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This file is an FBI monograph on the Mafia, treating it as an organized crime and intelligence subject rather than a single criminal prosecution. The text explains that the study used informants, law enforcement material, and public sources from the United States and Europe because the Mafia was difficult to penetrate. The released pages discuss Sicilian origins, omerta, local protection rackets, forms of Mafia organization, Fascist-era prosecutions in the 1920s and 1930s, and the survival of Mafia influence after World War II. Later sections address narcotics trafficking, links between Sicilian and American Mafia figures, and the significance of visits by Giuseppe Bonanno and Carmine Galante before the 1957 Apalachin meeting.

Documents span: 1920s-1957 | Released in 4 parts
Names in this file: Giuseppe Bonanno, Carmine Galante, Napoleon Bonaparte, Niccolo Machiavelli, Cesare Borgia, Mussolini
Subjects: Mafia, organized crime, Sicilian Mafia, omerta, narcotics trafficking, Apalachin meeting