Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1997 (44 Wsc 2107 Hote). DATE: 11-14-2017 AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : “AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE : DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : COMMENTS : v9.1 Docld: 32315467 Page 1 DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information FBI 124-10342-10185 DE ELSUR 92-228-905 Document Information FBI FITZPATRICK DE 07/08/1963 7 ANTHONY GIACALONE (ELSUR) PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified - 4 ; Redact 12/01/1998 INDEFINITE 19
Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 3107 Hotey;. DATE: 11-14-2017 : \ “ ; ‘ wy UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT MEMORANDUM TO: SAC, DETROIT (137-3242) — Date: 7/8/63 FROM: -SA-ROBERT.N, FITZPATRICK // CI // SI SUBJECT: = DE 932=PC /x/ PCL = / / PSI ‘WILLIAM BUFALINO, aka, AR 92-216 (Moore) PETER LICAVOLI, “aka, AR D2 . (Montefiore) - ANTHONY "TONY" GIACALONE,. aka, (Lunt) JOHN "PAPA JOHN | PRIZIOLA, aka. (Arnett) . ANGELO MELI, aka, AR’ ; . 92-540. (Moore) | ANTHONY: "TONY" CORRADO, aka, AR 92-591 (Arnett JOSEPH "WHIP" TRIGLIA, aka, AR 92-664 (Montefiore) JAMES "BIFFO" MACCAGNONE ,. aka 92-669 (Transeth) | - LOUIS LA HOOD SARKIS, aka, AR 92-672 (Fitzpatrick) = . ANTHONY "SHRIEKY" THOMAS , aka, 92-786 (Iseman) . oar ‘ NICK DITTA, aka,° AR 92-833 (Transeth) oe CRIME CONDITIONS. IN MICHIGAN 92-876 (Montefiore) _ ANTHONY. "KANGO" IMBRUNONE, aka .92-924 (Shirley) oo ‘DOMINIC "JOEY" ALLEVATO,. aka, AR 92—1006 (Montefiore) ' RONNIE MORELLI , aka, AR’ 92-1011 (Montefiore) HANDBOOK CONTROL FILE. 162-18 (Shelburne) | _NUMBERS. CONTROL FILE 162-19 (Cammarota) on JOEY. COPPOLA, aka, ITWI 165-88 (Shelburne) . a Purpose and results: of. contact . _ oo 4 / Negative /x/. Positive me - Nine = —____—. ' Docld: 32315467 Page 2?
Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1997 (44 Tse 2107 Hotey. DATE: 11-14-2017 C C ; DE 137-3242 Informant advised that several weeks ago NICK DITTA. ‘gave him a "score" on two old guys, brothers, who.own a bar in — Harper Woods. Informant stated that the Wildwood Inn, located at 19800 Harper Ave.,. Harper: Woods, Mich. , — ‘telephone TU. 5~9885, is. owned by two brothers, who are of Belgian descent, and that the - City of Harper Woods wants the property on which the Wildwod Inn is situated. for a recreation area. He said that NICK DITTA told him that PETE LICAVOLI contacted him recently about pur— chasing the Wildwood Inn. Informant revealed that LICAVOLI | gave DITTA authority to pay up to $75,000.00 cash. for. this _ property and DITTA went to see one of the owners. He stated that DITTA told him that he offered the brother $75,000.00 cash ‘but was turned down as they wanted. $100 ,000:,00,-for their bar and property. He stated that the brother , in turning down DITTA's offer, commented “we don’t need cash". Informant advised that DITTA told -him of the apparent hermit-like. existence in which the two brothers live and that there should be a lot of money | hidden around their home. He said, however, that. DITTA was offering him this. “cold score" and that he and DITTA had made no further plans as yet to "take off" these two old brothers who own the Wildwood Inn. Informant advised that he and NICK DITTA had earlier planned. to "take off" the residence. of TONY. ALONGI .. He stated. that ALONGI works for his brother in the’ Eastern. Market. "on the payroll" for $100.00 a week although ALONGI. actually works in the numbers in the old Murphy House. Informant stated that ALONGI lived in a little house off Eight Mile: Road, he believed the street to be. Orleans, and that DITTA has claimed that. ALONGI actually keeps. $50 to $60,000.00 in cash in hishome. - Informant i . advised that: ALONGI. is. “cheating the house" in the numbers. and : -also is "booking. a few horses" on the side. Informant advised that he has recently been. associating “with PETE LICAVOLI's son, TEDDY LICAVOLI. He stated that the previous evening they met at Carmen's Pizzeria, 14618. Mack Ave., and then went to the East Warren Recreation, 17225 E. Warren. | Informant said that many of the young Italian hoodlums are now hanging around this bowling alley and bar. He said that RONNIE MORELLI is a close associate of TONY CORRADO and he sees them . together frequently at the East Warren Recreation. Infomant ad- / vised that MORELLI was there last night with JOE FRANCO, who is a union official, and also a kid named RICHARD "DICK" STEFANI, Informant added that he has also seen RONNIE MORELLI and TONY @ 2 = Docld: 32315467 Page 3
Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC S107 Hoter. DATE: 11-14-2017 - . we eseam O DE 137-3242 CORRADO together at the French Leave, a new bar owned by LARRY SUMMERS which recently opened on. East Jefferson across the street from the Brodhead Naval Armory. He stated that LARRY SUMMERS used to own the Roaring Twenties Bar in Detroit. Informant advised that he and TEDDY LICAVOLI and FRANK BIOFORE were at the French Leave the previous night. He = said that LOUIE LA HOOD was in there with "SHRIEKY" THOMAS, ‘Informant advised that both LAHOOD and ""SHRIEKY" were "trying. to promote themselves’with a very attractive red head named JANICE (LNU) who works as a waitress at the French Leave. Informant. said that. "SHRIEKY" wants to set JANICE up in a furnished apart- ment and also get her a car "like he did with FRANKIE CARDONI".. He revealed that JANICE lives with a roommate named JANET (LNU), who is also a waitress at the French Leave, in Apt. 206 at the Shorecrest Apts., 1350 E. Jefferson Ave., Detroit. Informant stated that he has heard the story that LOUIE LA HOOD went out several times with JANET (LNU) from the French Leave and that JANET is now. pregnant. by. LOUIE. _ Informant advised that he was at PETE LICAVOLI's home the previous Friday. morning with TEDDY, LICAVOLI. | He stated that he saw a number of PETE LICAVOLI’s paintings and he thought them to be extremely well done. He said that TEDDY LICAVOLI told him that a number of PETE’s paintings, scenerys and the like, are. hanging on display in "Leon's Beauty Shop, am exclusive shop at 17888 Mack Ave - ; Grosse Pointe. Informant advised further that ‘TEDDY LICAVOLI'’s aunt, -FREDA, is. caring for their home while his parents, PETE and GRACE LICAVOLI, are in Tucson, Ariz. He stated that TEDDY LICAVOLI is selling his Cadillac’ to FRANK BIOFORE, | who owns. a grocery. store on John R. and Edmund Sts., Detroit. Informant. advised that TEDDY LICAVOLI is buying a 1955 Mercedes. ‘Benz 300 SL for $4700.00 from the individual who owns the unlimited | racing sail boat Apache. Informant related that he and TEDDY . LICAVOLI went over to O°LEARY Cadillac on E. Jefferson in Grosse Pointe last Friday. He said that TEDDY had his entire car gone over and he didn’t sign a single paper. He stated that LICAVOLI has a charge account at O'LEARY Cadillac. Informant advised that while at O'Leary Cadillac he spoke with TED ANGOTT, one of the new car salesmen. . He stated that ANGOTT asked him if he knew TONY GIACALONE: and they thereafter discussed TONY GIACALONE's recent ' arrest. Informant said that ANGOTT, in mentioning . ‘TONY GIACALONE, said. "he | GGiacalone). is one of my best customers." .- Informant.advised that the coffee house on E. Congress and St. Aubin is. closed and padlocked and that | "BIFFO" MACCAGNONE. | = 3 = Docld: 32315467 Page 4
Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hoter. DATE: 11-14-2017 —_ C © DE 137-3242 | 1 is presently hanging around in the evenings at JOEY ALLEVATO's Bar-B-Que Restaurant on Mack and Barham Aves. , Detroit. Informant .advised that he has recently been spend- ing a great deal of time with ANGELO BUFALINO, BILL BUFALINO's brother. He stated that ANGELO BUFALINO lives on Alter Road with his two sisters and that BUFALINO is presently working at Cobo Hall. He said that ANGELO BUFALINO is driving a red Tempest which is a "loaner" car. Informant advised that one of BUFALINO's sisters has a 30 year old son who is a Professor at Purdue Uni-~ versity and during the summer. months works at the Bell Telephone Do Co. in New Jersey. Informant advised that, during the course of con=- versation one evening, ANGELO. BUFALINO