Agency Information AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILENUMBER: 92-1 1305-23, 24 . , Document Information 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 FBI 124-10195-10324 HQ FBI SAC, NO DIRECTOR, FBI 04/30/1970 24 GMC, JEWELER, ASSOC, ACT, INTV, DYER, HERSHEL DAVID, WALDROP, JAMES F. PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 4 Redact 03/02/1998 INDEFINITE INC RPT HW 45865 DocId:32286548 Page 1 . pee
Wo 1 pods (Rev. 12-19-67) ‘3. FEDERAL’ BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION oy REPORTING OFFICE OFFICE OF ORIGIN INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD NEW ORLEANS NEW ORLEANS TITLE OF CASE TYPED © JOSEPH ROBERTO PROVENZANO (TN) ,ak oo nmb Joseph Provenzano, Jr., Junior Provenzano; “ELDON JUNIOR LEGAN, aka Eldon Legan; . UNSUB #2; _ (TITLE CONTINUED COVER PAGE B) CHARACTER OF CASE POSSIBLE ITSP ‘Title marked "CHANGED" to reflect identity of bi Unsub #3, who posed as the jeweler, as GEORGE ALBERT MC GANN, as developed through investigation. vy . “ppd REFERENCE: New Orleans report of SASTHOMAS L. COLARELLI, 2/19/70, - pe INFORMANTS: ~ On 2/13/70 NO 1793- PC advised that he had just received a call from TINY BARNES , operator of the Royal Oaks Motel, Marrero, La., who told him that three unknown white mz CASE HAS BEEN: PENDING OVER ONE YEAR [_]yveés [X]no PENDING PROSECUTION ’ OVER SIX MON THS* SPECIAL AGENT : 7 No IN CHARGE ~ | @)- Bureau (92=4t305) RO “ta 78 " ; | - Departmental Atty., N ° a 7 1 - Dallas (Info) (RM) —— —_—_oeo REC:7 | 2 - Jackson (92-248) (RM) - way 4970 - i - Pittsburgh (Info) (RM) r) | 3 - New Orleans (92-1029) ; i - = ~ Dissemination Record of Attached Report ; Notations Agency ‘ a | ig Mes ) . Date Fwd. | ‘ { . How Fwd. | 6 Omay 151970 FA49 COVER PAGE a | ! [HW 45865 DocId:32286548 Page 2
NO 92-1029 CONTINUATION OF LE FROM COVER PAGE A: GEORGE ALBERT MC G JoeGoldberg; DR. SALVATORE-CARUSO, aka - Sal. Caruso - VICTIM; . ( CLYDE VALSIN BOURGEOIS, JR., aka Clyde Bourgeois - VICTIM; DR. RUSSELL T. RIBANDO, aka R. T. Ribando - VICTIM » aka - | x ok OK INFORMANTS (continued): ] from out of town had stopped by the motel looking for JUNIOR, not realizing that he no longer operated same; They- told BARNES that they did not want to meet JUNIOR in public, and wanted to know where he was "sleeping." PC did not know the significance of this information. + + + / On 1/17/70 former SA WILLIAM F. DUKES, Gulfport, Miss., attorney, furnished the ‘following information to SA DAVID P. HURLEY: On the day that DONALD LESTER JAMES was buried, he was telephonically contacted by former JN 14-C. During the conversation, this former source advised that prior to the date that JAMES was shot, she was visited by a former acquaintance, LNU KRAMER or CRAEMER. KRAMER informed the source that JAMES and two other men had pulled a "score" on MIKE MAROON (phonetic), a Gulfport attorney and close personal friend of CARLOS MARCELLO.. It appears that the two men were in the room with MAROON and JAMES was .in an adjoining room. After MAROON found that he had been taken, he was able to identify one of the men involved in the "score," and after this man received a severe beating, he allegedly identified JAMES as being the third man B COVER PAGE | mw 45865 DocId:32286548 Page 3
NO 92-1029 DUKES advised that it is the former source's _ opinion ‘that possibly this was the motive for the _ ' Shooting of JAMES , Pos “Jt is to be noted that the MIKE “MAROON mentioned “above is probably identical with the MIKE MAROON who is an_ ae attorney .for CARLOS MARCELLO and who lives and works in . _ Shreveport, Louisiana. No additional information has been . obtained from other sources Fegarding the above mentioned incident. : — JN 424-C advised SA BENJAMIN F, GRAVES on + OTHER 4 (1/15/70, he had no suspects as to who might have shot on , DONALD LESTER JAMES on 1/11/70; however, he had heard that someone had given JAMPS a beating a few weeks prior to the time that he was shot. Informant did not have ‘any additional information regarding this beating. _ ou: 4 ae the following information te SA GRAVES on 1/27/703 DONALD. LESTE R JAMES came into Gus Stevens Restaurant in Biloxi, Mississippi, about ten days before he was killed. JAMES asked the informant to call him a taxi and then stated he had left his automobile at Caesar's palace, which is located on U.S, Highway 90 in