Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: LABADIE, STEPHEN J.
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 08/20/1963
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

6/11/201

AGENCY : FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-10198-10380

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 92-2781-781

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: LABADIE, STEPHEN J.

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE :

DATE: 08/20/1963

'PAGES:

31

SUBJECTS :

LST, ACT, ASSOC

DOCUMENT TYPE :

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION :

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS : 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: - 10/15/1998

OPENING CRITERIA : INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

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FD-263 (Rev. 5-1-59)

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

REPORTING OFFICE

TAMPA

TITLE OF CASE

OFFICE OF ORIGIN

TAMPA

SANTO TRAFFICANTE, JR., aka.

DATE

8/20/63

INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD

5/29/63 - 8/20/63

REPORT MADE BY

SA STEPHEN J. LABADIE

CHARACTER OF CASE

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TYPED BY

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REFERENCE:

Report of SA STEPHEN J. LABADIE, 7/18/63, Tampa.

Buairtel to Miami and Tampa, 7/19/63, entitled

"CRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM".

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ENCLOSURES:

TO BUREAU

Original and copy of letterhead memorandum

characterizing informants.

LEADS:

MIAMI DIVISION

AT MIAMI, FLORIDA

1. Will continue intensification of subject's activities.

APPROVED

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TP 92-1

2. Will obtain further highly confidential Bureau

coverage on

the subject.

3. Will furnish Tampa summary memo on LEE RATNER.

4. Will report results of investigation conducted

at Miami International Airport relative to establishing how

the subject went to Brazil and Argentina in 1962 which is

also in relationship to the case entitled, "CHARLES WILLIAM

BRAY; ET AL; Pan American Bank of Miami; Florida - VICTIM;

ITSP; MF; ITAR - EXTORTION; 00:

Miami", Miami file 87-16480.

TAMPA DIVISION

AT TAMPA, FLORIDA

Will continue to report activities on the part of

the subject and his close associates at Tampa extending highly

confidential Bureaugeoverage on same.

ADMINI STRATIVE:

It is noted that the period of this report overlaps

that of the previous report in that this report contains

FD-302s submitted by the Miami Office to Tampa under date of

8/13/63 which concerns investigation previously reported in

airtels to the Bureau.

It is noted that Departmental Attorney PELOQUIN at

Miami, Fla., handling the '

ET AL; Pan

American

Miami agent at Miami, Fla., that

he plans to call a Grand Jury

relative to the possible returning of an indictment against

BRAY in hope that an ITAR case against FELIX ANTHONY ALDERISIO

and TRAFFICANTE may be developed in the future.

Leads have previously been set forth by airtels

and daily teletypes relative to information set forth in

this report concerning KENNETH LATER an@ Illinois license

plate and other licensestags obtained at time of TRAFFICANTE'S

daughter's wedding.

INFORMANTS:

TP I-1 is TP 105-c*.

TP T-2 is TP 120-PC.

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COVER PAGE

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TP 92-1

TP T-3 is TP 97-C.

TP T-4 is PAT CCAMMISA, 6953 Harding Avenue,

Miami Beach, Fla., who did plumbing work at

523 N.E. 71st Street, Miami.

TP T-5 is CARLOS ALVAREZ, Miami, Fla.

TP. I-6 is SALVADOR GEIGENHUT, PCI, Miami, Fla.

TP T-7 is JK 114-C*.

TP T-8 is ART BEAUCHAMP, "Tampa Times" reporter

to SA LIONEL E. BELANGER.

TP T-9 is TP 41-C.

TP T-10

is PETE GIAMPAPA, PCI, Miami.

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TP 92-1

At Tampa, Florida on August 8, 1963, no activity

was observed at subject's Tampa residence and

contact with

sources and local authorities failed to indicate subject

was in Tampa.

JAMES C. LONGO, on August 13, 1963, advised that

subject came into Tampa

the evening of

August 12, 1963 on the

occasion of his daughter's, SARAH ANN, imminent departure for

Georgia where she was to join her husband, RICHARD VALDEZ,

it having previously been reported that they were to liveein

Atlanta, Georgia, where RICHARD VALDEZ attends. Emory University.

JIMMY LONGO reported that subject left late last night or

early morning hours on August 13, 1963 for Miami. Mr. LONGO

was most bitter, referring to newspaper publicity and

expressing obscenities concerning drive on organized crime.

the Miami Office reported under date of August 12,

1963 that there was no activity noted at the subject's Miami

residence on August 12, 1963 and a check of his known hangouts

was unproductive.

No verification was made of subject's presence in

Tampa on the evening of August 12, 1963 through contact with

sources.

At Miami, Florida, the Subject was not observed

on August 13, 1963

at his residence nor at his known hangouts.

