a __ JFK Assassination System Date: 6/1/2015 Identification Form Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: _ 124-90091-10151 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 166-114-25 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: OC TO: HQ TITLE: DATE: 01/30/1968 PAGES: . 2 SUBJECTS : RUSSELL DOUGLAS MATTHEWS RUSSELL MATTHEWS DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/16/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : RPT v9.1 . 26 HW 45863 DocId:32330720 Page 1
rs ————= ae —— \ - U-263 (Rev. 3-8-67) ” : ws —— -FEDERAY BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION” oe a TYPED BY jri \ REPORTING OFFICE —_ pOrrise OF ORIGIN OKLAHOMA CITY | OKLAHOMA CITY _ -‘TITLEOF CASE —_ GEORGE EDWARD BARNES, aka DATE 1/30/68 “REPORT MADE BY SA HOWARD CECIL ~ CHARACTER OF CASE ITAR - GAMBLING Cane: Report of SA LEWIS H. JOHNSON, Oklahoma City, 9/29/67 | | >. ADMINISTRATIVE Investigation in this matter was re-instituted onorhe was determined the subject hadreturned to Qklahoma City from Nevada and was engaged in a book making operation. On October 19, 1967, PCI Cd advised SA ROBERT B. EVANS, JR, that BARNES had OTHER 4 returned to Oklahoma City and was operating as a bookie in partnership with an individual named (FNU) WILLS. ‘On December 4 and 8, 1967, JOE ELLIS VANSCOY, an informant for Internal Revenue Service, advised SA HOWARD CECIL that he and BARNES were the only persons booking at the Penn Club in Logan County, Oklahoma. Each has his own customers, VANSCOY having about 35. regular bettors and BARNES having so nanEs DEY between. 40 and 60. "NIP'AWILLS was working for BARNES, but BARNES “ACCOMPLISHMENTS CLAIMED = NONE CONVIC. |. AUTO FUG. SAVINGS RECOVERIES CASE HAS BEEN: OVER SIX MONTHS PENDING PROSECUTION . (Jves - ]NO { { | { PENDING OVER ONE YEAR [_]YES-X_JNO | a | _bo NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW | ~< SPECIAL wee | APPROVED COPIES MADE; IN __IN CHARGE 3 Bureau (166-114) 1 - usa, Oklahoma 2 Dallas (166-%%) 2 Oklahoma City (166-12) ——— = eee, Wimin oe : abee iy cae f, ya @ FEB 2 1968 E> ‘EES Py 'ST ye op Notations , Se HW 45863 DocId:32330720 Page 2
| | . os OC 166-12 fired him several weeks ago when WILLS showed up drunk at the club. WILLS has stated he is going to Reno, Nevada, ~™ after January 1, 1968, to work for TOM MOORE at the Holiday Hotel, Reno. , ORD rogeXBARNES made a few payoffs for GEORGE BARNES to winring bettors, but VANSCOY described ROSS BARNES as a mental case, stating on one occasion ROSS had trouble locating the address of a customer and had to call back to. the club four different times to get the address correct. ROSS BARNES is no longer associated with the bookmaking operation. The police dogs used to guard the Penn Club belong to VANSCOY and are kept on a chain; however, the chain is short enough that a person can enter the club through the front door without the dogs getting to him if he is careful. There ‘are no windows in the club and those inside have no view out except through the front door, It has a front and side door, | both re-enforced with 1/4" steel plate. Two phones are in the club, GR 8-1577 and GR 8-0102. Both VANSCOY and BARNES answer the phones and accept bets for each other when one of them is not there. The club is no longer open to the public | in the evenings. Go of the fact that the club grosses an avetage of $100,000 weekly from bettors, BARNES has lost betwee $20,000 and $30,000 this year. VANSCOY gts the "line" from DALEXHINES in Tulsa, and lays off bets to HINES. FLANERY gets li information 44. from R. D.} ATTHEWS in. Dallas, Texas, and from unknown individuals tm Kansas and New Orleans, Louisiana. FLANERY has also accepted some bets and phoned the information in to the Penn Club. One of these bets was from a man in Okmulgee, Oklahoma. BARNES \is, in bad financial shape aad is financially ofa backed by coer and E. C. " JUNE YOHNS TON In spite BARNES lives at various motels trying to elude the Oklahoma City Police Department. He currently is registered under.a fictitious name in Room 121 at the 89er Inn, Oklahoma City. He has been there about 3 weeks and formerly B COVER PAGE as ENG | HW 45863) DocId:32330720 Page 3 | |