Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 U5¢ Fi0y Hote). DATE: 11-14-2017 JFK Assassination System Date: 6/11/201 Identification Form Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: — 124-10201-10273 | RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILE NUMBER: = 92-2781-552 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: DIRECTOR, FBI ' TO: SAC, TP TITLE: DATE: 05/23/1962 “PAGES: 9 SUBJECTS : LST, MISUR, INSTALLATION DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 1B; 4 CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: .10/13/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE \ ‘ COMMENTS : hyo . 22 | DocId: 32289497 Page 1
[ Leased tinder the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act ‘of 1992 (44 sc 3107 Holey.” DATE: (11414-2017 oD 4 —— SAC, Tampa (92-1) Director, FBI (92-2781) fo SANTO TRAFFICANTE, JR. AERA ANTI-RACKETEERING. in attention MISUR coverage at the £ Dream Bar. You now have complete units of this type equipment. Since you have additional microphope needed by your office. In the event the surveys indicate that additional | equipment of this type is necessary, you should advise the Bureau at the W v NS + . & iis @ en 2 % 1B BE <, vl Toys . & °@ Be: BE: ben) a where it will he used so that appropriately disguised equipment may be prepared for your particular installation. A) \sere possible date, giving complete details concerning the environment —— Should your survey reveal a situation where additional technical - Tele. Room _ Holmes = ad Gandy J U Naa ROOM Et) : : M 4 i ; Docld: 32989497 Page 2? information, assistance or equipment are desired, you should advise the | aw Bureau, attention FBI Laboratory, the details of the problem. | te NOTE: It is noted from Tampa inspection report 4-19-62, that Tampa | has a MISUR installation pending at the Dream Bar, Tampa, and one - s additional survey each pending in Tampa and Orlando, Florida. Nature re) a of telephone wiring and equipment used in some areas of Florida makes i microphone egress difficult unless existing wire is used. This requires special equipment such as the twofélectronic switches previously built( wo especially for the Tampa Office. RAM: cf Qos AES Ga (in “Me apg | MAN Z 23 r Felson . \* . ve" Debt oe gs WE rc Callahan . ‘ 2. pis mse, yA a NYS Sios' ina 28 Bde Neloe ; , sas \? | aw Manes, Ont eetektonch tty | CME) creme aN ih PETAL a oy eae fe OCOSURISP Hr pce eee
TE: 11-14-2017 DEORE Z ENS an 4 : ‘4 ADMINISTRATIVE MEMORANDUM eae \ SANTO TRAFFICANTE, JR, aka. . ANTI-RACKETEERING fay Se Tampa file 92-1 Clessifi Bureau file 92..278] INSPECTOR R. L. FAISST: This pending case, Tampa grigin, is assigned to SA STEPHEN J; LABADIE, and supervised.onw Desk of SAC. TRAFFICANTE is a top hoodlum,. . hes been selected for early Federal prosecution. He srcedly heads the Italian criminal elemeat in Tampa. tes of The Dream Bar, 2801 Nebraska Avenue, Tampa, is _ Scportedly owned by SANTO TRAFFICANTE, JR.'s estates’ ani pe rated by NICK SCAGLIONE, who was recently discontinued as TP 50-C, because of being on a Department of Justice list for prosecu- tion, -Tampa letter to Bureau 7/14/61, requested authority to conduct survey to determine feasibility of installing misur at the Dream Bar. Bureau airtel 7/18/61 granted such authority. Tampa letter to Director 9/20/61 (FD-142) recommended installation. % es Bureau letter 9/24/61 granted authority, f ‘ Installation had not been made when on 1/14/62, a fire ruined the Dream Bar. _.  % Office memo 2/28/62 to SAC from SA STEPHEN J. LABADIE © (66-231-2 HH) recommended ",..now is the time for sound trained and telephone and misur observations with action," ‘This memo also Contained information that the Dream Bar was under repairs, the place was boarded up at night, and the roof was being repaired é, at, thatctime. c . @ --¢<This memorandum was routed to SA EARL M. PETERSEN. a . 19, Thereé,is ne additional information that any action has been x ' “~ takensto date. os I. a = ‘ie re ain , ~ ane ‘ % “Explanations areiitequested of SA STEPHEN J2 LABADIE, =: -SAGEARL M, PETERSEN}“and) the SAC, as to what has cauSed the << delay inthe installation of AleepGbLOaAV2MORt specific work hasi been performed, to make! thisvlidstdi tation, it being tnoted: that; it ,was approved 9/24/61, "and what target date has been s@t to = ° , ‘ . . //.., we: ‘ PA INSPECTION .cii Gi aN ae 19/62 4, Beer Ss Ly ay ae BES KECRIAED-EAVNE 9 fk oivpd Ht Tempe gg a 7591-59 Ag We RAyicf? ENC TX: 3 >») | J : . i * } Docld: 32289497 Page 3 ens, make’the installation, if sughi ig) £0114 bHalbe actively considered, - eased under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1997 (44 Sc 2107 Hotey i } i i 1 1.
