The Strength of the Wolf

Acampora, Colonel Tulius
– US Army counterintelligence officer assigned to Rome and Saigon; confidant of Charles Siragusa and Henry Manfredi; friend of Andrew Tartaglino, Michael Picini, Fred Dick and John Cusack.

Amato, Joseph
– Joined the FBN before the Second World War; was the original leader of the International Group and its forerunner, the Mafia Squad; was the respected and knowledgeable leader of Enforcement Group Four in New York until his transfer to Boston in 1964.

Angleton, James J.
– Worked with George White and Charlie Siragusa in the OSS; was chief of counterintelligence at the CIA, and in that capacity was the CIA's liaison to FBN agents Charlie Siragusa and Hank Manfredi; was also in touch with the Mafia through labor lawyer Mario Brod, and, through his staff, with the Israeli intelligence service, the Mossad.

Anslinger, Harry J.
– Employee of the Pennsylvania Railroad Police; joined the State Department in 1918, served at the Hague, in Hamburg, Venezuela and Bermuda; brought by his wife's uncle, Andrew Mellon, into the Treasury Department in 1926 as chief of the Prohibition Unit's Division of Foreign Control; Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 1930–1962. Shaped the FBN's policies and procedures in his own image.

Attie, James
– Honest, dedicated, much decorated undercover agent who worked alone in the Middle East, Europe, and Mexico, as well as Chicago and New York. Adversary of Anslinger and Charlie Siragusa; believed the Mossad was involved in drug trafficking.

Belk, George M.
– Joined the FBN in 1948; worked with Howard Chappell on an integrity case in Chicago; became district supervisor in Chicago in 1958; aligned with Henry Giordano against George Gaffney; became district supervisor in New York in 1963; managed the CIA's safehouse in New York, and became embroiled in Andy Tartaglino's anti-corruption investigation, 1967–68.

Benjamin, Mortimer L.
– Worked in New York on the French Connection, Castellani–Brown, and Nebbia cases, among others, and was a close friend and partner of Lenny Schrier, perhaps the FBN's most effective case-making agent.

Biase, Patrick
– Undercover agent in the Cotroni and Air France cases in Canada and France; member of the Gambling Squad and the Gaffney–Ward–Dolce clique that competed with Lenny Schrier in New York.

Bransky, Joseph
– Arrested Lucky Luciano in 1923 as a member of the Prohibition Unit's Narcotics Division; known as the dean of the FBN's district supervisors; served most of his career in Philadelphia.

Chappell, Howard W.
– A decorated OSS veteran; met Garland Williams at the OSS training school and was hired by Williams into the FBN in 1947; befriended by George White; served as an agent in Cleveland, New York, Houston, and Toledo, and as agent in charge in Los Angeles; made many undercover cases in Mexico; resigned rather than accept a transfer to New York in 1961.

Coursey, John T.
– Very successful undercover agent in New York for many years; responsible with Jack Peterson for the “panic” of 1962.

Cunningham, George W.
– Agent in the 1920s in many locations, and in the FBN served as district supervisor in New Orleans and New York; would finance undercover agents out of his own pocket; friend of vice president Alben Barkley; respected Deputy Commissioner of the FBN from 1949 until his death in 1958; Anslinger's liaison to the Democrats on Capitol Hill.

Cusack, John T.
– Accompanied Charlie Siragusa to Rome in 1951; leader of the Court House Squad in New York; district supervisor in Atlanta, Rome, and Kansas City; later chief of foreign operations at FBN headquarters.

Davis, William B.
– Outstanding undercover agent in New York, Detroit, and Europe; resigned from the FBN in 1959 over Anslinger's policies
toward Black agents and addicts; joined the United States Information Agency.

DeFauw, Robert J.
– Talented agent, started in Chicago; assigned to Marseilles in 1965; participated in many important cases across Europe.

Dick, Fred T.
– Agent in New York and Kansas City until 1958, then field inspector investigating agent wrongdoing; participated in Lee Speer's thwarted investigation of agent wrongdoing in New York in 1961; a Giordano loyalist, he replaced Chappell as agent in charge of Los Angeles and later replaced George White as district supervisor in San Francisco.

