Joe Valachi: The First Ever Mafia Member Who Snitched To CIA | Mafia's Greatest Hits

[@Come-Jesus-Come]

What a terrible deal. Tell on everyone and you still get life in prison.

[@julioe.martinez4606]

That’s the government

[@curiouslyme524]

Agree. He was very courageous.

[@Frosty98206]

Same thing happened to Casso he Flipped after doing a Blood Purge in his own Family/Wacking out several other members of Different family(Gambino's), The feds ripped up his deal 🤝, Cooperate & still get life than what's the Point 🤷‍♂️of flipping in the first place, Gaining Peace of Mind 🧠.

[@joeb5678]

@@Frosty98206he actually got caught telling lies and kept on breaking his cooperating agreement! Big difference from this clown

[@Gonefishing6572]

You make me laugh. He was what? You clowns forget he was a hit man for the family. He was ripped off? I was 11 when I heard my first family hit on my way to school. Dummy slept with the wrong woman. 😊

[@tatata1543]

The interesting thing about all this is that the Mafia existed way before the FBI and was extremely active all through Hoover’s time in charge and yet he spent years denying it even existed and only really went after them as a result of Appalachin meeting and Valachi talking allowing Bobby Kennedy to pressure him into action. All very odd.

[@djquinn11]

The Mob had compromising photos of Hoover and his boyfriend, Clyde Tolsen.

[@tatata1543]

@@djquinn11 yea, I heard that one . If that was the case why did they never release them?

[@blackjohnny9570]

Hoover spent his time chasing Marcus Garvey and later the black panthers. And yea I heard he was being blackmailed by mob.

[@LeftistJuden]

If they release them they lose the power the pictures held Supposedly Hoover in a dress giving head to a man Supposedly Lanksy got the picture from another Jewish bootlegger and Roy Cohn

[@aceloco817]

​@@tatata1543tmz didn't exist to offer a good check for those pictures. 😅

[@alking6633]

I LOVE how metal pipes are lying around in the prison yard. ❤❤

[@Ceerads]

Yeah, that’s crazy!

[@richinmass]

Right?? Left by construction workers is just crazy!

[@lvi8957]

😅

[@citypopradioFM]

This was the 1960s. Doing time in prison was different than now.

[@leonama6876]

😂 right!?

[@Aristotelezz]

One thing I don't understand: Why would Vito Genovese let Valachi know he was gonna be killed? What's the benefit of that? It could make Valachi turn against him, and the mob. For Genovese that could mean death...

[@wraynephew6838]

Because Vito did not put out a hit on him. Valachi imagined everything and took everyone down with his imagination.

[@Aristotelezz]

@@wraynephew6838 In life we all make mistakes. In the mob they may be all added up. You never know what the boss is thinking. I can imaging Valachi's paranoia...

[@ZacharyWilson-25]

​@@wraynephew6838exactly this. If Vito Genovese wanted him dead while they were in the same prison together, he would have been killed as he found out about it. The mob, not even the crazier ones don't warn people before killing them, closest to that would be an open hit put on someone

[@citypopradioFM]

Because it didn't happen like that. Genovese likely thought that Valachi was ratting since they were in prison for the same case with his sentence being way lower, but Genovese was a maniac who murdered people for nothing all the time. Nobody at that time who was deep in the life had ever flipped and named everyone to anyone. That's why Valachi was significant; he told on everyone and named names like it was nothing. Nobody had done that before.

[@normankato]

Colin Teirney voice is a masterpiece 🙌

[@3BK235Y]

And beautiful, educated British English to boot.

[@Ceerads]

But he pronounces “Mafia” as “Mah-fia,” instead of “Ma-fia.”

[@3BK235Y]

@@Ceerads Typical British pronunciation. Most good English/British dictionaries show that difference (Oxford, Collins, Cambridge, for example). But that shouldn't bother Americans.

