by B. » Wed May 29, 2024 10:01 pm
Also, just to put it into a timeline, it may have been 1962 when Joe Ida requested to form a decina in Calabria. Bruno visited Ida during his trip to Italy that year and he was recalling Ida's request on a wiretap afterward, so I suspect that visit is when Ida made the request. It had to be sometime after 1959/1960 as it was when Bruno was already boss and the Italy meeting makes the most sense.
So sometime around the mid-late 1950s the initiative moved forward to form two Cosa Nostra borgate in Calabria made up of 'ndranghetisti, then sometime between 1959-1962 Ida asks Bruno permission to form a decina in Calabria, which tells us Ida was still a member of the Philly Family and had not transferred to the Cosa Nostra Families in Calabria, instead seeking a remote Philly decina there made up of, according to Bruno, some young recruits Ida had found around Fiumara.
It's all incredibly fascinating. Dr. Gioacchino Pennino said Cosa Nostra, Camorra, and 'ndrangheta are all the same thing at the top levels so it makes sense his uncle Gioacchino Pennino was instrumental in getting the 'ndranghetisti initiated into Cosa Nostra. Thanks to Buscetta we can confirm Dr. Pennino wasn't just using it figuratively, he meant they literally initiated leaders of the other orgs into Cosa Nostra. We know this happened later with the Campanians but there were formal coalitions between all of them and Dr. Pennino was in a position to know, as was Buscetta obviously.
Also, just to put it into a timeline, it may have been 1962 when Joe Ida requested to form a decina in Calabria. Bruno visited Ida during his trip to Italy that year and he was recalling Ida's request on a wiretap afterward, so I suspect that visit is when Ida made the request. It had to be sometime after 1959/1960 as it was when Bruno was already boss and the Italy meeting makes the most sense.
So sometime around the mid-late 1950s the initiative moved forward to form two Cosa Nostra borgate in Calabria made up of 'ndranghetisti, then sometime between 1959-1962 Ida asks Bruno permission to form a decina in Calabria, which tells us Ida was still a member of the Philly Family and had not transferred to the Cosa Nostra Families in Calabria, instead seeking a remote Philly decina there made up of, according to Bruno, some young recruits Ida had found around Fiumara.
It's all incredibly fascinating. Dr. Gioacchino Pennino said Cosa Nostra, Camorra, and 'ndrangheta are all the same thing at the top levels so it makes sense his uncle Gioacchino Pennino was instrumental in getting the 'ndranghetisti initiated into Cosa Nostra. Thanks to Buscetta we can confirm Dr. Pennino wasn't just using it figuratively, he meant they literally initiated leaders of the other orgs into Cosa Nostra. We know this happened later with the Campanians but there were formal coalitions between all of them and Dr. Pennino was in a position to know, as was Buscetta obviously.