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Another Key Witness Conveniently Silenced: Johnny Roselli
After that high-profile witness elimination—Sam Giancana murdered the night before he was supposed to go to Washington to testify—it was pretty freaking obvious that it wasn’t a coincidence.
Another high-ranking CIA official rumored to have gone “rogue” and participated in the assassination—William “Wild Bill” Harvey, head of the ZR/Rifle assassination unit linked to the use of U.S. mafia in attempts to kill Cuba’s Fidel Castro—also died at that time.
So when Johnny Roselli’s body washed up in an oil drum just as he was to be hauled before a Committee again and grilled about those same CIA/Mafia plots, it was so obvious that even Congress had to do something about it!
That’s when they formed the House Select Committee on Assassinations; they knew they clearly had a “situation” and that it had to be addressed; or to at least have the appearance that it was being addressed, which is what it turned out to be.
Johnny Roselli was the man that the CIA’s “Wild Bill” Harvey had used as the key go-between for the CIA’s use of the Mafia in their assassination plots against Castro.
Roselli’s body had been “garroted”—strangled from behind with a strong wire—stabbed, his legs sawn off and stuffed into an oil drum, and found off the coast of South Florida. It looked—or was made to look—like a typical mob “hit” on one of their own.
The sudden deaths of Sam Giancana and Johnny Roselli and the alleged heart attack of the CIA’s William Harvey, the official in charge of the CIA-mafia plot against Castro, helped to stimulate the formation of a committee to reinvestigate the Kennedy assassination.434
434 Giancana, Hughes, DM OXON, MD, Ph.D. & Jobe, MD, JFK and Sam, 145.