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FD-350 (Rev, 7-16-63) ® e (Mount Clipping in Space Below) tee pars - ~- + ao newspaper, city and state.) King plot, é THE SUN-BULLETIN local motel =; ’ BINGHAMTON, NY (Indicate page, name of By Wire Services and Staff Writers i A hideaway motel in Apalachin reportedly was the scene of a 1968 meeting where FBI and CIA agents offered former gangland kingpin Carlo PAGE 1 Gambino $1 million to kill Martin Luther King ‘ | Jr., Scripps-Howard Newspapers said yesterday. . ! — The allegation was made by an inmate at the Ohio Penitentiary Reception and Treatment Cen- ter in Columbus. Gambino reportedly rejected the offer. The report said the inmate, Myron Billet, set up a secret meeting in January 1968, at a motel in Apalachin between the FBI and CIA agents and. Gambino, who has since died. : . coe a oa ee ke eR The name and location of the motel could not : be determined last night and it was not known if the motel is still in business. } Apalachin was the scene of a 1957 state police raid of a convention by organized crime bosses, Date: APRIL 13, 1977 hosted by the late Joseph Barbara Sr. : = : : | Edition: ,  Seripps-Howard Newspapers, in a copyrighted Author! ' story by William Pillar, said Billett, 52, alias Paul Buccilli, will be questioned by Ed Evans, \ Editor: chief investigator for the House Select’ Commit- Title: tee on Assassinations in Washington. Gambino rejected the offer and later passed | the word that no gangland family would accept h A .araeter: . the offer to kill King, Billett said. : ( 9 _ Rep. Louis Stokes, D-Ohio, chairman of the } Wi or _ assassinations committee, said he ordered Evans i Classification: to investigate the allegations after Scripps- i Submitting Office: ALBANY ,; Howard asked Stokes if a letter sent by Billett to : ([] Being Investigated ‘ House Speaker Thomas O’Neill had been turned ' $ 5 " over to the committee. | fp fg- Oyee7 rg , O’Neill’s office told the newspapers that the ‘ ] ~ | letter had not been located. " EARCHED NPEYED _ “We will be in touch with Billett to check cut ERIALIZED FILED _ his story.”’ Evans said. ‘ a ° —— . Oo — APR 1 4 1977 FBI - ALBANY 54957 Docid: 32989496 Page 2
FD-350 (Rev. 11-11-75) } - y 14, 1977 st | | . By DAVID POPPICK “f APALACHIN — Some residents and motel managers in Apalachin were puzzled yesterday , by reports that a motel in the hamlet may have , been the site of a meeting where CIA and FBI agents offered a former gangland chief $1 million to kill Martin Luther King Jr. ; The House Select Committee on Assassinations ' in Washington yesterday said it will question an inmate at an Ohio penitentiary who claims he set up the secret meeting with Carlo Gambino in 1968. The motel was not identified. Some residents and motel managers of this Tioga County community expressed mixed feel- | ings about their town hitting the limelight as a gangland gathering place. None of those who were interviewed could say where the meeting may have been held. “It just looks bad for the town. But some | people say it is unlikely that the Mafia would | have returned to the scene of the crime after *@” said one resident. N 54957 Docld:32989496 Page 3 (Mount Clipping in Space Below) - Apr SUN-BULLETIN, Binghamton, N.Y. 5 -Apalachin talks of motels In 1967, state police raided a convention of organized crime bosses at, the Apalachin home of the late Joseph Barbara Sr. ‘Sure it could have happened. A tot of weird people and things happened here when we were open. But if they came, I would think they’d have been quiet and inconspicuous about it. I can’t remember anything about it,” said one motel manager, Donna Tryon. Tryon helped her father Stanley Payne manage an l1-cabin motel between West Main Street and Route 434 until it was closed in 1969. Albert Vizak, manager of the Real Motel on the border of Tioga and Broome counties, said he . doubted that his motel was used for the meeting. Ray Sawyer, who managed anotner muves us Route 434, said his cabins were closed during the winter and could not haye been used, ‘There are two other motels in the Apalachin : area: the Apalachin Tavern, which has motel rooms, and the Bennett Motel, on the border, af | ‘ Broome and Tioga counties. : et $ (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) SUN-BULLETIN BINGHAMTON, NY PAGE 5 Date: Edition: Author: Editor: Title: APRIL lh, 19 Character: or Classification: Submitting Office: ALBANY C Beipé Investigated = er 7 As A fame SEARCHED INDEYED SERINLIZED rien AAP APR 15 (8/7 FBI - ALBANY
HQ0G53 3192945 RR AL JK ME NO NY PD o EB HQ R 1519572 NOV 77 FM DIRECTOR TO ALBANY C ROUTINE) JACKSONVILLE ¢( ROUTINE) MEMPHIS CROUTINE NEW ORLEANS (ROUTINE) NEW YORK C ROUTINE) PORTLAND (ROUTINE) BT CL e/s R HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS CHSCA) IN CONNECTION WITH INVESTIGATION BY THE HSCA INTO THE ASSASSINATION OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., THE STAFF MEMBERS OF THE HSCA HAVE REQUESTED TO INTERVIEW THE FOLLOWING AGENTS: SA WILLIAM F. KUSCH - PORTLAND DIVISION SA THOMAS L. COLARELLI - NEW ORLEANS DIVISION SA PATRICK J. COLLINS - NEW YORK DIVISION SA RENE DUMAINE (FORMER) - ALBANY Nw 34957 Docld: 32999496 Page 4 SEARCHED INBERED SERIALIZED FILED, FBI — ALBANY