Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, MM
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 8/10/62
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Identification Form

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AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER : 124-10194-10172

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

62-9-29-575

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: SAC, MM

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

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DATE:

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SUBJECTS :

08/10/1962

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CIP, ASSOC, INTEREST IN A GAMBLING CASINO

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION : Unclassified

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DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 12/15/1994

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AIRTEL

AIRMAIL

Via

TO:

(Priority or Method of Mailing)

Director, FBI (62-9-295

FROM:

SAC, Miami (92-515) (P)

RE:

CRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM

MIAMI DIVISION

WEEKLY SUMMARY

Information was reported in Miami airtel of

7/13/62, as coming from MM 509-C that WILLIAM GUSTAV BISCHOFF

(Miami

file 92-89), JOSEPH MASSEI (Miami file 92-122), GEORGE

GORDON (Miami file

92-458), and possibly MAX EDER (Miami file

92-467) and PASQUALE ERRA (Miami file 92-648) would, in the

near future, have some interest in a gambling casino presently

being constructed on one of the islands in the Caribbean area.

MM 509-C on 7/24/62, advised he received information

that the island in the Caribbean area is the Grand Bahama

Island and is on the property acquired last year by LOU

CHESLER, a millionaire and close associate of MICHAEL COPPOLA

(Miami file 92-101). He also advised he heard EDER and ERRA

will have a piece of the gambling casino and that the casino

hopes to open sometime after Labor Day or during the coming

winter season.

Information was reported in Miami airtel of 7/27/62,

as coming from MM,

309e, that ANTHONY SALERNO (Miami file

92-406) and MANNY, KRAMER, an accountant, were discussing the

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acquisition of some interest in either a dog track or

some gambling operation at Biloxi, Miss.

MM 509-C on 8/1/62, advised he received

information that SALERNO and KRAMER were not interested

in acquiring any interest in a gambling operation at

Beach, Fla., had acquired a piece of SALERNO's interest.

FLA,

on 7/24/62; MM 509-C advised the "smart money,"

meaning hoodlum and racket money here, is being bet on

SONNY LISTON in the forthcoming PATTERSON-LISTON prize

fight and that SALERNO and LAZARUS, as well as AL ROTH

(Miami file 162-36), each bet somewhere over a thousand

dollars each on LISTON.

FRANK MICHAEL/ERRA, brother of PASQUALE ERRA,

Law.

FRANKERRA has been residing at the Johnina Hotel,

Miami Beach.

MM 551-C on 7/30/62, advised that JACK COOPER,

owner of the West Flagler Dog Track Miami, wanted to sell

his interest in the track. He stated MEYER LANSKY (Miami

file 92-102) asked him to contact GEORGE MORTONKLEVY, a FLAs

multimillionaire with varied interests, including Yonkers

Race Way, a large New York trotting track. LEVY was

interested, so a meeting relatiye to same was held which

was attended by COOPER GEQRGE STON, his accountant LEVY,

AL WILL, his chief aid, JOE VARON, LANSKY's attorney, and

LANSKY. Informant said LANSKY had no personal interest in

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