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Agency Infonnation AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: 124-10293-10289
RECORD SERIES : HQ
AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 92-6054-2145
·· ' Document lnfonnation ORJGINA TOR : FBI FROM: DEVLIN, JOHN PATRICK TO : DIRECTOR, FBI
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DATE : I 0/03/1967 PAGES: 42
SUBJECTS: LCN, COMMISSION, LEADERSHIP, MEMBERSHIP, NJ, CRIMINAL ACT DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION : Unclassified RESTRICTIONS : 4 CURRENT STATUS : Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07110/1998
OPENING CRITERIA : TNDEFINITE
COMMENTS: RPT, TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE 2
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I' OAT&:: INVESTIG A TIVE PERIO D R'BWAU 1 10/3/67 6/16/66 9/27/67
TITLE OF CASE ! RI!PORT MAOE eY TYPED BV I JOHR P&TRICK DB'fLil( jta LA OOSA ROSTRA , alta CHARACTE R OF CASE IJIWAU DIVISIOK ... _.:· AB - COIISPIRACY
&D'BBBICBS: Repor t of SA J'OD .PATBICZ DBVLDJ dated 6/15/66 at lfewark; · · Bureau airte1 dated 8/11/67. -P*-·\ aa..osuus TO BUREAU (2) i I Enclosed for the Bureau are two (2) copies of an LBM characterizing the inforaant~ utilized in this report. . TO REI YOU (1) Enclosed for Hew Yor k is one .(1) copy of an LBI characterizing the inforaants utilized in this re rt.
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' r~ . Nit 92-.1203 .·...... ·. =. ·; ; The following have been identified as members s~nce last report: Family MICHAEL ANGELO BOVB GAMBINO ANTHONY CARIMINATI " . . JOSEPH MANFREDI " 5 ,· Sources reporting on LCN activity are:
~ . BK 2428-C-TB, a ~aber source Hit 2207·-C-TE RJt ~315-C-TB f NK 2342-C-TE j . NK 23 76-C-TE · NK 2443-C-TE NK 2462-C-TE HK 2480-C-TE HK 2603-C-TE Nit 2327-PC HK 2541-PC Nit 2642-PC . NK 27Q.7 -PC . . . . IN!'ORMANTS
HK T-1 is NK 2342-C..TB...... BK T-2 is NK 2451-PC.
'\- NK T-3 is NK 2207-C-TE. HK T-4 is NK 2376-C-TE.
NK T-5 is NY 4729-C-TE. '.
Nit T-6 is NK 2428-C-TE.
BX T-7 is NK 2443-C-TE. ~ -· ·n T-8 is NK' 2381-C-TE. Nit T-9 is NX' 2642-PC. RK T-10 1s NK 2315-C.
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•, ~K T-12 is NY . 4754-PCo KK ·T-13 is NK 2335-C • .NK T-14 is NY 3864-C-TB (deceased). NK T-15 is NY 4402-C-TB. NK T-16 is JOSEPH VALACHI.
..· 8K T-17 is NK 2~27-C-TB • ' · NK T-~8 lS· NK 1827•C. NK T-19 iS· NK 2319-C*.
NK. T-20 is NK 24~1-C*. HK T-21 ls.NK 2462~C-TB. HK T-22 iS PH 5Ql-C* • .
NK T-23 1s NK 2603-C-TB. NK T-24 ·is NK 2541-PC. NK T-25 is NY 5526-C-TE. NK T-26 is NK 2155-C.
H' T-27 iS NK 2251-C*. NK T-28 is NK 2423•C.
NK T-29 is NY 3803-C-TB.
NK T-30 is NK 1989-C (Former). NK 'r-31 is NY 3368-C-TEo
· NK T~32 is ~ 3461.;.C-TB. • NK T-33 iS NK 2438-C •. · ... NK T-34 is Fo_rme~ PCij.... ______, OTHE R 4 NK T-35 is· NK 2480-C-TE. . ·.. ': -D- ·: "...... , .. ··' j ' ' COVER PAGE ..... ; .. ·. .., ~ . . ... ! ...... ····- - - ··· . ------.J . - - ··....------Q
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T~38 · . ... NK iS SF 2550-C-TE. t , •. "· . U .T-39 is PB 672-C-TB. Nit T-40 iS PH 623-C*~ ~~: .: ·.·:: :. ·ME T~41 "i$ PH- 702-C*. LEAD NEWARK Will follow LCN activity Newark Division and submit yearly report wben due. PHILADELPHIA (INFORMATmON) Information copy being designated for Philadelphia in view of tbe activity of tbe BRUNO family, wbicb is set fortb in tbis report.
