FBI Chicago reports on Samuel Giancana, 1962-1964 (Vault Giancana Part 01)
Chicago reports in the first part of the Giancana file call the Villa Venice an 'alleged GIANCANA enterprise' that reopened on 11/9/62, say he 'should be considered armed and dangerous', and quote an informant naming Fiore Buccieri and Charles English as two of his top lieutenants.
- Date
- 1962/1964
- Kind
- case-file
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- Docket
- Chicago file 92-349; Bureau file 92-3171
- 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.
The first of two Vault parts titled “Salvatore (Sam) Giancana” (Chicago file 92-349, Bureau file 92-3171).
The synopsis of a Chicago report headed “Anti-Racketeering” (p. 5) calls the Villa Venice club an “alleged GIANCANA enterprise” that reopened on 11/9/62 with entertainment “allegedly arranged by GIANCANA,” and says “GIANCANA SHOULD BE CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS.” Under the heading “Position in Organized Crime” (p. 48), an informant says Giancana “is generally considered as the number one gangland leader in the country today,” and “identified two of top lieutenants as FIORE BUCCIERI and CHARLES ENGLISH.” A December 1963 informant statement (pp. 389-391) says he was the leader of the Chicago syndicate, having succeeded Anthony Accardo in the late 1950s, and that talk of his loss of power was unfounded; those pages are too garbled to quote. An airtel of 5/21/63 (p. 107) traces his travel to Pittsburgh and Honolulu.
The “leader” and “lieutenants” statements are informants’ claims relayed by the FBI, not findings. The file was not read in full: its surveillance of 1957-1960 and the 1965 grand jury material are not summarized here. This archive read the page through the Vault viewer’s OCR text layer. The scans are poor; names, dates and figures can be garbled, and many names are redacted under FOIA exemptions (b6, b7C, b7D).
