Mafia: The Government's Secret File on Organized Crime

HarperCollins, Oct 30, 2007 - True Crime - 843 pages

Some time in the early 1960s, during the golden age of organized crime in America—the era that would inspire The Godfather; Goodfellas, and even The Sopranos—federal investigators pulled every known piece of information on more than 800 Mafia members worldwide into a thick, phone-book-sized directory. From old-school gangsters like Lucky Luciano and Mickey Cohen to young turks like Paul Castellano and Vinny "The Chin" Gigante, the guide offered at-a-glance profiles of small-time thugs and major dons alike... and was allegedly the book Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy used to investigate the mob.

Recently discovered, and published for the first time in this facsimile edition, Mafia is a treasure trove of info on the underworld in mid-century America—a revelatory artifact and an irresistible read.

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User Review  - Tommyswife - Borders

Pros: Easy to read, brief not wordy. It is interesting to put faces on an organization that has been glamorized. It is amazing to see how much info the Govt had on so many people and they did this ...

Mafia: the government's secret file on organized crime

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Even though Herbert Hoover's FBI usually gets the credit for chasing the Mafia, it was the Treasury Department's Narcotics Bureau that spent the 1960s quietly collecting information on known members ...

Contents

• BARBETO Anthony: 3
• ABATE Antonino: 8
• AMORUSO Giuseppe: 9
• CASTELLANO Constantine: 16
• BRUNO Albert 0: 20
• GIONDINO Joseph t 110 GRIEBS 662: 75
• GOLDEN Harry t 99 GUV t 175: 79
• DIVAROO Joseph 1I1 EDDIE THE WOP 0 lil7: 90
• 381: 95
• GOODWIN Steve t 60 HAMILTON Paul 8 108: 99
• GALLO Salvadore: 175
• BONONNO Joe: 196
• DON VINCENZO 9 831 ESPOSITO Ralph 9: 213
• GALLUCCIO Frank: 231
• DAGOSTINO Antoine: 335
• BABALU 0: 360
• 136 HELM Paulie 13: 387
• DONGARRA Charles 9: 438
• BRUNO Danny: 456
• GAMBRINO Carlo 0: 460
• GARDINE Joe: 486
• GARU Charlie: 522
• BULLDOG NICK 0: 528
• GAUDINO Peter: 546
• 73 HORSEFACE 8 220: 552
• GREOO Frank 171 HOUR Paul 8 108: 571
• Property of U S Govt For Official Use Only: 572
• 189: 598
• BARATTA Peter: 604
• DONGARRA Rosario 9 U38 FACCIA Charles Henri 759: 605
• DUANE Clyde 9 68 FAT FREDDIE: 620
• 135: 664
• 339: 673
• 359: 690
• 198: 703
• GRECO Peter 798: 728
• Property of U S Govt For Official Use Only: 729
• 289: 743
• Property of U S Govt For Official On Only: 783
• Property of V S Govt For Official Use Only: 803
• 297: 806
• May not be disseminated or contents disclosed: 833

Bibliographic information

• Title: Mafia: The Government's Secret File on Organized Crime
• Contributor: United States. Dept. of the Treasury
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: HarperCollins, 2007
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Jul 28, 2009
• ISBN: 0061363855, 9780061363856
• Length: 843 pages
• Subjects: True Crime / Organized Crime