Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, TP
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 09/23/1963
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

RECORD SERIES :

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

FBI

124-10211-10103

HQ

92-2781-835

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

SAC, TP

TO :

DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE: 09/23/1963

• PAGES:

3

SUBJECTS :

LST, BKG INFO, ASSOC, FISUR, B/F INT

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4; 10(a)2

CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 10/15/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: , INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

INC MEMO

v9.1

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Date:

6/11/201

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

(44 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#:NW 45966 Date:

11-17-2017

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AIRTEL

FBI

Date: 9/23/63

(Type in plain text or code)

AIRMAIL

(Priority or Method of Mailing)

TO:

DIRECTOR, FBI (92-2781)

FROM:

SAC, TAMPA (92-1)

SANTO TRAFFICANTE, JR. aka-

Re Miami airtel to Director, 1/4/63

Miami teletype to Bureau, 16 September, 1963.

Referenced airtel set forth background informa-

tion of subject and had requested investigation Rio de

Janeiro.

On 12/19/62, LOUIN P. GERACI (now deceased),

advised the subject had told him he had been in Brazil

for two or three weeks, investing money in the coffee

industry.

Referenced Miami teletype set out that on 9/3/63,

MM 840-C advised that within recent weeks Dr. PEREZ PIDA

made two trips to Brazil. PIDA was described by source

as close

associate of EVERISTO GARCIA FIDAL and close

friend of subject. PIDA told informant he was returning

to Brazil, possibly by 9/15/63.

On 9/13/63,

MM 840-C reported further contact

with PIDA, who advised informant that his first trip to

Brazil was to store some coffee that belonged to subject.

PIDA's second trip was to sell TRAFFICANTE's coffee, and

that TRafFICaNtE took a loss on the sale of the coffee.

It was further noted PIDA also told source he is looking

for a location for a gambling casino in Brazil for TRAFFICANTE.

REC- 94

-Bureau

(1-Legat; Rio

de Janeiro)

92-2281-835

2-Miami

(92-88)

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2-Tampa

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Approved:

Special Agent in Charge

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Legat, Rio de Janedro (92-1)

REC- 94

Director, FBI (93-2781) - 835

SANTO TRAFFICANTE, JR. , aka.

9/30/63

ReBulet 1/10/63 and Rio de Janeiro's lets 2/19/63

and 3/11/63.

In connection with a raid on a gambling operation

Involving Marian Alexander Blackburn, Internal Revenue Agents

seized a considerably quantity of evidence. Among this

evidence was a scrap of paper with the notation "Guana Barh

Palace Hotel, Rio de Janeiro." The significance of this

notation is not known.

Blackburn is reputedly the backer of the numbers

gambling In central Florida and sources have reported

Trafficante controls

the numbers gambling operations in

the

central Florida asea.

It is possible that Trafficante stayed

at the "Guana Bach Palace Hotel," it he visited Brazil in

1962 as was previously alleged.

The above is being furnished for the information

of Legat, Rio de Janeiro, in the event any pertinent information

on Trafficante investments or contacts comes to your attention.

1 - Foreign Liaison (Route through for review)

Mall

Florida.

Brazil.

We were attempting to locate him at that time as

JEK LaW 10(a) 2

Trafficante

Source has also been reporting that Trafficante made an invest-

ment in coffee in Brazil in 1962.

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ARV. rap fel

Casper

Callahan

Conrad

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Trotter

Tale. Room

Holmes

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MAIL ROOM

TELETYPE UNIT

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