Originator: FBI
From: LABADIE, STEPHEN J.
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 09/22/1960
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

6/11/201

AGENCY :

FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-10195-10346

RECORD SERIES:

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 92-2781-127

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FROM:

TO:

TITLE :

FBI

LABADIE, STEPHEN J.

DIRECTOR, FBI

DATE: 09/22/1960

' PAGES: 34

SUBJECTS:

LST, ASSOC, ACT, BKG, FINANCES, P/P

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4; 11(a)

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW:

_02/16/1999

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF IRS

COMMENTS: INC RPT, TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE 3

Released under the John F. Kennedy

Assassination Records Collection Act of

1992(44 USC 2107 Note). Case#:NW

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TP 92-1

T-1

T-2

T-3

INFORMANTS

MM 416-C - now TP-8, whose identity is

known to Bureau.

Records, Florida State Selective Service

Headquarters, St. Augustine, Florida,

checked by SA CLARK I. NEWTON, 1/7/58.

EDGAR ADAIR, SA, IRS, Tampa, Florida,

Law 11(a)

T-4

T-5

T-6

T-7

I-8

T-9

T-10

T-11

FRANK J. FALSONE, CPA, Tampa, who has

furnished reliable information in the

past.

Hav-4, whose identity is known to the

Bureau.

ALBERTO SUAREZ ALEMAN, PCI, Havana,

Doorman and caretaker at Calle 12 # 20,

Vedado.

Hav-31, whose identity is known to the

Bureau.

+.

Hav-33,

whose identity is known to the

Bureau.

TP 23-PC who has furnished reliable

information in the past.

Records,

General Telephone Co. of Florida,

Tampa, Florida, made available for review.

ROYCE L. KILPATRICK, attorney, and

DOUGLAS A. RODENBAUGH, Constable, both

St. Petersburg, Fla.,

who furnished the

information to SA JAMES P. O'NEIL.

DRS

REVIEWED BY GETJFK TASK FORCE:

ON

7/2298108

RELEASE IN FULL

I RELEASE IN PART

C7 TOTAL DENIAL

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T-12

T-13

T-14

T-15

T-16

T-17

T-18

T-19

T-20

T-21

T-22

T-23

TP 22-PC whose identity is known

to the Bureau.

Legat, Havana

Confidential Report of former SAC

GEORGE MC SWAIN concerning his

investigation of Havana - Hilton Casino

NY 842-S, whose identity is known

to the Bureau.

ARTIE NEWMAN, PCI, Havana, who works

as Credit Manager in Hotel Nacional

and who has furnished reliable

information in the past.

Hav - 32, whose identity is known to Bureau.

Lt. HERIBERTO HERNANDEZ, Private

Force, Hotel Nacional, Cuban National,.

Police.

f.

Records of IRS, in the files of the

United States Attorney at Jacksonville,

Florida.

MM 644-C, whose identity is known to

the Bureau.

EUGENE F. KEANE, PCI Of New York Office,

who furnished the information to SA

EDMUND FLANAGAN.

ANDREW SZENTGYORGYI, aka, Andrew

St. George, New York City.

PCI GUIDO de PHILLIPS, former employee

of subject in Havana, Cuba

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aspi

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T-24

T-25

T-26

T-27

JOHN DE SALVO, PCI, Jacksonville

Office, with whom contact has not

been sufficient to definitely

establish his reliability.

PCI GODFREDO CELLINI, Havana

PCI, MANUEL GONZALEZ, Havana employee

Hotel Sevilla - Biltmore, whose

reliability is unknown.

ANTHONY S. PERZIA, M.D.,

Tampa, Fla.,

PCI who has furnished reliable

information in the past.

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of Tangerine Tavern, 3307 West Hillsborough, Tampa, dated

November 24, 1945, and renewed October 13, 1950.

As a

result of alleged bribery case in which Detective HARRY

DIETRICH, St. Petersburg Police Department, was alleged to

have been bribed by members of the TRAFFICANTE organization,

the State Beverage Department, on May 21, 1954, issued an

order to the Tangerine Tavern to show cause why their license

should not be suspended or revoked.

On January 3, 1955, an

order was issued revoking the beverage license.

E.

RESIDENCE - AT TAMPA, FLORIDA

Law

11(a)

AT HAVANA, CUBA

Lieutenant JORGE PENA HERRERA, Head of the Alien Control

Section,

Department of Investigation, Cuban National Police,

advised

in early 1958 that subject resided at the Hotel

Rosita de Hornedo, Havana, and according to the Cuban

immigration records arrived in Cuba December 20, 1955, as a

tourist and obtained Cuban Foreigner's Carnet #393461. He

reported subject on March 12, 1957, applied to the Cuban

Department of Immigration to

change his status in Cuba from

that of tourise to that of resident, and the Director General

of Cuban Immigration, by resolution

dated October 3, 1957,

approved the subject's application and granted him residence

in Cuba.

