Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: NY
To: HQ
Document date: 08/28/1963
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/26/201

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-90066-10156

RECORD SERIES:

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 92-6951-1

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

NY

TO: HQ

TITLE:

DATE: 08/28/1963

PAGES:

17

SUBJECTS :

SALVATORE GRANELLO

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS:

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CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 06/24/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS:

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ADMINISTRATIVE (CONT' D)

It is to be further noted that, based upon

information supplied by NY 169-0 to the effect that

LOUIS GUIGA was a downtown, East Side

Manhattan "button

Nostra" since it was initially belleved that BONANNO 's

territorial allocation within the organization included

the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

Subsequent investigation, however, has determined

that territorial rights relative to the Lower East Side

of Manhattan are not assigned exclusively to one particu

lar "family".

In view of this development and that fact that

NY 169-C has expressed the belief that GUIGA operates

with and under SOLLY BURNS (SALVATORE GRANELLO, who

has been identified as a member of the VITO GENOVESE

"family"', LOUIS CHARLES GUIGA 18 now being considered

a member of the VITO GENOVESE "family".

Information set forth in instant report under

the caption "E. HANGOUTS AND PLACES FREQUENTED" indicating

the Rex Bar and Grill, Grand Street,

Manhattan, was owned

by an uncle of LOUIS GUIGA, is located in case

captioned

"NATHAN KLEMAS, was., ET AL; TFIS", NY 15-10144-130,

pages 64-65.

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INFORMANTS

Identity of Source

NY T-1

JOSEPH VALACHI

NY T-2

NY 169-C

NY T-3

Former NY 3864-C-TE

NY T-4

PCI FRED A. CUTOLO

NY I-5, NY 3368-C-TH

LEADS

NEW YORK

Contacted By

SA JAMES P. FLYNN

SA PATRICK J. MOYNIHAN

SA BENJAMIN F. GRAVES

SA JOHN R. ANDERSON

SA JAMES P. FLYNN

At New York, N.Y.

1. Will, through the records of the Dept. of-

Health, Borough of Manhattan, verify subject's birth

on 12/22/27.

2. Will verify subject's residence at 228 Mott

Street, NYC and identify family members residing witr

subject at that residence.

3. Will review records of CIB, NYCPD for al1

available

background Information re subject, his associates

and activities.

4. Will review records of Records Section,

Selective Service System, 250 Livingston Street, Brooklyn,

N.f., Ior all available background information re subjecü,

family members, employments, residences and military

status.

5. Will determine subject's present employment.

6. Will contact Federal Bureau of Narcotics,

90 Church

Street, NYC for any available information re

subject.

It is to be noted that subject was arrested

10/18/61 for violation of Federal narcotic laws (conspiracy).

Will determine disposition of this arrest.

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LEADS (CONT'D)

T. Will contact NYCPD precinct covering

subject's residence to determine 1f GUIGA 1s familiar

to precinct detectives and obtain any avallable back-

ground Information re subject, his family members,

assoclates and activities.

8.

W1ll recontact ny 169-C and display photo

graph of subject to informant.

It is to be noted that

NY 169-C see pages 6 and 7 of instant report) has

oreviously described subject as a "button man"

who

operates with and under SOLLY BURNS (SALVATORE GRANELLO,

identified as a member of the VITO GÈNOVESE "famil]").

W1l1 obtain all information in Ny 169-C's possession

re subject's background, activities, associates and

affiliation with

"La Cosa Nostra".

9.

Will contact NY 3461-C-TE and NY 4018-PC,

informants familiar with members in and activities of

"La Cosa Nostra" for any information they may possess

re GUIGA's membership in "La Cosa Nostra"

10. Will contact other logical sources and

informants to determine if they are familiar with

subject and can furnish any information concerning his

background, associates and activities.

11. Upon receipt of sufficient background informa-

tion re subject, his associates and activities, will con-

sider interview of subject.

