Johnny Roselli 1975, upper right, and counterclockwise from upper left: Fidel Castro in San Giancana in President John F. Kennedy; Dade County Police Lt. Gary Ninni and the Florida home where Roselli lived before his death. Photo by The Washington Post. "forestall public disclosure of Roselli's past operational activity with the CIA" that might occur if deportation proceedings were pursued. The INS agreed to keep the CIA informed, but at his death, Roselli and his lawyers were still fighting deportation. "Bob Maheu must be running scared — I thought about that just the other day: Jesus, what's Maheu thinking?" said another of Roselli's brothers-in-law, Peter Carillo of New Jersey. The public doesn't know yet what Maheu is thinking, whether he worries if pro-Castro Cubans are exacting retribution for sins of 16 years ago. Maheu's secretary in Las Vegas says she doesn't know where her boss is or when he'll be returning to his office. He reportedly has some financial interest in Egypt, a part of the world where it is told some fascination for pilots. Giancana kept an apartment there. Before Roselli left for his death, he told a friend he had some sort of deal brewing there. And Roselli longingly eyed the opening of gambling casinos in the land of the new oil millionaires, in Tampa, San Juan, Montego, and other of the original Mafia group, also refuses to talk with the press. But like the others, he did not testify before the Church committee so the public has no inkling of his thoughts on the Castro assassination attempts. Whether Roselli's killing was one of retribution for a public or a private matter, Johnny Roselli was a testament to an era that has passed. His life, which would have remained largely unnoticed save for the Senate's CIA hearings, seemed straight from the pages of a Mafia novel: allegedly a hit man for the Chicago mob at the turn of the century, Roselli clawed his way from the streets of Chicago to run the casinos in Havana, finally Miami. Along the way, simply a strain of patriotism—which imposed the CIA enough to mention it to the Church committee—put him in a rope-dancer's position of sometimes receiving, sometimes taking advantage of his knowledge of the darkest side of government. While some have speculated that he was killed for talking too much to government investigators, Roselli was hardly a loudmouth in the league of Joe Valachi, who sang for televised Senate hearings on the Mafia in 1963. Fourteen years ago he confided in his lawyer, Washington attorney Edward Morgan, that he had been told by Giancana, "If I was ordered to kill John Kennedy's killing was ordered and arranged by Castro, but he lived with his The day after Roselli's body was recovered from its coffin, Peter Carillo, who sang for televised brother-in-law in New Jersey, Peter Carillo, probably hope he was in fact involved with the Castro affair. At least then in a way, he would have died for a cause.