Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, TP
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 10/16/1964
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Date:

6/15/201

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-10205-10212

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 92-2781-1056, 1057

Released under the John

C. kennedy

basassination Recorde

Collection Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#:NW 45966 Date:

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: SAC, TP

TO :

DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE: 10/16/1964

PAGES:

21

SUBJECTS:

LST, ASSOC, REL, B/F INT, CUBA, GAMBLING ACT, TRA,

TELCAL, RES, SURVEILLANCES

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT •

CLASSIFICATION : Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4; 11(a)

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 10/16/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS: INC RPT

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TP. 92-1

AT JACKSONVILLE, FLA:

Will advise the Tampa Office if any information

has come to Jacksonville Office's attention that the

subject has anything to do with a beer business in Florida.

MIAMI DIVISION

AT MIAMI, FLA.

Will report activities on the part of the subject

while at Miami, fla,, noting he was there a good part of

August, September and October, 1964.

Will endeavor to establish how the subject, accord,

ing to TP 120-C, went to the New York World Series,

10/10, 1l and 12/64.

Will report investigation remaining concerning

possible leads from telephone toll calls made from pay

booths at Miami International Airport, 6/6 and 11/64.

Will report investigation remaining concerning

check of all banks.

Will report results of interviews of JOSE FUENTE-

VILLE, ELEANOR J. DILLON, M. Or MERCEDES BLANCO and of

JIMMY DEMETREE, which leads were set forth in rerep of

SA LABADIE dated 8/7/64 at Tampa.

Will report results of subscribers to telephone

numbers, North Dade, WI 5-8812, called from subject's

residence 6/23/64, it being noted subject left Tampa via

Delta Airlines, afternoon of 6/23/64.

Will establish highly confidential Bureau cover-

age on the subject and his close associates at Miami.

Will endeavor to establish subject's source of

income

Law 11(a)

Will furnish, on a regular basis,

toll calls

from subject's Miami telephone number PL 8-2974.

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JEK Act 6 (4)

TP 92-1

Will ascertain subscriber to Miami telephone

PL 4-8564 and thereafter conduct only highly discreet

investigation relative to information furnished by PCI

concerning

the HARLAN ALEXANDER

BLACKBURN case, subject of

TP 165-105.

*Will endeavor to ascertain through confidential

sources;

whether subject has any piece of

any big beer

business in Florida.

NEW YORK DIVISION

AT NEW YORK CITY, N. Y.

Will endeavor through contact with informants

and sources, to establish where subject and JAMES C. LONGO

stayed during recent trip to World Series, 10/10, 11 and

12/64 •

TAMPA DIVISION

AT TAMPA, FLA.

Will report outstanding investigation at St.

Petersburg, Fla.

Will continue to explore highly confidential

Bureau coverage on subject's associates.

Will, in re-contacting TP 120-C, endeavor to

have source discreetly ascertain where the subject and

JAMESS

JAMES LONGO stayed while in New York.

Will endeavor to ascertain if subject has

any piece of a beer business in Florida.

ADMINISTRATIVE:

The period of this report overlaps the period

of the previous report due to investigation reported by

the New York Office, under date of 8/31/64.

INFORMANTS:

TP T-1 is TP 41-C.

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JEK Act 6 (4)

TP: 92-1

TP. T-2 is TP 120-C.

TP T-3 is Mrs. GEORGE HUBER, Miami neighborhood

source.

TP T-4 is TP 97-C.

TP T-5 is Customs Agent, JOHN FALLON, U. S.

Customs Agency, 201 Varick St., NYC.

TP T-6 is NY 1449-C.

TP T-7 is TP 67-C

TP T-8 is TP 104-C.

TP T-9 1S PCIL

TP T-10 is

] PCI.

TP T-11 is PCI

uses

REVIEWED SY B3VJFX FASK FORCE

ON

9/11/95 DAD/PW/T:

I RELSAGE IS FOLL

I RELEASE IN PART

TOTAL DENIAL

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TP 92-1

On the morning of October 5, 1964, continual

checks of 2505 Bristol Avenue in Tampa, failed to show

any activity whatsoever, subject not being observed, and

no one answered the telephone.

On October 5, 1964, during the morning hours,

JAMES C. LONGO, was observed at his

residence and then his car was observed parked in front

of the residence at 2319 St. Louis, and when such vehicle

left, it returned directly to 4214 Riverview, the residence

0f JAMES C. LONGO. LONGO was observed alone in Tampa,

Tuesday, October 6, 1964.

On the night of October 5, 1964, TP T-2 advised

source had no knowledge that subject was in Tampa, and

source did have knowledge that JAMES C. LONGO had been

alone October 5, 1964.

The subject's white Falcon arrived at the Miami

International Airport parking lot sometime on October 4,

parted neare

1964, and it was parked near the entrance to Delta Airlines.

Subsequently, records of the Airport Parking Company,

Miami International Airport, indicated that the white Falcon

had arrived at the Airport Parking Lot at 8:00 a.m.,

October 4, 1964•

The subject left the Miami International Airport

in his white Falcon at 10:29 p.m., October 5, 1964.

From October 12 through the l6th and October 21,

and 22, 1964, regular checks of 2505 Bristol Avenue at

Tampa, Florida,

for any activity, met with negative results,

On October 13, 1964, TP T-1 advised source had

received word through FRANK PETER ALBANO, son-in-law of

SALVATORE C. TRAFFICANTE, that SANTO wanted to see him

during the early morning

hours of October 5, 1964 and

accordingly, source contacted subject at his Tampa resi-

dence, after 1:00 a.m., at which time SANTO turned on his

T.V. and radio, and closed the inner doors at his residence,

telling source that the FBI knew everything he did. Source:

related that the subject told source efforts would be made

for him to possibly get a job in Puerto Rico.