related to him of his former friendship with ROY CALABRESSE, who was found murdered in gangland fashion and stuffed in his trunk in February, 1962. Informant stated that BUFALINO’s opinion was that ROY CALABRESSE. died because of his efforts to muscle in on a large crap game run on St. Jean Ave. by JOE "WHIP" TRIGLIA. He said that ANGELO BUFALINO told him that when CALABRESSE failed in putting the pressure on TRIG to get a "piece". of TRIG's dice game, CALABRESSE telephoned the police one night after leaving TRIG's game and within five minutes the game was raided and shut down. Informant added that CALABRESSE's former girl friend, PIXIE IMBRUNONE, who is the daughter of ANTHONY "KANGO" IMBRUNONE, is now active in using and peddiing narcotics and she is going with a kid named (FNU) GRAMMATICO who lives somewhere on. -Wayburn or Maryland Aves. Informant advised that the bookmaker at the Hotel Newport (formerly the Hotel Savarine) is named "MACK" LNU.. He stated that "MAC" is a little old man in his 60's who lives at the hotel, is on a pension, and works for.a weekly pay. in his bookmaking activities. Informant advised that "MACK" does. ° about $50.00 a day "action" and that he "turns. in". to an individual named | “One=Arm Frank". (LNU) . Informant. advised that he was with .JIMMY MICHAELS in the restaurant. early this morning. He stated that MICHAELS | owns a stable of race horses and also a lot of property in: Detroit. He said that MICHAELS owns the whole ‘block of stores on the south side of E. Jefferson near Coplin across the street from the | Cinderella Theatre. ‘Informant revealed that JIMMY MICHAELS also owns property. at Nine Mile Road and Harper Ave., where the old Ritz Restaurant used to be located. Informant stated that JIMMY MICHAELS was. in company with "BULLY" ABRAHAM , the bartender at the oe 4a. Docld: 32315467 Page 5
‘Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 Usc 3107 Hote T- DATE: 11- 14-7017 ” C o~ t ‘DE 137-3242 ©: Gold Cup Room ‘in the. Whittier. ptel, DAVE. ZAKOOR, and DAVE BRADY, who. owns Brady's: Service Station on E. ‘Jefferson. Informant ‘ad-— vised that. all of this outfit were gloating as they had bet a lot of money and won Saturday at the DRC on the horse named "Go Yankee", which paid $33.00. to win. Informant. advised additionally ‘that a bookmaker only pays off 16-1 to win, 8-1 to. place, and .3<1 to show. Informant stated that recently JOEY COPPOLA was tell- ing him of the existence of “commission horses"; Informant ex- plained: that: a “commission horse" is a -"sure thing" and that they are given: ‘out of some place in Cincinnati once or twice a week. ‘He stated” that’ COPPOLA. gets the identity of "commission horses" - and furnishes them to some of his better customers to keep them on the string and.."in action”. He said too that a "commission horse" gives a bettor a. sure winner but that it doesn't pay off much, only $5.00 to $6.00. Isformant stated that. a bookmaker. must pay for "commission,.horse" service and that he believes, in. COPPOLA's case’, that» COPPOLA occasionally “lays off" to the’ Cincinnati source © ' of: his “commission: horses". Informant advised that on Sunday, 6/30/63, ANGELO — BUFALINO picked himup at the hotel and they went over “to: ANGELO's brother, BILL BUFALINO's home on Weber Place in Grosse Pointe. Informant stated that BILL BUFALINO and his family were not at home ‘but were visiting at someone's cottage in Port: Huron, Mich. -He . said that ANGELO. BUFALINO took photographs of some flowers in- the . BUFFALINO gardens and they. left,’ | ‘Informant advised’. ‘that he and ANGELO. BUFALINO then drove up to visit ANGEL  MELI at MELI's summer » -home. on the: St. Clair: River. ‘Informant’ said that a large group was at MELI's home | consisting mostly f- women and children. He stated™ ‘that ANGELO MELTI. was: playing Cards with his | friends, WILLIE TOIA, who - owns the. “WILLIAM ‘TOIA Hot’ Rod Shop at 9146 Gratiot, Detroit, | 8 _ SWEENEY - WILLIAMS ,. who | owns a. stamping plant. in Burbank, California, and. who came. @ith. TOIA; - ‘and. DOMINIC (LNU), a little short guy -who “Looks 1iké a mole" ‘and who was raised around the Franklin . Settlement with. Informant. - Informant said that: WILLIE TOIA and . SWEENEY. ‘WILLIAMS: had driven up to ANGELO MELI's place in. TOIA's new car,.a 1963 . four-door. -hardtop. Lincoln. ‘Continental, light blue. in. color. Informant advised that. they. all sat around. and: con- versed. for. several hours and ANGELO MELI then. personally conducted Informant, ANGELO BUFALINO, and LITTLE DOMINIC (LNU) on a tour of his farm across the . highway from his. summer home . “ Informant stated -~ 5 = Docld: 32315467 Page 6
