Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, BU
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 10/15/1968
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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

• DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK Assassination System

Date:

5/20/201

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-10288-10445

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 92-6054-2435

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

SAC, BU

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE :

DATE: 10/15/1968

• PAGES:

3

SUBJECTS :

LCN, THEFT, REMBRANDT PAINTING, MAGADDINO

FAMILY, ASSOC ARRESTED, PAINTING RECOVERED

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/08/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS: INC NOTE

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Leased under the Tohn F.

Kennedy Assassination Records

Collection At 01

DATE: 11-14-2017

Nitrot

india

FBI WASH DC

FEDERAL, BUREAU OF INVESTIGATI

V. S, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

COMMUNICATION SECTIN

OCT 15 1968

B

-. Talon

Mr. Mohr_-

Mr. Bishop-

Mr.

Casper

Mr. Callahan

TELHIMPE

Mr.

Conrad

Mr.

Felt.

Mr.

Gale.

FBI-BUFFALO

Mr. Rosety-

Mr. Sullivan

Mr. Tavel

1102PM URGENT 10/15/68 PJF

Mr. Trotter--

TO DIRECTOR (92-6054) AND ALBANY

Tele. Room

Miss Holmes

Miss Gandy.

FROM BUFFALO (92-337)

GON BUFFALO DIVISION

6-seter

AS BUREAU AWARE IRREPLACEABLE REMBRANDT PAINTING "PORTRAIT OF A

YOUNG MAN". STOLEN IN BURGLARY OF GEORGE EASIMAN HOUSE MUSEUM ROCHESTER

NY JAN. THIRTYONE LAST. PAINTING VALUED CONSERVATIVELY AT TWO HUNDRED

FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS.

L dosa Nostra

SINVE THEFT LON MEMBER INFORMANT U THREE THREE TWO DASH O DASH

Top Echelon Infonucl

TE AND BU FOUR FIVE ONE DASH C DASH TE HAVE ADVISED PAINTING IN

La Cosa Nosti

POSSESSION OF UNKNOWN LEA MEMBER IN "REGIME" OF FRANK VALÉNTI

-CAPO"

La Cosa Nostra

MAGADDINO FAMILY " OF LON IN ROCHESTER..

SEVERAL. WEEKS AGO RUSSELL DE CICCO APPROACHED BU FOUR FIVE ONE

Top Echelon Informant

DASH C-FE AND ADVISED HE HAD PAINTING AVAILABLE AND WAS ATTEMPTING TO

FENCE FOR MINETY THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS. DE CICCO ADVISED WOULD NÖI

CONSIDER TRANPORTING PAINTING DUT OF NESYORESTATE

BECAUSE OF EXTREME FBI

INVESTIGATIVE PRESSURE ON HIS ACIIVITIES • METER JENS APPARENE MO

FERERAL TO

18411O COLONE SEVERE BEEF

FORMULATED BY BU FOUR FIVE

ONE C-TE TO PLACE, UNDERCOVER AGENT OR NISE A CONTACT WITH DE CICCO.

DURING PAST WEEK UNDERCOVER OPERATIVE HASIBEEN NEGOTIATING WITH DECICCO

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D4 0CT2 4 1968

U 2 ĐCT:21 1968

MR. DELOACH FOR THE DIRECTOR

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Réleased under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Aot of 1992 (14 USC 2107-RuteT.

DAT 41I

03V1397

PAGE TWO

TIMU 39%

TO PURCHASE PAINTING.

88° Miso li ch

FINAL ARRANGEMENTS MADE LATE LAST NIGHT TO TRANSACI SALE AT

WEV

AIRPORT NEAR PLATTSBURG

YORK

NEW YORK STATE PONCE

AS A RESULI OF CLOSE COORDINATION BY FBI AND NYSP DE CICCO AND

CARMEN CO BONANNO R"BAÑANNAS CLOSE ASSOCIATE OF FRANK VALENTI WERE

NEW

JORK STATEPOLICE

ARRESTED BY

NYSP

AT APPROXIMATELY EIGHT FIFTY FIVE PM TONIGHT. STOLEN

REMBRANDT RECOVERED INTACT AND UNDAMAGED.

ARRESTS MADE TO APPEAR RESULT OF ROUTINE MYSP CHECK IN ORDER TO

PROTECT INFORMANTS® ALSO ARRESTED WAS UNDERCOVER AGEJ WHO WILL BE

RELEASED ON BOND OCTOBER SIXTEEN NEXT.

DE CICCO AND BONANNO LODGED IN CLINTON COUNTY JAIL WITHOUT BAIL

AND CHARGES WITH CRIMINALLY RECEIVING STOLEN PROPERTY.

TONIGHI'S SEIZURE WHICH IS LATEST OF FBI ENGINEERED RECOVERIES

Le Dosa Nostra

THIS YEAR FROM LON BURGLARY OPERATIONS IN BUFFALO AND ROCHESTER

BRINGS TOTAL OF RECOVERED STOLEN PROPERTY TO OVER SIX MILLION DOLLARS.

INVESTIGATION CONTINUING.

END

BGM

FBI WASH DC

i did di.

CC: MR, GALE

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