| | v9.1 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 : JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information FBI 124-10216-10341 HQ 92-2914-43, 44 Document Information FBI DOUCE, RICHARD GORDON DIRECTOR, FBI 08/12/1958 52 GM, ASSOC, CRIMINAL ACT, GAMBLING ACT, THP, B/F INT, TRA, PDT PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 4; 11(a) Redact 05/14/1998 INDEFINITE RPT, INDEX PAGES 42-46, INC MEMO MW 45652 Docld:32236065 Page 1 Date: §/28/201
t i . { ' % PG 92-228 PG 92-236 passed in New Kensington were signed CARL NOLL no ITSP investigation was instituted as the checks would not come within the purview of the ITSP Statute in accordance with existing departmental policy with respect to true name checks... LEADS | PITTSBURGH PA. AT NEW KENSINGTON, Westmoreland County 1, Will maintain regular contact with confidential sources, PG 55 -C, and PG 564-0 for information regarding subgects' legitimate enterprises, eriminal activities, and associates. Will recontact Mr. and Mrs. MARSHALL HOLT, nei hborhood Avenue, and Mr. and Mrs. at 216 Highland Avenue. #2. -sources, at~536 Charles neighborhood sources, --W4ll recontact TOMMY HAYES,salesman, Swift and Company, _(sourcerofninformation) to determine whether SAMUEL MANNARINO and his associates have been able to interest any local drive-in theaters in their proposed food and refreshment concession business. 4, Will interview ARCHIE MILLER, co-owner of ARCHIE MILLER's Men's Clothing Store, for the purpose of confirming the allegation that AL ZEID, aka Al Ross, reputed MANNARINO trigger man, leased the gambling casino on Barnes Street from MILLER. 5, Will interview AL ZEID, FBI No. 574183, who is said to reside at 2640 Page Street (telephone number Edison 5-0367), to determine when and where he applied for U. S. citizenship ana the name he used in connection with such application. Will also interview ZEID with respect to the numerous arrests listed on his 4dentification record in order that a letterhead memorandum may be disseminated to the Immigration and Naturalization Service if it is discovered that he has ;not. actually applied for citizenship or failed to register as an alien. #3, a eR > : 45652 Docld:32236065 Page 2
| ' ; I PG 924228 PG 92-236 *12, Will report results of investigation being conducted by Washington Field Office to identify subscriber to telephone C@ 57641; called from the Nu Ken Novelty Company on 12/16/57 and 1/28/58. *13, Will report investigation being conducted by Legat Rome concerning the report that GABRIEL MANNARINO may be living .in Rome, Italy. a . *14, Will report additional information reported by the Legat ' -Havana concerning subjects! activities in Cuba. *15. Will report investigation being conducted by Legat ~Ottawa to identify BEN LITTMAN and ERNIE SHIMANKY of Toronto, -Ganada, identified by the National Board of Fire Underwriters as being out of town contacts for the MANNARINO brothers. 16. Will report investigation being conducted by Cleveland at Warren, Ohio, to determine whether CHARLES MURGIE alleged "Mafaa": member has provided a hide-out for SEBASTIAN JOHN LA ROCCA and GABRIEL MANNARINO since their disappearance from the Pittsburgh area. a 17. Will follow and report prosecution of TOM TANNAS, 18. Will at the Heinz Company Office, North Side, Pittsburgh, interview Mrs. (FNU) KUNZ of Curtisville, Pa., concerning the report that .one of her neighbors, CHUCK MIKLOW,. is hiding out an Italian wanted by the New Kensington Police Department who may be identical with GABRIEL MANNARINO. 19. Will recontact WILLIAM BRAIN, Detective, Allegheny County Detective Bureau, regarding the report that the MANNARINO -brothers are backing bingo games operating in ' McKeesport, Pa. ¥20, Will recontact PcIL____————Cconcerning _the report that the MANNARINO brothers have a-numbers ~ operation at Lloyd's Limited, 1926 Murray Avenue, involving DAVID LAWRENCE, FBI No. 1318627, and SONNY (LNU), who is probably identical with SONNY CINSUTTI, Shylock for the MANNARINO organization in New Kensington. ‘ JEK Act 6 (4) - 5 - SAVAGES oo / iW 45652 Docld:32236065 Page 3
