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OPTIONAL FOR. NO. 10 5010-106
MAY 1962 EDITION
.GSA GEN. REG. NO. 27
UNITED STATES GOvERNMENT
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DATE: January 7, 1965
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In connection with our intensive investigation regarding
internal strife at La Cosa Nostra's top level, which has- resulted
in the expulsion of Joseph Bonanno from the commission, a
Los Angeles top echelon criminal informant, who is the brother
of one-of Bonanno's closest confidants, has reported that Bonanno
has appealed to the parent organization in Sicily regarding
commission action taken against his group. This informant
stated, that-his brother told him that the Mafia in Sicily controlled
the United States counterpart until 1930, when the United States
j branch was granted self-governing rights.
-Concerning international aspects of La Cosa Nostra, we
have prev-iously developed interesting information, particularly
through our highly sensitive coverage of Philadelphia commission
memberiAngelo Bruno, regarding this organization's counterpart in,
Italy. This source has revealed that the Italian organization is
Ieaded bya commission, and is organized.by individual family
groups w-i-h boss, underboss, etc., in a manner similar to the
table of.organization.of this country's La Cosa Nostra, which has
its origtn in Sicily, The above source also revealed that the
United States and Italian brother organizations operate independently
in*;that7the leadership of one does not impose any mandatory control
onithat-gf the other. It was indicated that a member of the
organization from one country is not automatically aqcepted as
such in the other country, and such an individual must again prove
himself to be accepted-as a member should he move from one country
to another.,
The manner in which accepted protocol between these
groups actually functions is well exem lift4ed by Angelo Bruno's
visit to Sicily during the psWjfed fgA0during which he met
with one Calogero Sinatra, whomthe.d46scribed as recently having
been elevated to the positli6 .'bsi 'f a borgata (family) in
Sicily. While in Sicily, Brund'91so Lmetwith Joseph Ida, who had-
preceded Bruno as boss of rt-he~h-lAdelphia La Cosa Nostra family,
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