On top of that, I was also able to uncover the entire roster of people who visited Luciano in prison during Operation Underworld. For nearly 80 years, several of the agents had yet to be identified, but I was able to not only determine identities, but also find photos of participants such as Agent X and Agent Y. I’m happy to report: Mission accomplished! Commander Haffenden kept a little black book that contained names of informants and secret agents. When I first took on this project, I told myself that I’d have to find things that no one else had discovered if I was going to be successful. Was there anything that you learned that surprised or shocked you? It took about a year-and-a-half to upload nearly 3,000 pages of testimony and documents. Their archive contains the contents of an investigation into Operation Underworld that had been previously classified. But the archive I needed to access at the University of Rochester was kind enough to supply digital uploads of everything I requested. Black: This book was researched and written during the pandemic, and for most writers, that would’ve tanked their research efforts, as libraries and archives were closed all over the country. PAUL DAVIS: How did you perform research for the book?
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