Gli accordi tra Lucky Luciano e gli stati uniti d'America durante la seconda guerra mondiale
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00:17Charles Lachiluciano is the father of modern organized crime.
00:27Pimp, extortionist and murderer.
00:32In 1936 he was sentenced to 50 years in prison.
00:39That's where he seems destined to die.
00:43Instead he spent only 10 years in prison and died in Italy a free man.
00:55Behind this crucial change of course of fortune,
00:59there is one of the most unlikely collaborations of the Second World War,
01:03between the United States Army and the convicted criminal.
01:11The role of the gangster in World War II was covered up for years,
01:16dismissed as if it were folklore.
01:19This video reveals stunning new evidence that proves beyond any doubt
01:24that the US government and the Mafia collaborated,
01:28helping to win the war.
01:32I found testimonies and documents in the archives
01:35which demonstrate that it is true that Luciano signed a secret agreement
01:39with the government of the United States of America.
01:44This secret relationship between the United States government and the criminal
01:48It has been going on since the Battle of the Atlantic
01:52to the Allied invasion of Italy.
01:57In the end, they both get what they want.
02:00The United States achieves victory.
02:06And Luciano and the mafia take power.
02:21Back in 1907, one of America's most unlikely heroes
02:25lands in New York City.
02:29Charles Luciano is an Italian immigrant
02:31destined to become the boss of mafia bosses.
02:37Since he was little, Luciano has been different from other children.
02:43Biographer Tim Newark spends seven years studying Luciano's life.
02:50Luciano wants more from life.
02:52He knows perfectly well that he cannot adapt to a normal existence.
02:57and since I was a teenager
02:58gets involved in all sorts of misdeeds
03:01such as scams, robberies and thefts.
03:09In the slums of New York's eastern suburbs
03:12Luciano makes money quickly
03:14a reputation as a troublemaker and petty thief
03:18and starts making some useful contacts.
03:24Luciano earns money with small tricks
03:26beats children who go to school, for example.
03:29One day he sees a particularly small-looking boy.
03:34He approaches him and asks him for money
03:36but he chooses the wrong person
03:38because that's young Meyer Lansky.
03:44Meyer Lansky, a Polish Jew
03:47he's as tough as Luciano himself.
03:50Young Meyer Lansky
03:52he does not let himself be intimidated by the much feared
03:54Lucky Luciano
03:55and literally sends him packing.
03:58Luciano is very impressed
03:59from the great courage shown
04:01from this seemingly small man.
04:04Luciano himself recalls that meeting.
04:10I was at least a head taller than that miniature man
04:13but he looked at me without batting an eyelid
04:15In his face I could only read his courage.
04:18I'm starting to laugh
04:19I pat him on the shoulder
04:20and I tell him
04:21All right
04:22you will have my protection for free.
04:26He walks away and screams
04:28I can't do anything with your protection
04:30I don't need it
04:31believe me
04:32I found out he didn't really need it.
04:38It's the beginning of one of the coalitions
04:40more profitable
04:41of organized crime in New York.
04:47In 1920
04:48the United States Congress
04:50prohibits the consumption of alcohol
04:52and decides to get rid of it completely.
04:55Prohibition begins
04:58and then
04:59the rekindling of the flame.
05:06The black market
05:07conducted secretly
05:09goes to feed
05:10an impeccable criminal organization
05:12made of bars
05:13nightclub
05:14and illegal strip clubs.
05:16It's perfect for an ambitious young person
05:18who intends to make a name for himself
05:19without anyone's help.
05:26For Luciano
05:27it's the big opportunity.
05:31Despite the arrests
05:32for theft and drug dealing
05:34ends up checking
05:35a ring of 5,000 prostitutes.
05:42In 1929
05:43he is suspected
05:44of having committed
05:45various murders.
05:50Luciano
05:51collects so much
05:52so successful
05:53to be captured
05:53attention
05:54of an organization
05:55which is particularly
05:56flourishing
05:56among the underworld.
05:58The mafia.
06:10Luciano
06:10he's the kind of man
06:11who knows how to move
06:12in the organization.
06:13Like all good criminals
06:16exerts a particular charm
06:18as he recalls
06:19Moses Polakoff
06:20his former lawyer.
06:23Lucky Luciano
06:25he was a boy
06:26very polite.
06:27The experts of the trade
06:28typical of other times
06:30they knew how to behave.
06:32They were not rude
06:34like today's criminals.
06:36If Lucky
06:36he collided by mistake
06:37with a passerby on the street
06:39he apologized
06:40immediately.
06:45thanks to his
06:46good manners
06:47Luciano makes his way
06:48among the highest ranks
06:49of the mafia
06:50and it comes to unravel
06:52of his boss
06:52just to move forward.
06:57Waits
06:57Joe Masseria
06:58inside the bathroom
06:59of a restaurant
07:00to execute him.
07:02Immediately after
07:03very calmly
07:04he goes out
07:05and call the police.
07:10In 1932
07:11the Italian immigrant
07:12become the boss
07:13of the bosses
07:13of the mafia.
07:16In New York
07:17has absolute dominion
07:18on traffic
07:19of drugs
07:19prostitution
07:20gambling
07:21and on the racket
07:21in the form of protection.
07:24The name is given
07:25by Lucky
07:26that is to say
07:26the lucky one
07:27to have survived
07:29to an attack.
07:33In 1934
07:34the mayor
07:35from New York
07:36It's Flores
07:37The Guard.
07:46He will nominate Luciano
07:47the enemy
07:48public
07:48number one.
07:58Like a real boss
07:59mafioso
08:00Luciano
08:00leads a style
08:01of life
08:01that suits
08:02perfectly
08:02to his role.