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TP 92-1

Source related that subsequently, JAMES C. LONGO

contacted source and told him to go to San Juan, Puerto

Rico and contact an individual named FRANK CHAVEZ (phonetic),

whereupon source subsequently flew to San Juan, Puerto Rico,

and endeavored to contact a FRANK CHAVEZ, whom source re-

lated was supposed to be a teamster official, but was in

D.C., and not in San Juan at such time. Source

related that to date of October 13, 1964, source has not

heard anything more from the subject or JAMES C. LONGO.

On the night of October 21, 1964, TP T-2 advised

that subject nor his wife have returned to Tampa, Florida

to the source's knowledge.

Source related correspondence

indicates MARY JOSEPHINE TRAFFICANTE PANIELLO, also known as

Mrs. AUGUST PANIELLO, is residing at 2325 Welch, Apartment

14, Houston, Texas,

and that her baby is still in Miami

with Mr. and Mrs. TRAFFICANTE.

Source related that JAMES C.

LONGO and his wife, ROSE, are home all the time; however,

SANTO TRAFFICANTE and JAMES LONGO went to the World Series

in New York City for

the baseball games, and JIMMY LONGO

was gone for one week, but he

is back in Tampa at the

present time.

Source related that Mrs. TRAFFICANTE, in Miami,

giving and/or Christmas, but that Mrs. TRAFFICANTE was

still

making arrangements concerning the holidays.

II. ALLEGATION SUBJECT HAD A LOT OF MONEY AT COLUMBIA

RESTAURANT, TAMPA, FLA., SEPTEMBER 28, 1964•

CESAR GONZSMART, on October 22, 1964, advised

SA JOHN R. BRETT and SA STEPHEN J. LABADIE that he and

his wife, ADELA, were the sole owners of the Columbia Res-

taurant, and the only thing they did not own was the block-

long buildings in which the Columbia Restaurant is situated;

however, such is owned by ADELA's mother, the widow of

CASIMIRO HERNANDEZ. He stated he would testify in court

that the. TRAFFICANTEs have no connection whatsoever with

the Columbia Restaurant, financial or otherwise, and that

he, in no manner, owes any money

or obligations

to the

TRAFFICANTE family. He said that about two years ago,

after the death of the previous owner, CASIMIRO HERNANDEZ,

ADELA and himself, obtained $250,000 loan locally, and

consolidated their debts and now make only one payment

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TO

FROM

SUBJECT:

OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10

MAY 1862 EDITION

5010-107

GSA GEN. REG. NO. 27

UNITED STATES GO

RNMENT

Memorandum

IRECTOR, FBI (92-2781)

SAC, TAMPA (92-1) (9)

SANTO TRAFFICANTE, aka

(00: TP)

JFK Act 6 (4)

DATE:

10/16/64

ReMairtel to Director and TP, 9/29/64.

PA BUSINE

It should be noted that the above communication

sets forth information obtained 9/28/64 from Lt. LESLIE

VAN BUSKIRK, Intelligence Unit, Dade County SO, Miami,

to the effect that he, BUSKIRK, recently received infor-

mation from a confidential informant he considers reliable,

that subject TRAFFICANTE had failed in his attempts to

take over bolita operations in Miami, and was "giving it

up as a bad job."

BUSKIRK's informant said he had heard

that TRAFFICANTE planned to move his headquarters to

Orlando, Florida,

where he could operate without as much

interference from law enforcement officers.

The above possibility has been very discreetly

explored with the following sources on the dates indicated,

and none of them possess any pertinent information which

would tend to confirm the information:

Lt. JAMES GOODE, NA, Vice Squad, Orlando PD,

Orlando, Fla,, on 10/7 and 12, 1964.

Detective Sergeant WILLIAM E. BRANCH, NA, Vice

Squad, Orlando, Fla. PD, on 10/13/64.

TP 67-C, Orlando, on 10/12/64.

TP 104-C, Orlando, on 10/5/64.

During the course of a contact with PCI

jat Cocoa, Fla. on 6/30/64, he advised SA LOREN C.

BROOKS that HARLAN ALEXANDER BLÄCKBURN is now "complete?,"

independent, and is no longer connected with the 'MAFIA.

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JEK Act 6 (4)

TP 92-1

This

PCI, who has been closely associated with BLACK-

BURN in Brevard County, stated that about a year and a

half

ago, BLACKBURN "broke off with

meaning the Italians in Tampa. PCI

the "Tayl

explained

that

he, informant, first became acquainted with BLACK-

BURN's Cuba operation during about 1/62, when BLACKBURN

was being banked by an Italian in Tampa.

Further, the above PCI stated that he could not

recall this Italian's name, and does not believe he ever

met him.

He does know that this man did have the "Tropi-

cana" in Havana before CASTRO threatened to kill him. He

returned to the U. S. after hiding in Cuba for two months.

This man kept a lot of money in a trunk in his home, and

charged BLACKBURN a high rate of interest when BLACKBÜRN

found it necessary to borrow.

PCI seemed to recall that

this man also had

a home in

• Miami, and knows that he had:

a brother active in

the business.

It is his recollection

that these brothers also had two or three clubs in Tampa

that were closed down. He said this individual may have

been named "SANTO."

The Tampa Office will, of course, continue to

follow this development closely and discreetly through

PCI

Jat Cocoa, and other reliable sources in the

Orlando área.

In the

meantime, however, it is requested

that the Miami Office maintain close liaison with It.

LESLIE VAN BUSKIRK, Intelligence Unit, Dade County SO,

Miami, for any further specific information the latter's

informant may receive in this matter.

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