Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: BA
To: HQ
Document date: 5/9/63
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote).

DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK Assassination System

Date:

6/11/201

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-90097-10018

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

166-637-2

Document Information

ORIGINATOR :

FBI

FROM:

BA

TO: HQ

TITLE :

DATE:

PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

05/09/1963

3

CHARLES TOURINE

JOSEPH FRANCIS NESLINE

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW:

07/20/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

MEMO

v9.1

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

DATE: 11-14-2017

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

MEMORANDUM

TO - : DIRECTOR, FBI

TOFFROM : SAC, BALTIMORE

(166-63) -P-

SUBJECT:

JOSEPH FRANCIS NESLINE, aka

ITAR •

DATE: 5/9/63

166-637-11

Re Bureau letter to Baltimore and WFO 4/10/63.

Re WFO airtel to Bureau 5/8/63:

Re Norfolk and WFO letters dated 4/3/03 and 4/25/63

respectively to Baltimore, New York, and Philadelphia captioned

'Gambling Establishment in La Plata, Maryland, ITAR.

For information of Bureau re Norfolk letter furnished

information from Norfolk Police Department that in March 1963

a gambling establishment had been opened near La Plata, Ma.,

and that gamblers came there from Baltimore, Philadelphia,

New York, and Washington, D.C.

By referenced letter dated 4/25/63 WFO advised the

offices indicated that a gambling casino established by JOSEPH

FRANCIS NESLINE and JOHN RALPH MITCHELL, aka Billy Mitchell,

on a large estate and hunting lodge at Ripley, Maryland, near

La Plata, Md., In March 1963 had been closed for an indefinite

period soon after opening due to pressure of local law enforcement

officers.

This information had been received from WFO

informants.

By airtel 4/30/63 Richmond advised WFO and Baltimore

that on 4/30/63 RH 95-C had learned from FRANCIS A. "JIGGS"

SIMPSON and LANGHORNE CARTER RORER that the dice game formerly

run by JOSEPH FRANCIS NESLINE and his partner in Maryland had

3, Bureau

2-New York (1-92-869) (Info)

(1-166-

) (NESTINE)

2-Norfolk (1-92-29) (Info)

(1-166-

(NESLINE)

2-Philadelphia (1-922476) (info)

(1-166-

) (NESLINE)

REC 69, 66= 1637-2

2-Richmond (1-92-79) (Info)

12 MAY 10 1963

(1-92-81 ( M190HELL)

3-Baitimore

(1-92-99) (NESLINE.):

(1-92-101) (MITCHELL)

JSR/dvr

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