[@Ceerads]

@@3BK235Y Thank you. I figured as much, and I usually appreciate British pronunciation (the various British accents). But with the word “Mafia”….🤠

[@3BK235Y]

@@Ceerads Perhaps just another of our British excentricities. 😀 Cheers.

[@ABeautfulMess]

Oh the ease to murder but the fear of death.. quite the conundrum

[@3BK235Y]

The exceptions are very few.

[@reujr]

That’s how it be

[@citypopradioFM]

Nobody wants to die.

[@ABeautfulMess]

@citypopradioFM yeah but if you don't gives two shiits about someone else's shouldn't have the balls to take what comes. IMO

[@Jay-Leigh863]

Why say CIA in the header when he snitched to the FBI? Is that really too difficult to get right?

[@SSNESS]

Forget about it 🤌

[@citypopradioFM]

Clickbait because most people are stupid and can't differentiate between the significance of the FBI and CIA.

[@angrypidgeon1714]

what's the difference? government mafia is government mafia

[@Jay-Leigh863]

@@SSNESS my ocd doesn't let me forget about it

[@liamwilsonwright4116]

He wouldn’t have been the first snitch but what he did was still bad though for the mob and was one of many that eventually brought the mob down. The mob still exists just not as it used to be back then.

[@curiouslyme524]

Agree. They're still around for sure.

[@danielgood2662]

He definitely wasn't the first snitch but was definitely the first to testify

[@williamlondon6269]

DUI conviction penalties are NOT NEARLY severe enough in this country

[@rickallen1908]

I agree I lost my girlfriend when we were 14. She was walking on a sidewalk. He got 3 years. That was 1971..

[@danielwitmer3242]

@@rickallen1908 He must have been italian, everyone knows the Sicilians run the show and Italians are just the same as todays Thugs. So whats the difference beween an Itallian and Sicilian you ake? Aout 200 million!

[@justisinus]

Superbly narrated by Mr. Tierney

[@3BK235Y]

The voice, the beautiful, educated, elegant British accent, everything about him as narrator is good .

[@Sosolidcrew]

"Omerta" code of silince !! Th mob have been ratting on each other since the beggining of time

[@mlassz009]

' beginning ' I am the Spelling Mafia...be warned

[@bigwoogc]

​@@mlassz009😄🤫

[@bigwoogc]

Also : 'silence'

[@mlassz009]

@bigwoogc To be honest, half the stuff I post on KZbin, looks like it's been produced by an illiterate 5yr old

[@fullyoutkast3320]

😂​@@mlassz009

[@edlocks5112]

So this guy was so paranoid that he kills an innocent man....then rats on evryone only to still get life in prison 😂😂😂 smh embarrassing

[@mashmaina716]

😂😂

[@truracer20]

The flip side was to be murdered, or sent to the electric chair. These days he would have been given full immunity for the information he gave and the family of the man he killed would have received no justice.

[@jaymack6864]

😂😂😂

[@citypopradioFM]

He told to live the rest of his prison sentence under comfortable detention without fear of the chair or the yard murdering him. He was protected by the government the whole time.

[@dakalodk]

he wasa big loser

[@DebyMorgan]

Excellent video.

[@rocketcityrob343]

The kiss of death is insane

[@werockcocaine]

bruh!

[@galebanks252]

I read the Valachi Papers when I was in elementary school...been intrigued by the Mafia ever since

[@amina-pr8xt]

How you make this deeplink ?

[@sharrielee911]

Very interesting indeed...thx for sharing😊

[@benf1111]

Now we have billionaires pulling heists in the open and having the government foot the bill because they're too big to fail.

[@mattsweeny3957]

Its crazy that a hit man (Valachi) that killed many was so terrified of dying himself

[@citypopradioFM]

Nobody wants to die.