Dolce, John M.
– Always in New York as an agent, as leader of Enforcement Group Three, and as enforcement assistant to George Belk until his transfer to Miami in 1965, after which he quit the FBN; instrumental in the Cotroni case with his mentor, Pat Ward and his friend, Patty Biase; Lenny Schrier's archrival.

Dolce, Frank
– Well-liked veteran of the Second World War; John Dolce's brother; a member of the Gambling Squad and Group Three; later joined the Nassau County Sheriff's office and was arrested with his partner Jack Gohde for selling heroin.

Dunagan, Richard J.
– Started his career as a Spanish-speaking federal agent in the Border Patrol, then joined the FBN in Miami; in 1964 was the third FBN agent assigned to Mexico.

Durkin, William J.
– Joined the FBN in Pennsylvania; agent in charge in Pittsburgh; was George Belk's enforcement assistant in Chicago starting in 1958; did a review of Lee Speer's corruption investigation in New York in late 1961, and exonerated the New York agents; opened the FBN's first office in Mexico City in 1962 and remained there until 1967.

Dyar, Charles B.
– Joined the State Department in 1906; met Anslinger at the Hague in 1918; served in the Narcotics Division of the Prohibition Unit; recruited by Anslinger into the Flying Squad of the Division of Foreign Control; recruited by Anslinger into the FBN in 1930 to run European operations; worked briefly for Customs, back into the FBN, then to the OSS, back to the FBN; no records about his service after 1947.

Enright, John R.
– Agent in New York; managed the Genovese case at the Court House Squad; district supervisor in Atlanta; consultant to the McClellan Committee; acting district supervisor in New York; the FBN's assistant for enforcement at headquarters under Henry Giordano.

Evans, John G.
– Agent and enforcement assistant under district supervisor Ross Ellis in Detroit and a member of Detroit's “Purple Gang”; district supervisor in Atlanta; a member of Andy Tartaglino's Task Force that investigated agent corruption in New York in 1968.

Feldman, Ira
– Army counterintelligence officer in Korea; hired into the FBN in 1955 in San Francisco where he managed, under George White's direction, a CIA MKULTRA Program safehouse; later an agent and group leader in New York.

Fitzgerald, Benjamin
– Respected agent and group leader in New York; confidant of James C. Ryan; head of the Court House Squad in the mid-1960s.

Fluhr, Arthur J.
– Always in New York, as an agent, group leader, and executive assistant to District Supervisor George Belk. Demoted in October 1967 after the “Day of Infamy.”

Frias, Ralph
– Successful and multilingual undercover agent in Los Angeles, then Europe, especially in Sicily. Resigned in 1958.

Gaffney, George H.
– Protégé of Pat Ward; agent, group leader, and first representative to the Court House Squad in New York; district supervisor in Atlanta (1956–57) and New York (1958–62); brought by Bobby Kennedy to Washington as the FBN's enforcement assistant in 1962; in 1964 became Deputy Commissioner under Henry Giordano. Led the New York office from 1958 to 1962 during its most successful case-making era.

Gentry, Ernest M.
– An agent in New York right after the war; district supervisor in San Francisco and Dallas; deputy assistant for administration at FBN headquarters, 1965–68.

Giordano, Henry L.
– Pharmacist and agent in Seattle; agent in charge in Minneapolis; district supervisor in Kansas City; served as a consultant to the Boggs Committee; field supervisor, enforcement assistant, Deputy Commissioner, and from 1962 to 1968 Commissioner of the FBN.

Gohde, Jack L.
– Member of Group Three and the Gambling Squad; quit the FBN to join the Nassau County Sheriff's office; arrested with Frank Dolce for selling heroin.

Gonzalez, Angel L.
– Successful and well-liked undercover agent in New York, Miami and New Orleans; caught up in Tartaglino's Task Force investigation in 1968.

Greenfeld, Irwin
– Agent in New York before the war; well-liked group leader in New York; acting district supervisor in New York; district supervisor in Baltimore; field supervisor at Washington headquarters investigating agent wrongdoing.

Habib, Albert
– Former Tunisian policeman; recruited by Ike Feldman into the FBN in 1955; an agent and manager of a MKULTRA safehouse in San Francisco; an agent in Bangkok and throughout Southeast Asia starting in 1964.