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==Mafia killer?== Alberti was indicted in July 1963 with 53 other mafiosi after the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciaculli_massacre Ciaculli massacre], which turned the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Mafia_War First Mafia War] into a war against the Mafia. Together with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommaso_Buscetta Tommaso Buscetta], he was suspected of the attack against [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_La_Barbera Angelo La Barbera], one of the protagonists of the war, in Milan in May 1963. At the "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_the_114 Trial of the 114]" he was acquitted but sent into internal exile in a village in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lombardy Lombardy].<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-servadio230_5-2">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerlando_Alberti#cite_note-servadio230-5 [5]]</sup> Alberti, although living in Milan, had been in Palermo at the time of the bomb attack in Ciaculli. Interrogated, he declared that he had been with a woman and could not reveal her name.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-lodato47_2-3">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerlando_Alberti#cite_note-lodato47-2 [2]]</sup> In December 1969 he was again in Palermo (while he was supposed to be in exile) when Mafia boss [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Cavataio Michele Cavataio] was killed by a Mafia hit squad for his double-crossing role in the First Mafia War. At the time, the Carabinieri began to consider Alberti as the boss of a kind of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder,_Inc. Murder Incorporated] for the Sicilian [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosa_Nostra Cosa Nostra].<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-farrel115_3-3">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerlando_Alberti#cite_note-farrel115-3 [3]]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerlando_Alberti#cite_note-9 [9]]</sup>
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