| JFK Assassination System Date: 4/28/201 Identification Form Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: _ 124-10207-10068 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER: 62-9-29-666 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: SAC,MM TO: DIRECTOR, FBI TITLE: DATE: 06/04/1963 PAGES: 2 SUBJECTS : CIP, GAMBLING, INTV, FARBER, NATE, BROWN, ABE DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 4 . CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 09/30/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : v9.1 WNW 45760 DocId:32291292 Page i
FD-36 (Rev. 12-13-56) ~~ v © . - FBI Date: 6/4/63, Transmit the following in i (Type in plain text or code) ; | AIRTEL AIR MAIL Via (Priority or Method of Mailing) i — eee ee toe TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (62-9-29) FROM: SAC, MIAMI (92-515) SUBJECTS—CRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM MIAMI DIVISION NATE FARBER (MM 92-118), when interviewed, advised he sold his trailer court in 1961 for $480,000.00 and currently holds the first mortgage, for which he will receive $2,690.00 each month for a period of 15 years. Nes ABE BROWN (MM 165-18), when intrviewed, stated he was no longer operating as a bookmaker and he intends to let his Federal Gambling Tax Stamp lapse. He stated he is still operating his check cashing business and in his business cashs checks for gamblers who receive their winnings by check. BROWN also stated that if he starts bookmaking again, he will go to New York City, where he has contacts and relatives, who would do business with him. MM 869-PCI advised that OSCAR/ECHEMENDIA, a /~/ + sizeable bolita operator in Miami, who ‘also owns the Cafe D'Artist Night Club and operates a filling station in Miami, Fla., is bankrolled by MARTID{FOX, a wealthy Cuban exile(iif#’) [| /// He also stated RAULXFERNANDEZ,; a Cuban exile, is a sizeable: 4 j|. 1 bolita operator in ‘Miami who has been bankrolled by EVARISTO ; gees GARCIA who in the past also had.a bolita operation and at one | time” bankrolled RAUL DE LA)}fORRES, who is a bolita operator [ e in Dade Co., Fla. This source further advised MANUEIY MENE EZ,/ | 77 i | @- Bureau (AM). — ct 9 BZ C- 2. 9- i Ck : 2 = Miami W . — RFF: mgw rs ace aan f JUN 6 1963 (5) i . wick} _ “ust ' ~ * Approved: EDe We Sent _ Fy Per a | 62 JUN 1] 196 Special Agent in Charge “NW 45760 DoclId:32291292 Page 2
MM 92-515 who is bankrolled by another Cuban, formerly was a bookmaker. He said MENENDEZ owes a considerable amount of money which has caused him to be delinquent in his bolita payoffs and which in turn has caused his volume to be small. ; WE VADA fee MM 509-C advised HAROLD(FISHMAN, aka. JERRYAFISHER, = OTHER 4 returned to Miami from Las Vegas and is again hanging out at the Patio Bridge Club, i Beach. Before FISHER went to Las Vegas he loaned nomiyGASSENHE DER, co-owner of the Patio 2 fg Bridge Club, several thousand dollars and GASSENHEIMER gave { —* —— fe him a number of postdated checks. [ former PCI and a private detective, lang confidentially advised that he received information that_JOHN _ ELE prancon, a bartender the past winter season at the Shore “Club iotel, ‘Miami Beach, quit his job recently. He said MANCONI, ( according to his information, paid sou(CArUTO, a Miami Beach<¢ 4 Police Department detective, $10.00 a week in order to conceal the fact that he, MANCONI, had a criminal record in New York | City, which reportedly has barred MANCONI from working in liquor establishments in New York for ten years. | d ~ Pan ie So | ways NO ee “NW 45760 DocId:32291292 Page 3