Acheson, Dean
Adonis, Joe
Agenti di Sicurezza Pubblica
Aiello, Joe
Albanese, Pietro
Albini, Umberto
Aldisio, Salvatore
Alessi, Giuseppe
Alexander, Gen. Harold
Alfieri, Lt Paul A.
Allen, Raymond
Allied Control Commission (ACC)
Allied Forces Headquarters (AFHQ)
Allied Military Government, Occupied Territory (AMGOT; AMG): age of staff; allows Mafia regain power; American character of; attacks Mafia control of black market; and Christian Democrats; corruption in; criticised by Aprile; as front-line in dealings with Mafia; Genovese’s work and influence; helping refugees; involvement in Sicilian politics; Naples enclave; protects black market; provincial administration units; use of Metropolitan Police; unintended encouragement of Mafia and Separatists; use of Carabinieri
Amagansett, Long Island
Amorroso, Nicholas
Anastasia, Albert
Anastasio, Tony
Andaloro, Nicolo
Andrews, Rear Admiral Adolphus R.
Angilella, Don Toto
Apalachin Meeting
Aprile, Finocchiaro: appeals to Churchill; arrested; claims Eden’s support; decision to mobilise; favours complete separatism; humiliated at ballot-box; letter to Admiral Stone; links with Mussolini; Mafia doubts regarding; as Mafia’s favourite; Rennell’s warning to; resigns as leader; Sicilian Vespers anniversary; Villalba speech
Arduino, Harry
Arrigo, Atty
Attlee, Clement
Avila (bandit)
Badoglio, Marshal Pietro
Balatie, Lino
Barone, Riccardo (‘Il Barone’)
Bartolomeo, Carmelo
Bassi, Louis
Batista, Gen. Fulgencio
Beldock, George
Bender, Tony
Berger, Meyer
Berman, David
Bickerton, Capt. J. H.
Bigongiari, Dino
Boccia, Ferdinand
Bonnano, Fay
Bonnano, Joseph (‘Joe Bananas’): at Apalachin Meeting; becomes US citizen; bootlegging; Castellammare as hometown; on the Castellammarese; death of; elevated to Padre; emigrates to USA; enforcer for Maranzano; on Masseria’s death; party on Laura Keene; reconciled with Luciano; returns to Sicily; and the Tradition; unimpressed by Mussolini
Bonnano, Salvatore
Bonnano, Salvatore Jr.
Bonomi, Ivanoe
Bonventre, John
Bordonaro, Barone Frassini
Branca, Gen. Amedeo
Brennan, Earl
Bridges, Harry
British Chiefs of Staff
British Political Warfare Executive (PWE): on black market in Naples; Memorandum on Conditions and Politics in Sicily
British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, MI6): competes with OSS; Handbook on Politics and Intelligence Services [on Sicily]
British Special Operations Executive (SOE)
Buffeli, George
Buscemi-Montana, Vanni
Caback, Jack
Caetani, Gelasio
Calabro, Col. Armando
Caldora, Giacomo
Callabi, Giuseppe
Cameron, Lt Jack B.
Cammarata, Monte
Camorra
Canaris, Admiral Wilhelm
Canepa, Prof.
Canicatti
Capone, Al
Capp, Cpl William
Carcaci, Duke of
Carisi, Joseph
Caruso, Enrico
Casablanca Conference
Cassaro, Avvocato
Castellammare del Golfo
Castellammarese war
Castellana, Gen.
Castrogiovanni, Attilio
Celetta, Gabriel B.
Cesaro, Duchess of
Charles, Sir Noel
Child, Richard Washburn
Churchill, Winston S.
CIA; see also US Office of Strategic Services
Ciano, Count Galeazzo
Clausing, Heinrich
Coll, Vincent (‘Mad Dog’)
Corleone
Cortese, Arnaldo
Corvo, Max
Corvo, William
Costello, Frank: Apalachin Meeting conspiracy; as conduit for Luciano; contacts in Naval Intelligence for Luciano; cooperates with Naval Intelligence; fuel ration stamp racket; Lanza and Lansky meet; Luciano names in Boccia killing; and Luciano’s deal for Sicily invasion; party on Laura Keene; runs Luciano’s empire with Lansky; visits Luciano in jail
Cotillo, Senator Salvatore
Cuba
Cuccia, Don Ciccio
Cucco, Alfredo
Cutili, Nicola
Da Caro, Mariano
Dan, Uri
Dannemora (Clinton State Prison)
Dasch, Georg
De Gasperi, Alcide
De Gaulle, Gen. Charles
De Maria, Emanuele
Del Grazio, August
Delmonte, Barone
Dewey, Thomas E.: assault on organised crime; his greatest triumph; and Lanza’s sentence; Luciano applies for executive clemency; Luciano’s deportation to Sicily; Luciano’s offer over Tresca killers; Luciano’s plan to manipulate; sets up Herlands enquiry
Di Carcace, Duca
Di Frasso, Countess Dorothy Taylor
Di Giorgio, Antonino
Di Giuseppe, Vito Genovese
Di Revel, Count Ignazio Thaon
Di Salomone, Duca
Di Salvo, Vittorio
Diamond, Jack (‘Legs’)
Dickey, Sgt Orange C.
