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ae ay Naa grad “*offost are not interested in sporadic crimes, such as, robberies, burolarjes, ov Jarcentes. ‘hat Mafifosi prefer and specialize in are the vastly more profitshle and mare coduring criminal activities which cater to the most part, on such big-time criminal ventures as (1) gambling, (2) illicit narcotics traffic, (3) labor and industrial racketecring, and (4) bootlegging. ° Many times, Mafiosi do not directly participate in the criminal activities In which they hive an Interest, but sce to it, by their methods of intimidation, violence, and extortion, that a percentage of the income dorive d from toast and ieool enterprises is allocated to them. (100-42303-274, 21 It is neeeseary ty make a distinction between Italians in crime and Mafios Lin erime. “test infevmants say that the Mafiosi are individuals of Sictlian origin or descent and that only occasionally are other Italian criminals accented into the ‘fafia. The Siciliens comprising the Mafia are said to bo feared hy ether Italian erimine) clements. The Kefauver Committee painted ont trot the tq embodies only a ‘very small fraction of aporeentarvo of Cicilians, and no derogatory inference should be drawn about “ieitien> cenerally becanee the vast majority of citizens of Sicilian and (27) Tialian cctreetion are Dawn! tine, wm ms ~ 31 -