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NY 92-657 iB, Criminal Activities The following article appeared in "Newsday" on “March 2k, 1970: "BOSS, BUT NOT OF ALL BOSSES = "Carlo Gambino is the chairman of the ‘board of’. :. Cosa Nostra's ruling commission, but he has not won the dictatorial power of bors of all bosses of 2h crime families across the nation. - "The wiry, diminutive Long Island crime boss won his position of power through mob politics and gareful cul- tivation of a majority of the nine-member commission that directs the discipline and operations of Cosa Nostra and its codes. But most intelligence experts agree that his power as chairman has never reached the pinnacle of power attained by tle late Charles (Lucky) Luciano or Vito Genovese who held ee? the title of "eapo de tutti capi" (boss of all bosses.) "tThat title went out before Genovese died,’ an intelligence source said. ‘The crime family bosses after -Genovese went to jail eliminated such power because they reer . . .. wanted one man to have such control over their destinies.! ; “’ But Gambino's cunning has enabled the 67-year-old crime boss 2: ,. ,. to win a majority of the votes on the commission, making him the most powerful of the nation's 24 crime leaders,