fe JEKA 'ASSA Funes gE EK SSASSIN ENT AGENCY INFORMATION ennedy Assassination Records Ollection act of 1992 {44 Sec AGENCY: FBI bio? Note). Case: Nw 53130 RECORD NUMBER: — 124-10228-10416 RECORD SERIES: (CG AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 62-6115-143 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: PAGES: SUBJECT: DOCUMENT_TYPE: ORIGINAL CLASSIFICATION: ~ REVIEW_DATE: STATUS COMMENTS: PEDROTTY. LEO E. DIRECTOR..FBI 12/02/1963 99 SEE FBI 105-82555-761 PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 01/22/1996 Redact RESTRICTIONS: JFK Act 6 (4) HW 53130 Docld:32178706 Page 1 NEW CLASSIFICATION: UPDATE DATE: 02/14/2001
4 tical “Ls Cc - x, oO FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGAT{ON OFFICE OF ORIGIN REPORTING OFFICE DATE | INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD CHICAGO DALLAS 12/2/63 11/22 - 12/2/63 TITLE OF CASE REPORT MADE BY TYPED BY LEO E, PEDROTTY lac CHARACTER OF CASE LEE HARVEY OSWALD . Is -R ( REFERENCES: Bureau teletypes dated 11/30/63 and 12/1/63. -P- %03-Mdad bp ADMINISTRATIVE a 5-73 ) All leads are being set out by telephone and teletype and are not being repeated herein. Additional leads will be dispatched upon review of this report. COVER PAGE SPE a APPROVED ery aid DO NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW — baroyjeVY¥3 | 10 - Bureau (62-109060) 3 - Dallas (89-43) fie 2 - Chicago (62-6115) i \ re ~~ ‘ . ae LT PROPERTY OF FB!.—This report is loaned to you by the FB!, and neither it nor ite contents are to be distributed outside the agency to which loz HW 53130 DoclId:32176706 Page 2?
CG 62-6155 | CONE RIT/ vmm Possible Cuban Connections ' With LEE HARVEY OSWALD On November 30, 1963, CG 6491-C advised SA ROBERT J. TOMPKINS, Jr., that during December of 1960, he was engaged in * investigating the activities of BEN JAFFE (who is presently the subject of an Anti-Racketeering case under the Criminal Intel ligence Program in Chicago; however, he resides in Las Vegas, Nevada, and is the owner of the Tropicana Hotel). He advised that during this investigation he had an “occasion to converse with Rev. BILL BEENY of St. Louis, Missouri, concerning BEN JAFFE while in Del Rio, Texas in December, 1960. He advised that he read in the Chicago "Tribune" newspaper dated November 27, 1963 that the same Rev. BEENY of St. Louis, Missouri, reportedly a candidate for governor of Missouri, had offered a home and job to Mrs. LEE OSWALD. ; He advised that he _conversed with BILL BEENY regarding — which is located in Ciudad Acuna, Mexico directly across_ the river. from Del Rio, Texas and is allegedly owned by BEN JAFFE. He advised that the nominees of JAFFE vegarding’ the owner= ship of this radio station were ARTURO GONZALEZ and his partner (¥NU) BOSQUEZ, well-known residents of. Del Rio, Texas. He advised that “he knows: of no un-American activities or sympathizers of BEENY; ‘however, BEENY was closely associated with GONZALEZ and he, CG 6491- om ‘has suspected GONZALEZ to be a Communist.and closely associated with Cuban activities. He advised that GONZALEZ is married to a Cuban and has made numerous trips to Cuba before and after the Castro revolution, — oe CG 6491: Cc further advised ‘that: WILLIAM BURNES of ‘@iternational Advertising Agency, San Antonio, Téxas, is also familiar with BEENY as he, BURNES, was engaged in securing radio time from station XERF on behalf of BEENY. CG 6491:C' 18° cha¥acterized ‘asa Din and Bradstreet inves- _tigator as well as operating as a private investigator and is con-. sidered extremely reliable. - \t , - © \ HW 53130 Docld:32176706 Page 4 we et