Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: HALL, WENDELL W. JR.
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 10/9/68
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

6/15/201

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-10213-10184

RECORD SERIES :

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

HQ

92-2781-1309

Released under the John

. Kennedy

assassination Recorda

Collection Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#:NW 45966 Date:

11-20-2017

Document Information

ORIGINATOR :

FBI

FROM: HALL, WENDELL W. JR.

TO :

DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE: 10/09/1968

PAGES:

41

SUBJECTS :

LST, ASSOC AND REL, RES, TRA, LCN, COUNTERFEITERS,

RECORDS, TELCAL

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION : Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4,1002

CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 11/04/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

REPORTING OFFICE

MIAMI

TITLE OF CASE

OFFICE OF ORIGIN

MIAMI

DATE

INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD

7/3 - 10/7/68

SANTO

TRAFFICANTE, JR.,

aka

10/9/68

REPORT MADE BY

WENDELL W. HALL, JR.

CHARACTER OF CASE

AR

REFERENCES:

Miami airtels to Bureau 8/16, 8/22, 10/3, and

10/7/68.

Miami report of SA WENDELL W. HALL, JR.,

8/19/68.

Tampa report of SA JOHN A. AMBLER,

8/28/68

Tampa letter to Bureau, 8/23/68.

Tampa letter to Miami, 9/13/68.

Miami airtel to New York, 9/18/68.

Mini airtel to Tampa, 9/18/68.

Miami radiotels to Bureau, 9/30 and 10/1/68.

-P-

TYPED BY

bab

LEADS:

TAMPA

CO: VIC.

AUTO.

FUG.

AT TAMPA, FLORIDA

ACCOMPLISHMENTS CLAIMED

FINES

SAVINGS

NONE

RECOVERIES

APPROVED

SPECIAL. AGENT

COPIES MADE:

- Bureau (92-2781)

- USA, Miami

(Attn:

2 - Tampa (92-1)

2 - Miami (92-88)

DA EARLE)

15:7

Dissemination Record of Attached Report

Notations

Agency

Request Recd.

Date Fwd.

OC. J1G, Criminal Division,

How Fwd.

Organized Crid and Racketeering

By

Section, Robi REcy

79 OCT 2

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ACQUIT

TALS

CASE HAS BEEN:

PENDING OVER ONE YEAR YES NO

PENDING PROSECUTION

OVER SIX MONTHS

DYES LINO

DO NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW

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REG 65

10 OCT 14 1959

EX-102

NEVE

STAT. SECT.

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

REPORTING OFFICE

MIAMI

TITLE OF CASE

OFFICE OF ORIGIN

MIAMI

DATE

INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD

7/3 - 10/7/68

SANTO TRAFFICANTE, JR., aka

10/9/68

REPORT MADE BY

WENDELL W. HALL, JR.

CHARACTER OF CASE

AR

REFERENCES:

Miami airtels to Bureau 8/16, 8/22, 10/3, and

10/7/68.

Miami report of SA WENDELL W. HALL, JR., 8/19/68.

Tampa

report of SA JOHN A.

AMBLER,

8/28/68.

Tampa

letter to Bureau, 8/23/68.

Tampa letter to Miami, 9/13/68.

Miami airtel to New York, 9/18/68.

MImi airtel to Tampa, 9/18/68.

Miami radiotels to Bureau, 9/30 and 10/1/68.

-P-

TYPED BY

bab

CO VIC.

LEADS:

AUTO

TAMPA

FUG.

AT TAMPA, FLORIDA

ACCOMPLISHMENTS CLAIMED

FINES

SAVINGS

NONE

RECOVERIES

APPROVED

COPIES MADE:

SPECIAL AGENT

DINSHARGE

- Bureau (92-2781)

- USA, Miami (Attn: DA EARLE)

2 - Tampa (92-1)

2 - Міаті (92-88)

12?7

Dissemination Record of Attached Report

Agency

Request Recd.

Date Fwd.

CC. AAG, Criminal Division,

How Fwd.

By

Organized Cring and Rackcttering

Section, Room Pa V

79 0CT ¿ 8 1968

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Notations

•CQUIT

TALS

CASE HAS BEEN:

PENDING OVER ONE YEAR I

PENDING PROSECUTION

¿YES INO

OVER SIX MONTHS

DYES LINO

DO NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW

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10 OCT 14:969

EX-102

18.772

EAT SPOT. off.

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The investigative period of this report

contains investigation which was not available at the:

time of the dictation of referenced Miami report.

Previous investigation has reflected that the

ownership of the property on which VINCENT BRUNO'S

restaurant was located was in the name of Mall, Inc.

Investigation has also reflected that LOU CEADER, who

has been in contact with TRAFFICANTE in Miami, was

employed by Mali, Inc:

On September 5, 1968,

the records of Dun and

president was listed as Dr. ROBERT N. BOWMAN with Mrs

-VIRGINIA REID listed as vice-president and treasurer.

