ITAR, GAMBLING.
Agency: HSCA
Originator: WC
From: FBI
Document date: 07/18/1963
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

10/2/201

AGENCY:

RECORD NUMBER:

RECORD SERIES :

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

HSCA

180-10108-10207

NUMBERED FILES.

013900

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FROM:

TO :

TITLE:

WC

FBI

ITAR, GAMBLING.

DATE:

PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

07/18/1963

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BARNES, GEORGE EDWARD.

LEADS & INFORMATION.

RUBY, JACK; BACKGROUND, RACKETEERING AND

SUBVERSIVE ACTIVIT.

ORGANIZED CRIME.

MATTHEWS, RUSSELL.

DOCUMENT TYPE: REPORT.

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW:

03/10/1998

OPENING CRITERIA :

COMMENTS :

Tabbed 243-2. Box 243 (folder 1 of 2)

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Report Form

+10-263(5-12-55)

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Roporting Otico

DALLAS

TITLE OF CASE

Offico of Origin

DALLAS

RUSSELL DOUGLAS MATTHEWS, aka.

R. D.; Matthews

Dato

7/18/63

Roport mado by

IVAN D. LEE

CHARACTER OF CASE

Lavestigativo Parlod

4/3/63 - 7/8/63

Typod Byi

ITAR - GAMBLING

REFERENCE:

Dallas letter to Bureau, 4/8/63;

Dallas

letter to New Orleans, 5/15/63 (IO);

Dallas

letter to St. Louls and Little Rock,

a n 3 102: 623/63 170),

..?÷

LEADS:

Approved

Copios mado:

LITTLE ROCK AND ST. LOUIS - INFORMATION;

one copy of this report 1s being furnished to the

Little Rock DiVision in that information developed indicates

subject travels to Hot Springs, Arkansas, and apparently 1s

acquäinted with several of the

gamblers in Hot Springs, Arkansas:

One copy 1s furnished to the St. Louis Division

Inasmuch as referenced airtel included a lead for that Division

to identify a subscriber to a

telephone number and furnish the

- Special Agent

In Charge

Do not writo la spaces below

166

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Bureau

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- USA, Ft. Worth

*Little Rock (Info)

St. Louis (Info)

- New Orleans

- Oklahoma City

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DI 166-102

results to the Dallas Division and the Little Rock Division.

NEW ORIEANS DIVISION

wiil identify the following individuals through

a check of the credit and criminal records and establish

Will furnish this

photograph from the law enforcement agency for possible

future use in identifying the subject's contacts in Dallas,

Texas.

AT BILOXI, MISSISSIPPI

D. J. VENUS, III, telephone #ID-4-4268

AT LAUREL MISSISSIPPI

JIM BLACKWELL, aka Blackie, telephone #4251702

AT SHREVEPORT, LA.

GEORGE BOX, telephone #423-9427

AT NEW ORLEANS, LA

1. SAMMY PAXTON, telephone #523-0147

2. FRED BROUSSARD, Bolton Ford Company

OKLAHOMA CITY DIVISION

AT OKLAHOMA CITY

1. Will cause a check to be made of the Toll records

charged to telephones available to GEORGE EDWARD BARNES

and

furnish the same to the Dallas Division for a possible

evaluation in an effort to determine BARNES and the

subject's involvement in the proposed gambling club in

Tarrant County, Texas.

2. Will ascertain through informants, 1f BARNES

possibly furnishing money to MATTHEWS for the establish-

ment of a gambling club near ft. Worth, Texas.

DALLAS DIVISION

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DL 166-102

AT DALLAS, TEXAS

1. Will follow the subject's activities through

established sources, spot surveillances, in an effort

to ascertain 11 he 1e in violation of the federad ItAn

Statute.

2. Will obtain toll calls charged to the subject's

phone at his residence, 4817 Reiger Street, for a period

of the last three months.

AT FT. WORTH, TEXAS

Will identify subscriber to telephone #BU-1-1699,

and thereafter conduct creait, criminal, and source

Investigation for background information and ascertain

1f this individual could possibly be Involved in the

alleged opening of a gambling Club near Et. Worth, Texas.

