The Unione Corse is a term for Corsican organized crime from the 1930s–1970s, primarily involved in the French Connection heroin trade between Turkey, France, and the United States. Based in Marseille and Corsica, it consisted of Corsican and Italian-French clans that cooperated and competed. The syndicate was a key supplier of heroin to the American market but remained subordinate to the Italian-American Mafia.
CRIMENET has extracted 11 linkages for this organization, including 7 cooperative ties across 4 organizations, 4 other connections and footprints in 2 countries.
Morphine base, derived from the cultivation of poppies, was smuggled in from Turkey by boat
flooding the American market with Marseille-produced heroin from the 1950s to early 1970s