Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: HALL, WENDELL W. JR.
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 12/23/1968
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

6/15/201

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

RECORD SERIES :

FBI

124-10213-10202

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 92-2781-1325

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

Assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#:NW 45966 Date:

41-20-2017

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FROM:

TO :

TITLE:

FBI

HALL, WENDELL W. JR.

DIRECTOR, FBI

DATE: 12/23/1968

PAGES: 57

SUBJECTS :

LST, ASSOC, RES, OC, GAMBLING ACT, TRA, LCN ACT, INTV

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION : Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS: Redacta 2

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 11/04/1998

• OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVE TIGATION

REPORTING OFFICE

MIAMI

TITLE OF CASE

OFFICE OF ORIGIN

MIAMI

DATE

12/23/68

INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD

9/27 - 12/10/68

REPORT MADE BY

WENDELL W. HALL, JR.

CHARACTER OF CASE

TYPED BY

balo

SANTO TRAFFICANTE, JR.,

aka

AR

KU. REFERENCES:

Miami airtels to Bureau, 10/7, 8, 11, 14, 25, and 28/68.

Miami report of sA WENDELL W. HALL, JR., 10/9/68.

Tampa reports of SA JOHN A. AMBLER, 10/16; 11/18/68.

New York letter to Miami, 10/15/68.

Tampa letter to Miami, 10/21/68.

Bureau letter to Tampa, 10/28/68.

Tampa letter to Bureau, 10/30/68.

Miami airtels to Tampa, 10/25, 31; and 11/22/68.

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LEADS:

TAMPA

AT TAMPA, FLORIDA

CONVIC

AUTO.

FUG.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS CLAIMED

FINES

SAVINGS

AS NONE

RECOVERIES

ACQUIT-

TALS

CASE HAS BEEN:

PENDING OVER ONE YEAR

'ENDING PROSECUTIOI

VER SIX MONTH:

BiTTES INO

DYES DiSNO

APPROVED

COPIES MADE:

- Bureau (92-2781)

2

Tampa (92-1)

2 - Miami (92-88)

PE CHARGE TELL

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DO NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW

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15?7

Dissemination Record of Attached Report

Notations

Agency

Request Recd.

Date Fwd.

How Fwd.

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVE ,TIGATION

REPORTING OFFICE

MIAMI

TITLE OF CASE

OFFICE OF ORIGIN

MIAMI

DATE

12/23/68

INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD

9/27 - 12/10/68

REPORT MADE BY

WENDELL W. HALL, JR.

CHARACTER OF CASE

TYPED BY

bab

SANTO TRAFFICANTE, JR., aka

AR

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RU. REFERENCES:

Miami airtels to Bureau, 10/7, 8, 11, 14, 25, and 28/68.

Miami report of SA WENDELL W. HALL, JR., 10/9/68.

Tampa reports of SA JOHN A. AMBLER, 10/16; 11/18/68.

New York letter to Miami, 10/15/68.

Tampa letter to Miami, 10/21/68.

Bureau letter to Tampa, 10/28/68.

Tampa letter to Bureau, 10/30/68.

Miami airtels to Tampa, 10/25, 31; and 11/22/68.

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LEADS:

TAMPA

AT TAMPA, FLORIDA

FUG.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS CLAIMED

FINES

SAVINGS

CONVIC

AUTO.

APPROVED

COPIES MADE:

- Bureau (92-2781)

2

Tampa

• (92-1)

2 - Miami

(92-88)

13?7

Dissemination Record of Attached Report

RAS NONE

RECOVERIES

A COUT:

CASE HAS BEEN:

DrES IXINO

DO NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW

92-2781-1325 REC 58

RE DEG 24 1968

Notations

Agency

Request Recd.

Date Fwd.

How Fwd.

