| Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1997 (44 USC 3107 Hote}. DATE: 11-14-2017 JFK Assassination System ° Date: 5/7/2015 Identification Form Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: = 124-10342-10186 RECORD SERIES: DE . AGENCY FILENUMBER: ELSUR 92-228-904 Document Information ORIGINATOR: | FBI FROM: CONKLIN f TO: DE TITLE : DATE: 07/03/1963 PAGES: 3 SUBJECTS : ANTHONY GIACALONE (ELSUR) _ DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW: — 12/01/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : v9.1 20 Docld: 32315465 Page 1
| Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1997 (44 USC’ 2TUT Hokey DATE: 11- 14-2017 FD-209 (Rev. 2-1-63) a “> OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 \ , 5010-106 . ae UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT | TO > SAC _ ' DATE: | DETROIT? (Ra7-2000) daly 3, 1908 . {jer '.fj}s FROM : SA . ‘se _ S -_ SNR (cj pe Co] pst SUBJECT: 7 OR 8¢3-C-08 . Dates of Contact " f Bs ef ae be vee FOUR _ . Titles and File #s on which céntacted . / Donk “FASE. Ait Z es eel eee TeOSEL RY cALONR; BR ok eos Gore | Purpose and results of contact ' [_] NEGATIVE ’ £-] positive Ss gene 3, 2898, datommant me sontactad telophoniaall Ly bet be edviged? that Se wae weable te meek. the writer. — Informant certified that he has furnished all information obtained by him since last contact. Personal Data’ yy. " SEARCHED INDEXED_ SERIALIZED_¢ Ty, JUL 3 1963 FBI — DETROIT “ gre/pas “@ te i Docld: 32315465 Page 2?
“Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination DATE: 11-14-7017 . , DE 137-2890 NUMBERS CONTROL FILE; | : CLARENCE WILLIAMS ; DEfile: 162-19 | _) DBfile: 92-791 yo ANTHONY GIACALONE; '  \ EDDIE WINGATE; Fo AR } : , TGAT ; DEfile: 92-228 DEfile 162-22 i Informant stated that the numbers business at the present time is a losing proposition. Informant advised that before 1954, the numbers business was honest and was: ' conducted strictly as a business, that is, so much money © ‘ was taken it, so much was paid out and there was normally a profit to be made. Informant stated that since 1954, ‘ the man who actually was running the numbers business was. yo '. TONY GIACALONE. Informant stated that GIACALONE took over : from PETE CORRADO and then in order to make more of a profit he devised a system whereby the winning number would be changed if it was one that would cause heavy payoffs. — Informant stated that whan the number began to be changed the profits in the numbers business skyrocketed and everybody was making a large amount of money. Informant stated that in 1954 EDDIE WINGATE was a small man. He stated { WINGATE came out of the South years before this and had been a cottonpicker with no background, and little education, but he was.a shrewd man. When WINGATE found out that the:number was being changed he immediately paid unit heads and pickup men' more money than anyone else with the results that he took over more and more business. Today, he has more numbers business than anyone else in Detroit. “Informant stated that CLARENCE WILLIAMS worked along with WINGATE and both of them became very big and may have the’ dominating position in the numbers business. Informant stated that EDDIE WINGATE and CLARENCE WILLIAMS took over most . - » OF the, Etulians' _ Negro numbers business. : ‘ informant stated that last January the "dagos" * @ecided to pay off on the correct number with the result that ' all of the Negro numbers houses are in serhous financial (difficulty. POR eS [ay Ce Docld: 32315465 Page 3
Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC Zi07 Hotey - ' DATE: 11-14-7017 : la DE 137-2890 . tnformant statdd that WINGATE and WILLIAMS began to pay unit heads and pickup men a bonus of 20 to 25 per cent on o£ the house profits. Informant stated that the numbers renner business actually pays off $769.00 for each $1.00 bet because of the fact that the house only ‘gets S8¢ out of every $2.00 that is bet. Twenty-five per cent goes to the writer and 10 per cent te the pickup mon. Informant stated that the office expenses, police protection ete. cost at least 20¢ on the dollar with the result that the profit is very sniall. Informant stated at the present time soveral of the numbers houses are paying ort f09 on the Gollar and are paying this twomd three ays. late. oe Informant stated that the Italians will seon en be able to take over ali of the numbers business in Detroit. .. Informant stated that the oaly way the numbers houses will make a profit is to eliminate the bonus being . given to the unit heads. mo 7 informant stated that WINGATE, at the present tine | ig desperate for money and that the uait heads are Leaving as fast as possible. Xnformant stated that CLARENC# WILLIAMS has an operation in Los Angeles. He said that WINGATE tried to open in Les Angeles but was unsuceessful, He became frightened and did not go through with it. ; ‘Enformant stated that Nashville, Tennessee has a large numbers operation but it is entirely loeal. He stated that te the beat of his knowledge there is no numbers action in New Orleans, Lovisians, or Alehi, Florida. He stated that . wie atlanta bap @ Small Negre numbers operation but it is lecal me in nature... . Informant stated that EDDIE WINGATE owns a large number of horsem and that CLARENCE WILLIAMS owns three er four, Informaat stated that anong WINGATE's: horses ig one called "Indian Trader". Docld: 32315465 Page 4