AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE : DATE : PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : i RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : v9.1 JFK Assassination System Date: $/29/201 Identification Form Agency Information FBI 124-10206-10305 HQ 92-2713-305 Document Information FBI SAC, MI DIRECTOR, FBI 04/06/1962 5 CM, ASSOC, REL, CONTACTS, TELCAL, MEETING, DESCR, MISCONDUCT, DOJ, INS PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 4 Redact 11/21/1997 INDEFINITE HW 45855 DocId: 32291029 - Page 1
fa% “s+, So1o-104 | ReBUairtel 3/28/62. . ‘ i. . ’ . , . ‘ ° -° fo éprr6nian FORNLNO. 10 ( “A } UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT ° Memorandum | DIRECTOR, FBI _ SAC, MILWAUKEE cantosGaicriio _ AR Pa 00: | New Orleans C Bureau has. complete background information as'to pcIC Milwaukee letter dated May 22, 1961, ‘CI, wherein he was designated as MI 608-C Since discontinued as a symbol informant). been- reliable in the past. 1962. (92-247) ‘ Set out hereafter are answers to. Bureau suggéstions in referenced . airtel, based on information presently. at. hand. ed information will be obtained ‘and furnished as promptly as possible. pra It will not be possible. to verify: the telephone calls to the MARCELLO group in New. Orleans March 20 and Washington, D. Cc, . March, 22, 1962 Until after billing date, Which is April .10, el “This matter will be followed by the Milwaukee Office, oN Mr. Toleon—__/ UF Belmont . Mohr. Me Callahan____ Mr. Conrad. ; Mr. DeLoachj4) Mr. Evans Zi . Malone. Mr. Rosen. Mr. Sullivan._— Mr.- Tavel....-__.. Mr. Trotter_____ Tele. Room... Miss Holmes Miss Gandy. Try QT Additional captiondeé His information has ~ As to his ‘meeting with MARCELLO: and DONOHUE in Washington, the following information is.set out. Milwaukee. letter to the Director March 24, 1962 did.not mean to convey the im- - pression that General Trujillo,’ -former dictator of the Dominican - Republic, met with these individuals; only that General Trujillo was the “high government_official" referred to above, produced his receited bill for his own reservations at the Statler-Hilton Hotel January 22-23, i 1961 and said that the meeting was held in. ‘. , was’ not staying at the Statler-Hilton and regard to this matter, With - - I MARCELLO | was unable to recall the hame of the hotel but described it as.a large, well- -- Bureau - New Orleans (92 ' 2-— Milwaukee 2- WFO , JAH:EL s (8) © 6.2 APR: ~(RM-aM) (92- 36) ) (RM) (92-247). MH asreies CMD | HW 45855 DocId:32291029 Page 2 ¢ REC. 24 - known hotel in the downtown area, ‘where MARCELLO. always stays | Me “Gani 113 - BOR oe “2 gy ye
SS ‘ MI 92-247 2°. and he described the approach to the entrance as walking across. the sidewalk and up a flight of outside stairs to thelobby. No past contacts between FRANK ors meee Po CARLOS MARCELLO are known to Milwaukee beyond what could furnish, -and OTHER 4 he said that he did not know how they originally knew each =. | , other; nor what the full extent of their relationship is, . rn except that they are both the Italian hoodlum type and probably _ associate.in this respect. ns | With regard to more specific information as to times, dates and : places and identities of DONOHUE and DUFFY, the following in- | formation is furnished: 7? Looe oo oe By checking his telephone bills, [| was able to advise that - on January 19, 1961 he had called MARCELLO at Shreveport, lLa., . phone 4101 and’ it was during this conversation that BALISTRIERI . verified to MARCELLO ‘the fact that(____] was “OK to da business with.'' It is noted that other New Orleans _tele hone numbers called during this period as reflected by Cc ] telephone ‘ |: bill were as follows: , . January 6, 1961 New Orleans FO 6-3466 With regard to his contacts with SAM MARCELLO by telephone in | | January 10, 1961 New Orleans VE 5+1701° . | . . | j \ March of 1962 as pointed out above, the exact dates and numbers - called a ae ee from the telephone bills after April 10, 1962. did state, however, that he called MARCELLO ' on March 16, and. reached him at Jefferson Music Company, Gretna, Louisiana but that they had no conversation beyond bo telling MARCELLO to call him from a public phone to a specific | : public phone in the Plankinton Arcade where [_______] office is located in Milwaukee at 3 PM_on that same date. MARCELLO did call him back, and although [___] is unable to furnish the -exact phone number that he called, .it was one of the following 1 numbers which were observed to be on the public booths in the © Plankinton Arcade: ; ‘ be HW 45855 DocId:32291029 Page 3
