Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote}. DATE: 11-14-2017 JFK Assassination System Date: 6/11/201 Identification Form eee Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER:  124-10195-10235 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER: 92-2781-112 SEE Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: LABADIE, STEPHEN J. TO: DIRECTOR, FBI TITLE : , . DATE: 09/15/1959 ‘PAGES: 15 SUBJECTS : . LST, ASSOC, ACT, RES, BKG, TRA DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW: _ 05/18/1999 - OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE é COMMENTS: — INC MEMO, RPT, TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE i . v9.1 Docld: 322786459 Page 1
ppeleased under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote). . DATE: dehsne O17 .FD-203 (5-12-55) Cc : , © ty my FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Reporting Office | Office of Origin “Date - Investigative Period MIAMI | MIAMI 9/15/59 7/26-9/15/59 TITLE OF CASE Report made by ! Typed By: STEPHEN J. LABADIE | SJL:mf “CHARACTIEROFCASE  ——”~—~CS SANTO TRAFFICANTE, JR., aka ANTI-RACKETEERING REFERENCES: Report SA STEPHEN J. LABADIE, 7/7/59, Miami. s. ON -Pp- NN, . ~LEADS- MIAMI: AT TAMPA, FLA. Will maintain contact with informants, law enforcement agencies; thereafter will report activities of subject. ~ADMINISTRATIVE- t Three (3) copies of this report are forwarded to the Bureau in order that one copy may be transmitted to the Legat, Havana, inasmuch as Legat will continue to maintain all coverage of subject and his activities in Cuba, noting that should any » Approved e : Special Agent Do not write in spaces below 7 fe In Charge Copies made: _ god “3. Bureau (92-2781) 2 = Miami (92-88) Property cf FRI - This resert is loaned to you by the FBI, and neither it nor its contents are to be distributed outside the agency to which Joaned WU. S&S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1953 O—344750 | DocId: 32206459 Page 2?
Released” under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2 DATE: 11- 14- 7017 o . . : a R eed MM 92-88 . The "Miami Herald", Miami, Florida, under date August. 22, , 1959, in an article with the dateline at New York, UPI, set out. that SANTO TRAFFICANTE had resumed gambling activities in Cuba. This article set out that in a dispatch from the Scripps-Howard - Newspaper Alliance in Washington, The World- -Telegraph and Sun,. - said a secret memorandum prepared by government sources, disclosed - that SANTO TRAFFICANTE had "arranged" with Cuban authorities to —. remain in Cuba. This article mentioned that the secret memorandum .... said that SANTO TRAFFICANTE was released through an "understanding" with the CASTRO government. On August 20, 1959, HAROLD MILKS, Associated Press Correspondent, Havana, advised SANTO TRAFFICANTE and HENRY. SAAVEDRA, be who represents the subject's interest in the Hotel Capri, had | or been provisionally released by Cuban Immigration authorities from -: Tiscornia Prison, where they had been incarcerated for .the past Lohr two months. MILKS stated that the Cuban government claimed that insufficient evidence had been developed to warrant deportation of subject and SAAVEDRA from Cuba, but that investigation concerning this matter is being continued by the. Cuban government On August 10, 1959, MM T-1 informed that during his stay in Tiscornia, TRAFFICANTE and SAAVEDRA had "lived like kings". Source said that almost all the guards in the prison had been bribed by subject in order to insure that the subject had the most comfortable accommodations possible. Source said that subject! s food was brought in to him on a daily basis from outside the prison and that he was allowed any number of. visitors, : as he | desired. On | July 13, 1959, MM T4 advised he had attended wedding of the subject's daughter, as an invited guest. Source noted most of those in attendance at the wedding were employees from various casinos in Havana, and that the only outsiders were subject' s immediate family and one or two close friends from. Tampa , Florida. ~ 6. ; Docld:32786459 Page 3
“Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 15927 (44 Usc 2107 Hoyer DATE: 11-14-2017 ; ; MM 92-88 ¢ MM T-5 advised on July 18, 1959, that he had also attended the wedding of subject's daughter, but that there had been no important hoodlums from the United States at the wedd- ing. Source noted the TRAFFICANTE brothers, as well as a close _ associate named JIMMTE} LONGO. A uj an Coy mee CRIMINAL "RECORD Inasmuch as an FBI Identification Record on the subject” had been furnished the Dalks, Texas Police Department, Following investigation was conducted. On August 5, 1959, Mr. JESSE VICKERY, Identification Officer, Dallas Police Department, Dallas, Texas, advised SA MILTON L. NEWSOM that a search of his records failed to reflect any information relative to the subject. Mr. VICKERY advised it is possible that the FBI Identification Record for the subject may have been sent to one of the numerous sections of the Dallas Police Department for the purpose of information, but he stated ,. that the Identification Division of the police department usually receives the records. ; Additional attempts to locate subject's Identification Record and to ascertain information about the subject through the Dallas Police Department through contact with Mr. JESSE VICKERY on August 18, 1959, was unproductive. No information concerning the subject could be located in the files of the Dallas Police Department. ASSOCIATES FRANK TRAFFICANTE i Cue 0, GPPROX: 2 a MM T= 3 ane “sed SA JAMES P. 0' NEIL, June 22, 1959, that Watin “nephew of SAN RAFFICANTE, whom he had mentioned bore the same name ‘as the subject, is the son of FRANK TRAFFICANTE, _ twenty-three years of age. " ; 7. | . | | | | ; \A a Ve See | Docld: 32286459 Page 4
pReleafed-ander. tie John F- Kennedy _ 74 i lectin act of 1997 (44-08 Soy hotter | DATE: 11-14-2017 aa oO we itt > a 4 { 3 MM 92-88 INFORMANTS MM T-1 is HAV-33. MM T-2 is PCI ARTHUR NEWMAN, Credit Manager , Gambling Casino, Hotel Nacional, Havana, Cuba. MM T-3 is MM 416«C. — ‘ ‘ MM T-4 is PCI ALBERTO SUAREZ ALEMAN, Doorman at apartment building -where subject resides, Calle 12, #20, Havana, Cuba. MM T-5 is HAV-31. . MM T-6 is FLOYD MINER, PCI, Miami. ee we ll, AOU Los | | DocId: 32286459 Page 5