In some ways the re-organization of the mob into the Five Families reminds me of post-WWI statecraft on the part of the allied powers, with the Mangano family as Iraq . . . .

If Mangano and Anastasia had no love for each other, why were they put into the same family? Was it a ploy by Luciano to keep South Brooklyn weak and divided?

And yet if there could be an independent Profaci family in South Brooklyn, why not also an independent Anastasia family and a small but cohesive Mangano family?

But instead, throughout its history, perhaps even into the present day, the Mangano-Anastasia-Gambino family would be polarized into two enduring factions.

What, then, was the reason for putting Anastasia and his docks into the Mangano family?