Originator: FBI
From: LEG, HAVANA
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 1959-12-31 00:00:00
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-10195-10338

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 92-2781-119

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FROM:

TO :

TITLE:

FBI

LEG, HAVANA

DIRECTOR, FBI

DATE:

• PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

12/31/1959

, LST, RES, INCOME TAX, GAMBLING, ACT

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION :

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS:

4

CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW :

10/01/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

19.1

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Date:

6/11/201

Released under the John F. Kennedy

Assassination Records Collection Act of

1992 |44 USC 2107 Notel. Case#:NW

55994 Date: 11-01-2021

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64

Office Memorandum • UNITED STALES GOVERNMENT -

11) т0

: Director, FBI (92-2781)

DATE:

12-31-59-

M FROM : Legat, Havana (92-1)

SUBJECT:

SANTO TRAFFICANTE, Jr., aka

ANTI-RACKETEERING

RemyLet 10/20/59, captioned as above and letter of 12/10/59, captioned,

"SALVATORE G. SCALIA, ANTI-RACKETEERING.

on 11/23/59, PCI ALBERTO SUAREZ ALEMAN, doorman at apartment building

where TRAFFICANTE resides when in Cuba, advised that Subject had

encountered some kind of unexpected difficulty in the United States

in connection with a tax problem, the exact nature of which was unknown

to PCI, that is whether State of

Federal, but according to his informa-

tion the Subject was delayed in a court in Jacksonville, Florida, and

in any event had not returned to Cuba.

In regular reports on the gambling activities in Cuba, HAV 33 has

periodically reported the absence of Subject from Cuba. By report

dated December 28, 1959, informant reported that subject is reported

to have completed arrangements for operation of the Casino in the

Hotel Internacional of Varadero, Cuba, (famous beach resort about one

and one-half hours drive from Habana).

He has named a Tampico man,+.

BENNY FERNANDEZ, to manage the business for him.

BENNY FERNANDEZ iS

reported to be a man in the confidence of TRAFFICANTE and has been in

his employ at the casino in the Comodoro Hotel in Habana. As of

12/27/59, TRAFFICANTE had not returned to cuba.

Extra copies of this letter are furnished for the information of

Miami and Jacksonville.

- Bureau

(2 Miami

sent bulbo

2 Jacksonville

1 - Havana (92-1)

REC- 48

12.

ELS: gi

(7)

=278/5119

1960

8'7 JAN 1 1 1960 4~

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