Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, SD
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 01/15/1969
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Date:

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Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY:

RECORD NUMBER :

FBI

124-10290-10492

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

92-6054-2500

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM: SAC, SD

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE :

DATE:

"PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

01/15/1969

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LCN, MEMBERS A/O ASSOC, TRA, MEETING, LEADERSHIP,

COMMISSIONE, B/F INT, CRIMINAL ACT

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS :

CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/27/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

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Date:": 4/15/69

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TO :

DIRECTOR, FBI (92-6054)

FROM:

SAG, SAN DIEGO (92-229) (P)

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Re San Diego airtel to the Bureau dated 12/19/68.

Contacts were made with SD 1064-C-IE on 12/27/68

and 1/13/69. He furnished the following information on

ION members and other hoodlums:

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him that, when FARKAS called him, bi wan to auriar fim to

go ahead and cooperate with the bon loadars in the cos

Migelas alea.

TIPIA told the Informant that later in rermi"-1

a report from his capo,

JIM REGACE, trat FARKA: -a41-2

"Jappy" MELTZER, but MELIZER would

not talk to rin..

Lifu"lates LICATA, who then held a meeting with yellE.

at 10:00 a.M. on 12/21/58.

ITOATA told the informant thai he mutau 6 k

from MELTZER why he would not talk to FARKAS azd advd-=

him to ccoperate with his outfit.

MELTZER Claimsd tat

he had, been 111 at the time FARaps oaliad and vra wak2.

to talk with. him.

LIGATA tOû MEIAZIR that TheraS te.6

he was being caught between the lin leaders? aspirations

to get back into the bookmaking fibid and the astabli:h.?

bookies, that he was friguiened, and that FARKAS want: * 5c

leave town.

LICATA told the informant that he Insisted

MELTZER Call FARKAS and tell him to cooperate with the IN

In assisting them to set up a bookmaking Income.

After this discussion,

the Informant and LICATA

talked about tighter control over ICN

members coring

counbity..

SCIPELLI (ICN member from Springfield, Massachusetts)

retured to Palm Springs, he

was to question him regardins

his fumbling activities and that, if he le taling any lueal

bookmaking action; he must cut the los Angeles ION family

In for 50%.

LICATA told the informant that it was important

they begin to raise money fron bookmaking.

He told the

inforrant. that FARKAS had agreed to put up several thousand

do.J2s for their bookmaking activities and had agreed to

tain the money over to RECACE and PETE MILANO.

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could have easily said something out of turn.

He belleves,

however, that PEIRO was too experienced to get trapped

easily and that, in his opinion, whoever killed him was

known, to PETRO.

The informant also pointed out the possibility

that the killing also could be connected with the murder

Of PETE-DI GRAVIO of Cleveland, (For the Information of

Los Angeles, on 10/23/68,

DI GRAVIO was killed by fifle fire on 6/21/68 whale playing

golf in the Cleveland area..

Four shots were fired Into him

by an unknown assassin from the woods adjacent to the golf

course.

Since the early 1960'8, DI GRAVIO had operated

a shylocking business in cleveland under the names, MeM

Investment Company and DVM Investment Company, both Locatea

on Mayfield Road Hill in the heart of the Italian community.

The Cleveland informant advised in 11/66 that

JULIUS PETRO, the former Cleveland bank robber,. moved to

Los Angeles after release from prison, and had come back

to Cleveland for a conference with DI

GRAVIO regarding

the heading up of a loan shark business in los Angeles with

his

brother, MIKE.

DI GRAVIO had visited the Los Angeles area on

several occasions, and his son resided in los Angeles.

DI

GRAVIO'S SON, WILLIAN,

was arrested on 1/6/67 in San Diego

for possession of marijuana and In Los Angeles on 2/8/68

for robbery.

In May, 1968,

PETE DI CRAVIO spent several

weeks in California and eventually brought his son, WIFLIAM,

back to Cleveland with him.

One Cleveland source advised that, in his opinion,

DI GRAVIO was killed as a result of something that happened

in California during his last visit, but could not be more

specific.

It should be noted that, when SD 1064-C-TE Visited

St. Louis during December, 1968, he contacted Cleveland

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