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This file concerns William Salvatore Bonanno, also identified as Salvatore V. Bonanno, a Mafia figure in Arizona and the son of New York crime boss Joseph Bonanno. The FBI handled the matter as an anti-racketeering and criminal intelligence investigation under its Hoodlum or Top Hoodlum programs, with attention to Bonanno family activity in Tucson and Phoenix and links to Joseph Profaci and other organized crime figures. The released records include Phoenix and Bureau memoranda from 1959 to 1962, requests for federal tax returns, proposed and authorized technical and microphone surveillances, and reports on office and telephone coverage. They also include a 1962 disruption proposal involving anonymous letters about an alleged child by Helga Marriane Reynholz, plus correspondence on a Ninth Circuit appeal captioned Salvatore V. Bonanno v. Charles Thomas et al.

FBI file number: 92-HQ-4494 | Documents span: 1959-1962 | Released in 5 parts
Names in this file: William Salvatore Bonanno, Salvatore V. Bonanno, Joseph Bonanno, Joseph Profaci, Helga Marriane Reynholz, Rosalie Bonanno, Charles Battaglia, Anthony Scrivano, Charles Thomas, Joseph Baskin
Subjects: organized crime, anti-racketeering, Bonanno family, technical surveillance, FBI disruption program, Tucson