Originator: FBI
From: DOUCE, RICHARD GORDON
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 08/12/1958
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/28/201

AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-10216-10341

RECORD SERIES :

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

HQ

92-2914-43, 44

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

DOUCE, RICHARD GORDON

TO :

DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE :

DATE: 08/12/1958

PAGES:

52

SUBJECTS :

GM, ASSOC, CRIMINAL ACT, GAMBLING ACT, THP, B/F INT,

TRA, PDT

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4; 11(a)

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 05/14/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS:

RPT, INDEX PAGES 42-46, INC MEMO

Released under the John F. Kennedy

sesassination Hecords Collection Act o

1992 (44 USC 2107 Note]. Case#:NW

68262 Date: 09-22-2022

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passed in New Kensington were signed CARL NOLL nO ITSP

investigation was instituted as the checks would not come

within the purview of the ITSP Statute in accordance

with existing departmental policy with respect to true

name checks..

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LEADS

PITTSBURGH

AT NEW KENSINGTON, PA. (Westmoreland County)

1. Will maintain regular contact with confidential sources,

MIKE ZERVOS, WALTER J. SHARKEY, PG 545-C, and PG 564-0

for information regarding subjects' legitimate enterprises,

criminal activities, and associates.

*2.

Will recontact Mr. and Mrs. MARSHALL HOLT, neighborhood

-sources, at 536 Charles Avenue, and Mr. and Mrs. JAMES C.

POST, neighborhood sources, at 216 Highland Avenue.

#3. Will recontact TOMMY HAYES, salesman, Swift and Company,

- (sourceroninformation) to determine whether SAMUEL MANNARINO

and his associates have been able to interest any local

no be are to inte

drive-in theaters in their proposed food and refreshment

concession business.

Will interview ARCHIE MILLER, Co-owner of ARCHIE MILLER'S

Men's Clothing Store, for the purpose of confirming the

allegation that AL ZEID, aka Al Ross, reputed MANNARINC

crigger man, leased the gambling casino on Barnes Street

from MILLER.

5. Will interview AL ZEID, FBI No. 574183, who is said

to reside at 2640 Page Street (telephone number Edison 5-0367),

to determine when and where he applied for U. S. citizenship

and the name he used in connection with such application.

Will also interview ZEID with respect to the numerous

arrests listed on his identification record in order that

a letterhead memorandum may be disseminated to the Immigration

and Naturalization Service if it is discovered that he has not

actually applied for citizenship or failed to register as n

alien.

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*12.

Will report results of investigation being conducted by

-Washington Field Office to identify subscriber to telephone

CO 57641,

called from the Nu Ken Novelty Company on 12/16/57

and 1/28/58.

*13. Will report investigation being conducted by Legat Rome

-concerning the report that GABRIEL MANNARINO may be living in

Rome, Italy:

*14. Will report additional information reported by the Legat

-Havana concerning subjects! activities in Cuba.

*15. Will report investigation being conducted by Legat

-Ottawa to identify BEN LITTMAN and ERNIE SHIMANKY of Toronto,

Canada, identified by the National Board of Fire Underwriters

as being out of town contacts for the MANNARINO brothers.

16. Will report investigation being conducted by Cleveland

at Warren, Ohio, to determine whether CHARLES MURGIE alleged

"Marta" member has provided a hide-out for SEBASTIAN JOHN

LA ROCCA and GABRIEL MANNARINO since their disappearance from

the Pittsburgh area.

17. Will follow and report prosecution of TOM TANNAS.

18. Will at the Heinz Company Office, North Side, Pittsburgh,

concerning

hiding out an Italian wanted by the New Kensington Police

Department who may be identical with GABRIEL MANNARINO.

19. Will recontact WILLIAM BRAIN, Detective, Allegheny

County Detective Bureau, regarding the report that the

MANNARINO brothers are backing bingo games operating in

McKeesport, Pa.

*20. Will recontact PCI ALFRED CHARIES ZAPPA concerning

-the report that the MANNARINO brothers have a numbers

1926 Murray Avenue, involving

MANNARINO organization in New Kensington.

