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DC = Democrazia Cristiana
PCI = Partito Comunista Italiano
Sicilian towns are villages have been selectively indexed.
Adowa, battle of (1896)
Aglieri, Pietro
Agrigento (town)
capture of Brusca
Favara Brotherhood trial
Alaimo, Rosario
Albanese, Giuseppe
Alexander, General Sir Harold
Alongi, Giuseppe: The Mafia … Manifestations
AMGOT (Allied Military Government of Occupied Territory; WWII)
Anastasia, Albert
Andreotti, Giulio (“Uncle Giulio”)
Andronico, Giovanni
“Antimafia” enquiry
Antiochia, Roberto
Aprile, Andrea Finocchiaro
Atlanta Federal Penitentiary (US)
Atria, Rita
Avanti! (newspaper)
Badalamenti, Gaetano (“Tano”; also “Sitting Bully”)
Commission evolution
death of Impastato
drug dealing
mafia factions
US links
Bagarella, Calogero
Bagarella, Leoluca
Banca Romana
Banco di Sicilia
Batista y Zaldìvar, Fulgencio
Bergman, Ingrid
Berlusconi, Silvio (“the Knight”)
Biagi, Enzo
Boldini, Giovanni
Bologna 180: railway station massacre
Bonanno, Giuseppe (“Joe Bananas”): New York Family
A Man of Honour (book)
meeting with Buscetta
return to Sicily and Sicilian Commission
Bontate, Stefano (“Prince of Villagrazia”)
Andreotti connection
Commission member
drug dealing
humiliated by Riino
Masonic connection
murder and gang war
Bonventre, Giovanni (“John”)
Bordonaro, Lucio Tasca
Borgnine, Ernest
Borsellino, Agnese
Borsellino, Paolo: murder
accused of careerism
CSM investigation
joins antimafia team
Palermo maxi-trial
upbringing and character
Brancaccio (township)
Brando, Marlon
“Brotherhood” (“Fratellanza”; criminal gang; Favara)
Brusca, Davide
Brusca, Enzo
Brusca, Giovanni (“lo scannacristiani”)
capture
defection
Falcone murder
initiation
war on state
Buchalter, Louis (“Lepke”)
Buscemi, Giuseppe (“Pidduzzo”)
Buscetta, Tommaso
appearance and character
Ciaculli car bomb
comments on Gioia, Ciancimino, and Lima
comments on Orlando, Aprile, and Giuliano
comment on Riina
Commission involvement
death
defection
drug and tobacco trafficking
fate of sons
joins Porta Nuova Family
leaves Italy for Brazil
on mafia origins
meeting with Bonanno
meeting with Contorno
Palermo maxi-trial and “Buscetta theorem”
opinion of Genco Russo
role in first mafia war
right-wing plotting
Caccamo (town)
Cagney, James
Calderone, Antonino
Calderone, Pippo
Caltanissetta (province)
Calvi, Roberto
Camilleri, Andrea
Cammarata, Angelo
Camorra (criminal group; Naples)
Cancemi, Salvatore
Capaci (town): Falcone murder
Capone, Al (“Scarface Al”)
Caponnetto, Antonino
Caporetto, battle of (1917)
Cappello, Antonio
Cappiello, Nicola
Carnevale, Judge Corrado
Carollo, Benedetto
Carollo, Giuseppe
Caronia, Don Stefano
Caruso, Giuseppe
Casio-Ferro, Don Vito
Caselli, Gian Carlo
Cassa Agricola San Leoluca (Catholic fund)
Cassarà, Ninni
Castellammare del Golfo (town)
Castellammarese war
Castelli, Roberto
Castiglia, Francesco (aka Frank Costello)
Castro, Fidel
Catania (town)
Cattanei, Franco
Cavataio, Michele (“the Cobra”)
cento passi, I (film)
Chinnici, Rocco
Christian Democracy (Democrazia Cristiana), see DC
Churchill, Winston
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)
Ciaculli (town)
car bombs
Greco war
Ciancimino, Vito
Cinisi (town)
car bombs
