Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1997 (44 USC 210% Hotey. | DATE: 11-14-2017 JFK Assassination System Date: 5/7/2015 | Identification Form Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: — 124-10208-10059 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER: 92-3171-2009 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: LEG, MX TO: DIRECTOR, FBI TITLE: DATE: 05/10/1967 ‘PAGES: 4 SUBJECTS : SGI, ASSOC, TRA, HOTEL, SURVEILLANCE DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW: ° 03/24/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : ‘+ v9.1 | a 288 Doclda: 32291783 Page 1°
Released under the John F i DAPEBS: (Aer 4219607 “Kesassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2103 Hotey. arts od ok os 7 N. oo hs : a, c fe 1 i . 1 ore ir oo y F.BI CLASST eran Quart ena eae i CT VTMAT TS me DATE: lee 1S STE (DROY coitin 5/10/67 Transmit the fol ing in nat ee AIRTEL To: oe Cirector FBI (92=3171) “prom: Wee Mexico City (92-13) (RB AR REY GIANCANA, AKA : FERS BOY ceerepeyeen ov bbe SLO eee | on TA SERN 0 Gyoraey oy opt; ReMEXcabs 5/2. and 5/3/67, Bucabs to MEX 5/2 and 5/4/67, MEX airtel to the Bureau 4/13/67 and report of SA WILLIAM F, ROEMER, 3/23/67, at Chicago fe / f The following sources were contacted! i by SA LAWRENCE F,. WIRICK, JR;' (protect)éin Acapulco, ‘wlexico, yon 4/5,6 ,7/67 for information concerning the Subject with negative results. New photographs of subj we ‘Shown -thege individuals with negative results: 60 te ser am MARTEL ALVARADO MEDINA, Chief of Mexican Immigration iis hy URBANO LUNA, Chief of Police - £ yf ee RICARDO PEREA, owner, La Gamba Restaurant ~ = RAUL RODRIQUEZ, Assistant Manager, Hotel Presideat¢ | [PAUL SILICEO, Manager , Hertz de Mexico ye CARLOS HUDSON SUTTER, Manager, Avis de Mexico {JOSE VILLALON Les Manager , Hotel Niza "noted that PETER J; MAGGIO and .wife stayed at A 5 Las< Brisas Hotel from 4/3/67 to 4/6/67, MAGGIO is a Cosa if phia and brother- ‘in-law of ou ope EXO, ee G3 3), sy — 2207 conienaan kee AT TL NOSt®A member from ,Philade ANGELO BRUNO 9h 2 : (1 - Liaison Section) (2 - Chicago - 92-349 1s Mexico City RSC:imt (7) ae wo, (dye ry TF fy 227 Appaetfed OL. . = f “f_SpecialAaént in Charge Docld: 32291783 Page 2?
DATE: 11-14-2017 -cértain that no one ‘looking like subject has, beer at pyre Hotel to the effect that EDWARD.MLEBADAVIS claimed to have been in( that subject was in Cuernavaca was based on identification of . observed at the airport {i “\ wr) Aw = 7 . . . ‘ a MEX 92-13. FRANK Me BRANDSTETTER, General Mariager’, ‘Hotel. une Brisas and his security officer "CARLOS G, ESOLANA, both ~*~ To advised 4/5 and 6/67, afiter shown current pictures. of. GIANCANA}: or in contact with MAGGIO during his stay, O. ah 8 @® A: . i Previous inquiry. conducted by Mexico City. in ‘this matter was re~examined in the light of information in rerep - af 7 Mexico City with PHYLE LS e GUIRE on “several occasions rn we the Summer of 1966 Oo(s ey. a : | onl) £i rm _— . EX-259pRhad advised that iis sovestigatorGeoternined that the subject™resided at Hotel Canariosy\¥n Cuernavaca until. about December 6, 1966, On 4/7/6 Glaus Satoce tet data based on further inquiry at Cuernavac He advised that. he had determined that Hotel Canarios, which is definitely not a - first class hotel, does not maintain registration cards, there-. .. fore no such card could be located for the subject, Control of guests is maintained by a daily list of arrivals and departures, These,lis did not appear, a> Source advised that his investigators reporte4 photographs of the subject by various employees of this hotel It is therefore considered doubtful that it can be established that the subject was a guest at the Hotel Canarios in Cuernavaca in 1966, Rw—-(&- 7 It is noted that at the bi me of the arrival of — ON. PHYLLIS MC GUIRE in Mexico City on 2719/66. Mexico City did not have a good representative selection of current photographs of the subject. gHowever yarious personnel of this office who were at the airp&rt and¥oB¥erved- the activities of MC GUIRE and those associated w h her felt certain that the subject was * This is considered re-enforced by, the fact that this individual was seen in contact with RICHARBACATN , a, Known associate of the subject. Furthermore he was observed acting ina defini tely meric? ve) == | . wanP : So, . ‘ , . 3 Q ty yo Lo . + =. oe Irnt Docld: 32291783 Page 3 ee et “
