JFK Assassination System Date: 4/28/201 Identification Form ) . Agency Information Released under the John AGENCY: FBI Kennedy RECORD NUMBER: — 124-90059-10078 Assassination Records oOllection Act of 1992 RECORD SERIES: HQ (44 USC 2107 Note). asef#:i NW Sé67gz Date: AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 92-3088-1113 pa—10—-2018 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: CG TO: ‘HQ TITLE: DATE: 10/01/1964 PAGES: 6 SUBJECTS : MURRAY L. HUMPHREYS RICHARD CAIN DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: — 4; 10(a)2 CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 06/12/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE AT COMMENTS : v9.1 HW 56792 Bocld: 323271382 . 7 Page 1
FD-36 (Rev. 10-29-63) | . . | ; o~) a C) | - 4 \ f- .? A { { oe. - sh . | | FBI | | | | Date: 10/1/64 | | / Transmit the following in (Type in plain text or code) Via AIRTEL (Priority) TO : DIRECTOR, FBI FROM: SAC, CHICAGO (92-350 Sub 11) > - y a Yi SUBJECT: MURRAY L. HUMPHREYS, aka 4 SO AR 4 SUMMARY eo DAG Tee (ON. IT SHOUI OT IN 0 f RT THOUGH PARAD : J UL SOT USED -T KH OR THe BASI R AN INTER UNLESS SPECIFIC ( & 1S OBTAINED FRO U ROM GO. ) ~ AN Ae ES met Y DR, i TA AY Ay STATS 7 VE ‘YTT ‘Tt TT EY " * O CG 6758-C* furnished information concer ning activities on 9/25/64. On 9/25/64, MIKE BRODKIN returned from lunch with Chicago former bookmaker JOE EPSTEIN. Apparently when he returned, BRODKIN received a message to call FRED "JUKEBOX" SMITH. It is noted SMITH is a CI of the Chicago Office. BRODKIN inquired of his secretary if she remembered " JUKEBOX SMITTY," and she replied that she knew him, and had met him. EPSTEIN. then asked BRODKIN, 'tHow is JUKEBOX?'"' BRODKIN replied, @- Burea cencrsvenep) sh 7A Ou ay 1 - bureau (REGISTERED) eke Ret - 3688 1 - Chicago. z, © eS am ~ ff be Fa ha , Sty bbe Approved: __ CCS eet #o¢ it Special Agent in Charge a HW 56792 DBocld:32327182 Page 2?
oO! og _ CG 92-350 Sub 11 _™ JUKEBOX? JUKEBOX is JUKEBOX. " EPSTEIN ‘then advised BRODKIN that HENRY. _ FRIEDENBERG is going ‘to pick him up and that they were going to call on some accounts which HENRY has for EPSTEIN. It. is noted that FRIEDENBERG is the subject of a ITWP case > in the Chicago Office, and that he is the owner of Acacia “Press, the printers of « ‘lottery tickets. _ At this point, BRODKIN's secretary advised | him that: she could | not reach SMITH at the number left. FRIEDENBERG arrived ‘in the office. at this point and advised BRODKIN and EPSTEIN that they would conduct their business on that. date, but that they would '- also of necessity have to visit BILL KAPLAN in the hospital. FRIEDENBERG indicated that KAPLAN is getting better, but continues to be bedridden. It is noted that KAPLAN is identical with former CG 6272-C, and is the subject of an. | |+ investigation in this office entitled "ANGEL-KAPLAN . SPORTS NEWS SERVICE," CGfile 165-1. _ Contact with the sister of KAPLAN determined that KAPLAN has been confined to the hospital and to a rest home since May 4, 1964, and has suffered his third and .fourth heart: attacks énothe past five months, It is’ . noted that the Assistant U.S. Attorne g the proposed prosecution of KAPLAN intends to cali pefore the — Federal grand jury in the very near future. At the present time KAPLAN is confined in Room 417 at Columbus Hospital. LEON. KESSLER, an associate attorney in the office of Bieber & Brodkin, then conferred with BRODKIN concerning the fact that his. neighbor’, one HOWARD WEINER (ph), who is a neighbor of KESSLER in Deerfield, Illinois, "got mixed up in an interstate theft case and is 7 presently confined awaiting bond." BRODKIN then made a. telephone call to Chicago bondsman EDDIE MORRIS and instructed MORRIS to go over to the Commissioner's office and make bond for WEINER. BRODKIN indicated that "We want - JFK Law 10(a )2 DoclId: 323277182 Page 3