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MM 92-88

Will continue regular coverage of subject's

known residences in Tampa and St. Petersburg Beach,

Fla:,

and will keep Miami advised of subject's presence

when known to be in the Tampa area. Will, at the same.

time, determine. on"

a continuing basis the

whereabouts

of vehicles utilized by the subject and advise the Miami

Division when one or more of these

out of the Tampa area.

vehicles appear to be

2. Will, through continuous contact with source

familiar with the activities of the subject; determine his

activities and associates when in the Tampa area:

3.: Will identify subscribers in the Tampa -

St: Petersburg areas. for telephone numbers called from

the subject's Miami residence during the period

8/8 through

11/8/68.

MIAMI

AT MIAMI, FLORIDA

Will continue efforts to locate and develop

a source who is close to the subject in the Miami area

who will be able to furnish information on a

continuing

basis regarding the activities of the subject while he is

in the Miami area.

2..

Will continue regular coverage of subject's

Miami residence and known Miami

hangouts in an attempt

to determine the subject's activities and contacts while

in Miami.

ADMINISTRATIVE:

The investigative period of

this report

contains investigation which was not available,at the

time of the dictation of referenced Miami report.

INFORMATION FURNISHED BY MM 1298-C-TE,

DUE TO ITS UNIQUE NATURE, MUST NOT BE

DISSEMINATED OUTSIDE THE BUREAU IN

ORDER TO PROTECT THIS SOURCE OF CONTINUING

VALUE

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"MM 92-88

That information from MM 1298-C-TE

which has been used within the body of this report

has been paraphrased and only that portion which

has been confirmed and reported by other

informants

has been used.

on October 8;

1968, MM: 1298-C-TE advised

that on October 3, 1968, SANTO TRAFFICANTE, his

attorney, FRANK RAGANO and HUMBERTO TRUEBA ROJAS,

traveled to Quito, Ecuador, leaving Miami at 4:00 AM;

October 3, 1968, via Braniff International Airways.

RAGANO was accompanied by a woman named

PATRICIA OSBORNE, who had been recently widowed within

the past twenty days when her husband was killed in an

airplanecrash in Quito, Ecuador

RAGANO was traveling as

her

attorney and allegedly, OSBORNE was paying the full

expenses of

RAGANO and TRAFFICANTE to Ecuador.

On the trip, TRAFFICANTE mentioned that he

originally had intended to deplane in Panama, but

changed his plans for unexplained reasons.

On arrival in Quito, Ecuador,

the party flew

immediately to Guayaquil, and they checked into the

Hotel Humboldt in Ecuador, Room 212, on Thursday,:

October 3, 1968. Shortly thereafter, RAGANO and Mrs

OSBORNE left the Humboldt and moved into the Hotel Cima;

In Guayaquit, TRAFFICANTE and TRUEBA: made

contact with an Ecuadorian attorney, JOSE ORDENANA

who has offices in Guayaquil. ORDENANA WaS placedin

charre of handling the Ecuadorian interests whach involved

the construction of a new hotel, Hotel

Continental,

to be constructed immediately in Guayaquil, and which

will cost two million Us. dollars.

Construction

on this hotel, which has been licensed by the government

and a casino license obtained by TRAFFICANTE and his

associates, will begin within forty days, and is

expected to take a considerable length of time in

construction.

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MM: 92-88

On October 22, 1968, MM 1298-C-TE furnished

the following information:

Plans are continuing for the construction of

the hotel - casino in Guayaquil, Ecuador.: Construction

will begin in less than two months

Some of the

financing will

come from

the Quito hotel owner,

EMILIO BRUSONI (phonetic) who TRAFFICANTE met in Ecuador.

TRAFFICANTE plans to retain 51% of the ownership of the

corporation and plans to sell the remainder. LAZARO

MILIAN DID and EVARISTO GARCIA VIDAL both want to buy

into the deal and will probably buy separate interests:

TRAFFICANTE plans to give HUMBERTO TRUEBA ROJAS an

undefined interest for his work in setting up the Ecuadorian

contacts.

