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The '''French Connection''' was a scheme through which [[Heroin|heroin]] was smuggled from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey Turkey] to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France France] and then to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States United States]. The operation reached its peak in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and was responsible for providing the vast majority of the illicit heroin used in the United States. It was headed by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsica Corsican] criminals Paul Carbone (and his associate François Spirito) and Antoine Guérini, and also involved Auguste Ricord, Paul Mondoloni, Salvatore Greco, and Meyer Lansky. Most of its starting capital came from assets that Ricord had stolen during [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II World War II] when he worked for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Lafont Henri Lafont], one of the heads of the Carlingue (French Gestapo) during the German occupation in World War II. | The '''French Connection''' was a scheme through which [[Heroin|heroin]] was smuggled from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey Turkey] to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France France] and then to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States United States]. The operation reached its peak in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and was responsible for providing the vast majority of the illicit heroin used in the United States. It was headed by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsica Corsican] criminals Paul Carbone (and his associate François Spirito) and Antoine Guérini, and also involved Auguste Ricord, Paul Mondoloni, Salvatore Greco, and Meyer Lansky. Most of its starting capital came from assets that Ricord had stolen during [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II World War II] when he worked for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Lafont Henri Lafont], one of the heads of the Carlingue (French Gestapo) during the German occupation in World War II. | ||
==Gangsters linked with the French Connection== | ==Gangsters linked with the French Connection== | ||
===[[Unione Corse ]]members=== | ===[[Unione Corse]] members=== | ||
*[[Paul Carbone]] | *[[Paul Carbone]] | ||
*[[Marcel Francisci]] | *[[Marcel Francisci]] | ||
*[ | *[[Antoine Guérini]]] | ||
*[ | *[[Barthélemy Guérini]] | ||
*[[Paul Mondoloni]] | *[[Paul Mondoloni]] | ||
*[[Joseph Orsini]] | *[[Joseph Orsini]] | ||
*[[Francois Spirito]] | *[[Francois Spirito]] | ||
===Canadian mobsters=== | ===Canadian mobsters=== | ||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Papalia&action=edit&redlink=1 John Papalia], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton,_Ontario Hamilton, Ontario] | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Papalia&action=edit&redlink=1 John Papalia], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton,_Ontario Hamilton, Ontario] | ||