08:04Wears
08:04pinstriped suits
08:05hand-packaged
08:06silk shirts
08:07imported from Italy
08:08and to protect themselves
08:10takes a false name
08:12and lives in a suite
08:13luxury
08:14at the renowned
08:15Waldorf Astoria Hotel.
08:22Then
08:22in 1936
08:24luck
08:24by Luciano
08:25change course.
08:29Despite
08:30the warning
08:31of the friend
08:31and now
08:32colleague
08:32criminal
08:33Meyer Lansky
08:34Luciano
08:34he can't do it
08:35to resist
08:35in the glow
08:36of fame.
08:38Luciano
08:38it begins
08:39to attend
08:39people
08:40important
08:40and powerful
08:41of the high
08:42society.
08:43In New York
08:43he goes out frequently
08:44with stars
08:45of the cinema.
08:46It's becoming
08:47a celebrity
08:47rightly so
08:49the image
08:49that Lansky
08:50he had advised him against it
08:51to take on
08:52for himself.
08:55This
08:55in the
08:56I err
08:56by Luciano
08:58capture
08:59attention
09:00of his
09:00dangerous
09:01enemy
09:01a man
09:02with ambitions
09:03very close
09:03to his.
09:05Our
09:06debut
09:06it happened
09:06during an operation
09:07to clean up
09:08New York
09:08by gangsters.
09:09In two years
09:10we have demonstrated
09:11to be able to defend
09:12the people
09:12and to free her
09:14from the grip
09:14of criminals.
09:17The prosecutor
09:19special
09:19from New York
09:20Thomas Dewey
09:21it is determined
09:22to clean up
09:22the city
09:23from crime.
09:27The extortionist
09:27not purple
09:28and has never
09:28violated the law.
09:30The problem
09:31real
09:31is to prevent
09:31that the extortionist
09:32armies
09:33his influence
09:33on politics.
09:36Lucky Luciano
09:37is in the crosshairs
09:38by Dewey.
09:39Thomas Dewey
09:41it is firmly
09:42convinced
09:42that this man
09:43must be destroyed.
09:45In fact
09:45Luciano
09:46remains a victim
09:47of success
09:47which he had obtained
09:48at the time.
09:52Dewey
09:53waits
09:53that Luciano
09:54come
09:54out in the open
09:55what happens
09:56in 1936.
09:59Dewey
09:59becomes aware
10:00of the fact
10:01that Luciano
10:01be involved
10:02in the business
10:03of sex
10:03so long as
10:04has practically
10:05in hand
10:05all circuits
10:06of prostitution
10:07of New York.
10:08Someone
10:09of the girls
10:10by Luciano
10:10they are persuaded
10:11to testify
10:12against him.
10:13In the end
10:13Dewey
10:14gets
10:14what he wants.
10:23Luciano
10:24he is arrested.
10:27May 11th
10:281936
10:30Lucky Luciano
10:31is brought
10:31in handcuffs
10:32before the Court
10:33Supreme Court of State
10:33in Manhattan.
10:36The process
10:37hard
10:37four weeks.
10:39Luciano
10:39he is sentenced
10:40for extortion
10:41and associations
10:41to commit crimes.
10:46he is sentenced
10:47at 50 years old
10:48to be discounted
10:48in prison
10:49of State
10:49from New York
10:50known to gangs
10:51for the very hard ones
10:52conditions
10:52like little Siberia.
10:56Everyone is convinced
10:57that the mafia
10:58if you're doing well
10:58in prison
10:59because it has a lot of power
11:00and a lot of money
11:01but in fact
11:03Luciano leads here
11:04a life
11:04extremely humble.
11:06He says that place
11:07it smells bad
11:08and cold.
11:09The image
11:10what do you have about him?
11:10it's a lot,
11:11very sad.
11:15his appeals
11:16to get
11:17parole
11:18they are rejected.
11:20Luciano
11:20It seems to be over.
11:23Locked up
11:24in a prison
11:24and isolated from the world
11:25no form
11:26of corruption
11:27or threat
11:27can save him.
11:29Luciano
11:29he is really convinced
11:31that will stay there
11:31for the rest
11:32of his life.
11:37Then
11:38arrives
11:39an unexpected one
11:39opportunity
11:40of salvation.
11:48The Second World War
11:52In December 1941
11:54Japan
11:55attack by surprise
11:56the US fleet
11:57at Pearl Harbor.
12:02The United States
12:03they fall
12:04in the war.
12:08the enormous power
12:09industrial
12:10of the country
12:10is mobilized
12:11in full.
12:14Millions of soldiers
12:15they are called
12:16under arms
12:17and trained
12:18to fight
12:18against the Japanese
12:19on one side
12:20and the Nazis
12:20on the other.
12:29America
12:30joins
12:31to the battle
12:31of the Atlantic
12:37this
12:38of the longest
12:39war campaign
12:41and the end
12:42is to make it arrive
12:44the commissions
12:44to Great Britain
12:47who needs
12:48to import
12:49over a million
12:50of tons
12:50of goods
12:51every week.
12:54This happens
12:55via convoys
12:56of merchant ships
12:57that cross
12:58the Atlantic
12:58in succession
12:59almost infinite.
13:07Crucial
13:08for all this
13:08it's the port area
13:10of New York.
13:11With almost
13:12130 square kilometers
13:14of warehouses
13:14and piers
13:15the port basins
13:16I am the door
13:17on the Atlantic
13:18and on Europe.
13:20just the United States
13:21they go to war
13:22all ships
13:23that leave
13:24and they arrive
13:24in New York
13:25they are attacked.
