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7% 2 oe fa a 4 6 7 8 9 , 10 a, 1a It is also interesting to note an earlier Mafia murder in connection = ipith the cperation of the Kansas City narcotics syndicate. Ignazio Antinori, Tyho occasionally traveled to Ravana to obtain narcotics for the Kansas City 17 1@peration, was accused by Mafiosi in Kansas City of furnishing a poor grade _ ‘9 sot druge in return for a payment of $25,000. He was ordered to return the ~ - rata Sfroney within tvo weeks. After failing to comply aaa order, he was Siilled by shotenn fire ina rondhouce near Tampa in 1940, _ . " 7 3. International Aspects of Drug Traffic . - re in 29 oe Much has appeared in the press in recent years concerning the _ i * zbontrol of narcotics by Charles “Tacky Luctano in Italy. The Federal Bureau af Narcotics feels that there exists a realm of cooperation and coordination 35 3between Mefiosi in the United States and the Mafia in Sicily in the illicit a7 af ¥rattic of drugs. (104) OW ort | . an fay 10 Luciano hae been close ty Nicolai Gentile in Italy. Gentile was 4a . yynder indictment for a narcotics charge when he Jumped ball and fled from uy , She United States to Italy in the early 1940's. Joseph ici, who was deported igrom this country on a white slave conviction, has also been a Luciano intimate, . ate reportediy amuggled himself into the United States prior to World War I, 51 Srarrying heroin which he delivere’ to the Kansas City Mafia group. Other