[@rexbanner4608]

This documentary says that the first five bosses of the commission were Genovese, Gambino, Magliocco, Bonanno and Lucchese. This is wrong. It was Luciano (later became Genovese), Mangano (later became Gambino), Magliocco (later became Lucchese), Prafaci (later became Colombo). The only one this doc right was Bonanno as an original boss on the commission.

[@silverstem2964]

The CIA doesn't deal with mob cases, that's the FBI's gig.

[@gtagameplayvidz]

Everyone knows this. What, does that have to do with Valachi being a rat?

[@ZacharyWilson-25]

Yeah, CIA is more likely to help organized crime in America like protecting the French connection or supplying Rick Ross and shit like that. FBI definitely are the ones to go after this kind of thing, DEA if drugs are involved and maybe ATF

[@algrand52]

The Valachi Papers is my dad's favorite Charles Bronson movie.

[@BrianHamilton-zv6on]

Great watch

[@williamemerson1799]

This would've been a lot more enjoyable if it hadn't been for all of that annoying background "music".

[@TS-1267]

... My Mam Hates Loud Background Music, Or "Bloody Whispering" & Really Loud Adverts 😂😂😂

[@williamemerson1799]

@@TS-1267 Yeah, I guess it's common amongst us oldsters.😎

[@nickchambers3935]

It's pretty stupid to suggest that they didn't know the literal meaning of Cosa Nostra until Valachi told them. Of course they didn't know what it referred to but do you really think they couldn't look up the meaning of two simple Italian words?

[@citypopradioFM]

These were WASPs who didn't care to know Italians and their street culture, language, or lives in those days because they had no concern to know it. They just called them hoodlums. Hoover denied the existence of the concept of organized crimes since forever so it's not a reach to realize that Valachi was a whole education being on the record for them to learn from it.

[@vincentbarney3091]

The same Joe Valachi who squeal to the Senate committee about organize crime!?!

[@citypopradioFM]

D'oh!

[@richinmass]

Very entertaining!

[@igordrakulovic6857]

So many nuns in the courtroom .. WHY ?

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

Deus Vult

[@ScottieWallace]

@@igordrakulovic6857 catholicism is a front for the mafia/elders of Zion.

[@BensonCaisip]

"I knew it was you, Joe. You broke my heart. You broke my heart!"

[@3BK235Y]

7:00-7:15 That sound quite different from the "deals" criminals are offered today. 32:09-32:17 Board of Directors of the great corporations are not much different from that.

[@jyfg5]

The bosses really ruined a good thing with their stupidity.

[@q11k79]

whats the music for your intro?

[@mattsweeny3957]

A soldier in a Million man army is not the same as a soldier in a 450 man army...Ratio vastly different

[@pnojazz]

Valachi out lived Bobby Kennedy!

[@SuzanPeters-p4e]

Joe was the hero of decent society. Thanks Joe.

[@KurlandsWaterbeds]

You must be joking !!

[@88napolitano]

Little did Valachi😮 know the impact he made.And the throngs of men that followed in his footsteps!! R.I.P JoeValachi

[@Americaisgreat1-w3f]

I find it funny when a person from the streets tells Congress or law enforcement about serious crimes they are called a snitch or a rat. But when the person comes from a corporation or a government position they are called whistleblowers. No matter what your social position in life is, telling law enforcement about a serious crime is a good thing. The double standards in America give me headaches.

[@citypopradioFM]

The Italians invented the handbook for government to create and profit from their own rackets including enterprises like casinos which was a no-go in the day. Now the supposed moral majority within the Republican Party gain all from their Super PACs from casino mogul money to win elections in this country.

[@aedaniengo8998]

So sad.

[@AAMM101]

It's all good and dandy until someone pulls the race card to defend criminals. 😂😂😂

[@WyreKarugu]

That was a terrible deal the government never keeps it word after they use u

[@citypopradioFM]

They didn't promise to let him go lol. Valachi was afforded the privilege of serving his sentence under protection without the constant fear of death in a prison.

