JFK Assassination System 4/28/201 Date: Identification Form , Released under the John Kennedy Agency Information AGENCY: FBI Wssassination Records RECORD NUMBER: — 124-10202-10344 ollection Act of 1992 ; (44 USC 2107 Note). RECORD SERIES: HQ asef#: Ni 45760 Date: Hi-1i7-2017 AGENCY FILENUMBER: 62-9-33-307 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: KENNEDY, REGIS L. TO: DIRECTOR, FBI TITLE: DATE: 03/07/1962 PAGES: 72 SUBJECTS : THP, GAMBLING ACT, CORRUPTION, PROSTITUTION, RACKETEERING, STATE OF LA L DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: —_ Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: = 4; 10(a)2; 11(a) CURRENT STATUS: —Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW: — 09/28/1998 OPENING CRITERIA : INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF IRS COMMENTS : RPT, TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE 1a, INDEX PAGES I-IX v9.1 HW 45760 DBocld: 32290066 Page 1
i . Report Form om t FD-263 (Rev. 5312-55) A ; REPORTING OFFICE NEW ORLEANS . * OFFICE OF ORIGIN NEW ORLEA LOUISIANA CHARACTER OF CASE o AR f Nem Bureau airtel to Albany, 1/30/62. , mi: [iS ! | TH3: ee “s Bad: JOSEPH BRANDT,. SA, Intellilgence Unit, Internal = | Revenue Unit, New’ prieans, La. “9 : : JOSEPH BATTAGLIA, Dé sputy Sheriff, Jefferson parigh 7 Sheriff's Office. ory, bey t i / . £8 4 i , ee w SriN Grial ir ee afl _BON NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW , 92-346) tie MAR 12 1962 92— 73464), 7 ILY OF EBT “i@Saned F Hiifed outside th hich loanel Ze co is mm a “or ‘e you by the FB ted outside the agency to which loane “HW 45760 Docld:32290068 Page 2
ws NO 92-346 INFORMANTS] (cont'd) (4) T-7: . THB; JOHN VINCENT, . anager ,| Pendleton Detective Agency TH9: - " per | | T=10; ‘NO 1082=C |. T~11: _ PCI T=42: ‘DRURY THOMPSON, |. ivision ,’ “Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph ompany - & : T-13: NAURBON L. PERRY, ; Special ent, Intelligence Unit, Internal Revenue| Service, New Orleans, La. 7-14; ~~ PCI ; - TH15: LLOYD MC COLISTER, | ent, ‘Intelligence Unit, Internal Revenug rvi e,,. Baton Rouge, La. T-16; Oo | | ‘Ta17: | . ; | -T218; i: Court, Vermilion Parish — - ‘T-19: ‘ | ADMINISTRATIVE | f The New orteeae office, by letter of 12/21/61, | informed the Bureau that M EDWARD J. ROUSSELL, Chief, | Intelligence Unit, Internail Reventie Service, New Orleans, | requested the New Orleans Office withhold investigation | Law 11 (a) | REMIEWED By FaUIK TASK Force: 7 * iy FULL AS v ACLEASE IN PART POLAR DENIAL ' ie. Rae i” 2-4-33- 307 a Sa eee ~—— / AW 45760 Docld: 32290068 Page 3
NO 92~346 \ Se ao [7-18 is a personal friend of DAVH|/RUSSO, ae owner of Falstaff Distributing & Bottling Company\of ~ ~ ae pe oe ethianemn”iidkear deanna yon Abbeville, Louisiana. RUSSO is also a friend of CARLOS -MARCELLO. RUSSO said he had to pay MOSS and SANDOZ $100 a week to operate a wire service to Jefferson Downs, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, from Abbeville. RUSSO - operated from the Four Way Club until it burned down -about eighteen months ago. He operated out of another -elub for two months after the Four Way was destroyed, or until MOSS and SANDOZ told him he would have to pay $200.00 a.week. RUSSO refused to pay that amount so he discontinued the wire service and, since that time, he nor anyone else in Vermilion Parish has been active -. dn wire service. T-2 tried to persuade RUSSO to go to- the FBI, but RUSSO claimed he did not want to contact ‘the FBI. . for @ two known places where prostitution . y _is active are y,'s Lounge, which at one time was fi}. cr | \fCoperated by FRANCIS(REJUENE, and theXBgnanza Lounge,_ ">. | _ “ which is operated by ELIAS; BOURQUE. Both of these. clubs ‘are located in or near Kaplan. T=18 was unable to name ~ the "pimps" or prostitutes operating in Kaplan. It is felt. that most of the girls come from New Orleans. faze, en VI. LAKE CHARLES, LOUISIANA, AREA A. Graft & Corruption ne MIKE HOGAN, Chief of Detectives, Lake Charles, Louisiana, advised February 20, 1962, that gambling existed i in Lake Charles and Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, prior to 1951. Evidence was presented to the Federal Grand Jur Sgr Law 1o(a)4 which sentence is now under appeal to the U. S. ‘\ Circuit Court of Appeals. — NN ~53~ \A! 2 -4-33-307 a) HW 45760 Docld:32290066 Page 5