Operation Underworld: How the Mafia and U.S. Government Teamed Up to Win World War II - Matthew Black Audiobook
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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 his cell in Dannemora State Prison, former Public Enemy #1, Charles “Lucky” Luciano still had tremendous power. Luciano was willing to wield it for Haffenden. But he wanted something in return—Luciano’s contacts in Italy to track the Nazis’ movements.
Operation Underworld is a tale of espionage and crime like no other, the unbelievable, first-ever account of the Allied war effort’s clandestine coalition between the Mafia and the U.S. Government to protect New York, vanquish the Nazis by taking the fight to the enemy in the 1943 U.S. invasion of Sicily. It was an ingenious strategy carried out by some of history’s most infamous, improbable, and unsung heroes on both sides of the law. It was a Faustian bargain that brought homefront enemies together but, as journalist and crime historian Matthew Black reveals, one that ultimately succeeded in helping the Allies win World War II.
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This post has 3 comments with rating of 5/5
June 18th, 2023
Thank you for sharing
January 12th, 2025
The Allies, who were all fighting for years before the US showed up, helped win WW2. America help. Yes they eventually played a bigger part after they were drafted by their government, but the US did not win. That particular scummy lie only began to appear after they elected the old actor Reagan as POTUS. The nations that were fighting to preserve freedom declared war on Nazi land in Sept 11939 shortly after they invaded Poland. The American’s were too bus consuming and going to the movies to care and only joined up in Dec of 1941 in anger after they got sucker punched by the Japanese and were given a bloody nose. Anger, not freedom or democracy is why the US empire went. As an empire it payed great dividends, since they were the only large (population) nation that had not been bombed and ruined. US industry and infrastructure was intact. Saved and gifted by geography, same as with all the natural resources and especially the master resource, crude oil. Just a happy chance. Same for Canada, soldiers return home with industry intact and expanded greatly, but they were tiny population wise (12 million).
7 million German/Nazi’s soldiers were killed in WW2. The USSR killed 5 million of them. The USSR broke the back of the Nazis and thus did more to help win WW2 than the, Johnny come lately, Americans. The battles between the Nazis and the USSR are the biggest battles in history - nothing else and no one comes close to the battles on the eastern front.
I guess now that the US empire and home nation is in it’s late/last stages their psyches desperately need exceptionalist narratives to cling to.
I recall loud chants of ‘we’re #1′ from the braggarts Americans for 40 years, not so much the last 20 years.
Instead of adjusting to the new reality and getting on with life many American’s prefer clinging to magical thinking and blaming everyone, in country and internationally, but not their special left or right tribe. Over the last 5 decades of American decline, roughly half the time the left had the white house and half the time the right had it, so if say you are rightists and are blaming the left what you are unintentionally admitting is the people you thought were so great that you help put in power were incompetent and/or corrupt. It’s also playing victim blaming the other tribe. Like two kids trying to convince mom and dad that it was all their brothers fault, I was just watching.
March 17th, 2025
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