Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: BARRETT, ROBERT M.
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 05/22/1962
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote).

DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK Assassination System

Date:

4/3/2015

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER:

FBI

124-10286-10137

RECORD SERIES:

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 162-872-4

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FROM:

TO:

TITLE:

FBI

BARRETT, ROBERT M.

DIRECTOR, FBI

DATE: 05/22/1962

PAGES:

41

SUBJECTS:

JEST, BOOKMAKING A/O GAMBLING ACT, FINANCES, IMI,

ASSOC, BKG, REL, RES, TELCAL, TESUR, NUMEROUS INTV

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 01/30/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (11 USC 2107 Mote).

DATE: 11-14-2017

DI 162-129

By communication 4/10/62, the Los Angeles Office

furnished the following and requested that it be placed in

the Administrative pages of any report submitted by Dallas:

LA 4269-C, whose reliability is not known at this

time, has advised on a number of different occasions, that STEVE

LESCHETSKO, who is known to LA 4269-C as STEVE BECINA, is a

close associate of ANDREW JOSEPH LOCOCO and regularly

engages

in poker games with him.

LA 4269-C is of the opinion that

ANDY LOCOCO and LESCHETSKO are engaged in various gambling

activities together This informant advised that Lescersko.

drives a 1959 black over yellow four-door Cadillac, which is

registered to STEVE/LESCHETSKO, 23022 Catskill, Wilmington,

Calif.

In September, 1960, LA 4269-C advised that football

pool tickets

were scheduled to be utilized by

gamblers in the

Los Angeles area beginning in September, 1960. He said STEVE

LESCHETSKO and ANDY LOCOCO have the beach area from Santa

Monica to Long Beach, Calif. as their territory in the

distribution of football pool cards.

This source stated that LOCOCO takes the north part

of the beach area and LESCHETSRO the southern part, including

San Pedro and Long Beach. Informant stated that drivers for

the Corsaro Produce Company in Redondo Beach, Calif. are used

to distributing football pool tickets to various restaurants

and bars throughout the area as

they are in daily contact

with those establishments.

source stated that STEVE LESCHYTSKO and ANDREN LOCOCO @ ALli

do not personally handle the football pool cards but that they

handle

the administration of the distribution of the cards and

collect the money.

LA 4269-C said that LESCHETSKO in 1959 söld more

cards than did LOCOCO but that this did not matter because

the two operate together for the overall control of the cards.

ANDREW JOSEPH LOCOCO is presently the subject of a

pending Anti-Racketeering case in the Los Angeles Office and

is being investigated under the Top Hoodlum Program.

Los Angeles is currently attempting to determine

the reliability or unreliability of LA 4269-C.

-F-

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (11 USC 2107 Hote).

DATE: 11-14-2017.

DI 162-129-

IDENTITY OF INFORMANTS:

The following informants contacted by the Agents

so designated have all furnished reliable information in the

past and careful consideration has been given to each source

concealed and T symbols were utilized in this report only in

those instances where the identities of the sources must be

concealed.

DI T-I is DL-95-C, contacted by SA ROBERT M. BARRETT.

DL T-4 is DL-144-C*, contacted by SA ROBERT P:

GEMBERLING.

DL T-5. is Mr. R.

A. BURROW, Chief Special Agent,

Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, contacted by SA BARRETT.

DL T-6 is BILL TRIMBLE,

Southwestern States Telephone

Company,

Irving,

Texas, contacted by SA BARRETT.

DL. T-7 is BOGER GAGE, Office Manager, Central

Telephone Company, Decatur, Texas, contacted by SA

ROBLEY D.

MADLAND.

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note)

DATE: 11-14-2017

- DL 162-129

February 11, 1962, YEAGER asked informant, with whom YEAGER

has become quite friendly, if he wanted to join YEAGER in a

trip to Waco, Texas on the

night of February 12, 1962.

YEAGER

stated to DL T-l that during the past weekend YEAGER had

placed bets on 14 separate basketball games with DON FULTON,

LITTLE's employee at the club, and had won on all 14 games.

YEAGER told informant he won on these bets based on informa-

tion| he was receiving through a contact in Waco.

On February 13, 1962, DL T-1 advised that he

and YEAGER had made the trip to Waco the night of February 12,

1962 in YEAGER's tan 1962 Chevrolet®

They arrived at about

9:30 pm and went to the Sportsman Bar where they met two

men, one named PARKER and the other who was not named, but

herein referred to as UNSUB No. 1. DL T-l observed YEAGER

give/ UNSUB No. 1 $2500 cash but there was no reason for

this payment stated.

Informant also observed YEAGER give to

UNSUB No. 1 an additional $500 and told him to bet in on

Mississippi State, at even money, in connection with the game

to be played that

night between Mississippi State and Kentucky.

It is noted Kentucky was a heavy favorite but Mississippi

State won the ball game.

DI Tol stated YEAGER claimed to have been formerly

connected with the "Turf", Galveston, Texas.

DL T-] stated YEAGER, when in Dallas, makes all

his bets from

pay phone located across the street from

3109 West Davis.

DL T-1 described YEAGER as a white, male in his

fifties, 5'8"

, 160 pounds, graying hair, wears a suit, dark

glasses and a hat at all times. He gives the appearance of

a gambler.

On February 12, 1962, DL T-1 identiffed Dallas

gambler BOBBY JOE CHAPMAN as having been at the Redmen Club

on the night of February 11, 1962, and further stated that

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CHAPMAN along with persons described by informant as gamblers

and identified as WILLIAM MARTIN, GLENN BURNETT and MARVIN

RALPH PRESTRIDGE, were all planning to travel to Hot Springs,

Arkansas for the racing season.

DL T=l also stated that

frequent visitor at the club, MIKE LESCHETSKO, appeared to

have suffered

some

heavy loses recently on basketball bets.

DI. T-1 stated that part-owner of the club FRED COMPTON,

recently won $2200 in a poker game at the club from EVERETT

GOOLSBY, FBI #47353D.

Informant stated GOOLSBY is a constant

visitor

at the club.

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