JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER:  124-10196-10192 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER:  62-9-29-409 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: SAC,MM TO: DIRECTOR, FBI TITLE: DATE: 02/09/1962 PAGES: 3 SUBJECTS : CIP, GAMBLING, ASSOC DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS: —Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: 09/24/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : v9.1 Docld: 322786916 Page 1 13 Date: 4/28/201
Wy’ FD-36 (Re 12-13-56) i Mr. Tolson § Mr. Belmont... { Mr. Mohr... | Mr. Callahan... ¢ ay FBI | Mr. Conrad......- “\ . cu | | Date: 2/9/62 AIRTEL . Rosen.....--- — | fs. Sullivan Transmit the following in | H g | i f € Mr. f f af Mr. Tavel_.__. | oY E Mr. Trotter F ’ Tele. Room... j i Mr. Ingram...— | (Type in plain text or code) AIRMAIL Via (Priority or Method of Mailing) |/¥° mt i Miss Gandy... | 7) | TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (62-9-29) mae MIAMI (92-515) (P) RE: CRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM MIAML OFFICE WEEKLY. SUMMARY MM 792-C on 2/7/62, advised that ANTHONY RICCI (Miami file 92-112), FRANK DIOGUARDI (Miami file 92-405) and JULIUS. KAPLAN, owners of Dore's Restaurant and Lounge, Dade County, Fla., have forced HOWARDS BROOKS, FRED and SYLVIA JACOBSON out of the restaurant. This source advised RICCI, | DIOGUARDI and KAPLAN put JOE RICCIO, who formerly operated Riccio Restaurant, and has an extensive criminal record, in to operate the restaurant for them. \ On 2/3/62, ANNIE LEE SHENETT, employed as a domestic \, in the home of JOSEPH MASSEI (Miami file 92-122) advised that MASSEI is an ailing man; that in the afternoons he \J génerally takes a rest and has a masseur come by his residence several days a week to give him a rub down. MM 509-C on 2/7/62, advised that he observed JOE MASSEL with possibly 1 or 2 exceptions, did not frequent the old Midtown Social Club or Amvets Post #35, Miami Beach, Fla., where MICHAEL COPPOLA has the principal interest, however, the past week, MASSEL has been in and out of the Amvets Post #35 regularly with JOE BOMMARITO. EXL15 “73 Bureau (AM) ae ; 90.9 [ei ® GA-G-AG- 7° “= Miami & oly Ww lade LG RFF:imbs : _ e. | 5 ‘ay (5) hey 7 : Cr | | Ves 4 TB EG 1L82 a ue Sent __. UM Per Reta Special Agent in Charge “Docld:322786916 Page 2
SRneenenenmnereneensns MM 92-515 \ A list of the members of Amvets Post #35 was obtained from the National Headquarters of Amvets and the list contains innumerable names of gamblers and bookmakers. RAMON BRAVO, PCI, on 1/19/62, advised that MAX EDER (Miami file 92-467), runs the card room in the Fontaine- bleau Hotel, Miami,Beach; that he directs its operations and has issued specific instructions no money is to be displayed in the card room where usually poker, gin and pinochle goes on. He pointed out that EDER's front man there is one ABBY MC DONALD, who is almost deaf, an alcoholic and feeble. ‘BRAVO also related that RAY VIDI acts as EDER's chauffeur and that JOHN NASH, a security officer at the Fontainebleau . Hotel, acts as EDER's bodyguard. In addition he made awilable .a telephone number from which bookmaking bets are made from the card room. MM 665-C on 1/25/62, advised that he learned the ‘past winter season, when CHARLES TOURINE (Miami file 92-106) and JOSEPH NESLINE operated a bookmaking 4a layoff operation out of the Beaux Arts Apartments, North Bay Village, Fla., they paid a couple of hundred dollars a week to an investiga- tor called "MAC" who was employed by RICHARD GERSTEIN's State . Attorney Office; in Miami. This source stated insofar as he knew, TOURINE and NESLINE are not operating in Miami to date, but that TOURINE has a piece of NESLINE's dice and gambling operation in Washington, D. C. He also learned that TOMMIE REYNOLDS, a former messenger for the Hotel Capri and Gambling Casino, before CASTRO took over Cuba, is presently visiting in Miami and in contact with TOURINE. ; This source also furnished the names of some ° contracts obtained by the National Plastering Co., Miami, Fla., where MAX EDER is one of the principals. “Docld:3272786916 Page 3