13:34The United States
13:35they have in front of them
13:36a fearsome enemy.
13:38German submarines
13:40they sink approximately
13:4180 ships per month.
13:42In six months
13:43they get lost
13:44two and a half million
13:45of tons
13:45of shipments.
14:07Unable to hinder
14:09the destructive impetus
14:10naval intelligence
14:11she is convinced
14:12of one thing.
14:15The German spies
14:17they infiltrated
14:18in the port area
14:19and send reports
14:20to the submarines
14:21wide open.
14:22They must be identified.
14:27The problem
14:28is that the port area
14:30It's off-limits.
14:32It's territory
14:33of the mafia.
14:35And it's controlled
14:37by men
14:37who work
14:38for the bosses
14:38of the bosses.
14:40Lucky Luciano.
14:43Even now
14:44who is in prison
14:45Luciano
14:45holds
14:46full control.
14:49The port area
14:51it's a community
14:52closed
14:52and it's almost impossible
14:54for agents
14:54of the United States
14:55penetrate it from the outside.
15:00The attempt
15:01of the navy
15:02to find information
15:03it doesn't impress
15:04the underworld
15:05as he recalls
15:06Meyer Lansky.
15:08Everyone in New York
15:10they laugh at the way
15:10where the naive
15:11officers
15:12of the navy
15:13they wander around
15:14in the port area.
15:15They are getting closer
15:16to men
15:16who work
15:17in the construction sites
15:17and they turn
15:18to them
15:18half-heartedly
15:19asking for spies
15:20how is it done?
15:21in the movies.
15:26The agents
15:27of naval intelligence
15:28are hindered.
15:30Nobody
15:31in the port area
15:32would utter a word
15:33without approval
15:34by Luciano.
15:35And he
15:36he does not give his approval.
15:40From prison
15:41identify
15:42an opportunity
15:42to negotiate
15:43an agreement.
15:45You know
15:46that the government
15:46of the United States
15:47he needs
15:48of him
15:48but it's the government
15:50who doesn't know
15:51how much actually
15:52need
15:53of him.
15:54Then
15:54February 9th
15:551942
15:56something happens
15:58which makes him understand
15:59Exactly.
16:08Moored
16:09at Pier 88
16:10of the port area
16:11from New York
16:12there is Normandie
16:13a ship
16:14French line
16:15luxury
16:15the favorite
16:16of movie stars
16:17and celebrities.
16:21Normandy
16:22it's fast
16:23and powerful
16:24and when the French
16:25capitulate
16:26comes immediately
16:27requisitioned
16:27from the US Army
16:29that transforms it
16:30in a medium
16:30armored
16:31for transport
16:32of the troops.
16:37Then
16:37one afternoon
16:38it's a disaster.
16:45Normandy
16:46it's on fire.
16:49The vehicles
16:49emergency
16:50they run
16:50on the scene.
16:52It's the biggest
16:53gathering
16:54of services
16:55emergency
16:55on American soil
16:56since it started
16:57the war.
17:02Normandy
17:03burns for six hours
17:04and then
17:08in the early hours
17:09in the morning
17:10it overturns
17:11on one side
17:12and sinks slowly
17:13under the weight
17:14of the water
17:14which was pumped
17:15on the piers
17:16to put out the flames.
17:19Death
17:19of a queen.
17:20Now
17:21the light of 60 million
17:22of luxury
17:22it's deadly
17:23mortal
17:27afterwards
17:29to the irreparable
17:29disaster
17:30they begin
17:31the investigations.
17:33It's the work
17:34of saboteurs
17:35Germans?
17:37Or the unloaders
17:38of port
17:39Italian-Americans
17:39they are supporters
17:40fascists?
17:44There is fear
17:45almost justifiable
17:46whether it is
17:47of a sabotage
17:47foreigner
17:48that is to say
17:49that somehow
17:49Nazis
17:50or fascists
17:51they succeeded
17:52to infiltrate
17:52and set fire
17:53the ship.
17:59The FBI
18:00is on the trail
18:01of enemy spies
18:02that operate
18:03in the United States
18:04since the 1930s.
18:07Their battle
18:09against the agents
18:09Germans
18:10or fascists
18:11It's well publicized.
18:13America
18:14it is more and more
18:15obsessed
18:16from this enemy
18:17internal.
18:20Therefore
18:21It shouldn't surprise anyone
18:22that they are spies
18:23the first suspects
18:24of the fire
18:25of Normandy.
18:31The event
18:32it remains however
18:32shrouded in mystery
18:33until Lucky Luciano
18:35does not make a statement
18:36sensational.
18:39Declares
18:40that his men
18:41they are responsible
18:42of having set fire to
18:43the fire
18:43in Normandy
18:44and work
18:45of one of his henchmen.
18:48Albert Anastasia
18:52in a book
18:53which appears to be based
18:54on some of his
18:54direct confessions
18:55Luciano explains
18:59Albert is convinced
19:00what if it happened
19:01something in Normandy
19:02everyone would do it
19:03under from fear.
19:06It's a great idea
19:08Like this
19:08I'm sending word to Albert
19:10to take in hand
19:10the situation.
19:13A couple of days later
19:14I hear on the radio
19:15that Normandy
19:16it's on fire
19:16and that they will not succeed
19:17to save her.
19:19That damned Albert
19:21he really had
19:22did a good job.
19:27Luciano's version
19:29it's not the same
19:30to the official one
19:30that one has of events.
19:34During the investigations
19:35about the accident
19:36the United States government
19:37comes to a different conclusion.
