Record
Hearing
1964-07-30
National Criminal Justice Reference Service, scan of the printed hearings (NCJ 119303)
Narcotics hearings, Part 4, printed pages 931-932: Belk and the Bureau's exhibit on Chicago's supply from New York
Mr. Belk of the Bureau of Narcotics' New York office, formerly in Chicago, said Chicago's narcotics came "Primarily" from New York City, and the Bureau's Exhibit 4 described Italian organizations and independent Black organizations, both with New York sources, supplying Chicago.
- Date
- 1964-07-30
- Kind
- hearing
- 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. 278, 88th Cong., Part 4
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- 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."
Printed pages 931 and 932 of Part 4 (NCJRS PDF pages 1057 and 1058), afternoon session of 30 July 1964. Subcommittee counsel Mr. Adlerman questioned Mr. Belk, who agreed that he was the Director of the Bureau’s New York office and had headed its Chicago office. Asked where the narcotics coming into Chicago came from, Belk answered: “Primarily New York City.” The subcommittee then received his “History of Narcotic Traffic” as Exhibit No. 4.
The exhibit says Chicago “is supplied primarily by New York City” and distributes to midwestern and southwestern cities. It continues: “There are Italian organizations, with sources of supply in New York, which distribute heroin to Italian violators of lesser importance and to major Negro violators. There are also independent Negro organizations which have Italian sources in New York and which transport heroin to Chicago for sale within their organizations.” (The OCR prints “Itn.lian”; the word is corrected here.) It adds that a Puerto Rican, Spanish-speaking element obtained drugs from Mexico, and then describes a Kansas City-Chicago combine.
These are the Bureau’s descriptions. The racial and ethnic categories are its own, and this page names none of the people in them. Belk’s first name is not printed on these pages.
