Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: TP
To: HQ
Document date: 2/8/63
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/5/2015

AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10354-10123

RECORD SERIES: NY

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ELSUR 92-846-238

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM:

TP

TO: HQ

TITLE:

DATE: 02/08/1963

PAGES:

15

SUBJECTS :

MULTI SUBJECT: SGI, LST, JRO, CM

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 09/14/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

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TP 92-1

LEADS:

NIW YORK DIVISION

AT NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK

Will contact PCI BOBBY EDWARDS and endeavor to

obtain further information relative to his allegation that

TRAFFICANTE was in New York City

and whom he states he met

in the company of JOSEPH STASSI "last week', noting he

advised this on 11/28/62, and endeavor to establish

where subject stayed while in New York.

Will report results of interview with ENRIQUE GARCIA,

80-45 Kew Garden Road, Richmond Hill, New York, Inasmuch as

Miami Office advised New York by letter dated 1/18/63 that

such interview would not compromise source of information.

Will contact other informants who may be in a

position to know of subject's being in New York City just

prior to 11/28/62 for any and all information concerning

such visit of subject.

MIAMI DIVISION

AT MIAMI, FLORIDA

Will continue intensification of subject's

activities and residence,

further establishing highly

confidential Bureau coverage, establishing trash coverage

as well as mail cover.

Will note

that no further information

has been developed concerning subject's visit to Brazil

but that LOUIS P. BRADY, subject of a separate file in

the

Miami Office, had in his

possession, when he was arrested on

1/4/63 by the Tampa PD, a copy of a

motel bill number 20964

from the Aloha Motel,

7500 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, Fla.,

showing that probably BRADY as LUIZ PAULINO BAILEY giving

the

address of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, had apparently

stayed at such motel April and May of

1962 and an appropriate

investigation of this matter may establish that BRADY and

subject went together to Brazil, further

noting that BRADY

also had in his possession a slip of paper oncerning gambling

equipment, noting it was

probably to be shipped via

COVER

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TP 92-1

"Wappen Von Hamburg". and on the right top of the note was

"check with FBI"

Will maintäin contact with CIs in a position to

know and report of subject's constant activities while

in

Miami,

further noting that a PCI of

the New York Office

reported subject was in New York City probably a week before

11/28/62 and will, therefore,

endeavor

to establish

coverage

of Miami International Airport for any flights subject

may take.

TAMPA DIVISION

AT COCOA BEACH, FLORIDA

Will maintain contact with TP 94-C regarding

all possible contacts he may establish

with the subject,

noting that should this source meet with subject, highly

confidential

Bureau coverage should be established. It

is noted that a source at Miami has reported that subject

may be interested in some land deals with JOSEPH INDELICATO

(JOE SCOOTCH) •

It should be noted that if any individuals meeting

with the subject at Cocoa Beach has been reported by

TP 94-C, highly confidential Bureau coverage should be

established.

AT TAMPA, FLORIDA

Will report results of investigation by Legat,

Rio de Janeiro, concerning subject's alleged travel there.

Guatemala:

Will expand highly confidential Bureau coverage

on subject's

associates and maintain contact with sources

of information as

well as CIs concerning

subject's activities

when 'in the Tampa area.

ADMINISTRATIVE:

C

COVER

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TP. 92-1

One copy

of

this report is furnished the Atlanta

and Houston Offices inasmuch as

such offices

have been

requested by leads previously set forth to interview

subscribers to telephones called in their division.

Information set forth on FD-302s concerning

investigation at Atlanta,

Ga., was obtained from Mrs.

Secretary,

MARLE To Peachtree Street N.D., Atlanta.

Security Division, S.B.T and I.

Company

Information from the records of General Telephone

Company of Florida as set forth

on FD-302 by IC HENRY E

MC

INTURFF

was furnished by Mr. WILLIAM CARR, Commercial

Manager, General Telephone Company of Florida.

INFORMANT'S:

TP T-I is PCI BOBBY EDWARDS, New York Office.

TP T-2 is NK 2145-C.

TP. T-3 15 JERRY GREITZER, former NYC PCI,

now Wall Kill Prison inmate No. 7739.

TP T-4 is PCI SAM SPITZER, NYC.

TP T-5 is MM 845-C* as reported in Miami letter to

Boston 1/3/63 in case entitled "CRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE PROGRAN,

MIAMI DIVISION; AR"•

TP 1-6 Is TP 94-C as reported in Tampa letter to

Miami dated 1/14/63 in case entitled "CRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE

PROGRAM, TAMPA DIVISION; AR"

TP T-7 is PETER GIAMPAPA, Miami, (owner of the

1961 Falcon)•

TP T-8 is MM 829-PC.

TP T-9 Is DOMINICK LA ROCA, PCI, Tampa.

TP T-10 is TP 50-C.

TP T-11 is TP. 80-C*.

COVER

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Copy 10:

Report ofs

Date:

Field Office File Mi

Title:

SA STEPHEN

J. LABADIE

FEB 8

1963

TP. 92-1

SANTO TRAFFICANTE,

JR.

