In 1962, with the knowledge of President Kennedy, the CIA broke into the old French Embassy in Washington, D.C., and stole documents as part of a counterintelligence operation. Nixon didn’t know about the Watergate break-in, he just tried to cover it up. JFK and RFK approved the break-in and hid it from the FBI!
The US promoted the idea that nuclear war was Mutually Assured Destruction. Guess what? That was never a Russian belief. As long as the leaders lived, every single person could be killed.
There is no question the American Cosa Nostra is part of history. They built NYC and neglected parts of Chicago. But the accuracy of their street history is not reliable.