Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, SF
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 01/28/1969
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10302-10005

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

92-6054-2513

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FROM:

TITLE:

FBI

SAC, SF

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

DATE: 01/28/1969

• PAGES:

5

SUBJECTS :

LCN, MEMBERS A/O ASSOC, RECRUIT, IDENT, PHOTO

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION : Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS:

4

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/27/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

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Director, PBI

FROM:

SAC, San Francisco (92-1661) (P)

SUBJECT: La Cosa Nostra -

New York Division

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(00: Now York)

Re San Francisco airtel to the Diroctor dated

1/20/69.

San Francisco teletype, 1/28/69.

On 1/24/69, SF 3208-PC was recontacted and advised

that he met MIKE TUSCARELLI (Phonetia) while they were both

in prison at Atlanta Federal Penitentiary.

During their

association, they became good friends and

after they were

released, the source contacted TUSCARELLI in Buffalo, New

York, where he was operating a bookmaking organization,

TUSCARELLI Introduced the source to an LCN "member" of

Genevose Fanily in Buffalo, whose name the source does not

recall, but who lived in a large mansion in the Buffalo

suburbs. During this meeting, TUSCARELLI told the source

that he, TUSCARELLI, was a "recruit" for the LCN and was

being sponsored by the "member" to whom he had just intro-

duced the source.

The source said this occurred in 1957

However,

the source did not bave this knowledge.

that he heard TUSCARELLI was arrested in Canada for

narcotios

1n 1959 or 1960.

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SP 92-1661

During this contact, the source was displayed photo-

graphs of the following persons, about whom he made the noted

comments :

1). JOHN GAUDIO - The source indicated

he knew this

The source said

"shotgun." The reason GAUDIO had this nickname was his frequent

use of the shotgun in gangland wars and when he was assigned

"hita."

The source said GAUDIO was fron Harlem, around 107th

and 108th Streets. He is a "member" of the LON

but the source

did not know which family.

The source advised that he hasn't

Been GAUDIO in several yoare and has heard nothing about him.

2). MARTIN DE SAVERIO - The source advised that he

knows this person as BIG JINKS.

The source also knows his wife,

MARION and his brother, DOLLY DIMPLES, who was killed several

YearS agO. DE SAVERIO

and

deals in narcotics and armed robbery.

1s a "member" of the Luebess tantnat

The source said he

time" with DE SAVERIO in Constock in 1943-44. Afterward,

DE SAVERIO and his wife lived next door to the source at

E. 112th Street in 1959.

The source said DE SAVERIO is shylocking and receiving

PASELLI has

spent time in both Atlanta and Leavenworth Federal Penitentiarios

for narcotics and other violations.

SP 3208-PC advised that DE SAVERIO has a brother-in-

law named RALPH "BONES" DE MASCO (phonetic), who is a "member"

of the LON and a shylock and numbers operator out of a club

on 2nd Avenue, between 104th and 105th Streets, Manhattan.

The source advised that CARMINE TRAMUNTI, present

boss of the LUCHESE family, personally controle all the action

on 112th Street from Lexington Avenue to Ist Avenue, Harlem,

New York. BIG SAM CAVALIERI, who the source inid is a candidate

for "underboss" under TRAMUNTI, assists CARMINE in the above area.

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3). SALVATORE VARIO - The source knows this person

aS BABE VARIO, whom he described as a partner of his brother,

PAUL VARIO, the latter being a capo docine in the LUCHESE family.

BABE operates crap games, bookmaking, and shylocking, and main-

tains his headquarters at the Fontainbleau Flower Shop in Brooklyn.

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