CUBA & THE MOB
During the week of 22 December 1946, a who’s who of organised crime in the United States and Italy gathered at the Hotel Nacional de Cuba in Havana. The so-called Havana Conference was a watershed event in the history of the criminal underworld in the Americas. The meeting was called by gangster kingpin Charles ‘Lucky’ Luciano and organised by his longtime associate Meyer Lansky. Among the topics discussed was the Mafia’s future plans
