DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : _ RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA :_ COMMENTS : v9.1 AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information FBI 124-90031-10015 HQ CR 62-38824-972 Document Information FBI MM HQ + 03/19/1963 173 CRIME CONDITIONS MM PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 4; 10(a)2 Redact 05/18/1998 INDEFINITE Date: 4/24/201 Released under the John Kennedy Wsc5assination Records oOllection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). ase#:NW 45759 Date: 1i-i?-2017 ‘CRIME CONDITIONS IN GREATER MIAMI FLORIDA RPT, TABLES OF CONTENTS PAGE i-ii, INDEX PAGE 135-145 HW 45759 BDocld:32324756 Page 1
MM 92-1013 A“ - Sone one MM T-1 is - INFORMANTS - JFK Act 6 MM T-2 is GEORGE WACKENHUT , former Bureau Agent (by request). MM T-3 is Captain C. W. HUDDLESTON (NA), Miami Beach, Florida Police Department (request as to this information). MM T-4 is MARTIN DARDIS, former Chief of Police, North Bay Village, Florida Police Department, now Chief Investigator, Florida Attorney General's Office (request). _ MM T-5 is EARL VENNO, PCI. MM T-6 is Ny 1894-Pc. ae T-7 is MONTGOMERY E. MANNING, motorcycle officer, Miami Beach Police Department (by request). MM T-8 is SAM KAY (by request). MM T-9 is MM 603-C. T-10 is MM 661-C. T-1l WW 45759 is is is is is is GEORGE V. BLAINE, PCI. MM 509-c. MM 673-C. MM 665-C. MM 822-C. MM 743-C. -B- COVER PAGE Docld: 323274756 Page 2?
MM 92-1013 MM T-17 is MM 675-c. MM T-18 is LOU SACCAROMA, PCT. MM T-19 is MM 440-c. MM T-20 is MM 609-c. MM T-21 is WILLIAM S. KENNEY, Departmental Attorney, Miami, Florida. MM T-22 is NATHANIEL J, KLEIN, attorney, 407 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, Florida (request). © MM T-23 is ALEX S. GORDON, attorney and Dade County Commissioner (request). MM T-24 is MM 606-PCI. MM T-25 is MM 788-Cx. ‘MM T-26 is MM 698-c. MM T-27 is MM 799-cx. MM T-28 is MM 676-C. MM T-29 is NY 3368-C-TE. MM 7-30 is MM 794-Cx. MM T-31 is MM 342-c. MM T-32 is MM 725-C. MM T 33 is AL FINKLESTEIN, reportér,"Miami Herald" newspaper (by request). po i MM T-34 is MM 819-C*. : -C- COVER PAGE HW 45759 Docld:32324756 Page 3
\ 3 re: MM 92-1013 T-35 T-36 T-37 T-38 T-39 T-40 T-41 T-42 T-43 T-44 T-45 T-46 T-47 T-48 Ellenville, New York, MM T-49 MM T-50 MM T-51 MM T-52 Police Department. MM T-53 is[ | pct. - ee isf sper. is MM 855-PCI. is PG 509-c. is MM 806-c. | is MM 818-c*. is MM 845-C*. is MM 656-C. iy 7 | is JAMES CARIOTA, PCI. is. ‘BEN SLUTSKY , owner, “Nevele Hotel, is PH 623-c*. is MM 837-C*. is Lt. JOHN THOMPSON, New York City - D- COVER PAGE HW 45759 Docld: 323274756 Page 4
MM 92-1013 MM Miami, Flori MM ns BP PeBBBEBEE BEES S T-56 T-57 T-58 T-59 T-60 T-61 T-62 T-63 T-64 T-66 T-67 T-68 da. T-69 HW 45759 Docld:32324756 Page 5 T-65. is is is is is is is is © X i JOSEPH VALACHI, PCI. MM 730-C. MM 830-C. Ny 202-c. NY 842-C. BS 812-C. MM 836-PCL. LV 69-C*. is is is is is is is MM 833-PCI. Te NY 3864-PCI. i gEK Act 6 (4) NY 3682-c. a MM 764-PCL. former CG 6272-C. EDWARD HILKER, Internal Revenue Service, HERBERT GELTZER (by request). MM T-70 is KENNETH CANNON, Chief Intelligence Agent, Internal Revenue Service, Toledo, Ohio. -E—- COVER PAGE
MM 92-1013 MM. T-~72 is MM 844-C. MM T-73 is MM 654-PCT. ~ Fx - COVER PAGE ; LL ST 7 a a , aw 45759 DoclId:32324756 Page 6
