Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, MM
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 7/9/68
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-10197-10303

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 92-2781-1294

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: SAC, MM

TO :

DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE: 07/09/1968

PAGES:

2

SUBJECTS:

LST, NY, SEIZURE OF TWENTY-TWO MILLION DOLLARS IN

HEROIN

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 11/12/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

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AIRTEL

FBI

Date: July 9, 1968

(Type in plaintext or code)

AIRMAIL

(Priority)

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

(92-2781)

FROM:

SAC, MIAMI

(92- 88)

SANTO TRAFFICANTE, JR., aka.

AR

(P)

00: TAMPA

On 7/8/68, MM 1298PC advised that TRAFFICANTE

was

still spending the vast majority of his time in

New York City, where he has been for the past month

a half.

He was in Miami for a period of 2 - 3 days prior

to 6/26/68, when he again left suddenly. While in Miami,

TRAFFICANTE has been avoiding his residence and his auto-

mobiles, and has been staying at motels and renting vehicles.

Source stated he felt certain that TRAFFICANTE was employing

the same tactics in New York City.

Source states that the reason TRAFFICANTE iS

spending so much time in New York City is because of the

recent arrest and seizure by Federal Bureau of Narcotics

agents in New York of over twenty-two million dollars worth

of raw heroin shippedgin an automobile from Paris to New York.

A New York Italian and several Frenchmen in France were

arrested in this case.

TRAFFICANTE has allegedly told his

Miami Cuban representative, EVARISTO GARCIA VIDAL, that

"we"

lost ten million dollars

due to the New York

arrest.

2

Bureau

∞ Tampa (92-1)

- New York (92-846)

• Miami

(1 = 92÷88)

(1 - 162-419) (H. TRUEBA)

(1 = 162-633) (E GARCIA)

WWH/neb

(10)

= Bishop

EX-116

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Recards Collection Aut of 1992 771 UST 2107

MM 92-188

Source stated that TRAFFICANTE has postponed

his trip to Ecuador to sign the papers for the gambling

casino which he intends to buy, together with GARCIA VIDAL

shen the g

and HUMBERTO TRUEBA ROJAS, and

has postponed the trip

because of his New York City problems.

In his place,

he

has requested GARCIA VIDAL and TRUEBA

ROJAS to go to

Guayaquil, Ecuador, in the near future, and sign the

necessary

government papers for the licensing of the

casino.

On 7/8/68, SAC JOE REED was furnished verbally

the general information about the narcotics arrest in

New Yark City, and stated that the financial loss involved

in that seizure of heroin would have amounted to approx.

imately ten million dollars.

He stated further that

upon checking with his New York Office that the actual

seizure of narcotics had occurred

5/18/68 and was not

announced for several weeks after 'that date.

The New York

Office was advised that TRAFFICANTE was last personally

"observed in the Miami area on 5/16 - 17/68, and according

to source, has been in the New York area since that time.

on 7/9/68, source advised that TRAFFICANTE

returned to Miami sometime during the day of 7/8/68

and has his grandson with him.

The grandson is in need

of some gum work at a Miami dentist. TRAFFICANTE SaW

GARCIA VIDAL on 7/8/68.

INFORMATION FURNISHED BY MM 1298-PC, DUE TO ITS UNIQUE

NATURE, MAY BE INCLUDED ONLY WITHIN ADMINISTRATIVE SECTIONS

AND IS NOT FOR OUTSIDE DISSEMINATION

VALUE'!

ARMED AND DANGEROUS.

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