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Viewer page 131 of Part 01 of the FBI Vault's Carlos Marcello file: a memorandum from C. A. Evans to Mr. Belmont dated June 5, 1961, subject Carlos Marcello, reporting his surrender to the Immigration and Naturalization Service in New Orleans
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FBI Vault: Carlos Marcello, Part 01 of 03 (1955 to 1989)

The first part of the FBI's released file on Carlos Marcello: a 1955 headquarters memo on Marcello v. Bonds, 1956-57 hoodlum-coverage memoranda from New Orleans, April-June 1961 memoranda on his removal to Guatemala and surrender in New Orleans, and 1989 reports from Rochester, Minnesota on his release.

Date
1955/1989
Kind
case-file
Source
FBI Records: The Vault
Retrieved
2026-10-12
Rights
A record of the Federal Bureau of Investigation released under FOIA. A work of the United States government, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105.

The viewer’s text layer for Part 01 runs to at least 400 pages (the tool stops at 400; the part is longer, and later pages were not read). “Bureau File No. 62-97929” is printed once, in the 1955 memo, and appears truncated elsewhere. The pages read include a 1955 headquarters memo summarizing the Supreme Court’s decision in Marcello v. Bonds (around viewer page 69), 1956 and 1957 “hoodlum coverage” memoranda from the New Orleans office (pp. 94-105), April-June 1961 headquarters memoranda on his removal to Guatemala and his surrender in New Orleans on 5 June 1961 (pp. 127-132), and 1989 reports from Rochester, Minnesota on his release from the Federal Medical Center on 20 October 1989 (pp. 25-41).

The 5 June 1961 memo (viewer page 131) says that at 10:25 a.m. Marcello, “recently deported to Guatemala,” surrendered himself to the Immigration and Naturalization Service in New Orleans at his motel, the Town and Country, and was taken to the U.S. Public Health Hospital complaining of chest pains. No street is printed. The 1989 reports also quote an inmate informant, who is a private person and is not named here.

Page numbers are positions in the viewer’s text dump, not printed page numbers; many names and passages are redacted. This record rests on the Vault viewer’s OCR text layer; the page image of viewer page 131, the memo of 5 June 1961, is now stored here. The OCR is poor on stamps and handwriting and many names are redacted.

itemMarcello v. Bonds, 349 U.S. 302 (1955)Justice Clark's opinion upholding the order to deport Carlos Marcello, 'a native of Tunis, Africa,' under the 1952 immigration act on the basis of his 1938 Marihuana Tax Act conviction, and rejecting his Administrative Procedure Act claim. Justices Black and Douglas dissented.itemMarcello v. Kennedy, 312 F.2d 874 (D.C. Cir. 1962)The D.C. Circuit's opinion on Marcello's suit over his removal to Guatemala on 4 April 1961; it recites that he had re-entered the United States by June 1961 when a criminal prosecution had begun, and directs dismissal of the complaint.itemFBI Vault: Carlos Marcello, Part 02 of 03 (1966 to 1978)The second part of the FBI's released Marcello file (326 viewer pages): a New Orleans airtel of 3 October 1966 before a 7 October 1966 hearing, a report of 10 January 1967 captioned 'Assaulting a Federal Officer,' and later racketeering-investigation material including subpoenaed bank records.