Dino, Carmelo
Dino, Giovanni
Donovan, William
Duff, D. S.
Dunn, Capt. Charles I.
Dunn, Johnny (‘Cockeye’)
Duquesne, Frederick J.
East, Edward
Eddy, Col. William
Eden, Anthony
Edwards, Capt.
Eisenberg, Dennis
Eisenhower, Gen. Dwight D.
Elmer, Gustave
Espe, Rear Admiral Carl F.
Espy, Ben
Fascist League of North America (FLNA): clash at Garibaldi monument; debates Mussolini with anti-Fascists; Di Revel speech and disturbance; dissolution; establishment of
FBI: arrests Ezima’s agents; Dasch’s confession to; fire on Normandie; and Genovese; interview with Dr Conrad H.; memorandum on Mafia involvement in narcotics trade; rivalry with OSS; search for Nazi agents; Sebold’s cooperation
Federzoni, Luigi
Ferrarello, Giuseppe
Ferrarello, Nicolo
Ferro, Don Vito Cascio
Fiaschetti, Mike
Foisie, Sgt Jack
Ford, Henry
Forte, Saverio
French, Col.
Galante, Carmine
Gallo, Concetto
Gallo, Dott
Gangi
Garibaldi, Giuseppe
Garofalo, Frank
Geisler, Otto
Genovese, Vito: at Apalachin Meeting; arrested in Nola; black market in Nola; charges against dropped; Dickey investigates; dominance in New York underground; influence within AMG; kills Masseria; Luciano beats up; Luciano and Neapolitan crime rings; Luciano nominates as Hitler hit man; and Maranzano hit; narcotics racket; tries to bribe Dickey; works for AMG; works for Fascists
Gentile, Nicola (‘Nick’)
Genuardo, Baron
German-American Bund: decline; FBI infiltration; fight at Yorkville Casino; fight in Newark; formation; Lansky breaks up meetings; recruitment
Giampietro, Luigi
Gillingham, Fl. Lt., R. J. H.
Giuliano, Salvatore: as anti-Communist; attacks airfield; attacks Christian Democrats; Col. Luca’s pursuit of; death of; enemy of Mafia; government offensive against; kidnappings in Palermo; Mafia strike deal with; passports from London; raids on Caribinieri; train raid near Paternico; Vizzini’s contact with
Goebbels, Joseph
Goering, Hermann
Gosch, Martin
Gower, Charlotte
Griebl, Dr Ignatz
Grisafi, Paolo
Guerin, Joseph K.
Gunter, Lt
Gurfein, Maj. Murray
Haffenden, Lt Cdr Charles Radcliffe: as advocate of talking to Mafia; ‘Cockeye’ Dunn as watchdog for; as dominant personality in Mafia link-up; given charge of Third Naval District investigations section; heads intelligence gathering for Sicily and Italy; Lansky, Lanza and Luciano introduce suitable Italians to; Lansky reports Luciano’s plan to accompany invasion; Lanza averts dockside strike for; meetings with Lansky; meetings with Lanza; Nugent advises contact with Luciano; passes information to Counter-Intelligence Section; relationship with District Attorney’s Office
Halifax, Lord
Hammer, Richard
Harris, C. S. R.
Hausberger, von
Hefford, Bertram J.
Herlands, William B.
Herlands Enquiry and Report: admissions of contact with Mafia; on Great Meadow; on Lansky’s function; Mafia contact with Naval Intelligence; and Normandie; remains unpublished; skews Mafia’s role in war; Tresca killers
Hinkes, Max
Hitler, Adolf: declares war on USA; La Guardia insults; Luciano considers assassination of; orders Operation Pastorius; praise for Ford; selects targets on US East Coast
Hogan, Frank S.
