Cosa Nostra (61 page)

This includes the Direzione Investigativa Antimafia’s six-monthly reports to parliament.

http://www.centroimpastato.it/index.php3

The website of Centro Siciliano di Documentazione ‘Giuseppe Impastato’, run by Umberto Santino and Anna Puglisi.

The proceedings of the ongoing parliamentary commission of inquiry into the mafia are on the following sites:

http://www.liberliber.it/biblioteca/i/italia/verbali_della_commissione_parlamentare_antimafia/html/

http://www.camera.it/_bicamerali/antimafia/home.htm

Notes on Sources Quoted

PROLOGUE/INTRODUCTION/MEN OF HONOUR

Falcone and Padovani, p.41.

Buscetta and Arlacchi, p.20.

Falcone and Padovani, p.49.

Buscetta and Arlacchi, p.155.

La Repubblica,
15 September 1998.

Dino,
Mutazioni,
p.78.

Brusca and Lodato, p.84.

Bianconi and Savatteri, pp.280–4.

1: THE GENESIS OF THE MAFIA 1860–1876

Carbone and Grispo, vol. 2, p.1002.

Brusca and Lodato, p.33.

Crisantino, pp.85–6.

Turrisi Colonna, p.43.

Turrisi Colonna, p.47.

Sonnino,
Lettere
p.231.

Da Passano, pp.130–2.

Quotes in this paragraph, from Franchetti,
Condizioni,
pp.3–4, 56.

Franchetti,
Condizioni,
p.98.

Alatri, p.95.

2: THE MAFIA ENTERS THE ITALIAN SYSTEM 1876–1890

The Times,
21 June 1875.

The Times,
9 June 1875.

Tajani’s speech is in
Atti Parlamentari: Camera dei Deputati, Sessione 1874–75, Discussioni,
11–12 June 1875.

Pezzino, ‘Stato: nascita e sviluppo del paradigma mafioso’, in Pezzino,
Una certa reciprocità,
p.112.

Carbone and Grispo, vol. 2, p.1137.

Colacino, p.180.

Falcone and Padovani, p.31.

Caico, pp.176–7.

Alongi,
La maffia,
pp.55, 58.

Carbone and Grispo, vol. 2, p.1008.

Alongi,
La maffia,
pp.72–3.

Pitrè, vol. 2, p.292.

3: CORRUPTION IN HIGH PLACES 1890–1904

Cancila, p.237.

Archivio Centrale dello Stato, Sangiorgi report, p.117.

Sangiorgi report, pp.120–1.

Trevelyan,
Princes Under the Volcano,
p.223.

Sangiorgi report, p.38.

Sangiorgi report, p.137.

Sangiorgi report, p.137.

Sangiorgi report, p.193.

Sangiorgi report, p.37.

Sangiorgi report, pp.335–6.

Sangiorgi report, p.1.

Barone, ‘Egemonie urbane’, p.317.

Giornale di Sicilia,
20–1 May 1901.

Resto del Carlino,
30–1 October 1901.

Notarbartolo, p.276.

Avanti!
18 November 1899.

Avanti!
18 November 1899.

Notarbartolo, p.339.

Avanti!
24 November 1899.

The Times,
22 December 1899.

Avanti!
28 September 1901.

Giornale d’Italia,
1 August 1902.

The Times,
1 August 1902.

Marchesano, pp.294–5.

Lupo,
Storia della mafia
(1996 edn), p.133.

4: SOCIALISM, FASCISM, MAFIA 1893–1943

Rossi,
L’agitazione,
pp.81–2.

Paton,
Picturesque Sicily,
p.179.

Rossi,
L’agitazione,
p.82.

Rossi,
L’agitazione,
p.84.

Rossi,
L’agitazione,
pp.86–7.

Rossi,
L’agitazione,
p.84.

Rossi,
L’agitazione,
pp.125–6.

Paternostro, p.166.

Spanò, p.44.

Spanò, p.43.

Sicilia Nuova,
10–11 January 1926.

Petacco,
II prefetto,
p.100.

