Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, PH
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 08/28/1961
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

4/24/201

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10284-10343

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

92-2717-297

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

SAC, PH

TO :

DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE:

PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

08/28/1961

6

ABR, ASSOC, B/F INT, HAVANA, CUBA, RES, BKG

DOCUMENT TYPE :

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION:

Secret

RESTRICTIONS: 1C; 4

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW:

03/09/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS:

INC LHM

v9.1

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ANGELO BRUNO

OFFICER IN - CASINO MONTECAALA, SA

DE LOPEZ MUNOZ, a Cuban attorney, was the officer

In the Cuban corporation.

On January 1, 1959, the gambling casino in the Plaza

Hotel was overrun by a

mob on the occasion of CASTRO's entry

into Havana, Cuba.

This casino was insured for a sum of

The casino, #152 Offciof Street, Havana, was founded

for an indefinite period by means of a Cuban public deed, dated.

August 6, 1957, and was registered in the Central Register, of

Stock Companies in Havana on Page 8460, File #25, of the 126th

Volume. as casino was insured under Policy No. 303,006-F

under the american International Insurance Company os

Cuba. Through negotiation, a final settlement was

payment for damages to this casino in the amount of $185,000.06,

with adjustment for debts, etc., resulting in a check being

Issued in the amount of $168,464.28.

The secretary of the cuban corporation was a cuban

attorney, Dr. EVERALDO SILVA SANTANA. An agreement between

the

before-mentioned FRANK BURD and JOSEPH STASSI was such that

LUBA

-the founders of the corporation were to establish the corporation

for the purpose of sub-leasing the gambling casino in the Plaza

Hotel, Havana, Cuba.

It was agreed that the Panamanian Corporation

would have an

authorized capital of 100 shares of common stock with

no par value, which were to be issued to the parties, their nominees,

or assigns.

SECRETARY - CASINO MONTECARLO

SiA

From a confidential source it was

ascertained that in

April 1960 ANGELO BRUNO claimed he had been able to recover most

of his investment in an undisclosed gambling casino in Cuba, but

had difficulty in removing the money from Cuba.

From an additional

source, BRUNO later stated that he had been able to get this money

out of

Cuba and designated the sum he received as $180,000 for the

damage done to the gambling casino.

He indicated that he was

surprised that an unknown individual had refused to accept a

$20,000 offer for making this settlement even though the settlement

waS

made at a time when the insurance premiums had lapsed.

JOSEPI

ISTASSI 1s also known as JOEROGERS..

N

UBA

PANAMA

= 2.

PRESIDENT- CASINO MOSTELAL A

PRESIDENT-LUCERNE INVESTMENT CORE

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ENCLOS

OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10

010-104

UNITED STATES

ERNMENT

Memorandum

SECRET

TO

Director, FBI (92-2717)

DATE:

8/28/61

FROM

SAC, Philadelphia (92-444)

#211, 326

SUBJECT:

ANGELO BRUNO, aka.

(00 - Philadelphia)

acclassty on: OADR/23/87

(OSRMB:/CL - 6/10/94-55K

Enclosed herewith are six copies of a letterhead

memorandum regarding ANGELO BRUNO's alleged financial

Interests in the gambling casino, Hotel Plaza, Havana,

cuba.

I By letter dated 3/22/61 it was requested that

Iloyds of London be contacted by Legat, London, to

establish if ANGELO BRUNO was paid as alleged, aa sum

of money for damage done to the gambling casino, Hotel

Plaza, Havana. (C)

By communication dated 4/27/61, the Legal Attache,

London, aavised of contacting MICHAEL CUMMING, official of

British Security Service, MI5, who contacted a confidential

source of his in Lloyas of London to develop this information. (S)

The communication from Legal Attache stated, "On

4/24/61, Col. CUMMING advised that MI5, confidential source,

stated that Lloyds of London had acted as the reinsurer

for the American International Reinsurance Corporation of

New York City to the extent of $70,000 for a policy made

out to the subject In connectuba withthe gambling casino

at the Plaza Hotel, Havana In 4/59, a

Col. CUMMING was

quoted further as stating,

claim was paid

to the subject for $105,000, principally by the American

International Reinsurance Corporation, in respect to a

fire which had occurred at the gambling casino at the

Plaza Hotel, Havana, Cuba, 1/59."(5)

REC#: 92-2717-299

BureaU (ENCIS. -0) (92-2717)

Philadelphia (92444)

le AUG 31 1961

JRP : CPC

(3)

83

64 SEP

1801591

1 1 1961

SECRET

ALL INFONMAXION CONJALALA

ORKERNISE

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SECRET

PH 92-444

It was requested that an additional inquiry

be made by the Legal Attache, London, in recontact

with their source to ascertain if ANGELO BRUNO possibly

held other insurance besides that resulting in the $185,000

claim being paid 4/59, $70,000 of which was reinsured by

Lloyds of London. (5)

Extensive inquiry in this regard has developed

that there was a $185,000 payment made by the American

International Insurance Company, #258 Havana Street, •

Havana, Cuba®

As set forth herein, this policy was

No. 303-806-F. [However, the point of inquiry to Legal

Attache, London, should

was the

recipient of this $185,000 payment, less adjust-

ments, or if JOSEPH STASSI was recipient of this payment

considering that Legal Attache, London, prior communication

on 4/27/61 relates that Col. CUMMING had advised that the

subject had received the $185,000 payment: (5)

it is requested that the Legal Actache, London,

clarify whether BRUNO or STASSI received the money and

any additional information available that could possibly

be developed further in the United States which could

ultimately prove to be of evidentiary value against

ANGELO BRUNO. ICt should be noted that BRUNO has been

designated by the Bureau as the target of "early

prosecution"

under the Criminal Intelligence Program

and therefore is the subject of concentrated Bureau

he rent od

investigative effort

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422717-2971

SECRET

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