Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: MM
To: HQ
Document date: 02/27/1969
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

FBI

124-90154-10148

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

CR 162-1244-29

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FROM:

TO :

TITLE :

FBI

MM

HQ

DATE: 02/27/1969

PAGES:

21

SUBJECTS :

DAN PETERS

MICHAEL MCLANEY

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS:

CURRENT STATUS:

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DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 10/30/1998

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advise whether or not PETERS certified his credit at

the casino, the extent of his win or loss, how the loss

was paid and where and whether or mt a collector has been

in contact with him from the casino.

AT CHAMBLEE, GEORGIA:

Will interview NATHAN TEPLIS, 3201 Henderson Mill

Road, Apartment 4A, Chamblee, Georgia.

TEPLIs should be

interviewed along the same lines as set forth

in the

interview for MOZIER.

PHILADELPHIA:

AT PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA:

1. Will interview N. H. CHARLAP, Philadelphia

Apartments #8-C41, 2401 Pennsylvania Avenue, Philadelphia.

The interview of CHARLAP should follow the request made

concerning the interview HARRY MOZIER. See Atlanta lead

#1.

2. Will interview sources covering the activities

Of ANGELO BRUNO and the activities at the Colony Club, London,

England to determine what reaction has been felt concerning

the ousting of DAN PETERS by the Bahamas Government.

NEW YORK:

AT NEW YORK, NEW YORK:

1.

Will contact NY 5593-C-TE and other available

sources covering FRANK RITTER and MAX COURTNEY and will

contact sources furnishing information concerning the MEYER

LANSKY group to determine the reaction of the New York sources

relative to the action taken by the Bahamas Government in

declaring DAN "DUSTY" PETERS undesirable.

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As New York is aware, PETERS is reported to have

been a personal courier of MEYER LANSKY in his work at

the Grand Bahamas casinos.

New York is referred to letter dated February

7, 1969 in this case.

It is noted that New York indices

were negative concerning ERWIN BRACA (public relations)

Seventh Avenue and 56th Street, New York City.

It is

probable that BRACA may be identical with ERNIE BRACA

who is associated with Braca and Farrell in the operation

of junket flights

from the New York area to gambling casinos.

MIAMI:

AT MIAMI, FLORIDA:

1.

Will maintain contact with informants and

sources covering the activities of DAN PETERS.

2. Will continue to maintain spot physical

surveillances of PETERS to identify his contacts.

ADMINISTRATIVE:

The spot physical surveillances of DAN PETERS

have been conducted by SA FRANK J. SMITH.

The extended period of this report is due to the

reporting of information received by this office subsequent

to the submission of the referenced report.

On December 17, 1968, STANLEY R. MOIR, Assistant

Commissioner - Crime, Bahamas Police Force, advised SA FRANK

J. SMITH that he was

in the process of preparing a memorandum

(G-N4)

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on DAN "DUSTY" PETERS which would be submitted to the

Commissioner of Police.

The purpose of this memorandum

was to recommend that

PETERS be excluded from the

Bahamas

and his association with the Bahamas Amusement Company,

Ltd. severed. Commissioner MOIR said that this memorandum

would include information properly paraphrased and confidentially

reported reflecting PETERS'

association with members of

the organized criminal element and specifically his

association with MEYER LANSKY, (G-1)(ü)

Commissioner MOIR mentioned that information

revealed in the Royal Commission of Inquiry would also be

Incorporated into the memorandum. (G-(u)

MOIR said that his purpose for contacting SA SMITH

was simply to determine whether or not there had been any

change

in PETERS' status and association with members of

the organized criminal element. (4) (4)

MOIR was advised that the information furnished

to him concerning PETERS (with Bureau approval) has not

changed and that PETERS is still believed to be associated

with members of the MEYER LANSKY organization. (G-1)(u)

Mr. MOIR advised that he felt certain that the

action to remove PETERS would be approved. (1)(ul

On January 27, 1969, MOIR called the Miami Office

to advise that the Bahamas Immigration Office had notified

PETERS: that he had been declared undesirable and that his

ervices with the Bahamas Amusement Company would have to b

severed. (G-i)u

INFORMANTS:

MM T-1 is MM 848-C-TE.

