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LO COT ONS Fu) In one province, that of Agrigento on the southern shore of Sielly, hondy: ta of unsolved murder a are reported tc have been perpetrated in the 76 yoor 1464 mtonds Sed AO A as ic Probably the etrengest campaign ever launched against the Mafia... . a mondote from tho then Premier Benito Mussolini to wipe out the Mafia. Aften - afirethand satady of the situation, he began a vast campaicn. : Merjis catd to hive chosen his assictants from the Reale Carabiniert (knovn in English as the Roy2l Military Police), most of those chosen being . Sictlians themselves. After months of eclection and briefing, Mori is said to i have sent many of his men in disguise to knovn Mafia centers to collect evidence, Mrontually, he dispatched circulars purporting to have come from Mafla “headqyiarters’ In Palermo, instructing local chiefs to meet at certain designated places cna particular day. Urged on by the disguised Carabinieri, they assombled, and wore taken into custody. One cstimate places the number of 79) local chiefs apprehended in this vay at i5y, (NYT 5/2/29 p. 2)