FBI WASH DC . | ae FBI BOSTON 2-00 PM URGENT 8-13-69 EFM Y TO DIRECTOR ! Keron BOSTON 166-845 5 PGS ‘alse known as Interstaty Transportation in Aid of Racketeering - LOUIS FANACCHIO, AKA; ET AL-, ITAR - GAMBLING y, LATE LAST EVENING, RICHIE CHICOFSKY CONTACTED 4 an SA He PAUL RICO AND REQUESTED IMMEDIATE INTERVIEW. SAS _ 7 GERARD S. COMEN AND RICO CONTACTED CHICOFSKY AT THE PARKING LOT OF CHILDRENS. MUSEUM, BOSTON, MASS oy WHICH HAS BEEW i 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 a WHICH “PRO” LERNER MET HIM IN THE PARKING LOT OF THE RIB “KOON, SOUTH SHORE PLAZA, BRAINTREE, MASS~ REC-54 be bO-H3as Ss ‘ AT THIS TIME, SUBJECTS MANACCHIO, SCIARRA AND VENDITUOLI, JOINED LERNER AND CHICOFSKY. ALSO A WILLIAS jug 15 196 KENNEY DROVE UP WHO WAS TO MEET SCIARRA AWD CHICOPSKY WITH __.. 4 RELATION TO ANOTHER MATTER. . END OF my CP 8 1 AUG 28 1969 SEE econ 4 RIB Agha BMW 455340 Docld:32565796 Page 1
t L f t ‘PAGE TWO \ AT THIS POINT, “PRO” LERNER TOLD KENNEY 10 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 : THAT CHICOFSKY WAS A FORNER CI OF THE BOSTON OFFICE AND WAS DISCONTINUED SEVERAL YEARS AGO WHEN HE BECAME DOUBLE AGENT WITH POST OFFICE INSPECTORS IN CONNECTION WITH MAILROB. CHICOFSKY 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 GHECO® 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 (AW 45840 DocId: 325685796 Page 2
pe seccenelineteeheeenetiaittnrnin mene iia finde it neta i ae em en ee nnn tient wee - : woe ee ene “ August 13, 1969, | c jot “3. SPECIAL INVESTIGATIVE DIVISION oo | This reports plar’ of four New. England _ hoodluas to*kill two Agents 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 would.then—be.forced_to drive the_hoodlums to the plaee where John J. Kelley was being hen *|ly cooperating: with our Boston «c ‘@ffice_and has |provided detailed information implicating these hoodlums in’ the murder of Marfeo. — ; - 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 hoodliums indicated that if | they locate SA Rico's exact address, they have other plans in mind which were not furnished our source. ‘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 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 U. 8. Marshal: aware of plan and that adequate security ”“4_| afforded Kelley; and in the event Lerner makes: pond, to take appropriate steps for, rev, ation, ; i aca being advised. & SE, | SR re gee reer 1 HW 45640 Docld:32565796 Page 3 guarded-by-U. S. Marshals. Kelley is current-).