JFK Assassination System . Date: 5/14/201 Identification Form . rf Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: = 124-10284-10268 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER:  92-6054-258 rr Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: TALBURTT, ORVILLE R. TO: DIRECTOR, FBI TITLE: _ DATE: 05/28/1963 PAGES: 13 SUBJECTS : LCN, TROPIANO, RALPH WHITEY, SUSP, MURDER, RACK ACT, GAMBLING, MISUR DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS:  Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: 05/22/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : i v9.1 3 Doclda: 32303756 Page 1 ;
~ . &, core a ee . - - o- . to. : cas _ F268 (Rev. 1-59) - Ye: oe i OFFICE OF ORIGIN | NEW YORK REPORTING OFFICE TITLE OF CASE LA CAUSA #59 TRA NEW HAVEN 21 ViSION REFEREN © New York «=: ENCLOSURES TO BUns es = 2 Two copies of lett. of informants. ENCLOSURE. oc NEW YORK = 2 Two copies of le ‘sexhead memorandum concerning characteriza caf of inforiiants. SPECIAL AGENT APPROVED IN CHARGE / FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION “tel to Rurean dated 5/1/63. _ AY -néad memomndum concerning characterizations * YQ, \ ea INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD 12/31/62 - 5/24/63 TYPED BY DATE 5/28/63 i} REPORT MADE BY {- SA_ORVILLE R, TALBURTT _kjb CHARACTER OF CASE AR =- CONSPIRACY P —- DO NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW COPIES MATE: 3..< Bureau (32-6054) fenes2Zy_ “aere"D oo New York (92-2334) (enc. 2) 5 = New Haven (2-92-282) (1-92-67) (1-92-196) 1 4-92~156) | COPIES DERTROVEA DISSEMINATION 12. .ORD OF -TTACMED WEPCHT REQUEST RECO. I a 1 4 AGENCY...--..-- OATE FWO. .....-! HOW Fwo. ..! BY owe ee ee ee Docld: 32303756 Page 2?
Docld: 32303756 Page 3 NH 92-282 AMP MIN ISTRATIVE in connection with RALI-H TROPIANO the Bureau has authorized @ survey to be conductec im comnection with the installa- tion of a highly confidential source and it is expected that this matter will materiaiine effectively within the mext thirty days. . - ENFORMANTS NH Tol is NH 420-C. WH Te-2Z is DetectiveJAMES KINGSTON, State's Attorney’ Ss office, New Haven, Connecticut. WH @-3 is N¥ 3864-C-TE. Nal T-4 is Miami source 802-C*, NH T=5 is PCI ANTHONY TESTO, New Haven Division. NH T-6 is NH 413-C#, | LEADS At New Haven, Connecticut No specific investigation leads are being set out in this report at this time; however, it is noted that individual investigative files are maintained for TROPIANO, PICCOLO and SABIA and ther activities are reported in the individual files Any information developed in connection with their activity or activities or other individuals which would relate to La Causa Nostra will be furnished to the Bureau and to the New York Office. Be | COVER PAGE |
YO - , “ . re Soa : : . a Sn . . CC: ., . ‘ : : : : Loe : ‘ — an . ae ‘ , ° t - ' : “— : NH 92=282 On June 29, 1962, NH T=-4 rcported that the mame FRANK PICCOLO, 220 East 23rd Street, with telephone number MU 9-0160, was found amon: the personal effects of CARLO. GAMBINO in that his name vw2s found on a business card for the Consolidated Reserach and Manufacturing Corporation, 1284 Chapel Street, New Haven, Connecticut, MARVIN BOTWICK, President. . oo, It is known and it has been reported to the Bureau ‘and New York that PICCOLO has admitted to two agents of the New Haven Division that he was associated in business with the Consolidated Research and Manufacturing Corporation, which at one time had offices both in New York and in New Haven, aS a salesmam. PICCOLO further advised that his office in New York City with the Consolidated Research Corporation was located at 220 East 23rd Street. It is known through interviews with MARVIN BOTWICK, former President of Consolidated Research, now deceased, that — BOTWICK had personal relations. with PICCOLO and strongly indicated that PICCOLO had offered the consolidated Researe Corporation financial assistance. On December 21, 1962, Special Agent WINTHROP A. YOUNG of . * New Haven contacted NH T-5 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, whe furnished the following information: Recently ANGELO CULMO, allegedly the “head. man" of the rackets in Ansonia, Conmecticut, died and there was con= . sternation as to whe would replace him, On December 22, 3 « 1962, the son of ANGELO CULMO and NICHOLAS PATTI, also from. the Ansonia, Conmecticut, area, came to the informant’s place of business aleng with FRANK PICCOLO. Several tele- — phone calls were made from informant’s tdephone by PICCOLO who remarked to the informant that he was straightening out the Ansonia situation, as to who should have control. In-= formant believed the calls were to New York. 'It was determined that only two toll calls to New York | City were made on December 20, 1962, from nformant's phone and both were to New York, Number 212 - RE 7-1588, | . The New York Office determined that RE 7-1588 is listed to the Arcuri Liquor Store, 302 East 78th Street, New York | a City, and the owner of this store is JOSEPH ‘ARCURI, sit: East 76th Street, New York City. ; he 7. Docld: 32303756 Page 4