# FBI Vault: Vito Genovese, Part 01

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-vito-genovese-p01/

Part 01 of the FBI's Genovese file, mostly 1957–1959 serials from the Top Hoodlum period. The deleted-page sheet lists 119 pages withheld. The OCR is fragmentary.

Part 01 of the Vault's file on Vito Genovese, 296 pages, read through the viewer's OCR text layer. Most serials date from 1957 to 1959, the period of the Bureau's Top Hoodlum program: name checks and New York reports. A deleted-page sheet lists 119 pages withheld.

One serial relays that a Special Assistant Attorney General in Kansas City learned in 1950, from Mafia sources, of a division into districts with appointed bosses, and that Genovese was named. That is a secondhand report inside an FBI file, and the OCR is fragmentary. This archive does not use it for any statement about Genovese's role.

For the court's own statement about Genovese in the 1959 narcotics case, see [United States v. Aviles](/items/courtlistener-us-v-aviles-274-f2d-179/).

## Sources

- FBI Records: The Vault (viewer): https://vault.fbi.gov/vito-genovese/Vito%20Genovese%20Part%2001/view