Originator: FBI
From: DOUCE, RICHARD GORDON
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 09/15/1960
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/28/201

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10283-10067

RECORD SERIES:

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

92-2914-70

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

DOUCE, RICHARD GORDON

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE :

DATE: 09/15/1960 •

PAGES:

44

SUBJECTS :

GM, PERSONAL HISTORY AND BKG, IDENT RECORD,

ASSOC, CRIMINAL ACT, RACK AND SUBV, GAMBLING, B/F

INT, TRA, DESCR

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4; 10(a)2; 11(a)

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 01/13/1999

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF IRS

COMMENTS: RPT, TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE ii

Released under the John F. Kennedy

1 992 (44 USC 2107 Note). Case#:NW

68262 Date: 09-22-2022

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Report Forn

FD-263 (5-12-55.)

CONFIDENTIAL

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Reporting Office

PITTSBURGH

TITLE OF CASE

Office of Origin

PITTSBURGH

Date

9/15/68

Investigative Period

9/7-13/60

Report made by

GABRIEL

ANNARINO, aka Kelly

RICHARD GORDON DCICE

Gabriel Mannarin®

Kelly

CHARACTER OF CASE

Mannarino..

"Kelly,

Ruggiero

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ANTI-RACKETEERING

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Will follow and

report the activities of the MANNARINO organization

in accordance with future Bureau instructions

ADMINESIR

periminal intelligence data

ened by, corner

RECENT

ZERVOS

(PG I-8) relating to wagering

taxe stamp violations in New

(6 Kensington, Pa., and the

possible withholding of revenue on the

part of Nu Ken Novelty Company employees was disseminated to

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CONFIDE

PG 92-407

IRS, Pittsburgh by memoranda dated 5/13;7/22 and 8/19/58.

A letterhead memorandum dated 12/11/58, was disseminated to

INS, Pittsburgh covering admissions made to Bureau Agents

by ALBERT SEID regarding his citizenship status.

INFORMANT'S

PG T-1 is GEBHARD REABE, Captain of Police, Braddock, Pa.

Police Department, contacted by SA THOMAS G. FORSYTH, III.

fit.

PG I-2 is BERTHA PFIEFER, Clerk, Local Board #3, New Kensington,

Pa., contacted by an unidentifled Agent of the Pittsburgh

office.

PG T-3 is New

Kensington, Pa. police officer WALTER J.

SHARKEY, former PCI, contacted by SAS NORMAN I. THOMPSON and

RICHARD GORDON DOUCE.

PG I-4 is Lt. JACK STACK, NA, Pittsburgh, Pa. Police Department,

contacted by SA JOHN D. ANTHONY.

PG I-5 1s JOHN J. SCHWARTZ, Special Agent, Intelligence Division,

IRS, Pittsburgh, contacted

by SA THOMPSON.

PG. T-6 is RUDY SOKOL, PCI, contacted by SA JOHN S. PORTELLA.

PG T-7 is PG 545-C.

PG T-8 is MIKE ZERVOS, former PCI, contacted by SA DOUCE and

SA FORSYTH.

PG T-9 Is PG 564-C.

PG T-10 15 PAUL CHILDS, Pittsburgh, Pa. bondsman and former PCI,

contacted by SA JOHN S. HUGHES.

PG T-11 is WILLIAM WALSH, Inspector, Pittsburgh Police Department,

contacted by SA THOMPSON.

PG T-12. 1S [GEOFFREDO CELLINI, PCI, contacted by Legat, Havana JOe

REVIEWED SY DELUFA TASK PORCE

ON

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RELEASE IN PART

TOTAL DENIAL

CONTIDENTRE

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ONFOENIA

PG 92-407

121400

PG T-13 is ARTIE NEWMAN, Cashier, Hotel Nacional Gambling

Casino, contacted by Legat, Havana. Janu

PG T-14 is JIM KELLY, PCI, contacted by SA FORSYTH.

PG T-15 is ARCHIE MILLER, owner, Miller's Men's Clothing

Store, New Kensington, Pa., contacted by SAS DOUCE and

FORSYTH.

MM T-1 IS JOSEPH MEROLA, interviewed by SAS GEORGE E. DAVIS,

Jr. and LEMAN L. STAFFORD.

PG I-16 1S MADELINE MARCOUN, PCI, contactéa by SA DOUCE.

