Originator: FBI
From: SAC, NY
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 03/03/1961
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

4/28/201

AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-10211-10058

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

92-2839-2ND NR 93

Document Information

ORIGINATOR :

FROM:

TO:

TITLE :

FBI

SAC, NY

DIRECTOR, FBI

DATE :

PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

03/03/1961

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RAB, RELATIVE, NIECE, BKG

DOCUMENT TYPE :

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION:

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS:

CURRENT STATUS :

DATE OF LAST REVIEW:

Redact

02/05/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

Released under the John F. Kennedy

Assassination Records Collection Act o

1992 |44 USC 2107 Notel. Case#:N'W

68262 Date: 09-22-2022

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NY 87-21815

Re Atlanta airtel to NY, 2/13/61 and NY teletype

to the Director, 3/3/61.

Subject, born ANTONINA: ANGELINA BERNADETTE BUFALINO,

6/22/31, Detroit, Michigan, Of BLANCHE and CHARLES BUFALINO,

both deceased.

Subject advised that she is the niece of

RUSSELL BUFALINO, who is a top hoodlum figure. Subject is

a cousin of WILLIAM BUFALINO, a Detroit attorney for JAMES

HOFFA'S Teamsters Union.

Subject confidentially advised that she obtained

the following information concerning the 2/16/59 robbery

•Of ALEXANDER GUTERMA In NYC from her close friendship with

JEANNE FOLI, 572-A 17th Street, Brooklyn, NY. JEANNE

dated AL CIMEI while subject dated PHILIP ARCURI, both

Brooklyn gamblers. JEANNE worked for ALEXANDER GUTERMA

as a confidential employee and apparently made trips to

and from canada for him. She was well compensated for this

work and in 1958 bought a brand new pink, 4-door Buick, which

she gave to AL CIMEI as a present.

On 2/8/59, JEANNE stated that Mrs. GUTERMA

had flown in from las Vegas that day and acted very

excitedly.

She called Mr. GUTERMA and apparently he

said he would be over later that same night. JEANNE

was in the room when the conversation took place. PHIL

ARCURI stated that he surmised that Mrs. GUTERMA had

apparently brought something very valuable from las

Vegas

to New York and that he was going to get it. ARCURI and

•AL CIMEI left and picked up JOSEPH CIMEI,-uncle of AL CIMEI.

At 11 o'clock that night, AL CIMEI called JEANNE and they

discussed the contents of a valise and decided that it

contained stock.

Later she learned that JOSEPH CIMEI and

PHILIP ARCURI went to the GUTERMA apartment and gained entrance

and carried out certain valuables.

AL CIMEI waited downstairs

in the pink Buick but because GUTERMA knew him and the Buick,

he became scared and took off. After the robbery, ARCURI and

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NY 87-21815

JOSEPH CIMEI were unable to find AL CIMEI and hailed a

cab, which they rode for a few blocks,

and then they

transierred to another cab, rode another few blocks,

and took a subway.

Subject assumed that they all met

at JOSEPH CUMEI's residence. After determining that

the valise contained "stock"

"stock" and

threw it in Sheepshead Bay.

Subsequently they learned

that the loot was not

"stock" but in fact was $500 bills

in Canadian currency. They returned to the spot and

retrieved a wet, broken valise. The money was in a

paper bag, which they had thrown in the Bay, but they

were unable to locate 1t.

Among the loot was also over $150,000 in American

currency,

which they split three ways. Also in the loot

were jewels which subject belleves they pedaled through

, owner of the Black Magic Bar, which is

located near 4th Avenue and 3rd Street in Brooklyn. They

were bitter over the paltry amount they received for the

1t.

Within two months, AL CIMEI and PHIL ARCURI

PHIL ARCURI

at Gaynes Oldsmobile Company,

Flatbush, NY, approximately one week after the robbery.

AL CIMEI and PHIL ARCURI jointly purchased for $5,000 a

pizzeria next door to the Club 18, 18th Avenue and 56th

Street, Brooklyn, NY. Subjeat only vaguely familiar with

JOSEPH CIMEI and does not know what he did with his share

of the loot.

Several days after the robbery, she heard from

PHIL ARCURI that the local precinct, NYCPD precinct

letter stating that AL CIMEI and PHIL ARCURI robbed GUTERMA.

Detectives came to the Club 18 looking for ARCURI and CIMEI.

Subject heard nothing further concerning this matter.

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NY 87-21815

•It is to be noted that the NYO will attempt

to develop the subject (ANTONINA BUFALINO) as

an informant

because she ls related to RUSSELL BUFATING and WILLIAM

important Bureau case, the GUTERMA robbery, her potentia.

as an informant will be given prompt and careful consideration.

ANTONINA BUFALINO stated she fears CLIFFORD

FULLER and does not want him to know her whereabouts

inasmuch as he has allegedly killed a man, shot his

wife and stabbed another woman. Until these allegations

can be checked out in order to establish the reliability

of the subjéct's information, her location should not be

revealed.

LEADS

ATLANTA

At Atlanta, Georgia

Will conduct appropriate investigation concerning

criminal activities of CLIFFORD FULLER and father.

Will interview Mrs. HARLEY (SYLVIA) GIBSON,

waitress at luau Restaurant, to ascertain value of GIBSON's

clothing allegedly taken by subject and full circumstances

of alleged theft.

Will interview TOMMY HUNTER regarding purchase

and ownership of 1957 Ford from FULLER.

Will determine from all persons interviewed

relationship of FULLER and subject and FULLER's knowledge

of subject's whereabouts.

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