orem ans TP 92-1, oe a oe 7 of Tangerine Tavern, 3307 West Hillsborough, Tampa, dated November 24, 1945, and renewed October 13, 1950. As a result of alleged bribery case in which Detective HARRY DIETRICH, St. Petersburg Police Department, was alleged to have been bribed by members of the TRAFFICANTE organization, ,the State Beverage Department, on May 21, 1954, issued an order to the Tangerine Tavern to show cause why their license should not be suspended or revoked. On January 3, 1955, an order was issued revoking the beverage license. _ E, RESIDENCE - AT TAMPA, FLORIDA | , AT HAVANA, CUBA Lieutenant JORGE PENA HERRERA, Head of the Alien Control Section, Department of Investigation, Cuban National Police, advised in early 1958 that subject resided at the Hotel Rosita de Hornedo, Havana, and according to the Cuban immigration records arrived in Cuba December 26, 1955, as a tourist and obtained Cuban Foreigner's Carnet #393461. He . reported subject on March 12, 1957, applied to the Cuban Department of Immigration to change his status in Cuba from that of tourisé& to that of resident, and the Director General of Cuban Immigration, by resolution dated October 3, 1957, 2 approved the subject's application and granted him residence 7 in Cuba. On January 10, 1958, SANTO TRAFFICANTE permanently left the Hotel Rosita de Hornedo and on April 15, 1958, T-5 advised _. io subject was residing at Apartment 14-B in an apartment building : located at Calle 12, #20, Vedado, Havana, Cuba. -7- HW 45966 —-— = _ _ — — 18% PELBELD DoclId: 3227686570 Page 5
TP 92-1 B. GAMBLING — IN FLORIDA The "Tampa Morning Tribune”, Tampa, Florida, dated January 8, 1958, carried the information in an article that SANTO TRAFFI- CANTE, JR. "played a sinister role as 'kingpin' of a Florida West coast syndicate...". "His outfit appeared to rake in a ‘gross of more than a million a year' from bolita racketeering, RALPH W. MILLS, former director of the Hillsborough Crime ~ Commission, declared in a 1952 speech". The article recited the subject inherited his influence in the underworld from his father; that subject was one of a list of witnesses for the KEFAUVER Committee Hearings in Tampa, Florida, in 1950, but he never appeared before the Committee; that he was questioned | by sheriff's deputies during an investigation of the double ‘ killing~of RENE NUNEZ and ANGELO.GIGLIO but not held, -and that. he was questioned again in January, 1953, when he was grazed in the shoulder by one of three shotgun blasts aimed his way at close range while he was driving a car in Tampa. The same article recited that he refused to take a lie detector test when questioned at the police. station following his being picked up for questioning in the murder of JOE ANTINORI in November, 1953. The same article set out that on May 15, 1954, the subject and his brother, HENRY, were charged with bribing a St. Petersburg, Florida, detective to carry on bolita operations in Pinellas County, Florida. _ ra JEK Law| 11 (a) T-4 advised SANTO TRAFFICANTE, SR., ever since he came to Tampa, - Florida, back in the 1920's, was connected with the vice rackets with the IGNAZIO ANTINORI family of Tampa and that SANTO, JR., ' i S -19- HW 45966 Docld:322786570 Page 6
KX \ t HW 45966 indicate that associated with ROBERTO MENDOZA are CLIFFORD JONES, TP 92-1 figure in the underworld who with other relatives were powerful in the illegal narcotics traffic in the Tampa area and prominent in gambling in Tampa and Havana. He reported subject had been in ANASTASIA's company frequently in the past six months in New York and noted that ANASTASIA was known to the police in New York as the lord—high-executioner of Murder, Inc., and together with TRAFFICANTE was a leader in the "Mafia." T=-14 reported a release by a Hilton International. — representative mentioned that "a preliminary agreement for the. . casino lease had been made with a group headed by ROBERTO MENDOZA, a Cuban businessman, and CLIFFORD JONES, a Las Vegas attorney." Newspaper releases indicated that.MENDOZA was a close friend of Cuban President FULGENCIO BATISTA. These news reports further © MENDOZA's brother, MARIO MENDOZA, Senator KENNETH JOHNSON of Las Vegas, and a New York attorney SIDNEY ORSECK, T-14 reported that Mr. JOHN W. HOUSER of the Hilton t Hotel International was told by attorney ORSECK that ROBERTO tote MENDOZA had been in touch with JOSEPH RIVERS, wa., JOSEPH SO SILESI, who had made an approach on behalf of another group on September 17, 1957, by LOUIS SANTOS, wa., SANTO TRAFFICANTE, operator of the gambling casino at the Sans Souci.. . T=-14 reported that it appeared possible ‘that RIVERS * was in fact, "the front" mentioned in the note believed from SANTO TRAFFICANTE to ALBERT ANASTASIA. VII. PERSONAL HABITS AND PECULIARITIES T-1 advised that he has known subject to be armed - in the past and subject has used JAMES COSTA. LONGO as a body- - guard in the past. In view of this information, together with subject's history in Tampa rackets for the past years, he should be considered possibly armed and dangerous. T-27 advised subject wears horn rimmed glasses and. obtained seven pairs of these glasses in Tampa, Florida, in the Summer of 1957. "Life" magazine issuedof March 10, 1958, , described subject as a "bespectacled, scholarly looking, as if he might be around Havana to complete a Ph.D. in Sociology." — . -T-14 described subject as always wearing glasses usually with heavy, dark brown tortoise shell frames; that he is an immaculate dresser of good taste--displays none of the usual mobster flare for the sensational, and that his dress could be described as conservative collegiate with a preference for grays and browns. 7 - - (LAWTO RK DoclId: 322786570 Page 7