FOIA
THE CASE OF THE F.B.I. MAN AND BOMBING OF THE MAFIA
Document Type:
Collection:
Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
CIA-RDP11M01338R000400340068-9
Release Decision:
RIFPUB
Original Classification:
K
Document Page Count:
2
Document Creation Date:
December 27, 2016
Document Release Date:
September 6, 2013
Sequence Number:
68
Case Number:
Publication Date:
June 11, 1971
Content Type:
OPEN SOURCE
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' Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/09/06: CIA-RDP11M01338R000400340068-9
DATE (1:04 1 I PAGE 1
THE NEW YORK TIMES
1 %mime t
' The t ase_ofthe F.B.I. Man
And Bombing of the Mafiai
By ROBERT M. SMITH'
Spectal to The New York Times
that he was asked to mak(
explosives under the stheets
his hospital bed: ;
The case also involves: a city
so heavy with Mafia influencx
that the police chief went tC
Joe Bananas, the promineni
Mafia figure, and told him thi
police did not want. anythinf
to happen to two witnesses be:
fore they could testify; somi
Justice-Department officials it
Washington who do not knom
whether the case is open a
closed; and an F.B.I. apparent13
so beffled by the events, eves
though one of its .own. agent':
was allegedly involved, that i
stain d the case unsolved an;
stoppeAapv1.0tigating. 1
Reliable sotireesreport the'
ta Stu& _
TUCSON, Ariz., June 9?The
Federal prosecutor here plans
to take before a grand jury this
summer the bizarre case of a
former agent of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation who
allegedly plotted bombings to
foment gang warfare among
menibers of the Mafia.
The ease, which has lain like
a desert haze over this, resort
city, harks back to 20 bomb-
ings in 1968 and 1969: It in-
volves the F.B.I., the Mafia,
the suicide of a womb, "prom-
inent .persons" in the city, an
alleged proposal to kill Joseph
(Joe Bananas) Bonanno's body-
guard with a crossbow, and the
testiniony of ftt'-vrnYdRrran
. ? `._ - -
Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/09/06: CIA-RDP11M01338R00040034nnmq
1
' Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/09/06: CIA-RDP11M01338R000400340068-9
DATE (1:04 1 I PAGE 1
THE NEW YORK TIMES
1 %mime t
' The t ase_ofthe F.B.I. Man
And Bombing of the Mafiai
By ROBERT M. SMITH'
Spectal to The New York Times
that he was asked to mak(
explosives under the stheets
his hospital bed: ;
The case also involves: a city
so heavy with Mafia influencx
that the police chief went tC
Joe Bananas, the promineni
Mafia figure, and told him thi
police did not want. anythinf
to happen to two witnesses be:
fore they could testify; somi
Justice-Department officials it
Washington who do not knom
whether the case is open a
closed; and an F.B.I. apparent13
so beffled by the events, eves
though one of its .own. agent':
was allegedly involved, that i
stain d the case unsolved an;
stoppeAapv1.0tigating. 1
Reliable sotireesreport the'
ta Stu& _
TUCSON, Ariz., June 9?The
Federal prosecutor here plans
to take before a grand jury this
summer the bizarre case of a
former agent of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation who
allegedly plotted bombings to
foment gang warfare among
menibers of the Mafia.
The ease, which has lain like
a desert haze over this, resort
city, harks back to 20 bomb-
ings in 1968 and 1969: It in-
volves the F.B.I., the Mafia,
the suicide of a womb, "prom-
inent .persons" in the city, an
alleged proposal to kill Joseph
(Joe Bananas) Bonanno's body-
guard with a crossbow, and the
testiniony of ftt'-vrnYdRrran
. ? `._ - -
Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/09/06: CIA-RDP11M01338R00040034nnmq
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