JFK Assassination System Date: 6/2/2015 Identification Form . Agency Information Peleased under the John Kennedy AGENCY: FBI . RECORD NUMBER: — 124-90100-10269 Assassination Records ollection Act of 1992 ase#:NW 54027 Date: AGENCY FILENUMBER: —52-72398-204 po—25-2017 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: MM TO: HQ TITLE: DATE: 09/08/1959 PAGES: 4 SUBJECTS : JOSEPH RAYMOND MEROLA STUART SUTOR DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION : — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS : Redact DATE:OF LASTREVIEW: — 07/29/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS: = AT | AW 54027 v9.1 DoclId: 32332051 Page 1
a Z ii iia Ts ae SS a —_ —— — —— FD- Rev. 12-13-56) SES | Fa ? = vay B : . —_ _ fae in 33 oa / / “oo Pa f a“ Transmit the following in Date: SEP 8 1959 Airtel Via — so (Priority or Method of Mailing) { “7 Tor ~~----DERECTOR; FBI (52572398) —— bana (87-41245) / FROM:. « SAC, MIAMI (52-3290) meee ct wlaler (87-8756) ELSPL BIA). Qs RE: STUART™ UTOR, ET AL a Att TGP; ITSP; FFA; NM - CONSP (00: CLEVELAND) EAGT ASSIRIED AND, On 8/31/59, ‘RICHARD B.. JAFFE, PSI under development, who is a close associate of ROLANDO MASFERRER, a leading anti- CASTRO exile residing in Miami, reported that NORMAN . ROTHMAN,’ manager ‘of the Biltmore Terrace. Hotel, Miami Beach, disclosed that he was in the process of obtaining a.U. S. passport for the purpose of traveling abroad. ROTHMAN did not disclose his destination, date of departure or itinerary but indicated that he would take this trip soon for some purpose which he also did not disclose. Yu. It is to be noted that ROTHMAN has recently been © making overtures to MASFERRER and has offered to procure the assassination cf WILLIAM ALEXANDER MORGAN in return for the - Pittsburgh. (52- -1687) (SUTOR) aor = Cleveland (52-1918) (SUTOR) (Info). 4S -- Washington Field (87-4785) - (EZHAYA) (Info) = New York (87-5446) (EZHAYA) (Info). - Miami (1 - 52-3290) (SUTOR) (1 - 87-8756) (BZHAYA) (1 - 97-213) (ROTHMAN) ,,, Cl - 2-156) (MASFERRER) es [105- 1742 (ANTI*PIPEL CASTRO ACTIVITIES) oe 10 4989 rp a! ; AW 54027) Doold:32332051 Page 2 2 Bureau (AM) — fh 1 1 - 1 = Chicago (87-11127) -(EZHAYA) (Info) kv N.S 9 D2 £ OK an 1 1 5 EE Cra BERNARD J. EZHAYA, ET AL ee ee ee ITSP’ - MT . 5 (00: NEW YORK) de AS oo UNKE_LGADED COP
" AW 54027 . pos REVIEWED py pevarn TASK FORCE WW RELEASE IN FULL 2 2,2 © RELEASE IN PART O TOTAL DENIAL Gomer “Yen's Gude MM 52-3290 sum of $100,000.00 which is expected to be put up by Generalissimo RAFAEL TRUJILLO of the Dominican Republic. It is to be noted that WILLIAM ALEXANDER MORGAN is an American soldier of fortune who fought against BATISTA in Cuba during the recent Cuban revolution. Between 8/8 and 8/14/59, MORGAN was the leading figure in a “double-cross" of anti-CASTRO Cubans and Dominicans who had reportedly paid MORGAN a very large sum of money for his cooperation in establishing an armed front against CASTRO in Cuba. MORGAN is in Cuba. Also ROTHMAN, according to PSI JAFFE, has offered to put MASFERRER and JAFFE in touch with his "organization" for the purpose of providing financial assistance to MASFERRER in overthrowing the CASTRO © government in return for substantial business subsidies and franchises should MASFERRER succeed. ROTHMAN indi- cated that his "organization" controls millions of dollars and has established business firms. [It appears that ROTHMAN undoubtedly had reference to the MANNARINO gang. yy PSI JAFFE has been instructed to attempt to obtain all additional information possible concerning 1 the above developments pertaining to ROTHMAN. wa . On 9/2/59, Miss DOROTHY SCHWEINHAUT, Passport office, State Department, Miami, Fla., made available for NORMAN ROTHMAN, Bi ltmore Terrace Hotei, Miami Beach. He was issued passport number 1515395 on 8/25/59. . His application reflected that he intended to depart from Miami on 9/1/59, by air for South America for six weeks, This application did not disclose his exact gone ifs had Docld: 32332051 Page 3