On January 10, 1958, SANTO TRAFFICANTE permanently left the

Hotel Rosita de Hornedo and on April 15, 1958, I-5 advised

subject was residing at Apartment 14-B in an apartment building

located at Calle 12, #20, Vedado, Havana, Cuba.

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B. GAMBLING - IN FLORIDA

The "Tampa Morning Tribune", Tampa, Florida, dated January 8,

1958, carried the information in an article that SANTO TRAFFI-

CANTE, JR. "played

a sinister role as 'kingpin' of a Florida

West coast syndicate...".

"His outfit appeared to rake in a

'gross of more than a million a year' from bolita racketeering,

RALPH W. MILLS, former director of the Hillsborough Crime'

Commission, declared in a 1952 speech".

The article recited

the subject inherited his influence in

the underworld from his

father; that subject was one of a list of witnesses for the

KEFAUVER Committee Hearings in Tampa, Florida, in 1950, but

he never appeared before the Committee; that he was questioned

by sheriff's deputies during an investigation of the double

killing Of RENE NUNEZ and ANGELO GIGLIO but not held, and that

he was questioned again in January, 1953, when he was grazed

in the shoulder by one of three shotgun blasts aimed his way

at close range while he was driving a car in Tampa.

article recited that he refused to take a lie detector test

when questioned at the police station following his being picked

up for questioning in the murder of JOE ANTINORI in November, 1953.

The same article set out that on May 15, 1954, the subject and

his brother, HENRY, were charged with bribing a St. Petersburg,

Florida, detective to carry on bolita operations in Pinellas

County,

Florida.

Records of T-19 reflected

JFK Law

11 (a)

T-4 advised SANTO TRAFFICANTE, SR., ever since he came to Tampa,

Florida, back in the 1920's, was

connected with the vice rackets

with the IGNAZIO ANTINORI family of Tampa and that SANTO, JR.,

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figure in the underworld who with other relatives were powerful

in the illegal narcotics traffic in the Tampa area and prominent

in gambling in Tampa and Havana. He reported subject had been

in ANASTASIA's company frequently in the past six months in

New York and noted that ANASTASIA was known to the police in

New York as the lord-high-executioner of Murder, Inc., and

together with TRAFFICANTE was a leader in the "Mafia.'

T-14 reported a release by a Hilton International

representative mentioned that "a preliminary agreement for the

casino lease had been made with a group headed by ROBERTO MENDOZA,

a Cuban businessman, and CLIFFORD JONES, a Las Vegas attorney."

Newspaper releases

indicated that MENDOZA was a close friend of

Cuban President FULGENCIO BATISTA.

These news reports further

indicate that associated with ROBERTO MENDOZA are CLIFFORD JONES,

MENDOZA's brother, MARIO MENDOZA, Senator KENNETH JOHNSON of

Las Vegas, and a New York attorney SIDNEY ORSECK.

T-14 reported that Mr. JOHN W. HOUSER of the Hilton

Hotel International was told by attorney ORSECK that ROBERTO

MENDOZA had been in touch with JOSEPH RIVERS,

wa., JOSEPH

SILESI, who had made an approach on behalf of another group on

september 17, 1957, by LOUIS SANTOS, Wa., SANTO TRAFFICANTE,

operator of the gambling casino at the Sans Souci:

T-14 reported

that it appeared possible that RIVERS

was in fact, "the front" mentioned in the note believed from

SANTO TRAFFICANTE tO ALBERT ANASTASIA.

VII. PERSONAL HABITS AND PECULIARITIES

T-1 advised that he has known subject to be armed.

in the past and subject has used JAMES COSTA LONGO as a body-

guard in the past. In view of this information, together with

subject's history in Tampa rackets for the past

years, he should

be considered possibly armed and dangerous.

T-27 advised subject wears horn rimmed glasses and

obtained seven pairs of these glasses in Tampa, Florida, in the

Summer of 1957.

"Life" magazine issuedof March 10, 1958,

described subject as a "bespectacled, scholarly looking, as if

he might be around Havana to complete a Ph.D. in Sociology."

T-14 described subject as always wearing glasses

mobster flare for the sensational, and that his dress could be

described as conservative collegiate with a preference for grays

and browns.

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