JFK Assassination System Date: 4/22/2061 Identification Form Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: — 124-10283-10227 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 105-80291-7, 8 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: STAFFORD, LEMAN L. JR. TO : DIRECTOR, FBI TITLE: DATE: — 10/14/1959 . _ PAGES: 64 SUBJECTS : ; DEB, ASSOC, JHO, WAM, WEAPONS, CUBA, ACA, POLIT, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, B/F INT, PANAMA, FINANCES, TEAMSTERS DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 05/26/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : RPT, TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE i, INDEX PAGES i-iv, INC A/T, NOTE ~ v9.1 ‘Docld: 32303215 Page 1 28
i. ‘ Ls Subject,. who ihas Customs, was rep tact with William Alexande ban revolutionary Sigure, 7/30/59 [Al though the Dominican . General Consul] is~dIleged‘ to. have givens) subject one hiindred and fiz fty-two thousand - dollars for Morgan, Morgan claims he is not on | friendly terms with subject., CV 428-C has advised subject has been in and.out of Clevelane for several weeks and is apparently connected with group of Teamster officials including Louis "Babe" Triscaro, Joseph Triscarg Al Naiman, and possibly James Hoffa. According ' to informant, subject apparently planning.to enter into a business venture with Teamsters. group. On 10/18/59 subject in possession Of « two fifty thousand dollar cashier's checks ‘which were to be negotiated to finance venture. | These checks were drawn on foreign bank and subject indicated to informant he had | received them from Batista group for a plane investigation by | deal. Being disseminated to State, Internal Security Division, Customs, and CIA. yr CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO Pp } DECLASSIFICATIAN SIGS OS adhe eecneseueran Clan THIS'D ea eee C vee KEIN? -- ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED Lb; hive > HEREIN 1S UNCLASSIFIED — | pale eto py SOF Ae CH ' (JFK contetsee 27} Sera e ~s, he EN. i a Docld:323032715 Page 2?
we " FD-36 (Rev. 12-13-56) =— ~ Go - \ nr FBI | Mr. oe | Mr. Be font | fib Mr: aso i Mr. MeGuire. —— | 1 it Mohr_— Date: 10/23/59 1 | Mrpparsong— | Transmit the following in PLAIN TEXT Yv 4 1. Tamm. | : ' (Type in plain text or code) . _4l Mr. Trotter...---- | re; M Mx. W.C.Sullivan § Via AIR TEL . AIR MAIL 1 Te | Tele. Room.._—-— | (Priority or Method of Mailin if 1 vr. Holloman—- | —~—- a wen “| TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (2105-80291) BEL RL Ls. ord who ; iN THiS LOLUEN /o- (O54 F SAC, CLEVELAND ( (105-3877. KP" edpW pds SUBJECT: DOMINICK E, BARTONE ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED lee IS - CUBA; REGISTRATION ACT - CUBA CLASSIFIED ae aD HEREIN IS UN thd or wn let SELEY igi Re report of SA LEMAN L. STAFFORD, JR., at Miami, datea 10/14/59 » CV 4e8-C advised 10/22/59 that on 10/18/59 he was contacted by DOMINICK BARTONE and met with him in the office | of AL NAIMAN, Terminal Tower Building, Cleveland, after BARTON had "run NAIMAN out of his own office." CV A28-c - stated BARTONE exhibited to him what he described as two $50,000.00. Cashiers checks drawn ion a-.foreign bank, probably South America, which he. indicated he had received for a plane deal. He stated BARTONE told him the money . was coming from the BATISTA group... He stated that BARTONE told him they still had ten planes left and mentioned — m ~< [that he had sold or wet intended to sell two planes for r § delivery to