Holmgreen, Maj. E. N.
Holtz, Hyman (‘Curly’)
Hoover, J. Edgar: and Duquesne spy-ring trial; on German saboteurs; opposes Donovan’s OSS; Roosevelt authorises search for Nazi agents
Hughes, Thomas
Hull, Cordell
Irish, Lt-Col.
Italian Army: Aosta Division; Bersaglieri; Bonnano’s service; CIA unimpressed with; deals with Separatist violence; decline to fight; Garibaldi Regiment; Germans unimpressed with; hatred of Bolsheviks; in Monte Cammarata area; poor morale; PoWs; relations with Mafia; Sicilians ordered to join; support for Mussolini
Jensen, Lloyd H.
Joint Intelligence Collecting Agency (JICA)
Kefauver Senate Committee
Kelly, Lt Cdr Maurice
Kerling, Eduard
Kesselring, Field Marshal Albert
Kleiss, Hartwig
King, Admiral Ernest
Kravitz, Lewis (‘Shadows’)
Kuhn, Fritz
La Guardia, Fiorello
La Mantia, Vito
La Motta, Baron
La Tempa, Peter
Lahousen, Col. Erwin von
Landau, Eli
Landon, Alfred
Lansky, Meyer: alliance with Luciano; anti-Nazi convictions; Apalachin Meeting conspiracy; ‘Bug and Meyer mob’; claims about Operation Pastorius; corroborates Luciano’s story about Normandie; death of; death of Schultz; denies ‘Luciano project’; efficient running of docks; Eisenhower invite; excluded from the Tradition; fuel ration stamp racket; helps organise Havana Conference; introduces Italians to Haffenden for Operation Husky; on Lanza’s imprisonment; on Luciano’s contact in Licata, ; and Luciano’s waterfront plan; meeting with Luciano on Ellis Island; meetings with Haffenden; mocks US Naval Intelligence; party on Laura Keene; Polakoff contacts; Rabbi Wise and Judge Perlman turn to; retirement; role in Luciano deal with US Naval Intelligence; runs Luciano’s empire with Costello; stops action against Bund; tells Haffenden of Luciano’s plan to accompany invasion; his toughness
Lansky, Paul
Lanza, Joseph (‘Socks’)
Lascari, Mike
Laura Keene
Leahy, Rear Admiral Lamar R.
Lengel, William C.
Lepke, Louis
Levi, Carlo
Levine, Samuel (‘Red’)
Lewis, Norman
Li Causi, Girolamo
Lo Schiavo, Giuseppe Guido
Luca, Col. Ugo
Lucchese, Tommy
Luciano, Charlie (‘Lucky’): admiration for Patton; alliance with Jewish gangsters; allied with Genovese in narcotics racket; as anti-Communist; Apalachin Meeting conspiracy; applies for executive clemency; attracts attention of Dewey; bargains over identity of Tresca’s killers; beats up Genovese; on Boccia killing; as Capo di Tutti Capi; claims Anastasia sabotaged Normandie; considers assassination of Hitler; deal with US Naval Intelligence; death of; denies helping US government in Sicily; deported to Italy; dislike of Old World Mafia attitudes; fuel ration stamp racket; on Genovese and Poletti; on Genovese’s black market; gives Lansky authority to talk to gangsters; Havana Conference; jailed; killing of Maranzano; killing of Masseria; killing of Schultz; Lanza as ally; Lanza suggests deal with Naval Intelligence; lends smoothness to Naval Intelligence operations; letter ‘L’ in Sicily; meeting with Costello and Lansky in Dannemora; mocks Haffenden; Naval Intelligence use his information in Sicily; OSS refuse meeting with; party on Laura Keene; his plan to accompany invasion of Sicily; possible meeting with Poletti; rebuffed by Lansky; reconciled with Bonanno; reputation in Sicily; sends Mafia exiles to Haffenden; shortening of sentence denied; thrown off Cuba; transferred to Great Meadow Prison; visit from Lansky and Polakoff; visits Lercara Friddi; White’s testimony of Sicilian deal
Luciano, Frank
Lumia, Damiano
Lumia, Luigi
Lupo, Salvatore
Lyons, John A.
McClure, Samuel S.
McCook, Justice Philip J.
McCue, John
MacFall, Capt. Roscoe C.
Macmillan, Harold
McSherry, Brig. Gen., F. J.
