Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: DIRECTOR, FBI
To: SAC, SI
Document date: 10/28/1964
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote).

DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK Assassination System

Date:

5/19/201

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10278-10376

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

92-6054-800

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: DIRECTOR, FBI

TO:

SAC, SI

TITLE :

DATE: 10/28/1964

'PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

LN, INSTR, MEMBERSHIP, EXISTENCE, RELATIONSHIP,

COMMISSION

DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

. CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 06/26/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

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eleased under The John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 714-Ust 2107 Note).

-DATE: 11-14-2017

10/28/64

1 - Mr. Leggett

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To:

SAC, Springfield

From: Director, FBl

LA COSA NOSTRA

AR - CONSPIRACY

It is noted that considerable information has been

developed in recent months regarding the existence of La Cosa

Nostra and the identities of leaders and members in your division.

A great deal of this information has come from MI 623-C-TE, who

for many years has been personally acquainted with a number of

important Cosa Nostra figures in the Springfield area.

You are to carefully review this and other pertinent

material and advise the Bureau by 11/12/64 of your plans to

maintain a thorough and continuing project to fully develop your

investigation of La Cosa Nostra in the Springfield Division.

has been noted previously, the lack of information on the

prevalence of La Cosa Nostra existence and activity in a given

area cannot be construed to mean that it does not exist in such

a locale, but rather, intany instances, that there are no

available highly placed sources capable of furnishing reliable

data on this phenomenon in the organized underworld, as recent

experience in your division has again illustrated.

In order to fully develop our intelligence picture

of La Cosa Nostra nationally, it is necessary that each office,

covering an area having La Cosa Nostra membership and existende,

completely determine the make-up of such a group locally, and

its relationship to more important "families" and/or the

"Commission."

This matter is to receive immediate attention and you

are to establish logical and continuing investigative procedures

which wil enable you

attain the coverage necessary in this

Bureau-wide investigate?

New York

OCT 2 8 1964

91-6051-800

'OMM-EBI

18 OCT 29 1964

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