TP. T-4 adised August 13, 1963 in the greater Miami,

Florida area that he had occasion to be inside subject's

Miami residence August 12, 1963 and that he ascertained from

MrS. CHARLES CUCCIA, who is part owner of such

property, that

the subject has not been seen in quite a while. Source

reported that Mrs. CUCCIA reported that subject pays his

rent on the residence regularly, sometimes mailing it to her

but he and his wife are seldom there. Source said that when

he was inside the house he noticed dust was very heavy

on the

furniture and it appears that no one had lived there in a

long time.

On August 15; 1963, at Miami, Florida, the subject

was not observed at his residence nor any of his hangouts.

The subject's white 1960 Falcon sedan was located on August 15,

1963 at Jerry's Sinclair Service Station, 23rd Street and

Liberty Avenue, Miami Beach, Florida. Inquiry indicated.

subject left the car there on August

9 or August 10, 1963 for

radiator repairs and gave no indication as to when he would pick

it up.

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TP 92-1

JUDITH SALVAI advised August 15, 1963 in Miami,

Florida area that she has not seen the subject in two to

three weeks and it was her impression that he was in Tampa,

Florida.

Ön August 15, 1963 at Tampa, Florida, Checks OI

subject's fesidence and usual hangouts failed to disclose

any pertinent activity concerning the subject and Sgt. de la

LLANA, Intelligence Unit of the Tampa Police Department reported

cher intensifled checks of subiect's residence and hangouts

but no pertinent information regarding his whereabouts in the

Tampa area was developed.

Tampa, Florida

Police Department officers reported there was observed a

1963 white Pontiac convertible bearing 1963 Illinois license

MY 6969 parked at the residence of ANGELO BEDAMI August 12,

1963, it being noted that ANGELO BEDAMI was formerly a close

associate to subject's father.

The Tampa police reported

inquiry of the Chicago police disclosed Illinois license

plate registered to TONY CAPPELLANO, 1313 Passavant, Round

Lake, Illinois.

The

subject was not observed on August 16, 1963

at his Miami residence nor his known hangouts in Miami. The

subject's car was still parked at Jerry's Service Station;

n the a caro

Miami Beach, Florida, on the afternoon of August 16, 1963.

On August 17, 1963, surveillance of subject's

residence at Miami, Floida and of Junior's Restaurant, 79th

Street and Biscayne Boulevard in Miami, August 17, 1963,

was conducted with negative results for subject.

On Sunday, August 18, 1963, the 1962 Ford belonging

to AUGUST PANIELLO was observed at St. Petersburg Beach, Florida

property, however, the vehicle was gone on the morning of

August 19, 1963.

Contact with TP T-1 failed to indicate

the subject was at St. Petersburg Beach property.

On August 19, 1963, the 1959 white Chrysler and the

1959 white Chevrolet Impala were observed at 2505 Bristol.

Avenue, however, subject was not observed.

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TP 92-1

The "Evening Independent", St. Petersburg, Florida,

in an article entitled "Crime 'Bluebook' Lists Ex-Tampan"

set out that the name of SANTO TRAFFICANTE was high on the.

67-name list of Miami underworld figures according to a

"Miami Herald" news

article. The article set out that

TRAFFICANTE, 49 years of age, now resides "in the Miami area",

according to the Herald.

The article thereafter cited some

previous arrests of the subject along with the information

that Parade Magazine of April, 1963 reported TRAFFICANTE

once controlled four plush places in Havana and had veto

power on competition among those gamblers.

Under date of August 13, 1963 in the editorial comment

column of the "Tampa Tribune",

Tampa, Florida, in a heading

captioned "The Loathsom 'Thing'" mentions that proposed

Congressional hearings would deal with "Cosa Nostra"

The

article states that JOSEPH VALACHI reports Miami, Florida

is open city with no particular family controlling it.

It

sets out that subject, long time Bolita operator and Havana

gambling figure, and one who attended Apalachian meeting in

1957 ,

was part of the syndicate referred to by VALACHI. The

editorial noted that organized crime, "by whatever name, never

ceases reaching for profits and power.

Any further light the

McClellan Committee can turn on its operations in Florida

will help the people of this community and State in the

ceaseless battle to beat back the tenacles of the loathsom

t.

thing."

Relative to the above, TP T-10 advised August 8,

1963 at Miami, Florida that he was very disturbed over

publicity given to the subject and the fact that he, himself,

was one of the racketeers

listed as living in the Miami area.

Source indicated this publicity was very bad for his business,

embarrassing to his family and claimed it all was because of

his association with the subject and wished he had never

MISCELLANEOUS

Sgt. JACK de la LLANA, Intelligence Unit, Tampa

Police Department, advised July

24, 1963 that he was in

receipt of a letter from Miami Intelligence Unit dated

July 23, 1963, which set forth

that the subject had been

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