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 JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information FBI 124-10205-10231 HQ 92-2781-1251 Document Information FBI ° AMBLER, JOHN A. DIRECTOR, FBI 01/26/1968 32 LST, BKG INVEST, ASSOC, REL, TRA, TELCAL, SURVEILLANCES, B/F INT, GAMBLING ACT PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 4 Redact 10/20/1998 INDEFINITE Date: 6/15/201
eee , . ome *D-265 (Rev. 3-8-67) | FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION “TOFFICE OF ORIGIN 282 ite * TAMPA REPORTING OFFICE TAMPA TITLE OF CASE | JAN 2 6 4969 LLINVESTIGATIVE PERIOD 12/12/67-1/17/68 TYPED BY REPORT MADE BY CHANG “SA JOHN A, AMBLER RAFFICANTE, JR., aka CHARACTER OF CASE S.Udacobs, if JO by ‘this report: being marked "Changed" to reflect alia es -used by TRAFFICANTE when obtaining airline passage, a REFERENCES: Ot Report of SA JOHN A. AMBLER, Tampa, 12/14/67 ON New York letter to Tampa, 12/28/67 Jacksonville letter to Tampa 1/10/68 Miami airtel to Tampa 1/4/68 Miami airtel to Director, 1/4/68 " “ENCLOSURES: a ese bu TO MIAMI . | . Ab ACCOMP L Pn | CLAIMED None acquit. CASE HAS BEEN: convic |auro.| rus. | 7 recoveries | TAL PENDING OVER ONE YEAR [_]YeES [_]NO PENDING PROSECUTION APPROVED — ee cnaReE - DO NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW COPIES MA f Bureau (92-2781) 1 - USA, Tampa 3 - Mami (92- 88) (Enc. 1). (1 - USA, Miami Attn; WILLIAM EARLE, Dept. Atty) 2 = New York (92-846) 3 - Tampa (92-1) re SY yy Dissemination Record of Attached Report Agency Request Recd. Date Fwd. How Fwd. By
£P.92-] “Photograph of GABRIEL MENDOZA, Tampa PD #96928 taken August, 1962. ; ADMINISTRATIVE: , Information from records of the Southern Bell © - Telephone and Telegraph Company, St. Augustine, Fla., was made available by Mr. RANDY PIERSON. On 12/20/67 TP 120-c advised that Mrs. TRAFFICANTE. - was definitely in Miami‘ but that the exact whereabouts — of SANTO were unknown but there was some reason to believe ’ that he might be in Mexico. Subsequently on 12/21/67 © TP 120-C advised that on the morning of 12/21/67 SANTO's daughter MARY JO had talked with her mother in Miami and that SANTO was definitely in Mexico and that Mrs. TRAFFICANTE was to be in Tampa later during the day and: that subsequently around 4:15 p.m. MARY JO" had met her mother at. the Tampa, Fla. airport. Subsequently on “12/24/67 TP 120-C advised that TRAFFICANTE had returned to Tampa some time during: the day of 12/23/67. On 12/26/67 Ti 120-C advised that the. only persons present for Christmas Day dinner at the. SANTO TRAFFICANTE Tampa residence were SANTO, Mrs. -TRAFFICANTE, Mrs. TRAFFICANTE's father, MARY JO PANIELLO, and her family, and SARA.JANE VALDES and her family. ' On 12/28 anc 29/67 TP 120-C remarked that TRAFFICANTE was not in ‘Tampa and was’ believed to be in Miami, . Fla, but would be in Tampa for New Years, On 1/9/68 TP. 120-C advised that TRAFFICANTE had been in Tampa from 12/30/67 until 1/3/68 and that ‘he had left on Wednesday, 1/3/68, for New York to attend a wedding and that. the individuals. who were to be wed was a couple who had arrived in Tampa. ‘with SANTO> just ‘before New Year's and who had: apparently been guests at the TRAFFICANTE home in Miami just prior to coming to ' ‘Tampa. Informant stated that the male had stayed at either the International Inn, Airport Motel, or the Tampa-Sheraton and was known aS FRANK and could be described as white, male, 45-55, 6' tall, heavy set, of non=Latin or non-Italian extraction, but possibly Jewish. Informant stated ‘that poe Be oe ’ COVER. PAGE
TP 92-1 INFORMANTS: | Identity - TP T-1 is TP 120-C TP T-2 is TP 303-PC TP T-3 is PCI RUDY HEINY - TP. T=4 is JAMES.E, MCMAHON Security Director, General Telephone Company of Florida TP T-5 is PCI AL CONGDON TP T-6 is Agent RONALD. SIEBERT, Federal Bureau. of. Narcotics, Miami. TP T-7 is TP 182-C-TE. ‘TP T-8 is TP 41-C-TE LEADS: | | MIAMI AT MIAMI, FLA. Location of Original Information. | 137-460-259 | -137-1563-34 v6 TASK '137=1705=21 FoR Job/ pu 162-679-2, 5 RELEAGE WF | C1 RELEASE IN PART - 137-1702-10 a TOTAL DENIAL Instant report 137-1028~214 137-142-391 1) Will exhibit photograph of GABRIEL MENDOZA to PCI CECIL BAIN in an attempt to determine if the above is. the; MENDOZA referred to ,by BAIN as shown in the report of SA WENDALL W.. HALL, Miami, 7/17/67 on page 19. 2).. Will continue efforts to determine. TRAFFI~ CANTE‘s activities on a day-to-day basis. ‘ NEW YORK AT WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK D COVER PAGE