Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: JN
To: HQ
Document date: 10/31/1966
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (41 USC 2107 Note).

DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Date:

4/30/201

Agency Information

AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-90113-10035

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : CR 62-9-54-58

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

JN

TO :

HQ

TITLE:

DATE :

PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

10/31/1966

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JACK WASSERMAN

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS:

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 09/28/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

INC NOTE

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (14 USC 2107

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Date: 10/31/66

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TO : DIRECTOR, FBI

FROM: SAC, JACKSON (92-20)

CRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM

JACKSON DIVISION

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MONTHLY SUMMARY

Re Jackson airtel to Bureau, 10/19/66.

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On 10/3/66, JN 14-C advised that DONALD LESTER JAMES,

aka, JIMMY*JAMES, Mississippi Gulf Coast gambler, and his

girlfriend, CAROLYN NORRIS, have returned to the Mississippi

Gulf Coast and are now residing in the Caribe Apartments.

JAMES told the informant that he had recently

gone to Washington, D. Ce and had contacted Washington, D.C.

attorney, JACK* WASSERMAN!

WASSERMAN allegedly told JAMES

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(KLe that thel gambling cases pending in Mississippi against JAMES

MESS,

MISS and JACKKRESS of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and others in the southern s

District of Mississippi, would be thrown out of court on the

DATE 10/19/28. BY

basis of a recent Supreme Court decision concerning improper

'Wassen

MADE,

AT FBING AND/OR DELIVERY

representation on the Grand Jury panel, which indicted JAMES,

KRESS, and others.

JAMES appeared extremely concerned about the

REQUEST GATED

indictment against him and expressed an opinion to their au

informant that he felt that WASSERMAN and KRESS might be

trying to "make a deal" withs?'l19

JAMES

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (11 USC 2107 Note).

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JN 92-20

was also upset about the fact that JACK KRESS and HASKELI

-JONES of New Orleans, Louisiana, had allowed

themselves to

be caught with invoices

reflecting shipments

to other

subjects, because they should have known that searches by

FBI Agents would be forthcoming.

i.:.

JAMES told the informant that 'everybody, including

the big boys, are shook up!''over the recent gambling arrests

and searches.

JAMES commented that the main point they are

afraid of is the fact that the searches of JONES of New

Orleans and KRESS of Tulsa, might reveal shipments of crooked

gambling equipment to Las Vegas, Nevada. JAMES did not

further elaborate on this comment.

On/ 10/3766,

TN 14-C advised that JAMES had commented

that_ CARLOS MARCELLO of New Orleans, Louisiana, was "framed

by the FBI at the New Orleans National Airport on 9/30/66.

JAMES was referring to the incident where MARCELLO struck

a Bureau Agent at New Orleans following his (MARCELLO's)

arrival from New York City on 9/30/66.

JAMES further

claimed that MARCELLO would not be convicted on the assault

charge because no one could prove that MARCELLO knew the

man was

an FBI Agent. JAMES further indicated that MARCELLO

has not been on the Mississippi Gulf Coast recently; however,

The did not elaborate on this point.

on 10/3/66, JN 14-C also advised that CARL DOUGLAS

WHITE, aka "TOWHEAD' WHITE, well known Mississippi hoodlum

who was recently convicted for possession of untaxed alcohol,

will be out of the penitentiary soon as the result of some

"string pulling" in Washington, D.C., by one "HOWARD" from

north Mississippi.

Further identification or description

of "HOWARD" is unknown. WHITE allegedly has the state

charge flea pending against him in Mississippi "fixed"

•and

will never serve a day. Allegedly this will cost him

approximately $30,000, reportedly payable directly to

Mississippi Governor PAUL BO JOHNSON. "The informant did

not make any Inquiry for specifies and could not vouch

for the veracity of this alleged payoff to Governor JOHNSON.

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