FRANK RAGANO; TRAFFICANTE attorney who accompanied

TRAFFICANTE and TRUEBA to Ecuador, has recently taker

an apartment in the Sheraton Four

Ambassadors in Miami

TRAFFICANTE has advised TRUEBA to contact him through

RAGANO rather than through EVARISTO GẠRCIA VIDAL because

of all of the recent publicity over the bribery arrest

of LAZARO MILIAN DID.

TRAFFICANTE also worries over

the fact that GARCIA VIDAL talks too much about his

interests with TRAFFICANTE.:

attorney who daise then that woMAn AN entito local

worry about over his arrest on bribery charges. The

lawyer allegedly advised them that as long as no money

changed hands, the state would not have a good

case.,

MILIAN has, therefore,

changed his plans to flee the

U.S. and is now talking about returning to the local

bolita business. EVARISTO GARCIA VIDAL and his son,

EVARISTO GARCIA SARMIENTO, still are operating their

bolita lay-off business,

and since the arrest of MILIAN,

GARCIA SARMIENTO. is running

some

of the errands for his

father

EVARISTO GARCIA VIDAL cashes his shylock loan

checks in the Varadero Market located on Flagler Street

where the owner will take the checks daily and deposit

them through his personal account in the Republic National

Bank, Flagler Street and LeJeune Road, Miami, Florida

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MM 92-88

TRAFFICANTE and TRUEBA ROJAS are interested

in obtaining the concession to operate the Jamaican

National Lottery:: A friend of TRUEBA from Cuba;

DAYTON HEDGES, is a close personal friend of the

Prime Minister of Jamaica.

HEDGES is a wealthy Cuban

exile who owned the Ariguanabo Textile factor in Cuba

On November 14; 1968, MM 1298-C-TE advised

that TRAFFICANTE plans to meet with HUMBERTO TRUEBA

ROJA and FRANK RAGANO some time during the coming

week to discuss the Ecuadorian hotel - casino deal.

There has been

no change in TRAFFICANTE's plans for

Ecuador at this time. RAGANO has been in New York

for several weeks and is due back sometime after

November 15th.

Source was contacted on November 20, 21, and 25,

1968,

at which time he stated the meeting between TRAFFICANTE,

RAGANO,

, and TRUEBA had has yet not occurred.

On December 3, 1968, MM. 1298-C-TE advised

that TRÄFFICANTE had

met with HUMBERTO TRUEBA at the

wake of EVARISTO GARCIA's mother-in-law on Saturday,

November 30, 1968:

After the wake, TRUEBA and

TRAFFICANTE

left together and had dinner together at

Prila's Restaurant, 37th Avenue and Southwest 8th

Street., Miami. TRAFFICANTE advised that he was returning

the next day to Tampa and would be out of the Miami area

indefinitely because of the local law enforcement pressure

on EVARISTO GARCIA VIDAL and his bolita organization.

TRAFFICANTE complains continually about the

constant

surveillances by law enforcement officials and

continually reminds his associates never to talk business

over the telephone or while riding in an automobile.

He

tells them also to continually be alert for surveillance

vehicles and as an example TRAFFICANTE states that when

arriving at an airport he will never take the first taxi

in line but will always take the second or third taxi..

then ava, that a g

TRAFFICANTE has mentioned that he is suspicious about his

Ecuadorian trip that he took with FRANK RAGANO and HUMBERTO

TRUEBA because on his return to the U.S. he was not subjected

to his usual strip search by Customs officials.

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MM 92-88

INFORMATION RECEIVED FROM MM 1323-PC,

WHICH IS UNIQUE TO THIS INFORMANT, MUST

NOT BE DISSEMINATED OUTSIDE THE BUREAU AND

CAN BE USED ONLY WITHIN THE ADMINISTRATIVE

SECTION OF A REPORT

On October 24, 1968,

MM 1323-PC advised that

during the evening of October 23, 1968,

SANTO

TRAFFICANTE had contacted his attorney OAKLEY GRANT

SMITH, JR., and asked him to come to the TRAFFICANTE

home for an important and personal meeting.

