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Viewer page 157 of Part 01 of the FBI Vault's Anthony Accardo file: a Chicago teletype dated 1/16/74 to the Director and the New York and Los Angeles offices, captioned Anthony J. Accardo and Sidney R. Korshak, with informant passages redacted
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FBI Chicago teletypes, January 1974: Accardo, Gus Alex and the 'three man leadership team' (Vault Accardo Part 01)

Chicago and Los Angeles communications in the Accardo file describe Accardo and Gus Alex as two members of a 'three man leadership team' directing organized crime in Chicago, refer to the 'deceased LCN leader Fiore Buccieri who died 1973', and note Marshall Caifano's parole travel.

Date
1974-01
Kind
case-file
Source
FBI Records: The Vault, Anthony Accardo Part 01, pp. 154-157, 168, 174, 249
Retrieved
2026-10-12
Docket
Chicago file 92-344; Bureau file 92-3087
Rights
A record of the Federal Bureau of Investigation released under FOIA through the FBI Vault. A work of the United States government, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105.

Teletypes and memoranda of January 1974 in the Accardo file (Chicago file 92-344, Bureau file 92-3087). Page 157 is a Chicago teletype dated 1/16/74. It refers back to an earlier teletype “advising that ACCARDO, ONE OF TOP LEADERSHIP TEAM DIRECTING ORGANIZED CRIME IN CHICAGO, IS CURRENTLY IN PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA,” and says that attorney Sidney R. Korshak “IS ESPECIALLY CLOSE TO GUS ALEX, ANOTHER MEMBER OF LEADERSHIP TEAM, AND ACCARDO.” The earlier teletype’s date is typed “1/15/72” on a form dated 1/16/74. Pages 154 and 249 carry the same wording, that Gus Alex and Accardo are “two members of three man leadership team currently responsible for direction of organized crime in Chicago”; their own date lines are illegible, and the legible date lines around them are January 1974.

A Chicago teletype of 1/30/74 (p. 168) refers in passing to the “DECEASED LCN LEADER FIORE BUCCIERI WHO DIED 1973.” A Los Angeles memorandum of 1/28/74 (p. 174) calls Accardo “a La Cosa Nostra (LCN) member” staying at Palm Springs, and notes that Marshall Caifano, “LCN Chicago member,” had a parole officer’s permission to visit San Diego and Las Vegas from January 3 to 18, 1974.

The leadership and membership words are the FBI field offices’ own assessments at that time, not findings. The file page describes pages 154, 157 and 249 as early-1970s teletypes; this page dates them to January 1974 from the legible date lines and records pages 168 and 174, which the file page does not. Page 174 prints a residential street address, and page 168 concerns a private person’s property records; neither is stored or repeated here. This archive read the page through the Vault viewer’s OCR text layer. The scans are poor; names, dates and figures can be garbled, and many names are redacted under FOIA exemptions (b6, b7C, b7D).

itemFBI Vault file on Anthony AccardoThe FBI Vault's release of the Bureau file on Anthony Accardo, in two parts, including a 1946 informant report, a 1959 Chicago memorandum relaying a source's account of the Chicago syndicate's hierarchy, and early-1970s teletypes on its leadership.itemFBI Chicago reports, 1975: 'ACCARDO still remains Chicago LCN Boss' (Vault Accardo Part 01)Chicago field-office reports and teletypes of 1975 call Accardo the 'Chicago LCN boss', and informants quoted in them say Accardo and Joseph Aiuppa 'still run the Chicago Mafia', with Aiuppa the 'street boss.'itemIllinois Crime Investigating Commission v. Buccieri, 36 Ill. 2d 556 (Ill. 1967)The Illinois Supreme Court affirmed a Cook County order directing fifteen subpoenaed defendants, captioned 'Fiore Buccieri et al.', to appear at the state crime commission's January 1966 hearings on the 'loan shark' or 'juice' racket. The opinion describes no defendant's role.