Scan of a page of the FBI Mafia monograph listing reported meetings and a 1956 traffic stop near Joseph Barbara's home at Apalachin. — Open the full imageJPG, 1000 × 1274 px, 0.2 MB

FBI "Mafia" monograph, Part 04: reported earlier meetings and the October 1956 traffic stop near Barbara's home

Page of an FBI monograph listing reported closed meetings in the 1950s and stating that in October 1956 a New York State trooper stopped a car with New Jersey plates for speeding near Joseph Barbara's home, the driver being identified as Carmine Galante.

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 04 (Final) of the FBI Vault’s “Mafia Monograph,” scan 38 (printed page 91). The pages examined give no date for the monograph.

The page lists meetings it calls reported (La Martinique, Mountainside, New Jersey, 13 December 1954; the St. Moritz Hotel, New York, 18 May 1956) and says informants “have been unable to ascertain the reason for this meeting.” These are the FBI’s reports of meetings, not established facts. It then states: “In October, 1956, a little more than a year before the Apalachin meeting, a New York State trooper stopped an automobile, bearing New Jersey license plates, for speeding near the home of Joseph Barbara, Sr., at Apalachin, New York, the site of the 1957 meeting of hoodlums. The driver was identified as Carmine Galante, considered an important figure in the …” The sentence continues on the next scan, which has not been read.

“Hoodlums” and “important figure” are the monograph’s words and are quoted, not adopted.

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.

itemFBI "Mafia" monograph, Part 03: "The largest meeting of Mafiosi known to date," Apalachin, "at least 61"Summary page of an FBI monograph on the Mafia stating that the largest meeting known to date occurred at Apalachin in November 1957 with "at least 61" in attendance, and that the first important conference was in Cleveland in 1928. The monograph is undated in the pages examined.

itemFBI "Mafia" monograph, Part 01: visits to Sicily "viewed with interest" before the Apalachin meetingSummary 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.itemUnited States v. Bufalino, 285 F.2d 408 (2d Cir. 1960)Second Circuit opinion reversing the convictions of Russell Bufalino and nineteen others for obstructing justice and perjury after the 14 November 1957 gathering at Apalachin, New York. The court says the government offered no evidence of the meeting's purpose.