19:42Normandy
19:44was
19:44an unfortunate one
19:45accident
19:46caused
19:46from incompetence
19:47of civilians.
19:48The news
19:49they say
19:50that the fire
19:50it was set on fire
19:51from stray sparks
19:53caused
19:53from the torch
19:54of a worker.
19:56The case
19:57it officially comes
19:58closed.
20:02Whatever it is
20:03the truth
20:04behind the incident
20:05the disaster
20:06of Normandy
20:07it will reveal itself
20:08at the start
20:08of one of the relationships
20:09more peculiar
20:10of the Second World War.
20:17Anyone who is irresponsible
20:19the fire
20:20of Normandy
20:20he definitely has
20:21scared
20:22the navy
20:24going to feed
20:25the fear
20:26that the American ships
20:27were the goal
20:28of sabotage.
20:30The Lieutenant
20:31commander
20:32Charles Huffenden
20:33he is the boss
20:34of naval intelligence
20:35of New York.
20:36His unity
20:37must guarantee
20:38that they do not happen again
20:39accidents
20:39like that
20:40of Normandy.
20:43Huffenden
20:44he is aware
20:45which must be able to
20:45log in
20:46to the port area
20:49and it exists
20:50only one way.
20:54The fire
20:55of Normandy
20:56it's a real one
20:56catalyst
20:57for intelligence
20:58naval
20:58of the United States.
20:59Now it is necessary
21:01to take seriously
21:01consideration
21:02an agreement
21:03with the gangsters.
21:03in particular
21:05the commander
21:05Huffenden
21:06he says he is willing
21:07even to speak
21:08with the devil
21:09if necessary
21:10just to access
21:11to the port area
21:12of New York.
21:15Huffenden
21:16throw a
21:17of the missions
21:17more secret
21:18of the whole war
21:19an operation
21:20call
21:20Underworld
21:21that would see
21:22the elite class
21:23of the United States
21:24to turn to
21:25to the underworld
21:25looking for help.
21:27The first stage
21:28of Huffenden
21:29It's Thomas Dewey.
21:33Dewey focused
21:35throughout his career
21:36on the fight
21:36against the criminals
21:37and knows how to spot them.
21:43First of all
21:44makes contact
21:45with Joseph Sox Lanza
21:47the trusted man
21:48by Luciano
21:49on the lookout
21:50in the port area
21:51the head of the mafia
21:53of the Fulton Fish Market
21:54where he manages
21:55a profitable business.
22:00Moses Polakoff
22:02remember
22:02the enormous influence
22:03exercised
22:04from Sox Lanza.
22:06Sox is a brutal man.
22:09Check
22:10the fish markets
22:11in the lower part
22:12of East Side.
22:14It has a power.
22:15No one can sell fish
22:17without his approval.
22:18Maybe pin
22:19of money
22:20to the sellers
22:21making them pay
22:22a bribe.
22:23Sox is this kind
22:24in person.
22:29All fishing vessels
22:30in the port
22:31they have to pay
22:32in Lanza
22:32a bribe
22:33of 100 dollars.
22:39The officers
22:40of the United States
22:41they meet Lanza
22:42in secret
22:43and negotiate
22:44an agreement.
22:47Lance
22:48agree
22:48that the fishermen
22:49they will keep an eye on
22:50the entire port area
22:51but there is also
22:52another piece of news
22:53unwelcome.
22:55Sox Lanza
22:56he tells the officers
22:57I could think
22:58to everything I do
22:59but the person
23:00which gives instructions
23:01why there is
23:01maximum respect
23:02for the port area
23:03it's not me
23:04but rather
23:04Charles Luciano.
23:07There are no alternatives.
23:11To get
23:12what he wants
23:12American intelligence
23:14must deal with
23:15with the public friend
23:16number one
23:16locked up in prison
23:18for six years.
23:20Luciano
23:21it really is
23:22he who commands.
23:24afterwards
23:25will declare
23:27Huffenden
23:27he doesn't know at all
23:29Nothing
23:29of that
23:29what's happening.
23:31The only thing
23:31what can he do
23:32it's sitting down
23:33to wait
23:33praying that I
23:34say yes
23:35and that helps
23:36all of his
23:36department.
23:41Newark
23:42find evidence
23:42evident
23:43which demonstrate
23:44that Huffenden
23:44he needs
23:45of collaboration
23:46as it is written
23:47in a statement
23:48made by Lansky.
23:48Lansky
23:50he is being questioned
23:51for the relationship
23:51official
23:52Airlines
23:52an investigation
23:53carried out
23:54in the post-war period
23:54on collusion
23:55among the army
23:56American
23:56and the mafia.
23:59Here we have
24:00another statement
24:01by Meyer Lansky
24:02where it is written
24:03that the government
24:04he's scared
24:05of a sabotage
24:06and this one
24:07his sentence
24:07he says it is
24:08worried
24:09above all
24:10for shipments
24:11made by Italians
24:12who work
24:12at the port.
24:13It's almost desirable
24:15that there were
24:15prominent Italians
24:16involved in the affair
24:17and it is for this reason
24:19that comes out
24:19the name of Charles Luciano.
24:24But now
24:25the question is
24:26who can get it
24:27Luciano's trust?
24:29Effectively
24:30there is a contact
24:31which can be useful.
24:34The old friend
24:36by Lucky Luciano
24:36Meyer Lansky
24:38he is proud
24:39to be Jewish
24:40and hates Nazis.
24:41He opposes
24:42openly
24:43an organization
24:45anti-Semitic
24:45and pro-Nazi
24:46whose speeches
24:47they emulate
24:48those held
24:49from Germany
24:49of Hitler.
