Page 1 of Part 01 of the FBI monograph titled "Mafia," as served by the FBI Vault viewer.
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FBI Vault: "Mafia" monograph, Part 01

Part 01 of the FBI's internal monograph on the Mafia, opening with the Sicilian background of the word and the organization. The text layer is heavily garbled and the date comes from the Vault listing.

Date
1958
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 stored here is page 1 of the part as the Vault viewer serves it.

Part 01 of the FBI’s internal monograph titled “Mafia,” 70 pages, read through the viewer’s OCR text layer. The stored image is the first page as the viewer serves it. The part opens with the Sicilian background of the word and of the organization.

The date of 1958 is from the Vault’s listing; the OCR does not confirm it. The text layer is heavily garbled, and this archive takes no statement from it until the page images are read.