REID resides at 4485 North Meridian Ave., Miami Beach

Fla

The property and buildings located between 83rd

and 95th Streets on Biscayne Boulevard owned by Mail,

Inc, are believed

worth in the high six figures

Rental income from

the low six figures annually:

this property is believed to be in

Dr. BOWMAN is age 69,

retiring from medical

practice in 1956.

Mrs: REID is in her 60's, deriving

her income from investments.

The company is a real estate holding company

with a 77 year lease on the property which includes

five buildings including a self-service laundry, a

trailer court pet supply store, a restaurant, barbershop,

and nursery

INFORMATION FURNISHED BY MM 1298-C-TE

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DUE TO ITS UNIQUE NATURE,

MUST NOT BE

DISSEMINATED OUTSIDE THE BUREAU IN

ORDER TO PROTECT THE LIFE OF THIS SOURCE

OF CONTINUING VALUE:

Any information received from MM 1298-C-TE

deemed by the Miami Office as being suitable for

dissemination will be paraphrased and. set forth within

the body of Miami reports.

This information should be

paraphrased when disseminated

On August: 16; 1968, MM 1298-PC advised

that he had not personally contacted, SANTO TRAFFICANTE

for some time but had heard through EVARISTO GARCIA:

VIDAL that TRAFFICANTE had had a recent facial operation

for skin cancer which was causing him mental worry, and

also was the cause for his postponement of his trip to

Ecuadoria

Source stated TRAFFICANTE still intends to go

to Ecuador. soon:

On September 6, 1968, MM 1298-C-TE advised

that SANTO TRAFFICANTE, had töld EVARISTO GARCIA VIDAL that'

he was concerned about a "leak" within his organization

but felt it did not involve his Cuban contacts in Miami,

which included EVARISTO GARCIA VIDAL and HUMBERTO TRUEBA

"ROJAS." This "leak!'' concerned information that the Cuban

associates did not know about.

Because of this "leak!

SANTO TRAFFICANTE refuses to meet personally either

with EVARISTO GARCIA VIDAL Or HUMBERTO TRUEBA ROJAS and

has again postponed his trip and planned business venture

in Ecuador

LAZARO MILIAN DID,

associate of EVARISTO, GARCIA

VIDAL,

and fiance. of VIDAL's daughter, has stated that

he has been able to fix his recent bolita arrest bý

payment of $10,000 cash.

Allegedly he

"will be found

not guilty and the $8,000 cash impounded at the time of

his arrest will be returned to him.

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• MM 92-88

On September 10, 1968

MM: 1298-C-TE advised

that LAZARO: MILIAN DID and GRISELLE GARCIA SARMIENTO

will be married in early October, 1968, and planned

to go to Guayaquil; Ecuador on their honeymoon.

SANTO TRAFFICANTE IS

upset" with EVARISTO

GARCIA VIDAL and feels that either EVARISTO GARCIA

VIDAL, his son, or LAZARO MILIAN DID are "informingi

to local law enforcement officials.

MM 1298-C-T furnished a photograph of

the proposed Hotel Continental with floor plan,

as:

well as financial arrangements required by the

Government of Ecuador for any foreign corporation

which intends to go into business in Ecuador.

This

hotel and gambling casino is the business which SANTO

TRAFFICANTE, HUMBERTO TRUEBA ROJAS, and EVARISTO GARCIA

VIDAL plan to negotiate in Ecuador

Source advised that the large bolita raid in

Key west the previous week-end by the Florida Bureau of

Law. Enforcement, which included the arrest of ARTEMIO

CRESPO and the impounding of over $100,000 in cash, was

part of the operation of HENRY TRAFFICANTE, brother of

SANTO, and controlled from Tampa, Florida.

On September 30, 1968, MM 1298-C-TE advised

that on Saturday evening, September 28, 1968, he received

a telephone call/ from EVARISTO GARCIA. VIDAL who asked him

to remain at home on Sunday Noon, September 29, 1968

in order to receive a call from SANTO TRAFFICANTE. On

Sunday, September 29,

1968, at 1:30 pM, source received

a call

from SANTO TRAFFICANTE which was apparently a

c long distance call.