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such a car by the: end of the year. GUIGA also indicated

that

the best time to buy one of

these stolen cars

was

at the time of the big rush for license plates

(at the end or the beginning of a calendar year) since

the Motor Vehicle

Bureau would not check numbers during

such rush periods.

Ny T-1, on September 10, 1962, defined a "button

nan" as the initial step of membership for a recognized

and accepted member of the Italian criminal organization

known as "La Cosa Nostra"

SALVATORE GRANELLO, also known as Solly Burns,

FBI number 2120006, was born on June 15, 1923, at New

York City, and possesses an arrest record dating from

1940.

NY I-3, In January, 1963, described SALVATORE

GRANELLO as a member of the VITO GENOVESE "family" within

"La Cosa Nostra"

VITO ANTHONY GENOVESE, FBI number 861367, born

November 21, 1897, Risigliano, Italy, arrived in the United

States on May 23, 1913,

and was naturalized on November 25,

1936, in the Southern District of New york.

GENOVESE, an attendee at the Apalachin, New York

meeting on November 14, 1957, has been described by NY T-1

as a member of "La Cosa Nostra" and the head of the

GENOVESE "family"

He is presently serving a fifteen

year prison sentence at the United States Penitentiary,

Leavenworth, Kansas, as a result of conviction on

narcotics conspiracy charges.

2. Hijacking

NY T-4, on December 10, 1955, revealed that he

and HANK PERRONE had visited the Rex Bar and Grill, Grand

Street, Manhattan, where he was introduced to LOUIS GUIGA

and another individual described as GUIGA's partner.

During this meeting, LOUIS GUIGA discussed the possibillty

of "taking"

a Lạrge

load of liquor from a Queens, New York

express company truck which was known to pick up shipments

of liquor from the piers on a regular basis.

In discussing

this matter, GUIGA indicated that he had two good "drops"

one in Brooklyn,

the other in Harlem, and that he had a

buyer who would

take

such

a load immediately. It was

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informant's understanding that GUIGA and his cohorts

had to forego effecting this plan because of their

inability to ellcit the cooperation of the driver of

the truck involved.

3. Gambling

A review of the records of the NYCPD in 1954,

DY SA JOHN HENRY DOYLE, determined that LOUIS GUIGA,

245 Mulberry Street, Manhattan, NYCPD number B-268762,

was listed

as a gambler under consideration by the NYCPD

as a prime bookmaking suspect.

E. HANGOUTS AND PLACES FREQUENTED

NY T-2, on June 20, 1957, advised that he had

contacted LOUIE GUIGA in the

Elizabeth Bar

and Grill,

Elizabeth Street near Kenmare, New York CIty, where

GUIGA often hangs out.

NY T-4, on December 10, 1955, advised that he

nad met with HANk PERRONE at the Rex Bar and Grill,

Grand street, Manhattan, where PERRONE introduced informant

to LOUIS GUIGA.

It is to be noted that, during the course of

another investigation conducted by the Federal Bureau of

Investigation, information was obtained prior to December 10,

1955, which indicated that the above-described Rex Bar and

Grill was owned by an uncle of LOUIS GUIGA, name and address

not indicated.

F. MISCELLANEOUS

Mrs. THERESA BORELI, License Records Section,

New fork State Department of Motor Vehicles, Albany, New York,

advised IC PHILIP M. DILLON on May 27, 1963, that she

could locate no record concerning LOUIS CHARLES GUIGA, 228

Mott Street, New York CIty.

The flles of the Credit Bureau of Greater New York,

furnished by Miss PAULINE DE FIORE to IC MULLINS on May 2-,

1963, noted that LOUIS GUIGA, 228 Mott Street, New York

city was sued by De, JOHN B CASALE, 530 Pare Avenuine

New York City, for $100.00 on September 29, 1961.

attorney was noted as Hoyt and Hoyt, 99 Wall Street, New

York City.

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