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When the Allies invaded Italy in September 1943, Genovese switched sides and quickly offered his services to the U.S. Army. Former New York governor [[Charles Poletti]], then attached to the U.S. Army, accepted a 1938 Packard Sedan as a personal gift from Genovese. Genovese was appointed to a position of interpreter/liaison officer in the [[U.S. Army]] headquarters in Naples and quickly became one of [[Allied Military Government for Occupied Territories]]' (AMGOT) most trusted employees. Poletti and the entire AMGOT department were completely unaware of his history.<ref name=McCoy8> really??? an Italian American governor of New York in the 1940s was unaware of Vito Genovese's history?history[http://www.drugtext.org/library/books/McCoy/book/08.htm The Mafia Restored: Fighters for Democracy in World War II] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110417232002/http://www.drugtext.org/library/books/McCoy/book/08.htm |date=April 17, 2011 }}, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, Alfred W. McCoy.</ref>
Genovese established one of the largest black market operations in southern Italy, together with the Italian gangster [[Calogero Vizzini]]. Vizzini sent truck caravans loaded with all the basic food commodities necessary for the Italian diet rolling northward to hungry Naples, where their cargoes were distributed by Genovese's organization. All of the trucks were issued passes and export papers by the AMGOT administration in Naples and Sicily, and some corrupt American army officers even made contributions of gasoline and trucks to the operation.<ref name="McCoy8"/> According to Luke Monzelli, a lieutenant in the [[Carabinieri]] assigned to follow Genovese during his time in Italy: "Truckloads of food supplies were shipped from Vizzini to Genovese — all accompanied by the proper documents which had been certified by men in authority, Mafia members in the service of Vizzini and Genovese."<ref name=newark>[http://americanmafia.com/Feature_Articles_388.html Fighting the Mafia in World War Two] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070708030956/http://www.americanmafia.com/Feature_Articles_388.html |date=July 8, 2007 }}, by Tim Newark, AmericanMafia.com, May 2007 (Retrieved on January 16, 2009)</ref><ref name=newark215>Newark, ''The Mafia at War'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=31OCGbIzTTAC&pg=PA216 p. 216] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161224073815/https://books.google.com/books?id=31OCGbIzTTAC&pg=PA216 |date=December 24, 2016 }}</ref>
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