Agency Information AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : * RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : v9.1 Docld: 32326824 Page 1 JFK Assassination System Identification Form FBI 124-90058-10086 HQ 91-18345-110 Document Information FBI CG HQ 02/02/1968 22 GERALD TOMASZEK RICHARD CAIN PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 4 Redact 06/12/1998 INDEFINITE RPT Date: 4/28/201
Ss 6 ; ; Fo eM, as a : ; a ann , - : Ts ke 7 . Cy eo VS CG 91-3396 ete | LEADS | DETROIT AT LIVONIA, MICHIGAN. Will attempt to identify the motel, bank, and shopping center and verify fact at Livonia Police Department that stolen cars were taken and abandoned in manner described by MICHAEL LA JOY concerning the trip to Detroit during 9/63. CHICAGO. | | | | AT CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. 1. Will continue interviewing and attempt to develop additional cooperative witnesses among Py the subjects and their associates. . 2. Will continue attempts to develop additional evidence in this matter based on material located and oo seized at the time of the arrest of the various subjects _ . in this and related matters and through review of records of the Chicago Police Department. : ADMINISTRATIVE On 12/27/67, PCI JEROME HASS advised SA GEORGE H. PARFET that JACK MORAN, a former sergeant in RICHARD CAIN's investigative unit with Cook County Sheriff's Police was © vitally afraid of being questioned regarding his association with CAIN, particularly in connection with the gangland slaying of GUY MENDOLIA. On 1/15 and 24/68, CG 6775-C furnished the following information to SA JOSEPH B. GRAFF: - a In about 1951 Captain JOHN SCHERPING (deceased) ; | Chicago Police Department, incorporated Accurate Detective Laboratories in Chicago, a private investigative agency. In about 1954 or 1955 SCHERPING took on as partners’ RICHARD CAIN and Informant. They continued as partners until 1959, _ when SCHERPING wanted to retire, and he wrote a letter to Springfieid naming Informant as the sole owner of this firm. During the partnership of the three men, it became apparent that CAIN was not fulfilling his obligations, and as a matter | of fact, CAIN stole about $10,000.00 from the firm. This was never proven, but it had to be one of the three men, and -.. COVER PAGE | rr eae Docld: 32326824 Page 2?
- Ky an es CG 91-3396 co . SCHERPING confided to Informant that he was certain that CAIN - had stolen this money. Informant knew he had not stolen the money, and he regarded SCHERPING as completely trustworthy. At the time the partnership was dissolved, SCHERPING told Informant that he did not want CAIN retained in any way in. this firm... oo . With regard to CAIN's true name, Informant was told by CAIN that his ancestry was not Italian, and that his mother was married to an Italian, but he was born after she had remarried, and his father's name is CAIN. He indicated that authorities could never locate a birth certificate. reflecting that his father was Italian. . In about October or early November, 1967, CAIN called. Informant, and after a couple of minutes of small talk, CAIN asked Informant if he would do some work for him, CAIN, and it was apparent that this work would involve bugging a telephone, and Informant then told CAIN that he would not do it. CAIN never mentioned the name of any party. On 1/19/68, ART PETACQUE made available a copy of a letter received by the "Chicago Sun-Times" written over the signature of RICHARD CAIN. OS ; -C- . COVER PAGE _ - : Docld: 32326824 Page 3