Mafia Spies
A PARAMOUNT+ ORIGINAL
Based on the best-selling book Mafia Spies by Thomas Maier
Now Streaming on Paramount+
The conspiracy that started them all! Mafia Spies is the shockingly true story of how the CIA hired the Chicago Mob to assassinate Fidel Castro.
Combining the intrigue of James Bond, the glitz and glamour of Midcentury Hollywood, and the high stakes gamesmanship of a Havana casino, this is a geo-political chess game pitting the best and brightest of Washington and the most notorious gangsters of the 20th century against a bearded revolutionary leader of a tiny island nation who might just outsmart them all.
The documentary uses archival footage, stylized dramatizations and interviews with notable journalists and historians to tell the shocking connections between the CIA, the mob, and Sinatra’s Rat Pack from Vegas to Miami to Havana.
It explores America’s most remarkable espionage plots ever—with CIA agents, mob hitmen, “kompromat” sex, presidential indiscretion, and James Bond-like killing devices together in a top-secret mystery full of surprise twists and deadly intrigue.
Interviews include Gerald Posner, Tim Weiner, Antoinette Giancana, Betsy Duncan Hammes, Geoff Schumacher, Stephen Kinzer, Peter Kornbluh, J. Michael Niotta, Robert Davi, Prof. Boris Nerey Obregón, Felix Rodriguez
DIRECTED BY: TOM DONAHUE
WRITTEN BY: TOM DONAHUE, RON MARASCO
EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY: TOM DONAHUE, ILAN ARBOLEDA, DANNY STRONG, MATT JACKSON, MANDY SAFAVI, ALLAN LOEB, SUSAN ZIRINSKY, JUAN ‘JC’ ACOSTA, MIKE HOLZ, JORDAN BOGDONAVAGE
CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY: JESSICYA MATERANO, GRAHAM MCKAY, JOANNE LEE
PRODUCTION COMPANIES: CREATIVECHAOS VMG IN ASSOCIATION WITH DANNY STRONG PRODUCTIONS
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