Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1997 (44 Use ZiT Hote). DATE: 11-14-2017 JFK Assassination System Date: 4/9/2015 Identification Form | Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: = 124-10351-10492 RECORD SERIES: HQ . AGENCY FILENUMBER:  72-2382-403 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: SE ae TO: HQ TITLE: DATE: — 11/11/1976" ‘PAGES: TA SUBJECTS : JUDITH CAMPBELL EXNER DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 4 ‘ CURRENT STATUS: Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: 09/17/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : v9.1 60 ‘ Docld: 323171585 Page 1
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2leased under the John F. Kennedy Assassina 10h ' DATE: 11-14-7017 - PAGE Iwo. SE 72-54 ee OY . MIAMI BEACH AND MET WITH SAM GIANCANA. GIANCANA INTRO- “DUCED MAX TO STURGIS, A CIA AGENT DESCRIBED ‘as 4 WHITE MALE, | / St yyy: “AND WELL BUILT. STYRGIS QUESTIONED HIM ABOUT KIS, | MAX'S PROFICIENCY IN WEAPONS AND INDICATED MAX SHOULD PRaC- TICE ON TARGETS IN THE OKEEFENOKEE SWAMPS. DURING THESE | TARGET PRACTICES, STURGIS INSTRUCTED MAX IN THE. USE OF THOMPSON. ss SUBMACHINE Gulls. a | oo 7 oo AROUND MAY 18, 1961, MAX MET WITH GIANCANA, JOHN ROSELLI, AND STyRGIS WHO TOLD. HIM, MAX, AMONG OTHERS » WAS TO "ant" THE DICTATOR OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, RAFAEL TRUJILLO. MAX WAS | INTRODUCED’ TO ANGELO MARADANO (PHONETIC) WHO SPOKE FLUENT SPANISH. IT waS DECIDED MARADANO WOULD PLAY PART OF MAX*S FATHER WITH MAX BEING A MUTE 9 THUS HIDING THE FACT THAT MAX COULD NOT i SPEAK SPANISH. i ON MAY 18, 1961, MAX AND ANGELO MARADANO FLEW TO MEXICO CITY ON A COMMERCIAL AIRLINE, AND ON MAY 19, 1961, ALSO ON COMMERCIAL AIRLINES, FLEw TO SANTO DOMINGO. THEY WERE MET BY AN UNKNOWN CAB DRIVER WHO KNEW THEM AND ULTIMATELY TOOK THEM TO A HO ME ouT- SIDE SANTO DOMINGO WHERE THEY WERE INTRODUCED TO WILLIAMS Docld: 323171585 Page 3
"Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Co DAFNGHATHREEIEE 79154 ~SSeRRT . ANOTHER cia MAN DESCRIBED AS WHITE MALE, eva", s1otzs, WILLIAMS GAVE THEM MAPS OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC AND SANTO DOMINGO AND TOLD THEM TO STUDY THEM. Max STILL fas THESE MAPS AND THEY ARE AVAILABLE IF WANTED, WILLIAMS INDICATED IT WOULD BE VERY HARD TO "HIT" TRUJILLO INASMUCH AS TRUJILLO CHANGED ROUTES DAILY, GOING BACK AND FORTH FROM HIS OFFICE TO THE PALACE AND was PROTECTED BY SHARPSHOOTERS. | | ON THE NIGHT OF MAY 29, 1961, WILLIAMS INDICATED TRUJILLO wAS GOING. TO SEE HIS MISTRESS IN SAN CRISTOBAL DURING THE : | EVENING OF MAY 30, 19616, HE WAS GOING VIA THE COAST HIGHWAY. 7 AND WOULD BE IN A WHITE CHEVROLET PRECEEDED BY A JEEP. IN ORDER. TO FOOL PEOPLE, ANOTHER WHITE CHEVROLET aND JEEP WOULD FOLLOW HIM SOME TEN. TO FIFTEEN MILES. IN THE AFTERNOON OF MAY 38, 1961, MAX, MARADANO, WILLIams, AND UNKNOWN. OTHERS OF SPANISH DECENT, VENT. IN TWO JEEPS TO | | FIND A PLACE TO "HIT" TRUJILLO « A SUITABLE PLACE WAS FOUND NEAR A PORT CITY. AROYND MIDNIGHT ON MAY 3@, THE JEEP AND THE WHITE CHEVROLET ; DoclTd: 32317185 Page 4
Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act o . DATE: _i1- 14-2017 . ; a PAGE FOUR ‘SE 72-54 . < - ~ WITH TRUJILLO APPEARED, SIX MEN IN THE FIRST JEEP “TOOK OUT" TRUJILLO’ S JEEP, DISABILING THE RADIO AND TIRES, ! MAX, THE DRIVER, WILLIAMS, AND MARADANO PULLED UP NEXT To TRUJILLO IN THE WHITE CHEVROLET AND MaX AND MARADANO KILLED HIM, USINGTHOMPSON SUBMACHINE GUNS. APPROXIMATELY SIX HOURS LATER, THEY RETURNED TO saNTo “DOMINGO AND DEPARTED. FOUR DAYS LATER, ARRIVING IN MIAMI BEACH VIA MEXICO CITY, PORT Ay PRINCE, HAITI, AND THE BAHAMAS, ALL TRAVELLING BY COMMERCIAL AIRLINES. ONCE THEY ARRIVED IN MIAMI BEACH, STURGIS PAID MAX AND MaRADANO $30,000 A PIECE. PRESENT DURING THIS PAYOFF WAS SAM GIANCANA WHO TOLD Max TO CONTACT PETE BRADY,A PIT BOSS IN THE DESERT IWN IN Las VEGAS y CONCERNING A "HIT" IN HAVANA, CUBA. APPARENTLY, BRADY ‘HAD BEEN WORKING AT THE CAPRI CASINO IN HAVANA AND waS | FAMILIAR WITH THE AREA. re oo eg IN MID-JUNE, 1961, CONTACT WAS MADE BY MAX WITH BRADY | UTILIZING THE SERVICES OF JOHNNY GEORGE, A GAMBLER IN Las VEGAS, CURRENTLY BUILDING THE ATLANTIS HOTEL IN Las VEGAS BRADY INDICATED TO MAX HE yaS INSTRUCTED BY SOMEONE WHOM HE DID NOT NAME anne | i} Docld:323317165 Page 5
DATE: 11- 14- 2017 oo a | la oe ae a a ~ Page | FIVE. SE 72-54 THAT HE wAS SUPPOSED TO TELL MAX ALL ABOUT HaVANa AND THE HILTON HOTEL THERE. IT yAS ASSUMED BY MAX THAT HE WAS BEING INSTRYCTED SO THAT HE COULD “HIT” FIDEL CASTRO. ; AFTER RECEIVING THE INFORMATION FROM BRADY, MAX RE- TyRNED TO MIAMI BEACH WHERE HE CONTINUED To TARGET PRACTICE § SHORT wHILE LATER, MAX LEARNED THAT GIANCANA HAD A "RUN IN" WITH ROBERT KENNEDY IN LAS VEGAS AND THE "HIT" ON CASTRO WAS CALLED OFF. MAX WAS INFORMED HIS SERVICES WERE NO LONGER NEEDED. IN FEBRUARY OR MARCH, 1975, JOHN ROSELLI TOLD MAX THAT HE AND SAM GlaNaWA WERE BEING INVESTIGATED BY THE SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE CONCERNING THE ATTEMPTED ASSASINATION OF CASTRO. ROSELLI SAID GIANCANA HAD AGREED TO TESTIFY BUT HE, ROSELLI, WOULD NOT SAY ANYTHING. oe | IN JULY, 1975, GIANCANA WAS KILLED WITH SEVEN 22 CALIBER BULLETS AFTER TyO CHICAGO POLICEMEN ON SURVEILLANCE WERE LURED “AWAY. -TyO WEEKS LaTER, ROSELLI TOLD max THaT HE HAD CHECKED IN’ TO CHICAGO AND GIANCANA’S MURDER waS NOT A "MOB HIT", ROSELLI TOLD HIM IT waS & MURDER BY THE Cla TO INSURE THAT GIANCANA WOULD SAY NOTHING TO THE SENATE COMMITTEE CONCERNING THE INVOLVEMENT. } < a | Docld: 32317185 Page 6
“Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination . DIIEGEMSER M87 70-54  SBerT oe a ‘OF THE CIA WITH “ THE MOB". ROSELLT FURTHER INDICATED TO MAX ‘ HE FELT HE WOULD BE FORCED TO TESTIFY BEFORE THE SENATE COMMITTEE AND wOULD. PROBABLY BE “KNOCKED Down” OR KILLED BECAUSE OF IT. IN THE SUMMER OF 1976, ROSELLI WENT TO FLORIDA To SEE HIS SISTER AT wHICH TIME HE WAS MURDERED. IT IS CONJECTURED BY MAX THAT ROSELLI'S MURDER WAS DONE BY THE CIA TO KEEP HIM FROM TESTIFYING BEFORE THE SENATE com MITTEE. | | | | THE SEATTLE DIVISION HAS NO waY TO VERIFY THE TRUTH OR “LACK OF IT CONCERNING THE ABOVE INFORMATION. ON A LIMITED SCALE, THE SOURCE"S. PREVIOUS INFORMATION PROVIDED TO THE FBI HAS BEEN RELIABLE. SHOULD FURTHER INFORMATION BE DESIRED, THE SEATTLE DIVISION SHOULD BE NOTIFIED. “THE INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE / a SOURCE IS OFFERED FOR wHATEVER USE IS DEEMED DESIRABLE. CLASSIEIED (ASSNGDS-SANZ-ENBEFIETE, Oo | | | ADMINISTRATIVE:- SE 2434 PC IS aX FRANK KUBSCHNER, BUFILE | 137-2186, SEFILE 137-5003, LAFILE 137-637, FBI NO. 262-219a, WHO ADVISED HE yOULD BE RELUCTANT TO TESTIFY TO THE ABOVE IN- FORMATION BUT DID NOT RULE ou THE POSSIBILITY HE WOULD : TESTIFY. | | a | Oo | Docld: 32317185 Page Tf
‘Released under the John F. Kennedy AS=aseina i JPaGE. SEVEN SE 72-54 grew *  BLSO PRESENT DURING INTERVIEW WAS SERGEANT CARL OLSON, INTELLIGENCE DETAIL, SEATTLE POLICE DEPARTMENT, WHO IS Now (UTILIZING FORMER SE 2434-PC AS AN INTELLIGENCE INFORMANT. BT. | | # { to \ yon i t i t i ' _ Docld: 32317185 Page 6