Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: DIRECTOR, FBI
To: SAC, DN
Document date: 08/13/1954
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

4/23/201

AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

RECORD SERIES:

124-10286-10054

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 62-75147-13-74

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

ussassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Note!.

Case#:NW 53025 Date:

05-23-2017

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: SAC, DN

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE :

DATE: 08/13/1954

PAGES:

2

SUBJECTS :

EBH, VEP, ASSOC, CHARGES, MAIL FRAUD, CONSPR

SWINDLE, TRA, SUMMARY RPT

DOCUMENT TYPE :

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION:

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 05/18/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS:

v9.1

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DocId: 32304424

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Pa. Colo.

- and -

EUGENE H XBRADING, waS.

U.S. Marshal,_ El

Paso, Texas #28400

The U. S. Supreme Court in

February, 1954, affirmed

the

twelve-year convictions of subjects PEREIRA and BRADING

who had been sentenced in the U.S. District Court, El Paso,

lexas, on charges of lIst, mail

fraud and conspiracy in

connection with the swindle of Mrs. GERTRUDE J. JOYCE of

Roswell, New Mexico.

On February 23, 1954, the Los Angeles Office

reported that PEREIRA and BRADING had been residing in

Ios Angeles and had left there on February 20, 1954, enroute

to Denver, Colorado.

On PetuarT Al, 2954, I-ll d reported baat he bad

just been in contact

with DONALD/PICK, a close friend of PEREIRA

and BRADING who operates a jewelry store in the Brown Palace

Hotel in Denver, and that PICK told him he had, spent the last

two days with PEREIRA and BRADING in Denver; and that PEREIRA

had left Denver. on February 24, 1954, enroute to El Paso, Texas,

no one do i:

a danty deterior throwen bi-s 9- that

PEREIRA In conversationg in Denver with PICK and MONROE MARKS, COU

a Denver Attorney, had claimed that they were attempting to

raise $49,0,00.00

for the purpose of making restitution to

Mrs. GERIRUDE JOYCE In hopes that they might thereby be able

to secure à reduction in their sentences.

In March, 1954, DN-123-C reported that he had

received correspondence reflecting that PEREIRA and BRADING

had abandoned their efforts to secure a reduction in sentence

and at that time they were both incarcerated in the U. S.

Fenitentiary at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

• Pennes santonated in

JOSEPH CERROLD GALANT TERE, Wa.

cola-califi.

denvero-ice

Department #22201

GALANTIURE has been identified in prèvious surveys

as the operator of derryls Newsstand,

1657 Welton Street,

Denver, Colorado, and has been reported by

informants and

police sources as a gambler and bookmaker.

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