Confessions of a mobster: 'My job was to kill Pierre Trudeau'

A former mobster says he was slated to rub out Prime Minister Trudeau back in the 1970s:

Trudeau was slated for execution because of his close association with Cuban President Fidel Castro, Craft said. Canada was trading with Cuba in 1974 and giving aid, despite an American boycott of the communist Caribbean nation.

Mobsters like Meyer Lansky hated Castro because he had kicked them out of Cuba and shut down their casinos when he seized power in 1959, Craft said. They hoped that Castro would attend Trudeau's funeral in Canada, so that they could get a shot at him, Craft said.

"They thought, if we kill Trudeau, we can get Castro."

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