a JFK Assassination System Identification Form Date: 6/11/201 PL AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : Agency Information FBI 124-10198-10290 HQ 92-278 1-696 LL ORIGINATOR : FROM: \ TO: TITLE : DATE: ‘PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE: CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : . CURRENT STATUS : “*~ DATE OF:LAST REVIEW : ~ OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : v9.1 Docld: 322788014 Page 1 _ Document Information FBI SAC, TP DIRECTOR, FBI 03/08/1963 3 LST, INFORMANT, ACT, NEG PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Secret 1B; 1C; 4 Redact 10/14/1998 INDEFINITE
; FD-36 (Rev,, 12-13-56) qin “one 3/8/635 EGRE L Transmit the following in = (Type in plain text or code) Viq _ATRTEL AIRMAIL — ——— tf ys TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (92-2781) \r a) 4 aout iE0 7, AN FROM: SAC, TAMPA (92-1) (P) oO} os CONTA seth SANTO Gabertcanre, JR., aka oa ( ee eT N AR WHEAS she if (00: Tampa) Sed hy Se : OAD WEEKLY summary Deelassify on: The LEGAT at Rio de Janiero has advised that on 1/30/63, PCS DYLSON SMITH advised that a search of the records of the Foreigner's Registration Service and the various divisions of the PD, Sao Paulo, Brazil, failed to reveal any information relating to subject. However, on 2/6/63, CS RIO-2, advised that a search Sree of the records of the Maritime Police in Rio de Janeiro disclosed Vee that subject arrived in Rio on 5/10/62 from Panama, bearing U. S. Passport, 256.536, which had been issued in Havana on 2/16/60. Records further disclosed subject had also arrived in Rio on 3/11/82 arriving from Buenos Aires, Argentina and that he had embarked for Miami on 4/11/62. The above source could find no further records pertaining to subject and stated that there was no indication that subject had been in Rio in 11/62. (2 The New York Office advised that‘on 1 2/16/63, PCI BOBBY EDWARDS stated he had no additional information concerning subject's presence in New York City during 11/62. The New York Office interviewed ENRIQUE GARCIA, 8045 Kew Gardens Road, Kew Gardens, Long Island, N. Y. on 2/14/63. GARCIA naintained he was a citizen of the Dominican Republic, being an alien resident of the U. S. GARCIA stated he was doing an import’ business under the name of the Silver Fruit and Vegetable Company, and previously, in 1959, he was a delegate for the Dominican Repub lic to the United Nations. He added that he does not know subject RECT: : . . Gp- Bureau REC- 70: es 1 = Taam ee eh <S tian 1 - ast sy: ty \ . ek ane iv ea ni os & MAR 11. 1963 = r . SE: i. ry a ¥ ey Approved: - An Sent,’ erie nite i . vi Special Aggnt in Charge j DocId: 32206014 Page 3 fs
TP 92~1 By GARCIA stated he had attempted in the past to purchase large quantities of Dominican Republic pesos for American dollars in Miami, Fla., and that he had been assisted in various ways by Capt. LEE NAPIER of the Miami, Fla. PD, who provided some degree of protection, GARCIA stated that the individual who was to be the primary go-between to obtain such pesos was LARRY de JOSEPH, home telephone 226~7668, Miami, Fla. GARCIA maintained that none of these negotiations ever resulted in his buying such pesos, although he made various attempts | to obtain firm action by de JOSEPH. | | | | 1 The Jacksonville Office advised that the list of long distance telephone calls previously made from the Garcia's Instant Service, Tampa, Fla., where subject sometimes visits, were identified to be rubber supply companies. Jacksonville also advised that long distance phone calls to subject's residence, Tampa, Fla., were made from Al's Package Store, Coleman, Fla. and Bernie's Liquor Store, Bushnell, Fla. The Tampa Office secured copies of movie film “faken’ by the Tampa PD during the wedding of subject's ‘nephew SANTO JOSE TRAFFICANTE, JR., and the Bureau has been made a positive copy of same, which will be utilized for film clip purposes. ~ is On 3/3/63, TP 97-C, advised that he had observed subject in the Columbia Restaurant late in the evening on that date. On 3/5/63, JAMES C. LONGO, reportedly one of subject's lieutenants in Tampa, Florida, was contacted - but declined to furnish any information concerning sub- ject. : On 3/8/63, contact with the Intelligence Unit, Tampa PD, disclosed that subject, although reported to a be in Tampa, was not to be found in Tampa and was believed to have returned to Miami, Fla. It was observed by the Intelligence Unit that subject's daughter, Mrs. AUGUST PANIELLO, who resides at subject's Tampa residence, was observed on 3/8/63 in company of subject's wife, and they carried a small infant over to subject's brother's .. residence, It is: believed that this is the grandchild of subject. * Docld: 322788014 Page 4