NN SSS SS SE SST JFK Assassination System Date: 5/7/2015 Identification Form eee . Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER:  124-10208-10116 / ; RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER:  92-3171-2061 nme * os Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: ROEMER, WILLIAM F. TO: DIRECTOR, FBI \ TITLE: DATE: 07/18/1967 .PAGES: 24 SUBJECTS : . SGI, OC, LEADER, INVEST, CURRENT, WHEREABOUTS DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 4 | CURRENT STATUS:  Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 03/25/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : ee VOL 310 NW 45792 Docid:32291840 Page 1
/ CHICAGO ho. Ge FE ANCLOSURES Girt Trre3 (Fev. 9-17-65) , : S. “~ . REPORTING OFFICE OFFICE OF ORIGIN CHICAGO CHICAGO TITLE OF CASE 8 \. REPORT MADE BY TYPED BY WILLIAM F ~RQGME bam SAMUEL M. GIANCANA, aka - a _ nore .- . Hage -{* REFERENCE: Report of SA WILLIAM F, RQEMER dated 5/18/67 at Chicago. TO BUREAU Pn ee ADK - al Ler ee , mm CO BS Sy 7 A A MWocea for the Bureau are two copies of a letterhead memorandum setting forth characterization of informants utilized in instant report. LEAD on. t3/ hear” BYSG6 *tatas.o0 le 0 Sis) 0-09 : A T CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. Will continue to follow and report the activities of GIA NCANA, os Case has been: Pending over one year H ] I t : DO NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW [225°7/— lace 12061 |pec ae APPROVED ji} te’? IN CHARGE COPIES MADE: fy- Bureau (92-3171 (Gwer—2) (1 - Legat, Mexico City) 1 = USA, Chicago - i 2-34 phe a 7, 3A 2 - Chicago (9 90 Gee Pa 2: JUL 241967 Dissemination Record of Attached Report How Fwd, se_and PNA —_— 45792 Docld:32 Ba” Page 2 Lady Agency Request Recd. Date Fwd.
‘ a F CG 92-349 Informant ” . CG T-12 | June 23, 1967 to New York Office NY 5593-C-TE - ss : CG T+ March 29, 1967 to J. ROBERT - PH 599-C-TE | PEACE, Philadelphia Division «6G ‘T-14 May 15, 1967 to SA VINCENT L. ART PETACQUE, Reporter,"Chicago INSERRAA Sun-Times" (demed adviseable) . CG T-15 - May 11, 1967 to SA RUSSELL CG 6588-C-TE GIRSCH . ; CG T-16 June 15, 1967 to Las Vegas Division LV 240-C-TE on {i Be { i | | | , / , \ fs > “ ee ee NW 45792 DociId:32291840 Page 4
CG 92-349 : = DETAILS: , AT CHICAGO, ILLINOIS cis I, BACKGROUND Residence CG T-1 advised that he continues to be in positim where he can observe the GIANCANA residence at 1147 South Wenonah, Oak Park, Illinois, throughout the day and evening hours, This informant advised that he has not observed GIANCANA in or about his reSidence since his release from the Cook County Jail on May 31, 1966. CG T-]l advised that JAMES PERNO and his wife and the daughter of GIANCANA, FRANCINE, continue to reside there. (LU / s- ' CG T-2 advised that he is in a position to advise concerning activities inside the GIANCANA residence, He . f stated that GIANCANA returned to his residence in Oak Park ; { following his release from the Cook County Jail on May 31, 1966. Members of his immediate family held a small party for'him on June 1, 1966, GIANCANA has not been observed, by the informant Since June 1, 1966 even though the informant has been able to ascertain the identities of individuals inside the GIANCANA residence on many occasions since June l, 1966. CG T-~2, who is in regular contact with members of GIANCANA ‘s household, advised that he is certain that GIANCANA has not returned to the Chicago area Since June 1, 1966. Ww - Current Whereabouts of SAM GIANCANA Information was re ed from the,Mexican Immi ion Service that HARRIETTE BLA AIN, the wif “RICHARD _S CAIN. a known associate of the su ject, ‘in her dealings Le eress ith Mexican Immigration furnished her address” as c/o her attorney, JORGE CASTILLO Z.., Plaza de la Republica 32, xico City. This ns attorney also represented the subject . VU if Immigration officials advised, howéver, there was an additional address for her,,Box 1066, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, telephone 2 61 75. + RRR Sn Rt .. eat a eee NW 45792 DociId:32291840 Page 5
