Confessions of a mobster: 'My job was to kill Pierre Trudeau'

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AMSTERDAM, N.Y.–Mike Craft is a self-confessed former "degenerate gambler" and heavy drinker, who ran bars frequented by members of the upper New York State mob.

He also came within a few weeks in the summer of 1974 of becoming something far worse, he says – the assassin of former Canadian prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau.

"My job was to kill Pierre Trudeau," Craft, 60, said in an interview. "I'm glad that I didn't."

"I was going to hit him (with a bullet) in the eye and kill him instantaneously," Craft said.

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