TITLE : DATE: PAGES: COMMENTS : v9.1 HW 45355 Docld: 3223891270 AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE: CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : JFK Assassination System Date: 5/29/201 Identification Form Agency Information Peleased under the John Kennedy FBI . . Assassination Records 124-10200-10396 ollection fect of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note}. HQ ase#:NU 45855 Date: 1i-16-2017 92-2713-380 Document Information FBI KENNEDY, REGIS L. DIRECTOR, FBI 07/16/1964 118 CM, ASSOC, TRIAL, ANTI-RACKETEERING, GAMBLING, B/F INT PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 4; 11(a) Redact 01/06/1999 INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF IRS Page 1
py a NO . 92-36 HOUSTON OFFICE AT GALVESTON, TEXAS Will imterview WILDA LAURIE NANNEY RODRIQUEZ at Galveston, Texas, regarding her possible association with CARLOS MARCELIO. It should be noted that her New Orleans. address at New-Orleans was the Holiday Inn Motel, Airline. ‘Highway, which was formerly ene of _ CARLOS MARCELLO 's interests. MEMPHIS OFFICE Av MEMPHIS , TENNESSEE Will contact officials of the Holiday Inn Motels, Inc., to determine the details of the transaction which resulted in the sale of the Holiday Inn Motels at New Orleans, Louisiana, and particularly determine whether CARLOS MARCELLO has any - present interests in these motels. iItshould be noted that LEON POIRIER, who is apparently one of the principal owners, has previously been associated with MARCELLO as an accountant. MIAME OFFICE | am IIK Ret 6 At FT, LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA Will locate and interview former PCI who is T-3 in this report. -When last contacted indicated he was returning to his residence In Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, and would_be in contact. ‘with SA VINCENT ANTEL of the Miami Office. [____] should be interviewed for complete details | Yegarding the sale of the Holiday Inn Motel and whether MARCELLO © retains any interests there. . AT MIAMI, FLORIDA \ oo Will advise if the Miami Office has received any information which would indicate that CARLOS MARCELLO has interests in gambling: activities in the Bahama Telands. MOBILE OFFICE AT MOBILE, ALABAMA | is Will reinterview 7-32 L_} formerly » 128 PC, for detailed information regarding MARCELLO's C, COVER PAGE DoclId: 3227891270 Page 2? (4) ee errant antennae eae nace | ———ra
ak mya REVIEWED BY EBI/JFK TASK ‘liad ov lal9¢ ow 720) 4 ! No 92-36. . “ RELEASE IN FULL | a (RELEASE iN PART : INFORMANTS: ‘TOTAL DENIAL ~ 4 | +1 4s JOHN RYAN, Intelligence’ Divisior, Jf Revenue Service, New orleans, Louisiana. His identity is protected at his request. T-3 is PCT Le, a resident of Fort lauderdale, Florida, who is currently under charges in Criminal District Court, Parish of Orleans. Recent efforts to locate him in New Orleans have been unsuccessful. He is believed.to be currently residing . at New Orleans. ; JFK Act 6 (4) | T-19 is NO 1205-c. | ‘T~22 is TOM MOORE, Manager, Town House Motel, New Iberia, Louisiana. . T-23 is NO 1227 CTE. T-24 is NO 1237-PC. T-28 is AL THERIOT, Assistant superintendent of Police, New Orleans Police Department, who specifically requested that his contact with CARLOS MARCELLO be maintained in strictest confidence. — T-29 is NO-1244-pPc. oo | T-30 is NO-1169-c | : | T-31 is ALIEN MITCHELL BEYD » 37163 Cypress St., telephane VE 1-2334 BEYDA is a source for the U. S. Bureau of Narcotics and is on state probation for violation of the ‘marijuana laws of the Btate of Louisiana. T-32 is ————., Mobile PC 128. T-33 is NO 1252-Pc. . T~34 4s Mrs. CICELIA RIEL, Supervisor, Southwest Bell Telephone Co., Galveston, Texas. T~35 is FRANK BROCKETT, Bookkeeper, First. National . Bank, Huntsville, Alabama. \ T-36 is RODDY BYRNE, Customer Relations, First National Bank. . T-37 is JOSEPH H. OELKERS; JR., District Manager, Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company, Lafayette, Louisiana. HW 45355 Docld:32269120 Page 3
> 4 rs NO / 92-36 ADMINISTRATIVE : | | | re The source of the information appearing in the. letter- head memorandum accompanying this report. is. Philadelphia 623- c* and New Orleans NO 1262-C*. | Various information furnished by NO 7-23 (NO 1227-CTE) was obtained from a prostitute, POLLY. SUE.HARRINGTON, with whom the informant is living and who. is a close personal associate of ELIZABETH STEINBERG, and in view of this fact this.information is being paraphrased not to disclose the informant's source as - G@isclosure of this information would readily identify the informant. : The forthcoming trial of CARLOS MARCELLO on charges of violation of the perjury statute is being investigated in the substantive case file, NO File 46-1731, Bureau File 46-42600, and information regarding CARLOS MARCELLO 's possible gambling connections in Guatemala are being furnished to the Bureau in a separate communication in this file. | Informants NO T- 195 23, 24, 29, 30 and 33 were contacted by SA REED Ww. JENSEN. Information regarding the activities of ALFRED A, COURTIADE were supplied to the Pure Food and Drug Division of the Department of Health, Education. and Welfare as the information was received, That agency now has a pending investigation regarding BENNIE LEHANN. REVIEWED BY SIFK TASK FORCE cy Blok pdx ———§ 7 a ee IN PART a a TOTAL DENIAL COVER PAGE se ee ae FR SR ES es | HW 45355 Docld:32269120 Page 4
