Boss of Bosses (45 page)

and Salvatore Riina,
80
,
109–10
,
112–13

and assassination of Falcone,
107
,
141

and Ciancimino,
114

and murder of Giuseppe Di Matteo,
121–3

convicted of Ignazio Salvo murder,
122

attempts takeover of Agrigento (town),
136–7
,
139

becomes collaborator
(pentito),
141–2
,
180

career as executioner,
195

imprisonment,
199

Buscetta, Tommaso,
68
,
70
,
72
,
98
,
218
,
262

Caccamo (town),
9
,
54
,
80
,
209

Caldarozzi, Gilberto,
234
,
257

Calderone, Nino,
26
,
78
,
104
,
109

Calderone, Pippo,
78

Caltanissetta (town),
103
,
130
,
131
,
133

Calvaruso, Tony,
125–6

Camilleri, Andrea,
5

Campanella, Francesco,
170–2
,
219–21
,
227
,
229

Cancemi, Salvatore,
71–2
,
107
,
109
,
166

Cannella, Tommaso,
87
,
106
,
174
,
192
,
203

Cannella, Tullio,
162–3

Capaci (town),
122

Capizi family,
185–6

Caponetto, Antonino,
70

Carnevale, Corrado,
79

Caruso, Damiano,
24

Caselli, Giancarlo,
109
,
112
,
114

Cassara, Ninni,
64

Castellammare (town),
50

Castello, Simone,
58
,
123
,
132
,
169

Castronovo (town),
22

Catania (town),
23
,
26
,
56
,
78
,
103
,
132
,
140

Catturandi (Palermo flying squad),
181–3
,
233

Cavataio, Michele,
23–4

Chinnici, Rocco,
40

Christian Democratic Party,
73–7
,
106–7
,
155–7

and Palermo dam project,
15

and Salvo Lima,
28–9

dismissal of Vito Ciancimino from party,
34

and murder of Piersanti Mattarella,
37

disbanding of party,
174

Ciaculli (Palermo suburb),
19–20
,
23

Ciancimino, Massimo,
114

Ciancimino, Vito,
27–34
,
102
,
111

Ciminna (town),
56
,
176

Cinà, Dr Gaetano,
164

Cinisi (town),
22
,
25
,
32
,
43

Ciuro, Giuseppe,
210–12
,
214–15

Colletti, Carmelo,
55
,

Communist Party,
39
,
59
,
156

Contorno, Salvatore,
78–9
,
124

Corleone (town),
4
,
7
,
14
,
16
,
85–9

Corleonesi (Mafia group),
19–20
,
23–6
,
28–42
,
54–5

Cortese, Renato,
3–4
,
233–4
,
256

Cosa Nostra
see
Mafia

Craxi, Bettino,
75
,
103

Credito Siciliano (Villabate),
219

Cuffaro, Salvatore,
170
,
174–5
,
211
,
213–16
,
267

Cusimano, Mario,
171
,
172
,
221
,
223
,
228

Dalla Chiesa, General Carlo Alberto,
21
,
39–40
,
41

De Caprio, Sergio (‘Capitano Ultimo’),
114
,
170

De Donno, Giuseppe,
111

Dell’Utri, Marcello,
163–6
,
167

Denaro, Matteo Messina:

hides out in Bagheria,
59

as boss of Trapani,
80

personality and character,
80

loyalty to Salvatore Riina,
80
,
103

and Falcone assassination,
105

and war on state,
120

and Giuseppe Guttadauro,
168

writes to Bernardo Provenzano,
231–2

Di Carlo, Francesco,
26
,
41
,
164

di Cristina, Giuseppe,
35–6
,
72

Di Gregorio, Rosalba,
265

Di Maggio, Balduccio,
112
,
142

Di Matteo, Giuseppe,
121–3

Di Matteo, Nino:

on Provenzano’s friends and advisers,
102
,
160

on Mafia war against state,
102–3

on Mafia ‘submersion’ strategy,
130
,
145
,
167

on Provenzano’s leadership style,
146–8

Mafia business activities,
168
,
171–2

Di Matteo, Santino,
122

Di Noto, Dr Vincenzo,
181

Di Peri family,
124
,
125–6

DIA (Direzione Investigativa Antimafia),
210
,
212
,
214

DiGati, Maurizio,
185–6

‘Director, the’ (police agent),
4

drug trafficking
see
Mafia: drug trafficking and money-laundering

Emilia (region),
227
,
228

Episcopo, Nino,
176–7
,
205

Eucaliptus, Nicoló,
81
,
228

Falcone, Giovanni:

anti-Mafia investigations,
49
,
79
,
104–5

and Mafia maxi-trial,
65

use of
pentiti,
78–9

assassination,
104–7
,
122
,
199–200

and law on maximum security terms,
167

Falsone, Giuseppe,
185

Ferro, Salvatore,
134
,
136

Florence: Uffizi gallery bombing,
120

Fontana, Ezio,
221–3

Fontana, Nino (‘Mister Millionaire’),
58

Forza Italia (political party),
155
,
157
,
163–4
,
166–9
,
174

founding of,
157

and Silvio Berlusconi,
167

wins 1994 election,
168

Francese, Mario,
34–5

Gambino family,
38

Ganci, Calogero,
83

Ganci, Raffaele,
123

Gariffo, Carmelo (nephew of Bernardo Provenzano),
56
,
62
,
93
,
173
,
249–50

Gariffo, Mariangela
see
Lo Bue
,
Mariangela

Gela (town),
69
,
151

Genovese, Salvatore,
158–9

Geraci, Nené,
142

Geraci, Salvatore,
225

Giammanco, Enzo,
169

Giomale di Sicilia
(newspaper),
35

Giuffré, Nino (‘Little Hand’):

comments on Bernardo Provenzano,
8–10
,
30
,
54–5
,
58
,
72
,
157
,
159
,
168
,
174
,
203–4

political corruption,
76–7
,
155–7
,
167
,
174–5

comments on Salvatore Riina,
100
,
141
,
162

Falcone investigations,
105–6

Provenzano’s ‘submersion’ strategy,
130
,
145–8
,
153–7

keeps Provenzano’s letters
(pizzini),
132
,
211

comments on Giovanni Brusca,
141

comments on Benedetto Spera,
178–80

deteriorating relationship with Provenzano,
184–7

arrest and collaboration,
207–11
,
261–2

Giuliano, Boris,
36–7

Godfather, The
(film),
239

Gotha (anti-Mafia operation),
266

Grande Mandamento (anti-Mafia operation),
227–8

Grasso, Pietro:

on Bernardo Provenzano,
8
,
42
,
226–7
,
230
,
233
,
262

on Salvatore Riina,
105

interviews Gioacchino La Barbera,
110

targeted by Riina,
110

and Nino Giuffré as
pentito,
208

arrest of Provenzano,
257

Graviano family,
42
,
74

Graviano, Filippo,
120

Greco family,
19–20

Greco, Carlo,
75
,
117
,
118

Greco, Leonardo,
53
,
55
,
56

Greco, Michele (‘the Pope’),
33–4
,
35
,
37
,
40
,
65–6
,
79