Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance Between the Vatican, the Cia, and the Mafia

by Paul L. Williams

At Donovan’s request, Commander Haffenden again appeared at Lucky’s cell with a request for help. Luciano complied by drafting a communiqué that was then airdropped near Don Calo’s farmhouse.29 Two days later, American tanks rolled into Villalba after driving fifty-five miles from the beachhead of General Patton’s Seventh Army in Palermo. Don Calo and his men climbed into the tanks and spent the next six days guiding the division through western Sicily and organizing support among the local populace for the advancing US troops.30 Thanks to the success of Operation Husky (the code name for the Allied invasion of Sicily), Don Calo was appointed Mayor of Villalba.31 As soon as he assumed public office, Don Calo murdered the local police chief, whom he found “too inquisitive.”