Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: LEE, IVAN D.
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 06/20/1963
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

4/3/2015

AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-10286-10128

RECORD SERIES:

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

165-1066-5

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

Assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#:NW 45960 Date:

11-17-2017

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: LEE, IVAN D.

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE : 06/20/1963

PAGES:

33

SUBJECTS :

Restricted]

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4; 11(a)

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 02/10/1999

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF IRS

COMMENTS:

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DL 165-116

Will also furnish Dallas Division with

background information concerning JOHNNIE EDGAR LANE, FBI

number 390267 (Las Vegas PD # A-2806) DOB 11/24/98, Hillsboro,

Texas.

MOB ILE

AT THE ODORE, ALABANA

Will interview HARRY M. SCOTT, Box 2, Route 280,

Theodore, concerning telephone contact by WESTBROOK with

the telephone listed to the residence.

SAN ANTONIO

Will interview individual subscribers to telephones

as set forth in Dallas letter dated 5/20/63.

It is noted

that WESTBROOK has called some of the

subscribers on several

occasions and according to his wife has traveled to San

Antonio on business.

DALLAS

AT DALLAS, TEXAS

Will maintain contact with ED HASKINS, Intelligence

Section, Internal Revenue Service for information concerning

Will continue to receive information as furnished

by DL-185-PC and DL-170-C concerning JOHN ELI STONE ..

Will identify MAXINE C. COURTNEY, 5206 Brookview,

who is a subscriber to a telephone called from WESTBROOK'S

numbers in Burbank, California.

ADMINISTRATIVE

At the present time there are several leads

outstanding for auxiliary offices to identify and interview

subscribers

to telephones called from telephones listed to

S

REVIEWED BY #B/JFK TASK FORCE

ON 6-26-98 das

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TOTAL DENIAL

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DI 165-116

mation received by Mrs.

WESTBROOK from Mrs. STONE, subject

STONE had been in Hot Springs, Arkansas, recently and had

lost

a considerable amount of

money at the gaming tables.

According to Mrs. STONE he had returned to Dallas from

Hot Springs on 3/29/63.

On 4/15/63 Mrs. WESTBROOK stated that subject

WESTBROOK departed Los Angeles for Las Vegas on Sunday,

4/7/63 where he met STONE.

She was unaware of purpose

of trip or the business transacted by STONE and WESTBROOK.

On 5/22/63 Mrs. WESTBROOK advised that for the

past several weeks, subject WESTBROOK has been flying to Las

Vegas to meet STONE. Last week subject WESTBROOK flew to

329v6à and retur

Las Vegas on 5/14/63 and returned to Los Angeles 5/15/63.

He plans to depart Los Angeles 5/24/63 for Las Vegas to meet

STONE and return to Los Angeles 5/25 or 26/63. Source does

not know significance of these trips or meetings.

Recently subject WESTBROOK told source that things

in Dallas were "hot" and he did not believe he should meet

STONE

in Dallas. He said STONE utilizes pay telephones to

contact him as he does not trust telephones in his apartment.

source

advised WESTBROOK usually stops at the

Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas.

On June 7, 1963 Mrs. WESTBROOK advised the Los

Angeles Office that STONE, an individual known as BERT BOND,

CHALKY WHITE, and several

other men arrived in Los Angeles,

California, from Dalts, Texas, on June 5, 1963 and were

remaining at the Olive Manor Motel.

STONE and subject WESTBROOK

attended horse races at Hollywood park on June 5 and 6, 1963

and would depart Los Angeles, California, on 6/7/63 for Las

Vegas, Nevada.

On 4/19/63 DL-170-C advised that he had learned

IrOM HENRY CLINTONI

WeRe known bookmaker in ballas, texas

area

that STONE'S/ bopkmaking operation in Dallas, Texas, 1S

split in the following way:

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DL 165-116

JOHN ELI STONE, 50%; JAMES WOODROW STONE, 20%;

ISADORE MAX MILLER, 20%; HENRY CLINTON WINFREY, 5%; and

JOHN RICHARD WESTBROOK, 5%.

CI was of the opinion that WESTBROOK was in Dallas,

Texas, at that time, 4/19/63, in that WINFREY was attempting

to find a new Cadillac for WESTBROOK to buy.

On 6/4/63 DL-185-PC advised that in his contacts

with STONE and other known bookmakers at Dallas, Texas, he

would estimate that JOHN STONE has approximately 80% of the

bookmaking business in Dallas, Texas. Informant has not

heard STONE discuss JOHN RICHARD WESTBROOK.

Source stated

that STONE is the first individual in Dallas to get the

line on the various sporting events and then disseminates

it to other bookmakers in the Dallas area.

According to

the informant STONE receives the line on various pay tele-

phones in the Dallas, Texas, area.

ED HASKINS of Internal Revenue Service advised

JËK Law11(a)

A. B. CASS, 6415 DeLoache, Dallas, Texas, a multi-

millionaire (protect identity), stated that JOHN ELI STONE

leaves his residence at approximately 9:00 a.m. each day, and

usually goes to Lucas B & B Restaurant for breakfast. JOHN

ELI STONE returns to his home about 6:00 p.m. each day.

JOHN ELI STONE'S daughter, JIMMIE LOU has

reportedly remarked

that her father was involved in bookmaking with a man named

WESTBROOK, but that WESTBROOK handled the "rough end".

Informant stated that JOHN ELI STONE reportedly once identi-

fied a $500 check as being income from his oil investments.

Informant advised that based on financial background and

dealings

in financial matters and what he had observed at

the residence of JOHN ELI STONE, he would estimate that

JOHN ELI STONE's net income must be in the neighborhood of

approximately $200,00 per year.

Informant stated that

JOHN ELI STONE has

spoken of a friendship with a wealthy

Dallas man known as BURNETI ESTES and he is believed to be

a close associate of BenninIckerse a known Dallas gambler,

who lives at 1031 West Keesler ParkWaY, DA LASTE

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