Scan of a darkened summary page from the FBI Mafia monograph mentioning visits to Palermo before the Apalachin meeting. — Open the full imageJPG, 1000 × 1273 px, 0.3 MB

FBI "Mafia" monograph, Part 01: visits to Sicily "viewed with interest" before the Apalachin meeting

Summary page of an FBI monograph on the Mafia saying that the visits of Giuseppe Bonanno and Carmine Galante to Palermo shortly before the 14 November 1957 Apalachin gathering "are viewed with interest." The monograph is undated in the pages examined.

Date: undated
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 “Mafia Monograph,” scan 22 (printed page xii of the summary). The Vault landing page and the pages examined give no date for the monograph; it speaks of Apalachin in the past tense.

The page states: “The visits of Giuseppe Bonanno and Carmine Galante, notorious American hoodlums, to Palermo, Sicily, shortly before the Apalachin, New York convention of hoodlums on November 14, 1957 are viewed with interest.” “Notorious,” “hoodlums” and “convention” are the monograph’s words and are quoted, not adopted. The sentence records that the FBI viewed the timing with interest. It does not state what the visits were for. The page is darkened at the right edge; the quoted lines are legible.

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itemFBI "Mafia" monograph, Part 04: the 1928 Cleveland meeting and the 1957 Apalachin meeting comparedPage of an FBI monograph whose first legible line names Joseph Magliocco among those present at the 1957 Apalachin meeting (the sentence begins on the preceding page) and which begins a list of "parallels" with the 1928 Cleveland meeting. The monograph is undated in the pages examined.

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