All great points Mark. I believe that the ultimate goal of Lansky and the mob was to create a country that they could rule by using a front government that they would own and control with Batsita at the helm.

As you correctly pointed out in your earlier post, Batista and his regime were extremely greedy as they did not care about investing the monies that Lansky and the mob had provide to them towards bettering the lives of the people of Cuba. Instead they were more interested in lining their own pockets with the profits that were being made from tourism and gambling.

Lansky would use Batista and his government to establish their presence in Cuba in order to obviously make money, but also to establish and run a mob controlled country and take money that they were making both in the USA and around the world, and launder it within Cuba itself.