“Clean Hands” (corruption investigations)
Colonna, Nicolò Turrisi, Baron of Buonvicino: Public Security in Italy (report)
attempted assassination
link with Giammona
political activities
suspected mafia connections
Commission, the (also Cupola; “the Senate”): structure
Agrigento commission
dissolution and reconstitution
domination by Corleonesi
evolution
first mafia war
Palermo maxi-trial
Communist Party (Partito Comunista Italiano) see PCI
Conca d’Oro (Palermo)
Connors, Francis
Consentino, Louis
Contorno, Salvatore (“Totuccio”)
Coppola, Francis Ford
Corleone (“Tombstone”: town)
Corleonesi (mafia group)
rise to power
role in second mafia war (la mattanza)
Corriere della Sera (newspaper)
Cosa Nostra see mafia
Cosenza, Vincenzo
Costanzo, Maurizio
Crispi, Francesco
Croce Verde Giardini (village): Greco war
CSM (magistrates’; governing body)
Cuba
Cuccia, Don Francesco
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
report on mafia
Notarbartolo trial
Sant’Elia (nobleman)
Santapaola, Nitto (“the Hunter”)
Santino, Umberto
Saturnia, SS (liner)
Scaglioni, Pietro
Scarface (film)
Scarpato’s (restaurant; Coney Island)
Scarpinato, Roberto
Scelba, Mario
Schifani, Rosaria
Schifani, Vito
Sciascia, Leonardo
The Day of the Owl
Scopelliti, Antonio
Scorsese, Martin
Senate Special Committee to Investigate
Crime in Interstate Commerce (US)
Servadio, Gaia
“Sheets Committee” (antimafia organization)
Sicilcasa (building company)
Sicily: psyche and culture
cattle and grain trade
citrus trade
early history
emigration to US
Fasci (peasant movement)
poverty
sulphur industry
Post-WWI mayhem
post-WWII separatist movement
Siino, Filippo
Siino, Francesco
Sindona, Michele
Sing Sing (US prison)
Slavonia, SS (liner)
Socialist Ideal, The (news-sheet)
Socialist Party (Italy): political manuevering
and demise
Berlusconi link
mafia overtures
Sonnino, Sidney
Spadaro, Tommaso
Spampinato, Giovanni
Spanò (Sicilian restaurant)
Spatola, Alfonso
Spatola, Rosario
St Valentine’s Day massacre
Stella, Don Constantino
Stromboli (film)
Sullivan, Tim (“Dry Dollar”)
supergrass see defectors
Tajani, Diego
Terranova, Cesare
Terranova, Ciro
terrorism, right-wing: “strategy of tension”
Times, The
tobacco trafficking
Torretta, Pietro
Trapani basketball club
Tribuna, La (newspaper)
Truman, President Harry S.
Ucciardone (prison; Palermo)
United States of America
Chicago
Democratic Party
Detroit
Kansas City
Las Vegas
mafia mobility
mafia “trademark” control
New Orleans
Prohibition
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
San Francisco
Sicilian immigration
Williamsburg
see also New York
Ustica (prison; Italy)
Valachi, Joseph
The Valachi Papers
Vassallo, Don Ciccio
Verga, Giovanni
Verro, Bernardino
Verro, Giuseppina Pace Umana
via dei Georgofili (Florence): car bomb
via dei Gladiator (Rome): bomb
via Palestro (Milan): bomb
Villa Deliella (Palermo)
Villabate (town)
Villalba (town)
“Operation Husky”
wounding of Li Causi
Vitale, Leonardo
Vizzini, Don Calogero (“Zu Calò”; US codename “Bull Frog”)
“Operation Husky”
Miccichè (estate) takeover
Vizzini, Monsignor Giovanni
Vizzini, Raimonda
Wagner, Richard: Parsifal
Whitaker, Audrey
Whitaker, Effie
Whitaker, Joseph (“Pip”)
Whitaker, Joshua (“Joss”)
Zaza, Michele (“Mad Mike”)