Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SCHWEICKHARDT, G. R.
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 07/23/1968
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

6/1/2015

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-10197-10268

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

162-2189-SEE COMMENTS

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

SCHWEICKHARDT, G. R.

TO:

DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

Released under the John

Assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

1a9 45 245765 pete:

11-17-2017

Document Information

DATE: 07/23/1968

PAGES: 74

SUBJECTS :

GMC, ASSOC, BOOKMAKING OPERATION, FURTHER

INVEST

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4; 10(a)2

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 02/27/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

162-2189-12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22, INC 4 MEMO, 8 RPT

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JEK Law 10(a12

It should be noted that Houston has a pending

investigation of

and

these Individuals have declined to rurnisn information of

the kind needed in this case on interviews in the past.

It is not deemed advisable to try and interview them in'

this case at present because contact now might interfere

with a local bookmaking investigation the Houston Police

Departeent is also conducting... Accordingly, it is

anticipated they may be subpoenaed to a June Federal Grand

Jury and interviewed at that time before the

subpoena

actually served.

Mobile was originally requested to interview

BARNES as a potential witness in this case and not as a

subject.

Therefore,

he was not furnished a rights and

waiver form.

He advised he had nothing to say for the

official record but then did relate certait acts

ne agreed to testify to should he be subpoenaed and these

are set out in the FD-302.

Information set out that was

a seceived sin pecember

1967 regarding bettors who were stiffed was received from.

PCI JOSEPH WILLIAM JORDAN and not previously reported in

this case.

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HO 162-496

PERRIN concerning subpoena of

JEK Law 10(a) 2

2. Will attempt to locate

and interview JACK

• .

STRAUS.

INFORMANTS:

on 1/8/69 and 1/27/69, and 2/10/69, MO 124-C-TE

advised that BARNES continues to drive a Thunderbird and

that he has been unable to develop any information that

BARNES has had possession of or access to a maroon Cadillac.

on 2/10/69, informant stated that BARNES also has

to and occasionally drives a 1964 or 1965 bluish green

Pontiac GTO, and he had recently seen BARNES riding in this

vehicle.

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AJFK Act 6

...

HO 162-496

INFORMANTS:

On 5/29/68, PCIL

telephoni-

cally contacted SA PAUL W. HAYMES of the Houston Office

and advised that he had information of a non-specific

nature that a GEORGE MC GANN, also known as GEORGE MITCHELL,

a Dallas gambler, and a FRED BARNES had been operating in

Houston in October and November, 1967.

His information

indicated that GEORGE MC GANN had

"beat some people out of

some money" and had left the Houston area.

PCI advised that a "contract was out"

to k1ll

GEORGE MC GANN. He had also heard that the FBI was

possibly seeking the location of MC GANN at the present

PCI advised that he felt that he could possibly

determine the whereabouts of GEORGE MC GANN and if the

Bureau was looking for him, it would be necessary to move

swiftly, inasmuch as he felt that this information, although

non-specific in nature, was rather reliable.

A search of the Houston Office indices reflects

that GEORGE ALBERT MC GANN, white male, born March 15,

1936, Wichita Fallas, Texas, 5'112"

, 190 pounds, brown

brown hair; and FRED F. BARNES, white male, born

April 1, 1927, 6', 175 pounds, brown

hair, gray eyes,

were subjects

in case entitled, "BILLY T. DYER, ET AL; IGA

HOUSTON"

• instant file.

PcI was recontacted on 5/29/68,

and advised that he would

endeavor to obtain more specific

information as to who had "put out the contract"

on GEORGE

MC GANN but advised that it was doubtful that he would obtain

any

specific Information for a while, inasmuch as everyone

was

"very closed mouth" about this contract.

PCI was

requested to endeavor to obtain any gambling information of

an interstate nature for the information of the Houston

Office.

on 6/17/68, the Mobile

the Mobile Office has maintained contact with MOl

contact with ed at te,

Mo C and MO IPC, and none of them has developed any further

information concerning the location of FRED BARNES during

the period 10/10-31/67.

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