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The idea formulated by Luciano, Lansky, and others was for 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.

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vielleicht gibt es da ja moderne Parallelen zum Havanna der 40er und 50er Jahre? ... Moskau, Shanghai, Dubai oder Liechtenstein? Aber die meisten haben wohl nicht das gleich revolutionäre Potential. Der Havana Mob mit Lanski, Luciano und Batista als Ursuppe für Castros Revolution - wohl doch einzigartig.