25:05In his memoirs
25:07Lansky recalls
25:08as later
25:09to the secret request
25:10of his rabbi
25:10him and his henchmen
25:12make raids
25:13at the Bund rallies.
25:16The podium
25:18it is decorated
25:18with a swastika
25:19and a photograph
25:20of Hitler.
25:22The speakers
25:22they start raving.
25:25We are only
25:26in fifteen
25:26but let's get into action.
25:30Let's throw some
25:31of them
25:31from the windows.
25:33The Nazis
25:33present at the rally
25:34they panic
25:35and they run away.
25:37We chase them
25:37and we beat them.
25:38We want to demonstrate
25:39that the Jews
25:40they do not remain passively
25:41to watch.
25:48Mayer Lansky
25:49he's a criminal
25:50with which a nation
25:51at war against the Nazis
25:53can do great business.
25:56Lansky agrees
25:57to give his help.
26:05In May 1942
26:07a strange group
26:08of criminals
26:09lawyers
26:10intelligence officers
26:11he's heading
26:12towards prison
26:13by Dannemora
26:13little Siberia.
26:16Moses Polakov
26:18it's there in quality
26:19of lawyer
26:19Luciano's defender.
26:22Lachy sees us coming
26:23and says
26:23what the hell are you doing here?
26:25Boys
26:25he is surprised.
26:30Polakov
26:31he never revealed
26:32the details
26:32of that meeting
26:33but Luciano
26:35makes a decision
26:36which reveals itself
26:37be crucial.
26:39We explain to him
26:39the purpose
26:40of the mission
26:41and he tells us
26:41yes that's fine
26:42I'll give you a hand.
26:48With the approval
26:50by Luciano
26:50word gets out
26:52that the underworld
26:52he wants the unloaders
26:53give their contribution
26:55to war.
26:58The message
26:59of the mafia
27:00it's clear
27:00no ship
27:02must be
27:02set on fire again
27:04we stick to it
27:05strictly
27:06to order.
27:13As
27:14Lachy Luciano
27:15is transferred
27:15from little Siberia
27:17to prison
27:17of Great Meadow
27:18one of the institutions
27:20more peaceful
27:21of the penal system
27:22American.
27:28As soon as the mafia
27:29declares
27:29of wanting to help
27:30the government
27:30of the United States
27:31they do not occur
27:32no more accidents
27:33at the port
27:34nor strikes
27:34of workers.
27:38In the port area
27:39everything is going smoothly
27:40for the entire duration
27:41of the war.
27:42Intelligence
27:43US Naval
27:44she's busy now
27:46to collaborate
27:46with the enemy
27:47audience number one.
27:49One of the leading officers
27:51Anthony Marslow
27:52he remembers it.
27:54They are questioned
27:55everyone.
27:57Anyone who is able
27:58to make a contribution
27:59to war
27:59to give us a hand
28:01that it is Lachy Luciano
28:03or Bugsy Siegel
28:04or Frank Costello
28:05or Meyer Lansky
28:06Yes
28:09Abis Willman
28:10Yes
28:12Mike Laskari
28:14everyone.
28:18The connection
28:19among the underworld
28:20and the government
28:20it doesn't stop
28:21in New York.
28:30The war becomes
28:31increasingly intense.
28:33The Allied Forces
28:35they are winning
28:36in North Africa.
28:40The German Field Marshal
28:41Rommel
28:42he is captured
28:43thanks to a trap.
28:46The English general
28:47Montgomery
28:48pushes the troops
28:48from the east.
28:52an army
28:53ordered
28:54from the American general
28:55Eisenhower
28:56attacks from the west.
28:59After a hard battle
29:00the armies
29:01of the German Axis
29:02and Italy
29:03they are expelled
29:04from the area
29:04of North Africa.
29:08The British Prime Minister
29:09Churchill
29:10and the American generals
29:11Marshall and Eisenhower
29:12they decide that an invasion
29:14of Europe
29:14it is now possible.
29:17The first phase
29:19of the military plan
29:20is to attack
29:21Sicily.
29:24For the Achiruciano
29:26It's an important opportunity.
29:37the Achiruciano
29:39he was born in Sicily
29:42place of birth
29:43even of the mafia
29:48known as
29:49Cosa Nostra
29:49the code
29:50of behavior
29:51mafioso
29:52born for the Sicilians
29:53as a tool
29:54to protect themselves
29:55from exploitation
29:56of foreigners.
30:00the Sicilians
30:01they look at each other
30:01the shoulders
30:02not only
30:02for your own safety
30:03but also
30:04to get justice.
30:07If it is committed
30:08a crime
30:08against you
30:09then wait
30:10to you
30:11and to your family
30:12to provide
30:12to punishment.
30:15Luciano
30:16has always nourished
30:17a deep love
30:17for his native country
30:19and there
30:19he has many contacts
30:20with the mafia.
30:23But in the 20s
30:25the Sicilian underworld
30:26he comes face to face
30:27with a terrible
30:28opponent.
30:29I was left with it
30:30backwards
30:31it was had
30:33of Italy
30:33a conception
30:34superficial
30:35and picturesque
30:36of that picturesque
30:37which I hate.
30:40The fascist dictator
30:42Benito Mussolini
30:46the reputation
30:47by Mussolini
30:48it is based
30:49on research
30:49of the order
30:50and on respect
30:51of the law.
30:51It is determined
30:52to repress strikers
30:53communists
30:54and criminals.
30:58Mussolini
30:59he goes to Sicily
31:00in the 20s
31:01and he remains shocked
31:02when approached
31:03from a figure
31:03prominent mafioso
31:05what he tells him
31:05I'll take it myself
31:07take care of yourself
31:07I kiss you
31:09my men
31:10they will protect you.