Madonie
Magaddino, Peter
Magaddino, Stefano
Mallet, Sir Victor
Mangano, Vincent
Manley, Vice-Consul
Maranzano, Salvatore
Marshall, Gen. George
Marsloe, Lt Anthony J.: advocates talking to Mafia; commando training; gains intelligence from Sicilian fishermen; Hogan place facilities at his disposal; and JSP plan for Sicily; justifies use of Mafia; lands at Gela; and Operation Husky
Mason, Lt-Cdr. L. V.
Masseria, Giuseppe (‘Joe the Boss’)
Mathias, Jean
Mattarella, Bernardo
Matteotti, Giacomo
Matthews, Herbert L.
Mazola, Capt.
Menicucci, Umberto
Menzies, Maj.-Gen. Sir Stewart
Milazzo, Gaspar
Milocca
Mirandi, Mike
Monsell, Col. G. E.
Montelepre
Monterisi, Innocenza
Montgomery, Gen. Sir Bernard
Monzelli, Lt Luke
Morello, Peter
Moretti, Willie
Morhous, Vernon
Mori, Cesare; anti-Mafia campaign halted; arrests Petrosino; his death unnoticed; defeats Cucco in Palermo; expulsion of Mafia from Sicily; failure of campaign; legendary reputation; member of Senate; memoirs; orders Mafia trials; retired as Prefect of Palermo; SIS scepticism of anti-Mafia campaign’s success; Tra le zagare oltre la foschi
Murray, Ensign James F.
Musotto, Francesco
Mussolini, Benito: American attitudes towards; and anti-Fascists in USA; Aprile’s links with; attempts on his life; congratulates Mori on Madonie operation; crack-down on dissidents in Sicilian government; death of; declares war on USA; Di Frasso’s ‘Atomite’ test; dictates memoirs in English; end of his rule; enters war on German side; Genovese’s friendship with; humiliation in Sicily; images of in Palermo; interview with New York Times; Italian-American attitude to; Joe Bonnano on; meets Caetani and Cotillo; names Mafia as enemy; need for good relations with USA; police file on; rise to power; Skorzeny rescue; supported by new Mafia; supports Mori over Cucco; tires of campaign against Mafia; transfers Mori to Palermo; vendetta with Tresca
Mussomeli
Nitti, Dr Vincenzo
Normandie
Norris, Kathleen
Nugent, Police Inspector Howard
O’Dwyer, William
Office of Price Administration (OPA)
Oliver, Maj.
omerta
Orlando, Vittorio Emmanuele
OSS, see US Office of Strategic Services
Osten, Major
Pantaleone, Michele
Papen, Franz von
Passatempo, Salvatore
Patton, Gen. George S.
Pearl Harbor
Perlman, Nathan
Petacci, Clara
Petilo, Lapolto
Petrosino, Joseph
Pickford, Mary
Piraino, Giuseppe
Pisani, Achille
Polakoff, Moses
Poland
Poletti, Lt Col., Charles: appeases separatists; appoints Musotto governor of Sicily; blanks Dickey on Genovese; OSS criticism; possible meeting with Luciano; protects Genovese’s black market; on rearming Carabinieri; Rennell considers unsuitable; report on Campania black market; as SCAO for Palermo; and Separatists
Polier, Sgt Dan
Poliootto, Mauro
Profaci, Joe
Pye, Rear Admiral W. S.
Ray, Maj. Edward L. Jr.
Reale, Minister
Reina, Tom
Renda, Francesco
Rennell of Rodd, Maj.-Gen. Francis, Baron
Restuccia, Francesco
Riccioli, Angelo
Rintelen, Franz von
Romano, Salvatore
Rommel, Erwin
Roosevelt, Franklin D.: admits war is going badly; agrees with Churchill over second front; appeal to Italians; authorises search for Nazi agents; at Casablanca Conference; declares war; Donovan appointment; orders seizure of Normandie; presses for American character of Operation Husky; rejects idea of Sicilian-American units
Russo, Giuseppe Genco
Russo, Joseph
Ryan, Joseph
Sabatini, Capt.
Saco, Dominick
Saco, Felix
Sala, Magistrate J. Roland
Salemi, Lt.-Col.
Salvi, Angelina
Salvo, Giuseppa
Santis, Frank de
Schifano, Michele
Schultz, Dutch
Scotten, Capt. W. E.
Sebold, William G.
