Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: DL
To: HQ
Document date: 07/18/1963
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:

6/1/2015

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-90091-10066

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

166-636-2

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FROM:

FEL

TO: HQ

TITLE:

DATE: 07/18/1963

PAGES:

11

SUBJECTS :

RUSSELL DOUGLAS MATTHEWS

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 07/16/1998

OPENING CRITERIA : INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

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

DATE: 11-14-2017

DL 166-102

on 4/3/63, DL 182-PC, advised that he 1s well

acquainted with captioned subject and

stated that the

subject had been in Hot Springs, Arkansas about the

middle of March, 1963.

He also advised on this date

that MATTHEWS had left Dallas, Texas on the morning of

4/3/63 en route to Hot Springs, Arkansas via Oklahoma

BARNES and MATTHEWS were to met some unknown individual

In Hot Springs, Arkansas.

on 4/7/63, Informant stated that MATTHEWS

had returned to Dallas and residing with his daughter,

PEGGY ANN MATTHEWS, who is employed at the Texas State

Bank and Trust Company in the Credit Department. Infor-

mant stated his present telephone number was TA 1-0087.

On 5/3/63, Lt. JACK REVILI, Criminal Intelligence

Section, Dallas, PD, stated that information had been

developed that MATTHEWS had recently contacted one.

GEORGE, BOX, Shreveport, Louisiana, telephone number

423-9427 concerning a

"two day score". He had

also contacted a JIM BLACKWELL of Laurel, Mississippl

telephone #425-1702.

According to REVILL, MATTHEWS

was spending a

considerable amount of time attempting

to raise enough money to obtain the release, on bond,

of his friend,

GEORGE

FUQUA, who was recently incar-

cerated

8 at. the kansas

Sate Penitentiary®

REVILL stated that according to their source,

MATTHEWS has been in contact with JOHN ELISTONE, a TeXas

known Dallas bookmaker and gambler, TOMMy TOILS, a known

Ft. Worth gambles, SOFIE/CEBRON, a Dallas bookmaker, and

GOERCE EDWARD BARNES, a known gambler from Oklahoma City,

Oklahoma.

According

open a gambling club located somewhere on the west side

on the West

nee here a county had docoa in 150 our era te

the county as there is too much

"Federal heat" created by the operation of a gambling

joint @erated on the East side of Tarrant County.

REVILL stated that source has been in contact

with CLARK BOYD HAMILTON, a known Dallas highjacker

and hoodlum.

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