Document date: 04/17/2018
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CTANDARD FORM NO. 64

Office M

M • UNITED

GOVERNMENT

TO

FROM :

SUBJECT:

: Director, FBI (92-2781)

Legal Attache, Havana (92-1)

SANTOS TRAFFICANTE, JR., aka

ANTI-RACKETEERING

DATE: August 24, 1959

Re Havana letter dated July 13, 1959.

28.5.47

On August 20, 1959, HAROLD MILKS, Associated Press cor-

respondent, Havana, advised that SANTOS TRAFFICANTE and HENRY

SAVEDRA, who represents the subject's interests in the Hotel Capri,

had been provisionally released by Cuban

Immigration authorities

from Tiscornia Prison where they had been incarcerated for the

past two months.

MILKS stated that the Cuban Government claimed

that insufficient evidence had been developed to warrant the de-

portation of subject andSAAVEDRA from Cuba but that investigation

concerning this matter was being continued by the Cuban Government,

On August 10, 1959, HAV-33 informed that during their stay

in Tiscornia TRAFFICANTE and SAAVEDRA had "lived like kings."

Source

said that almost all guards in the prison had been bribed by subject

in order to insure that the subject had the most comfortable ac-

commodations possible..

Source said that subject's food was brought

in on a daily basis to him from outside the prison and that he was

allowed any number of visitors he desired.

On July 13, 1959, PCI ALBERTO SUAREZ ALEMAN, doorman at

the apartment building where TRAFFICANTE resides at Calle 12 No. 20,

Havana, advised he had attended the wedding of subject's daughter

as an invited guest.

Source noted that most of those present at

the wedding were employees from the various casinos in Havana and

that the only outsiders were subject's immediate family and one or

two close friends from Tampa, Florida.

on July 1ỏ, 1959,

HAV-31 advised that he also had attended

the wedding of TRAFFICANTE'S daughter but that there had been nc

important hoodlums from the United States at the wedding.

Source

noted that TRAFFICANTE's brothers,

as well as a close associate

named JIMMIEALONGO, vete present

at the wedding.

Extra copies of this letter have been prepared for for-

warding by the Bureau to Albany, Miami, and New York.

Une 31

220,

471-108

i v:

REC-63

14 DAE DIA

18 AUG 27 1959

8 - Bureau

• (2 - Albany

2 - Miami

2 - New York)

1 - Havana

BE SEP 1

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