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 : fa —-—_-_——<_--'- eee v9.1 WW 45839 Doocld: 32302186 Page i JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information FBI 124-10280-10123 HQ CR 92-6054-26 Document Information FBI BOGGAN, FURMAN G. DIRECTOR, FBI 05/01/1962 44 LCN, ASSOC, B/F INT, CM, RACKET ACT PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified ; 4; 11(a) Redact 01/27/1999 INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF IRS Date: 5/20/201
NO 92-365/lam - Will endeavor to establish the identity of the . individual or individuals in the New Orleans area who diay, act as local representatives to the "Commission". ots cp’ JFK Act 6 INFORMANTS : “Location of original information in New Informant Identity Orleans files T-1 Former PCI BEN J. SHEAR --137-17-24 T-4 PCI RAYMOND L, ROLLING 92-47-5, page 5 T-5 SA NAURBON L, PERRY, IRS, 92-47-5, page 5 New Orleans T-6 NO 1178-c 137-1582-26 T-7 NO 1190-C 137 -1569-29 T-8 NO 1017-C 137-155-190 / T-9 Mr. CLARENCE JOHNSON 92-36-657 page. 56 US I&NS, New Orleans T-10 PCI RAYMOND L, ROLLING 137-1060-70 T-11 PCI HOWARD D, BAUTSCH 137-1761-9 _ F-12 PCI RAYMOND L. ROLLING 137-1060-81 T-13 PCI RAYMOND lL. ROLLING 137-1060-90 Be Py — ee eeog! enmme INS wae . REVIEWED BY Bag JFK TASK FORCE REVIEWED BY FEYJTK TASK FORQE eee Fee ‘ . On ; OW sole melas ao Ok 7422448 Ga REL EAGE UA dee. COVER PAGE ete IN FULL C] TOTAL DENIAL (TOTAL oé fa : MW 45839 Docld: 323021586 ny pore eee Page 2
NO 92-365/lam Informant T-14 €-15 T-16 T-17 T-18 T-19 ~ T-20 T-21 T-22 T-23 T-24 T-25 ” Identity “PCI RAYMOND L. ROLLING NO 1174-c | NO 1178-C NO 1017-C NO 1178-C “NO 1131-C NO 1174-c SA JOHN E, MONTGOMERY, IRS, Gulfport, Mississippi NO. 1190-c NO 1178-C NO 1190-c Highly confidential source’ known only to SA's EDWARD M. Location of original information in New ~ Orleans files 137~1060-88 137 -1514-28 137 -1582-34 137-155-217 137 -1582-38 137-1012-121 137 -1514-28 Swe 92-346-5 137-1569-41 137-1582-37 137-1569-42 92-297-16, page 3 DAVIS, GEORGE R. MC NEIL, JR., STUART E, SCHEER and L, M. SHEARER, JR.. Review of records of Metairie 92-47-69, Savings Bank and Trust Company, pages 22, 23 & Metairie, Louisiana, May and 26 ‘June, 1958 — { Cc COVER PAGE oS 32 -\a\s 2 MW 45839 Docld: 323021586 Page 3
NO 92-365/lam vt - “ \y7On January 7, 1958, NO T-3 advised that JOSEPH ALBEREAPORETTO has been in the gambling bus all his nn Said JQ, RO brother, CYRIL ORETTO is LA, likewise a camb Tort er vised JOSEP RETTO is manager of the Nola Printing Company. T-3 believed that PORETTO actually has some financial interest in Nola, but it is general knowledge in gambling cirttes that the company itself is owned by CARLOS MARCELLO. At the time of the interview _with T-3, the informant said that the wire service provided by Nola costs $60.00 a week for individual books and $108.00 a week for bookmakers who operated business places. The informant stated that in the middle 30's, PORETTO lived in Houston, Texas where he operated as a gambler. He got in trouble with the Texas Rangers and was ordered out of the state. PORETTO returned to New Orleans and began associating with JOHN J. FOGERTY, who then operated a horse race wire service in New Orleans. “Informant said MARCELLO moved in on FOGERTY and took over the wire service, whereupon PORETTO aSSociated himself with MARCELLO. On December 17, 1957, NO T-4 advised that it is the general opinion among bookmakers in Jefferson Parish that Nola is controlled by CARLOS MARCELLO and that the operations are managed by JOSEPH ALBERT PORETTO and MARCELLO's youngest brother, JOSEPH MARCELLO, JR. ' ee oo, 92 care MW 45839 Docld: 32302156 Page 4
. tive of Continental Press. FOGERTY said he had been operating a? i NO 92-365/lam In August, 1946, JOHN J. FOGERTY, who identified himself as the owner and the operator of the Daily Sports News, advised that his company was the New Orleans representa- JEK Law 11(a) a horse race news service in New Orleans for the past. 26 years. FOGERTY said that a new horse race wire service had just opened up in the New Orleans area. He identified it as the Southern News and Publishing Company and said it was the local representative of the Trans-American Pubsishiag News Service Company, Inc. He identified the operators of the Southern News and Publishing Company as JOSEPH ALBERT PORETTO and one SYLVESTRO CAROLLO, whom he described as a local Italian.alien and an ex-convict who had been the subject of a deportation case since 1937. FOGERTY was of the opinion that PORETTO and CAROLLO were receiving the financial backing of CARLOS. MARCELLO. With regard to the Mississippi Gulf Coast,. NO T-6 while acknowledging that gambling and the sale of illegal liquor flourished, advised on September. 20, 1962 that this activity is carried on by local individuals of Anglo- Saxon descent with no organization and no leadership. NO T-7 on September 19, 1961, confirmed the opinion expressed by NO T-6 as did NO T-8, who was contacted on September 2 and 19, 1961. -8- G2-600¥-2E WN ey er? NW 45839 Docld: 32302156 Page 5
NO 92-365/eah During the course of the interviews with ANDERSON and CONWAY, no gambling paraphernalia was observed. NO T-19, Gulfport, Mississippi, advised on August 21, 1961, that Dr. FELIX H.YOUNN, resident of 38th N\\SS; Avenue in Gulfport, is currently President of the Gulfport ———-—-"Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement..of Colored People (NAACP). He advised Dr. DUNN owns considerable ‘property on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, is a physician and surgeon, and reportedly has an interest in a number of music x wachines in a company wherein Harrison County Sheriff. [SYDEDEAUX is a silent partner. "= NO T-19 advised it is common knowledge among the Negroes in the Gulfport area that Dr. DUNN and Sheriff DEDEAUX made some kind of "deal" before DEDEAUX's election to office, whereby DUNN guaranteed DEDEAUX the bulk of the Negro vote in the election, in return for which DEDEAUX agreed to let DUNN sell illegal whiskey through Negro front elements, and to have the “okay" sign for the music vending license in the area. ' NO T-20, Gulfport, Mississippi, advised on February 5, 1962, that on Saturday night, February 3, 1962, Dr. FELIX H, DUNN was engaged in a crap game at the Two-Pal Club, a Negro night club on old Highway 49 North, Gulfport, with several other men, two of whom were local white gamblers and hoodlums, GEORGE ANDERSON, owner of the Hi-Hat Club, and "CQONEY" BURT. NO T-4 advised Dr. DUNN is alleged to be gambling heavily recently, mostly in crap and "skin" games.. JFK Law l11fa) \ & MW 45839 Docld: 32302156 Page 6