The US Navy Teamed Up With Mobsters, Part One: Luciano Gets Lucky
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The Longshoreman and the American Mafia
The Navy quickly realizes that they cannot infiltrate this. They're just, they're not doing it the right way. And they may not have the tools to do so because the American mafia runs the harbor. There's the, you're making money hand over fist is what we're saying. We had a, this is something from warfare history network, uh, O and I warrant officer named Maurice Kelly talked about this with the benefit of retrospect. This is a pretty, pretty blunt, uh, description of what they were dealing with.
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