PG 92-228 PG 92-236 *21, Will maintain contact with informants concerning the allegation VICTOR CARLUCCI and SAMUEL MANNARINO have brought undue pressure to pear upon operators of bars and after hours clubs in New Kensington to purchase Stoney Beer instead of Rolling Rock Beer or risk losing pinball machines in their establishments. ye, ; CRIMINAL INFORMANT COVERAGE ~ PG 545-C As a matter of information[___]was forced to retire from the New Kensington Police Depar ment in 1956 because of a heart attack. He was recently re-examined . by his doctor and pronounced physically fit to return to duty and is now walking a beat in downtown New Kensington. In view of SHARKEY's reinstatement on the New Kensington ; Police Force he no longer qualifies as an informant and his! ile was closed administratively. In the future 111 be contacted as a confidential source. By letter dated July 15, 1958, the Bureau was advised of the close acquaintance of former PCH SC™~™~—CSC tt Assistant Attorney General D. MALCOLM ANDERSON, U. S. Department of Justice. . . | HW 45652 Docld:32236065 Page 4
(MW 45852 PG 92-228 ; 92.236 The Prentice Hall Tax Service Book reviewed by SA KILGORE indicates. that: the United States tax treaty with Greece was ratified on December 30, 1953 to become effective January 1, 1954. The Prentice Hall Tax Service indicates that the tax treaty with certain countries . exempts income from rents and royalties from real property taxation; however, Greece is not among those countries. T-2, who has furnished reliable information in the past,- on July: 16, 1958, advised that Mrs. KALIOPI HAZIDAKIS, wife of MIKE HAZIDAKIS, left New Kensington, Pa., in 1952 with her son, GEORGE, to return to Greece permanently because she discovered that HAZID was having extra- marital relations with Mrs. JULIAZTSANGARAKIS, age  ~& AffRel /9/ 3 approximately 45, of New Kensington. T-2 said HAZIDAKIS has confided to him in the past that he has been having (a sexual relations with the TSANGARAKIS woman regularly since the late forties with the permission of her husband, GEORGE, age approximately 65, apparently because GEORGE has, for some:time, been incapable of having sexual relations because of his advanced age and physical condition. According to T-2, HAZIDAKIS recently mentioned that he has | not been seeing a great deal of the TSANGARAKIS woman for the past year since she began dating Mayor RAYMOND VGARBEOCK of Neu _Kensington- T-2 pointed out that if is no Secret in New Kensington that GARDLOCK has been seen in public in New Kensington with the TSANGARAKIS woman during the past year. Ph (iil Te2 explained that TSANGARAKIS and her husband own and operate, a small restaurant on Constitution Boulevard in New Kensington, have two or three grown children and have living quarters above the restaurant. Mrs. HELEN KIDO, clerk of the Credit Bureau of New Kensington and Arnold, on July 18, 1958, advised from records that GEORGE TSANGARAKIS and wife, JULIA, purchased the Stanton Luncheonette at 634 Constitution Boulevard in New Kensington in October, 1955, and live in an apartment above the luncheonette. As a matter of background information, KIDO stated that Mr. and Mrs. TSANGARAKIS formerly owned ‘the Casa Blanca and International Restaurants in New Kensington ‘for a number of years before buying the luncheonette in 1955 with a down payment of $5,000. KIDO added that CHARLES and NELLE BEACON, address unknown, of New Kensington, have an $8,000 mortgage on the luncheonette. KIDO identified the children of Mr. and Mrs. TSANGARAKIS as MATTHEW, age 22, and MARY, age 20. ~— a Soa VN . soe soe Doocld: 32296065 Page 5 pat tod sere
