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JEK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY

RECORD NUMBER

RECORDS SERIES

AGENCY FILE NUMBER

FBI

124-10223-10486

HQ.

92-3171-X8

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR

FROM

FBI

SAC, CG

TO :

TITLE

DATE : 07/16/57

PAGES

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SUBJECTS : SGI, BKG, REL, RES, EMP, B/F INT, CRIMINAL ACT, ARREST

RECORDS,

GAMBLING, TRA,

SUBPOENA, APPEAR,

FGJ

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TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

'CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED

RESTRICTIONS

CURRENT STATUS : RELEASED WITH DELETIONS

DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 01/08/98

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In Reply, Please Refer so

I Fiste No.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

CAscar, July 16, 1957

RE:

ST

•SAMUEL GIANCANA

San 'Gianaco, Sam

Sam 'Mooney, Sam tencani, Sam Gincana

PERSONAL HISTORY AND BACKGROUND

According to the records of the Selectivo Service Board

#39, 2312 West Harrison, SAMUEL GIANCANA listed his

birth as July 16, 1908, at Chicago, Illnois.

These files

reflect that be married ANGELINE DE TOLVE on September

23, 1934.

In these racords he listed his home address as

1048 South Monitor Street, Chicago, Illinois, but the

f1le reflected that he was registered for Selective Service

while an inmate of the Federal Penitentiary at Terre Haute,

Indiana, on December 14, 1942. These records reflect

that on December 14, 1942, bis wife as well as his two

children, ANNETIE,

born June 23, 1935, and BONITA LOU,

born April 29, 1938, at that time were residing at 2822

West Lexington Street. At the time of his registration,

he did not list any business or employer. He listed his

relatives as follows:

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Father - TONY GIANCANA,

TAINED

1918 South Fern ta get INFUSIONCONATED

PARSINIS IINCTASSIFLED

Sisters- JOSEPHINE GIANCANA BROINT WERE SHOW

VICTORIA GIANCANA DIATISE -

MARY FARAGIA

During 1945, according to the Selective Service records,

he was employad at the central envelope and Lithograph

Company, 426 South Clinton Street, Chicago, Illinois, where

he worked as a salesman since January 2, 1943.

# letter

in the Selective Service file dated March 8, 1945, signed

by one DE JOLVE, President of the Central Envelope and

Lithograph Company, stated that GIANCANA was then receiving

a salary of $55 a week.

A report of GIANCANA's physical

examination dated February 12, 1944, reveals that he was

rejocted for military service

because of a constitutional

psychopathic state and Inadequate personality, manifested

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HAR 20 1957n

BECORDED-57

ISEP 17 1958

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COPIES DRSTRAXED

59 SEP 23 195/925 MAY 24 122

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Norwood Park; Illinois which it described as a large

gambling casino.

The reputed owners are NICK D'AMICO

and JAMES DAVIES. It was reported that a third and

principle owner of the Wagon Wheel is SAM GIANCANA.

The cost of this gambling establishment and its furnishings

is reputed to be approximately $50,000.

is general knowledge among the hoodlums that the top

setup. of the alleged syndicate insofar as the operation

of taverns, handbooks, and minor gangs is concerned is

GIANCANA. GIANCANA controls Cicero and the central

a protege of SAM GIAnCANA, controls the north and

northwest section of Chicago along with the northwest

suburbs.

DOMINICK ANTHONY SCALZITTO has advised that GIANCANA

frequents Philip's Restaurant and Candy Store. at 22nd

and Cicero.

On January 18, 1955, information was received that an

attempt was made by NATALE PASSARO, Jr., to secure

mortgages on the following properties:

1331 Indiana Avenue, a seven apartment

building, mortgage desired $35,000;

2111 South Homan Avenue, a

two flat

building, mortgage desired $12,000;

1620-22 South Harding, a thirteen apartment

building, mortgage desired $45,000;

1445-51 Catalpa Avenue, a twelve apartment

building, mortgage desired $43,500.

PASSARO was accompanied by one (FNU) CHAMPAIGN (ph),

an attorney for SAMUEL GIANCANA giving in to the theory

that the syndicate owns these properties although the

records show that the trustee is the Pioneer Bank of

Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.

On February 18, 1955, information was received that

GIANCANA recently remodeled the building at 4810-12

West 22nd Street in Cicero, Illinois and converted it

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On June 7, 1955, Lt. MORRIS (NA) advised that he had

received

information that on that date GIANCANA, with

PAUL DE LUCIA, TONY ACCARDO, SAM HUNT, JACK GUZIK,

GUS ALEX, LESTER KRUSE, and ANTHONY RICCI, a New

York

: hoodlum, were departing Chicago for Miami via

Eastern Airlines flight number 907 at 10:30 A.M. and

would arrivo Miami at 2:30 P.M.

He subsequently advised

that through a highly confidential source he had learned

that these hoodlums had been tipped off that a U.S.

Marshall would be at the airport to serve a grand jury

subpoena.

As a consequence only DE LUCIA, JOE FISCHEITI,

and ANTHONY RIce made the trip.

In October, 1955, it was learned that SAMUEL GIANCANNA

and TONY ACCARDO

are the actual owners of the Utility

Engineering Company, 5142 West Roosevelt Road and 6201

West Roosevelt Road, however, the owner listed on the

licenses of these two places

is listed as ANTHONY

DE PRADO who lives at 1824 North 78th Avenue and who

has an office at 6728 West Cormak Road.

The "Chicago Daily News" of October 3, 1955, listed

SAMUEL GIANCANNA, who is described as

a syndicate

gambling boss, as one of six top mob figures who had

been

subpoenaed by the Special County Grand Jury which

was investigating the wave of unsolved d bombings.

G IANCANNA and

power within the alleged syndicate and were definitely

replacements for or officers of LOUIE CAMPAGNA (deceased)

and PAUL DE. LUCIA. ABATTA stated that he had learned

this through his attempts to regain control of Local

777 of the Taxi Cab Drivers

Union.

Information was received that MURRAY HUMPHREYS, SAM

GIANCANNA,

TONY ACCARDO, GUS ALEX and PAUL DE LUCIA

were attending a conference at the Thunderbird Motel,

just north of Miami Beach, Florida. This information

has not been verified.

On June 4, 1956, WILLIAM O. BATES advised that the

Forest Lounge at Lyons, Illinois, reputedly the head-

quarters of GIANCANNA,

is now known as the Armory Tap

and is operated by one CARMIE FINELLI (phonetic) for

GIANCANNA.

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