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I’m going to check this out for sure. In recent years I have grown more curious about unidentified top echelon informants. I feel like you can only read the same stories over and over so much, but it feels like if we could identify who all of the informants were (or at least reasonably guess) it would give us more insight into the families. Has anyone ever put together a spreadsheet of identified and unidentified informants?

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Fabien, I read your article last night, and as usual, it was both informative and well written. I can tell you put a lot of effort into it, and the photos were fantastic, too.

This issue is a throwback to Informer's issue on Nick Gentile from a few years back. However, this time, it dives deep into everything you'd ever want to know about Joseph Valachi. Every article is well-sourced. I highly recommend it. Tom has done a terrific job once again.

One of the highlights is the collection of mini-bios of some of the lesser-known figures who crossed paths with Valachi.

I’m not sure if any of the magazine’s other contributors are on this forum, but I want to give them a shout-out as well.
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Thank you very much Ed!

You are one of the people who gave me the desire to write the articles I do today, so obviously it is very gratifying to see your positive feedback.

Concerning the photos I would have liked to put more (rather Cordoliani instead of LoCascio for example) but I suppose that it would have been complicated for the layout. Thomas Hunt had the idea of ​​putting the map with the European traffickers, which is an excellent compromise.

I don't know all the authors of this issue, but I can at least pass the shout-out to J Michael Niotta and to my paisan Thibaut Maïquès ;)

Thanks again!

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Thomas Hunt has released a promo video for the magazine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-EbxTT3Oso&ab_channel=ThomasHunt

Fabien, I read your article last night, and as usual, it was both informative and well written. I can tell you put a lot of effort into it, and the photos were fantastic, too.

This issue is a throwback to Informer's issue on Nick Gentile from a few years back. However, this time, it dives deep into everything you'd ever want to know about Joseph Valachi. Every article is well-sourced. I highly recommend it. Tom has done a terrific job once again.

One of the highlights is the collection of mini-bios of some of the lesser-known figures who crossed paths with Valachi.

I’m not sure if any of the magazine’s other contributors are on this forum, but I want to give them a shout-out as well.

Awesome, thanks guys

Bought it too, am currently reading it; great work!

Bought my copy on Kindle. Great stuff! Motorfab did an awesome job covering Joe Valachi and narcotics trafficking.

hope you'll like it :)

Great news Fab, will check it out.

The new Informer issue is now available http://informer-journal.blogspot.com/2024/10/november-2024-issue-of-informer.html

Should be a great read.

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Joe did good work for Team America!

I'll be getting a copy.

Looking forward to your articles, my friends.

If it helps sway anyone's decision, I also added a piece to this volume as well. Look forward to it.