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Scan of an FBI New York report page quoting John T. Cusack's January 1958 testimony about the Apalachin meeting, partly redacted.
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FBI New York report (NY 92-657): John T. Cusack's 9 January 1958 testimony on the Apalachin meeting

Report 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.

Date
1958-01-09
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 04 of the FBI Vault’s Carlo Gambino file, scan 49 (report page 44). The file number NY 92-657 is the same as on the Part 03 report page. The report’s table of contents, on scan 17, lists “Attendance at November 14, 1957 Apalachin Meeting” at report page 48. The page is partly obscured by redaction and damage, and the name of the committee is read through damaged text, so it should be checked against the scan.

The report states: “JOHN T. CUSACK, District Supervisor, Bureau of Narcotics, testified before the New York State Joint Legislative Committee on Governmental Operations on January 9, 1958, at Albany, New York, regarding the meeting held at Apalachin, New York, on November 14, 1957. He testified that the US Bureau of Narcotics became particularly interested in this meeting as reports from Apalachin indicated that at least three narcotic violators of major importance were present.”

The date given for this page is the date of the testimony; the report’s own date is not on the page. This is the FBI’s quotation of a witness before a state committee, not the testimony transcript, which has not been located. The next scan continues with Cusack’s statements about Carlo Gambino; those are an agency’s account and are not carried onto any chart here.

itemFBI New York report page (NY 92-657) quoting the New York Daily Mirror of 15 November 1957 on ApalachinPage 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.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.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.