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wo On nA us to 10 le 190-42393-317 p. 43 ppurn of th: contary. A dmber oF , inflost Hed Yelly for America in the 1920's uring the campatien of the Italian ontheorities against the Mafia. 17 ; | 18 In the recent rash of poblished statements concerning the Mafia by 7 g ‘ 2qournalists and other observers fn America, a number of assertions have been. 21 (159) (151) 5 gmade thet the Mafia Cworld headquarters" is in Sicily. To justify such casertions, it would doubtless bo rscacsary to demonstrate: (1) a compactly 26 | opryanize? Miofin system in “ieDy, Uoelf, responsiile toa definite governing 28, edioard; ()}) a speedy and unifer ca communteattons network’ spanning the Atlantic 30 320 Americn and ether Mafie-infested arans; and (3) some evidence of the 3imoving of yust ticit fortunes frome Amertea and ctheor countries in which 35 3@Mafiosl roar: be found, inta tbe hands of a few fon-echelon Mafiosd in Sictly, 37 3%&vailable cata coneerning the Mefia at this time fail to indicate that auch is the case. A more Ulely pescibili! arrears to be that some degree of , anc | Foordination does te'te place letuarn ‘foal in Telly and those In the United 4h ygiates (ac, for example, in the iilicit porcotics traffic) though, as in the 4g iRradition’} nreration of the afin in “teily itself, it is probable that there 348 no single, contralized ormenization administering the extensive activities 33 34 36 ~ 108 - iiNew Orleans, New York, antother port citles of the United States prior to the coal