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*21. Wiil maintain contact with informants concerning the

-allegation VICTOR CARLUCCI anâ SAMUEL MANNARINO have brought

undue pressure to bear upon operators of bars and after hours

clubs in New Kensington to purchase Stoney Beer instead

of Rolling Rock Beer or risk losing pinball machines in

their establishments.

CRIMINAL INFORMANT COVERAGE

PG 545-C

PG 564-C

WALTER J. SHARKEY, confidential source

MIKE ZERVOS, confidential source

As a matter of information WALTER J. SHARKEY was forced to

retire from the New Kensington Police Department In 1956

because of a heart attack.

He was recently re-examined

by his doctor and pronounced physically fit to return to

duty and is now walking a beat in downtown New Kensington.

In view of SHARKEY'S

reinstatement on the New Kensington

Police Force he no longer qualified as an informant and his

PCI file was closed administratively.

In the future

SHARKEY will be contacted as a confidential

source.

By letter dated July 15, 1958, the Bureau was advised of

the close acquaintance

of former PCI MIKE ZERVOS with

Assistant Attorney General D. MALCOLM ANDERSON, U. S. Department

of Justice..

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The Prentice Hall Tax Service Book reviewed by SA KILGORE

indicates that the United States tax treaty with Greece

was ratified on December 30, 1953 to become effective

January 1, 1954. The Prentice Hall Tax Service

indicates

that the tax treaty with certain countries

exempts income from rents and royalties from real property

taxation; however, Greece is not among those countries.

I-2, who has furnished reliable information in the past.-

on July 16, 1958, advised that Mrs. KALIOPI HAZIDAKIS,

wife of MIKE HAZIDAKIS, left New Kensington, Pa., in 1952

with her son, GEORGE, to return to Greece permanently

because she discovered that HAzIDAn,was having extra-

marital relations with Mrs. JULLA ISANGARAKIS, age •

BARKIX 1913

approximately 45,

of New Kensington.

T-2 said HAZIDAKIS

has confided to him in the past that he has been having

PA

sexual relations with the TSANGARAKIS woman regularly

since the late forties with the permission of her husband,

GEORGE, age approximately 65, apparently because GEORGE

has, for some time, been incapable of having sexual

relations because of his advanced age and physical condition.

According to I-2, HAZIDAKIS recently mentioned that he has

not been seeing a great deal of the ISANGARAKIS woman for

the past year since she began dating Mayor RAYMOND CARDLOCK

of New Kensington:

T-2 pointed out that it is no secret in

New Kensington that GARDLOCK has been seen in public in

New Kensington with the TSANGARAKIS woman during

the past

year.

PA

T-2 explained that TSANGARAKIS and her husband own and

operate a small restaurant on Constitution Boulevard in

New Kensington, have two or three grown children and have

living quarters

above the restaurant.

MrS. HELEN KIDO, clerk of the Credit Bureau of New Kensington

and Arnold, on July 18, 1958, advised from records that

GEORGE TSANGARAKIS and

in October, 1955, and live in an apartment above the

in ave union apartment above e

luncheonette.

As a matter of background information, KIDO

stated that Mr. and Mrs. TSANGARAKIS formerly owned the

Casa Blanca and International Restaurants in New Kensington

for a number of years before buying the luncheonette in

1955 with a down payment of $5,000. KIDO added that

CHARLES and NELLE BEACON, address unknown, of New Kensington,

have an $8,000 mortgage

on the luncheonette.

KIDO identified

the children of Mr. and Mrs. TSANGARAKIS as

MATTHEW, age 22,

and MARY, age 20.

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IONATANNAS, FBI NO: 356490A

PA.

It is recalled that TANNAS has been the subject of a

Fraud Against the Government Investigation in connection

with his application for a $60,000 loan through the

Small Business Administration as Treasurer of the Warrington

Five and Ten Cents Stores, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pa.

would authorize prosecution of TANNAS under Title 15,

Section 638,

U.S. Code, for making false statements

the Small Business Administration in connection with his

application for the $60,000 loan.

