there were three sicilians from the top echelon of the unione siciliano , the mafia ; three corsican frenchmen from the union corse , the secret society contemporary with and similar to the mafia that runs nearly all organized crime in france ; three former members of smersh , the soviet organization for the execution of traitors and enemies of the state that had been disbanded on the orders of khrushchev in 1958 and replaced by the special executive department of the m.w.d .