31:11The dictator
31:12he feels unwell
31:13enormously
31:14and states
31:15that no Italian
31:16can have
31:16two masters.
31:18He wants to be
31:18the absolute boss
31:19the mafia
31:20she is cut off
31:21under every point
31:22of sight.
31:23We are different
31:26we wish
31:26and we want
31:27Franco's victory.
31:31So Mussolini
31:32sends his black shirts.
31:37Declare war
31:38to the Sicilian mafia
31:39and purifying the city
31:40and villages.
31:46Since 1927
31:47at 29
31:48they are held
31:4916 processes
31:50following
31:51of which
31:51hundreds of mafiosi
31:52they are put in prison.
31:56At half
31:57of the 30s
31:57the mafia operates
31:58in Sicily
31:59clandestinely.
32:01To Luciano
32:02locked up
32:03in prison
32:03of Great Meadow
32:04the situation
32:05he doesn't like it.
32:08It is determined
32:09to make it flourish again
32:10the mafia
32:10in his motherland.
32:12Perhaps
32:13this
32:13it's the opportunity
32:14who was waiting.
32:20The invasion
32:21of the allies
32:22scheduled in Sicily
32:23it is expected
32:24full of dangers.
32:26Thanks to a successful
32:27deception strategy
32:28on the part of the allies
32:29Hitler
32:30he is persuaded
32:31that the invasion
32:32will take place
32:32in Greece
32:33or in Sardinia
32:33and not in Sicily.
32:36Once they came
32:37aware
32:38of the real plan
32:39Axis troops
32:40located in the places
32:41wrong
32:42they return to the attack.
32:44The only way
32:45to quickly bring back
32:46the troops in Sicily
32:47it is through
32:47of amphibious landings.
32:50This
32:50will make you vulnerable
32:52during the journey
32:52from the sea
32:53to the mainland.
32:55Why the invasion
32:56go well
32:57the allies
32:58they need
32:59of an intelligence
32:59and agents
33:00on site.
33:03Once again
33:04there is only
33:05a man
33:05to whom they can turn.
33:08Naval Intelligence
33:09achieves an excellent result
33:11convincing Luciano
33:12to take care of
33:13to the port area
33:13on his behalf.
33:15Now
33:16he thinks he can
33:17push
33:17beyond that agreement.
33:19She is persuaded
33:19that Luciano
33:20and the mafia
33:20can lend a hand
33:22even for the good
33:23success of the invasion.
33:28The Commander
33:29Huffenden
33:30he is addressing
33:30once again
33:31to his contacts
33:32criminals.
33:34Wants information
33:35on Sicily
33:35on the part of the
33:36Italian-Americans
33:37and recruit
33:38Meyer Lansky
33:39to get them.
33:42Lansky
33:43he calls
33:43to his contacts
33:44Sicilians
33:45to whom
33:46asks to comment
33:47a map
33:47of the island
33:48subjected to them
33:48from Huffenden.
33:51Some
33:52they oppose
33:53resistence
33:54but in the end
33:55they are forced
33:55to access.
33:56Once again
33:58it seems like there is
33:59the paw
33:59of the Boste
34:00and Boste
34:00and the underworld.
34:07Luciano
34:07gets
34:08the support
34:08by Joe Adonis
34:09a real tough guy
34:10whose role
34:11that's it
34:11to encourage
34:12the people
34:12to share
34:13information
34:14as he explains
34:15Meyer Lansky
34:16in his memoirs.
34:20Sometimes
34:20some Sicilians
34:21they got nervous.
34:23To Joe
34:23it was enough to name
34:24the name of
34:25Lucky Luciano
34:25and say that he had
34:26given to them
34:27the order to speak.
34:30If the Sicilians
34:31they were still
34:32reluctant
34:32Joe quit
34:33to smile
34:34and he said
34:35Lucky won't be happy
34:36to feel
34:36that you are not
34:37were helpful.
34:41In July
34:421943
34:43the map
34:44of Huffenden
34:45it's covered
34:45of information
34:46detailed
34:47on Sicily
34:48and on the waters
34:48that surround
34:49the island.
34:57While it comes
34:58tuning
34:58the operation
34:59Husky
34:59Luciano
35:00advances
35:01a proposal
35:01extraordinary
35:02push
35:03beyond
35:03his
35:04involvement
35:05in the efforts
35:05war
35:06of the United States.
35:09He asks
35:10to Meyer Lansky
35:11to propose
35:11an idea.
35:14Lucky
35:15he thinks up
35:15a plan
35:16which in my opinion
35:16it's very bold.
35:17wants to join
35:19to the troops
35:19of invasion.
35:20Thinks
35:21that his
35:21presence
35:22can guarantee
35:23the collaboration
35:24of the Sicilians.
35:25He says
35:25to be ready
35:26to launch
35:27on the island
35:27with a parachute.
35:33The fact
35:34that his
35:34request
35:35reach
35:35the ranks
35:36higher
35:36of the army
35:37American
35:37before being
35:38rejected
35:39it's a testimony
35:40of power
35:40that Luciano
35:41exercise.
35:43The reason
35:44for which
35:44the criminal
35:45be so much
35:46collaborative
35:47it is clear
35:47only
35:48afterwards
35:48after the war.
35:55Armed
35:56of an intelligence
35:56constituted
35:57by criminals
35:58the United States
35:59they are ready
35:59for the invasion.
