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Tim Newark

<p>Tim Newark is the&nbsp;author of <em><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1853676721/ref=ase_crimemagazin... Mafia at War</a></em> (Zenith &amp; Greenhill). He has been editor of <em>Military Illustrated</em> for 14 years and has been writer and consultant for six television&nbsp;documentary series for the History Channel and BBC Worldwide. He is also the author of <em>Camouflage</em>, accompanying the Imperial War Museum exhibition. You may contact him at: <a href="mailto:timn@fsmail.net">timn@fsmail.net</a>.</p>

Hunting Down Vito Genovese in WWII Italy

June 1, 2007

Vito Genovese

Vito Genovese

Tim Newark is the author of the recently published Mafia Allies: the True Story of America's Secret Alliance with the Mob (Zenith Press). This article is an adapted extract from that book.

by Tim Newark

Top Mafia Mobster Vito Genovese fled New York in 1937 and settled in with the Fascist regime in mainland Italy. When the Allies invaded Italy, he swiftly changed sides and became close to the senior Allied administration. It would take a remarkable young CID officer by the name of Orange C. Dickey to hunt him down.

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