Operation Underworld: How the Mafia and U.S. Government Teamed Up to Win World War II Black Matthew
Never has the saying "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" had more truth than when the US government and the criminal underground joined forces to defeat the Nazi menace. For the first time ever the…
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Never has the saying "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" had more truth than when the US government and the criminal underground joined forces to defeat the Nazi menace. For the first time ever the full story of how Charles "Lucky" Luciano--the U.S. Mafia boss who put the "organized" into organized crime--was recruited by U.S. Naval Intelligence in 1944 to aid the Allied war effort in the U.S. invasion of Sicily, a turning point in WWII.In 1942, a rational fear was mounting that New York Harbor was vulnerable to sabotage. If the waterfront was infested with German and Italian agents then the U.S. Navy needed a recourse just as insidious to secure it.Naval intelligence officer, Commander Charles Radcliffe Haffenden had the solution: recruit as his own spies, members of La Cosa Nostra. Pier to pier, no one terrified the longshoremen, stevedores, shopkeepers, and boat