36:04July 9th
36:051943
36:06it begins
36:07the operation
36:08Ask
36:25English
36:25and Canadians
36:26they make their way
36:27the advance
36:28towards the east coast
36:29meets
36:30a tough resistance
36:38every city
36:40must be
36:40socket
36:41to assault
36:41it is expected
36:43a tough one
36:44and long
36:44countryside
36:48on the contrary
36:49the seventh
36:50American Army
36:51under the general
36:52Patton
36:52it seems
36:53do not meet
36:54difficulty
36:57the lieutenant
36:58American
36:59Paul Alfieri
36:59is part of
37:00of one of the first
37:01teams
37:01of intelligence
37:02to reach
37:03the port
37:03from Licata
37:04on the island
37:08upon his arrival
37:09is welcomed
37:10from a Sicilian
37:11extremely helpful
37:16the young man
37:17Alfieri leads
37:18to a villa
37:18on the sea
37:19hideout
37:20secret
37:20of the command
37:21Italian naval
37:23providing him
37:23Then
37:24armed men
37:25to help him
37:25in the attack
37:38in the villa
37:39they are found
37:39documents
37:40that provide
37:41very valuable information
37:42regarding the plans
37:43of the Germans
37:43and the defenses
37:44of the Italians
37:45and books
37:45on radio codes
37:48even more
37:48important
37:49it's the information
37:50regarding the forces
37:51Axis naval forces
37:52dislocated
37:53throughout the island
37:55the map
37:56show in detail
37:57the sea minefields
37:59and reveals
38:00safe routes
38:00to avoid them
38:02intelligence
38:04saves many lives
38:05among the allies
38:06Lieutenant Alfieri
38:08is awarded
38:09of a medal
38:09to the value
38:10for his action
38:18subsequently
38:19is discovered
38:20that Alfieri
38:21he was helped
38:22from a Sicilian
38:23which Luciano lachi
38:24saved my life
38:27the young man
38:28he killed
38:29a policeman
38:29in New York
38:30and Luciano
38:31saves him
38:32from the electric chair
38:33organizing
38:33his escape
38:34and bringing it back
38:35in Sicily
38:45in two weeks
38:46the US Army
38:48makes it safe
38:49the western part
38:50of the island
38:54the official reports
38:56they assign the merit
38:57to efficiency
38:58of US troops
38:59as well as
39:00the war photographer
39:01Herbert White
39:04Boys
39:05our ships
39:06from war
39:06they were amazing
39:07they shot down
39:08all the forts
39:09located offshore
39:11what a great demonstration
39:13of efficiency
39:13see loads
39:14of artillery
39:15of vehicles
39:16and commissions
39:17move from the sea
39:18to the mainland
39:19like a chain
39:20of assembly
39:20in a factory
39:21of Detroit
39:28in his memoirs
39:30Meyer Lasky
39:31suggests
39:32that in the pot
39:32something else is boiling
39:34I was told
39:36what a mafia
39:36and Lucky Luciano
39:38they were like
39:39of the passwords
39:40I know it seems like it
39:41a madness
39:42considering that we are
39:43in the middle
39:43of the war
39:44but later
39:45also one of the agents
39:46he confirmed it to me
39:47that those words
39:48they were magical
39:49people were smiling
39:50and immediately after
39:51everything became simple
39:55Luciano himself
39:56declares
39:57with modesty
39:58which characterizes it
39:59that it was him
40:00to win the war
40:07we will never know
40:09how much it was
40:09the mafia is influential
40:10in the liberation
40:11of Sicily
40:12on the part of the allies
40:16Tim Newark
40:17find evidence
40:17among the documentation
40:18official
40:19which confirm
40:20the involvement
40:21of the mafia
40:21in the strategy
40:22of the United States
40:25I discovered
40:26that the army
40:27of the United States
40:27had drafted
40:29a relationship
40:29addressed to those responsible
40:31of the staff
40:31which includes
40:33the general too
40:33Eisenhower
40:34that seems
40:35had seen it
40:37practically
40:38what is claimed
40:39in this document
40:40is that such responsible
40:42they were held
40:42to establish
40:43a contact
40:44with the leaders
40:44of the separatist groups
40:45and with those too
40:47of radical groups
40:48it actually comes
40:49mentioned
40:50the mafia
40:52what he discovers
40:53Tim Newark
40:54might suggest
40:55a level
40:55of collaboration
40:56that even
40:57Luciano himself
40:58he never wanted to
40:58admit
41:00even more sensational
41:02it's the fact
41:02that the military
41:03were to provide
41:04to the mafiosi
41:05weapons and guns
41:06to allow them
41:08to blow up
41:08the bridges
41:09and destroy the roads
41:13nothing exists
41:14that you confirm
41:15the realization
41:16of this floor
41:17of action
41:20we know for sure
41:21that the mafia
41:22does not lend
41:22his collaboration
41:23without a price
41:34the war
41:35leaves Sicily
41:36in a chaos
41:36that now
41:37it is your responsibility
41:38of the army
41:39of the United States
41:42AMG
41:43entered into every
41:43cities in Italy
41:44with the first
41:45occupying groups
41:46his work
41:47was to transform
41:48the battles
41:49step by step
41:50in a community
41:56Sicilian cities and countryside
41:58they are crowded
41:59of destitute refugees
42:07the US Army
42:09he doesn't have much hope
42:10to subjugate
42:11the country
42:11under his control
42:12there is nothing left but
42:13substitute
42:14fascist mayors
42:15with mafia bosses
42:16when the fascists
42:18they are chased away
42:19from Sicily
42:20a void remains
42:21of power
42:22and the characters
42:22that seem more suitable
42:23to take control