Biloxi, Mississippi. Informant stated that JAMES appeared. to have been walking or running, and he appeared frightened, and he made the commerit, "I'm going to have to make up my mind. to kill those two S, 0.B.'s, or they are going to kill . me." Informant stated that JAMES made no explanation : . regarding this comment, and he has no additional information - 7. regarding JAMES' action on that night, He stated he had no oS idea as to who might have killed JAMES. os a JN 10-C-TE furnished the. folloving information to SA GRAVES on 1/16/70: On | ‘A majority of the friends of DONALD LESTER JAMES “ who were at the wake-and funeral service afe of the opinien that JAMMS was killed by. CALVIN KENDALL MORRIS, also known C COVER PAGE : SS wee — a ae Poe ee et ee | | AW 45865 DocId:32286548 Page 4
il NO 92-1029 as "Frits" and "Big John Tech” (phonetic), who is an associate of MORRIS. He stated that the story is on the street that. JAMES supposedly told MORRIS and TECH about DIANE WHITEMIRE, an associate of DUEY D'ANGELO,,, who is employed at the Sinbad~Club in Biloxi, Miss., who, had some jewelry at her Southern Ave. residence. in Biloxi. MORRIS and TECH supposedly would burglarize _ WHITEMIRE's residence and then JAMES would fence the items taken. Supposedly something happened in connectio with this deal and the shooting resulted. On the night of 1/6/70 or the morning of 1/7/70, DIANE WHITEMIRE's residence was burglarized and she lost “between $8,000 and $9,000 worth of various items. . On 3/17/70 AT 2025=C advised SA ROYAL A. MC GRAW that he had heard about an associate of GERALD GUTHRIE being killed at Biloxi, Miss. RONNIE JENKINS, Cairo, Ga., is employed as a truck driver and hauls produce out of South Florida. JENKINS told informant that he was recently at the service station operated by HOLLIS LAFAYETTE GUTHRIE, U.S. Hwy. 84 East, Thomasville, Ga. HOLLIS LAFAYETTE GUTHRIE, aka "SHORTY," received a telephone call from JIMMY ALBRITTON, Jackson County, Fla. ALBRITTON told GUTHRIE about someone getting shot. . GERALD GUTHRIE was present when his father received the above telephone call. ~ GERALD GUTHRIE immediately wanted to leave to go to the place where this person had been shot. His father, HOLLIS LAFAYETTE GUTHRIE, told him that he conld not go. - so AT 2025-C had also’heard through RONNIE JENKINS. that. someone had taken an automobile belonging to GERALD GUTHRIE at Fort Walton Beach, Fla. This automobile had been wrecked and was subsequently recovered by - GERALD GUTHRIE. . AT 2025-C advised that he recently learned that GERALD GUTHRIE and HILTON BENNETT PAYNE had been to a D. COVER PAGE | AW 45865 DocId:32286548 Page 5
NO 92-1029 poker game operated by THILBERT ROGERS in the vicinity of Pavo, Ga. ‘GUTHRIE and PAYNE allegedly had a large number of $50 bills. Between them, they lost approximately $600 at this poker game.  THILBERT ROGERS operates .a grocery store on the Ione Road approximately two miles out of Pavo, Ga. He occasionally holds poker games in a wooded area in the vicinity of Pavo. -Prior investigation by the Atlanta. Office has shown GERALD GUTHRIE to be the son of HOLLIS LAFAYETTE GUTHRIE, aka "SHORTY" GUTHRIE. Prior to the fall of 1963, r HOLLIS LAFAYETTE GUTHRIE operated a numbers racket in the . vicinity of Thomasville, Ga. This numbers racket was broken up and HOLLIS LAFAYETTE GUTHRIE was subsequently sent to prison. He now operates a service station on U.S. Hwy. 84 East, Thomasville, Ga. Prior investigation has. shown his son GERALD GUTHRIE to be a gambler. GERALD GUTHRIE -is primarily a poker player. He has been an associate of JIMMY ALBRITTON, Jackson County, Fla. AT 2025-C has previously advised that GERALD GUTHRIE is a crooked poker player and is not too clever in concealing his manipulation of the cards. Informant feels that GERALD GUTHRIE will someday get into serious trouble because of his crooked card playing. — On 3/17/70 NO 1283-PC advised SA HAROLD V. HUGHES that he had learned that as of yesterday ELDON LEGAN is currentiy living in a trailer somewhere in the West Bank area of suburban New Orleans. Although he did not know the name of the specific trailer park, it was his opinion that a surveillance of PROVENZANO could readily determine this’ ' information. LEADS: DALLAS AND PITTSBURGH (INFORMATION) Information copies of this report furnished Dallas E _ COVER PAGE . | AW 45865 DocId:32286548 Page 6