On July 14, 1958, an authorized complaint was filed

before U. S. District Judge WALLACE S.

GOURLEY by SA FORsyTh

and a warrant was issued the same date.

TANNAS was apprehended by SAS FORSYTH and DOUCE in his

office In the City Hall, Arnold, Pa., July 14, 1958, and

taken before U. S. District Judge GOURLEY where he waived

preliminary hearing, was

released on his own recognizance,

and given until July 18, 1958, to post $250 bond.

" "Pittsburgh Press,"

The "Pittsburgh Post-Gazety "New Kensington Daily Dispatch,"

"Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph,"

and the "Tarentum Valley News," July 15, 1958, editions,

featured page one stories and pictures regarding the

arrest of TANNAS, linking him with racket

"kingpin"

GABRIEI, MANNARINO of Westmoreland County.

LOUIS MACCHARULO, FBI NO. 340922

(Louis Milano)

PA: OHIO: NI

I-2, on July 18, 1958, examined a photograph of MACCHARULO

positively identified him as the individual he

previously referred to as LOUIS MILANO, a dealer and part-

time supervisor at the Triangle Billiards Gambling Casino

emphasized that there could be absolutely no mistake in

his identification of MACCHARULO since they served time

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INFORMANTS

T-1 1s

JEK Law 11 (a)

T-3 Is JACK L. MC INTYRE, Western Pennsylvania Sales

Representative, for the Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania,

contacted by SA RICHARD GORDON DOUCE.

T-4 1s CI 293-0 contacted by SA THEODORE O. THOMAS.

T-5 is CI 294-C contacted by SA THEODORE O. THOMA.

I-6 is WILLIAM THOMAS ARNETT, PCI, contacted by an unidentified

agent of the Memphis Office.

I-7 1S SI 1094-C contacted by SA EDWARD M. MORELAND.

I-8 is SL 1065-C contacted by SA EDWARD M. MORELAND.

I-9 is ROBERT LEO VAUGHN, PCI, contacted by SA MORELAND.

T-10 1S VERNA HOLTENREITER, PCI, contacted by SA MORELAND.

T-11 is CV 344-C contacted by SA FRANK DOUDS.

T-12 is ROCCO SCHIRALLI, PCI of Indianapolis Office, contacted

by SA GILBERT L. HAMILTON.

I-13 1s LA 3843-C contacted by SA LOGAN J. LANE.

I-14 is DUDLEY BARTKO, Manager, California Water and Telephone

Company, Palm Springs, California, contacted by SA STANLEY H.

FUEHRER.

T-15 iS LEON EPSHTEIN, Pittsburgh jeweler, contacted by SA JOHN

S. PORTELLA.

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T-16 is JOSEPH KERNAN, PCI of Miami Office, contacted by

SA ROBERT K. LEWIS.

I-17 1S WALTER J. SHARKEY, confidential source, contacted

by SA RICHARD GORDON DOUCE.

T-18 is WILLIAM BRAIN, Detective, Allegheny County Detective

Bureau, Pittsburgh, contacted by SA GENE H. STUDEBAKER.

T-19 is MM 644-0 contacted by SA WILLIAM L. EDDY. The Miami

office on July 1, 1958, advised that extreme caution should

be given to information furnished by MM 644-0 and no dissemination

should be made which would in any way compromise his identity.

T-20 is PG 509-C contacted by SA JOHN S. PORTELLA.

T-21 is an anonymous informant who contacted Assistant Attorney

General D. MALCOLM ANDERSON, U. S. Department of Justice, by

letter dated June 16, 1950; offering to furnish information

regarding the activities of several Pittsburgh top hoodlums.

The anonymous informant in his letter of June 16, 1958,

suggested that an ad be inserted in the personal column

of the "Pittsburgh Press"

an address where he could write to Mr. ANDERSON personally.

A post office box has been rented by the Pittsburgh Office

and

several letters regarding the activities of Pittsburgh

top hoodlums received to date.

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