ZA a NW 45792 CG .92-349 ‘ CG T-5 advised that during conversation with PEPE GIANCANA, the brother of SAMUEL GIANCANA, in mid-May, 1967, PEPE advised that he did not believe that his brother, SAM GIANCANA, would ever return to the United States. (\ CG T-6 advised that he is in contact with a member of the immediate family of GIANCANA and that he has been informed by this individual w that GIANCANA has not been seen by members of his immediate family since his release from the Cook Connty Jail and that GIANCANA has not been in Chicago Since that time. This member of GIANCANA's family advised that She is’ unaware of GIANCANA's present whereabouts and that she has received only one telephone call from him Since his release, | that being a long distance call from an unknown location. \y Panamanian Immigration authorities were contacted and they confirmed that SAMUEL M. GIANCANA arrived in Panama aboard Varig Airlines Flight 811 on 10 September 1966 coming from Mexico. ors was in possession of Tourist Visa Card #37542, A check with Varig Airline Office in Panama also confirmed GIANCANA's arrival and that he had reservations for Varig Airlines Flight #815 scheduled todepart Panama on 15 September 1966 destined for Lima, Peru. However, GIANCANA did not take this flight and departed Panama on 13 September 1%6 aboard Pan American World Airways Flight #516 destined for Guatemala,\ Guatemala, VG aj An intormant for the local investigator of the Embassy Security Officer stated that GIANCANA arrived in Panama accompanied by his personal bodyguard, RICHARD SCALZITTI CAIN, CAIN was in possession of U.S. Passport #F-935979 dated 19 October 1965 obtained in Chicago, Illinois. He was travelling on a Tourist Visa Card #37253. CAIN's passport indicated he : was born on 4 tober 31 in Illinois and reSides at 1533 North 77th Street. v3 hd Although GIANCANA stated to airport authorities that ~ he would be staying at the Hotel Panama Hilton, hotel registries. at this hotel and othermajor and Secondary hotels in Panama were personally checked and disclosed that no guests answering to the names of GIANCANA ond CAIN registered at: ithese hotels.: -N) We DociId:32291840 Page 6
CG 92-349 \ , On June 5, 1967, Mrs. ROBERT GABEL, a resident of the Ssamebuilding in Elmwood Park, Illinois, as the paternal grandfather of the TISCI children, advised that he was in Chicago on May 3, 1967. She described this individual, TISCI's father, as being 65-70 years of age, full head of gray hair, 5'10", slight build. It is noted that this deScription does not fit SAMUEL GIANCANA, Subsequent investigation by the FBI in Tucson, Arizona was unsuccessful in locating GIANCANA and he was not therefter observed in Tucson. yy CG T-10 is a repesentative of another Government. He advised that he received information in June, 1967, indicating to him that during the first part of May, 1967 SAM GIANCANA was very possibly. visiting PALMA de Mallarca, Spain and Nice, France. xb 2S CG T-11 advised that as of early June, 1967, GIANCANA continued to travel in and out of Mexico. He stated that JOE ESPOSITO, also known as JOE ESTY., a resident of San Diego, California, and a former Chicagoan who is the son of "Diamond JOE' ESPOSITO, a hoodlum leader in the 1920's and a Chicago labor racketeer, is the contact man for GIANCANA in that he reportedly makes connections for GIANCANA in Mexico where ESPOSITO has numerous highly placed contacts. It is noted that ESPOSITO, age 50, resides in San Diego at the present time, moving there during 1955 after he was caught stealing as an employee of the Public Administrator of the State of Illinois and discharged. ESPOSITO is known to be an associate of GIANCANA and of FRANK LA PORTE, another leader of organized crime in Chicago, who spends considerable time in California.U_ CG T-12 advised that although he could furnish no ~ specific information concerning the current whereabouts of SAM GIANCANA he was told by a leader of organized crime in’ Chicago who was one of the closest associates of GIANCANA that GIANCANA is presently reSiding in Mexico. y - CS } ‘ , Na Sls 5 NW 45792 DociId:32291840 Page 7 a