ina 1 i Hote) eleased under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1999 (44 Sc 27107 aye : -14-2017 ; DATE: 11-1 mo —~ SA STEPHEN J, .ABSADIE 4/20/62; SA LABADIN has the SANTO TRAFFICANTE, JR., aka., AR case assigned, he being - sudject of Bureau “erash" investigation. , Efforts to enter his part-time residence at 2505 Bristol Avenue, Tampa, where it is known he spends very few devs a year, have been négative since some members of family or the maid are in the house at all times. Furthermore, the risk iuvolved may not warrant the effort as TRAFFICANTE is seldom there. in view of the above, fully réalizing the aims and desired accomplishments to infiltrate and penetrate the "TRAFFICANTE" group 25 Tampa, it was ascertained that some of the close "TRAFFICANTE” group hang out, not regulariy, at the Dream Bar, 2801-03 Nebraska Avenue, and appropriate survey was requested. It was thereafter established that entry could only be gained to the Dream Bar, with relative security, from approximately 3:30 AM (when FANO TRAFFICANTE and his trusted helpers and friends: i left the bar) to approximately 9:30 ~ 10:00 AM, when they reopened. La. . Entry would have to be gained from approximately 3:30 AM to light '.*or, daybreak. Survey indicated that the above entrances, even with -.&@ "key, would have to be made on numerous eccasions to bury wires, _ and such entry was not deemed secure. aon On 1/14/62 the Dream Bar was gutted by fire. Thereafter 7 the building was checked and it was noted it was boarded up. Such | being the case, it suggested the probability that new telephone | - instruments and new telephone booth would be installed, and such suggested to SA LABADIE possibility of placing instruments in new phone or new booth and therefore a memorandum was submitted suggest- ing this be checked and considering the fact that new possibilities now existed. Since the Dream Bar was to be reconstructed, entailing perhaps all new plans, new materials and changes, it was realized by SA LABADIE that installation of misurs for concealment in old “uilding was not the desired method, as such would undoubtedly be> changed, completely torn out. and rebuilt. Being aware of the above Situation, SA LABADIE set out to determine new construction. SAs FRANCIS X. O'BRIEN and LABADIE, after appropriate checks, obtained from CASIMORO HERNANDEZ the reconstruction plans and materials used at the Dream Bar and adjacent poolroom. The plans and material used were photographed and Photostats made, a respectively, and thereafter made a part of the 1A files for NICK SCAGLIONE, AR, subject of Tampa file 92-27, which is 1A5, and of the 1A file for SALVATORE CACCIATORE TRAFFICANTE, aka., IGA, ‘.  Nurbers, subject of Tampa file 162-51, which is 1A2. It ig further po ~ t i ‘ Docld: 32289497 Page 4
Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote)" PODaTE: 11-14-2017 a | ~ . . . ' s, ee noted that in report of SA LABADIE dated 4/13/62 in latter case (162-51), serial 46, on administrative page the information is set Out that the Dream Bar now has glass front doors, installed by G. §. SHORE, Shore Giass Company, per CASIMIRO HERNANDEZ, and they ere made by NATCOR. The above is noted so that master keys may possibly be obtained for the iocks which are used in NATCOR products. Having the keys wauld give ready access for any. ~ subsequent re-survey. oO . Nei ae SA EARL M, PETERSEN (sound-trained Agent) - 4/20/62: In letter dated 9/20/61, advising the Bureau that an Fi-i42 was being submitted requesting authority to install a misur in the Dream Bar, the Bureau was advised that the Dream Bar is iccated.near a busy intersection in Tampa where both streets have & considerable flow of traffic on a twenty-four-hour-a-day basis. Two cleaning establishments are located within a block of the Dream Bar and are operated on a twenty-four-hour=-a-day basis... Another bar and a billiard parlor, both open long hours, are i located nearby. The billiard paricr is adjacent to the Dream ._ i Bar and in the building housing the Dream Bar, owned by the Trafficante estate. The Dream Bar is usually