TRAFFICANTE

advised SMITH that he had had a "run in" with an FBI

Agent during the morning of October 23, 1968, and had

lost his head and began to shout and rave on seeing the

Agent.

TRAFFICANTE was now contrite and remorseful,

and expressed to his attorney the fact that he would

like to sit down personally with the Agent

and talk

out their differences.

Source stated that recently a local Internal

Revenue Service (IRS) Agent in Miami approached a former

employee of the 46th Street Liquor Store of Hialeah, owned

by OAKLEY GRANT SMITH, JR.,

and offered this employee an

opportunity to "fix! a narcotics case which

was outstand

ing against the ex-employee in a local court in Miami.

This agent stated that in return for having his case

"fixed"

, he wanted information concerning the activities

o1 SMITH After the encounter with IRS the ex-employee

went to SMITH and gave

him affidavits concerning the

contact with the IRs.

INFORMANTS

MM. T-1 is

PCI:

MM T-2 is MARTIN GOODMAN, Miami,

Florida (By request)

MM T-3 is

Miami, Florida (PCI):

MM T-4 is MM 1323-PC

JEK Act 6 (4)

MM T-5, is MM 1298-C-TE.

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MM 92-88

MM T-6 is MM 1298-C-TE (A second T symbol is

being used in an effort to better conceal this

informant.)

MM T-7 is Mrs. PATRICIA OSBORNE, Miami, Florida

(By request)

MM. T-8: is JORGE NOBREGAS, Miami, Florida (By request) •

MM T-9 is MM. 550-C:

MM T-10 is MM 676-C.

MM T-I1 is MM 984-C-TE.

MM T-12 is

PCI:

JFK Act 6 (4)

MM T-13 is

PCI.

MM. T-14 is MM. 847-S.

MM T-15 is

Detective CESAR CAMACHO, Dade County

Public Safety Department, Miami, Florida (By request).

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•FO-302 (Rev 4-15-64):

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Date 10/16/68

A subpoena duces tecum was issued on October 11

1968,

by the Clerk of the United States District Court

Miami, Florida,

directed to Mra JOHN D. SADLER,

South.

Florida Commercial Manager, Southern Bell Telephone, and

Telegraph Company, Miami,

Florida, or his authorized re-

presentative, calling for production of telephone company

recorde in Fedéral Grand Jury on October 30, 1968

Pursuant to this subpoena, records of the Southern

Beil Telephone and Telegraph Company were reviewed and the

following long distance calls were obtained for telephone

number 949-9048, subscribed to by SANTO TRAFFICANTE, 740

No. 155th Street, Miami, Florida

Date

City.

19/2/68

St. Petersburg, FLorida

9/3/68

8/1468

8/31/68

8/31/68

9/1/68

9/2/68

9/3/68

Tampa, Florida

9/5/68

9/6/68

9/6/68

9/6/68

8/14/68

8/22/68

8/22/68

8/26/68

8/28/68

8/29/68

Number

360-8667

362-7123

360-8667

360-8667

1362-7123

362-7123

362-7123

876-2207

876-2207

876-2207

876-2207

876-2207

247-1804

7229-1891

876-2207

876-22072

876-2207

876-2207

Other Data

10/15/68 at North Dade,

Florida

bỳ

IC PHILIP F. CROCHAN: bKS

This documen conigins neither. recommendations

nor conclusions:

of the

Mond is contents are not to be distributed outside your rogency

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File Miemi 92-88

Date dictated 10/15/68

ropery of the FBlond is loaned to your agency:

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MM 92-88

20:

Date

City

Number

Other Data

8/30/68

8/30/68

9/2/68

Tampa, Florida

876-2207

246-9851

244-6531

The above records are confidential and can only

be obtained through the issuance of a subpoena duces tecum.

