FBI WASH DC ! : a WA | 7 FBI BOSTON , RE EE a, i 2-00 PM URGENT 8-13-69 EFM . es " TO DIRECTOR | eo, | Veron BOSTON 166-845 5 PGS = 5 Wy Se ‘also wn as- Tnterstatg Transportation in Aid of Racketeer! ng ' LOUIS MANACCHIO, A aKhs ET AL., ITAR - GAMBLING / | LATE LAST EVENING, RICHIE CHICOFSKY CONTACTED \K eg SA Hs. PAUL RICO AND REQUESTED IMMEDIATE INTERVIEW. SAS _ GERARD S. COMEN AND RICO CONTACTED CHICOFSKY AT THE PARKING 7 LOT OF CHILDRENS MUSEUM, BOSTON, MASS., WHICH HAS BEEN / USED BY THESE TWO AGENTS TO CONTACT CHICOFSKY OVER THE PAST SEVERAL MONTHS. CHICOFSKY STATED THAT ON AUGUST EIGHT LAST, HE RECEIVED A CALL FROM SUBJECT “PRO” LERNER, AFTER _ WHICH “PRO” LERNER MET HIM IN THE PARKING LOT OF THE RIB*HOOM, SOUTH SHORE PLAZA, BRAINTREE, MSS- = REC-54 Va O-Y3S s§ é AT THIS TIME, SUBJECTS MANACCHIO, SCIARRA AND VENDITUOLI, JOINED LERNER AWD CHICOFSKY. ALSO A WILLIAY jug 15 196 KENNEY DROVE UP WHO WAS TO MEET SCIARRA AWD CHICOFSKY WIIH __ 4 RELATION TO ANOTHER MATTER. . END OF ae . CP 8 1 AUG 28 1969 SEE! eo / | Docld: 32576741 Page 1
‘ a J ¥ ‘PAGE TWO AT THIS POINT, “PRO” LERNER TOLD KENNEY | TO LEAVE THE GROUP AND THE ABOVE MENTIONED. INDIVIDUALS ALL SAT IN THE CAR. "PRO" LERNER ASKED CHICOFSKY FACTS SURROUNDING HIS MEETINGS WITH RICO, IT BEING POINTED OUT - Criminal Informant THAT CHICOFSKY WAS A FORMER CI” OF THE BOSTON OFFICE AND WAS DISCONTINUED SEVERAL YEARS AGO WHEN HE BECAME DOUBLE AGENT WITH POST OFFICE INSPECTORS IN CONNECTION WITH MAILROB. CHI COFSKY TOLD THEM THAT ANOTHER AGENT USUALLY ACCOMPANIED RICO WHEN THEY MET. LERNER THEN ASKED WHETHER THEY LOCKED DOORS AND DETAILS SURROUNDING THEIR USUAL PROCEDURE IN METTING GHICO® CHICOFSKY. LERNER FURTHER POINTED OUT THAT HE-IS OF THE OPINION THAT KELLEY WAS TALKING ABOUT THAT GROUP AND THAT HE EXPECTED THEIR ARRESTS IN CONNECTION WITH THEIR PAST ACTIVITIES IN THE NEAR FUTURE. LERNER MADE TENTATIVE PLANS WHEREBY CHICOFSKY WOULD CALL RICO AND TELL HIM IT WAS URGENT THAT HE, RICO, CONTACT CHICOFSKY AT A PRE-ARRANGED LOCATION. WHEN RICO AND THE OTHER AGENT MET, LERNER, SCIARRA, MANACCHIO AND VENDITUOLI WOULD APPROACH THE CAR AND AFTER GAINING ACCESS TO THE VEHICLE TAKE BOTH }¥ END OF PAGE TWO | Docld: 32576741 Page 2?
a August 13, 1969.. -* 3-3. SPECIAL INVESTIGATIVE DIVISION wt _ This’ reports plar’ of four New England j . hoodlums to*kill two Agénts of our Boston ' " office.’ Three of these hoodlums are currently | fugitives in connection with the ITAR-Gambling investigation. | The fourth was arrested by our Boston office yesterday and is being held on $150,000 bond. All four have been implicated | | in the gangland Slaying of Rudy Marfeo, Boston, _, Massachusetts, bookmaker. According to a — former informant of our Boston office, the Plans call for his urging our two Agents to contact him, after which the hoodlums would take the Agents under control. One Agent would be killed immediately. SA Paul_ Rico ‘fwould_then—be_forced_to drive _the_hoodlums to the Place where John J. Kelley was being igre ‘ guarded-by U.S. Marshals. Kelley is current- "tly cooperating with our-Boston office_and has | {Provided detailed information implicating these hoodlums inthe murder of Marfec. : _ The hoodlums believed that the marshals, i upon seeing Agent Rico, would relax, after which they would kill Agent Rico, the marshals’ and Kelley. The hoodl ums indicated that if they locate SA Rico's exact address, they have [ ether Plans in mind which were not furnished _ (our source, - . i | ‘The Lerner mentioned in this teletype when apprehended by our Boston office yester-' day, commented to Agent Rico "You look just like your pictures." Lerner, according to 4 Kelley, is extremely courageous and appears to relish killing. . _ A teletype is being sent immediately to | SAC, Boston, containing specific instructions | to afford SA Rico and his family adequate security; to. vigorously press their investi- /gation toward locating the three fugitives | involved in this Plan; to insure V. gs. Marshal: aware of plan and that adequate security 17_ _||bond, to take appropriate steps for revpcation, (2) me 244 artment being advised. aA v Wb Jas f Pep & HE. Docld: 32576741 Page 3