Segesta
Senise, Senator
Sergio, Lisa
Siegel, Benjamin (‘Bugsy’)
Siragusa, Charles
Sforza, Count Carlo
Sinatra, Frank
Skorzeny, Otto
Smith, Major
Smythe, Edward James
Snook, Lt-Col. R. A.
Sorrentino, Enrico
Stacher, Joseph (‘Doc’)
Stalin, Josef
Stein, Arlene
Stone, Rear Admiral Ellery
Sullivan, Edward J.
Swan, Harold. C.
Swezey, Hiram
Switzer, Col. Byron R.
Tarbox, George
Tasca, Alessandro
Tasca, Giuseppe
Tasca, Lucio
Teitelbaum, Harry
Thayer, Commander R.
Thompson, Craig
Thomsen, Dr Hans
Titolo, Lt Joachim
Tomaselli, Domenico
Toscanini, Arturo
Trentacosta, Frank
Tresca, Carlo
U-boats
Umberto, Prince
United States of America: declarations of war with; gasoline restrictions; German industrial sabotage in; immigrants from Germany; immigrants from Italy and Sicily; isolationism; Italian-American attitude to Mussolini; Italian-Americans as voters; prohibition era; see also Fascist League of North America
US Army: 3rd Division; absence of Sicilian-American units; blind eye to censors; fly letter ‘L’; Genovese steals trucks; Genovese’s black market; landings in Sicily; Operation Torch; at Villalba
US Army Counter-Intelligence Corps (CIC): arrests Corvo; casualties; Celetta and Forte’s investigations; commando training in North Africa; on increased Mafia danger; intervention at Xitta; largest intelligence presence in Sicily; reports boldness of Mafia; rivalry with OSS; secures North African ports; at Villalba
US Coastguard
US Department of Justice
US Joint Chiefs of Staff
US Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC)
US Joint Staff Planners (JSP): plan to deceive Sicilians over food relief; recommend arming of Sicilian Mafiosi; Special Military Plan for Psychological War in Sicily
US Naval Intelligence: Lt Alfieri finds Axis naval documents; continuity between New York and Sicily officers; Corvo’s interrogation; Costello’s contacts with; Counter-Intelligence Section; deal with Lanza; and Giuliano train raid; Haffenden given charge of Third Naval District; Haffenden meets Lansky; and Herlands Report; intelligence from Sicilian fishermen; joins landings at Gela and Licata; and JSP plan for Sicily; justification of working with Mafia; lack of Mediteranean intelligence; Lansky and Lanza’s help before Operation Husky; Lansky’s role in Luciano deal; Lanza suggests deal with Luciano; Lanza’s limitations as a fixer; Luciano briefed in prison; MacFall suggests initial contact with Mafia; naivety of; overlay maps of Sicily and Italy; praise for Giuliano; prepares for invasion of Sicily; report on Separatist violence; services Mafia vending machines; smoothness of operations after Luciano contact; usefulness of Luciano’s intelligence in Sicily; wire taps on Mafia
US Navy: drunk sailors in Palermo; preference for Pacific theatre; shells beach at Licata
US Office of Strategic Services (OSS); British as problem for; cancellation of landing plans; closeness to Vizzini; critical of Poletti; Italian Secret Intelligence (SI); lack of involvement with Sicilian Mafia; refuse to meet Luciano; reports on Palermo massacre; reports on Separatists; rivalry with CIC, 148 – 9, 183; rivalry with FBI; rivalry with Naval Intelligence; separate intelligence on Sicily from British and US Navy; strikes bargain with Mafia; see also CIA
US Psychological Warfare Board (PWB)
Valachi, Joseph
Valenti, Girolamo
Varvaro, Andrea
Varvaro, Antonino
Vernotico, Anna Petillo
Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy
Villalba
Virginia; Camp Lee
Visconte, Marchese
Vizzini
Vizzini, Don Calogera: and flags with letter ‘L’; and Genovese’s black market; Monarchists approach; sympathises with Separatists; at Villalba; visits Russo
Vizzini, Sal
Waight, Capt. H. F.
Wallace, Judge James Garrett
Wedemeyer, Gen. Albert
Wegener, Otto
Wellesley, Lt.-Col. Gerald
Wharton, Capt. Wallace S.
White, George
White, Herbert
White, Major
Williams, Orlo
Wilson, Lt-Col., W. I.
Winchell, Walter
Wise, Rabbi Stephen
Wolf, Mr
Wood, Lt Henry
Wright, C. R. Alder
Young, Anne Braithwaite
Zahra, Ernest
Zwillman, ‘Longy’