Viewer page 6 of Part 01 of the FBI Vault's Vito Genovese file: an Office Memorandum dated 12/11/57 from SAC, Newark (92-374) to the Director, FBI, subject Newark Field Division, Top Hoodlum Program, Anti-Racketeering, heavily redacted — Open the full imagePNG, 1000 × 1303 px, 0.2 MB

FBI Vault: Vito Genovese, Part 01

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.

Date: 1957/1959
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 of viewer page 6 is stored here; the full scans are at the Vault URL.

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.

itemUnited States v. Aviles, 274 F.2d 179 (2d Cir. 1960)Second Circuit opinion of January 12, 1960 affirming most of the 1959 narcotics-conspiracy convictions of Vito Genovese, Vincent Gigante and others. It finds Genovese one of the conspiracy's "principal directing heads."

itemVito Genovese, 1959 (Library of Congress)World-Telegram & Sun staff photograph by Phil Stanziola of Vito Genovese, half-length and standing, filed by the newspaper's library under a "Crime Probe" heading. A copy is stored here.