TRAFFICANTE wanted source to go to

Quito:,

Ecuador, where he would be met by TrAFFICaNTe

who would be accompanied by other unknown persons:

The

meeting would be to make final

plans and to discuss

TRAFFICANTE's involvements in Ecuador, presumably the hotel

and gambling casino operation

Source, feels that the real

E

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•JFK Act 6 (4)

MM 92-88

motive for TRAFFICANTEs interest in Ecuador would be

narcotics traffic and that he was using the gambling

casino as a front. Source did not know who the other

persons would be at this meeting other than one of them

would be an American who would

come from Brazil

During the call TRAFFICANTE stated he did not

want to personally contact EVARISTO GARCIA VIDAL Or

HUMBERTO TRUEBA ROJAS prior to going to Ecuador

because he felt that any meeting might be surveilled

and he did not want the trip spoiled before he got to:

TRAFFICANTE mentioned that he had not been able

to make this trip previously because of two cancer

operations on his face.

on October f, 1968, MM 1298-C-TE aavised that

he had received a second telephone call, presumably

long distance, at 6:00 PM on September 30, 1968; from

SANTO! TRAFFICANTE. TRAFFICANTE advised source to meet:

him for an urgent, very important" meeting in Quito,

Ecuador, on October 3

he would be accompanied by one other American, presumably

an attorney. TRAFFICANTE stated that he would be

registered in his own name in either the Hotel Quito

or Hotel International in Quito.

On October 2, 1968, MM 1298-C-TE advised that

TRAFFICANTE, and his organization were looking for an

informant who was giving "good" information regarding

their activities

They suspected someone either in

New York or in Paris, France, and had definitely eliminated

any of the Cuban associates of TRAFFICANTE in Miamt, as

suspects since they were not in possession of information

which has been furnished by this,

informant

INFORMANTS

AMM. T-1 is

Miami, Fiorida, (By request)

Miami, Florida.

•M T-2 is

(By request)

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JEK Act 6 (4)

MM 92-88

MM T-3 iS JOHN TASHIOGLOU, Miami, Florida. (By request)

MM T-4 1S CARMEN ARGENIO, North Miami, Florida

(By request)

MM: T-5

1s NATHAN BETROCK, North Miami, Florida.

(By request)

MM 1-6 I$ OAKLEY GRANT SMTTH, JR., Miami, riorida.

(By request)

MM T-7 IS MM 1298-C-TE

MM T=8 4S MM 1311 - PSI

MM T-9is PCI

MM T-10 is MM 1025-C.

MM T-i1 is PCI

MM T-12 1S MM 984-C-TE

MM: T-13 1S DANIEL PEREZ MENENDEZ, Miami, Florida

(By request)

MM T-14 is MM 676-C.

MM T-15 is former MM 128I-C:

MM T-16 1S ARTHUR LOGIN, Nörth Bay Village, Florida.

Bỳ request) •

MM T-17 1S MM 1080-C

MM T-18 is Agent JACK KEY, Fla. Bureau of Lawi

Enforcement, Miami, Florida

(By request)

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FD-302 (Rey 1415-64)

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Date

9/13/68

A subpoena duces tecum was issued on

September 10, 1968, by the Clerk of the u.

as District

Court, Miami, Florida, directed, to Mr JOHN Do SADLER,

South Florida Commercial Manager, Southern, Bell Telephone

a Petty caring to piction of the one riced

company records in Federal Grand Jury"

Pursuant to this subpoena records of /thes

Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company were

reviewed and the following long distance calls were

obtained for telephone number 949-9048, Subscribed to by

SANTO. TRAFFICANTE

740 NE 155th Street, Miami, Florida:

CITY.

NUMBER

OTHER DATA

St. Petersburg;

Fla

360-8667

DATE

7/22

1f:':

7/24%

8/7

6/26

7 / 9

7/10

7/11

7/12

7/13

7/14

9/12/68

On

Miami, Florida (North Dade)

_File #

Miami 92-88

IC PHILIP F. CROGHAN mm

b.Y-

Date dictated

9/12/68

This document.contains neither recommendations nor conclusions.

of the FBI. It ris ihe prop

erty of the FBl and is loaned

. To

agency;

ironduls contents gre not to be distributed outside your agency?

92-1

27278/3

1309.

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MM 92-88

2

DATE

7/14

CITY

St. Petersburg,

Fla®

7/15

7/16

+1

7/17

7/18

41

7/19

18.

7/20

7/21

7/22

7/7

6/25

St:

Petersburgh

Fla

19.

6/27

6/29

91

4.

WH 15966 DocIa:32294408 Page 10

NUMBER

OTHER DATA

. 360-8667

. 17

360-8667

11

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3

DATE

6/30

7/3

7/5

CITY

St. Petersburg,

Flä

7/20

tt

7/22

8/5

7/10

Ter.

Tampa, Fla.

7/18

6/27

7/3

7/8

1.4

Jacksonville, Fla.

7/9

7/10

7/12

7/5°

11

4.1

:49

S

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NUMBER

360-8667

11

362-7123

876-2207

223-4424

25193435

244-6532

246-9851

4.1

781-1205

OTHER DATA

92:2781-1309.

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MM 92-88

4

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DATE

CITY

NUMBER

OTHER DATA

7/6

Jacksonville,

Fla

781-1205

6/27

6/27

6/28

6/30

7/3

The above records are confidential and can

only be obtained through the issuance of a

subpoena

duces tegum.

Toll records are maintained

by the

telephone .company in the normal course of business for

only a period of six months.

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