JFK Assassination System Date: 4/24/201 Identification Form Agency Information Peleased under the John AGENCY: FBI Kennedy RECORD NUMBER:  124-10290-10327 Assassination Records . Ollection Act of 1992 ase#i: NW 45754 Date: AGENCY FILENUMBER: CR 63-4426-349, 366 pin ira2oi Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: HART, ARTHUR V. _ TO: DIRECTOR, FBI - TITLE: DATE: 11/20/1959 PAGES: 29 SUBJECTS : JFC, REL AND ASSOC, CRIMINAL ACT, APALACHIN MEETING, HOODLUMS, NUMEROUS INTV DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT a CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified a RESTRICTIONS: 4; 11(a) CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: 10/30/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF IRS COMMENTS : v9.1 , a 45754 DocId: 32306667 INC RPT 38 Page 1
AL 62-1152 e. Identity of Source’ T-4 is NY CI 169-C ~5 4 ladelphia PcIL____is. Cas in Philadelphia letter. oO Director datéd- 3/23/55, "The Mafia -- Philadelphia Division, General ~ Investigative Intelligence File" T-9 is AL CI 2889-c | T-46 is AL PCI FELIX ANTHONY JULIAN T-54 is Legat Hanvana ~ T-69 is Philadelphia CI PH 526-C T-116 is Havanna PCI GUIDO DE PHILLIPS, as.in Legat letter to Director dated 2/19/59 (former body- guard and personal chef of SANTO TRAFFICANTE, SR.) T-132 is Miami CI MN 565-1 PC P-133 is AL CI -3003-C T-138 is Dallas CI DL 105-C T-140 is Field Supervisor ERNEST GENTRY, | Federal Bureau of Narcotics, Dallas, as / in Dallas letter to Albany, 9/17/59 T-141 is Dallas PCI HODGES DUBOIS HAMILTON, Secretary to HARRY DAVID KAHN, as in Dallas letter to Albany, 9/17/59 T-142 is NY PCI described in New York letter to pany, 8/5/59 T-143 is Philadelphia PCI ORLANDO MENCHI, as in Philadelphia letter to Albany, 9/29/59 ‘ (Cover Page) HW 45754 DBocld:32306687T Page 2? File Where Located Na ne nee ee ee
AL 62-1152 ‘Identity of source T-144 1s Philadelphia PCI WILLIAM STRUBECK, @s in above Philadelphia letter — ae T-145 -- This symbol number not used T-146 is JOSEPH DI MAGGIO, General Manager, Joseph Cerrito's Lincoln- -Mercury Sales, Los Gatos, California r T-147 is JOHN HENNESSEY, Intelligence Unit, Internal Revenue Service, Treasury Dept., Binghamton, New York ; T-148. isk sd Houston source described in Houston radiogram to Director “and Albany, 11/9/59 JFK Act 6 (4) -R*- 1 [an 45754 DoclId: 32306667 Page 3 File Where Located (Cover Page)
o DON, 8 area. - Pea arene ane ae ‘on september: 20! and 28, 1959; and | ‘related that’ “brow: further —_ ve tions with GUARNIERI Ved. him: ‘to ‘pelieve that’ RUSSELL “BUFALINO | ALPE, who came from Montedoro (in Sicily), settled ‘in Pittston; eo “AL 62~ 1152, o ens . ep : 4 ace ae rr cr talks with various Ttalians- ‘in the Endicott, New: ‘York; area, .. they, figured that RUSSELL® BUFALINO, | of. Pittston, ‘Pennsylvania; . was ‘the- person. who made’ all the: arrangements for the meeting’. at. BARBARA‘s “on November: 14,1957,, and: ‘then. invited .the: hoodlums -+ a .from -the- ‘vartous: parts ‘of the: country. He’ said they gathered : anaes " bhey_ were . Just using. JOSEEE, ‘BARBARA, | ee rr hee . a4 \ - x 1 On, October 6, 19595. ‘contadential Informaiit AL; T= 2133" oo “anformed. SA. MUNLEY . ‘that ANTHONY - FRANK GUARNIERI had. been infer his restaurant on’ several occasions lately. for lunch. and the '.. 00. . informant reported that what he’ could gét-from his conversas = hada lot to do about -the planning.of the, meeting -dand iriviting © me. ns my “the people to. attend. He said ‘that he also gathered « a similar eo ‘impression from his talke with: ‘some- OF | his, friends. in the: NS ~ Buffalo area, os net « a mee ; o£ nay In ‘this ‘connection, it. 4s ‘of ‘Yoterest to note ‘that ae po on March: ‘10,1955, Confidential ‘Informant AL. T-5 confidentially . CoN ee - informed Agents. at Philadelphia, ‘that not.» long. after 1904, SANTO. 