FBI Vault: Joseph Colombo, Part 01 (Final)
Mostly 1970–71 serials: applications for electronic surveillance describing a Brooklyn numbers operation "under control of La Cosa Nostra boss Joseph Colombo," the April 2, 1971 arrest of Colombo on federal gambling charges, and memoranda on the Italian-American Civil Rights League.
- Date
- 1970/1971
- Kind
- case-file
- 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 104 is stored here; the full scans are at the Vault URL.
The Vault’s file on Joseph Colombo, “Part 01 (Final),” read through the viewer’s OCR text layer; the reading tool stopped at 400 pages.
Most of the serials date from 1970 and 1971. Applications for Title III surveillance describe a Brooklyn numbers and bookmaking operation “under control of La Cosa Nostra boss Joseph Colombo.” A memorandum of April 1971 reports: “Agents of our New York office arrested Joseph Anthony Colombo, Sr., ‘boss’ of the Colombo La Cosa Nostra ‘family’ shortly after noon on April 2, 1971” (the OCR drops one quotation mark). Other memoranda concern the Italian-American Civil Rights League.
These are FBI statements in Bureau memoranda and surveillance applications, labelled as such on his person page. No opened record gives his death.