AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 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 Agency Information - FBI 124-10200-10201 HQ 92-2781-IST NR 1159 Document Information FBI HALL, WENDELL W. JR. DIRECTOR, FBI 02/20/1967 104 LST, ASSOC AND REL, BUSS, GAMBLING ACT, LCN ACT PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT .- Unclassified 4 Redact 10/21/1998 INDEFINITE ‘RPT, INDEX PAGES 88-94, TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE 1-A HW 45966 DocId:32288925 Page 1 Date: 6/15/20]
\ FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION . DATE INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD = FEB 2 0 1967 cee = 2/6/67 FD-269 (Rev. 5-1-59) REPORTING OFFICE OFFICE OF ORIGIN — _ MIAMI MIAMI TITLE OF CASE :| REPORT MADE BY TYPED BY EVARISTO CARLOS RICARDO GARCIA VIDAL, WENDELL W. HALL, JR. jkj aka Evaristo Garcia Vidal, Evaristo Garcia CHARACTER OF CASE IGA REFERENCES: Bureau letters to Miami, 11/8 and 12/20/66. Miami letters to Bureau, 11/25 and 12/12/66. Miami letter to Detroit, 12/13/66, Miami letter to Newark, 12/13/66. Miami letter to Jacksonville, 12/13/66. Miami letter to New York, 12/20/66. Tampa airtel to Miami, 1/5 and 1/11/67. Jacksonville letter to Miami, 1/10/67. Newark letter to Miami, 1/16/67. New York airtel to Miami, 1/17/67. Tampa letter to Miami, 1/20/67 Detroit letter to Miami, 1/30/67. ee Pe . 4 Case has not been pending over one year. Prosecution has not bpen pending over six months. ee SPECIAL AGENT (4) wareas, (162-29 ) (Enc. = 2) “(1- - 92-2781). RAFFICANTE) 4° = ‘Miani (162-633) ~ .  * €1l'- 92-88) (TRAFFICANTE) (1°- 92-1045) (CUBAN BOLITA) DO NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW | eis — NOT RECORE<S 492FEB 81 ieol (Copies, (COVER PAGE B) Dissemination Record of Attached Report Notations HW 45966 Docld:32288925 Page 2
HW 45966 MM 162-633 All of the purchasing is done by an affiliate company, ‘The Casa Leon Cigar Company of Tampa, Florida, 50 per cent. of the stock of which is owned by. GIMELSTEIN. The following information was obtained from Dun & Bradstreet, Tampa, Florida, on 12/30/66, by IC - PAUL L, OGGERO: Casa Leon Cigar Company, Inc., 1607-11 22nd Street, Tampa, Florida, The corporation was chartered in October, 1961, for the operation of a cigar factory. The business was purchased by ELIAS QUINTERO and Mrs. ELIAS QUINTERO as President and Secretary-Treasurer, respectively. It was purchased from the widow of one PEDRO PEREZ, who operated the cigar factory from 1959 until his death. ZELICK GIMELSTEIN is Vice-President. QUINTERO. was born in 1921 in Cuba and came to the U.S. in 1960. . He operated a cigar factory in Cuba prior to coming to the U.S. For the year ending June 30, 1965, profit was shown as $3,250.00. . On 1/3/67, WALTER MC DANIEL, Supervisor, Wagering Tax Stamp Section, IRS, Jacksonville, Florida, advised that his files failed to reflect that EVARISTO GARCIA VIDAL is a current holder of a Wagering Tax Stamp. - INFORMANTS - MM T-1 is J. RONALD BOVARD (protect by request), Assistant Cashier, Merchants Bank of Miami. MM T-2 is former MM 997-S ‘MM T-3 is CALVIN HASKELL (protect by request), First National Bank of Miami. MM T~4 is RICARDO GONZALEZ ASENJO (protect by request), Caribbean Travel Agency, Miami. G - COVER PAGE <- DocId: 32288925 Page 3
MM. 162-633 MM T-5 is MM 840-C. OTHER 4 MM T-6 is MM 883-C, MM T-7 is MM 1165-C. mieT-8 is] Pe. MM T-9 is MM 1181-PC, | MM T-10 is I. MM T-11 is PCI. H* - COVER PAGE - HW 45966 DocId:32288925 Page 4
HW 45966 9 a a . MM 162~633 Source stated that he personally knew LAZARO MHLIAN in Cuba and that MBLIAN in about 1960 was employed as pit boss at the bacarat tables of the Capri Casino in Havana. Source recently met MFLIAN in Miami, who introduced source to a young business associate who MELIAN stated was operating a dry cleaning business called the Lindsay Cleaners. On: December 8, 1966, MM T-6 advised that EVARISTO GARCIA VIDAL was openly soliciting bolita bets over the telephone and has stated that source could call him at any time. On December 12, 1966, source stated that EVARISTO GARCIA SARMIENTO has personally stated that he handles all bolita operations for his father who was currently occupied in other activities. On December 13, 1966, MM T-2 stated that the subject is still frequenting the First National Bank of Miami on almost a daily basis. He maintains a "secret" account in the bank with a balance alleged to be over $500,000.00. He is in close contact with an Executive Vice-President of the bank, JOHN SESSIONS, whom he had previously met through LEROY P, SIEBERT, JR., who formerly was the man who personally handled all of the subject's banking. SIEBERT was head of the Savings Department and because of his drinking “habits had been moved to the New Business Department of the Bank and later left the bank’s employment and went to a Federal Savings and Loan Company and later to the Merchants Bank of Miami. Source stated that the subject was associated with the NAYOR brothers, ALBERTO and JORGE in jewelry businesses and that they are also in the dry cleaning business, Source stated that subject is deeply involved in the shylock business in Miami and on a recent $2,060.00 loan demanded a $2, 760. 60 postdated check to secure this loan. One of his asSociates is a man named (FNU) BARQUET, a local jeweler. 45. DociId:32288925 Page 5