DATE: 11-14-2017 COMMENTS : | v9.1 pocta: 32994127 Page 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 : Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection JFK Assassination System Identification Form , " Agency Information . FBI 124-10212-10403 HQ 92-6054-519 Document Information FBI SAC, SF DIRECTOR, FBI 10/28/1963 2 LCN, MEMBERS, CRIMINAL ACT PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 4 Redact 06/29/1998 INDEFINITE
‘eleased under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 Use ZiT Hoter= DATE: 11-14-2017 . ae , OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 a -¢ ¢ 4. UINITED ,STATES GOY° (NMENT - ¥ < i Memoranaum TO 7 - DIRECTOR, FBI ° DATE: October 28, 1963 FROM any SAC, SAN FRANCISCO (92-593) . SUBJECT: 0 LA COSA NOSTRA : AR = CONSPIRACY | SF 2550-C-TE advised on October. 25, 1963, that vo at about 10:45 A.M., October 22, 1963, he was in the office of ANGELO MARINO at the California Cheese Company in San ro Jose, California. Present at this time were ANGELO, : SALVATORE and JOE MARINO. ANGELO said he was very happy 7 to see Informant because he was just going to send his 4 brother JOE MARINO to Martinez to give them a very impor- : tant message. He stated he had received a tip, the source _ of which he did not identify, that the "Feds" were going to search the houses of members of the organization. He recommended that Informant remove any guns he might have _from his house and any other contraband articles that he might have stored. He suggested Informant immediately return to Martinez and give this information to ALEX CAMARATA. ANGELO MARINO also stated that they all had. _ to be very careful as they were all being followed. ‘ From Informant's conversation with the MARINOs, he gathered that they were "all shook up" because of the publicity and inquiries being made by the F.B.I. and other Federal agencies regarding La Cosa Nostra. - Informant thereafter traveled to Martinez, i) California, where he attempted to contact ALEX CAMARATA, e CAMARATA was not at home at the time so Informant contacted | MRS. ALEX CAMARATA at her cleaning and tailor shop. When he related that the "Feds" were going to search their homes she went into a panic and stated in Sicilian that they had my CCs: - Bureau (AM ~ REG.) DS tf AT - oh New York CINFO) (AM - REG. ): ella 74-66 6 57° Ji = -' § - San Francisco - (1 jd. go. 593) O04 i: (1 - 137-2571) a Je 1 a 92-508) . — er ge 92-41) \ ot (1 - 92-179) fisy “(1 - 92-180) Docld: 32294177 Page 2?
FReleazed under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 sc 2i07 Hoter= DATE: 11-14-2017 a ° - By, ‘ ; ra a . ~ NM - NY SF 92-593 BCW: pp to hurry and "get it out of my house." She had Informant drive her to her house, whereupon they found that ALEX had just arrived, in company. with one of his workers, an uniden- tified colored man. ALEX and this colored man were in the to house at the time and it appeared that ALEX had just paid 1 the colored man.’ MRS. CAMARATA immediately shouted to . ALEX inSicilian that they were going to have their houses searched and that he should get the "stuff" out of the t house, ALEX ran to a back room of the house and brought : out some items which he stuffed into a lunch pail. Infor- mant identified certain of these items as being at least two .38 caliber revolvers and an ammunition-type belt. These ALEX put into a lunch pail and ran out of the house. Informant offered to take these items and throw them off the bridge, thinking that he could bring them to the San Francisco Office for examination. However, ALEX declined, stating that he was going to take them to his uncle's place, JOSEPH VENTIMIGLIA, who is ‘an old Italian residing in Martinez, California. Informant has been unable to learn the entire . contents of this lunch pail or the ammunition-type belt but indicated that it might contain ammunition or money. ALEX CAMARATA, who is the son-in-law of JOHN MISURACA of New Jersey, previously advised Informant on or about October 18, 1963, that he, CAMARATA, had been in contact with the MARINOs of San Jose, California, who told him that at some future date they might be called upon to '. hide out members of the organization who were being sought by the law. The MARINOs indicated that ALEX and Informant would be kept advised if their services were needed at any time in this regard. MN 4 Docld: 32294177 Page 3