Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, MM
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 10/2/62
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

6/11/201

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

FBI

124-10206-10213

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 92-2781-614

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: SAC, MM

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE: 10/02/1962

' PAGES:

2

SUBJECTS :

LST, ASSOC, BURGLARIES

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION : Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS :

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW :

10/13/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

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2).

OPTIONAL FORM NO, 10.

5010-104

•SUNITED STATES. GO

FERNMENT

Memorandum

- TO

DIRECTOR, FBI (92-2781)

DATE: OCT:

21962

FROM

SAC, MIAMI (92-88) (P)

SUBJECT:

SANTO TRATICANE, JR., aKa.

TAMPA-00

Re Tampa airtel to Bureau 8/3/62

32'65

The following Information regarding MILO BELL 18

contained in the Miami files:

MILeYBaLt, also known as METLOnsEtI and MARIOW

BELL; EBI No. 5173889, was one of the subjects of a Neutrality

Matters case In the Miami Office in that he allegedly was to

obtain guns and ammunition to be used in the overthrow of

the Haitian dovernment see aAe-

POls: BostoN

Investigations conduated by. the Denver

1/25/20

Office, MILO BELL, has been identifled as a Winthrop, Maasa-

chusetts gambler who hag in the past assuciated with Denver oa

JESS RAYMOND BRIDWELL aNd DONALD KLITA SHORE KISHiNE

JOHN EK, Co-owner of the Seminole dun Shop in

Miami (Proteat), advised on September 18, 1961 that in

November 1960, MILO FELL purchased seven magnum revolvers.

he said these

guns cost in the neighborhood_of $6,700, and

he understood they were being taken to the Intelligence

Division of the Cuban Government

EK also said he under-

stood

TRAFPICANTE operated In Havana, Cuba.

that MILO BELL wAs & TUnner fOr JANIO TRAFFICANEE whenL

1961,

known associate of suspected thieves in the Miami Beach area,

were committing thefts

through burglarles of residences on

Miami Beach.

Informant

further advised that

he suspected

Bureau

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MM 92-88

ADLER and BELI had possibly made connection with local thieves;

whom

they used to commit these burglaries, after BELI and ADLER

had "fingered" same.

BELL Is described as follows:

Race

Sex.

Dates of Birth

He1ght

Weight

Hair

Eyes

Complexion

Build

Residence

White

Male

January 25, 1921 at Boston,

Massachusetts;

January 25, 1920 at Kishinev,

Bessarabia, Rumania

5'5"

150 pounds

Brown

Brown

Dark

Small

7300 Gary Avenue

Miami Beach, Florida

BELL was contacted on May 25, 1961 by SAS CHARLES V.-

POWELL and NORMAN T. OLLESTAD regarding TRAFFICANTE, and BELL

would neither admit nor deny that he knew TRAFFICaNTE.

An attempt was made on September 19, 1962, to

Interview BELL In an ITSP matter and he said he would "not

tell the FBi anything.

Enclosed for Dallas is a front and side view photo-

graph of fReb c. CHArMAN who is one of the large bolita operators

in the South Miani-Kendal1

CHAPMAN allegedly has been

"stuck up" on at least two occasions, the last being about two.

years ago. He does not reside within the city limits of Coral

Gables, but does reside In the same general area.

Dallas is requested to display this photograph to

GEORGE FUQUA to determine if CHAPMAN is ore of the bolita men

he and DOLAN "stuck up" in Miami.

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