v9.1 AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: - PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA :. COMMENTS : HW 45966 DBocld: 32293327 JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information FBI 124-10211-10103 HQ 92-2781-835 Document Information FBI SAC, TP .DIRECTOR, FBI 09/23/1963 3 LST, BKG INFO, ASSOC, FISUR, B/F INT PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 4; 10(a)2 Redact 10/15/1998 _ INDEFINITE INC MEMO Page 1 Date: 6/11/201 Peleased under the John Kennedy WSsassination Records ollection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). ase#:i NW 45966 Date: 1i-i7-2017
é ‘ Lh basse) <3 FBI Date: Transmit the following in (Type in plain | text or code) | Via AIRTEL TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (92-2281) | _ FROM: » SAC, TAMPA (92-1) SANTO - TRAFFICANTE, IR. aka~ AR Re Miami airtel to Director, 1/4/63 9/23/63 (Priority o or Method of Mailing) | | | { | | i | i | | | Miami teletype to Bureau, 16 September, 1963. _ Referenced airtel set forth background informa- tion of subject and had requested investigation Rio de Janeiro.- — On 12/19/62, LOUIS P. GERACI (now deceased) , \ : advised the subject had told him he had been in Brazil for two or three weeks, investing money in the coffee industry. Referenced Miami teletype set out that on 9/3/63, MM 840-C advised that within recent weeks Dr. PEREZ PIDA made two trips to Brazil, PIDA was described by source as close associate of EVERISTO GARCIA FIDAL and close friend of subject. PIDA told informant he was returning to Brazil, possibly by 9/15/63, On 9/13/63, “MM 840- -C reported further contact with PIDA, who advised informant that his first trip to Brazil was to store some coffee that belonged to subject. PIDA's second trip was to sell TRAFFICANTE's coffee, and that TRAFFICANTE took a loss on the sale of the coffee, It was further notéd PIDA also told source he is looking for a location for a gambling casino in Brazil for TRAFFICANTE. REC- 94 (4sBureau (1-Legat, Rio. ‘de Janeiro)  2-Miami (92- 88) 2-Tampa. (1-92-34)... Ye 4h Approved: o hk Sent = pecial Adént ies st (3 ‘196 fs en a5068 GalNSp03307 Page 2°" on ; oF ron BS hoe 196% Sass Ges ™& » -M Se ad Per .- —279/- £35
ee  heeaty Rilo de Janedro (92-1) a _ 9/30/63 . NEN oe a: hy-+ ee : || Director, FBI tore — SF 35 t un mnarrscax, R., ake. co : ppopulet 1r0/63 and. Rio de Janeiro's lets ans/ss and | aia tn “gonnection with a | pata’ on a gambling operation -gnvolving Harlan Alexander Blackburn, Internal Revenue Agents a . .eedged a considerably quantity of evidence... Among this '- evidence was a scrap of paper with ‘the notation "Guana Barh” Palace Hotel, Rio de Janeiro." . The significance of this. ; 7 notation is not knowns - . Blackburn is. reputedly - ‘the backer of the. nunbers ‘gambling. in central Florida and ‘sources have reported: . 7 .. Peaffieante controls the numbers gambling operations in the’ - eentral Florida axea, It is possible that Trafficante stayed — at the "Guana Barh Palace Hotel," if he visited Brazil ino... a 1962 as was previously Alleged. ee Bos . The ‘above is’ being furnished for the Anforaiation ~ ' of ‘Legat, Rio. de- Janeiro, | in the-.event any. -pertinent information : on Trafficante investments or contacts comes to your attention. L. = Foreign . Liaison (Route through for review) ke ia Oe : NOTE: -Trafificante: is the. representative of ‘La .Cosa Nostra in Florida, During the period from 10/19/62 to 11/6/62 his whereabouts» could not be established and it was alleged that he had.gone to”. Brazil. We. were attempting to locate him at that time as $=. JFK baw -1O(a) 2 . Traificante . Source. -has. ‘also: beén reporting that Trafficante made an Tavest— . “ ment. in ‘bottee in Brazil ain 1962. Se, wo Tolson’ Ly i Belmont ——— ARW: a _ ns = ae al at - Callahan =: . . DeLoach Evans — Gale Rosen _- Sullivan — Tavel Trotter - \ Tele. Room, Holmes : . . -Gandy — MAIL soon ‘TELETYPE’ en ole : PT ve So wo an ven’ Ww 45966 Docld: 32293327 Page 3 ‘ ~ * : a ee i. Conrad OF