Nicaragua. f} a |» CV 428-C advised that BARTONE told him tps b ral || Government 's case against him in Miami was. being Fal 23k would néver come to trial. . foie SN a BE RSS “ey, 4o8-c advised that BARTONE has been in and out 4 it Yop RSX lof Cleveland for several weeks and is aah co os ee Qo Qo ey oO O2— bo AT — he Ss Hp BL Detroit: an) nee we ey 3 = Miami (105- 2006)" ‘(rit 6 108 Woe 1 oct 2s Se - ‘Glevelant. ge 43. Uy} 2st 105-3363) fees oh LP hy 1 - 92-179) Ce ee ae o (1/- 137-691 A) hs Ri & | is Y yor/i fe cde gi aN ee gs os = ar "9. ere a Ks CoE iH Te Ho * au) fo WU" Special Agent in Charge Docld: 32303215 Page 3
CV 105-3877 with a group which reportedly included LOUIS "BABE" TRISCARO, this brother JOSEPH TRISCARO, AL NAIMAN, and other unidentified {Teamster Officials,.and possibly JAMES HOFFA. Source advised that the above-mentioned group succeeds the Tri-Mix Stone Cos, a Cleveland distributor for Niagara Crushed Stone Quarry loeated in Port Colbourne, Ontario, Canada, reportedly owned: by AL NAIMAN, CV 4e8-c previously advised that in a meeting in NAIMAN's Office,on 10/17/59 attended by BARTONE, the TRISCARO brothers, and AL NAIMAN that this group was. making arrangements {to get money from a Detroit bank previously utilized by the Teamsters Union to secure funds to continue the cperation of Niagara Crushed Quarry in Canada, owned by NAIMAN. CV 428-C stated that if this refinancing was successful that NAIMAN would own about one half the company and the other half would be owned by the above-mentioned group, CV 428-C advised that BARTONE told him on 10/21/59 he was leaving Cleveland that date for Detroit to arrange financing and was to meet there with attorneys for the Canadian Steamship Co., who have been transporting stone from the Niagara Crushed Stone Quarry, Ruom Port Colbourne, Ontario, via their boats across Lake Erie to Cleveland. cv 428-C opined that the two $50,000.00 Cashiers Checks were to be negotiated at the Detroit bank and were to be utilized in the financing of the new venture. Two copies of this communication are being designated for the Detroit Office in view of their interest in JAMES HOFFA, It is being left to the discretion of the Miami Office as to what investigative steps they désire taken in captioned matter since Detroit does not have a copy of referenced Miami report... Docld: 32303215 Page 4
MM 105-2006 IDENTITY a LOCATION T-LJis MM 635-S, contacted 5/26/59, “ 134-211 Sub neha) y SA GEORGE E, DAVIS, JR. (4) MM T-2 is General MANUEL BENITEZ, Cuban 105+1742+263 exile living at 220 Zamora Avenue, Coral ,“ 105-1563-39 Gables, Florida, former Chief of Cuban “ 105-1563-47 National Police 1944-48, contacted 105-1571-33 5/29/59, 6/19/59, by SA GEORGE E. DAVIS, JR. STAFFORD, JR. on 8/14/59. (By request) MM T-3 is JOSEPH CAMILLERI, 3761 NW ist , 105-1563-46 and by SA DAVIS and SA LEMAN L. Street, Miami, Florida, a pilot at Miami, oy contacted 6/10/59, by SA GEORGE E. aoe DAVIS, JR. (By request) : MM T-4 - ROBERT AYLOR;:doorman, Montmartre . Instant report, Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida, contacted =, page 7/28/59, by SA LEMAN L. STAFFORD, JR. ~“ } (By request) MM T-5 is Legal Attache, Havana, Cuba; SL ‘  105=1563=57 _Legat cable to Bureau 8/3/59. ae Le Mik Florida, former Chief of Cuban Bureau for Repression of Communism (BRAC) contacted by SA GEORGE E. DAVIS, JR. on 8/20/59. (By request) / 105-1563-88 105-1571-41 p. 2 T-6 is| MARIANO FAGET, 75 SW 32nd Court, » LH » - COVER PAGE - a Docld: 32303215 Page 5 to eT,