JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM
IDENTIFICATION FORM
Date: 10/07/98
Page:
1
AGENCY INFORMATION
AGENCY : FBI
RECORD NUMBER :
124-10204-10157
RECORDS SERIES :
HQ
AGENCY FILE NUMBER :
92-2781-106
ORIGINATOR : FBI
DOCUMENT INFORMATION
FROM: LEG, HAVANA
ΤΟ : DIRECTOR, FBI
TITLE :
DATE : 07/13/59
PAGES:
2
SUBJECTS : LST, DEPORTED FROM CUBA, REL, WEDDING,
DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT
CLASSIFICATION :
RESTRICTIONS :
UNCLASSIFIED
4
CURRENT STATUS: RELEASED WITH DELETIONS
DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 10/07/98
OPENING CRITERIA :
COMMENTS :
INDEFINITE
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2025 Release under the
President John F. Kennedy
Assassination Records
Collection Act of 1992
ASSOC
STANDARD FORM NO. 64
Office M
um • UNITED
VERNMENT
17/9.
C
ΤΟ
Director, FBI (92-2781)
FROM :
Legat, Havana (92-1)
0
SUBJECT:
SANTO TRAFFICANTE, JR. aka
ANTI-RACKETEERING
° 2
July 13, 1959
59
5237
Reference Havana letter dated June 10, 1959.
HAV-33 advised on June 15, 1959, that both the subject
and HENRY SAAVEDRA, who represented subject's
s interests in the
Hotel Capri, continue to be detained by Cuban police.
said it appeared that subject and SAAVEDRA might be deported
from Cuba in the near future.
Source
On June 29, 1959, HAV-33 informed that TRAFFICANTE
was temporarily released from jail on June 21, 1959, in order
to attend his daughter's wedding at the Hotel 
Havana-Hilton.
Source said that TRAFFICANTE appeared at the hotel in 
the 
company
of representatives of the Cuban Ministry of Justice 
and the
Cuban Secret Police. Source noted that several 
hundred 
people
attended the wedding celebration at the Hotel Hilton 
and that
most of these individuals were persons employed by the gambling
Source said that Miami 
Top Hoodlum
,
casinos in the Havana area.
were observed
Mass.- Mill
JACK LANSKY, and Boston Top Hoodlum, JOHN WILLIAMS,
at the wedding celebration.
On July 1, 1959, PCI Arthur Newman (conceal), Credit
Manager of the gambling casino at the Hotel Nacional, advised that
the majority of the persons in attendance at 
the wedding of
subject's daughter were individuals employed in the gambling
casinos in Havana. Source noted there was only one 
small 
groups
of persons comprising TRAFFICANTE's immediate family and close
friends in Tampa, who came from the United States 
to be present
at the wedding. Source noted that most of 
the hoodlums in the
United States are well aware that police authorities would 
be
on the look-out for individuals possibly attending 
the 
wedding
of TRAFFICANTE's daughter in Havana and for that reason 
many
hoodlums who might have attended stayed in the United 
States
.
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1
8/2eut4/20/89
Bureau (1-cc: Albany and New York
Havana
DJB: MEG
2-cc: Miami 92-88)
(7) nr 50 1100 YW .22
3
IMAE21IOVEDIA:
BEC DEG.J.
63 JUL 201959
$59
EX-132
REC- 8992 2181-106
bon16 1959
BIM INTEL.
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Havana 92-1
7/13/59
On July 10, 1959, Vice Consul Hugh D. Kessler, Citizen-
ship Section, American Embassy, Havana, advised that he had
received information from the Cuban authorities that the decree ordering
subject's deportation would be published in the official Cuban
Government gazette on July 13, 1959, and it was expected that subject
would be deported to the United States on approximately July 14, 1959.
Extra copies of this letter have been prepared for
forwarding by the Bureau to the Albany (1), New York (1) and
Miami (2) offices.
Pending.
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