Scan of the first page of an FBI Newark report dated 12 December 1958 on Vito Genovese, with redactions. — Open the full imageJPG, 1000 × 1293 px, 0.3 MB

FBI Newark report, 12 December 1958: Genovese "was in attendance at the Apalachin, New York, meeting"

First page of an FBI Newark field-office report (investigative period 29 September to 3 December 1958) in the Genovese anti-racketeering case. Its administrative note says Genovese was in attendance at the Apalachin meeting.

Date: 1958-12-12
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 01 of the FBI Vault’s Vito Genovese file, scan 238: the first page of a Newark report in the anti-racketeering case. The copies box prints Bureau 92-2709, New York 92-658 and Newark 92-380; the report-making agent’s name is redacted. The investigative period is 29 September to 3 December 1958.

The administrative section states: “GENOVESE was in attendance at the Apalachin, New York, meeting; …” The same paragraph goes on to his naturalization history and money transfers that it attributes to informants. Those are FBI and informant assertions and are not summarized here.

The statement is the FBI’s, in a report to its own files. The court’s roster is the source this archive cites for who was stopped at the roadblock.

itemFBI letter, Director to SAC Newark, January 1958: Genovese's presence at Apalachin and the anti-racketeering investigationFBI Director's letter to the Newark office about its anti-racketeering investigation of Vito Genovese. It says his presence at Apalachin "undoubtedly contributed immeasurably to the publicity this meeting received" and lists investigative steps.

itemFBI airtel, 16 June 1959: Genovese before the New York State Commission of Investigation on the Apalachin meetingFBI airtel summarizing Genovese's 16 June 1959 appearance under subpoena before the New York State Commission of Investigation, which granted him immunity and questioned him about Apalachin, with the FBI's account of how he said he came to go.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.