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.'J .~ .n t~.t. ~i.t. ion. A vote ·on th.iS po1Dt is supposed· to ~ '· .·· taken_soon. ZICABBLLI hopes tbat the vote will go against ... ~: :- .. ~im as .. he::;:·~.n.t~ .o.u.t _ .of_: ~.bi~. ·position. According to this SQurce,
ZICABBLLI is not cut out for a position of big leadership and he . :. .· cannot s.taild the. pressure. ·
Again on ·n..,ce•b•r 7 . ~ 1966, .source advtsed··.that vote tor ZICABELLI'~ promotion is scheduled for the near future and I: the New York fj6ople are putting a .. lot of pressure to .. bring the matter to a bead • ...... · i~~/~ .. .. ·. . This source also adv1sed·on February 1, 1967, .that he ba4 recently. .talked with RALPH DE .MBGLIO, s .trong-arm man for LCK fi~·e ·JOSEPH ZICABELL·x.· Proia thiS conversation, he learned that ZICABBIJ·I and DE : YmLIO drove to a spot in' New York City where they were :.met by e'ight· individuals, four in each ·of two ·automobiles. ·ziCARBIJ,I was put in .' the back seat of· .one : car l . betweentwo· menand ·DE :MBGLIO 1D the. back seat of the other car. Each of the·· cars: took off iil.' separate directions~ . but SOme time later arrived at 'the same. place. DE' MBGLIO confided that ·he thought that ·both.he and ZI~I were going ~~ be·. "hit." . . ZICARELLI and DE MEGLIO had been taken· to the residence of Laf boss JOSEPH BONA!iHO. BOBANRO had called .in ZICABBLLI and . DE IIEGLIO j-t· went along for -the ride. Pram. what :DE MBGLIO · · said, BONARRO is ·trying ' desperately to .regain. his farmer ·position as boss of the LCM family of JOSEPH BONANNO ~ .This ·position is currently held by. GASPARB DB -GBBGOBIO. Informant said. that from what ZICARELLI appare~tly _ told . DB MBGLIO .after the meetiDg, BONANNO wants .ZICABELLI . in· tbe same position (underboss) that. he .fl:olds ·f.or ·nE G~BI_G _if BOHABIIO is able to regain his ·control.
~. I~ELLI. ~ a~co;r.ding .to DE lm.GL.I.O, is "sc•red to death" because he feels that he is in the middl~ of this power struggle ~tween 'BONANNO and DB GREGORIO and t~t be,' ZICARELLI, could very easily wind· up dead. BONAlfNO is seeking ZICABBI·lrl •s support ·in 'his ·bid to· regain control of his old. LCN family.
· On February 28., 1967,- HK T-4 advised that during the ·. week of February 20, 1967, JOSBPB ZICABELLI met with ''BILLY" BONANNO, son of JOSEPB ·BoNARNO, LCR boss, at the Walk Inn . Restaurant, Cliffsid~ Park, New Jersey, which is owned . by ERNEST "TUBBY'" DAVINO. BONANNO was accompanied by two of his strong-arm men, VITO and TONY. ZICARBLLI · was accompanied by .his strong-arm •n, RALPH DE MEGLIO·. At the -c·onclusion of this meeting, ZICARELLI . was "s~ky."
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'NK 92-1203 ~. .=· . .. .· .. ·. ; . ·- while he, informant·, waited nearby at CIUP.rlie's Tavern, which ...... I• • I is Joeate(\ on Prince Street near La Fayette Stree.t, New· York · ;··~ :...,. •' City. T~~ tavern is owned. by DAHZO's brother and iS used as .· .. ·~ .. a meeting... . place f .or the hood lullS. . ..·• On the same date, informant advised that DANZO, aft.er · ~onferring wl~b FBAifK SALERNO, discussed ~he followin~ -~
Be said .. t~ t the "rea;a. leaders'~ in ·"the ~ganiza ~ion" · ar~ .the. "old Mustangs" who •r:e ali\C)St never see~ ·and m0st of · whom do not even-speak English~ ·ue.:said that the ones who are a.rreste~ and ma~e the ·J)apers are powerful the•elves, but that
the- "Mus:tangs'' .' give. . them their orders. . . DANZO said that tbe. PRQPACI family of LCH (now known as the· JGSBPB OOJ,GIIBO family)· is by· far the most ·powerful of LCH .• This family controls. the underworld activities in Chicago, Illinois, Las Vegas, Nevada, New OrleaDS, Louisian$, all of California and ·Puerto ~ico, and ·tbe alleged LCN family bosses of those areas, t;;uch as CARLOS liAR~ and SANTO TRAFICANTE, actually aD~Jw.er to COLOMBO and pay "dues" to· that fa•ilY.• According to DANZO, Hew Jersey family boss SAMUEL DB CAVALCANTE is also. "under". . . . COLOMBO- . . - . · DANZO's. daughter· recently ·married SALVATORE PROFACI, JR. Ae.cordilig · to DANZO, this . is the fi~st ·.time that any · , : .. ·~connected" guy was ·ever allowed to marry outs ide the "family.!' . ' Be said that PROFACI'; JB. is being groomed to become a . big boss { in "the Organiza·tion." . ·· · ·· . On October 20, 1966, Nit . T-4· advised that THOMAS EBOLI is not running the VITO GENOVESE family of LCH while GENOVESE is 1D j~il. The: rea1 power in the family ·is 74 year old MIKE MIRANDA.
