Originator: FBI
From: MILLER, SAMUEL A.
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 03/30/1962
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/28/201

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER:

RECORD SERIES :

FBI

124-10220-10493

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

CR 165-504-1

Heleased under the John F. Kennedy

ssassination Records Collection Act o

992 (44 USC 2107 Note). Case#:N\

38486 Date: 12-02.2022

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FROM:

TO :

TITLE:

FBI

MILLER, SAMUEL A.

DIRECTOR, FBI

DATE: 03/30/1962

PAGES:

21

SUBJECTS :

SMO, GM, GAMBLING ACT, ASSOC, KUSIC, RAY, TELCAL,

RCK

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION : Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4; 11(a)

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 01/29/1999

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF IRS

COMMENTS :

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PG 165-26

5. Will contact informants and additional sources to determine

specific details concerning the gambling activities of KUSIC

and PLOPI at McKeesport and vicinity.

ADMINISTRATIVE

For the information of all offices who have not previously received

background information in connection with the

is set forth for investigative assistance:

case,

the following

Bureau airtel to Albuquerque dated 11/20/61, captioned "INTERSTATE

D. Cos to be

leading

gamblers; these persons have been issued a

current wagering tax

stamp, and Internal Revenue Service considers

these individuals to be among the biggest gambling operators holding

wagering tax stamps.

The Bureau requested

that investigation be

instituted in one

of three categories involving gambling; namely,

Interstate Transmission of Wagering Information,

Interstate Trans

mission of Aid of Racketeering and Interstate Transportation of Wager-

ing Paraphernalia, to determine if these persons have violated one

or more of these

statutes.

Informants of the Pittsburgh Office including PG 650-C and PCI PHIL.

PErRULLI, previously related that KUSIC operates a large dice and

barbout game at the Red Arrow Club located on Route 30, North Ver

sailles Township,

Gamblers have reportedly lost up to $3000

at this game.

This club has been described as a "high class spot."

It has been alleged that KUSIC reportedly has considerable financial

resources and among his legitimate enterprizes are included the Ben-

Mac Apartments, McKeesport, Pa., as well as other apartments and pro

perty in the downtown Pittsburgh area. It has also been alleged that

Mayor ANDREW JIJAKONAS, Mckeesport, Pa., has turned over the

McKeesport Rackets Control exclusively to KUSIC.

ment a cho port are are at his t

The numbers bank

for the Mckeesport numbers racket is allegedly located at the Fifth

Avenue Smoke Shop, 730 Fifth Avenue.

KUSIC's dice, card and barbout

games are also allegedly operated at the Veterans Club at McKeesport,

So Eden Park Boulevard.

DAVEXWANDER, a local business man and

bondsman, acts as a front man fon the Kusic operation at the Veterans

Drive,

Mckeesport, Pa., in the operation of the Fifth Avenue Smoke

Shop, 730 Fifth Avenue, McKeesport, Pa.

Records of the Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pa.•

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INFORMANTS

on 1/19/02, BETTY ORKS?

aka., PCI, Pittsburgh Office, advised SA

SAMUEL A. MILLER that while she is not

acquainted with RAY KUSIC

or WALTER PLOPI, she has nevertheless,

heard of the gambling spot

located near the Westinghouse Bridge on Route 30 when it was first

operated by ARCHIEN ITMIN.

When this establishment was first

opened it was known as the Club 432, however, its

present ownership

and gambling activities are unknown.

On 2/8/62, PG 650-C advised SA JAMES B. FANNING that the Red Arrow

North Versailles Township, has not been in operation

since dugust, 106l, following the Internal Revenue Service raid at

New Kensington, Pa., in connection

with the SAMUEL and GABRIEL

MANNARINdoperation.

Informant added that big dice games and

gambling in general have virtually ceased since that date.

MANHABINO

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