‘ Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote }. DATE: 11- 14-2017 _ : a DE 137+3242 that ANGELO MELI seemed particularly pleased when he showed them — ‘the oil rig. where. he had struck oil on ‘his farm. .He said that ANGELO MELI told him that JOE LOVERDE was. doing the oil drilling on his farm and that he is drilling a second well now. Informant advised that . ANGELO MELI was: also: pleased when he showed them a new silo on his: farm which: MELI- ‘Claimed "cost over 10 G's". He , stated too. that ANGELO. MELI will soon have a ‘completely automatic feeder installed in his farm and that all the ‘parts are in crates | near. the .barn now. - Informant advised. that.. MELI. mentioned during. the: course of the tour of his. farm, . that he also owned an. additional 98 acres in the area: and in so ‘doing he. pointed: _toward'a farm which - was in view and which also hada. new. silo: and said. ait is just the | Other: side of. that place. i. a ; : Informant: ‘advised that ANGELO BUFALINO used. to work as oa) bartender . for ANGELO..MELI years ago when MELI owned the Stork Club, a. plush. bar. and restaurant on Warren: ‘Avenue, which. burned ‘down over ten years ago. . Informant stated that BUFALINO had some conversation with ANGELO MELI: concerning a Florida vacation: and later BUFALINO told him that» ANGELO MELI owns.:a. co-operative apartment. house in Florida. and that he had once stayed in these Florida. apartments at the invitation of MELI. Informant said that ANGELO MELI commented that he sold. his‘ home on. Devonshire’ Rd. in. Grosse. Pointe and that since living at his summer home. he, (MELI) _-believed that. his. health has greatly improved; Informant advised — that ANGELO. MELI: commented . to.the effectthat, “out. here I can‘’t be bothered. by my ‘old friends. and I'il outlive my enemies". Informant disclosed that. at: one point in the conver~- sation ANGELO MELI spoke of his: personal . physician, a Dr. FARHAM -(Ph) .who has offices’ in Grosse Pointe. . Informant. said that ANGELO. ‘BUFALINO . mentioned. his auto accident. in. April and that. he. was: waiting. for a settlement. He stated that. .BUFALINO. com. mented that at..the time of his. accident. his*™brother , ‘BILL BUFALINO, called in Dr. AIUTTO. Informant advised that: at the mention — of-Dr.: AIUTTO's name. ANGELO MELI. got very. ‘wpset and commented that. "AIUTTO | 4s a real thief". - ‘Informant disclosed that ANGELO ‘MELT : said that he had warned. all his. relatives. and - ‘associates’ to Stay. away from Dr..AIUTTO.. Informant: added: ‘further’: that-at one point ANGELO MELI‘ commented. about . the- hor 3" swimming | ppol and | property. which is located. next. door té- his. own place on the St. Clair River. He said that ANGELO MELI mentioned thathe had once owned this home’ and. Property. ‘too but, quite: a while back apparently, . had sold - it. n = 6« Docld: 32315467 Page 7
| Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hotery. DATE: 11-14-2017 C O } DE. 137-3242 Informant advised. that. ANGELO. BUFALINO: spoke at length about. the recent Detroit Police Department arrest of. TONY -GIACALONE, .He stated that BUFALINO told him that. -GIACALONE's arrest: had really. "shaken" the* Detroit. syndicate. ‘and on the very day of GIACALONE‘ s arrest, "PAPA JOHN" PRIZIOLA left Detroit.on. -a hurried trip. — Informant. commented that. BUFALINO. emphasized that ~ “PAPA JOHN" | rarely ever leaves ‘town and, in. this instance, it was due to a wide: spread fear of further police arrests. and © pressures. Docld: 32315467 Page &