when governments used criminal organizations

[furiofromnaples]

1) Operation Underworld: in 1942 the Oss agents feared that axis spies could create trouble on east coast docks, went to Joseph Lanza the fulton market boss asking him to speak with Luciano. Lanza speaker to the famuly acting boss take speaker to Luciano and the other east coast bosses; so the docks was safe and after 9 y in 1946 Luciano was deported to italy.

2)The mob and the cia. The agency asked to the Outfit and trafficante bosses to kill castro.

3)In 1981 Ciro Cirillo a n italian politican was kidnapped by the red brigades after the 1980 Campania earthquake. The red brigates protested for the recostruction racket in the camorra hands and menace to kill him. Fearing that cirillo could say the cristian democrazy party segrets unlikely in the past case (Moro kidnap) they accept to pay a random and asked to Raffaele Cutolo to speak with brigatisti in prison in change of more of the recostruction's money and a promise to be out soon in 1982 or 1983 for mental illnesses. Second thing never happened but Cirillo was freed.

4) in the early 90s in colombia borned the los pepe aka the people oppressed by pablo escobar that seriously damage the medellin cartel and had ties with colombia government and search block. Even if they dont killed escobar they weakened his power on the streets and led to his down fall.

[Five Felonies]

corsican mobsters post-ww2 seemed to avoid a ton of scrutiny with their heroin trafficking in exchange for info/muscle with regards to the rising fears of communists in france.

modern-day opium farmers/traffickers in afghanistan left alone in exchange for info on the taliban and probably more commonly simply to not piss the locals off and have them give info to the taliban.

[jimmyb]

You can go on and one with this:
CIA and Contras
CIA and opium growers in Southeast Asia
I strongly suspect the OSS supported Mafia assassinations of labor leaders and other left-wingers in Italy during 1940s
Bolivia, Colombia, Afghanistan . . .

I recommend the "The Politics of Heroin" by Alfred McCoy, "White Out" by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair and the essay "Modern Marriage of Convenience: A collaboration between organized crime and US Intelligence"

[jimmyb]

the essay "modern marriage" is by Alan Block

[furiofromnaples]

In the September 1860 the borbonic police Minister Liborio Romano used the camorra for keep the order in the city until the Arrivederci of Garibaldi. He gave to the camorrista Salvatore De Crescenzo, the pardon and a place in the police for keep control of the city during the borbonic collapse.