “Cuba’s most dispossessed people,” and they bonded with his army in order to fight back. As Castro himself put it:

“Batista was carrying on a fierce repressive campaign, and there were many houses burned, and many murdered peasants. We dealt with the peasants in a very different manner from the Batista soldiers, and we slowly gained the support of the rural population—until that support became absolute. Our soldiers came from that rural population.”[19]

Castro obviously found himself squaring off with Lansky and others when he said that his movement was an eternal enemy of the Havana Mob. In fact, Castro and his commanders articulated that once Batista is overthrown, “gambling and corruption would be eradicated.” As English puts it, “From here on out, it would be war to the death.”[20]

To some extent, John F. Kennedy, who went after Lansky for his criminal activity in the United States, seemed to have known this as well. He declared:

“I believe that there is no country in the world including any and all the countries under colonial domination, where economic colonization, humiliation and exploitation were worse than in Cuba, in part owing to my country’s policies during the Batista regime.

“I approved the proclamation which Fidel Castro made in the Sierra Maestra, when he justifiably called for justice and especially yearned to rid Cuba of corruption. I will even go further: to some extent it is as though Batista was the incarnation of a number of sins on the part of the United States.

“Now we shall have to pay for those sins. In the matter of the Batista regime, I am in agreement with the first Cuban revolutionaries. That is perfectly clear.”[21]

When Lansky knew that there was an anti-Batista revolution in the air, he responded by building “bigger hotel-casinos, flashier floor shows, and large doses of ‘investment capital’ designed to reinforce the status quo and drown out the forces of revolution.”[22]

To make a long story short, McCain did have blood on his hands. He was obsessed with perpetual wars and creating conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere because he was paid by the mob and the Neoconservative machine to dance on stage. Mark Dankof has a message for him.

Mark Dankof: Senator, a good Lutheran pastor preaches Law and Gospel. Here’s your situation in terms of your earthly performance under God’s Law: In life, you killed and wounded scores of your shipmates on the USS Forrestal ‘Wet Starting’ your A-4 aircraft in a deliberate attempt at grandstanding. Your Admiral father covered that up, as he did Israel’s deliberate attack on the USS Liberty which killed and wounded scores of Americans.

You betrayed your POW colleagues in Hanoi, not under torture as is indicated by Empire Media, but for a guest room and morning coffee according to cell mates. I have interviewed several of them personally.

You divorced your first wife when she was ill, to marry a rich woman who financed your political career. She obtained her money from her father, Jim Hensley, a bag man for the Meyer Lansky Israeli Crime Syndicate.

You have been a willing and deliberate liar and warmonger for the Zionist State of Israel, the banks, and the Military Industrial Complex. Among the countless number of deaths you have been a conscious and consenting party over many years, you have even stooped in recent years to photo opportunities with Sunni Wahhabic extremists from ISIS and the al-Qaeda fronts in your Israeli sponsored activities in Syria.

In short, Senator, as I explain the gravity and seriousness of your eternal position, you are nearing entrance into the grasping Jaws of Hell. You are like Belshazzar. The Israeli American Empire is like his Babylonian Empire. Both have ‘been weighed and found wanting in the balance.’ (Daniel, Chapter Five)

And so, I present you with your one route of escape. Confess your sins in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Rest in the mercy of the Holy Trinity.

While your mind is still clear, read and consider the Gospel as found in I John, Chapter One. It is your only hope. The Empire, the Empire Media, and the Synagogue of Satan you have served cannot save you. I cannot save you. You cannot save yourself. Only Christ can, in your case, just before the stroke of Midnight.”

Senator, concern yourself not with whether or not Donald Trump attends your funeral. Concern yourself with Eternity in either the Kingdom of God, or in Hell.”

• [1]  E. Michael Jones, “How Meyer Lansky took over the Cincinnati Ballet, and What Four Ballerinas did about it,” Culture Wars, July/August, 2017.
• [2] See Robert Lacey, Meyer Lansky: The Thinking Man’s Gangster (Apostrophe Books, 2015).
• [3] T. J. English, Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution (New York: HarperCollins, 2007), xi.
• [4] Ibid., 11.
• [5] Ibid., 15.
• [6] Ibid., xii.
• [7] Ibid.
• [8] Ibid.
• [9] Ibid., x.
• [10] Ibid., 211.
• [11] Ibid., 8.
• [12] Ibid., 12.
• [13] Ibid., xii.
• [14] Ibid., xiii.
• [15] Ibid., xiv.
• [16] Ibid., 220.
• [17] Ibid., 16.
• [18] Ibid., 220.
• [19] Ibid., 221.
• [20] Ibid.
• [21] Quoted in Jean Daniel, “Unofficial Envoy: An Historic Report from Two Capitals,” New Republic, December 14, 1963.
• [22] English, Havana Nocturne, xv.

Jonas E. Alexis, Senior Editor

Jonas E. Alexis has degrees in mathematics and philosophy. He studied education at the graduate level. His main interests include U.S. foreign policy, the history of the Israel/Palestine conflict, and the history of ideas. He is the author of the book, Kevin MacDonald’s Metaphysical Failure: A Philosophical, Historical, and Moral Critique of Evolutionary Psychology, Sociobiology, and Identity Politics. He teaches mathematics in South Korea.

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