The new six-part docuseries Mafia Spies is set to premiere on Paramount+ on Tuesday, July 16.
Directed by Tom Donahue and produced by CreativeChaos, Mafia Spies reveals real-world spies, gangsters, honeypots and mistresses that unravels a hidden conspiracy between the CIA and the Chicago mob to assassinate Fidel Castro at a critical time in the Cold War; President Kennedy made it known that there was no living with Castro with missiles 90 miles from American soil.
Based on the book “Mafia Spies: The Inside Story of the CIA, Gangsters, JFK, and Castro” by Thomas Maier (Masters of Sex), the action-packed and fully immersive series talks to the key players – giving their first-person accounts of what was happening in the United States and Cuba. Relying heavily on recently declassified material and premium cinematic recreations, the series charts a Cold War game of cat and mouse from Vegas to Miami to Havana that pitted Washington’s strongest players against the 20th century’s most notorious gangsters and exploring the secret connections among the CIA, the mob, and Sinatra’s Rat Pack that still resonate today.
Delving into one of America’s most remarkable espionage plots, the series includes exclusive interviews in the U.S. and Cuba, with expert historians and notable journalists, such as Gerald Posner, Tim Weiner, Geoff Schumacher, Stephen Kinzer, Peter Kornbluh, J. Michael Niotta, Professor Boris Nerey Obregon and Felix Rodriguez. The series also features Sam Giancana ‘s daughter Antoinette, entertainer Betsy Duncan and actor Robert Davi.
The premiere is Tuesday, July 16 on Paramount+.
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