Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, PX
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 9/6/67
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John E. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote).

DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Date:

5/20/201

Agency Information

AGENCY:

RECORD NUMBER :

FBI

124-10293-10265

RECORD SERIES:

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

92-6054-2122

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM:

SAC, PX

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE :

'PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

09/06/1967

2

LCN, MEMBERS, LA, MEETING, VOTE, BOSS

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION : Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/10/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

INC NOTE

v9:1

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

DATE: 11-14-2017

,SPECIAL INVESTIGATIVE DIVISION

1"9/7

Phoenix top echelon informant has

been requested by Tucson, Arizona,

hoodlum Battaglia to drive the latter

and another hoodlum to Los Angeles,

California, 9/15/67.

Purpose of trip

is allegedly to attend meeting where

vote will be taken for designation

of new boss of La Cosa Nostra "family"

in Los Angeles.

It will be recalled

that Frank Desimone, the previous

boss, died in August, 1967.

AAS : djg

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection sct of 1992 (41 USe 2107

Hotel.

DATE - 11-14-2017

1:3 (Rev. 7028067)

Tolson -

DeLguch

DECODED COPY

• CABLEGRAM

X RADIO

TELETYPE

Casper

Call ah an

Contady!

Gale Th

Rosen

Sullivan

Tavel -

Trotter -

Tele. Room

Holmes

Gandy

AIRGRAM

R- 102

DEFERRED 9-6-67

TO DIRECTOR AND LOS ANGELES

FROM PHOENIX

AMTIRACHSTEERING

LA COSA NOSTRA. AR-CONSPIRACY.

ON SEPTEMBER 6, 1967, PX 811-PC, NEW TOP ECHELON CRIMINAL

INFORMANT UNDER DEVELOPMENT BY PHOENIX DIVISION, ADVISED HE IS

SUPPOSED TO DRIVE CHARLES JOSEPH BATTAGLIA, JR. TO LOS ANGELES,

CALIFORNIA ALONG WITH SALVATORE JOSEPH SPINELLI BEFORE SEPTEMBER

15 NEXT WHERE VOTING WILL TAKE PLACE FOR NEW "BOSS" OF LOS

ANGELES "FAMILY" OF LON, DUE TO RECENT DEATH OF FRANK DESIMONE.

ACCORDING TO INFORMANT BATTAGLIA INDICATED WILL BE INVOLVED IN

VOTING OF NEW "BOSS" AND DESIROUS TO SEE SON OF TOM DRAGNA

SUCCEED DESIMONE. INFORMANT AVERRED BATTAGLIA PRESENTLY IN

HOSPITAL TUCSON WITH WHAT IS CONSIDERED TO BE KIDNEY STONES.

INFORMANT HAD NO ADDITIONAL DATA AT THIS TIME.:.

DETAILED

INFO RECEIVED FROM INFORMANT FOLLOWS BY REGISTERED AIRMAIL. NOT

LETTER.

REC 39

42-6054-2124

NEW YORK, SAN DIEGO AND SAN

RECEIVED: 6:19 PM MKP

EX 106

= 5) SEP 2 2 1967

SEP 20 1967

If the intelligence contained in the above message is to be disseminated outside the Bureau, it is suggested that it be suitably

paraphrased in order to protect the Bureau's cryptographic systems.

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