[pchelpers] News:Mafia Boss's Encrypted Messages Deciphered

By Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News

April 17, 2006 — The recently arrested "boss of bosses" of the Sicilian 
Mafia, Bernardo Provenzano, wrote notes using an encryption scheme 
similar to the one used by Julius Caesar more than 2,000 years ago, 
according to a biography of Italy's most wanted man.

The biography, written by journalists Salvo Palazzolo and Ernesto Oliva, 
is published in Italian on www.bernardoprovenzano.net, which is the most 
exhaustive Web site on Provenzano.

Accused of numerous murders, including the 1992 killings of two judges 
for which he was sentenced to life in jail, the 73-year-old boss was 
arrested last week in a farmhouse about just a few miles from his 
Sicilian hometown Corleone, a place forever associated with the 
Godfather saga.

Also known as "Binnu u tratturi" (Binnu the tractor) because of his 
reputation for mowing down people in his youth, Provenzano had been on 
the run for more than 40 years, many of them spent writing cryptograms 
on little pieces of paper, known in Sicilian dialect as pizzini.

More here:
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