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Title page of Part 2: "Organized Crime and Illicit Traffic in Narcotics," Eighty-Eighth Congress, First Session, October 10, 11, 15, and 16, 1963, with NCJRS and Bureau of Narcotics library stamps.
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Organized 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.

Date
1963-10-10/1963-10-16
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., pursuant to S. Res. 17, 88th Cong., Part 2
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 2 covers the hearings of October 10, 11, 15 and 16, 1963, under Senate Resolution 17, 88th Congress. It runs from printed page 397 to 625, which are NCJRS PDF pages 425 to 695. The contents and exhibit list are at NCJRS PDF pages 427 to 429, where “Paste in” marks the fold-out charts.

Local police witnesses testified city by city. Detroit came first, on October 10 and 11, with Commissioner George C. Edwards and Inspector Vincent W. Piersante. Chicago followed on October 11, with William L. Duffy and a statement by Deputy Superintendent Joseph Morris. Tampa and Rhode Island were heard on October 15, with Neil G. Brown and Walter E. Stone. Buffalo came last, on October 16, with Commissioner William H. Schneider, Michael Amico and Samuel Giambrone. The regional organization charts are Exhibits 18, 39, 40, 45, 53, 64 and 65. Many other exhibits were filed and not printed.

This archive has read the Chicago statement and the chart presentations closely. The Detroit, Tampa, Rhode Island and Buffalo testimony is recorded here only at volume level.

itemStatement of Deputy Superintendent Joseph Morris, Chicago Police Department, October 11, 1963A Chicago police history of the syndicate placed in the 1963 hearing record. It states that Paul Ricca led after Frank Nitti's 1943 suicide, and that Tony Accardo "became the syndicate boss in 1943."itemExhibit No. 18: "The Mafia Organization in the Detroit Area"Detroit Police Department fold-out chart presented on October 10, 1963: a "Ruling Council," "The Big Men," and lower tiers, with photographs, a relationship legend and a criminal-activity code.itemExhibit No. 39: "Chicago-Italian Organization, Overall Chicago Area Bosses and Lieutenants"Chicago Police Department fold-out chart presented on October 11, 1963, with photographs, grouped as overall bosses and lieutenants and then by district.itemExhibit No. 45: "The Mafia Organization in the Tampa, Florida Area"Tampa fold-out chart entered on October 15, 1963: New York links, Tampa predecessors, an "elder," a "top man" and numbered members. The "Top Man" box is illegible in the scan.itemExhibit No. 53: "Rhode Island and Boston, Mass. Organization"Fold-out chart entered on October 15, 1963, with a "former boss" residing in Italy, a man labelled "Boss," and Rhode Island and Boston members below.itemExhibit No. 64: "Buffalo, N.Y. Organization"Buffalo police fold-out chart entered on October 16, 1963, with a boss of "Entire Western N.Y. Area," an underboss, lieutenants and section leaders.