v9.1 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 : JFK Assassination System Date: 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 $/29/201
oo 4 fre cy - . . . é * ” f dpridni L. FORKLNG. io aN . : 5 . a Je 5010-104 . . . a sO . ReBUairtel 3/28/62. _: airtel, based on information presently. at. hand, Additional ' (since discontinued. as a "symbol informant). His information. has | It will not be possible. to. verify the telephone calls to: the ie | 7 MARCELLO group in New. Orleans March 20 and Washington, D, Ce. . | ti | | i - known hotel in the downtown area, :where MARCELLO. always stays . : ‘4 : po { 2) Bureau (RM~AM)-- oe . 7 Kee _~ New Orleans. (92- 36) CM? O58 _ .2=-WFO (92 ) (RM) soi! -2+= Milwaukee . (92-247) ” Ree. 5 24 {oe : ‘ oa / ° . Mr. Tolson__/} UNITED STATES " GOSRNMENT Po . oy Ul ee | : \ mo ~ onr -€ f , 1 Mr. Callahan. M em orandum | Le Guten | ‘ A Mr. DeLoacha4<’ ‘ : , \ > Mr. Maney, ‘i. "DIRECTOR, FBI ae _ DATE: 4/6/6PMr. Malone. J . peg ae Mr. Rosen i . . Mr. Sullivan... | ° ‘ / Mr.- Tavel.. sac, MILWAUKEE (92-247) Mr. Trotter | . wo ‘Tele. Room. a. Miss Holmes. § CARLOS ancens0 | Miss Gandy 00: New Or: ite : XS . fp Set: out hereafter are answers to Bureau suggéstions in referenced information will be obtained - ‘and furnished as promptly as possible. af Bureau has. ‘complete background information as: to PCI FRANK HYLAND RUSSELL, furnished in Milwaukee letter dated May 22, 1961, captionddl<t | FRANK. HYLAND RUSSELL, CI, ‘wherein he was designated as MI *608-C - i | been- reliable in the past. a = ~ March, 22, 1962 tintil after billing. date, which is April .10, 1962. “This, matter will be followed by the Milwaukee Office, 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 cs Republic, met with these individuals; only that General Trujillo , was the “high government official" referred to above, With I regard to this matter, RUSSELL produced his receited bill for © oy his own reservations at the Statler-Hilton Hotel January 22-23, | 1961 and said that the meeting was held in his room. MARCELLO | was’ not staying at the Statler-Hilton and RUSSELL was unable to recall the name of the hotel but described it as.a large, well- JAH:EL< te ay es S oo Qo —
! MI 92-247 0°. 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 BALISTRIERI and CARLOS MARCELLO © are known to Milwaukee beyond what .RUSSELL could furnish, -and ‘he said that he did not know how they originally knew each ; other; nor what the full extent of their relationship is, . except that they are both the Italian hoodlum type and probably associate,.in this respect. With regard to more specific information as to times, dates and .: ‘ places and identities of DONOHUE and DUFFY, the, following in- ' formation is furnished: ae co se By checking his telephone bills, RUSSELL. was able to advise that - on January 19, 1961 he had called MARCELLO at Shreveport, La.,. phone 4101 and‘it was during this conversation that BALISTRIERI  - verified to MARCELLO ‘the fact that- RUSSELL was "OK to da-business with."' It is noted that other New Orleans telephone numbers called during this period as reflected by RUSSELL's telephone bill were as follows: . . 7 January 6, 1961 New Orleans FO 6-3466 January. 10, 1961 New Orleans VE 5+1701: , With regard to his contacts with SAM MARCELLO by telephone in \ March of 1962 as pointed out above, the exact dates and numbers - galled will be verified from the telephone bills after April 10, 1962, RUSSELL 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 RUSSELL | ; telling MARCELLO to call him from a public phone to a specific public phone in the Plankinton Arcade where RUSSELL's office is | - located in Milwaukee at 3 PM on that same date. MARCELLO did Co call him back, and-although RUSSELL is unable to furnish the -exact phone number that he ‘called,.it was one of the following numbers which were observed to be on the public booths in the © ha, Plankinton Arcade: : ‘
\ MI 92-247 — BR 2-9458 ~ BR 3~9910 — BR 2-9333 ~ BR 3-9494 BR 2-9649 BR 3-9899 BR 2-9969 BR 3-9575 i When-MARCELLO did call him back on one of the above phones, MARCELLO told him that everything was taken care of and not - years, having previously discontinued high school in his Wisconsin (7) May.17,,1922, father JAM to “spend a buck" in trying~to do anything for CARLOS. The DONOHUE referred to is JAMES sosspahovonu, III, born, | S JOSEPH DONOHUE, 8310 North Port Washington Road, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. pie DONOHUE attended Marquette High School for two years and ~ . " according to Credit Bureau records was in the Navy for five last year for the purpose of entering the Navy. RUSSELL 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 also a member of the Gaslight Key Club, where he spends a great deal of his time. It. is noted that RUSSELL was a little reluctant as to ‘furnishing 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, RUSSELL did not know whether ‘he was the same one who had. been on ‘the McClellan Committee - ‘but Oo has heard him described as "BOBBY KENNEDY's right hand" and believed therefore that he was a special assistant in the Department of Justice. RUSSELL . did say that he was very close to Attorney General KENNEDY and, in fact, had taken care of his children on occasions when ‘KENNEDY was abroad. With reference to Page 2, third paragraph of Milwaukee letter dated March 24,: 1962, RUSSELL advised that the Guatamalan officials whose names he. furnished to CARLOS MARCELLO through his brother SAM, which apparently enabled. CARLOS to speedily. .. return to the tinited States, RUSSELL now advises that they were as follows: oo -3-
MI 92-247 oe Ce | . GUILLERMO FLORES AVENDANO, who at that time was Guatamalan Ambassador to Rome and is now . believed by RUSSELL 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: ~_N , 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 OFFICE: 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, a 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 fron phone records telephone calls to New Orleans and Washington, D. C. in con- nection with. this matter from RUSSELL's phone. ° Will maintain contact with RUSSELL for additional information relative to this matter. a . , J. 2 -4—
MI 92-247 y -_ + CAUTION: af - Department of Justice and/or (INS circles, / In view of potential danger to PCI RUSSELL if it were known to MARCELLO's group that joe he had furnished information to the government and in view of the possibility, if his story is correct’ in fact, of ‘misconduct in high extreme care must be taken in. the investi- gation of this matter and dissemination of any information so as to not reflect that it originated in Milwaukee or from RUSSELL. -5-