Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: LABADIE, STEPHEN J.
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 09/15/1959
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:

6/11/201

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-10195-10235

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 92-2781-112

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM: LABADIE, STEPHEN J.

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE: 09/15/1959

'PAGES:

15

SUBJECTS:

LST, ASSOC, ACT, RES, BKG, TRA

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION : Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS:

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DATE OF LAST REVIEW :

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (14 USC 2107 Note).

DATE: 14576-2017

FD- 223(5-24-55)

Reporting Office

MIAMI

TITLE OF CASE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Offce of Origin

MIAMI

SANTO TRAFFICANTE, JR., aka

Date

9/15/59

Investigative Period

7/26-9/15/59

Report made by

STEPHEN J. LABADIE

CHARACTER OF CASE

ANTI-RACKETEERING

Typed by:

SJL:mf

Synapsial

REFERENCES: Report SA STEPHEN J. LABADIE, 7/7/59, Miami.

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-LEADS -

MIAMI:

ApproTed

Copies made:

AT TAMPA, FLA.

Will maintain contact with informants, law enforcement

agencies; thereafter will report activities of

subject.

-ADMINISTRATIVE-

Three (3) copies of this report are forwarded to the

Bureau in order that one copy may be transmitted to the Legat,

Havana, inasmuch as Legat will continue to maintain all coverage

of subject and his activities in Cuba, noting that should any

/ :

Special Agent

Do not write in spaces below

i in Charge

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2781

REC- 21

3. - Bureau (92-2781)

2 - Miami (92-88)

in set dipts

Property

cret This resert is iocned to you by the FBl, and neither it nor its contents are to be distributed outside the agency to which loaned

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DATE: 11-14-2017

MM 92-88

The "Miami Herald"', Miami, Florida, under date August 22,

1959, in an article with the dateline at New York, UPI, set out.

that SANTO TRAFFICANTE had resumed gambling activities

in Cuba.

This article set out that in a dispatch from the Scripps-Howard

Newspaper Alliance in Washington, The World-Telegraph and Sun,

said a secret memorandum prepared by

government sources, disclosed

that SANTO TRAFFICANTE had "arranged" with Cuban authorities to

remain in Cuba. This article mentioned that the secret memorandum

said that SANTO TRAFFICANTE was released through an "understanding"

with the CASTRO government.

On August 20, 1959, HAROLD MILKS, Associated Press

Correspondent, Havana,

advised SANTO TRAFFICANTE and HENRY. SAAVEDRA,

who represents the subject's interest in the Hotel Capri, had

been provisionally released by Cuban Inmigration authorities from

Tiscornia Prison, where they had been incarcerated for the past

two months. MILKS stated that the Cuban government claimed that

insufficient evidence had been developed to warrant deportation

of subject and SAAVEDRA from Cuba, but that investigation

concerning this matter is being continued by the Cuban government:

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On August 10, 1959, MM T-1 informed that during his stay

in Tiscornia, TRAFFICANTE and SAAVEDRA had "lived like kings".

Source said that almost all the guards in the prison had been

bribed by subject in order to insure that the subject had the

most comfortable accommodations possible. Source said that subject's

food was brought in to him on a daily basis from outside the

prison and that he was allowed any number of visitors, as he

desired.

On July 13, 1959, MM T-4 advised he had attended wedding

of the subject's daughter, as an invited guest. Source noted most

of those in attendance at

the wedding were employees from various

casinos in Havana, and that the only outsiders were subject's

immediate family and one or two close friends from Tampa, Florida.

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MM I-5 advised on July 18, 1959, that he had also

attended the wedding of subject's daughter, but that there had

been no important hoodlums from the United States at the wedd-

Source noted the TRAFFICANTE brothers, as well as a close

associate named JIMMIE LONGO. CUTE

CRIMINAL RECORD

Inasmuch as an FBI Identification Record on the subject

had been furnished the Dalbs, Texas Police Department, following

investigation was conducted.

On August 5, 1959, Mr. JESSE VICKERY, Identification

Officer, Dallas Police Department, Dallas, Texas, advised

SA MILTON L. NEWSOM that a search of his records failed to reflect

any information relative to the subject. Mr. VICKERY advised

it is possible that the FBI Identification Record for the subject

may have been sent to one of the numerous sections of the Dallas

Police Department for the purpose of information, but he stated

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that the Identification Division of the police department usually

receives the records.

Additional attempts to locate subject's Identification

Record and to ascertain information about the subject through

the Dallas Police Department through contact with Mr. JESSE

VICKERY on August 18, 1959, was unproductive. No information

concerning the subject could be located in the files of the Dallas

Police Department.

ASSOCIATES

FRANK TRAFFICANTE

CURA

—M Tsadviced SA JAMES P. O'NEIL, June 22, 1959, that

fernephew of SANTO TRAFFICANTE, whom he had mentioned bore the

same name as the subject, is the

son of FRANK TRAFFICANTE,

twenty-three years of age.

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MM 92-88

INFORMANTS

MM T-1 is HAV-33.

MM T-2 is PCI ARTHUR NEWMAN, Credit Manager, Gambling Casino,

Hotel Nacional, Havana, Cuba.

MM T-3 is MM 416-C.

MM T-4 is PCI ALBERTO SUAREZ ALEMAN, Doorman at apartment building

where subject resides, Calle 12, #20, Havana, Cuba.

MM T-5 is HAV-31.

MM I-6 is FLOYD MINER, PCI, Miami.

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