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Exhibit No. 9, a chart printed sideways and titled "Kansas City Missouri Hearings - 1950", with a central wheel labelled Binaggio divided into named segments, smaller circles for Policy, Dice, Book Makers and Wire Service, and boxes of businesses and names around the edge.
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Kefauver Part 4, Exhibit 9: committee chart of operations in and near Kansas City

A committee chart, "Kansas City Missouri Hearings - 1950," with a wheel labelled Binaggio at its centre and spokes to policy, dice, bookmakers, the wire service, night clubs and liquor businesses, received on September 28, 1950.

Date
1950-09-28
Kind
hearing
Source
Internet Archive, scan of the printed hearings (Boston Public Library copy)
Retrieved
2026-10-12
Docket
Investigation of Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Hearings before the Special Committee, 81st Cong., Part 4: Missouri
Rights
A work of the United States Congress, printed by the Government Printing Office. Public domain in the United States. 17 U.S.C. § 105. The scan is of a GPO printing; Internet Archive marks it not in copyright.

Exhibit No. 9 is printed sideways at page 412 of Part 4. Chief counsel Rudolph Halley offered three charts “for identification” during the testimony of narcotics agent Claude A. Follmer on September 28, 1950, and the chairman received them as exhibits 9, 10 and 11 (printed page 88). The contents describe it as a “Chart used by the committee showing operations in and near Kansas City.” It carries the credit “U.S. Senate Special Committee To Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce.”

The chart is titled “Kansas City Missouri Hearings - 1950.” A wheel at the centre is labelled Binaggio, divided into segments that include Mafia, Politics, Gargotta, Lococo, Gizzo, Klein and Spitz, with words such as “Strong Arm and Terror” and “Vote Frauds, Protection” around its rim. Smaller circles labelled Policy, Dice, Book Makers and Wire Service lead to boxes naming clubs, businesses and individuals. Labels at the side read “Night Clubs,” “Liquor Business” and “Other Businesses.” The chairman referred to “this exhibit” in questioning a witness at printed page 277.

This is a hearing exhibit. The names, ranks and relationships printed on it are the labels of a 1950 committee staff chart. They are not findings of the committee or of a court, and this archive does not copy any of them onto a family page or a person page.

itemKefauver Committee hearings, Part 4: Missouri (1950)Printed hearings of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Part 4, Missouri: sessions in Washington and Kansas City, July to September 1950.itemKefauver Part 4: testimony of Claude A. Follmer, narcotics agent, on an alleged Kansas City 'Mafia society' (28 September 1950)A Treasury narcotics agent says at p. 91 that John Lazia 'was the leader or czar of the underworld for a number of years prior to his assassination,' and at p. 92 lists unsolved murders 'attributed to the Mafia by persons engaged in law-enforcement work.' Pp. 81-100.itemKefauver Part 4, Exhibit 20: Kansas City Police Department list of unsolved murders, 1 January 1940 to 25 September 1950A printed police list (appendix pp. 417-418) of unsolved Kansas City killings, including Louis Cuccia on 30 January 1946 near 1501 Truman Road in company with Nick Civella, and Charles Binaggio and Charles Gargotta, 'found shot to death in political club at 718 Truman Road,' dated April 5, 1950.itemKefauver Part 4, Exhibit 10: committee chart "The Mafia"A fan-shaped committee chart headed "The Mafia," with "Murder" and "Narcotics" segments, city names around its edge, and lists of "alleged members" and unsolved murders, received on September 28, 1950.itemKefauver Part 4, Exhibit 11: committee chart of "legitimate" producers of raw opium and smuggling routesA committee flow chart running from Turkey, Persia and India through French and Italian ports and Cuba to boxes labelled Mafia in New York, Tampa, New Orleans, St. Louis and Kansas City and on to "addict customers," received on September 28, 1950.