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124-10223-10350 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (01/01/1963)

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    OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 5010-107-02
    MAY 1962 EDITION
    'GSA GEN. REG. NO. 27
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          DIRECTOR, FBI                    DATE:   1/20/65


          SAC, BUFFALO (92-337)
                                  ALL INFORMATION  CONTAINED
          LA COSA NOSTRA          HEREIN IS UNCLASSIIE   -so  I9
          -ATV 1-CONSPFIR-ACY DAT 4ISt~' BY

          ReBulet, dated 12/4/64.

          Referenced Bureau  letter called to the attention
of the Buffalo Office recent  communications which make
reference to the VOLPA  family in--Toronto. From the
manner in which the  VOLPE famiily is discussed, it would
appear that sources  of the Buffalo Office are referring
to a La Cosa Nostra  family operating in the Toronto
area.  Referenced  letter instructed the Buffalo Office
to furnish the Bureau  a summary of information developed
regarding the  possible existence of a Toronto La  Cosa
Nostra group,  possibly referred to as the VOLPE  family.
           On 1/14/65, Investigator NORMAN SKELTON,
Intelligence  Unit, Royal Canadian Mounted Police  (RCMP),
at Toronto,  Ontario, Canada, advised that for  a period
of over  a year members of his unit have been  investigating
organized  crime in Toronto and the Province  of Ontario,
Canada.   He stated he has submitted lengthy  reports
relating  to the activities and background  of members of
th;s  organized criminal group.  SKELTON  stated that there
is  in existence in the Toronto, Ontario  area a group of
individuals  who are known to him as  the VOLPE faE
He  stated that this group is headed  by EUGE         E
who  to his knowledge has never been  actual    eg    ately
employed  although he has extensive  investments in a
gambling  casino on the Island  of Haiti.  He Stated
that  brothers of the VOLPE familyi are all considered
muscle  men and enforcers.,  SKELTON stated that members     1r
of  the Intelligence Unit -and the Narcotics Squad of the
Metropolitan  Toron   Pt   2'iDpartment (MTPD) also refer
to  the VOLPE family  ad   g! V,  major  racketeers in
the  Toronto area.  He  stated&that the leaders of this
group  maintain  cloq1 t4es with leading members of the
organized  criminal  eiel      #r      te    te,2, ~~

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