Operation Underworld: How the Mafia and U.S. Government Teamed Up to Win World War II (Black Matthew)(Pevná vazba)

The never-before-told true story of how mobster Charles "Lucky" Luciano--the U.S. Mafia boss who put the "organized" into organized crime--was recruited by U.S. Naval Intelligence to turn the tide of 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 captains along the harbor better than the Mafia gangs of New York, who controlled the docks in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Haffenden was prepared to make a deal with the devil-the man who put "organized" into organized crime. Even from
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