MM T-2 is MM 509-C.-

MM T-3 is former MM 764-C-TE.

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FD-204 (Rev. 3-3-59)

UN-ED STATES DEPARTMENT OF J.STICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Copy to:

Report of:

Date:

Field Office File #:

Title:

1 - U. S. Attorney, Miami, Florida

FRANK J. SMITH

February 27, 1969

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DAN. PETERS

Offices Miami, Florida

Bureau File #:

162-1244

Character:

ANTI-RACKETEERING - INTERSTATE GAMBLING ACTIVITIES

Synopsis:

DAN "DUSTY" PETERS employed in "public relations" capacity

Bahamas Amusement Co., Ltd., Freeport,

Grand Bahamas declared

"undesirable" by Bahamas Government on 1/27/69.

He will be

denied

admittance to Bahamas and his relationship with

Bahamas Amusement Co., Ltd. severed.

based

Action against PETERS

on PETERS' reported ties to MEYER LANSKY and organized

crime.

Contacts being identified.

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DETAILS:

RESIDENCE AND EMPLOYMENT:

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIEY #34, 346

DATE 2/21135

BYGI SSANOL

5-5-95

On December 17, 1968, STANLEY R. MOIR Assistant

Commissioner - Crime, Bahamas

Police Force, Nassau, Bahamas,

advised that a recommendation

was being submitted by the

Bahamas Police Force to the Bahamas Government that DAN

"DUSTY" PETERS be declared "undesirable". This action was

being taken in view of testimony given before the Royal

Commission of Inquiry into gambling reflecting PETERS' reported

ties with MEYER LANSKY and members of the organized criminal

element.

On January 27, 1969, Assistant Commissioner MOIR

advised that DAN PETERS

had been advised by W.

V. GRANGER,

Commissioner of Immigation, Bahamas,

that he had

been found

to be "undesirable" and that he would not be admitted to the

Bahamas in the future.

Commissioner MOIR advised that this

action taken by the Bahamas

This document contans neither recommendations nor conclusions of

your agency; It and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.

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PETERS' employment with the Bahamas Amusement Company, Ltd.,

Freeport, Grand Bahamas.

A spot physical surveillance conducted February

18, 1969 revealed that DAN PETERS continues to reside with

his wife at the Seasons Apartments, 5005 Collins Avenue,

Miami Beach.

ACTIVITIES - ASSOCIATES:

MM T-1 advised on November 25, 1968 that DAN PETERS

7A, and HERMANKSTARK continued to make weekly trips to Freeport,

Grand Bahamas in connection with employment by the Bahamas

Amusement Company and promotion of El Casino and the Monte

Carlo casino, Freeport. Informant also advised that PETERS

worked closely with Farrell and Braca of New York City in

arranging junket flights to the casinos from New York.

Informant reported that the continued presence of

DAN PETERS with the Bahamas Amusement Company indicated to

him that members of the MEYER LANSKY organization continued

to exert control over casino gambling in the Freeport area.

MM T-2 advised on February

2 and 13, 1969 that

considerable speculation was being made by the Miami

Beach gambling group over the dismissal of DAN PETERS from

the casinos in Freeport. Source advised that PETERS was

probably "double crossed" by the hoodlum element. It was

also speculated that PETERS might have been caught in the

middle in view of his reported friendship with MIKEYNC LANEY

who had recently been declared "undesirable" by the Bahamas

Government.

MM T-3 advised that it

was speculated that DAN

PETERS' "ouster" by the Bahamas

taken by FRANS RITTER and MAX COURTNEY who at this time may

naye reported to authorities concertine DAN PureRs activities

and associations with the organized criminal element.

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