Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: HAV
To: HQ
Document date: 03/19/1958
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

Identification Form

Date:

6/15/201

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-90068-10077

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

62-75147-210-123

Document Information

ORIGINATOR :

FBI

FROM:

HAV

TO: HQ

TITLE:

DATE:

03/19/1958

PAGES:

2

SUBJECTS :

AMERICAN GAMBLERS IN CUBA

AMERICAN GAMBLING ACTIVITIES IN CUBA

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 06/24/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

MEMO

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2100 hote).

DATE: 11-14-2017

COMERSA

Havana 64-153

1: 3/19/58

CONFIDENTIAL",

on March 18, 1958,

"Lt. ROBERTO VILA of SIM confidentially advised

that he had ascertained that the orders

to bar

JAKE

LANSKY from Cuba had come from the Presidential

Palace.

Additional efforts are presently being made by the

Legal Attache's Office

determine the basis for JAKE LANSKY'S

being barred from Cuba HUM

On March 18, 1958, PCI GOFFREDA CELLINI (conceal)

advised that an individual named JOSEPI,BOCK of the Desert Inn,

Las Vegas, Nevada, checked into the Hotel Nacional on March 17,

1958.

He said that BOCK is a man of very small stature and

immediately after his arrival he went into the casino for a

private discussion with SAM TUCKER.

He noted that BOCK ap-

peared to be a person of definite importance.

The Havana newspapers

o March 14, 1958, carried an

article indicating that BENJAMIN SMITH, a millionaire director

of minign enterprises in Cuba, and Canada and the owner of a

hotel, had been arrested March 13, 1958, in Toronto, Canada,

for robbery,, fraud, and illicit association.: The article

i ched the was kee see des so on callines,

been charged with

Ltd. in the amount of $960,000.

On March 18, 1958, T. JAMES ENNIS, Manager, Hotel

Havanz

Ríviera, advised that

this individual

is identical with

aid that both say cart end his he tote, Haven antyle aco

said that

dage

presently in Toronto and that BEN is out under $50,000. bond

but believes BEN is unable to return to Cuba because of the

Cavadian vau protee underhe de. arture from Canada of an 12-

Since this letter contains information concerning

the LANSKY brothers,

extra copies have been prepared for the

following offices:

MELani (3), New York (3), Salt Late City (1) po

Salt Lake City Office is requested to furnish any

Nevada

CONFIDENTIAL!

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DIE UNS

OUCHUEUIS

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