On 11/01/2015 12:52 PM, coderman wrote:
> rather different thing is the assumption that you can turn
>       members of the official mafia into 'traitors' by offering them
>       enough money.

I dunno. The Italian mob worked with the OSS/CIA to set up an intel
network in Italy and Europe during WWII in exchange for Lucky Luciano's
release and exile. Pretty sure the Maf was also involved in Operation
Gladio, a NATO 'stay-behind' anti-communist army tasked with
destabilizing Italian (Belgian, other...) civil societies with various
kinds of acts including terrorism, designed to convince people in those
countries they'd be safer hanging with Western Industrial Capitalism
than moving towards socialism.

That's traitorous

RR