Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: CG
To: HQ
Document date: 10/1/64
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

4/28/201

AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-90059-10078

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 92-3088-1113

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Note].

Case#:NW 56792 Date:

04-10-2018

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

CG

TO :

HQ

TITLE:

DATE:

PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

10/01/1964

6

MURRAY L. HUMPHREYS

RICHARD CAIN

DOCUMENT TYPE :

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION:

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS :

4; 10(a)2

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 06/12/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

AT

v9.1

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FD-36 (Rev. 10-29-63)

Transmit the following in

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Date:

10/1/64

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TO

FROM

:

SUBJECT:

DIRECTOR, FBI

SAC, CHICAGO (92-350 Sub 11)

MURRAY L. HUMPHREYS, aka

JUNE

5=

SUMMARY

EXTREME CAUTION SHOULD BE EXERCISED IN THE USE OF

THIS INFORMATION.

IT SHOULD NOT BE INCLUDED IN THE BODY OF

A REPORT EVEN THOUGH PARAPHRASED. IT SHOULD NOT BE USED IN

LEAD COVERAGE OR AS THE BASIS FOR AN INTERVIEW UNLESS SPECIFIC

CLEARANCE IS OBTAINED FROM THE BUREAU AND FROM CHICAGO.

THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DELICATE AND SENSITIVE SOURCE WHICH THE

CHICAGO OFFICE IS MAKING EVERY EFFORT TO FULLY PROTECT.

CG 6758-C* furnished information concerning

activities on 9/25/64.

On 9/25/64, MIKE BRODKIN returned from lunch

with Chicago former bookmaker JOE EPSTEIN. Apparently when

he returned, BRODKIN received a message to call FRED "JUKEBOX"

SMITH.

It is noted SMITH is a CI of the Chicago Office.

BRODKIN inquired of his secretary if she remembered " JUKEBOX

SMITTY," and she replied that she knew him, and had met him.

EPSTEIN. then asked BRODKIN, "How is JUKEBOX?"

BRODHIN repLIed,

3 - Bureau (REGISTERED)

1 - Miami (REGISTERED)

1 - Chicago

WFR/krp

(5)

EW. FE654: 92-3088-1113

B OCTO

p 1964

6

Approved:

4751

Special Agent in Charge

OCT19

: 1964

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CG 92-350 Sub 11

" JUKEBOX? JUKEBOX iS JUKEBOX."

EPSTEIN then advised BRODKIN that HENRY

FRIEDENBERG is going to pick him up and that they were going

to call on some accounts which HENRY has for EPSTEIN. It

is noted that FRIEDENBERG is the subject of a ITW case

in the Chicago Office, and that he is the owner of Acacia

Press, the printers of lottery tickets.

At this point, BRODKIN's secretary advised

him that she could not reach SMITH at the number left.

FRIEDENBERG arrived in the office at this

point and advised

BRODKIN and EPSTEIN that they would

conduct their business on that date, but that they would

also of necessity have to visit BILL KAPLAN in the hospital.

FRIEDENBERG indicated that KAPLAN is getting better, buf

continues to be bedridden.

or met de 6272-01

It is noted that KAPLAN is

identical with former CG 6272-C,

and is the subject of an

investigation in this office entitled "ANGEL-KAPLAN

SPORTS NEWS SERVICE, " CGfile 165-1.

Contact

with the sister of KAPLAN determined

that KAPLAN has been confined to the hospital and to a rest

home since May 4, 1964, and has suffered his third and

fourth heart attacks innthe past five months. It is

noted that the Assistant U.S.

prosecution oi KAPLAN intends to call

At the present

time KAPLAN is confined in Room 417 at Columbus Hospital.

LEON KESSLER, an associate attorney in the

office of Bieber & Brodkin, then conferred with BRODKIN

concerning the fact that his neighbor, one HOWARD WEINER

(ph), who is a neighbor of KESSLER in Deerfield, Illinois,

"got mixed up in an interstate theft case and is

presently confined awaiting bond."

BRODKIN then made a

telephone call to Chicago bondsman EDDIE MORRIS and

instructed MORRIS to go over to the Commissioner's office

and make bond for WEINER. BRODKIN indicated that "we want

JFK Law 10(a) 2

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