I say Joe Gallo arranged it and pulled it off using Jerome Johnson. He had the motive, balls and connections. The craziest and biggest balls of them all.
According to the Scarpa files Joe Colombo expected Gallo to fall in line. He expected no trouble out of him. Colombo was wrong. Gallo told him to fuck off. But Gallo couldn't have gotten johnson the Bolex, press pass, the girl, whatever money he was offered and convinced him he could get away with hitting a mob boss in broad daylight in front of the cops and the media. No way