Toll records are maintained by the telephone company in

the normal course of business for only a period of six

months.

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FD-302 (Rev. 14-15-64)

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Date

October 25, 1968:

•A

subpoena duces tecum was

issued on

October /23,

1968, by the Clerk of the u.s.

District

Court, Miami, Florida, directed to Mr. JOHN D. SADLER

South Florida Commercial Manager,

Southern Bell

Telephone and Telegraph Company, Miami, Floridas Or

his authorized representative,

calling for produc

tion of telephone company records in Federal Grand

Jury on October 20, 1968

Pursuant to this subpoena, records of the

Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company were

reviewed, and the following long distance calls were

obtained for telephone number 949-9048, subscribed

to by SANTO TRAFFICANTE, 740 N. E. 155th Street;

Miami

Date

City.

Number

9/29

* Tampa, Fla

876-2207

10/1

10/2

10/6

10/2

248-2113

110/6

253-3066

The above records are confidential and can be

obtained only through the issuance of a subpoena duces

decum

Toll records are maintained by the telephone

company in the normal course

of business for a period

of six months only.

rOn

10/24/68

North Dade, Florida

Investigative Clerk PHILIP FA CROGHAN/neb

Miami 92-88

by

this. document. containerneither recommendations nor conclusions

wondie contents arenorto be distribuediouside your agency

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¿File #

10/24/68

Date dictated

Hoped to el and laned you sereney:

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FD 302 (Rev 4-15:64)

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Date:

December 12

• 1968

A subpoena duces

1968, by the Clerk of the U,S. District

tecum was issued on November 26

t, Court,

Miami

Florida,

, directed to Mr.

JOHN D. SADLER,

South Florida

Commercial Manager, Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph

Company, Miami, Florida, or his authorized representative,

calling for production of telephone company records in

Federal Grand Jury on December 18, 1968.

Pursuant to this subpoena records of the

Southern

Bell Telephone and

Telegraph. Company were

reviewed and the following long distance calls were

obtained for telephone number 949-9048, subscribed to

by SANTO TRAFFICANTE, 740 N. E. 155th Street,

Florida:

Miami

Daté:

City

Number

Other Data

1968

September 1

St. Petersburg,

rlorida

362-7123

September 20

September 3

September 2

September 2 Tampa, Florida

September 3,

September 5

September, 6

September 6

September 6

360-8667

244-6531

876-2207

On 12-4-68 La North Dade

Florida

Miami 92-88

by SUS IC PHILIP F. CROGHAN: al

Date dictated

12-9-68

This document contains nether

and it contents are morlo be distibuted ouisido your agenc

recommendations. nor concuaions of the rel it the properly a me Bland is loaned ió your sengy

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MM

92-88

2.

Date

1968

September 29

October 1

October 2

October 2

October 6

October 6

October 20

October 21

October 22

October 23

October 24

October 25

October 26

October 26

October 28

October 31

October 13

October 14

October 15

October 16

October 17

October 17

City

Number

Other Data

Tampa, Florida

876-2207

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MM 92-88

3:

Date

1968

City

October 18

October 18

October 19

October 19

October 30

October 31

November 1

November 5

November 6

October 2

October 6

October 22

October 13

October 28

Novenber 5

October 24

October

29

October 30

Tampa, Florida

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Number

Other Data

876-2207

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1t

248-2113

253-3066

876-2730

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876-7614

246-9851

11

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MM 92-88

4

Date

1968

•October 30

October 15

October 19

November 4

October 15

October 15

November 5

City

Tampa, Florida

Number

Other. Data

246-9851

9p -

876-8044

839-3957

The above records are confidential and can only

be obtained through the issuance of a subpoena duces tecum®

Toll records are maintained by the telephone company in the

normal

course of business for only a period of six months.

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