Calderone and Arlacchi, pp.14–15.

Porto, p.22.

Lupo, ‘L’utopia totalitaria’, p.394.

Giornale di Sicilia,
28–9 July 1925.

Mori,
The Last Struggle,
p.22.

Marino,
I padrini,
p.113.

Raffaele, p.205.

Mori,
Con la mafia,
p.84.

Archivio di Stato di Pavia.

5: THE MAFIA ESTABLISHES ITSELF IN AMERICA 1900–1941

New York Herald
26 April 1903.

Gildeer, p.34.

Reid, pp.131, 139, 143.

Carey, p.120.

Nelli,
The Business of Crime,
p.75.

New York Herald,
26 April 1903.

Deaglio, ‘Se vince lui’.

Gentile,
Vita di capomafia,
p.91.

Calderone and Arlacchi, p.158.

6: WAR AND REBIRTH 1943–1950

Pantaleone,
Mafia e politica,
p.63.

La Repubblica,
Palermo, 11 June 2000.

‘MAFFIA, Aug–Dec. 1943’, Allied Commission Control 10106/143/28 Bob. 689C Scat. 140, quoted in Adriano, p.4.

Sicily. Zone Handbook,
part 3.

‘Allied to the mafia’.

Romano,
Storia della mafia,
p.302.

Montanelli, pp.282–3.

Marino,
I padrini,
p.246.

Quoted in Renda,
Salvatore Giuliano,
pp.101–2.

7: GOD, CONCRETE, HEROIN, AND COSA NOSTRA 1950–1963

Farinella, p.25.

Quoted in Stabile,
La Chiesa,
p.265.

8: THE ‘FIRST’ MAFIA WAR AND ITS CONSEQUENCES 1962–1969

Commissione parlamentare d’inchiesta sul fenomenc della mafia in Sicilian,
Documentazione allegata,
vol. 5, pp.375–642; p.375, dated 29 October 1975.

9: THE ORIGINS OF THE SECOND MAFIA WAR 1970–1982

Calderone and Arlacchi, p.91.

Galluzzo, Nicastro, and Vasile, p.106.

Galluzzo, Nicastro, and Vasile, p.107.

Stajano, p.14.

Vitale, p.53.

Bartolotta Impastato, p.30.

Russo Spena, p.170.

La Repubblica,
11 April 2002.

Sterling, p.295.

Pistone, p.388.

Leonardo Messina in Commissione parlamentare d’inchiesta,
Mafia, politica, pentiti,
p.523.

Leonardo Messina in Pezzino,
Mafia,
p.346.

Stajano, p.23.

Stajano, p.19.

Gaspare Mutolo in Commissione parlamentare d’inchiesta,
Mafia, politica, pentiti,
p.1232.

Buscetta and Arlacchi, p.219.

10: TERRA INFIDELIUM 1983–1992

La Licata, p.77.

La Licata, p.77.

Lodato, p.107.

Lodato, p.132.

Caponnetto, p.24.

La Repubblica,
30 September 1984.

La Repubblica,
8 August 1985.

Sciascia,
La Sicilia,
p.74.

Leonardo Messina in Commissione parlamentare d’inchiesta,
Mafia, politica, pentiti,
p.542.

11: BOMBS AND SUBMERSION 1992–2003

Lo Forte, interview with the author.

La Repubblica,
26 May 1992.

Dino,
Mutazioni,
p.183.

Gaspare Mutolo interviewed in Commissione parlamentare d’inchiesta,
Mafia, politica, pentiti,
pp.1255, 1288.

Dino, ‘La mafia del Gattopardo’, p.206.

Scarpinato, interview with the author.

Leonardo Messina in Commissione parlamentare d’inchiesta,
Mafia, politica, pentiti,
p.522.

The charges in the paragraph beginning, ‘The prosecution also claims that…’ are as outlined in
La Repubblica,
http://www.repubblica.it/online/fatti/utri/accuse/accuse.html
My assumption is that this article is a fair and accurate summary.

La Republica,
19 April 2004.

Buscetta and Lodato, p.14.

Index

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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