[@AndyHoward]

La Cosa Nostra "Our Thing" or "This thing of ours" You could be an "earner" a long time and still never be "made". "getting your bones" (killing someone) speeds up the process

[@darrenlesueur4785]

There is no LA. its just Cosa nostra

[@Ceerads]

So there’s a real Cheech! I’m thinking of the Cheech in “Bullets Over Broadway.”

[@Valerie-n7s]

Danger for the Kennedys.

[@robertalpy]

Yeah. When the soldiers realized that loyalty only extended as far as the bosses face, the dominoes fell. Luciano was a character who held it together and maybe he did have loyalty that extended down. But not most of the bosses. When you are in it for yourself but depend on others, the law will exploit that and rightly so.

[@DominicRanallo-nh6uj]

What u sow in life is what u reap. That simple

[@SanKoKo-se3cb]

Ok brother in law😂😂❤

[@edwardvwhusqv9915]

The FBI coulnt translate 2 Italian words?

[@dakalodk]

Thats anglo saxosns for you

[@samuelwhite7831]

😢why would you take a where you had to murder and hurt people. 😢

[@cellpat7392]

I think Valachi was lucky RFK was the AG at the time. He only had one shot at saving his skin and that was it. I now need to see the Charles Bronson movie: "The Valachi papers."

[@mattsweeny3957]

Did Valachi write his book while he was doing life? Was it worth it???

[@mattsweeny3957]

Kinda sucked they didn't have Witsec for Valachi

[@citypopradioFM]

Valachi didn't get sent to the electric chair and could do his time under guard without worrying about getting killed at a prison.

[@XB1AEW]

The background music is ruined the whole documentary

[@lvi8957]

Toooo loud

[@joeb5678]

26:15 goombah? Or gombah?

[@ScottieWallace]

So.. the mafia snitched to the mafia.. hmmm.

[@curiouslyme524]

A good-looking older man.

[@CharlesGrays]

He was going to talk about Mafia anyway.

[@citypopradioFM]

He only told because he was facing the electric chair after being solid in the life until his life was threatened over false accusations. Watch the video first, stupid.

[@SwordOfS]

The first one...in the US.

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

THE QUEEN OF MERCY The Blessed Virgin Mary

[@freedompeace2025]

that's my grandpa

[@tonythetiger1600]

Lol don't lie

[@fgentertainment9468]

Your grandpa was the best canary aroundddd🐦

[@robertvaldez2924]

Bet your family has some stories!

[@kkonaukko5814]

Song 42:19?

[@noeljr.7724]

So they were right that he was the bad apple.

[@citypopradioFM]

Genovese and his people were stupid to threaten to murder one of their own over false accusations.

[@brianbelton3605]

@ 2:06 narrator says Atlanta STATE prison. Wrong! Its a FEDERAL pen

[@cellpat7392]

2:33 - that actor looks just like Don Vito. I find the resemblance a bit eerie.

[@aceloco817]

Host said "Atlanta State Prison" at the beginning. How werw they in a State facility? Smh. I'm sure he meant the Fed joint.....

[@mattsweeny3957]

RFK questioned Valachis Credibility??? Ha ha

[@OTRTrader]

5:58 " send words to the federal authorities that he's willing to sink (or sing) _"what"_ canary?

[@KIRRAH1]

Did you say low life?? What are you?! That's why you'll never understand people in this type of life and you will be under such people.

[@vladimirputinforUSA]

💯 FACTS

[@rexbanner4608]

I don't get it. When Valachi was made, Joseph Bonanno was the boss who pricked his finger. How did Valachi end up in the Genovese family?

[@DDBAA24]

One bad apple... One bad patch of grass.

[@triggerhappy8872]

That kiss 💋 looked a bit to affectionate 😳 maybe they were more than cell mates??

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

Lust

[@timeresrch]

With its "production values" this thing is really drawn out! It just takes too long to get the point across! And why were they smoking in Congress?

