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Printed page 30 of the Kefauver Committee's Final Report, headed Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, with paragraphs on heroin prices, on enforcement officers' belief about Charles Lucky Luciano, and on Luciano's sworn statements to the Italian police.
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Kefauver Committee Final Report (S. Rept. 82-725, 1951), p. 30: Luciano's 'present residence in Italy, which dates from 1947'

Page 30 of the committee's Final Report, in its narcotics section, reports enforcement officers' belief that Luciano was the 'operating head' of the heroin influx and summarizes his sworn statements to the Italian police, noting that his residence in Italy 'dates from 1947.'

Date
1951-08-31
Kind
hearing
Source
National Archives Catalog, Records of the U.S. Senate (RG 46)
Retrieved
2026-10-12
NAID
25465648
Rights
A work of the United States Congress, printed by the Government Printing Office and held in the Records of the U.S. Senate. Public domain in the United States. 17 U.S.C. § 105. The National Archives catalog lists the use restriction as Unrestricted.

The National Archives holds a page-image copy of Senate Report No. 725, 82d Congress, the Final Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce. The catalog’s images carry no text layer; the image number is the printed page plus four. This record is printed page 30, in the narcotics section; the image stored here is that page.

The page reports a belief, not a finding: “Experienced enforcement officers believe that the present influx of heroin from abroad is managed by the Mafia with Charles ‘Lucky’ Luciano, notorious gangster, vice king, and racketeer, deported convict, now resident in Italy, as the operating head.” It then summarizes testimony by a Bureau of Narcotics agent just back from Italy, and Luciano’s own sworn statements to the Italian police, in which “he claims to be a poor man.” The page states: “Since his present residence in Italy, which dates from 1947, Luciano was interested in a pastry shop in Palermo.”

The date fits the FBI’s record that Luciano was deported from Cuba to Italy on 20 March 1947. The page does not mention Cuba. Pages 29, 31 and 73 to 75 of the report (methods of importation and Florida) were read for Havana references and contain none.

itemFinal Report of the Kefauver Committee (S. Rept. 82-725, 1951)Digitized National Archives copy of Senate Report No. 725, 82d Congress, the Final Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, ordered printed August 31, 1951.itemTestimony of Charles Siragusa, Bureau of Narcotics agent, 27 June 1951 (Kefauver Committee, Part 14, pp. 343–357)A Federal Bureau of Narcotics agent tells the Kefauver Committee of his spring 1951 work with the Italian police on Lucky Luciano and a heroin arrest at the Rome airport, and answers "Yes, sir" when asked whether narcotics distribution and smuggling is "the principal source of income of the Mafia."itemFBI report of Special Agent Leo J. Fox, Havana, 22 March 1947: Luciano's arrest and deportation, and the visits by Lansky, Siegel and CostelloThe closing report on Luciano in Cuba: arrested in Havana on 22 February 1947 and deported to Italy on 20 March 1947; 'No evidence developed indicating LUCIANO engaged in narcotic trafficking or other illegal activities in Cuba'; and 'LUCIANO admitted that MEYER LANSKY, BENJAMIN SIEGEL and FRANK COSTELLO had visited him in Cuba,' with Lansky's three Hotel Nacional registrations.