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 : v9.1 JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information FBI 124-10205-10231 HQ 92-2781-1251 Document Information FBI © AMBLER, JOHN A. DIRECTOR, FBI 01/26/1968 32 LST, BKG INVEST, ASSOC, REL, TRA, TELCAL, SURVEILLANCES, B/F INT, GAMBLING ACT PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 4 Redact 10/20/1998 INDEFINITE NW 45966 DocId:32290455 Page 1 Date: 6/15/201
©. @ ™D-265 (Rev. 38-67) FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION REPORTING OFFICE “TOFFICE OF ORIGIN.) O TAMPA de ~ TAMPA TITLE OF CASE . [INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD “YAN 25 1989 | 12/12/67-1/17/68 REPORT MADE BY TYPED BY SA JOHN A, AMBLER joe hy AR / Z // ‘this report being marked "Changed" to reflect alia’ es used by TRAFFICANTE when obtaining airline passage, ~*~ REFERENCES: < Report of SA JOHN A. AMBLER, Tampa, 12/14/67 oN New York letter to Tampa, 12/28/67 a Jacksonville letter to Tampa 1/10/68 4 | Miami airtel to Tampa 1/4/68 VA . Miami airtel to Director, 1/4/68 “ENCLOSURES: ~. by TO MIAMI PL SHMENTS CLAIMED SAD Hone ACQUIT- ore] rus [7 rings” TALS YT SPECIAL AGENT - DO NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW APPROVED © IN CHARGE CASE HAS BEEN: cConvic PENDING OVER ONE YEAR [“]veEs [_]NO PENCING PROSECUTION OVER SIXMONTHS ([_Jyes [Jno COPIESM Bureau (92-2781) 1 - USA, Tampa 3 - Mami (92- 88) (Enc. 1) (1 - USA, Miami Attn: WILLIAM EARLE, Dept. Atty) 2 = New York (92-846) 3 - Tampa (92-1) tee oe) Tew, Dissemination Record of Attached Report , Notations Agency Request Recd. HW 45966 DocId:32290455 Page 2
TP. 92-] 4 - photograph of GABRIEL MENDOZA, Tampa PD #96928 taken August, 1962. Lo 4 - Information from records of the Southern Bell - Telephone and Telegraph Company, St. Augustine, Fla., was made available by Mr. RANDY PIERSON. oo On 12/20/67 TP 120-C advised that Mrs. TRAFFICANTE was definitely in Miami ‘ but that the exact whereabouts — of SANTO were unknown but there was some reason to believe “thet he might be in Mexico. Subsequently on 12/21/67. TP 120-C advised that on the morning of 12/21/67 SANTO's daughter MARY JO had talked with her mother in Miami and that SANTO was definitely in Mexico and that Mrs. — TRAFFICANTE was to be in Tampa later during the day and: that subsequently around 4:15 p.m. MARY JO’had met her mother at the Tampa, Fla. airport. Subsequently on 12/24/67 TP 120-C advised that TRAFFICANTE had returned to’ Tampa some time during: the day of 12/23/67. On 12/26/67 T¥ 120-C advised that the. only persons present for Christmas Day dinner at the. SANTO TRAFFICANTE Tampa residence were SANTO, Mrs. , -‘PRAFFICANTE, Mrs. TRAFFICANTE's father, MARY JO PANIELLO, and her family. and SARA.JANE VALDES and her family. ’ On ‘12/28 anc 29/67 TP 120-C remarked that TRAFFICANTE _ was not in’Tampa and was believed to be in Miami, Fla. but would be in Tampa for New Year's. On 1/9/68 TP. 120-C advised that TRAFFICANTE had been in Tampa from 12/30/67 until 1/3/68 and that ‘he had left on Wednesday, 1/3/68, for New York to attend a wedding and that the individuals- who were to be wed was a couple who had arrived in Tampa with SANTO just ‘before New Year's and who had: apparently been guests at the TRAFFICANTE home in Miami just. prior to coming to ' ‘Fampa. Informant stated that the male had stayed at either the International Inn, Airport Motel, or the Tampa-Sheraton and was known as FRANK and could be -described as white, male, 45-55, 6* tall, heavy set, of non~Latin or non-Italian extraction, but possibly Jewish. Informant stated that ‘B ' COVER. PAGE HW 45966 DocId:32290455 Page 3
TP 92-1 INFORMANTS: Identity . fP T-l is TP 120-C _NW 45966 TP T-2 is TP 303-PC TP T=4 is JAMES.E, MCMAHON Security Director, General Telephone Company of Florida mers is per[_ TP T-6 is Agent RONALD SIEBERT, Federal Bureau. -of Narcotics, Miami TP T-7 is TP 182-C-TE_ ‘TP T-8 is TP 41-C-TE is. the; MENDOZA referred to ,by of SA WENDALL W. HALL, Miami, Location of Original Information 137-460-259 7 OTHER 4 -137-1563-34 _ een By Fw '137-1705-21 TARK Fon ab/ow 162-679-2- x reine W | [ RELEASE iw PART - 137-1702-10 oO ; AOA DEON, inatane report 137-1028-214 137-142-391 LEADS: AT MIAMI, FLA. - Ll Will exhibit photograph of GABRIEL MENDOZA to PCI in an attempt to determine if the above as shown in the report 67 on page 19. 2).. Will continue efforts to determine. TRAFFI-~ CANTE! s activities on a day-to-day basis. ‘ NEW YORK AT WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK D - COVER PAGE Docld:32290455 Page 4 _