A tireless worker, well-educated and endowed with real oratorical talent, his political and union career was not always up to his ambitions and personal qualities.
In October 1931, he stood in the cantonal elections against Sabiani whom he reproached in the “Popular de Provence” for having become an adventurer, who had forgotten his proletarian origins and who was now at the service of his personal interests.
Ferri-Pisani actively campaigned in Marseille for this split, which received logistical and financial support from the CIA via the AFL-CIO and one of its foreign branches FTUC (Free Trade Union Committee).
FTUC was led by a CIA agent, Jay Lovestone and his friend Irving Brown, with the aim of weakening the World Federation of Trade Unions.
After having created, in April 1950, "a Mediterranean vigilance committee" of seafarers, Ferry-Pisani and Marsily took part with Irving Brown in a congress of the Transport Workers' International which was held in Marseilles and whose aim was to '"study the means of preventing work stoppages and taking all useful measures for unloading war material", these means including the use of "thugs" from the Marseilles environment that Ferry-Pisani and Marsilly would recruit, with the help of the great godfathers who are the Guérini brothers, and whom the CIA would pay.