Cosa Nostra (62 page)

Cucco, Alfredo

D’Alba, Antonino

D’Alba, Vincenzo

D’Aleo, Tommaso

D’Andrea, Anthony

d’Annunzio, Gabriele

Dalla Chiesa, General Carlo Alberto

Dannemora (prison; US)

Dante Alighieri
(battleship)

DC (Democrazia Cristiana; political party): land reform (Sicily)

alliance with Socialist Party

Andreotti

controversial support of PCI

death of Vizzini

decline of mafia influence

growth in power

hostility towards Dalla Chiesa

land reform

mafia involvement

Moro kidnapping

murder of Lima

murder of Mattarella

opposition to PCI

Orlando’s opposition to mafia

party’s demise

prosecution of Ciancimino

Russo as DC politician

Sindona case

support of Church

DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration; US)

defectors (
pentiti
)

on Lima’s death

state use of

Dell’Utri, Marcello

De Mauro, Mauro

Dewey, Thomas E.

DIA (Direzione Investigativa Antimafia)

Di Cillo, Rocco

Di Cristina, Giuseppe

Di Forti, Don Filipo

Di Lello, Giuseppe

Di Maggio, Balduccio

Di Maggio, Giuseppe

Di Matteo, Giuseppe

Di Matteo, Santino

Di Pisa, Calcedonio

Di Primo, Giuseppe

di Rudinì, Antonio

Di Sano, Emanuela

Di Sano, Giuseppa

Di Stefano, Salvatore

“Dissociation” policy: Cosa Nostra/state compromise

Divine Comedy
(Dante)

DNA (Direzione Nazionale Antimafia)

Dolci, Danilo (the “Sicilian Gandhi”)

d’Ondes Trigona, Baroness Giovanna

drugs trafficking

first mafia war origins

Pizza Connection case (US)

revenues

EU (European Union): Agenda 2000 (Sicily)

Falcone, Giovanni: murder

attempt on life

as Director of Penal Affairs

early career

“Falcone method”

investigations and defections

joins antimafia team

observations on mafia

post maxi-trial opposition

Salvo investigation

upbringing and character

see also
Buscetta, Tommaso; Palermo maxi-trial

Fanfani, Amintore

Fascists
see
Partito Nazionale Fascist

FBI

Federal Bureau of Narcotics (US)

Ferrarello, Gaetano (“King of the Madonie”)

Filippello, Matteo

Flegenheimer, Arthur (“Dutch Schultz”)

Florio, Franca (née Franca Jacona di San Giuliano)

Florio Jr, Ignazio

Florio, Vincenzo

Fondo Laganà, murders at

Fontana Nuova (criminal group; Misilmeri)

Fontana, Giuseppe: Notarbartolo murder and trial

emigrates to US

Petrosino murder

Forza Italia (political party)

Franchetti, Leopoldo

Political and Administrative Conditions in Italy

Fratuzzi (mafia group; Corleone)

Freemasons
see
Masonic societies

“Fuse Burners” (“Stuppagghieri”; criminal group; Monreale)

“G” Men
(film)

Galante, Camillo (“Carmine”)

Galati, Dr Gaspare

Giammona and Fondo Riella takeover

memo to Interior Ministry

Gambino, Carlo

Gambino, John

Gangi (Sicily), siege of

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

Garofalo, Frank

Garufi, Pancrazio

Gelli, Licio

Genco Russo, Giuseppe (“Zu Peppi”; aka “Gina Lollobrigida”)

Gennaro, Don Giorgio

Genovese, Vito

Gentile, Cola (
also
Nick)

Getty III, Eugene Paul

Giammona, Don Antonino

initiation ritual

relationship with Colonna

Sangiorgi prosecution

war with Siino

see also
Galati, Dr Gaspare

Gioè, Nino

Gioia, Giovanni (“the Viceroy”)

Giornale di Sicilia
(newspaper)

Giuffrè, Antonioni (“Little Hand”)

Giuliano, Salvatore (“King of Montelepre”)

Godfather, The
(film)

Grand Hotel des Palmes (Palermo): US/Sicilian mafiosi meetings

Grassi, Libero

Greco, Antonina

Greco, Michele (“the Pope”)

