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i “ One “tttorlo di Salve, a weelthy landlord cf Palermo, was said to have been | kidnepred while moforine tel bet? sty days until he paid a 2, 500, 000-lire paneer Chen pelpse tho ota far gate com tict, only to be told that the (133) eames com ne longer quarentce protection a3 thoy eperated independently. 9, Popular Report as a Merns of Iontifying a Mafia Operation Ti the ahsones of ereefes eriteris eclablished by a thorough Invectastion af the Mofia per ess a corcectent investigative agency, a task whieh booanotbecn canmuriocted fo this dry, dctails of Mafia operations have perennially been identified bs ircons of porular report, "common knowledge, opinier, hypotheats, the Vecucoted mess fragmentary deductions, and incomplete ennnluetons of the Tfolien petice euthorities and others who have come to grips wih the tfafiq over a perfet af meny years, This situation, thorwh usconsclonable to all who are deeply concerned yith the Mafia threat, carries within it a potential means to its own, atleast ~ partial, solution, Topylor report, opinion, and hypothesis were perhaps of more value in identifying a “taffa ceeration than thoy ardinartly appear to be with reference to plnpoipting a subversive operation or a criminal conspiracy of another type, Why is thic so? There are two related reasons: (1) one of the AMnfiata chief inetrias onialities of crime eae ita reputation, a reputation which - &1-