JFK Assassination System Date: 4/27/201 Identification Form Agency Information Released under the John Kennedy Ws5asgsination Records oOllection Act of 1992 AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: — 124-10206-10122 RECORD SERIES: HQ: (44 USC 2107 Note). ase#:NW 45760 Date: 11-16-2017 AGENCY FILENUMBER: = 62-9-12-303 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: SAC, DL TO: DIRECTOR, FBI TITLE: DATE: 03/26/1962 PAGES: 4 SUBJECTS : CIP, FORT WORTH, TX, RACK AND SUBV, CORRUPTION, GAMBLING, CONSPR DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified ~ RESTRICTIONS: 4; 11(a) CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: 01/22/1999 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF IRS COMMENTS : v9.1 ; tl HW 45760 Docld: 322903846 Page 1
| he Transmit the following in Wf Wr stated that gambler WELDON WEATHERALL was os grrr rene AIRTEL oo ae LL d FBI an Date: 3/26/62 PLAIN. TEXT (Priority or Method of Mailing) DIRECTOR, FBI (62-912) SAC, DALLAS . (94-55A- SUB) SUBJECT: Ovaxmivan INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM WEEKLY SUMMARY DALLAS DIVISION Re Dallas airtel 3/26/62. oe . Res o { I | { [ | | “(Type in plain text or code) i SHERMAN FRANKLIN LITTLE, (aka. IGA. (DL 162~ 129) . . CURTIS YEAGER,. ‘aka. IGA (DL. 162-176) | On. 3/21/62,. DL~95-C advised that CURTIS YEAGER had. left Dallas. ‘because: of the "heat being generated. _. through the Federal and State investigation of gambling in connection with the fixing of SWC basketball games. He. - stated ‘YEAGER had gone to either Del Rio, Texas or Juarez, Mexico to watch and bet on the quarter horse race. CI also. uite "shook up". over his being interviewed recently by the?’ FBI and had left town and gone to Victoria, Texas. He stated Dallas - GLENN: ERNEST BURNETT had received two $100 money qrders — Bureau Dallas Dallas Dallas Dallas Dallas rr er ee ce ee ee ee | WES al Dallas Dallas. Dallas Dallas: (162-129). (162-176) - (92~192) (92-196) | (87~9733) | = (94-A47).- - (94-53). __ (92-222) . (923-36) - (94- 55A-SUB) (13) | gyees WEG cS; 7h Exsptobed? HW 45760 wy 462, —- Sent . JU pecial Agent in Charge ; from WEATHERALL mailed at Victoria, DoclId: 3272790846 Page 2? gambler “| fv te a
_, DL 94-55A-SUR an _— oo Re: GIIF, Tyler, Texas ae . , 1 (DL _94-53) _ On 3/22/62, DL-95~C stated that DON FULTON, part owner of the Redman Club, 3109 West Davis, Dallas, told cI that ELMER CLUCK also. part owner of the club had advised FULTON that during the Fall of 1961 CLUCK's girl friend had approached CLUCK to "set up" her husband for $20,000. This husband, GORDON MINSCHEW, a Hawkins, Texas Postal employee, , had been found murdered near Hawkins, Texas. CI also stated , that CLUCK was again arrested by an unknown law enforcement agency on 3/21/62 for requestioning concerning this murder. The above information was orally furnished to LT, JACK: REVILL,. Dallas PD on 3/22/62, = . 7 Re: .JOE IANNI, aka. AR (DL 92-192) | On 3/23/62, ROBERT _L. ALBRITTON, Intelligence Unit IRS, Dallas, advised ths JFK Law 11(a) Re: FRANK TORTORIELLO, aka. AR (DL 92-196): - oo, On 3/22/62, officers. of ‘the Dallas PD contacted the Dallas Office for information concerning TORTORIELLO. as ‘they. had received information from an informant that he was possibly involved in recent jewel thefts in Dallas. Based on the — | background information furnished by the: FBI Dallas, TORTORIELLO — was arrested at his residence on 3/22/62 by the PD and his apartment was searched. Officers noted that. there was not one scrap of paper in the apartment with a name or phone number on it and that this appeared to be extremely odd to them. © TORTORIELLO was extremely polite but when told that he was geing to be fingerprinted and photographed he became quite | a upset, He admitted that he was a gambler, he had over $1,000 ewiclaree 3 {6 ; Se) OY BEGSFR Fasye PUREE : V4 4 aie eee ie “ELEASE iN PART LPP Ay OBE Ntat (6A4-12+ 30% Seatac moe =e : - =e Hi 45760 DoclId:322903846 Page 3
= . : “i ~ | ‘DL, 94-55A-SUB OA Dae a RN We ne WY in.cash in his pocket at time of arrest, and that he had an account at the Merchants State Bank, Dallas, and was making “payment of $105 to this bank on his car; “DL 94-47) | | On 3/21/62, LT, JACK REVILL advised that one EARL ABRAHAM FOREMAN had taken over as new owner of the Roadrunner Tavern, 4503 Columbia. This is a known hangout for police characters, pimps and prostitutes. PD. informants. had ascertained that prostitutes were obtaining dates at this tavern. Re; GIIF.- Dallas, Texas Re: RICHARD LEE BLANKENSHIP, aka. ~ FUGITIVE, ITSP (DL 87-9733) On 3/26/62, SA ALFRED D, NEELEY received information that PEGGY ANN: FRYE, subject's girl friend, had been arrested | during an attempted armed robbery at Artesia, N.M..on 3/25/62 — but that her associate, unidentified, had escaped. Later on the morning of 3/26/62, subject, who is brother of ELVIS RAY BLANKENSHIP (DL 92-222); ROBERT LEE HERROD and HERROD's wife (possibly identical with Ft.° Worth prostitute. BETTY JOYCE - PHIFER) were apprehended by local authorities at 6 AMina ' farm house they had rented near Gainesville, Texas. . Bureau Agents are interviewing these people 3/26/62.. ; abe ek ce _. . Information developed by Dallas from DL-144-C* (DL 137-1106) is being furnished the Bureau by separate communication; a weekly summary airtel, designated for Bureau 162-589, 162-596, 162-607. Information developed in Dallas file 165-29, Bureau 165-392 entitled. WILLIAM MEADOR SMITH, aka. et al - (ITWI, ITAR) - BRIBERY - GAMBLING - CONSPIRACY is furnished the Bureau in a weekly summary airtel submitted by: Dallas on Thursday of each week. | ne | 3 | . . | | f . Hi 45760 DoclId:322903846 Page 4