NO 92-36 RLK: LAC ~ 1 i “NO T-33 advised on May 14 and 21, 1964, that he had” réceived information that CARLOS MARCELLO had an interest ina. gambling casino that had recently opened in the British Grand Bahamas. This source stated he did not know if it were true,. but. that MARCELLO had once had a casino in Guatemala and therefore should have sufficient contact to set himself up ina casino in the Bahamas. Source advised that he had no details regarding either ‘casino. The source advised that some local gambling contacts were ‘trying to obtain work in the Grand Bahamas and it was through these sources that he had obtained this information. . owt VO.) PARISH SHERIFF'S OFFIC On June 8, 1964, NO T-32 advised that approximately one month previously he arrived in New Orleans and approached VICTOR MARCELLO, whom he had met in the past years through his former _ wife. -He told VICTOR MARCELLO that he was_ presently unemployed, -having spent the last six months on a farm at Pine Hill, Alabama, (which is true) and was desirous of getting with someone where he could make some quick money. VICTOR MARCELLO referred him to-: CARLOS MARCELLO and NO T-32 went. to the Town and Country Motel, 1225 Airline Highway, Metairie, Louisiana. :NO T-32 stated that he told CARLOS that he had been referred to him by VICTOR MARCELLO and he was, as he had told VICTOR, desirous of making some. quick money.- and Country Motel and he would consider giving him something to do. Approximately two weeks ago, after several conversations with CARLOS MARCELLO, CARLOS told him to go to ALWYN CRONVICH, newly . elected Jefferson Parish Sheriff, and apply for a position as deputy sheriff. CARLOS stated that he wanted to infiltrate the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office so that he would be aware of what was going on there. NO T-32 stated he has informed CARLOS ‘as well as CRONVICH that he had formerly worked furnishing infor- mation to the FBI, as well as having been a police officer and having worked for.several county solicitors"offices in the State of Alabama. He stated he also told CRONVICH that the latter could check him out through the FBI. 7 28 | HW 45355 Docld:3227891270 Page 5 NO T-32 said that CARLOS told him to check into the Town.
NO 2-96 2 _On ‘Thursday, June 4, 1964, upon the suggestion of CARLOS to his application for employment and was told by CRONVICH that he was still checking and, in addition, was having some trouble with the parish officials in that they wanted him to limit his— employees to individuals from within Jefferson Parish. CRONVICH told NO T-32 that he would be able to give him a definite answer - as to his’ employment with him within ‘three weeks. “NO “‘P-32 stated that he reported this back to CARLOS MARCELLO and CARLOS told him that he was satisfied. CARLOS also told NO T-32 that the three parish commissioners from the area known as the West Bank were all his men and that he "owned" ‘the ‘Highway Patrol from the top down. NO T-32 stated that he has ~ received no bill for his living quarters.and further he has made telephone calls to individuals, and from conversations he has © had with CARLOS MARCELLO and another individual who works where NO T-32 lives, whom NO T-32 does not know and who advised him he was not the son of CARLOS MARCELLO but that CARLOS MARCELLO had raised him, that CARLOS MARCELLO receives a report on each telephone call that NO T-32 makes. NO T-32 advised he felt that CARLOS MARCELLO already controls Sheriff CRONVICH to an extent. He stated that he bases this belief on two things: ; 1. \ CARLOS MARCELLO made the statement to him that when CRONVICH was seeking election, CRONVICH sent word to MARCELLO asking MARCELLO what he wanted in the event CRONVICH were elected and, according to NO T-32, CARLOS MARCELLO stated, "Not a G...-D.... thing." 2. When NO T-32 was last at the Sheriff's Office to discuss his prospective employment with CRONVICH, he saw another individual whom he has seen in contact with CARLOS MARCELLO, at the Sheriff's Office. NO T-32 stated he. was not sure whether this individual was working at the Sheriff's Office or just another individual in the same position as he, that is, applying for employment. NO T-32 stated that on the morning of June 8, 1964, | CARLOS MARCELLO asked him if he could get any information from ! the FBI at Mobile, Alabama, and NO T-32 replied in the affirma- , tive, stating he felt that he could. MARCELLO then requested. NO T-32 to determine anything derogatory about a hit-and-run - 29 - HW 45355 Docld:3227891270 Page 6