PG I-17 IS DI. JAMES THORNTON MC CLOWRY, PCI, contacted by

SA FORSYTH.

PG T-18 is Dr. LOUIS C. PESSOLANO, Miami Springs, Fla.,

interviewed by SA DOUCE on 3/16/59, just prior to his

appearance

before a Federal Grand Jury in the case involving STUART SUTOR

and members of the MANNARINO organization in a gunrunning

conspiracy during the Cuban Rebellion (Bufile 52-72398) •

PG T-19 is ROBERT J. WILSON, Vice President, Mellon National

Bank, New Kensington, Pa., contacted by SA ALBERT E. KLEBE, JI.

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PG 92-407

DE FELICE had confided to him on many occasions that he

acts in the capacity of a supervisor in charge of basketball,

football, horse and fight betting for the MANNARINO

organization, working under the direct supervision of WILLIE

SAMS. According to PG I-8 DE FELICE supervises the sport

betting from the Laetus Club in New Kensington between the hours

or 9:00 AM ana 1:30 PM daily accepting bets over telephone

number EDison 9-9219, EDison 9-9382 and EDison 9-9209.

PG T-8 added that in conversation with DE FELICE within the

past two weeks he learned tha the MANNARINO organization

makes approximately eight to ten thousand dollars a day from

sport betting and that DE FELICE has instructions before

accepting any bets each morning to telephone WILLIE SAMS to

get a line on the odds for the particular sporting event of

the day.

Florian. W./20gg

253 Charles Avenue

New Kensington, Pa...

PG I-T on June 6, 1953, stated that ZOGG, aka "Red" is a

close associate of the MANNARINO brothers and was formerly

employed by the Mills Distributing Company of Chicago, I1].

PG T-7 stated that ZOGG is also an associate of

SEBASTIAN JOHN

LA ROCCA.

PG I-T on February 4, 1958, stated that ZOGG arrived in New

Kensington from Chicago, Ill.,

around 1953-54 for the apparent

• purpose of assisting SAMUEL MANNARINO in entering the business

of manufacturing outdoor theater speakers and ornamental lamps

for home decoration at the New Kensington Novelty Company.

Records of the Chicago, Ill. Police Department reviewed by

30, 1958, disclosed three

So he portion i got nechined arth the oriod 295-15 .

ZOGG was discharged following each arrest.

Raymond Sardlock

Mayor, City of

New Kenington, Pa.

PG T-9,

who declined to testify at any future Federal or state

proceedings, on December 11, 1957, stated that Mayor GARDLOCK 1s

closely associated with SAMUEL and GABRIEL MANNARINO and follows

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PG 92-407

mentioned that while in Los Angeles, Callf., he was picked

up and questioned by the Los Angeles Police Department

concerning the murder of "BUGSY" SEIGEL in Beverly Hills,

Calif.

SEID described himself as a close friend of SAM and GABRIEL

MANNARINO of New Kensington, Pa., since the 1930's but deniec

that they had any financial interest in the operation of

gambling casinos in the Garibaldi Building or at 938 Barnes

Street in New Kensington.

In conclusion, SEID stated that he has never applied for

citizenship in the United Statea and has never filed an

annual

alien address report cara.

On April 3, 1959, a Special Inquiry Officer, Immigration and

Naturalization Service, Pittsburgh, Pa., after providing

SEID with a hearing on

March 13, 1959, ordered SEID deported.

as an undesirable alien.. He was thereupon placed under

supervised parole.

On January 6, 1960, SEID was convicted in U. S. District Court,

Western District of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pa., for Failure

to Register as an Alien and for Failure to Submit

Report Cards.

He was sentenced to six months imprisonment and

a fine of $1,200.

the identification recora of ALBERI SEID, FBI #514103, dates

to 1932 and includes two arrests and convictions for robbery,

in Cleveland .and

Columbus, Ohio, during the 1930's.

Daniel/Hanna

FBI #224070D®

PG T-8 on February 26, 1959, advised that DANIEL HANNA, barbout

dealer in the MANNARINO gambling casino, confided that

SAMUEL

MANNARINO gave him assurances that he would not be prosecuted

in the case involving the theft of weapons from the Ohio

National Guard Armory, Canton,

implied to HANNA that

made to have the case "fixed" but that if for some unforeseen

i su that"

Ohio: PG I-o stated that MANNARINO

arrangements had been made or would be

reason HANNA was convicted he would be paid for every day he

spent in prison.

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