00 ‘Pennsylvania ,: van eventually: became. head OE, the Mafia’ in. that, Py No a : 14 tte Dy . sod ¥ as "os me « \ 1 I oh . ve “According to this, informant, some, ‘years ‘later,* after’ a VOLPE prospered in: coal’ operations,’ his. ‘superiors © realized that S his personal business’ ‘was put ahead of his “Mafia : business ‘and’ he. ayy was, eased out as head and one . ‘JOHN SCIANDRA was. put, ‘in gharge .” Lion. oF the Mafia’ in the area: until his’ death, when one RUSSELL: ean The | informant: said “that, SCTANDRA. ‘rettia ined. an ‘charge - | br | _BUFALINO :was made head of. the organization in about,1947 or”. Cd “1948, The informant said that “BUFALINO’ (in, 1955). was: in.charge. ,-0 “oo a ‘of Mafia activities -in: the "anthracite area and-his' immediate ' on LUCIANO was and continued to- ‘he the’ head _ of the - organization... wee . a Ds _PACILITIES ‘OF HOODLUMS Ag. MEETING a veaptionéd, meeting,’ as previously. reported, have determined. that a4 “superior was JOSEPH BARBARA ‘of: Binghamton, NewYork. T-5 said oo’. NU: he believed that BARBARA was.in charge. ‘of activities in northern ra New York State and portions of Pennsylvania ,. ‘with another man’. ye ‘on a level with BARBARA. operating out of either Philadelphia . ey _or Wilmington, ‘Delaware. . “Thé informant said that CHARLES “LUCKY” | reo 4 4 . ra Tndividual ‘investigations ‘of the hoodlums. who attended HW 45754 DBocld:32306687 Page 4
AL 62-1152 | RESULTS OF INVESTIGATION The following data were received by confidential sources, confidential informants or potential confidential informants and thus, in accordance with instructions in SAC Letter 59-77, 12/15/59, Section H, "Criminal Intelligence Program," they aré set cut on the following cover pages. In previous reports T-symbol informant styling has ‘been utilized and the following. material would have been included in the details of former reports. Ay INTERVIEW PROGRAM _ A definitive interview program was established in this case to insure that logical sources of information. were interviewed as a supplement to the existing efforts of all interested offices to develop. informants who could furnish information confirming data previously received in this case as to the purpose of instant meeting and possibly develop additional and new information about the meeting... This program was also to insure that information might be received in advance of any similar future meeting. The initial chart on the results of the interview program is set out in the report of SA ARTHUR V. HART dated . 5/21/59, at Albany, and additional interviews have been set forth in chart form in ‘Supplementary reports. Set out below. in chart form are additional results of the program: 1. CHART | | JFK Act 6 SUBJECT POSSIBLE SOURCE INTERVIEWED? RESULT - VITO ANTHONY Old Orchard —Yes | per[_____|bar GENOVESE = Country Club, and restaurant (Newark) © Etontown, New : operator at club, ‘Jersey (hangout) advised in conver- sations GENOVESE never mentioned Apalachin meeting. PCI said relationship with GENOVESE D COVER PAGE Fp 45754 DoclId: 32306687 Page 5 ane ores
