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Title page of Part 1: "Organized Crime and Illicit Traffic in Narcotics. Hearings before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations," Eighty-Eighth Congress, First Session, September 25, 27, October 1, 2, 8, and 9, 1963, with Bureau of Narcotics library and NCJRS stamps.
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Organized Crime and Illicit Traffic in Narcotics, Part 1 (September 25 to October 9, 1963)

The first printed volume of the 1963 Senate hearings: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy's opening testimony, Joseph Valachi's public testimony, New York police witnesses, Exhibit 8 and Charts A to E.

Date
1963-09-25/1963-10-09
Kind
hearing
Source
National Criminal Justice Reference Service, scan of the printed hearings (NCJ 119303)
Retrieved
2026-10-12
Docket
Organized Crime and Illicit Traffic in Narcotics: Hearings before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations, United States Senate, 88th Cong., 1st sess., pursuant to S. Res. 17, 88th Cong., Part 1
Rights
A work of the United States Senate, printed by the Government Printing Office. Public domain in the United States. 17 U.S.C. § 105. The NCJRS cover sheet records reproduction permission as "Public Domain / U.S. Senate."

Part 1 of the printed hearings of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, “Organized Crime and Illicit Traffic in Narcotics.” The title page reads: Eighty-Eighth Congress, First Session, pursuant to Senate Resolution 17, 88th Congress, Part 1, September 25, 27, October 1, 2, 8, and 9, 1963. It covers printed pages 1 to 396, which are NCJRS PDF pages 2 to 424.

It opens with the testimony of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy on September 25. Joseph Valachi testified in public from September 27 to October 9. New York police witnesses testified alongside him. The contents page lists Exhibits 1 to 16 and “Charts printed in the record” A to E, at printed pages 248, 274, 294, 308 and 313. Chart C is bound out of order, after printed page 162. Several exhibits, among them criminal records and photographs, were filed with the subcommittee and not printed.

This archive cites the National Criminal Justice Reference Service scan, a 1,650-page PDF of all five parts and the index. The copy is the Bureau of Narcotics library copy. The Internet Archive holds no copy of these hearings, and govinfo does not carry Senate hearings of this date. HathiTrust’s catalog lists a full-view copy, but its page viewer could not be opened when this record was made.

itemTestimony of Joseph Valachi, September 27, 1963Valachi's first public day before the Senate subcommittee. He gave his birth date and sentences, said he joined "Cosa Nostra" in 1930, and set out its ranks.itemTestimony of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, September 25, 1963Kennedy opened the 1963 hearings. His prepared statement says that Joseph Valachi was "an insider" who had "broken the underworld's code of silence," and that "Cosa Nostra is run by a commission."itemExhibit No. 8: "Masseria-Maranzano War and Evolution of Gang Control—1930 to Present"Staff fold-out chart presented on October 1, 1963: the 1930 to 1931 war in three key-coded groups and the lines of succession drawn from it to five 1963 bosses. Several name boxes are illegible in the scan.itemChart A: "The Vito Genovese Family"New York police fold-out chart presented on October 8, 1963, with photographs, FBI or police numbers and an activity code. A star marks names "identified by Joseph Valachi."itemOrganized Crime and Illicit Traffic in Narcotics, Part 2 (October 10 to 16, 1963)The second printed volume: police testimony and organization charts for Detroit, Chicago, Tampa, Rhode Island and Boston, and Buffalo, entered as Exhibits 17 to 69.