According to several ex-Mafia state witnesses (" pentiti ") such as Tommaso Buscetta, Borghese asked the Sicilian Mafia to support the neofascist coup.

Only after the murders on Antimafia judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, in 1992, did Buscetta decide to talk about the links between the Mafia and politicians.

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Among the most famous Mafia pentiti is Tommaso Buscetta, the first important state witness who helped Judge Giovanni Falcone to understand the inner workings of Cosa Nostra and described the Sicilian Mafia Commission or Cupola, the leadership of the Sicilian Mafia.

In 1984, the Mafia turncoat Tommaso Buscetta revealed to the anti-mafia magistrate Giovanni Falcone that the term was used by the Sicilian Mafia as well.

Tommaso Buscetta, the Mafia turncoat who had cooperated with Falcone ’ s investigations, remembered Giovanni Brusca as " a wild stallion but a great leader.

Buscetta only revealed facts about the relations between mafiosi and politicians after judge Giovanni Falcone was killed in 1992.

Stille's 1995 book Excellent Cadavers was made into a television movie in 1999, starring Chazz Palminteri as Giovanni Falcone and F. Murray Abraham as informant Tommaso Buscetta.

After an interview, Falcone became convinced that Buscetta was genuine and treated him with respect.

However, these two paradigms missed essential aspects of the Mafia that became clear when investigators were confronted with the testimonies of Mafia turncoats, like those of Buscetta to judge Falcone at the Maxi Trial.

In 1972 Buscetta was arrested and tortured by the Brazilian military regime, and subsequently extradited to Italy where he began a life sentence for the earlier double murder conviction.

One of the most important factors in the trial was the testimony of Tommaso Buscetta, the first ever Sicilian Mafiosi boss to become an informant ( pentito ).

Their big break came with the arrest of Tommaso Buscetta, a mafioso who chose to turn informant in exchange for protection from the Corleonesi, who had already murdered many of his friends and relatives.

In 1984, the mafioso informant Tommaso Buscetta explained to prosecutors the command structure of a typical clan.

** Tommaso Buscetta, Italian mafioso ( d. 2000 )

This premise became known as the Buscetta theorem.

Tommaso Buscetta ( in sunglasses ), the first important pentito of Italian Mafia, escorted in a court of law.

In the wake of the Maxi Trial in 1986-87, and after the testimony of Tommaso Buscetta, the term was more often used for former members of the Sicilian Mafia who abandoned their organization and started helping in investigations.

Among the most famous Mafia pentiti is Tommaso Buscetta, the first important pentito.

In the period until the 1990s, there were very few, albeit significant, pentiti such as Tommaso Buscetta, Salvatore Contorno, Antonino Calderone, etc.

* Tommaso Buscetta ( 1928 – 2000 ) was the first important pentito against the Sicilian Mafia.

* Salvatore Contorno ( born 1946 ) started to collaborate in October 1984, following the example of Buscetta.

Tommaso Buscetta (; 13 July 1928 – 2 April 2000 ) was a Sicilian mafioso.

After the Ciaculli Massacre in 1963, Buscetta fled to the United States where the local Gambino crime family helped him to get started in the pizza business.

In 1970 Buscetta was arrested in New York.

Buscetta moved on to Brazil where he set up a drug trafficking network.

Arrested once more in 1983, Buscetta was sent back to Italy.

Buscetta ( in sunglasses ) is led into court at the Maxi Trial, circa 1986.

Buscetta revealed the existence and workings of the Sicilian Mafia Commission.

This premise became known as the Buscetta theorem and would be recognised legally with the confirmation of the Maxi Trial sentence in January 1992.

As a reward for his help, Buscetta was allowed to live in the USA under a new identity in the Witness Protection Program.

In an interview with the Italian journalist Enzo Biagi, Buscetta cheerfully bragged that he lost his virginity at the age of eight to a prostitute who charged him just a bottle of olive oil.

Buscetta married three times and had six children, and at one point, he was briefly suspended from the Mafia for walking out on his first wife, adultery being a greater crime than murder in the eyes of his fellow mobsters.

Judges and policemen found Buscetta to be very polite and intelligent, albeit sometimes prone to vanity.

Like most informants, Buscetta was occasionally somewhat economical with the truth.

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