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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

REPORTING OFFICE

PHILADELPHIA

OFFICE OF ORIGIN

NEW YORK

TITLE OF CASE

DATE

5/14/65

REPORT MADE BY

EDWARD D. HERARTY

CHARACTER OF CASE

INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD

7/11/64 - 5/12/65

TYPED BY

све

LA COSA NOSTRA, aKa

Philadelphia Division

ANTI-RACKETEERING - CONSPIRACY

REFERENCE

Report SA EDWARD D. HEGARTY, 7/21/64, at Phila-.

delphia

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ENCLOSURES

TO BUREAU (2):

Original and one copy of letterhead memorandum

setting forth characterizations of Informants utilized 1n

this

report.

TO NEW YORK (1):

One copy of IHM setting forth characterizations

of Informants utilized in this report.

sPen

sPeCIAL AGENT

IN CHARGE

APPROVED

COPIES MADE:

- 4 - Bureau

(Enc.

2)

3 - 92-6054

- 92-2717

(ANGELO BRUNO

Newark (Info)

1 - 92-1203

1 - 92-470

New

York (Enc. 11) 192-2339)

2 - Philadelphia

192-102/

Dissemination Record/of Attached Report

Agency

CO. AAl. Criratnal Disialane

Request Rec Organized Crime s

nd Racketecring.

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DO NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW

92-6054-1074

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MAY 17 1965

Notations

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STAT. jobva

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PH 92-1027

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA

It has previously been reported that PH 701-C* was

developed as a source of information conversant with the

dally activities of RUSSELL BUFALINO in June

1964.

This informant

ceased furnishing information in October 1964. To date an

additional source

has not been developed to replace this former

valuable source.

On 3/25/65 PH 752-0* was developed and 1t 1s antici-

pated this source will eventually furnish valuable information

concerning the activities of ANGELO BRUNO. This source replaced

former Philadelphia source PH 623-C* whose reliabillty and

productivity were well known to the Bureau.

On 3/26/65 PH 753-C* was developed. This source

is in a position to furnish valuable information concerning the

activities of ICN members ERNEST PERRICONE and JAMES GATTO.

PH 591-C* continues to furnish daily information on

the activities of PETER MAGGIO, Soldato of the Philadelphia

Family of LCN, who 1s a close confidant of ANGELO BRUNO and is

BRUNO's brother-in-law.

On occasion this source has, in the

past, provided information concerning LeN of great value.

PH 734_0* was developed in December 1964 as a replace-

ment for the former PH 571-0*.

This source furnishes information

on a daily basis concerning the activities of Max WEISBaRG who

is the recognized leader of Philadelphia's

"Jewish Mob." This

source has furnished considerable valuable information concerning

activities of ANGELO BRUNO and other ICN members.:

PH 672-C-TE and PH 599-6-1E, both of whom are members

of the Philadelphia Family of ICN, continue to furnish intorma-

tion concerning the activities and identities of ICN members.

PH 521-C who was originally developed in 1951, 1s

directly knowledgeable concerning the activities of ICN members

in the Pittston and Scranton, Pa., areas. In recent months this

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Informant's potential has been fully realized and he is furnishing

Information enabling the Philadelphia Division to precisely

determine the membership of ICN members in the Pittston and

Scranton areas.

This informant 1s

a son of PH 739-PC.

PH 521-C

has advised he is not a member of

"The Organization" or of IoN;

however, his father was formerly active in

"The Organization.

An analysis of information furnished by PH 521-C leaves 11ttle

room to doubt that his father,

PH 739-PC, 1s a member of LeN.

In view of this and in view of the fact that PH 739-PC has

out in the body of this report insofar as Individual membership

is concerned.

While PH 521-C 1s neither a highly confidential

source nor an ICN member, It is believed his statements concerning

the identities of persons holding membership in

"The Organization

are sufficiently reliable to attribute ICN membership to the

persons identifled as members by him.

PH 702-C* is an investigative technique used in

connection with the assignments

given to PH 672-C-TE.

During the month of April 1965, Philadelphia sources

have advised that ICN Capodecina PHILIP TESTA and ANGELO BRUNO'S

close confidant PETER J. MAGGIO have both purchased residences in

the Southern New Jersey

areas.

The locations of these residences

have been determined and the Newark Division has been requested

to make every effort to develop highly confidential sources of

information conversant with the activities at these residences.