ne MM 92-1013 «and police officials who reportedly accepted payoffs, ‘gratuities or favors set out. Teamsters Pension Fund loans made to finance certain Miami Beach construction. Past efforts to create a new county of the Miami Beach area viewed in some quarters as a move toward legalized gambling. A Federal Grand Jury is presently hearin evidence concernin PK Law 10(a)2 - px - DETAILS : a) - la - AW 45759 DoclId:32324756 Page ? SN
, HW 45759 MM 92-1013 RFF: 411 GUARDE, was born on December 13, 1917, esides with his wife and family “at. “4031 N ‘Northeast "162nd | Street, orth Miami Beach, Florida’ o ri da. ; .. LTO PA Rote Siranianiaoesaie seis amsei DIOGUARDI has s. EBE ‘Number. 863979, ‘and was con- victed in 1954 for violation of U. 8. Federal Liquor Laws and in 1957 was convicted for violation of the. Theft From Interstate Shipment Statute. In 1960, DIOGUARDI was reported connected with JOSEPH INDELICATO; in 1961 he - and in 1962 was reported associated with. "ANTHONY “RICCL in shy- lock operations. ; : DIOGUARDI owns and operates Angelo's Restaurant in Dade County, Florida, and according to MM T-¥Gon January 24, 1963, DIOGUARDI ‘allegedly found out that his partners, ANTHONY RICCI and JULIUS KAPLAN, were stealing from the Casa Maria Restaurant, which the three operated, and DIOGUARDI bought out the interest of RICCI and KAPLAN. JOHNSON, Departmental Attorney, Miami, was. ‘called before the U. S, Grand-Jury at Miami, Florida, which was hearing evidence in the case involving ee a reportedly took the Fifth Amendment and after being taken before the U. S. District Judge in Miami, o _ Y¥- Docld: 323274756 Page 6
_— telephones listed to LAFF and_a Chicago associate, M _ fromthe Chicago area subpoenaed to testify cian | MM 92-1013 CDG: jkj BERSHIE[LA¥F, 324=-94th h Strest..§ Surfside, Florida, a white male, about 56 yéars of age, was, LENORE EDO RPI at Office, Miami, Florida, arrested in Chicago, [llinois in (1943 for bookmaking and in 1951 the States Attorney's Office, Cook County, Chicago, raided a wire room and found 32 ENBERG., He stated that [__ was one of eleven ¥ before an Indiana Federal Grand Jury investigating the enn i Te" EK Law 10(a)2 MM T-66advised that LAFF had a big horse book in Chicago, but that in the Miami area is considered a ; medium size bookmaker, doing some lay-off business in Chicago. m J On November 18, 1961, LAFF was arrested by Internal Revenue Service Agents while leaving a North Miami, Florida, apartment where he allegedly handled $100,000.00 daily in lay-off action and was charged with the Failure to Possess a Federal Wagering Tax Stamp, but on July 25, 1962, the United States District Court at Miami acquitted LAFF of this charge. MM 1-67advised that since his arrest by Internal Revenue Service, LAFF has been extremely careful not to accept any bets from outside the State of Florida so as to insure that he is not susceptible | to. prosecution by the Federal Government. He stated that LAFF is probably @ntinuing bookmaking activities, but will not take.bets from out of the State and will not make telephone calls outside © of Florida. o ts, MM T-6S8 advised that recently LAFF has been spending all of his afternoons playing cards at the Normandy Isle Golf Course, Miami Beach, Florida. -60- AW 45759 To Docld: 323274756 Page 9 according to™MART IN -DARDIS, Cnief Investigator, Florida .Attornéy~General's /
; A MM 92-1013 BOC/gt Jj Investigation reflects that members of the Florida Window Cleaners and Maintenance Association have contractors cleaning windows at numerous hotels, motels and other business establishments in the Miami Beach area. At the present time a Federal Grand Ju in h d PK Law 10(a)2 —/3¢- ee — A iW 45759 Docld: 323274756 Page 10