“Released undef the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hotes. ' DATE: 11-14-2017 W “18 months, #The desk clerk, elevator operators, and bar and / | mad MEX 92-13 — . | surreptitious manner and avoided all. contact with M E GUIRES In addition he was seen drivinewa car with Illinois ‘plates*. PG 5000 registered to PETERKGRANATA | identified as an Illinois State Representative tinder the domination of the Chicago hoodlum group, It is noted that RICHARD CAIN was later observed in this car by Agents of Mexican Immigration, Representatives of Mexican Immigration advised they confirmed that CAIN had brought this car into Mexico and examined the records of the entrance and oA find no record that he was accompanied by the subject, “Bi ah ¥ {) Regarding the recent report that the subject was at the Hotel Tecali in Mexico, it is noted that ERNST SANSONE, BuFile 162-1323, Chicago file 162-4555, and THOMAS MORGANO, BuFile 92-4902, "were guests at the Hotel Tecali in February, : 1965, It is noted that their reservations were made by Mrs, 8) CLARENCE BELLAVIA, a Mexico City fw related to SANSONE, xCG () fas reported’ MEX-254 o has furnished reliable . intormatiom in the past ,£ PArised 5/2/67 that he had conducted inquiry at the Hotel T li, Mariano Escobedo 736, Mexico City, This is.a luxury hotel consisting exclusively of suites and catering to wealthy individuals and sémi-permanent residents, It is located s.ut of the cen em area on a park near the Paseo de la Reforma. A. AG Source advised that he ‘reviewed registrations from April 1 on and could locate no registration for the apn. ROSY al Hotel personnel could not identify subject's photograph, One female hotel employee recalled a telephonic inquiry several days before during which the manager was ; * asked whether subject was registered and replied in the os negative, There were subsequent similar telephone call from Chicago also replied in the negative SEH Furthey,inquiry was conducted 5/3/67 at the Hotel Tecali pain 290 has furnished reliable inzormation in the past and Oo is intimately acquadgted wit bEGONZALO MUNGUIA, Managei ia) the Hotel Tecali. (We) a A detailed review of the records of the hotel | revealed no present or past registration for the subject, The manager MUNGUIA was shown photographs of the subject and tated the subject was not known to him and had never registered . at that hotel during the time he has been manager, approximately y¥ restaurant *ersonnel were 4190 contacted and. shown photographs of the subject and stated Subject \ was not.*a.: ‘Buest: at the) oe Docld: 32291783 Page 4
er the. John F.- MWTE: 11-14-2017 / an a oe aan eo OM 4 Kennedy Assassination § oLlection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 -Hotey. a 4 t MEX 92-13 hotel and not familiar to them (WO. oi * The manager and otner personnel /netéaj that there are only 20 suites and all guests are generally: personally known to all employees, particularly to the manager, The records of the hotel show the only persons checking out on 4/30/67 were a young Mexican honeymoon couple named SUAREZ 30 (A? «. 2 Source confirmed that there was an employee at the hotel named CRUZ who had spoken with someone from Chicago, However CRUZ advised that he had been confused and had not unuerstood the caller and may therefore have fur nkihokerroaeotis F information E(w) (beg Oxy y Since 5/2/6 KgehieCity#Eurveillancefingornants OS AMEX-42,, 196, 25 and = establiShed surveillance! in the vicinity of the Hotel”Tecali and have reported nothing of interest, In addition they conaucted neighborhood inquiry \eO in that vicinity with negative results, Furthermore they: ™ conducted spot surveillance of most of the leading hotels in Mexico City and Cuernavaca with negative results {eas , Information concerning the reported news story which was to appear in Chicago alleging subject's possible presence in Mexico was furnished confidentially on 5/4/67 to Attorney JORGE VAZQUEZ ROBLES, ‘Chief of the Inspection Service of i Mexico Immigration who was most appreciative and desired any - further particulars concerning subject's possible presence “> x a . f toe in Mexico or any news items reporting such presence, WW Xe a rahe 8 EEG wet FN On 5/9/67 SA STEVE D, EVANS (protect) while on ‘ another assignment in Panama telephonically notified this office that appropriate sources in Panama had been alerted to Subject’s possible presence in that area; He advised that travel records for 1936 had been destroyed and he had as yet been unable to conrirm subject's arrival in Panama 9/10/66 on subsequent travel (SS: LEAD MnX1ICO C1TY AT MEXICO, DsF, Sek Will continue efforts through sources -¢ oat tempt to establish subject's whereabouts, tmittntlece fF Docld: 32291783 Page 5