Blood Brotherhoods (155 page)

Tortora, Enzo,
519–525
,
532
,
533

Toxic waste disposal, camorra and,
631–632

Train, Arthur,
206
,
213

Traina, Claudio,
578

Transatlantic Syndicate,
446–449
,
462
,
463
,
530
,
582
,
638

Transsexual cammorista,
625

Trapani,
259
,
468

‘Tree of Knowledge,’
126

Trequartista,
433

Tribuna Giudiziaria
(newspaper),
180

Tribunal of Humility,
331–332

Trimboli, Pasquale,
124–125
,
126

Tripodo, Domenico (Mico),
395
,
397–398
,
399
,
400
,
401
,
424
,
425
,
430
,
431
,
454

Tripodo, Paolo,
430

Truman, Harry S,
288

Tuccillo, Antonio,
350

Turiello, Pasquale,
105–106
,
112

Turkey, heroin trade and,
436–437
,
438

Ucciardone prison,
52
,
53
,
59
,
508
,
535–536

L’Unita
(newspaper),
329
,
487

United States

anti-mafia campaigns,
320–324
,
378–381

Apalachin Summit,
378
,
382

Castellammarese War,
463

Cosa Nostra in,
447–448
,
609–610

Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act,
645

heroin trafficking and,
435–438
,
448–449

Italian-American gangsterism in the early 1950s,
320–324

Italian organised crime migrants to,
197–200
,
367
,
609–610

Italo-American summit,
382

RICO Act,
511

Transatlantic Syndicate,
446–449
,
463
,
530
,
638

The Untouchables
(television show),
379

Valachi, Joe,
380

Vallelonga, Tony,
648

Vanel, Charles,
294

Vangelo,
433
,
646

Varese,
367

Vassallo, Ciccio,
412
,
510

Vassallo, Francesco (Frankie; King Concrete),
364–367

Vassallo, Pino,
412

Le Vele (The Sails),
622–623

Velona, Filippo,
129–131
,
132

Vendetta,
11
,
72–76
,
77–79
,
81
,
88
,
254
,
306

Venturi, Tommaso,
xxxiv

Verga, Giovanni,
119

Via d’Amelio massacre,
578–579

viale Lazio massacre,
390

Vicaria prison,
100

Vicaria quarter of Naples,
18–19

Vietnam War, heroin trade and,
436
,
438

Villari, Pasquale,
105

Violence, of mafia organisations,
281–282
,
513–514
.
See also
Murder

Violi, Paolo,
445–446
,
447
,
448

Visibility, mafia organisations and,
249–250
,
254

Vitale, Giusy,
624

Vittozzi, Ciro,
192

Vizzini, Calogero,
303–304

Vory-v-zakone
,
138

Vozza, Maria,
107
,
164

Washington Times
(newspaper),
209

Waste-management industry, camorra and,
626
,
627–632

Wikileaks,
xxvii

Women

camorra and,
76–77
,
624–625

Cosa Nostra and,
76
,
77
,
88

’ndrangheta and,
244–254
,
648–650

prostitutes/prostitution,
76–77
,
125
,
244
,
245–246
,
277–278
,
650

World War II

in Italy,
270–271

post-war Italy,
271–284

Years of Lead,
422
,
423
,
501–506

Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
(film),
374–376
,
392

You Must Kill
(Castagna),
330

‘Young Turks,’
363
,
365–366
,
655

YouTube, surveillance videos on,
643
,
645–646
,
648

Zagari, Antonio,
xxxv–xxviii
,
xxxix

Zagari, Giacomo,
xxxv–xxxvii
,
367

Zagaria, Michele,
635
,
636

Zappia, Giuseppe,
395

Zaza, Michele (Mad Mike),
388
,
389
,
390
,
392
,
471
,
543
,
624

Zips
,
447–448

Zoccali, Vincenzo,
142
,
143
,
144
,
145
,
146
,
306–307

Zone Handbooks
,
271
,
274–275
,
276–277
,
283
,
284

Zumpata
(knife duel),
38–39
,
455–456

Poppy Berry

J
OHN
D
ICKIE
is professor of Italian Studies at University College, London, and an internationally recognised expert on many aspects of Italian history. In 2005 he was awarded the title Commendatore dell’Ordine della Stella della Solidarietà Italiana. He is the author of several books, including
Delizia!
, which won the special commendation in the André Simon Food and Drink Book Awards and in France was voted food book of the year in
RTL/Lire
magazine’s prestigious poll.
Cosa Nostra
, his history of the Sicilian mafia, has been translated into twenty-one languages, has sold over 750,000 copies, and won the Crime Writers’ Association Award for Non-Fiction.

www.johndickie.net