Thread by @ColonelTowner

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"... This community is also represented in the World Anti-Communist League. Andres Nazario Sargen, the president of Alpha 66, a Cuban émigré group accused of bombings and assassinations throughout the United States, is a long-standing member of the League."

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(Inside the League, Scott & John Lee Anderson, pg. 248)

Alpha 66 co-founder Antonio Veciana was convicted of cocaine trafficking in 1974. This is hardly the only link between the organization and criminal activity. Colonel William Bishop, a former CIA contract employee who

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had dealings with Alpha 66 in the early 1960s, alleged to journalist Dick Russell that the group had ties to Trafficante even then:
"I was to obtain additional funding, I'll say this and no more, from the [crime] Syndicate out of New Orleans,

4) for Alpha 66. At that point in time, Rolando Masferrer was the key bagman, for lack of a better term, for Alpha 66. Primarily the funding came through the Syndicate, because of Masferrer's connections with those people back in Cuba. He had ties with Santos Trafficante, Jr.,

5) and other criminal elements. Organized crime, pure and simple. He also had different ties with Jimmy Hoffa [the Mob– affiliated Teamster union leader]..."
(The Man Who Knew To Much, Dick Russell, pg. 333)
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