Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: HQ
To: NY
Document date: 04/24/1957
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

6/8/2015

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-90081-10002

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 72-964-770

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

assassination Records

Collection det of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#:NW 53130 Date:

05-31-2017

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

NY

TO:

HQ

TITLE:

DATE:

04/24/1957

PAGES:

20

SUBJECTS :

VICTOR RIESEL

ABRAHAM TELVI

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS :

4

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW :

07/14/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS: RPT

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INFORMANTS

T-1

T-2

I-3

T-4

T-5

I-6

I-7

BENJAMIN BOWERING

Senior Parole Officer

New York State Division

öf Parole

JOSEPH KONOWE

PCI

NY 1733-0

Results of mail cover on

CHARLES TUSO,

174 Forsyth Street,

New York, New York

M. HILLER

Deputy Comptroller

Bowery Savings Bank,

130 Bowery,

New York, New York

J. P. O'DONNELL

Signature Control

The First National City Bank

of New York

17 East 42nd Street,

New York, New York

RAYMOND W. HITCHEN

Official

Assistant Manager

The First National City Bank

of New York

124 Bowery,

New York, New York

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INFORMANTS (CONT'D)

Careful consideration has been given to each source

concealed and T symbols were utilized in the report only in

those instances where the identities of the sources must be

concealed.

ADMINISTRATIVE

JOSEPH KONOWE (T-2) advised that he is a personal

friend of VICTOR RIESEL, that he knows RIESEL has accepted

gifts from HYMAN POWELL of the Jewelry Workers Union, and

that although he has no positive evidence, he felt that RIESEL

was on DIOGUARDI's payzoll in some way or

another.

KONOWE stated that DIOGUARDI had paid RIESEL'S

expenses for a trip to Miant in the winter of 1956.

questioned further on this point, KONOWE said,

"I haven't

seen the actual hotel bills. Don't ask me how I know.

know.

This is more than a presumption"

(It should be noted

that

It has been previously reported that RIESEL has exhibited

cancelled checks covering his stay in Miami Beach, Florida.)

KONOWE said that he belleved that DIOGUARDI may

have taken a contract from someone

higher un, or that DIOGUARDI

and RIESEL may have had a personal

falling out, because RIESEL

may have double crossed him in some way.

He stated that 1f

DIOGUARDI had taken a contract, that he must not have known

that RIESEL would have been hit with acid.

KONOWE, expressed

the belief that DIOGUARDI and RIESEL had probably had a

personal falling out.

LEADS

NEW YORK

At Wallkil], New York

Will ascertain the basis for correspondence between

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