 The event that triggered a major crackdown against the Mafia was the Ciaculli massacre, when seven police officers were killed on 30 June 1963, whilst trying to defuse a car bomb left by one group of mobsters who had actually intended it to kill some rival mobsters.The death of the policemen caused an outcry.In "Octopus" (see References), author Claire Sterling quotes the regional army commander for Sicily, General Aldo De Marco as ordering his men to