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FBI Vault: Carmine Galante, Part 01 (file 92-3025)

Top Hoodlum Program serials from 1956–1958, including a New York memorandum of January 24, 1958 giving Galante's birth name and a birth date of February 21, 1910.

Date: 1956/1958
Kind: case-file
Source: FBI Records: The Vault (viewer)
Retrieved: 2026-10-12
Docket: FBI file 92-3025
Rights: A record of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a work of the United States government. Public domain in the United States. 17 U.S.C. § 105. Newspaper clippings inside the file are described, not relied on. The page image stored here is page 1 of the part as the Vault viewer serves it.

Part 01 of the Vault’s file on Carmine Galante, 97 pages, read through the viewer’s OCR text layer. The headquarters file number is 92-3025. The serials are from the Top Hoodlum Program, 1956 to 1958. The stored image is the first page as the viewer serves it.

A New York memorandum of January 24, 1958 states that Galante, FBI No. 119495, “was born as Camillo Galante, February 21, 1910, in New York City” (the OCR garbles the name). New York police testimony in 1963 gave his birth year as 1912 (Valachi hearings). The two are recorded side by side on his person page; neither is preferred.

His killing in 1979 is described in the Commission case appeal.

itemUnited States v. Salerno, 868 F.2d 524 (2d Cir. 1989)Second Circuit opinion on the appeal from the Southern District of New York trial of Anthony Salerno and seven other defendants, decided January 31, 1989.itemUnited States v. Galante, 298 F.2d 72 (2d Cir. 1962)Second Circuit opinion of January 8, 1962 on the criminal-contempt sentences imposed on Carmine Galante and Anthony Mirra for their conduct during a narcotics-conspiracy trial that ended in a mistrial. Galante's appeal was dismissed as moot.