vacated between 3:30 and 4:15 AM, with. the venétian blinds in the front of the building raised and lights left turned on inside the building. Ali doors and windows at the rear are barred and bolted from the inside and only one of the front doors is not bolted from the inside. The remaining front. door has a boltstype lock which would make it necessary to pick this lock both open and closed. j : ee It was pointed out that it would be dangerous to work in. the front part of the building, but that work could be done in the rear rooms of the building provided access could be obtained. - It was pointed out that during the course of this survey i a fire damaged the interior of the Dream Bar. In addition to this, . the operation of the Dream Bar was being taken over by FRANK PETER ALBANO, who. is married to a niece of SANTO TRAFFICANTE, JR.. It, “Was surmised that because of the fire and change of ownership it. was possible that extensive interior redecorating would take place in the near future. . ° Technically, it seemed possible to effect an installation in the Dream Bar as a spare pair of telephone lines lead from a pole at the rear of the building to the back wall of the Dream Bar. ft would have been possible to install a hidden microphone in the Dream Bar and conceal wires inside the building which could then have been connected to the wires leading to the telephone box on oy the pole in the alley and from there to a plant or to the office . 7 ; SECRET | | 4 Docld: 322789497 Page 5
Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Notay DATE: 11-14-2017 ao . os . : es of the FBI through one or mdre leased lines. It was felt that a good possibility existed of obtaining a key or a copy of the key tn. “2 the building through contact with NICK SCAGLIONE, JR., who was operating the bar and who was at that time an informant of this office. Authority was requested in order that we could move ‘Without delay should conditions be such that this could be done with security. . It was felt that a key was necessary for access. to the _Eegem far because the only available entrance to the building was “Gh a busy street patroled by uniformed police in cars. Close. -igison with police officers in the area is not deemed advisable _ because of the possibility of police protection being afforded the Dream Bar in connection with bolita activities, A key had not been obtained and renovation of the eo, building had not occurred when on January 14, 1962, a fire ruined ote the interior of the building. AS a result of this fire, the entire building has been renovated. The rear has all windows and doors completely barred, | allowing no access from this direction. No spare wires exist . between the pole in the alley and the building, and new GT~7-2 t. wire has been installed to the one non=published business tele= phone, number 229-5759, now in the Dream Bar. A similar telephone line leads to the billiard parlor next door, also rebuilt as a result of the fire. The telephone presently in the Dream Bar is a black HSC instrument. It was installed on March 29, 1962. This telephone. ' was installed for NICK SCAGLIONE, JR. A pay Station, has been requested for the Dream Bar and will be installed on April 27. A three-wire cable will be installed to this telephone booth | 1 which will be located inside the Dream Bar. The General Tele- phone Company of Florida does not ‘install cables containing a Spare wires to a building such as the Dream Bar. Any installation other than a three-wire cable would be an abnormal installation.. Teiephone Company of Florida, has specifically assigned Mr. DONALD WITHERS, head of the Training Division, to furnish anything of 2 technical nature wanted by the FBI. . On October 16, 1961, Mr. WITHERS advised that Mr. BROREIN had instructed that the telephone company is not willing to become -involved in anything other than 4 normal telephone procedure in view of the possibility of becoming sunject to a law suit. He advised Specifically that the telephone . J— S* i 7 . | Docld: 32289497 Page 6 Mr. CARL BROREIN, JR., Operating Vice President, General | |