JFK Assassination System Date: 5/12/201 Identification Form 20 Agency Information 4 ._ AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER:  124-90103-10093 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER: CR 62-9-34-367 S$ Document Information ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: ‘PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE: CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS: FBI NY HQ 09/14/1959 345 SEBASTIAN JOHN LAROCCA PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 4; 10(a)2 Redact 08/06/1998 INDEFINITE Released under the John Kennedy WSsassination Records Ollection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). asses: NW 56792 Date: 4-09-2018 nr v9.1 HW 56792 Bocld: 32332692 Page 1
ft NY 92--632 According to T-30 who advised on February 10, 1959, that he had just returned to Cuba from Miami, had ascertained while in Miami that.a number of well respected banking individuals in Miami, including two members of the First National Bank, were interested in. buying up all the Cuban money that they could at a price of 60¢ on the dollar. Informant stated that MEYER LANSKY was attempting to dispose of a substantial amount of Cuban currency. -A week later, the informant advised that the gambling element. in Havana had received indications that LANSKY would not be allowed to return to Havana by the CASTRO Government. a _\ The same informant stated on February 18, 1959, that he had heard that after the assination of ALBERT ANASTASIA, a meeting of local Mafia members was called to discuss the allotment and control of gambling rights in the South Florida~-Cuba area. The informant stated this meeting took place somewhere on the Florida Keys about ten days to two weeks before the meeting at Apalachin, New York, on November 14, 1957. mo . Informant continued by stating that after an agreement. had been reached at the Florida meeting, the meeting in Apalachin-was held with the principal item on the agenda being consideration of the agreement reached at the local meeting on the Florida Keys. Informant noted that JOSEPH SILESI, New York top hoodlum, and SANTO TRAFFICANTE, Miami top hoodlum, were present at the meeting in Apalachin, New York. Informant further noted that: the group at Apalachin had to ccnsider Cuban gambling and narcotics jointly, becausé the casinos, while potentially | lucrative in themselves, are additionaly far more important as fronts for narcotic transactions of large size. = i HW 56792 Docld:323327692 Page 2
NY 92-632. Trucking Company, Gat \ HARRY BARNETT ; 1950 Davidson Avenue Bronx, New York my a fd des, SALVATORE BADALAMENT I . 755 Anderson Avenue - Cliffside, New Jersey SAUL GOLD 228 West 47th Street New York City In July, 1957, BARNETT was related to A, CHAIT of the Champion To Jo advised that HARRY He advised that BARNETT is merely > a figurehead in the company, dnd that ABRAHAM CHAIT a from the company. JOSEPH BERGER be | HW 56792 DoclId: 32332692 ; It has previous]; Advised. that as of Page 3 controls the whole operation and reaps the profits been reported that T= 51 Ui - 9-34 “307 JFK Law 10(a )2 ar.
NY 92-632 “JFK Law 10 (a) 2. SAM BERGER It. has previously been reported that on February 12, 1957, SAM BERGER had resigned voluntarily from his position as manager of Local 102 of the ILGWU. SAM BERGER, prior to his resignation, had been manger of Local 102 for arproximately i2 years and had been associated with the local in excess of 25 years, \ * 303. GIP V-y7 oo. | HW 56792 DBocld:32332692 Page 4
