Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1997 (44 use 2107 not pATRAGE-IyG017 oe ae a > aa PAontetica " SOURCE IDEWTIF1F~ TADDO DE MARCO a AS SLi ER IN GENEVESE A Mt Jt Cosa Afostra, a Cosp iyeerea ! FAMILY OF LON SAID TADDO IS GODFATHER Th FOR JOEY DE mar Name Vurvowy 9 MARCO (NO APPARENT RELATIVE), FRANK CACCIATORE, AND PEPi (LAU), Ips ALL OF WHOM WERE MADE MEMBERS IN NINETEEN FIFTYSEVEN AT CEREMONY PRESIDED OVER BY TADDO DEL, A CAPO IN GENEVESE FAMILY. CACCIATORE jee RECEIVED ASSIGNMENT TO KILL JOEY DE MARCO AND CARRIED THIS ouT IN NINETEEN FIFTYNINE. SOURCE IDENTIFIED PEPI AS OWNER OF CANDY SHOP ON SECOND AVENUE BETWEEN ONE ZERO EIGHT AND ONE ZERO NINE STREETS IN NEW YORK CITY. SOURCE: ADVISED FEW PEOPLE QUTSIDE OF WITNESSES TO CEREMONY | KNOW OF HIS’ MEMBERSHIP, WITH EXCEPTION OF “THE OLD MAN,” CARMINE TRAMUNTI , WITH WHOM SOURCE HAS BEEN CLOSE FRIENDS FOR THIRTYFIVE YEARS, AND JOHNNY ANGELO, MEMBER OF GAMBINO FAMILY, TO WHOM SOURCE WAS INTRODUCED AS MEMBER BY PAUL VARIO. SOURCE SAID LUCHESE FAMILY DISCOURAGES’ DISSEMINATION OF MEMBERSHIP INFO, ere Cost $ot TRIM EVEN TO OTHER LCN FAMILIES. | SOURCE, STATED PAUL VARIO DISPLEASED WITH HIM OVER SHYLOCK ' LOANS INCURRED BY SOURCE. VARIO SEVERAL MONTHS AGO ATTEMPTED TO REACH SOURCE THROUGH BROTHER OF SOURCE IN LAS VEGAS AND ARRANGE FOR MEETING TO CLEAR MATTERS UP. SOURCE SUSPECTED HE WOULD BE KILLED AT MEETING AND DECLINED. SOURCE CLAIMS, HOWEVER , POSSIBILITY EXISTS HE CAN RENEW RELATIONSHIP WITH VARIO AND NEW YORK LCN MEMBERS IF SHYLOCK DIFFICULTY HANDLED. ZA Cosn Nestea ADDITIONAL INFO FURNISHED BY. SOURCE RE L@tT MATTERS AND HI ~- JACKING NEW YORK WILL BE FORWARDED AIRMAIL TO BUREAU AND NEW YORK. END NS . * R RELAY 4 __FBI WASH DC DoclId: 32310056 Page 3
the aohn.- F. : Kennedy Assassination. Recor = ‘ E: 11- eee. i if ee . in a <SPECIAL INVESTIGATI¥ jE DIVISION ae ome . Ro OB 2/10/69 RUS a pe polite, (7 am rad : . _.-e. 7 Through alertness. ‘ad . perseverance, Agents: a ; of San Francisco. Office: developed a new top _ - io i.echelon meniber-source. of: La Cosa.Nostra, He. i is’,. from segment of the Luchese "family". in ‘New, 4 “York . City not. previously penetrated and. is: - “ ad | Seeeentin in ‘hiding~in: San Francisco. because’ SL. | «ced of: substantial: shylock loan in New York which . he 7 aon 5 ad { ‘has been unable to pay-off. « While he fears. — | _; being. killed for this: failure, he is attempting ~ qo . through intermediaries. to: negotiate. the. indebted- I" ness.:so as’ to enable :him-to. ‘return, to New. York- ; ‘and regStablish his relationships. | ~» -- | we bao. Of particular Anterest:, is his description °° . of his. 1958 induction to organization which is o| ‘known: to. put. “a. few. - In addition to a, handshake and repeating: ‘an oath which’ has generally been {| | ‘standard’ in this ‘ritual, informant- and others at‘ " ' this. ‘ritual, according to San Francisco Office;.- 4 each: had glass of wine from, which’ ‘they-drank’ , 4 halt and dumped, the remains as. being “symbolic ey - thatthe’ ceremony and: events taking’ ‘place were. ‘secret . ‘and. would -not:-be carried. outside of the: - room, * Informant being followed closely” for v further _developments .” oa a poi & a b ‘ ' i \ \ ‘ . \ . eam @ ad wie RM DoclId: 32310056 Page 4