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FBI Vault: Meyer Lansky, Part 01

Serials from the early 1950s, including a Justice Department release of December 19, 1952 announcing that Attorney General McGranery had directed a petition to cancel Lansky's naturalization.

Date: 1950/1957
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 stored here is page 1 of the part as the Vault viewer serves it.

Part 01 of the Vault’s file on Meyer Lansky, 106 pages, read through the viewer’s OCR text layer. The stored image is the first page as the viewer serves it.

Among the early-1950s serials is a Justice Department release dated Friday, December 19, 1952, announcing that Attorney General James P. McGranery had directed that a petition be filed to cancel Lansky’s naturalization. United States Attorney Myles J. Lane is named in the file.

Lansky is not placed in any family by a record opened for this section. He is filed here because the Luciano file records his visit to Luciano at Ellis Island in 1946 with Frank Costello, and because he testified in the Kefauver New York hearings.

itemFBI Vault: Charles (Lucky) Luciano / Salvatore Lucania, Part 01Part 01 of the FBI's Luciano file: 1935 memoranda, a wartime report with his 1936 state sentence, and a 1946 group on his parole on condition of deportation, his move to Ellis Island, and his departure from Bush Terminal, Brooklyn.

itemKefauver Committee hearings, Part 7: New York-New Jersey (1950–1951)Printed hearings of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Part 7, New York-New Jersey: sessions in Washington and New York, July 1950 to March 1951.

itemMeyer Lansky, 1958 (Library of Congress)New York World-Telegram & Sun staff photograph by Al Ravenna of Meyer Lansky, half-length and facing front, dated 1958 by the Library of Congress. A copy is stored here.