Greco, Piddu (“the Lieutenant”)

Greco, Pino (“the Shoe”)

Greco, Rosalia

Greco, Salvatore (“Little Bird”)

the Commission

first mafia war

right-wing plotting

Sangiorgi report

and trial

Greco war (family feud)

Gregorio (mafioso)

Grifò, Giovanni

Gulaterio, Marquis Filippo Antonio

Guardia di Finanza (tax police)

Guarnotta, Leonardo

Guevara, Ernesto (“Che”)

Harlem Inn (brothel; US)

Hawthorne Smoke Shop (gambling den; US)

Hennessy, David

Hoffa, Jimmy: Teamsters Union

Hoover, J. Edgar

Horowitz, Henry

Hotel Sole (Palermo)

Humphreys, Murray (“the Camel”)

Hunt, Sam (“Golf Bag”)

Illustrazione Italiana
(magazine)

Impastato, Felicia Bartolotta

Impastato, Giuseppe (“Peppino”)

Impastato, Luigi

International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA)

Inzerillo, Pietro

Inzerillo, Salvatore (“Totuccio”)

John Paul II, Pope

Kefauver, Senator Estes

Kelly, Paul (
earlier
Paolo Antonio Vaccarelli)

Kennedy, Robert

La Barbera, Angelo

La Barbera, Salvatore

La Fata, Vincenzo

La Guardia, Fiorello

La Licata, Francesco

La Mantia, Vito

La Torre, Pio

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi di:
The Leopard

Lansky, Meyer (“Little Man”)

Lanza, Giovanni

Lanza, Joseph (“Socks”)

Lascari, Serafino

Law

bis (prison conditions legis.)

Leggio, Luciano (“Scarlet Pimpernel”)

appearance and character

the Commission

death

first mafia war

kidnapping

mafia factions

murder of Rizzotto

origin of nickname

Palermo maxi-trial

right-wing plotting

war against Navarra

Lercara Friddi (town)

Li Causi, Girolamo

Lima, Salvo: sack of Palermo

Andreotti connection

connection with Salvo cousins

as MEP

at Ministry of Finance

Lipschultz, Louis

Little Caesar
(film)

Lo Forte, Guido

Lo Porto, Vincenzo

Lombroso, Cesare

Long, Senator Huey

Luciano, Charles (“Lucky”;
earlier
Salvatore Lucania)

Castellammarese war

and Commission

death

early years

expulsion from USA and career evolution

imprisonment

political links

US/Sicilian mafiosi meetings

WWII activities

Lunardi, Pietro

Madonia, Benedetto

mafia centres (Palermo)

Acquasanta

Falde

Olivuzza

Passo di Rigano

Perpignano

Piana dei Colli

Malaspina

Uditore

mafia (
also
Cosa Nostra): rules and command structure

attitude toward women and children

background

codes of honour, loyalty and silence

common fund for prisoners

first mafia war

initiation rites

on verge of defeat

origin of mafia/Cosa Nostra names

Sicilian-American relationship

re-emergence

religious parallels

second mafia war (
la mattanza
)

war with state

mafiusi di la Vicaria, I
(play)

Magaddino, Stefano

Magistratura Democratica (legal reform group)

Malausa, Lieutenant Mario

Mangano, Vincenzo

Mangano, Vittorio

Mano nera (“Black Hand”; extortion gangs)

Manzella, Cesare

Maranzano, Salvatore

Mascagni, Pietro:
Cavalleria rusticana
(opera)

Masonic societies

(Propaganda 2)

Masseria, Joe (“Joe the Boss”)

Mattarella, Piersanti

Mazzini, Giuseppe

McKinley, President William

Meli, Antonino

Millunzi, Don Gaetano

Mistretta (town)

Monreale (town)

Montana, Beppe

Montinaro, Antonio

Morello, Giuseppe (“Piddu”)

Morello gang (NY) and body in the barrel murder

counterfeiting conviction

death

Mori, Cesare

Among the Orange Blossoms Beyond the Mist
(book)

Moro, Aldo

“Moustache Petes” (
also
“greaseballs”): purge

Muro Lucano, Bishop of

Mussolini, Benito: Fascist movement

war on mafia

deposed

Mussomeli (town)

