The Apalachin Meeting

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In 1957, the chance discovery of a secret gathering of the heads of the American mafia in rural New York state revealed for the first time how powerful the mafia was in the United States. Until then the FBI had refused to acknowledge there was a national mafia network in America. Louise Hidalgo has been talking to the son of the policeman, Edgar Croswell, who came upon that secret meeting in the hamlet of Apalachin. Picture: mafia man Joseph Barbara at whose country mansion the famous Apalachin meeting of senior mafia bosses was held in 1957, (Credit: Getty Images)