Joe Lucadello
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| Joe Lucadello | |
|---|---|
| Biographical information | |
| Gender |
Male |
| Eye color |
one eye (blue) |
| Hair color |
brown (balding) |
| Born |
1911 |
| Died |
1976 (aged 65) |
| Family | |
| Title(s) |
Associate, C.I.A. Agent |
Joe Lucadello was a friend of Michael Corleone and later an informant.
[edit] Biography
Joseph P. Lucadello, an informant to the Corleone family, is a CIA agent, and head of the Miami offices of the C.I.A., who originally enlists in the Canadian Air Force under Billy Bishop in 1941. Before this, he served in the Civilian Conservation Corps with Michael Corleone. Fearing Benito Mussolini's rise to power, the two falsify pilot's licenses to join Bishop, but Michael's father tips Bishop off, and Micheal admits the truth to avoid damaging Lucadello's chances. At some point during WWII Lucadello loses an eye in a bombing in London and wears an eye patch, and later a glass eye. After WWII ends in 1945, Lucadello leaves the Air Force and becomes a government agent for the CIA. It was around this time that he was informing the Corleone family of the C.I.A doings and what it planned to do. Lucadello only met with Michael Corleone several times, although they were not specifically for business. He was also the main assistant of the director, Albert Soffet.
[edit] Double-Cross
Lucadello and Corleone meet for business several times throughout the years in the book. In 1959, Lucadello was assigned to take out Fidel Castro, president of Cuba. In 1962, after a Castro body double was killed, he was assigned to eliminate the assassin, Carmine Marino.Lucadello also informs Nick Geraci, an enemy of Michael Corleone, that Michael is planning to assassinate him. Michael does not discover who has betrayed him and despite the fierce attempt to locate Geraci, he never finds him.
In 1976, Lucadello was called to testify at a congressional hearing on the presidential assassination in Washington. The night before he was set to testify he is found dead in his hotel room with an icepick penetrating his one good eye. It was ruled as suicide, despite numerous inconsistencies, such as why would a man with one eye kill himself by stabbing himself in the other eye? The questions remain unanswered, but it is implied that the Corleones may have had something to do with his death for what he might reveal to the congressional hearing.
