The Mafia and the Allies

[Mortimer]

The mainstream media and the Allied nations themselves claimed that they were morally superior to the Axis. But how do you explain the fact that the Roosevelt administration worked hand in hand with the mafia and helped to reorganise their activities in Sicily after the US invasion - http://codoh.com/library/document/2593

[Advanced Mick]

The Allies intervention in the Mediterranean was always strategic. The British & French sought absolute control of either end of the sea & as many of the large islands as was possible, for e.g. Alexandria, Palestine, Cyprus, Crete, Malta, Gibraltar were all under the sway of the British when WW2 began. When Mussolini formed his Fascist Party after WW1 he was in the pay of MI5 & it was with their authorisation & assistance that he invaded Abyssinia. It was MI6 that drafted Franco into place before the Spanish Civil War, Hirohito belonged to the high echelons of the British establishment & Hitler of course owed his rise to & retention of power to Wall St. Allied duplicity goes much further than helping the Mafia. The Sicilian Mafia were re-organised to run the lucrative drug trade post war. Given the intimate connections between the leaders of the Axis Powers & the All-lies, WW2 can be seen as nothing else other than a monumental inside job, with Hitler, Mussolini & Hirohito being either accomplices or betrayed. I can only speculate that it was out of stark necessity that Italy & Germany opened up so many fronts & invaded the nations that it did during the war.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/o ... -mi5-italy
http://www.voltairenet.org/IMG/pdf/Sutt ... tler-5.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirohito (See Honours bestowed)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Polla ... _Civil_War

[Mortimer]

Mussolini Takes on the Mafia - an article by Mike La Sorte http://www.americanmafia.com/Feature_Articles_267.html

[Mortimer]

I recently viewed The French Connection dvd with director's commentary by William Friedkin. He stated that the major supply of heroin came from the Corsican underworld and that the US government had requested the extradition of Jean Jahan. The French authorities refused because he was a member of the resistance during WW2 - in other words even though he was a drug dealer and gangster he got a free pass because he fought with De Gaulle. This is the "morality" of French politicians -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Connection

[Kingfisher]

I recall when I was living in France in the Seventies, reading about the connections between the Gaullist party and the Corsican Mafia, dating back to the War, when they played a similar role in the landings in the South of France as the Sicilian Mafia had in Sicily. Googling will no doubt bring up more details.

The US dealings with Lucky Luciano are well documented, including in Wikipedia.