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA:

It is noted that the extensive period covers

the Investigation period in this investigation, however,

some of the information was reported prior to the Dallas

Division opening a case under the ITAR Statute.

It 1s

noted that several of the telephone numbers set forth

In leads to various offices was obtained from a highly

#contidential scurce of the Criminal Intelligence Section,

Dallas

who requested that this information be not

disseminated outside of the FBI.In conducting the investi-

gation, no refend should be made to the source, or should

the investigation Indicate that this information came

from ahighlyconfidential-sourees

Mr. R. A. BURROW, Chief Special Agent,

Southwestern Bell

Telephone Company,

Dallas, Texas,

was contacted. by SA IVAN D. LEE on 5/10/63.

The following 1s a summary of pertinent

Information received from informants and confidential

sources of the dallas Division in connection with this

matter.

The sources have requested that their identity

remain confidential.

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DL 166-102

stated

what the

subsect had been in Hot Springs, Arkangas

dont the

middle of March, 1963. He also advised

on this date

that MATHEWS had left Dallas, Texas on

the morning of

4/3/63 en route to Hot Springs, Arkansas via: Oxiahoma

City, Oklahoman

merEne was to pick up okaanona city

gambler, GEORG

SHANES. Informant stated that

BARNES and MINiCAS

In Hot Springse Arkansas.

were to met some unknown individual

on 4/7/63, Informant stated that MATTHEWS

had returned to Dallas and residing with his daughter,

PEGGY ANN MATTHEWS, Who 1s employed at the Texas Ste

Bank and Trust, Company in the Credit Department.

on 5/3/63,

Section, Dallas,

PD,

Criminal Intelligence

stated that intormation had been

developed that MATTHEWS had recently contacted one

GEORGE BOX, Shreveport, Louisiana, telephone number

423-9427 concerning a possible "two day score". He had

also contacted a JIM. BLACKWELL of Laurel. Mississ1pp1,

telephone #425-1702.

According to

was spending a considerable amount

MATTHEWS

mane attempting

to raise enough money to obtain the release,

on bond,

of his friend, GEORGE FUQUA, who was recently incar-

cerated at the Kansas sate Penitentiary.:

stated that

MATTHEWS

neen.

according to their source,:

In contact with JOHN ELI STONE, a.:

known Dallas bookmaker and gambler, TOMMY POTTS,

a known

Ft. Worth gambleä, SOFIE/GEBRON, a Dallas bookmaker, and

Oklahoma •

COERCE EDWARD BARNES tO known sambler from oklahoma

city,

According

they were going to

open a gambling club loc

somewhere on the west side

of the ft. Worth Clty 11mits.

According to source, the

sheriff of Tarrant county had agreed to let them operate

on the west side of the county as there is too much

"Federal heat"

created by the operation of a gambling:

joint @erated.on the East side of Tarrant County.

stated that source has been in contact

with CLARK BOYD HAMILTON, a known Dallas highjacker

and hoodlum.

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DI 166-102

on 5/31/63.

stated that the source

Pl. Fate!!

had received information that Hot Springs, Arkansas

gamblers, JACK: GUNTER

and. HUBERT DANE 'HARRIS, were

in Dallas, Texas on 5/30663 and were urgently attempting:

to contact the subject.

Source subsequently learned

, that MATTHEWS did not want to have any contact with

GUNER at this time.

MATTHEWS

ncontact with the following Individuals

stated that according to their source, ll. INtell

located outside of Dallas, Texas:

SAMMY PAXTON, New Orleans, La., telephone

#5230147

JIM BLACKWELL LaureL, Miss:

425-1702

GEORGE. BOX,

Spot Club, Shreveport, La.

telephone #423-9427

BASIL BRITTON NEWTON, Las Vegas, Nevada,

telephone #385-9748.

GEORGE EDWARD BARNES, OKlahoma CIty, Oklahoma

telephone #WI. 6-4353

D.

4-2668

VENUE, III., B110x1, MIss1ss1pp1,

stated that most of the above contacts Pol Eutall

were of a hoodlum type conversation which indicated

to their source that all the individuals were aware

of

MATTHEWS background and were possibly involved with the

criminal element themselves.

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