eleased under the John F. DATE: 11-14-7017 uf AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : - ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE : DATE: PAGES: ~ SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW: OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : v9.1 Docld: 32307241 Page 1 Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote}.. JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information FBI , 124-10291-10381 HQ CR 62-75147-210-55 Document Information FBI LEG, HAVANA DIRECTOR, FBI 06/14/1954 1 NRO, B/F INT, CRIM ACT, GAMBLING, ASSOC, ML PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 4 Redact — 05/07/1998 INDEFINITE Date: 4/27/201
Peleased under the DATE: .11-14-2017 ennedy Asadssination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote). a . oy “ 7 > os oe ve . STANDARD FORM NO. 64 . oe . MX. ze - sy, a Office Me: edu - onrren sraies coven ili: 7 ] Mr. Ni ALL INHORMATION CONTATRED . ie, Bel¥on | TO : Director, FBI HEREIN ¥5 UNCLASSIFIED DATE: dune 143 *95, EXCEPT AHERE SHOWN Havana, .6 0 I j oy ey | uw) fROM : Legal Attache, Havana, Cuba (64-153) “SEGREL/ a IO ih} . #4 AU BJECT : AMERICAN GAMBLING ACTIVITIES IN CUBA f Tele. Room — k a On 6-11-54 CI HAV-11-C advised that he bad been informed that ~~ MEYER“TANSKY, well known U. S. hoodlum, is planning on setting up 4 large operation in Cuba, exact nature of which is as yet unknown to informant. INN said he had been told that the locally well known law firm of NESTR i \s Ae AIENDOZA has been retained to handle the legal technicalities involved in i B\ge setting up a company in Cuba. Informant said that he was told that the { operation will run into large sums of monsy and he was of the opinion thaty : TANSKY may @ trying to get away from the more rigid controls of U. 5S. A laws. u . ' It will be recalled that IANSKY had a piece of the gambling casino in the Montmrtre night club in Havana in the 1952-53 season. = This office received no information to indicate that he was connected with: gambling activities here in the 1953-54 season. (36 Ow i. Sees Ly This matter will be followed closely and the Bureau will be ; advised of any additional developments. oe Apart and unconnected with the above, source advised on the same date that he had recently been told by a person he considers reliable that NORMA N’ROTHMAN, FBI No. 1525858, had offered this person $200,000 of counterfeit U. S. currency at 12% of the face value. Source said the person told him that he was not having anything to do with the operation. oY It is believed entirely possible that ROTHMAN my be making this offer. He is known to have been forced to close the Sans Souci night club and gambling casino, which he had been operating in Havana, due to lack of money. Information has been received that he has a number of debts in Havana and ROTHMAN himself has recently advised this office that he hardly has “bread money” anymore. Wa , Source recalled that three or four years ago ACKIEAVIS, WASe, (om FBI No. 1159304, had offered the source a similar quantity of counterfeit money and he believes that this may be the same money which ROTHMAN is By am trying to push. DAVIS was at that time cqnnected with ROTHMAN in the _¢ Sans Souci as a shill and steerer. s last known t been in - 7 GQ ~\ jail at Mexico City in connectio con man swind 4 é, 3 3 Wemeyeg-9 oA a , cy F623 ‘me information conce FAN aria nongyt hye heen mA sa available locally to the U. S. Treasury Representa v5 Charge. GU . Two copies of this letter are being forwarded to the Miami oreipe by direct air mail. pao ( OW 2cc— Miami (Direct Air Mail) CA: JES Docld: 32307241 Page 2?