Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SF
To: HQ
Document date: 08/25/1976
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Y Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 USC USC Note) Note).

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Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-90056-10031

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

183-737-15

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ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: SF

TO: HQ

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DATE:

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08/25/1976

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SALVATORE AMARENA

SAMMY PAXTON

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

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Released under the John-F. Kennedy Assassination Recorts

Collection Act of 1992 (11 USC 2107 Hote).

DATE: 11-14-2017

FD-36 (Rev. 2-14-74)

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8/25/76

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SUBJECT:

DIRECTOR, FBI

SAC, SAN FRANCISCO (183-114) (P)

SALVATORE AMARENA, aka;

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In soffe

Re San Francisco airtel to Bureau dated 8/24/76.

On 8/16/76 SF 8677-PC advised that JIMMY FRATIANNO

telephonically contacted her and stated he would be

coming to her apartment this evening.

8/16/76 JIMMY FRATIANNO came to PC's apartment

and electronic surveillance was instituted and reflected

the following information:

FRATIANNO made a telephone call to Triple A

Auto Wreckers in Hayward,

California,

and asked to speak

to MERLE (PH) .

FRATIANNO discussed with MERLE a possible

business deal

concerning a widow woman in New York City

whose husband died and left her a large seafood company.

FRATIANNO later identified this company as the Atlas Food

Company and stated that the woman was worth approximately

$22,000,000. FRATIANNO told MERLE that the woman buys

seafood including shrimp and lobster in Mazatlan, Mexico,

where the seafood is brought to the Mexican border near

Brownsville, Texas, at which time it is inspected by

FDA and she

purchases the food only after it had been FDA

inspected.

FRATIANNO tells MERLE that the woman does not

like to deal with the Mexicans and would like to go through

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an intermediary.

He tells MERLE that he can put MERLE

in touch with this woman

and as an intermediary could

take approximately one-third of the profits made from

the purchase and sale of shrimp and lobster in

Mazatlan, Mexico, which is eventually sold in New York

City. FRATIANNO

also mentions to MERLE the disappearance

of JOHN ROSELLI and

said that he was with ROSELLi on

several occasions in Los Angeles earlier in the summer.

FRATIANNO placed a telephone call to the

Circle Star Theater in San Carlos, California, for the

purpose of ordering theater tickets for both the Tom Jones

Engelberg Humperdink shows.

FRATIANNO told the

PC that he was good friends with the manager of the

Circle Star Theater in San Carlos, California, and that

the manager was from Chicago.

FRATIANNO ordered tickets

in Section 7 and

9 of the Circle Star Theater but mentioned

no specific date.

FRATIANNO told the PC that he is in bad shape

for money and says he has over $2,000 coming in in bills

each month.

FRATIANNO also told PC that SAL AMARENA owes

him $400.

FRATIANNO advised PC that he

has opened up a

checking

account at a bank close to Sal's Expresso Cafe

at 287. Ellis Street and that when he opened the account

he didn't need any identification.

FRATIANNO mentioned

the name JACK MEDLOVICH (PH)

and

also stated that he knows DONJO (PH), the owner of the

Circle Star Theater.

FRATIANNO again called MERLE in Hayward, probably

MERLE BROWN, and again talked about the shrimp deal with

the Atlas Shrimp

Company in New York.

FRATIANNO mentioned

150,000 pounds of shrimp priced at $4.05 which sold a

month later for approximately $5.65.

FRATIANNO stated

that the woman is worth $22,000,000 and is the largest

wholesale shrimp dealer in the State of New York.

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FRATIANNO made an outgoing telephone call

to an Unknown Subject and advised the Unsub that they

will loan his lawyer $100,000.

He also advised the

Unsub that some guy wants

him to loan some money. but

that the guy owes

too much money.

FRATIANNO was possibly

talking to PHIL MAITA in regards

to the above matter

and FRATIANNO stated that the guy owns $6,000,000 worth

of property which he wants to build more homes

however most of the lots that the guy owns have liens

on them. FRATIANNO says he will meet with the guy

says he wild mey

It should be noted that the

property owner FRATIANNO was talking about is possibly

MICHAEL CALLEN, a large San Mateo County home builder.

FRATIANNO made a collect call to telephone

number 326-2627 and stated that his name was Doctor

JAMES.

This call was to Sidney, Australia, however

the party JIMMY wanted to speak

to was not in.

On 8/18/76, PC telephonically advised that

FRATIANNO called her today and advised her that he was

not coming to her apartment that evening.

FRATIANNO

told her he was staying at home as he expected a number

of important telephone calls that evening.

FRATIANNO

also advised that he had to pick up FRANK

BOMPENSIERO

at the San Francisco International Airport (SFIA) on

12/19/76 at 12:35 p.m.

As a result of information regarding

BOMPENSIERO which was furnished by the PC on 8/20/76

Inspector DAVE KELLOGG of the San Francisco Police

Department (SFPD), Intelligence Unit,

advised that

FRANK BOMPENSIERO of San

Diego arrived at SFIA at

approximately 12:50 p.m. in the afternoon on 12/19/76.

KELLOGG advised that BOMPENSIERO

me't with JIMMY FRATIANNO

and went to the airport lounge and had lunch.

An SFPD

police woman sat close to the säme booth occupied by

BOMPENSIERO and FRATIANNO and was able to ascertain that

BOMPENSIERO was literally giving FRATIANNO hell about

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