Joseph Valachi described his Mafia induction ceremony to a Senate subcommittee. His testimony was broadcast on television in the autumn of 1963. (Video has been edited.)
"This is my doom. This is the promise I'm breaking...
Even if I talked, I should never talk about this.
And I'm doing so."
Joseph Valachi is the focus of the next issue of Informer, scheduled for release in November of 2024.
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Great to see Valachi in the flesh testifying. His testimony was later debunked by many as a fairy tale invented for political objectives. But it was subsequently corroborated in Sicily and America by dozens of informers. In Sicily going back to the late 19th century. Other informers had given the FBI some of the story, but they never gave it in public. And Valachi was able to trace his relationship to Cosa Nostra to the late 1920s. Dave Critchley
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