There's evidence that shows that Luciano was more involved in heroin than Tim Newark wrote in his book, and I don't believe that FBN agents like Charles Siragusa created a false image of him to increase funding. Siragusa was a top agent who followed Luciano for years, so was George White and others, and they had enough witnesses that with today's RICO law they probably could have made a case against him.

BTW, "Three Fingers" Frank Coppola was not related to Michael Coppola. Frank came from Partinico, Sicily and was part of the Detroit mob before he was deported and Michael, a caporegime in the Genovese Family, came from Salerno, near Naples.