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FBI BOSTON

2-00 PM URGENT 8-13-69 EFM

TO DIRECTOR

NFROM BOSTON 166-845 5 PGS

also know as Interstate Transportation in Aid of Rackcieering

LOUIS MANACCHIO, AKA; ET AL., ITAR - GAMBLING

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LATE LAST EVENING, RICHIE CHICOFSKY CONTACTED

SA HO PAUL RICO AND REQUESTED IMMEDIATE INTERVIEW. SAS

GERARD SO COMEN AND RICO CONTACTED CHICOFSKY AT THE PARKING

LOT OF CHILDRENS MUSEUM, BOSTON, MASSO, WHICH HAS BEEN

USED BY THESE IWO AGENIS TO CONTACI CHICOFSKY OVER THE

PAST SEVERAL MONTHS. CHICOFSKY STATED THAT ON AUGUST EIGHT

LASI, HE RECEIVED A CALL FROM SUBJECT PRO" LERNER, AFTER

WHICH "PRO" LERNER MET HIM IN THE PARKING LOT OF THE RIB ROOM,

SOUTH SHORE PLAZA, BRAINTREE, MASS. REC-54

166-43551

AT THIS TIME, SUBJECTS MANACCHIO, SCIARRA AND

VENDITUOLI. JOINED LERNER AND CHICOFSKY. ALSO A WILLIAN AUG 15 1969

KENHEY DROVE UP WHO WAS TO MEET SCIARRA AND CHICOFSKY WITH _

RELATION TO ANOTHER MATTER.

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AT THIS POINI, "PRO" LERNER TOLD KENNEY

TO LEAVE THE GROUP AND THE ABOVE MENTIONED INDIVIDUALS

ALL SAT IN THE CAR. "PRO" LERNER ASKED CHICOFSKY FACIS

SURROUNDING HIS MEETINGS WITH RICO, IT BEING POINTED OUT :

Criminal Informant

THAT CHICOFSKY WAS A FORMER CI® OF THE BOSTON OFFICE AND

WAS DISCONTINUED SEVERAL YEARS AGO WHEN HE BECAME DOUBLE AGENT

WITH POST OFFICE INSPECTORS IN CONNECTION WITH MAILROB.

CHICOFSKY TOLD THEM THAT ANOTHER AGENT USUALLY

ACCOMPANIED RICO WHEN THEY MET. LERNER THEN ASKED WHETHER

THEY LOCKED DOORS AND DETAILS SURROUNDING THEIR USUAL

PROCEDURE IN METTING CHICOR CHICOFSKY. LERNER FURTHER POINTED

OUT THAT HE IS OF THE OPINION THAT KELLEY WAS TALKING ABOUT

THAT GROUP AND THAT HE EXPECTED THEIR ARRESTS IN CONNECTION

WITH THEIR PASI ACTIVITIES IN THE NEAR FUTURE. LERNER MADE

TENTATIVE PLANS WHEREBY CHICOFSKY WOULD CALL RICO

AND TELL HIM IT WAS URGENT THAT HE, RICO, CONTACT CHICOFSKY

AT A PRE-ARRANGED LOCATION. WHEN RICO AND THE OTHER AGENT

MET, LERNER, SCIARRA, MANACCHIO AND VENDITUOLI WOULD APPROACH

THE CAR AND AFTER GAINING ACCESS TO THE VEHICLE TAKE BOTH

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August 13, 1969

- I SPECIAL INVESTIGATIVE DIVISION

This

reports plar of four New England

hoodluas to kill two Agents of our

Boston

office.

Three of these hoodluns are currently

fugitives in connection with the ITAR-Gambling

Investigation. The fourth was arrested by our

Boston office yesterday and is being held on

$150,000 bond. All four have been implicated

in the gangland slaying of Rudy Marfeo, Boston,

former informant of our Boston office, the

plans call for his urging our two Agents to

contact him, after which the hoodlums would

take the

Agents under control.

One Agent

would be killed immediately. SA Paul Rico

would then be forced to drive the hoodlums

(to the place where John J. Kelley was being

• ly cooperating with our Boston office and has

guarded you.

guarded by U.S. Marshals. Kelley is current-

provided detailed information implicating

Ithese hoodlums in the murder of Marfeo.

The hoodlums belleved that the marshals,

upon seeing Agent Rico, would relax, after

which they would kill Agent Rico, the marshals

and Kelley.

The hoodlums indicated that if

they locate SA Rico's exact address, they have

other plans in mind which were not furnished

our source.

The lerner mentioned in this teletype

when apprehended by our

Boston office yester-

day, commented to Agent Rico "You look just

like your pictures." Lerner, according to

Kelley, is extremely courageous and appears to

relish

killing.

A teletype is being sent immediately to

SAC, Boston, containing specific instructions

to afford SA Rico and his family adequate V

security; to vigorously press their investi-

gation toward locating the three fugitives

involved in this plan; to insure U. S. Marshal!

aware of plan and

that adequate security

afforded Kelley; and in the event Lerner makes

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