[@dakalodk]

Velachi was just scared of Vito

[@roberthicks7021]

It couda been so sweet, and we fucked it all up. Lol

[@joeb5678]

Wasn’t he known as Joe cago?

[@sasintennessee32]

background music and noise ruined it for me

[@Adam-oy4ix]

He gives a wealth of evidence that they have never heard before...names all the names and tells them how the whole system works and only and gets his crimes knocked down to just a life sentence...other mafia killers ratted after him and got complete immunity....dude had a shit lawyer...

[@f0urstr1ng]

27:41 Scooby Doo Velma

[@joeb5678]

47:10 didn’t he die of cancer ??? Cmon get it right !

[@rangermike5571]

A patriot.

[@gasperstarina9837]

To CIA ? 😂😂😂 CIA literally have nothing to do investigating organized crime in USA😂

[@TheGeezzer]

All gangs are the same....Blood In Blood Out. The Cosa Nostra are exactly the same if not the originals!

[@simoharjane7823]

He was first 🐀. They wanted to kill him in jail ! He killed one claimed was one of them started ratting . Mafia sometimes create 🐀.. paranoia

[@GeorgiePats]

07:16

[@SanKoKo-se3cb]

Go to the jail 😂😂❤

[@Cosmosis462]

Too much music

[@DominicRanallo-nh6uj]

The government is know different in many ways. It just legal for them.

[@KurlandsWaterbeds]

There must have been a rat before Joe !

[@poonambhatia8867]

uuuuuuuuuu😮😮ùuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu😮auuuuuuuuuuuu

[@Tampo-tiger]

I don't see what he did that was so wrong. Nowadays you'd get a small fine.

[@lanreoshisami8934]

They always sing at the end

[@marvinsmith9826]

BS Const. Workers don't leave pipe layin in the yard

[@GeeBree]

A lot of people forget about all the Whyte criminals this country had. Once out of poverty you see the smash and grabs, robberies etc reduce tremendously. This is human behavior unfortunately not the behavior of just one race. I agree it all needs to stop but if you talk about this behavior it seems like people completely forget that this behavior was prevalent throughout the races at one point. Even today in Europe and Canada the drug dealers are Arabian and Indian and Whyte but Americans would not even comprehend this as possible behavior from these groups. These criminals when caught were allowed to keep their money. Allowed to build huge houses on Staten Island and in Jersey and wives and family left alone even though the money was from these activities but for other group they are stripped. No need to cry over spilled milk but if we are honest Americans have quickly forgotten that this behavior is not based on race. And no "the streets were" not "safer when the mob was in control" Lol. Even with these videos people still comment that! 😂😂😂

[@joeflippo520]

Kid twist was the first 🐀

[@africanblue]

Jewish, an therefore no member of the mafia

[@joeflippo520]

@@africanblue your right there but he did a lot of work for just an associate. Him being part of Anastasia's "Brownsville boys" must have been very busy working at the beck and call of the national syndicate.

[@stevia3162]

I didn't know Vito Genovese was such a sweet man. He gave Joe Valachi a kiss!

[@mattsweeny3957]

Looks like Valachi was rather short...5 foot 5??

[@mattsweeny3957]

Gotta give Valachie his due...Violent little maniac

[@SanKoKo-se3cb]

Cia is no fool you ok

[@woodsy5081]

Al Pacino that

[@ubaldocardona7191]

OK AND WHERE IS THE MAFIAS MONEY?? THE GOVERMENT KEEP IT???

[@draganjankovic8164]

It was way better when they were doing business then these corporations

[@terrencewilliams8739]

I'm a custodian for the AOC and I work on the Senate side as I am watching this I'm wondering which room and building this hearing was in cause we have 3 buildings on the Senate side which are all connected

[@blizzy6392]

CIA…?

[@richardstirling5799]

Who’s the psyho killer here?