How the US reinstated the Sicilian Mafia part 1 of 5

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During WW2 US authorities seek the help of organised crime in order to combat a perceived threat from Axis spies. After the Casablanca conference, the invasion of Sicily was planned and the assistance of the mafia was once more required - and the effects of this action were still being felt in Italy forty years later.

This film dates from around 1992. I am happy to say that Leoluca Orlando is still alive.

Orlando was born in Palermo. He studied in Germany and the UK, graduated in jurisprudence and worked as lawyer and professor in the University of Palermo.
He was a member of Christian Democracy (DC), in the left wing of the party. He entered politics in 1976 as legal adviser to Christian Democratic reformer Piersanti Mattarella, who became president of the Sicilian Region in 1978. The two men set out to break the Mafia's hold on the island, transferring budget authority from the corrupt regional government back to the cities and passing a law enforcing the same building standards used in the rest of Italy, thereby making the Mafia's building schemes illegal. In retaliation, the Mafia killed Mattarella in January 1980.
The brother of Mattarella and other associates urged him to run for the Palermo municipal council, he ran successfully, and was elected mayor by the town council in 1985.[1] From 1985-1990 he was elected mayor of Palermo, and received many threats as a result of his open opposition to the power of the Mafia in the city. He was re-elected as mayor in 1993 with 75.2% of the vote. In 1992 he was also elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies. Two years later he became a member of the European Parliament.
After the dissolution of DC, he founded a popular movement called La Rete ("The Net"), which in 1999 joined with Romano Prodi's Democrats. In 2001 he was among the founders of The Daisy, an Italian party currently including most of the former left-wing members of DC.
Since 2000, he's the President of the "Sicilian Renaissance Institute" a non-profit organization dealing with the promotion of economy and culture of lawfullness and Human rights.

Calogero Vizzini
Calogero Don Calò Vizzini (July 24, 1877 -- July 10, 1954) was a historical Mafia boss of Villalba in the Province of Caltanissetta, Sicily. Vizzini was considered to be one of the most influential and legendary Mafia bosses of Sicily after World War II until his death in 1954. In the media he was often depicted as the "boss of bosses" -- although such a position does not exist in the loose structure of Cosa Nostra.
He was the archetype of the paternalistic "man of honour" of a rural Mafia that disappeared in the 1960s and 1970s. In those days a mafioso was seen by some as a social intermediary and a man standing for order and peace. Although he used violence to establish his position in the first phase of his career, in the second stage he limited recourse to violence, turned to primarily legal sources of gain, and exercised his power in an open and legitimate fashion.
Vizzini is the central character in the myths about direct Mafia support for the Allied Forces during the invasion of Sicily in 1943. After World War II he became the personification of the reinstatement of Cosa Nostra during the Allied occupation and the subsequent restoration of democracy after the repression under Fascist rule. Initially he supported the separatist movement, but changed allegiance to the Christian Democrat party, when it became clear that Sicilian independence was unfeasible.
When he died in 1954, thousands of peasants dressed in black, and high ranking mafiosi, politicians and priests took part in his funeral. The funeral epitaph stated that "his 'mafia' was not criminal, but stood for respect of the law, defense of all rights, greatness of character. It was love."

Giuseppe Genco Russo
Giuseppe Genco Russo (Mussomeli, January 26, 1893 -- Mussomeli, March 18, 1976) was an Italian mafioso, the boss of Mussomeli in the Province of Caltanissetta, Sicily.
Genco Russo, also known as "Zi Peppi Jencu", was an uncouth, sly, semi-literate thug with excellent political connections. A vulgar man -- he used to spit on the floor no matter who was present -- he was often photographed with bishops, bankers, civil servants and politicians. As such he was considered to be the arbiter of Mafia politics, and regarded as the successor of Calogero Vizzini who had died in 1954.

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[Elberiver11]

And now please go and sue me before court, Mr. Heath - for speaking the truth. But people like you , and the system you are representing, hate the truth. 

[alanheath3]

@Elberiver11 You cowardly hide behind a false name. Reveal your real name and we can resolve the matter in a GERMAN court. You won't. You Nazis are all cowards - brave only in groups whilst terrorising innocent people.

[Elberiver11]

It's amazing how Alan Heath keeps making videos, trying to make other countries look like perpetrators , rather than dealing with the crimes of his own country. lol

I think it's obvious to see that behind all crimes, wars, atrocities, mafiae et cetera are those who have the money. And the 2nd centre of world finance is New York, while the 1st centre is the City of London.

[alanheath3]

@Elberiver11 I am still waiting for the money to do a film on India. When are you going to send it to me? I am quite prepared to put in 50%.

[muttilo]

Where did you get this Sir ?

[alanheath3]

@muttilo I recorded it from the television around 1988.

[gigsing]

Thanks for the upload! Very interesting !