It is recalled that TANNAS has been the subject of a Fraud Against the Government Investigation in connection with his application for a $60,000 loan through the Small Business Administration as Treasurer of the Warrington Five and Ten Cents Stores, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pa. ; United. States Attorney HUBERT I. TEITELBAUM, Western District of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pa., on July ih, 1958, advised fo SAS RICHARD GORDON DOUCE and THOMAS G. FORSYTH that he a would authorize prosecution of TANNAS under Title 15, ' Section 638, U. S, Code, for making false statements to the Small Business Administration in connection with his application for the $60,000 loan. . On July 14, 1958, an authorized complaint. was filed pefore U. S. District Judge WALLACE S. GOURLEY by SA RORSYTH and a, warrant was issued the same. date. —— , TANNAS was apprehended by SAS FORSYTH and DOUCE in his office in the City Hall, Arnold, Pa., July 14, 1958, and taken before U. S. District Judge GOURLEY where he waived preliminary hearing,was released on his own recognizance, and given until July 18, 1958, to post $250 bond. The "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette," "Pittsburgh Press," “Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph," "New Kensington Daily Dispatch," and the "Tarentum Valley News," July 15,.1958, editions, featured page one stories and pictures regarding the arrest of TANNAS, linking him with racket "kingpin" oe occossne, of Westmoreland County. f Fi OH FOC; Ni _ 1, orescence / : T-2, on July 18, 1958, examined a photograph of MACCHARULO and positively identified him as the individual he previously referred to as LOUIS MILANO, a dealer and part- time supervisor at the Triangle Billiards Gambling Casino and member of the VOLPE mob of Wilmerding, Pa. T-2 | emphasized that there could be absolutely no mistake in his identification of MACCHARULO since they served time together in Western State Penitentiary in the thirties. 5 oe we i ARULO, FBI NO. 340922 _ | HW 45652 Docld:32236065 Page 6
PG 92-228 PG 92-236 INFORMANTS T-1 is -JEK Law 11(a) T-2 is so rorsr \dential source, contacted by SA THO ; cL and, SA RICHARD. GORDON DOUSE. T-3 is JACK L. MC INTYRE, Western “Pennsylvania Sales Representative, for the Bell Telephone Company < of r Pennsylvania, contacted by SA. RICHARD GORDON DOUCE. _ ; TAA is CI 293-C contacted by SA THEODORE 0. ‘THOMAS JEK Act 6 (4) pe 5 is ci 29l-c contacted by SA THEODORE oO: THOMA, 1-6 is PCI, ‘contacted by ‘an unidentified agent of the Memphis Office. T-7 is SL 1094=C contacted by SA EDWARD M. MORELAND. T-8 is SL 1065-¢ contacted by. SA ‘EDWARD M. MORELAND. T-9 isL__ PCI, contacted by SA MORELAND. T-10 asl POL, ‘contacted by SA MORELAND. T-11 is CV 34u4-C contacted by ‘SA FRANK DOUDS. T-12 isl YT of Indianapolis Office, contacted by SA GILBERT L. HAMILTON. T-13 is LA 3843-C contacted by SA LOGAN J. LANE. T~14 is DUDLEY BARTKO, Manager, California Water and Telephone Company, Palm Springs, California, contacted by SA STANLEY H. FUEHRER. . T-15 is LEON EPSHTEIN, Pittsburgh jeweler, contacted by SA JOHN .S. PORTELLA. a - 10 - t* cee De ee pom Te eT ee BDL eee tenes ee | HW 45652 Docld:32236065 Page 7
wee SEK Act 6 (4) PG 92-228 PG 92-236 m-16 isl] PCI of Miami Office, contacted by SA ROBERT K. LEWIS. Ue T=17 is LO] confidential source, contacted by SA RICHARD GORDON DOUCE. T~18 is WILLIAM BRAIN, Detective, Allegheny County Detective Bureau, Pittsburgh, contacted py SA GENE H, STUDEBAKER. 7 T-19 is MM 644-C contacted by SA WILLIAM L. EDDY. The Miami Office on July 1, 1958, advised that extreme caution should pe given to information furnished by MM 644-¢ and no dissemination should be made which would in any way compromise his identity. T-~20 is PG 509-C contacted by SA JOHN S. PORTELLA. TW21 is an anonymous informant who contacted Assistant Attorney General D. MALCOLM ANDERSON, U. 5S. Department of Justice, by letter dated June 16, 1958, offering to furnish information regarding the activities of several Pittsburgh top hoodlums. The anonymous informant in his letter of June 16, 1958, suggested that an ad be inserted in the personal column of the "Pittsburgh Press" addressed to "tiger" and furnishing an address where he could write to Mr. ANDERSON personally. A post office box has been rented by the Pittsburgh Office and several letters regarding the activities of Pittsburgh top hoodlums received to date. : | iW 45652 Docld: 32236065 Page 5