' DATE: 11-14-2017 JFK Assassination System Date: 5/20/201 Identification Form Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER:  124-10297-10016 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER:  92-6054-2535 . ; Document Information | ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: SAC, SF TO: DIRECTOR, FBI TITLE: DATE: 02/24/1969 PAGES: 8 a SUBJECTS : , LCN, MEMBERS A/0 ASSOC, CRIMINAL ACT, LEADERSHIP, GAMBLING DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS: Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: 07/24/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : . v9.1 8 Docld: 32308889 Page 1
Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1997 (44-15 2107 Hotter: DATE: 11-14-7017 - 4 & apm oe . ; : * = * . q Jj ra + FBI Date: 2/24/69 ww, an Be Transmit the following in = < (Type in plaintext or code) 1 Vi AIRTEL, AIR MAIL - REGISTERED __ 7 | " . (Priority) | an ae Se ee eae re ee ee LL pone | fTO: DIRECTOR, FBI . : gw, a ) PUPA ROM: SAC, SAN FRANCISCO (92-1661)(P) eto, | My _— | CH, COSA NOSTRA, NEW YORK Bere AR - CONSPIRACY i 00: New York Re San Francisco tel to Bureau, 2/19/69, and San Francisco airtel to Bureau, 2/10/69. For information of offices not receiving prior communication in this matter, SF-3208-C-TE is a "member" of the LUCHESE "family" of La Cosa Nostra (LCN), which is presently under the leadership of CARMINE TRAMUNTI, aka, Carmine Gribbs. COPY FLED IP/ 3 7...20 3 13 = Mereau ; *_. g7.LCN, NEW YORK) Q UNTECORDED 2 - 137-20313) | He. | 1 - Albany (92-535)(Info) Ae wl 1 - Boston (92-605) (Info) nh 2 1 - Buffalo (92-337) (Info) jot Ta ay H}? - Los Angeles (92-1112) REC 44 92-6085 Y 536 at Ap Le : ji - Miami (92-853) (Info) mee | ees i  - Newark (92-1203) (Info) me alana, | lf 3 - New York + Db oe fe * (2 - 92-2300) © i FEB az 19697" vi (1 - 92-5360) emmy 1 - Phoenix (92-278) (Info) “s+ me, 8 - San Francisco (2 - 92-1661) yo a (1 - 92-593) ALL COPIES REGISTERED--AIR roy (1 ~ 137-5207) inna ae ae QL - 92-131) . i (1 - 92-958) BE (1 = 92-340) 4 | = (1 - 92~441) ; . aS RTB: jab ‘ a fo Mn rs (24) _ wns i 7 5¢ cATTOR. 2 | Mo Per _ 7 Special Agent in Charge | Docld: 32308889 Page 2. a a ae
Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote): DATE: 11-14-2017 : ns OO SF-92-1661 1 RTB: jab. Og, to pay them for several weeks, thus incurring their wrath in the form of a near-rebellion in approximately 1965. The drivers refused to work and gathered at the office of the firm to protest — this failure to pay them. | a The informant continued that NATARO, who was a member of the GAMBINO Poss “family” of the LCN in New York, called upon several other LCN , members who were friends of his to assist him in this problem and to protect the firm. BILL BONANNO was hanging around NATARO at coal this time, his father having been kidnapped earlier, and BILL was . ae expected to assist NATARO in this difficulty. The informant advised that he, the informant, became accidentally involved in NATARO's defense dlso. He explained that he had arrived at the firm for sts the purpose of contacting HANK (LNU), an employee of NATARO and m a hi-jacker, concerning a hi-jacking that had been planned. HANK was to provide a driver for the stolen truck in this planned hi- jacking. When the informant arrived, HANK told him about the < situation, explaining there was about to be an explosion between. NATARO and the drivers, and he asked the informant to help NATARO. HANK gave the informant a gun which he placed in his waistband and the informant joined HANK and several cthers in the parking lot in front of the firm, where the crowd of dissident drivers had gathered. JOE NATARO came out and addressed the rebellious drivers, speaking softly and promising a partial payment to be made that same day and full payment within a few days. Due partly to NATARO's persuasion and partly to the presence of his gunmen, the drivers agreed to the settlement and went back to work. The informant stressed that during this very ticklish situation, BILL BONANNO — remained in the firm's offices and would not go out onto the lot | with NATARO and the others. The informant said this left a bad taste in the mouths of many who were there or who subsequently heard about the incident. . In referring to HANK, the informant said he was not known at that time to be a member of the LCN, but was very close to NATARO. He -handled hi-jacking for NATARO and, in fact, was sentenced'to a | prison term in the AtlantaFederal Penitentiary for hi-jacking a truck full of Vitalis hair oil. , : po While speaking of treachery on GENEVESE's part, the informant ‘was reminded of an incident involving the murder of FRANK "CHEECH" ee SCALISE and ‘his brother by ALBERT ANASTASIA just before the latter's a own demise by murder. He said "CHEECH" was selling membership to ue ~— ae ’ Docld:32308889 Page.”3° a Be ee eft
Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1999 (44 USC 7i0y Hote;.— DATE: 11-14-7017 : ied SF-92-1661 RTB: jab The informant «dvised that GIAGGIO was the hidden owner of a bar located on Second Avenue between 109th and 110th Streets in Manhattan. It is located one door off of 109th, on the west side. of the street, next to a bakery shop. ey ee eee ee ree A couple of years ago, according to the informant, there was a rash of kidnappings in New York City of some LCN figures for ransom. ays One night during this. period, the informant was sitting in GIAGGIO's Bees bar when GIAGGIO came running in “scared stiff." He claimed that ae two men in a car had tried to kidnap him and were outside. The vane informant said he took out a knife and told GIAGGIO to get one and follow him. As the informant emerged from the bar, he saw two men standing by a parked car which fit the description GIAGGIO Hoy, had provided. He asked GIAGGIO whether they. were the ones and : _ GIAGGIO, who was visibly nervous, replied in the negative and C4 hurried back into his bar. The informant said he learned later that night from a witness to the attempted kidnapping that the two men he had seen earlier actually had been the would-be kidnappers after all. He surmised that GIAGGIO had failed to identify them because he was afraid of a "beef." The informant said that the GAMBINO "family;'’ of which GIAGGIO is a member, and the old BONANNO "family" are referred to by members of the LUCHESE and GENEVESE "families" as the "Pepsi Cola mobs." He said it was actions such as the above on GIAGGIO's part that gave the GAMBINO and BONANNO "families" a reputation of this nature. The informant advised that HANK {LNU), the employee of NATARO, is responsible for mary hi-jackings in and around New York. He almost never gets directly involved, but makes the necessary arrangements. On one occasion a few years ago, HANK arranged the hi-jacking of . vi a truck allegedly full of bolts of material. He paid a Negro truck : driver $300.00 to allow them to have his truck for four or five hours. The Negro turned the truck over to "Pepi," an Italian associate of HANK (not to be confused with an LCN member of the same nickname previously identified by the informant), who took it to a lot in Brooklyn used by the hi-jackers for exchanging the stolen goods into a "safe"-truck. They discovered at this point that instead of the expected cargo, the truck contained | ba Halloween costumes and decorations and some second-quality material. — "Pepi" took the truck to one of JOHNNY ANG's "drops" located in a garage in a small town just north of New York City where ANG paid him $2,700.00 for the entire truckload, an amount considerably less than expected. "Pepi" is from the 12th Street area in New —"