| MI 92-247 BR 2-9458 BR 2-9333 BR 2-9649 BR 2-9969 BR 3-9910 © BR 3-9494 ‘BR 3-9899 BR 3-9575, When- MARCELLO did call him back on one of the above phones, MARCELLO told him that everything was taken care of and not - to "spend a buck" in trying~to do anything for CARLOS, The DONOHUE referred to is JAMES JOSEPH/QONOHUE, III, born, Wisconsin (?) May_17, 1922, father JAMES JOSEPH DONOHUE, 83. North. Port Washington Road, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. DONOHUE attended Marquette High School for two years and » according to Credit Bureau records was in the Navy for five years, having previously discontinued high school_in his last year for the purpose of entering the Navy. said that he, DONOHUE, can be located almost any time through the office of Senator CHAVEZ, that he spends most of his time in the Senate Office Building. He is Gaslight Key Club, where_he spends a great deal of his time. It is noted that [__]was a little reluctant as to ‘furnishing ! also a member of the the exact address of DONOHUE (if he knows it) and this point was not pressed, and the above information. was obtained during _ ‘the course of general, conversion, » With regard to-LAVERN DUFFY, [ did not know whether he ) was the same one who had been on the McClellan Committee - but has heard him described as “BOBBY KENNEDY's right hand" and believed therefore that he was a special assistant in the Department of Justice. [7—__]. did close to Attorney General KENNEDY and, in fact, had taken care of his children on occasions when ‘KENNEDY was abroad. say that he was very LA p= ff With reference to Page 2 third paragraph of Milwaukee letter dated March 24, 1962, advised that the Guatamalan officials whose names he, furnished to CARLOS MARCELLO through his brother SAM, which ates, | return to the United States, were as follows: Se ee HW 45855 DocId:32291029 Page 4 -3- bled CARLOS to speedily .. now advises that they
— MI 92-247 CT | . GUILLERMO FLORES AVENDANO, who at that time was Guatamalan Ambassador to Rome and is now _ believed by [-____] to be Guatamalan repre- “sentative to the United Nations. , Second was GEORGE RUIZ, at that time a colonel in the Guatamalan Air Force. and president of Avernica Airlines. LEADS _ NEW ORLEANS DIVISION: Should - endeavor ‘to identify from a public pay phone “in the vicinity and/or telephones available to SAM MARCELLO.and the Jefferson Music Company, the phone call to one of. the listed public teleptiones in Milwaukee on March 16 (7), (1962. WASHINGTON FIELD OFF ICE: Will identify DONOHUE and DUFFY and condut logical investi- gation as to their activities in connection with Subject. It is pointed out that DONOHUE has a service record, If additional information is obtained as to the hotel ‘used by CARLOS, MARCELLO when in Washington, that information will be promptly furnished to WFO, MILWAUKEE DIVISION: After April 10, 1962 will attempt to verify from phone records telephone calls to New Orleans and Washington, D. C. in _con= nection with this matter from [___]| phone. Will maintain contact with [ for additional information relative to this matter. Ton . , 1 e , , . . | a ——— HW 45855 DocId:32291029 Page 5 ~ OTHER 4
MI 92-247 ( CAUTION: In view of potential danger to pciL___] _ ° ‘OTHER 4 if it were known to MARCELLO's group that he had furnished information to the government and in view of the possibility, if his story is correct’ in fact, of ‘misconduct in high - Department of Justice and/or INS circles, extreme care must be taken in the investi- gation of this matter and dissemination of \ any information so as to not reflec it originated in Milwaukee or fron. -5- / / | 45855 DocId: 32291029 Page 6