JFK Assassination System Date: 6/11/201 Identification Form Agency Information Peleased under the John Kennedy AGENCY: FBI Lssassination Records RECORD NUMBER: — 124-10213-10028 : oOllection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). RECORD SERIES: HQ ase#:NWU 45966 Date: wi-z0-2017 AGENCY FILE NUMBER: = 87-66742-140 Document Information . ’ ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: LENIHAN, JOHN P. TO: DIRECTOR, FBI ' TITLE: DATE: — 08/31/1963 “PAGES: . 13 SUBJECTS : . . CWB, ASSOC, ACT, TRA, INQUIRY, NUMEROUS INTV DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS : — 4; 10(a)2; 11(a) CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW: _ 11/13/1998 _ ‘ _ OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF IRS ‘ COMMENTS : v9.1 14 | HW 45966 Docld:32294252 Page 1 : “ .
| | NW 45966 _ MM 87-16480 JFK Act 6 (4) é REFERENCES (continued): Chicago teletypes to the Bureau dated 8/17, 22 and 23/63. Chicago airtels to the Bureau dated 8/20/63. Miami airtel to Chicago dated 8/22/63. Tampa airtel to the Bureau dated 8/26/63. Bureau airtel to Miami dated 8/27/63. Miami teletype to Denver dated 8/28/63. Denver teletype to Miami dated 8/28/63. -P- LEADS CHICAGO: ~ AT CHICAGO, ILLINOIS: 1., Will continue contacts with’ecr[ ‘CG 6656-PC-TE as well as other informants or sources who know of ALDERISIO's activity for any reactions on his part since he probably suspects there is an investigation under way regarding him. Any indications of his method of inter- state travel'to or from Miami, Florida about May or June , 1962, should be promptly: and thoroughly checked out. 2. Chicago is also requested to consider any extended coverage or utilization of highly confidential sources on either ALDERISIO or his associates in order to obtain all possible.information to develop this case. & DENVER: AT DENVER, COLORADO: 1. Will maintain contact with EGAN to promptly obtain any records he might have to establish the date of the meeting between him and ALDERISTO in KAY's Miami Beach, Florida office, -B- ~ COVER PAGE - Docld: 322942752 Page 2?
_ MM 87-16480 3. When JAMES GILLECE, Security Chief of the Fontainebleau Hotel was contacted he stated the only Chicago former police officer who has worked for him during the past few years is LUTRELL "ED" WHITE, who resides at 1800 Northeast Bayshore Drive, Miami, Florida, telephone FR 4-2450. WHITE worked as a security man at the Fontainebleau Hotel from 12/22/62 to early 8/63. WHITE should be interviewed to determine if he recalls ALDERISIO being at the hotel during the period of his employment . and even though this employment was after the meeting in question he might know of the alias ALDERISIO uses and might have some suggestions on how ALDERISIO's registration might be verified for the pertinent period. 4. Will write both the Minneapolis and Atlanta oe Offices to determine exactly how the airline tickets for hee Northwest Airlines as well as Delta Airlines are maintained | since ultimately an exhaustive examination of airline tickets will have to be made in an attempt to prove the interstate transportation of ALDERISIO. . - ADMINISTRATIVE The Bureau has previously instructed that this case be given top priority. There is every indication that Attorney General ROBERT KENNEDY is personally interested in | C this case and therefore, all leads should be expeditiously ~ ' covered and promptly reported. fee OTE \ INFORMANTS On 8/29/63, MM 830-C was contacted by SA ROBERT : F. FETZNER and the informant made inquiry, through his sources at the Fontainebleau Hotel, Miami Beach, in an effort to locate a registration card on ALDERISIO for the period of about May or June, 1962, but the informant was not able to obtain’ any information. - D- - COVER PAGE - {mW 45966 Docld:32294252 Page 3
MM 87-16480 "TONY" ODDO told BENJAMIN that JOAN DRAHMANN is the daughter of a prominent Miami hoodlum named "TRIGGER MIKE" COPPOLA, IN UIRY AT AIRLINES UFK Law 11(a) At Miami, Florida On August 5, 1963, SA THOMAS E. O'CONNOR contacted CHARLES POWERS, Supervisor of Passenger Statistics, Eastern Airlines, Miami, Florida. POWERS said he believes Eastern we! Airlines, Northwest Airlines and Delta Airlines are the hee only carriers that have direct flights between Miami and Chicago, Illinois. He stated Eastern Airlines and Delta Airlines each have six flights daily and Northwest has three flights daily. POWERS estimated that each of the « Eastern Airlines flights carries an average of 100 passengers , ; and although the airplanes have a capacity of 135 passengers they are rarely filled and he would estimate that they transport 600 passengers daily from Chicago to Miami. He stated his airline's passenger tickets are preserved for two years after they are used and they are filed by flight number and the date of the flight. He pointed out because of certain accounting procedures all of the airline's tickets for a particular flight would not be in one place and therefore, he would estimate | that it would take one man one day to check one day's Eastern Airlines flights between Chicago and Miami. On August 5, 1963, SA O'CONNOR contacted JAMES ROBERTSON, Station Manager of Delta Airlines who stated their tickets, which are kept for two years, are filed in their Atlanta headquarters and he is pretty sure the tickets |. ase filed by date chronologically. Therefore, if a search re,made for a particular airline flight fer a certain day, uld require that the tickets for all passengers transported | c aPRag C) TOTAL Dengue ay oS BS. TASK FORCE. = -3- AS nosso JN FULL ne ppent megane fren tig PAT 6 Baa P7-6C7¥2 Wo 4 Aad 2 HW 45966 Docld:322942752 Page 4
MM 87-16480 On ' August 28, 1963,. Departmental Attorney ROBERT D. PELOQUIN stated he had determined that ALDERISIO apparently also uses the aliases PHIL GATO, PHIL ALGONESE and PHILELDERISE. Mr. PELOQUIN stated if the interstate transportation on part of ALDERISIO had been ascertained by “he. would attempt to return an indict- ment on ALDERISIO, however, since. it had not yet been verified he would pian on Yin connect! some data before the Grand Jury EK Law 10(a)2 | On August 29, 1963; ‘Messers. _ PELOQUIN and HARRINGTON were contacted and- stated their present plan was to b before the Federal Grand Jury meeting in serene They related ‘therewas a possibility might be accompanied by an attorney, in which case they would make their os contacts with him without the attorney's knowledge and a tentative arrangements were made for them_to interview in Nassau a few days later. They related was continuing to cooperate on other matters relating to hoodlum activities in the Chicago area that he was familiar with but would not _ discuss the loan obtained from the Pan American Bank in Miami.+ CE bCEF2-1LO {HW 45966 Docld:327942952 Page 5 t