AL 62-1152 On" 11/19/59, SA_GEORGE 1e. P ‘phia Division interviewed of Philadelphia: confidetitial ‘informant PH 454- C, at __ }request. The following information was obtained on a strictly confidential basis and must be treated as coming from a confidential source? With réspect to instant meeting,[| |saia that. he had no information as £9: what | took place. He said sna from his knowledge of the Mafia, it was, definitely a planning _. meeting and it encompassed the’ entire United States. ) ‘said attendance at this meeting was. no -accident and pointed out: the type and amount of food on hand and the distance from which: some of the people. came. to be. there. [_____]saia that he. ‘read the names of the people who attended instant meeting, and. ‘that’ the knew most of them personally. He said he had not. ‘had any recent contacts with ‘any of them. (He did not define what he meant by. recent.) al 7 specifically mentioned sont row rans (of: the Buffalo Division) and said he knew MONTANA when he was a small boy in Sicily. He said MONTANA was known as a man of his word: and that when he promised to do a favor he would do it and ‘would do it in the way he promised. aia not aise the word "Don" in describing the heads of the Mafia, but | the did say that JOSEP SARA: CSR.) a was the léadet of a geographic section which @xtended: into New York as. far as: Auburn: and. ‘south into Pennsylvania as far as ‘and including: Hazelton. He said MONTANA was not a leader and said that MONTANA belonged to another group other than that over which BARBARA was the leader. © NS [_Joenesonea that JOHN SCIANDRA (before he died) was the bag man for AUGUSTAGEPPI and visited all of the mine operations weekly in order to collect the contributions _ for LIPPT.. alleged that RUSSELL A. BUFALINO is now LIPPI's bodyguard, and that BUFALINO does not accompany LIPPI and they are never seen together, but it is understood that G COVER PAGE a 45754 DoclIda: 32306687 Page fF we Re
AL 62-1152 JEK Act 6 (4) that if anything happens to LIPPI, BUFALINO will Handle the 4 reprisals. mS _ Additional information furnished by{__—ijis not included herein as it is not pertinent_to the meeting of hoodlums at Apalachin. It is noted that| sis in his | late seventies although he gives the appearance of being much younger. He was located for interview by SA JOHNSON in the Board Room of J. H. Brooks and Company, a brokerage fi i Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. According to PH 454-C, divides his time between Brooks and another brokerage house (Bache and Company) where he watches his investments. 2.__Nevada Gambling } -. It has previously been reported (report of ,SA ARTHUR V, HART, 11/20/59, Albany, page 26) that GERALDX VELLI, subject in a,car theft ring prosecuted at Houston, Texas, had advised the/Houston Division that in contacts with JOSEPH 'CEASAR"* Began SARCO..and JAMES "MONKSSALLEGRETTI. (of Chicago, | Illinois) and NICKXBANOLFO and WILBURXGLARK (of the Desert Inn, Las Vegas, Nevada), he had obtained information indicating that the purpose of instant meeting was to finance acquisition of the Chicago control in the State of Nevada, thereby obtaining control of policy, gambling and prostitution. It is noted that COVELLI entered a plea of guilty to a twenty-count indictment in an ITSMV ring case at Houston > and is to be utilized as a witness against two Chicago attor- neys who have been indicted for conspiracy in the case. He was interviewed on 10/29/59, and 11/3, 5 and 6/59. On 11/5/59, the matter of the Apalachin meeting was again discussed with COVELLI. He had previously stated he was not familiar with the purpose of that meeting and it is not known why he furnished the following information after his supposed lack of information. COVELLI said that the pur- pose of the meeting was to gain control of gambling within the State of Nevada by financing acquisition of political control - H COVER PAGE HW 45754 DoclId: 327306687 Page 6