Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: LEE, ROBERT D.
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 7/7/69
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:

4/27/201

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

FBI

124-10306-10042

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

CR 179-172-4

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM: LEE, ROBERT D.

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE: 07/07/1969

PAGES:

4

SUBJECTS :

NRO, MEETING, GAMBLING ACT

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS:

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW:

05/06/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

v9.1

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

Hote).

DATE: 11-14-2017

FD-263.(?ev. 12-19-67)

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVL STIGATION

REPORTING OFFICE

LAS VEGAS

TITLE OF CASE

OFFICE OF ORIGIN

LAS VEGAS

GASPARE ANEDETTO SPECIALE, aka

DATE

7/7/69

REPORT MADE BY

SA ROBERT D. LEE

CHARACTER OF CASE

INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD

4/2/69 - 6/30/69

TYPED BY

jsb

ECT

REFERENCES:

CONVIC

AUTO

APPROVED

COPIES MADE:

Chicago letters to Las Vegas, 4/18/69 and 6/23/69.

Oklahoma City letter to Las Vegas, 6/4/69.

Miami letter to Las Vegas, 5/26/69.

Report of SA ROBERT D. LEE, 4/22/69 at Las Vegas.

-

P-

LEADS:

BOSTON DIVISION

AT PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND

2/14/28

ne.

Rotina

terrorici

TO1AG EY

BICA: 02/22/72 request.

30 402-117210)

Will contact SUSAN D'AGOSTINO to determine current

whereabouts of her son, ROBERT R.

D'AGOSTINO.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS CLAIMED

& NONE

ACQUIT.

FUG.:

.•.

FINES

SAVINGS

RECOVERIES

CASE HAS BEEN:

TALS

PENDING OVER ONE YEAR [XYES DINO

PENDING PROSECUTION

OVER SIX MONTHS

YES EINO

Kille

- Bureau (179-172)

- USA, Las Vegas

2

• Boston

2

- Las Vegas: (179-15)

SPECIAL AGENT

IN CHARGE

DO NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW

119-172-4

REC 43

17 JUL 8 1969

Ek 107.

Agency

Request Recd.

Date fwd.

How Fwd.

Dissemination, Record of Attached Report

Rad Anted mini Division,

Organized Crime and Racketeering

Section,

Room

2524

B6JUL2

1969

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Notations

GPO: 1968 O - 299-885

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

DATE: 11-14-2017

LV 179-41

MGS/ kmm

INFORMANTS:

On March

1969, LV 121-C-TE advised SA CARL F.

FREEMAN that NORMAN

ROTHMAN of Miami, Florida, was presently

In Las Vegas, Levaga

and was observed in a meeting at the

Caesars Palace Hotel-Casino with owners and key executives

there.

subsequent investigation reflected that ROTHMAN was

presently staying in room 686 at the Sands Hotel-Casino in

Ing Vegas, arriving March 14, 1969.

This information was

disseminated to Lieutenant GENE CLARK, Intelligence Unit,

Clark County Sheriff's Office (CCSO), in Las Vegas, on March

17, 1969.

On the evening of March 17, 1969, Special Agente

JAMES E. DOYLE and MICHAEL G. SIMON were in contact with the

following officers of the CCSO at the LITTLE-HAYWARD Junior

Middleweight Title Fight:

Sergeant CHARLES MARTIN

Sergeant KARL ALBRIGHT

Sergeant CURTIS LACKIE

Detective PHILIP LEONE

The title fight was held at the Las vegas Convention

Center.

SA DOYLE identified NORMAN ROTHMAN to Sergeant MARTIN.

Subsequent observations

reflected that NORMAN

ROMAN was

sitting at ringside seats in the company oi PAulPRICE,

Nev

Las Vegas daily newspaper columnist, GASPARE A. SPECIALS, &

bookmaker and shylock who is presently under investigation

of his Extortionate Credit Transactions activities in Las

Vegas and Samuel Filippo Manarite, who is presently under

similar investigation, by Las Vegas.

At the conclusion of

the main event, ROTHMAN, accompanied by SPECIALE and MANARITE,

left the convention area where

the fight was held and were

subsequently placed under arrest by 'the Clark County Sheriff'i

office Intelligence Unit, each on the charge at Vagrancy-

Loitering.

AS MANARITE was leaving the convention area, he was

observed by SAs DOYLE and SIMON to have spoken briefly to

-D-

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