. . On · OC~Qber 27, 1966, NK T-4 advised that the pOsition ot boss of the present· DB CAVALCANTB. family was first offer.ed · . to ANTORIO ROCCO CAPONIGRO upon· the 4eath of DELMORE • . CAPOBIGRO, whom source de!Scribed·.as· a C&poregime 1D ANGELO ~RUNO's Phila~~lpbia. LeN family, turned the position ~Qwn.
· . According ··;tO, th~s sour~e, everything in south Jersey; includ·ing DB e&yALCAHTB's family, is under. ANGELO BRUNO. • ·.
~. .. . . This ~ource also advised on January 11 '· · 1967, that "all the guys working under .caponigro" .fight one another for· the top jobs because CAPONIGRO "treats" th~se men so ·good. 'I ; '<.. \ ' \ ...... ~ ...... \ ( ...... ( ) f'. ~ 8 I • . ... ,, .
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NK 92-1203 · .' .. . . ·. ~ } . .· . . ~ -,.; '· . - on November 1, 1966, NK ·T-8 advised that lie had .. · b•en told -_by one "GUS", a .Greek. from .Bridgeport, Connecticut, ... who c-laimed to be very close to PAUL AGRESTA, also· known as j · "Paul The Greaser," of Bridgeport, that · AGRESTA and ZICARELLI ~...... are in the .same "family ~ ' and that although AGRESTA was higher 1D rank than ZICAREIJ.I ,. . ZICABBLLI was well respected•
. on November 30, 1966, NK T-8 advised that- JOE .. ,.:.. ZICARELLI stated that 'JOE ADONIS' ·son-' (JOSEPH MICHAEL DOTO) is being :groomed for an important -position .in the ~Of. On January 4, 1967, NK T-3 advised that even -though DE CAVALCANTE has· his awn New Jersey LCN family, he still answers to the "big boys" in Brooklyn. ,. · . . on January 11, 1967, NK T~4 advised that he was · recently in the company of several members of the LCN family of JOSEPH BONANNO and from their conversation, it .was appar~nt that they ar~ . UDhappy with JOB BORAHNO as a boss·. Sour~e got 'V the impression ·that BOBANBO·. was. due· for a "hit" although this· was not openly discussed.
SALVATORE PROFACI, JR., son of the late New York City LCN family boss .JOSEPH PROFACI, is married to the daughter of. JOSEPH ''WHITEY" DANZG, who is closely associated with SAMUEL· · .. DE CAVALCANTE :. . NK T-3 on January 19, 1967, advised that DANZO ciaims that SALVATORE PROFACI', JR. iS. being groomed for the purpose of some day having a bigresponsibility in the affairs of L~.
· on~ March 9, 1967, NK T-9 advised that he recently viSited FRANK MAJURI in MAJURI's home. Be said that MAJURI told him that he is "worried to death" because ·there is .trouble brewing in· SAMUEL DE CAVALCANTE's family. Sour~e said ·that_ SAM is hogging everything a~d is not cutting up the action just like "BIG PHI~" AMARI did years ago. Informant said .that there is· discontentment -among the people working for SAM and that trouble has to come~ DE CAVALCANTE does not trust MAJURx' because MAJUBI· has a tendency to take·mQney that does not belong to him and run. Be said. that MAJURI bas done thiS i~ the past but because of his closeness to DB .CAVALCANTE, has gotten away with it. Informant s~id that DE CAVALCANTE goes regularly to MAJURI's _home fqr · ~ dinner and that everytime he, informant, iS there, DE CAVALCANTE shows up. 9
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