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 : v9.1 NW 45782 Docid: 32293878 JFK Assassination System Date: Identification Form 5/1/2015 Agency Information FBI 124-10212-10154 HQ CR 92-2781-14° Document Information FBI LEG, HAVANA DIRECTOR, FBI 01/14/1958 2 MZF, B/F INT, ASSOC, LST, RACK AND SUBV, GAMBLING PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 4 Redact 04/26/1999 INDEFINITE Page i
\ ’ Nant - I iy “Gave fr? oni Office Mem. gnaum * UNITED ST. ES GOVERNMENT TO : Director, FBI DATE: January 14, 1958 FROM Si) toes Attache, Havana, Cuba (92-1) >) SUBJECT: CHANGED :*, ane . . SANTOVTPAPRICANTE, JR., aka., fi ALL INoRHATION C0 SANTOS=TRAF ICANTE, JR., wa., . ANTI-RACKETEERING ReHavlet 1-6-58. subject's true name of SANTO TRAFFICANTE, JR., and the other name-by {] } which he is also known, SANTOS TRAFFICANTE, JR. Lt. JORGE PENA HERRERR head of the Alien Control Section of the Department of Investigation of the Cuban National Police, advised that subject was fingerprinted }” and photographed by his Department on January 3, 1958, and that during}! this process he specifically interviewed subject concerning his true *¥ name. PENA stated that subject advised him that his name is SANTO | } The title of this case has been marked changed to reflect - ° a | | , TRAFFICANTE, JR., and that he is commonly known by SANTOS. Subject Ne ; said that his father's true name is SANTO TRAFFICANTE. yee On January 7, 1958, [i‘(<‘(CWtTOTOWTWTWTWTWTCté*@q (conceal) advised [jfu OTHER 4 that SANTO TRAFFICANTE is the leader of the Mafia in Cuba, hi indicated that he had received information from several sources, inclvw@a} a relative by marriage of TRAFFICANTE, that TRAFFICANTE was in attendd ier at the meeting of hoodlums in Apalachin, New York. Source said he did't ‘know the purpose of the meeting in Apalachin, but it was very possible?) | that it was called to discuss a realignment of the affairs of the Mafia fi as a result of the death of ALBERT ANASTASIA. ; i L [| eturther informed that an individual named TONY/ RENDOZI , believed to be a member of the Mafia, came to Cuba from the United States in the end of December, 1957, to see SANTO TRAFFIC E. Source - further informed that approximately a week ago SANTO TRARPICANTE, MARTIN#FOX, . part owner of the Tropicana Night Club, and JAKEVLANSKY, brother of , notorious hoodlum MEYEBALANSKY, had a private meeting at the Hotel onemenen Nacional. Source informed he did not know the matters discussed at \ a: this meeting. On January 9, 1957, TRAFFICANTE was observed to be Ye driving a 1955 black four-door Plymouth ae bearing Cuban license /‘< plates 93-163. INDEXED - 5) oy} ee . 72 -37U- 14 ae. copace Sit € é Yingerpna ideas. nd Paps of TRAFFICANTE taken ‘by Lt. PENA are being forwar oy eparad sf o the | | Identification Division. T petit er iin t ographs taken by Lt. PENA‘are not égod likene FICANTE since.he.was photograph-| ,eda without his” glasses whi clfVille\ tho see Wears. Investigation.in Havana ‘is continuing, ©”, 2$ gyerer rele a a7 ; PATO) by OC yECO-™ DJB:ptm AX AL \ 4-33 (9) ) ee il A \ ee Si | . wee § | pe a a te ot et tn C0 PR Oe CRS IG, I 2 ee ee ee NW 45782 Docld:32293878 Page 2