Mutolo, Gaspare

Naples

Narcotics Control Act (1956; US)

narcotics
see
drugs trafficking

Navarra, Michele (“Our Father”)

Nazione, La
(newspaper)

‘Ndrangheta (criminal group; Calabria)

New York Herald
(newspaper)

New York: trade links with Sicily

Brooklyn

City Democratic Club

docks and longshoremen

drive against organized crime

East Harlem

East Side

Elizabeth Street

gun licences

Little Italy

mafia leadership

Mulberry Bend

Newark

non-mafia gangs

Pizza Connection

NGI (Navigazione Generale Italiana)

Niceforo, Alfredo:
Contempory Barbarian Italy

Nicotera, Giovanni

Nixon, President Richard

Normandie,
SS (liner)

Northern League (political party)

Notarbartolo, Emanuele (Marquis di San Giovanni)

first trial

murder

retrial and acquittals (Palizzolo and Fontana)

second trial

quashing of verdicts

Notarbartolo, Leopoldo

Noto, Francesco

Noto, Pietro

O’Dwyer, William

“Operation Husky”: Allied occupation of Sicily (WWII)

see also
AMGOT

Ora, L’
(newspaper)

Orlando, Leoluca

Orlando, Vittorio Emanuele

Ortoleva, Antonino

OSS (Office of Strategic Services; US)

Osservatore Romano
(Vatican newspaper)

Pacino, Al

Palace of Justice (Palermo; “Poison Palace”)

Palermo maxi-trial

Court of Cassation appeals

Palermo: Garibaldi and liberation

antimafia demonstrations

description of city

“Palermo spring”

“sack of Palermo”

“stabbers” conspiracy

Palizzolo, Don Raffaele

see also
Notarbartolo, Emanuele

Panepinto, Lorenzo

Pantaleone, Michele

Pappalardo, Cardinal Salvatore

Partito Nazionale Fascist (political party)

Pay or Die!
(film)

PCI (Partito Comunista Italiano): mafia opposition

Li Causi and Villalba incident

political manoeuvring

Portella della Ginestra massacre

Church opposition

calls for mafia inquiry

murder of La Torre

Pecoraro, Lorenzo

Pelloux, General Luigi

Pennino, Gioacchino

pentiti,
see
defectors

Petrosino, Adelina (née Salino)

Petrosino, Joe (aka Guglielmo De Simoni)

Petto, Tommaso (“Ox”)

Piazza Fontana (Milan): massacre

Pisciotta, Gaspare

Pistone, Joseph D. (aka Donnie Brasco)

Pitrè, Giuseppe

Pope, Frankie

Portella della Ginestra: massacre

and trial

Progresso Italo-Americano, Il
(US newspaper)

“Pro Sicilia” (protest group)

Profaci, Joe

Provenzano, Bernardo (“the Tractor”
also
“Uncle Bernie”): religious sentiment

as killer

as fugitive

Riina connection

Palermo maxi-trial

war on state

mafia leadership

“dissociation” policy

P2 (Propaganda 2)
see
Masonic societies

Public Enemy
(film)

Publitalia (advertising company)

Puglisi, Father Pino

Puzo, Mario:
The Godfather

Radio Aut (local radio station)

Raging Bull
(film)

Red Brigades (terrorist group)

Repubblica, La
(newspaper)

Resto del Carlino
(newspaper)

Ricciardi, Giuseppe

RICO measures (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations; US)

Riina, Totò (“Shorty”)

initiation of Brusca

second mafia war (
la mattanza
)

the Commission

Palermo maxi-trial

wealth confiscation

war on state

capture

attitude towards defectors

Andreotti connection

proposed separatist movement

Dell’Utri connection

Rizzotto, Placido

Roman Catholic Church

Rosario, Father: “Tertiaries of Saint Francis of Assisi”

Rose, John Forester

Rosi, Francesco:
Salvatore Giuliano
(film)

Rossellini, Roberto

Rossi, Adolfo

Ruffini, Ernesto, Cardinal Archbishop of Palermo

Russo, Joseph

Sacra Corona Unita (criminal group; Puglia)

Saetta, Antonio

Salvo, Ignazio

Salvo, Nino

Sangiorgi, Ermanno