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Scan of a page from an FBI New York report on Carlo Gambino, file NY 92-657, quoting a 1957 newspaper account of Apalachin, mostly redacted.
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FBI New York report page (NY 92-657) quoting the New York Daily Mirror of 15 November 1957 on Apalachin

Page of an FBI New York field-office report on Carlo Gambino. It relays a 15 November 1957 New York Daily Mirror article saying 62 men were "grabbed" at Apalachin on 14 November and that Gambino was present. The report's date is not on the page.

Date
undated
Kind
case-file
Source
FBI Records: The Vault
Retrieved
2026-10-12
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. Redactions on the page are the FBI's. The page scan is stored here.

Part 03 of the FBI Vault’s Carlo Gambino file, scan 39 (report page 31 by the damaged footer, section D.1). The file number NY 92-657 is printed at the top of the report. The report’s date is not on this page, and most of the page is redacted.

The report says: “The ‘New York Daily Mirror’ of November 15, 1957, contains an article wherein it states that 62 top leaders of the dreaded Mafia, ruling crime syndicate of the United States, were grabbed by Federal Agents, State Police, and County officers on November 14, 1957, during a top-echelon conclave called to deal with mounting official pressure on their lucrative stranglehold on the nation’s purse. According to the article, the meeting was held at Apalachin, New York, in Tioga County. There were present hoodlums from New York, New Jersey, Ohio, California, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and other points. CARLO GAMBINO was present at this meeting.”

The wording is the newspaper’s, relayed by the FBI, and the “62” is the paper’s figure; it is not an FBI count and not a source for attendance. The court gives 58 stopped, the committee witness 60, and the FBI monograph “at least 61”. The page number 31 is read from a damaged footer and may be wrong; cite by scan.

itemFBI memorandum of 29 November 1957: INS refers to Carlo Gambino as a participant in the Apalachin gatheringOne-page FBI memorandum reporting that the Immigration and Naturalization Service referred to Carlo Gambino as one of those who took part in the recent Apalachin gathering and planned to arrest him on a deportation warrant on 2 December 1957.itemFBI New York report (NY 92-657): John T. Cusack's 9 January 1958 testimony on the Apalachin meetingReport pages quoting testimony of John T. Cusack, District Supervisor of the U.S. Bureau of Narcotics, before a New York State legislative committee at Albany on 9 January 1958 that the Bureau became interested in Apalachin because at least three major narcotics violators were reported present.itemUnited States v. Bufalino, 285 F.2d 408 (2d Cir. 1960)Second Circuit opinion reversing the convictions of Russell Bufalino and nineteen others for obstructing justice and perjury after the 14 November 1957 gathering at Apalachin, New York. The court says the government offered no evidence of the meeting's purpose.