PH

T-1

PH

1 1-2

PH

PH

T-3

T-4

1 E=5

PH T-6

PH 591-C*

PH

| 623-0*

PH

702-C*

PH

672-C-TE

PH

599-C-TE

PH 614-C-TE

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PH T

PH T-9

PH T-10

PH T-I]

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PH 734-0*

PH 521-C

NK 2461-C*

BU

82-6*

PH 701-C*

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PH 92-1027

SIMONE and CARL IPPDLITO have considered Investments in Las

NEGRO, Me rang to Bane all to kin the "Do on"

deliberations of which body he is a

member, concerning JOSEPH

BONANNO

10/21/64 In elWoW City on member who was

allegedly kidnapped

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Details:

A. EXISTENCE OF LA COSA NOSTRA (LON)

PH T-1, T-2 and T-4 have previously advised that an

organization which bears the title ICN exists and is active in

the Philadelphia area.

This organization, according to these

three sources, bears

the name la losa Nostra.

1. PHILADELPHIA FAMILY OF LON

a: In General

On August 24, 1964, PH T-4 advised that approximately

20 years ago the organization was called the Mafia.

He recalled

how JOSEPH IDA, who was then boss of the Philadelphia Family,

picked up the gun from the table used during his ICN induction

ceremony and while holding this gun said,

"Chista representa la

Mafia, Niatri semu tutti la Mala.

(This represents the Mafia and

are all the Mafia.)

Subsequently during October 1961 informant was

He recalled on

during the induction ceremony.

BRUNO stated aloud while holding

ta Sosa Vostza:)

Natri representamu

La Cosa Nostra.

Sta famigghia è

(We represent La Cosa Nostra. This family 1s

BRUNO said aloud, "Sta famigghia si chiama La Cosa

Nostra." (This family is called La

Cosa Nostra.)

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PH T-4 said that ROCCO SCAFIDI's life was saved

GAETANO SCAFIDI.

On September 2, 1964, PH I-3 advised that PH 1-4

had a conversation with FRANK MONTE during which they discussed

the possibility of the name ICN being changed.

PH T-4 told

MoNe that he learned the name would possibly be changed from

ICH member ERNEST PERRICONE.

CAPPELLO said the ICN

and that PHIL TESTA

FRANK MONTE and FRANK NARDUCCI,

in his decina.

men like I got.

CAPPELLO complained about being a capodécina

and

said there were too many headaches involved with this

position and wished he was not Boss decina.

CAPPELLO said

that he would not want to be a

ponielleria the position of "Consiglier'" because the

does not get too involved. CAPPELLO said a

"Consiglieri is like a lawyer.

in case you got a beer or

gripe or I get a beef with

tries

you he hears the story and he

to straighten it out. Understand?"

CAPPELIO went on to say "He

„Is like a lawyer. In

other words, he 1s like a peacemaker.

PH I-4 inquired about the "Commission." CAPPELLO

said the "Commission is nihe bosses...from different states,

Irom dilterent families, the bosses of nine different families

They've been on the

commission for years and years. Like

our family, our boss (ANGELO BRUNO) 18

a representative on

•he's one.

BROWN (THOMAS LUCHESE). Eight or nine of them.

There 18 CARLO GAMBINO, there, Is TOMMY

On November 9, 1964, PH T-4 advised there are more ION

members in the Philadelphia Family of Calabrese, Ethnic extraction,

than Sicilian extraction.

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PH 92-1027

JOHN SALVO

SAM COMETA

ROSARIO MONTANTO

ANGELO POLIZZI

WIELIAM MEDICO

ANGELO MEDICO

LOUIS CONSAGRA

JOSEPH CONTESSA

JOSEPH SCALIEAT

possibly ANGELO SCIANDRA.

PH 1-8

contacted

also advised on March 10, 1955, that SANTO VOLPE

STEVE LATORRE in an effort to have the informant

brought into the Mafia as a member, but LAloRRe would not approve

this. Subsequently LatorRE was ousted from the Mafia in about

1949

or 1950.

STEVE LATORRE was sommoned to Binghamton, N.f.;

by JOSEPH BARBARA far a meeting. At the meeting the following

were present:

JOSEPH BARBARA

RUSSELL BUFALINO

JOHN and ANGELO PARRINO

LATORRE was eriticized for not cooperating with the

Mafia and

from then on he was not considered a member. LATORRE

as of 1955 was stim highly regarded by the members

particularly

che old members, and that whenever they are in the Pittston area

they visit his residence.

The following persons from the Pittston, Pa., area were

known to have been in attandance at the 1957 alleged gangland

meeting held in Apalachin, N.Y.:

RUSSELL A. BUFALINO

JAMES OSTICCO

ANGELO SCIANDRA

DOMINICK J. ALAIMO.

The identities of persons identified as being members

of the Mafia or the organization, according to PH 1-8,

are set

out hereinafter under Section C.

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