Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: PRICE
To: ROSEN
Document date: 05/18/1955
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 21UT Hote).

DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK Assassination System

Date:

5/27/201

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10210-10259

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 62-75147-9-143

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: PRICE

TO: ROSEN

TITLE :

DATE: 05/18/1955

PAGES:

12

SUBJECTS :

SGI, BKG, CRIMINAL ACT, BUSS, ASSOC

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 05/13/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS: INC 2 MEMO

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DATE: 11-14-2017

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(Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote) :

DATE: 11-14-2017

*...

The "Chicago Iribune" on March 11, 1954,

published an article in which it described the "Wagon

Illinois, as

CG Let to bureau

The "Chicago Tribune"

and Number Rackets, NDI)

carried an article in which it was stated that

the Chicago

Police Department was investigating a report that Tony

Accardo was attempting to leave the United States because

he feared assassination.

It was reported that a werning

shot had been fired over Accardo's head as he was leaving

& meeting he had had with three representatives of Paul

Ricca, who had replaced Accardo as boss of the criminal

syndicate two years previously.

the meeting

that Accardo talked with Sam Giancana, northwest Cook

County gambling boss; Sam Battaglia, gambler and former

west side gang leader,

and Jack Capone, a leader with

Glancana of the yound

hoodluns in the syndicate who supported

Accardo's removal as the head of the syndicate. It was

reported that Accardo walked out of this meeting after refus-

ing to turn over control of gambling and vice receipts from

the southern section of Cook County and Kankakee County.

(62075)47a9 confidential Intorant, who has furnished rellable

information in the pasty

advised in 1954 that it was general

knowledge anong the hoodlums that the "top setup of the

alleged syndicate, Insofar as the operation of taverns and

handbooks and minor gangs was concerned, was first Tony

accardo, then Tony capezio, followed by Sam Giancana.

According to this informant, Giancana controlled Cloerc

i tronanta

and the central west and southwest suburbs; Rocky Potenza,

allegedly a protege of Sam Giancana, controlled the north

and northwest section of Chicago along with the northwest

suburbs. (08-5951-6, 63-735-3)

There is enclosed an identification record for

one sam clancana, with aliases, Sam Gincanni,

San Gincana,

FBI number 58+37, who may be identical with the captioned

Individual.

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