Where is the fortune?


Frank Sturgis, born Frank Fiorini joined the Marines in 1942. He joined Bill Donovan's predecessor of the OSS where he was trained in guerrilla warfare and intelligence gathering as part of the First Marine Raider Battalion. Their jobs were finding targets for the Army Air Corps and locating downed fliers.

After the war he joined the Norfolk Virginia Police Department. It was not long before he began to see various forms of corruption which he brought to his superiors. They were not interested – perhaps corrupt themselves – so he soon resigned.

From there he tended a bar for about a year that was the haunt of Cuban merchant seamen. It wasn't long before he joined the Naval Air Reserve at the Norfolk Naval Air Station. Upon his discharge he immediately joined the Army and was sent to West Berlin during the time the Soviets blocked land routes to the city. Sturgis has been called a soldier of fortune, but he asks, “where is the fortune?'

By 1952 he began to believe the Soviet Union has become a major threat and it set the course for the rest of his life. About this time he legally went from Frank Fiorini to Frank Sturgis – the name of his step father. The name had and interesting similarity to a character in Howard Hunt's novel Bimini Run, published a few years before: Hank Sturgis.

Around 1957 Sturgis joined Cuban trying to oust Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista to restore former President Carlos Prio. He then, along with old cronies began smuggling weapons into Cuba bound for Fidel Castro. He even began training Castro's soldiers in guerrilla warfare even to the point of showing Che Guevara the fine points of the trade..

While in Cuba he made contact with CIA agents and became an informant as he learned more about what the bearded dictator was all about. After the revolution and the seizing of American assets he looked to help mobster, Santo Trafficante. Sturgis fought on both sides of Castro's revolution, but when all was said and done he fell in with the exiles trying to depose Castro.

It is here where he trained Cubans for the Bay of Pigs invasion and he was angry and blamed President Kennedy for his failure to insure the success of the effort. From this point researchers like James Fetzer and participants like Howard Hunt claim Frank Sturgis was one of the shooters in Dealey Plaza.

However that is not the end of the story. Sturgis reappears as one of the CIA supplied plumbers Richard Nixon used to seal leaks and was one of the Watergate burglars who triggered the downfall of the President.

Warrior: Frank Sturgis—The CIA's #1 Assassin-Spy, Who Nearly Killed Castro but Was Ambushed by Watergate
by Jim Hunt, Bob Risch

The press called him a "real-life James Bond."  Fidel Castro called him "the most dangerous CIA agent."  History remembers him as a Watergate burglar, yet the Watergate break-in was his least perilous mission.

Frank Sturgis--using more than 30 aliases and code names--trained guerilla armies in 12 countries on three continents and spearheaded assassination plots to overthrow foreign governments including those of Cuba, Panama, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti.

Warrior follows the shocking, often unbelievable adventures of Sturgis, brought to life by his nephew, Jim Hunt, who lived with Sturgis, and his co-writer, Bob Risch. Also included are never-before-seen personal photos of Sturgis and his compatriots.

Frank Sturgis was well-versed in a life of shadows: familiar to world leaders and underground kingpins, to spies and couterspies...Warrior is his story.

The Fidel Castro Gambling Assassination Conspiracy: Frank Sturgis Cuban Agent Casino Connection
by William C. Lewis

After taking power in 1959 and shutting down gambling casino resorts controlled by American organized crime, Fidel Castro became a target of vengeance from mobsters. In total, Fidel Castro was subject to over 600 assassination attempts and many of these were conducted by the CIA. The CIA worked with the mafia figures that lost significant financial fortunes through their ownership and control of hotel-casinos, night clubs and resorts in outlandish assassination attempts to get the Cuban leader who did not see how such illicit profiteering benefited the ordinary people of Cuba. Castro's revolution was penetrated at the highest levels from the beginning by CIA military soldier of fortune operative and gunrunner Frank Sturgis, who was also one of the Watergate burglars that broke into the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters in the Watergate office-apartment-hotel complex in Washington, D.C., on June 17, 1972. Read about the underworld criminal control of gambling in Cuban military dictator Fulgencio Batista's Cuba and how Castro's elimination of this corruption in 1959 that linked the Batista dictatorship with illicit profits of the gambling racketeers caused a series of retaliation attempts from these mafia figures that worked with the CIA to retaliate because they wanted to control Cuba as their own private, money-making corrupt island.