ee Dao . Py Ld ed a at het ‘ 7 Jom Se io 2 ry ~~ Oe nee Prostitution Prostitution flourishes in New York despite periciic drives. by vice officers to stamp it out. Prostitutes working in New York may be classified as street walkers, call girls,house girls‘and-bar hustlers. Street walkers operate daily between 9:00 p.m. and 4:00 a.m., on Manhattan's west side, particularly between tend and 59th Streets, These girls are predominantly colored prostitutes who, for financial reasons, prefer white men but are not permitted to mingle in bars catering to a white clientele. A white street walker, wno lives among Negroes and is source of this office, is well acquainted with a number of Street walkers and their pimps. Through her ef rts many of the street walkers and their pimps have been identified and, where there were indications of interstate transportation, appropriate investigation has been conducted. It is not unusual on any evening to observe colored pimps drive their girls to the area around Central Park South and Seventh Avenue, whe:e the prostitutes alight from the late model Cadillacs to begin their evening's work, ‘The average price is around $35.00 - $50.00 and the jonn is expected to provide a room,. Unless the prostitute mistakenly approaches a vice pat1rolman and accompanies him to a room, an arrest of a street walker is difficult since most of them are adept at spotting a surveilling officer. Dotted throughout New York are a number of © houses of prostitution which consist of a one or two-bedroom apartment with a madam and one or two girls. On the west side of New York this type of operation abounds in the Seventies and Eighties, where the average price is $10.00 - $15.00. On the east side this same type of operation exists, also in the Seventies and Eighties, but the surroundings are better and the fees are usually between $25.00 - $50.00. ‘Sources of this office; who operate in this category, have advised that there are no organized vice rings supplying girls to these houses and that. each house is strictly an individual operation. This is supported by the fact that if | 172 ‘ HW 56792 Docld: 32332692 Page 5
ia % : as eh, h NY 92-632 INFORMANTS (CONT'D) T-46 KY 1716-¢ TAHT . VINCENT GiiAR T-48 JAMES C. HILL, D & B, Tampa, Fia. T-L9 LA 4098-c p! T-50 "ss Reeords, New York County mS oO Clerk's Office, NYC T-51 Tesimony of JOSEPH BERGER- Special Federal Grand Jury, . SDNY 7.52 ss ALBERT SILVERMAN, Miami Beach,. Fla. ; T-53 — JOHN O'MARA, NYC Anti-Crime — .Commission T-54. CSNY-1 T-55 JAMS io 6 TR. WBETTA, POL T-56 Legal Attache, ottawa, ; ' Canada T57 Forner NY 31-¢ T.-58 HODGES HAMILTON, Dallas, - Texas T-59 EDWARD WEINSTEIN, Assistant Manager, TRADE BANK & .TRUST cO., NYC ADMINISTRATIVE PAGE (CONTINUED) | 318 7 G9. 8-8-3 Se _ \ i HW 56792 DBocld:32332692 Page 10
my ve, G ba JFK Act 6 (4) NY 92-632 INFORMANTS (CONT'D) T-60 T~61 T-62 T-63 T-64 T-65 T-66 T-67 7-68 69 T-70 T-71 T-72 T-73 T-74 HW 56792 Bocld: 32332692 Page 11 CT Pet Ld -R, ELLIS. Narcotics Squad, NycrD PRANK NOLAN, Deceased Fowmer SA MINNIE MATHESON (By request) Ld eet MA HELTEBRONNER, PCI PCT AP'TSUR NEWMAN, Havana, | Cuba. EUGENE NIANNINI (deceased) NY 1532-C " NY 2180-¢ Lt. SAU FIOLA, Commanding Ofticer, Vice Squad, Nassau County f.A.'s Office vormer NY 2564-C PCI JOHN FELLS ADMINISTRATIVE PAGE (TONTENUED) 319 a ee Rae
| ' t ' t NY 92-632 INFORMANTS (CONT'D) T-75 T-76 T-77 T-78 T-79 T-80 T-81 T-82, T-83 T-34 _ T+85 T-86 7-87 T-88 T=89 JACK HERBERT REINER - con man ard subject of Bureau cate EY L&9-C Former NY 1918-c NY 184-c NY 2555-C NY 1060--¢ NY 9/7-C NY 2535-0 PCI HARRY FINKEL _ we“ JFK Act 6 (4) PCI BERNARD HUGHES | NY 989-C Capt. FRANK VESCIO, end Precint, Yonkers P.D. . PCE JOSHPH SCHONBERGER NY GH7-C | ADMINISTRATIVE PAGE (CONTINUED) HW 56792 DoclId: 32332692 Page 12 320 ~ :
NY 92-632 INFORMANTS (CONT'D) T-90 T-91 T-93 T-94 T-95 T-96 | HW 56792 Docld:323327692 Page 13 T-92 | ew“ JFK Act 6 (4) ! PCI PERCELL GRANVILLE PCL JOHN ANDREW WHITE NY 2099-C _ NY 2251-C NY 1768-c¢ ay } NY 2553-C Ne J ADMINISTRATIVE PAGE (CONTINUED) 321 _