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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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