Releazed under the John F. DATE: 11-14-2017 DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : COMMENTS : vol Docld: 32307227 Page 1 AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER: ° RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW: ~ _ OPENING CRITERIA : Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1993 (427 Tt Fi0T Hote;. Date: JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information FBI 124-10291-10367 CR 62-75147-210-1, 3 Document Information FBI LEG, HAVANA DIRECTOR, FBI 07/25/1952 4 NRO, ASSOC, SMO, GAMBLING, B/F INT, SANS SOUCI NIGHT CLUB, HAVANA, RACK’ACT PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified . 4 Redact 05/07/1998 © INDEFINITE INC NOTE, MEMO 4/27/201
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Releazed under the John F. Kennedy Assaszination Records CoLlection Act of 19927 (44 USC 27107 Hote) DATE: 11-14-2017 & KANDAPD FORM NO. 64 Office Memorandum «+ onirep staves GOVERNMENT. os 4 { ide. Bor ont . SRT ang . oa Mr. Clegg... 7 ‘TO : Director, FBI wl: m4 Lang y DATE: July 25, L752 Glevin... «| pe i] ve bike Havana, Harte. men FROM : Legal Attache, Havana, Cuba [ (64-153) nye Tracy on - ; . w ; ~ | Me Law ain _! SUBJECT; (ERICAN GAMBLING INTERESTS IN CUBAY; ( Ot ie Mom Mw : YS Le y “pe ‘ales fe, Sele. Rocat—. Ty OW ae According to all available information, the gambling. at... 7 thf Sans Souci Night Club in,Havana is-backed by money of the cneeagion at gang of ‘of New 1 Kensing Pa, Front man for the concession at the Sans soe: o is NORMANAROTHNAN. ye One of the chief sources of income for the concession at the San Souci is a game called "Razzle Dazzle” used at carnivals and similar ee entertainments. It is based on a doubling up principle and so far as we ‘ have been able to learn locally, the sucker never has a chance on this game.” The Embassy has received numerous complaints here from American tourists who have been taken in amounts from a few hundred dollars to several thousands. (Wu From the standpoint of the concession, the chief drawback of the game is the fact that the loser usually does not have sufficient cash money to pay his losses and gives the club a check. Usually, the following day when the sucker has had time to sober up and realize he has been taken, he calls or wires his U. S. bank and stops payment on the check. The concession has little recourse against this action since the check represents a gambling Losse Ww , SPI MF OBIE E Cape B, In 2-52, former NYC-25, who presently resides. in Havana and whose idéntity is known to the Bureaugadvised that he had learhed that mn® ance: ‘scheme _ been thought up to try. to. get around ee fennnane loss | A sorataon separate and apart from the one wise roan. the Sans Souci ‘is “being set. up and will operate as a check cashing and “collection agency. This new corporation will have an office at the Sans Souci and when a sucker needs money to pay off losses, the corporation will cash his checke It will be emphasized to the sucker that the check cashing office has i nothing to do with the Sans Souci operation and that the operation is F strictly one of exchanging a check for cash money. By doing this it is %, hoped to get away from the fact. that.the check covers a gambling loss and wy, ' thus to have a ‘legal, recourse in the courts in the event payment on the " \ check, is stopped. The corporation will also have an office or offices in ‘the U. S. to try to collect check which payment has been stopped without ” necessity of taking legal notion NG 4 ; 1/ 4) pe, f . 8 : J ay 1 aes {fa Source said that he hag’ been told that one o e principal figures ew Fe Wea o m= | “yin the new _corporation will be’ one DICK/REYNOLDS. He described this indi- a ne ee ON i vidual ‘as a special investigator for the Miami Daily News and a "shake OR 6 des down artist." ae mya | ce us ste (Z) (1) \wDEXED- me Se Fhe ee Re EG cores “hu | : Revses : Docld: 32307227 Page 3
Releazed under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records DATE: 11-14-7017 STANDARD FORM NO, 64 Office Memorandum + owxrep stares covensninir TO : Director, FBI fon wy AL DATE: =e FROM : Legal Attache, Havana, Cuba Mr. Lav? Wo xt Mo! ar —T 5 P , . ot ee a a. SUBJECT: wire CAMEEING Wa Seay py owe g - 7 MISCELLANEOUS = cr baeT sh ld ly me Re Havana letter to the Bureau Jul} ‘28 3 ground information on some of the American gam = Bg On 9-12-52 C. I. HAV-11 advised that he had learned that the Sans Souci Night Club in Havana is having considerable financial difficulties = aa oy and that it appeared t & new management might be taking it over. As ra NG & will be recalled, N ROTHMAN has been fronting at the Sans Souci for ae at the MANNARINO interestd ‘o Kensington, PA. Source said that he was ec  e& told that ROTHMAN and EDD. MAN, ROTHMAN's assistant at the Sans Souci, had gone to Miami on 9-11-52, taking with them all the books of the Sans Souci. Source expressed the opinion that they might be doing this in order - to run out on any debts that RO N might have incurred in connectién with the operation of the club. ® 7 9 4 Source said that CHARLES F. “CHUCK SREEMER, who had fronted at the Sans Souci a couple of years ago, had been in. town Looking over the situation We) Duy possibly toward the resumption of the management of the club. On 9-15-52 source advised that ROTHMAN had come back to Havana and that he had brought the word that the man who will be backing the club for the coming year is one ANDREA. Source said that he had been unable to “V~ get any additional information other than that he is supposed to be out of 2x9; Chicago and to own a hoite in Miami Beach. (J) eet phe tp CE extra vat bs ~ The above is submitted for the Bureau's inform tion. copy of this letter is attached for forwarding to the Miami office with t | ' yequest that that office furnish any information(coming to its attention ee : tion. .of “ ~¥ 6 SK Sweowe concerning the identity of ANDREA or his partici nk don. an She_o *. © the Sans Souci in vane 4(f) . pete ; oa s Aeam o .,. - oe “ “y “ vs ah Bow * sie pe Sad woe CDA: JES oo, y iy Fim foe “Y Docld: 32307227 Page 4