Tommaso buscetta biography

"Before Tommaso Buscetta became a pentito we had not even a superficial idea of the mafioso phenomenon. Through him, we began to look inside.

He gave us information on the organizational structure, the recruitment process and the functions of the Cosa Nostra in Sicilian society. But, above all, he gave us the key to the inner sanctum, a language, a code. He was for us a professor of a foreign language who taught us how to speak it.

Tommaso buscetta biography

Perhaps other pentiti gave us more significant information, but he was to teach us the method for evaluating that information. Buscetta took us to the brink of the precipice." (Judge Giovanni Falcone, a leading member of the Palermo Antimafia Pool)