Offlee, TAHPA

Bureau Fllo Mi: 92-2781

Character:

ANTI-RACKETEERING

Synopsis:

Subject was reported by a source to have been

in New York City a week prior to 11/28/62 in

the company of JOE STASSI at the Stage

Delicatessen and whom source gathered was a

big man in Florida gambling.

Confidential

sources at Miami, Florida, indicate subject

may be an arbiter between numerous Italian

figures in the Florida area and may be

considered on an equal rank with RAYMOND

PATRIARCA, Providence, Rhode Island.

Confidential sources indicate subject

respected by racket figures in the Miami

area

where apparently subject has a right

hand man of STEFANO ANTHONY RANDAZZO.

Source returned from Miami to Tampa,

Florida,

1/2/63 when observed at his Tampa residence

in company of LOUIS P. BRADY,

JAMES C. LONGO

and previously reported unidentified individual

KENNETH LEON GUTHRIE, identified as an installer,

General Telephone Company of Florida, Tampa,

Florida. Subject not reported in Tampa after

the above date but again returned Saturday,

1/19/63, and in attendance at a wedding and

reception held on same date and source indicated

subject after such attendance at wedding returned

to Miami, Florida.

Subject last reported as

observed

at Fountainbleau Hotel, Miami Beach,

Florida, 1/31/63. Nothing of significance

developed concerning check of telephone

subscribers:

SUBJECT SHOULD BE CONSIDERED

ARMED AND DANGEROUS DUE 10 HIS EXTENSIVE PAST

ASSOCLATING IN CREENAG ACTINATES.

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This document contans neither recommendations nor conclusions. of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and le loaned to

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

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TP 9241

DETAILS:

PERSONAL HISTORY AND BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Subject continues to reside at 523 N.E.

71s*

Street,

Mani, Florida,

and during

the period"of this

report visited Tampa, Florida, for the wedding;

on

January 19, 1963, of

his nephew, JOSE SANTO TRAFFICANTE,

tO JERRY VALENTI,

JOSE being the son of subject's oldest

brother, FRANK CACCIATORE TRAFFICANTE of 705 W

Alfred,

Tampa, Florida.

Subject has been observed at his Miami residence

since above:

II. SUBJECT'S ACTIVITIES

A. Subject reported in New York City.

On November 28, 1962, TP T-1 advised SA DONALD E.

JONES that he sees JOE ROGERS, true name JOSEPH Stass, on

a daily basis when ROGERS is in New York City. He stated

he was with ROGERS last week at the Stage Delicatessen,

54th Street and 7th Avenue and ROGERS introduced him to

SANTO TRAFFICANTE. Source stated that TRAFFICANTE was

with three other man and he got the impression from

ROGERS that TRAFFICANTE is a "very big man" in gambling

in Florida.

TP T-2 advised in June, 1960, that the STASSI

rothers JOE; TONY and du, run

one of the biggest crap

sames in New York City and formerly operated a gambling

casino in Havana, Cuba.

TP T-3 advised SA JACK. H. LUPTON on December 18,

1962, after being recontacted in the State of New York

relative to information this

same source previously reported

concerning going to Key West, Florida and being in Tampa,

Florida, source stated that he had been thinking about

subject

contacted and the name

on teet mated alece can a package in Florida Is

TONY DIAZ:

It was source's recollection that this individual

was from Tampa, Florida, and he

could recall nothing

further relative to the matter.

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TP 92-1

On January 31,

1962, subject was observed

having lungh alone in the coffee shop of the Fountainbleau

Motel

on Miami

Beach.

On

January 30,

1963, Mrs. IRELAND SMITHY ALFONSO,

1001 N.W. 18th Place, Miami,

telephone FR

4-2906 advised

SA JACK I. MARSHALL that she did not know anyone named

SIDNEY HOROWITZ, aka., Sidney Howard nor SANTO TRAFFICANTE.

MY RALPH ALFONSO, her husband, advised on

the

same date that he was from Tampa, Florida, went to school

with the subject but has not seen nor heard nor been

in touch with him for many years. Mr. ALFONSO said he

does not know HOROWITZ and the only persons he contacts in

Tampa are members of his family

On January 24, 1963, TP T-8 advised that he has

the subject for a

has

had

been in his office a few weeks prior to this interview

but declined to discuss any specific matters relative

to the subject inasmuch as he was a client. Source

made

the comment that subject has a very unusual personality

and appears to have considerable influence but is the

type of person that "one can never feel

close to"

D. At Tampa, Florida:

As previously reported, Sgt. JACK DE LA LLANA,

Intelligence Unit, Tampa Police Department, advised

that relative to the 1956 Cadillac that appeared at

2505 Bristol Avenue on the evening of January 2, 1963, he

had subsequently ascertained through auto tag registrations

on the vehicle which had born 1962 Florida license

3W-51546 that such was

transferred on

June 8, 1962 to KENNETH

GUTHRIE,

4008 Taliaferro, Tampa.

He said this vehicle

followed by he and Officer CLAYTON BRIGGS to the

residence of 206 W. Cayuga, Tampa, which was the residence

Of KENNETH LEON GUTHRIE, who is employed as an installer

for the General Telephone Company of Florida.

Since subject was last reported on the night of

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