Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: HAV
To: HQ
Document date: 02/25/1958
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:

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Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

FBI

124-90068-10070

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 62-75147-210-NR

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM:

HAV

TO: HQ

TITLE :

DATE: 02/25/1958

PAGES:

1

SUBJECTS :

AMERICAN GAMBLERS IN CUBA

AMERICAN GAMBLING ACTIVITIES IN CUBA

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS : 4•

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 06/24/1998

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Assassination Records

Election Act of 1992 (44 056 2147 Hote).

ALL INFORMATION CONTAIN

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

DATES/12/82 BYSPYIe

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SUD/ISR

Director, FBI

February 25, 1958

1-18-99

Legat, Havana (92-11

Havana (83-1'0 G. I,I.E- Cuba

FRANK ERICKSON

TOP HOODLUM PROGRAM

ANTI-RACKETEERING

Reference New York memorandum dated February 6, 1958.

advised

On January 31,

1958, PCI Goffredo Cellini (conceal)

that a meeting of important people was being held in Havana

on that date concerning the gambling casino to be operated in the

Havana-Hilton Hotel which was soon to be opened.

Cellini stated'

that CLiFF JONES, former Lleutenant Governor of Nevada, Would be

at this meeting. m

On the same date, ALFRED FRANCIS, who is employed in the

casino at the Hotel Nacional, advised that JAKE LANSkY was meeting

with MEYER LANSKY in the latter's apartment located on Calle 12 in

the Vedado Section of Havana.

A spot check of the residence of

MEYER LANSKY on this same date reflected the presence of the

automobile of SANTO TRAFFICANTE, JR., at the apartment. Since

ERICKSON was in Havana on this date, it is highly possible that

he was in attendance at this meeting. m

It should ibe noted that both PCI Goffredo Cellini and

Arthur Newman, who works as credit manager in the casino at the

Hotel Nacional, have advised that BURT BRIGGS, who is employed as

a dealer at the Nacional, is FRANK ERICKSON's representative in

•Cuba.

As the Legat, Havana,

has previously advised, ERICKSON

arrived at the Hotel Havana-Riviera on January 6, 1958. PCI Cellini

advised on January 15, 1958, that BRIGGS left the gambling casino

at the Hotel Nacional

for a

period of two hours on January

• 17, 1958,

to see ERICKSON.

ERICKSON was observed both at the Nacional

and

Havana -Riviera

greeting gambling acquaintances on numerous occasion

in the casinos.

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JACK LIEBERBAUM, part owner of the Hotel Capri in Havana

(conceal), advised on February 3, 1958, that he had heard that

ERICKSON

secretly owns 38% of the gambling casino operation in

the Hotel Nacional and also has a strong secret minority interest

in the Hotel Havana-Riviera. M

Investigation

In Havana is continui

this letter have been prepared for forwarding

MAR

Yogk1958 Miami offices for

information.

coples o1

Ereau to the

10 1958

DUB LEG A

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