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seFeral zones were well established, most of them having been functioning for > 10 mary years, and in some cases for centuries. OANA eu) hoe 3 Thus it is possible that the administration of the Mafia in Sicily 15 wag not concucted by a fixed hierarchy, but was left almost entirely to the 17 relstively autonomous control of certain territories by the gangs residing in 779 ehh. Above that Level. dt ia likety thet acdiministration was elaborated only " Inge expedient relationships amour territorial chiefs, and in the radiating oy . wo lipss of influence, patronage, aid ihe exchanges of valuable considerations 7 cohbequent thereto that existed between these chiefs and persons of great r bigginess and political importance or infleence, especially in Palermo. 33 The fencing of stolen guods may have represented the most nearly 33 egitinuous type of interterritorial administration, although no information 35 hei been developed to date indicating that the function of the fence was formally Te tee gine oe agdencd hy ihe Maffa hierarchy. J this, as in most other aspects of Mafta ho opgration, itis probably neecseary to conceive of a continuous criminal 42 ong ation of victent and broad scope, rathoar than a neat pattern of administration fdljnulatet in advance and carried out punctiliously. a ree rE ALPE, oI 47 (3) The Tindings of Cesare Mori Cesare Mort, after several years of close contact with the operations 51 offhe Mafia,came to certain concivcions which bear examination. Lo 34 - 60 - i. 155 . 56 i 57 F 58