Viewer page 7 of Part 01 of the FBI Vault's Joseph Bonanno file: an action memorandum dated March 25, 1977 from the Director, FBI to the Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, re Joseph Bonanno, Sr., and others, Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations, with redactions — Open the full imagePNG, 1000 × 1276 px, 0.2 MB

FBI Vault: Joseph Bonanno, Part 01

Part 01 of the FBI's Joseph Bonanno file, largely 1979 Phoenix Division material on a RICO investigation and an application for electronic surveillance in Arizona. The deleted-page sheet lists 111 pages withheld.

Date: 1977/1982
Kind: case-file
Source: FBI Records: The Vault (viewer)
Retrieved: 2026-10-12
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 of viewer page 7 is stored here; the full scans are at the Vault URL.

Part 01 of the Vault’s file on Joseph Bonanno, 372 pages, read through the viewer’s OCR text layer. The deleted-page sheet lists 111 pages withheld.

Most of the part is 1979 material from the FBI’s Phoenix Division, Tucson Resident Agency: an investigation under RICO and an application under Title III for electronic surveillance. One serial refers to the “Tucson Resident Agency which makes application for electronic surveillance coverage of a racketeer influenced and corrupt organization” (OCR). The subjects are Bonanno and associates in Arizona.

The part concerns an Arizona investigation of the late 1970s. It is not a source for his New York position; for that, see the 1963 hearings and the 1988 civil RICO ruling.

itemUnited States v. Bonanno Organized Crime Family of La Cosa Nostra, 683 F. Supp. 1411 (E.D.N.Y. 1988)Ruling of March 24, 1988 on motions to dismiss the government's civil RICO suit against the Bonanno family, its alleged officers and Teamsters Local 814. It summarizes what the amended complaint alleged about each defendant's position.

itemOrganized Crime and Illicit Traffic in Narcotics, Part 1 (September 25 to October 9, 1963)The first printed volume of the 1963 Senate hearings: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy's opening testimony, Joseph Valachi's public testimony, New York police witnesses, Exhibit 8 and Charts A to E.