
The US Navy Teamed Up With Mobsters, Part One: Luciano Gets Lucky
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The Naval Intelligence Connection During World War Two
In 1942, German U boats were hammering the supply lines of the allied forces. They called in a guy named Captain Roscoe McFall, who was a naval veteran. He's the chief intelligence officer for the third naval district. That's New Jersey, New York and Connecticut altogether. We think that there are some very unpatriotic people on the East coast and they're using their American fishing vessels to resupply these submarines somewhere near Long Island. These guys might be ex prohibition folks who, you know, lost all their money when the US got over prohibition or it might be a huge conspiracy of more or less like spies, sleeper agents around port of New York.
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