42:24they are those
42:25that have been
42:26anti-fascists
42:27naturally
42:28many of these
42:29they are personalities
42:30local mafia
42:31who take control
42:32in quality
42:33of mayors
42:44behind the mask
42:46of the victims
42:46of fascism
42:47the associates
42:48of the mafia
42:49incarcerated
42:50under Mussolini
42:51are released
42:52from Italian prisons
43:00once
43:01once overcome
43:01the crisis
43:02the mafia
43:02regain control
43:06this is the beginning
43:07of his return
43:07to the domain
43:08of the Sicilian territory
43:13the officer
43:15of American intelligence
43:16Joseph Russo
43:17testifies
43:18the quick return
43:18of the mafia
43:19in power
43:22the first thing
43:23that I searched for
43:24to do
43:24it was that
43:25to go
43:25to fish out
43:26criminals
43:27and criminals
43:27I discovered
43:29afterwards
43:30that very many
43:31of these
43:31they were mafiosi
43:32and they were powerful
43:33very powerful
43:35they didn't put it there
43:36a long time
43:36to recement
43:37solidarity
43:39which is characteristic
43:40of a mafia gang
43:41of a gang
43:45someone
43:46he has doubts
43:46regarding the statement
43:48by Luciano
43:48on the fact
43:48that it was him
43:49to win the war
43:51but the truth
43:52is that Luciano
43:53a self-declared man
43:54guilty
43:55of false testimony
43:56allowed
43:57all this
43:58in 1954
44:00it is decided
44:01to submit
44:02to investigations
44:03the relationship
44:03between the government
44:04American
44:05and Luciano
44:05and his American partners
44:06which leads
44:07to their agreement
44:11this is it
44:13which generates
44:13the relationship
44:14official
44:14Erlans
44:18the relationship
44:20declares
44:20explicitly
44:21that the fire
44:22of Normandy
44:22represents
44:23a crucial point
44:24in the strategy
44:25national naval
44:26American
44:28while
44:29stop
44:29one step away
44:30from affirming
44:31the relationship
44:31direct
44:32with the mafia
44:34Furthermore
44:35declares
44:36clearly
44:36that intelligence
44:37naval
44:38American
44:38he doesn't have
44:39moral doubts
44:40regard
44:40the establishment
44:41of relationships
44:42collaborative
44:42with known criminals
44:43America
44:44after all
44:45fights
44:46for life
44:49the exploitation
44:51of the informants
44:51independently
44:52from their origin
44:54it's not alone
44:55desirable
44:55but also necessary
44:57when the nation
44:57struggle for existence
44:59intelligence
45:00as such
45:01must prevent
45:02and must resort
45:03by all means
45:04possible
45:05and among all means
45:06possible
45:07I also include
45:08the so-called
45:09clandestinity
45:14regard
45:14the invasion
45:15of Sicily
45:15the relationship
45:16declares that
45:18numerous Italians
45:20of Sicilian origin
45:21they were hired
45:22to provide information
45:23on Sicily
45:24territory
45:25ports and more
45:26in anticipation
45:27of the invasion
45:28of the allies
45:30through these
45:31informants
45:32the names of friendly matches
45:33Sicilian natives
45:34and personality
45:35of the mafia
45:36were communicated
45:37and used
45:38in the countryside
45:38of Sicily
45:49the documentation
45:50official
45:51clearly alludes
45:52to the agreements
45:53that have been
45:54signed with Luciano
45:55but the events
45:57that follow the war
45:58they speak for themselves
46:01in 1946
46:03Lachi Luciano
46:04convicted
46:05like a pimp
46:05extortionist
46:06and murderer
46:07is released
46:08from prison
46:09where he is locked up
46:10only discounts
46:1110 of 50 years
46:13provided for by the penalty
46:14the only condition
46:15of his freedom
46:16is that he
46:17leave the United States
46:27Like this
46:28February 9th
46:291946
46:30in New York
46:31Luciano
46:32he embarks
46:32on a ship
46:35Meyer Lasky
46:36and Frank Costello
46:37they go
46:37at the port
46:38to greet him
46:39Luciano
46:40Luciano
46:40he settles in
46:41again
46:41and quickly
46:45operating first
46:46from Cuba
46:48and then
46:49from Italy
46:51Soon
46:52Laki Luciano
46:53he's coming back
46:54in the round
46:58with Sicily
46:59again
47:00under control
47:00of the underworld
47:01he strengthens
47:02enormously
47:03his contacts
47:03criminals
47:04through
47:04the Atlantic
47:05and expands
47:06the flu
47:06of the mafia
47:07about New York
47:20in 1962
47:22at the age of 64
47:24Luciano
47:25he dies a free man
47:26rising up
47:27a true legend
47:28criminal
47:30this change
47:32lucky
47:32in his life
47:33it seems to be
47:34the clear proof
47:35of the contribution
47:35Luciano's royal
47:36to the efforts
47:37made by the United States
47:38to win the war
47:44I think many people
47:45think that history
47:46of the mafia
47:47and by Laki Luciano
47:48of their involvement
47:50in World War II
47:51and help
47:52which they gave
47:53to the government
47:53of the United States
47:54to get
47:55in part
47:55the victory
47:56be a myth
47:57it's not a myth
47:58but a fact
47:59Luciano squeezes
48:01Truly
48:01a secret agreement
48:02with the American government
48:03making a huge contribution
48:10in helping
48:11the American government
48:12Luciano
48:13invigorates
48:14the riches
48:14of the mafia
48:20it opened
48:21the road
48:21crime
48:23organized
48:24will expand soon
48:25his domain
48:25all over the world
48:49his domain
49:01Thank you all.
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