JFK Assassination System. Date: 4/24/201 ‘Identification Form Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER:  124-10284-10363 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER: = 92-2717-317 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: DIRECTOR, FBI TO: LEG,LO . \ TITLE: - DATE: 09/08/1961 PAGES: 2 SUBJECTS : [Restricted] DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Secret RESTRICTIONS: —-1C; 4 CURRENT STATUS: = Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: — 03/09/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : v9.1 Docld: 32303851 Page 1 374
we a SECRED Legal Attache, London September 8, 1961 Director, FBI (92-2717) 7 ° Classified by So bom, GCL é a Declaes 2 = 4. ANGELO BRUNO, aka Fone o t) Re Mal? olla 30 ) oo Enclosed are two copies of a letterhead memorandum concerning Angelo Bruno's alleged financial interests in the Hotel Plaza gambling at Havana, Cuba. Philadelphia by letter dated 8«28-61 furnished the following information: By letter dated 3-22-61 it was requested that Lioyds of London be contacted by Legat, London, to establish if A@SIG Bruno was paid, as alleged, a sum of money for damage done to the gambling casino, Hotel Plaza, Havana. «) . By communication dated 4-27-61, the Legal Attache, London, advised of contacting Michael Cumming, official of British Security Service, MIS, who contacted a confidential ~ source of his in Lleyds of London to develop this information($). ; The communication from Legal Attache stated, "On 4-34-61, Col, Cumming advised that MI5, confidential source, ; had stated that Lloyds of London had acted as the reinsurer for the American International Reinsurance Corporation of New York City to the extent of $70,000 for a policy made out to the subject in connection with the gambling casino at the Plaza Hotel, Havana, Cuba." Col. Cumming was quoted further as stating, “In 4-59, a claim was paid to the subject for $185,000, principally by the American International Reinsurance Corporation, in respect to a fire which had occurred at the gambling | casino at the Plaza Hotel, Havana, ; Cuba, 1-59."($) . ORNATION CONTAINED Spray * +5 si PALL It was requested that an additibnal inquiry be - made by the Legal Attache, London, in recontact h their source to ascertain if Angelo Bruno possibly hdd other insurance besides that resulting in the $18 0 00 claim being paid 4-59, $70,000 of which was peinaured | eNLloyds s London. G) ia. ue a 3. C- 72 ee cen pty Belmont Extensive inquiry in thie reggha hasy i iSpsa 4-3 ae Mr a «Ct here was a $185,000 payment made by the Anerigda International Conrad..——é‘ GUAGE Company, #258 Havana Street, Havangs~ Cubas_. A DeLoach_. Evans ie 104 28 ig A alone Enclosures (2) SfFO WS A-# Non is ¢ , etl TY a1 SERI 12 A961 Sullivan reign Yiaison Unit (Route through for review " Ye eo SE eet en G5 SEPAA OT we Tele. Room . S Ganie £5) Abi TELETYPE unit L_] SECRET Docld: 32303851 Page 2?
0) - | SECREY i} panos Letter to Legal Attache, London Re: Angelo Brito set forth herein, this policy was No; 303-806-F; [However, the point of inquiry to Legal Attache, London, should be to establish if Angelo Bruno was the recipient of this $185,000 payment, less adjustments, or if Joseph Stassi was recipient of this payment considering that Legal Attache, London, - prior communication on 4-27-61 relates that Col, Cumming had advised that the subject had received the $185, 000 — paymonti ey fe. ais: requested that’ the. ‘Legal Attache, tendon,  elarigy whether ‘Bruno or Stassd-received the money und any additional ‘dpformation available that could, ‘possibly be developed further in the United States which could - ultimately prove to be of evidentiary value against. fe} oo Angelo Bruno.) It should be noted that Bruno has. been a designated uy “the Bureau as the target of. "early prosecution" under the Criminal Intelligence Program and therefore . ig the’ subject. of concentrated Bureau investigative effort, Legal Attache, London, should eudeavor to clarify whether Angelo. Brune or Joseph. Stassi, or both, received the $185, 900 insurance payment for the request in m avesttone () iy Att1-311 SECRER Docld: 32303851 Page 3