Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, CG
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 04/20/1961
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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

DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK Assassination System

Date:

5/7/2015

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10293-10197

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

92-3171-197

Document Information

ORIGINATOR :

FROM:

TO :

TITLE:

FBI

SAC, CG

DIRECTOR, FBI

DATE: 04/20/1961

PAGES:

8

SUBJECTS :

SGI, ASSOC, INTV, MCDONALD, HAZEL, INTV, BERNSTEIN,

EUGENE

DOCUMENT TYPE:

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION :

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS :

4

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 01/29/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS: INC NOTE

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 141 USC

21UT

DATE: 11-14÷2017

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INNE TIGATION

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

DATE 6-6-84 BYS 5816

TELETYPE

Hotel a

Mr.

Tolson

Mr. Parsons

Mr. Mohr

Mr. Belmont.

Mr. Callahan

Mr. Conrad

Mr. DeLoael

Mr. Evans

Mr. Malone

Mr. Rosen

Mr.

Tavel.

Mr. Trotter

Mr. W.C.Sulliv

Tele: Room.

Mr. Ingram

URGENT

4-20-61

10-33 PM CST

•EAH

TO DIRECTOR FBI / 92-3171/

FROM SAC, CHICAGO 192-349/

6P

SAMUEL M. GIANCANA, AKA., AR. DAILY SUMMARY, MRS. HAZEL PAREN JOHN

ENPAREN MC DONALD, THREE THREE ZERO N. KEYSTONE, RIVER FOREST, ILL 2.

WAS INTERVIEWED APRIL NINETEEN LAST RE THE LAKE WORTH, FLORIDA:

DECEAS

PROPERTY, MRS. MC DONALD STATED EMPHATICALLY THAT JOHNIC DONALD TO

HER KNOWLEDGE HAS NEVER OWNED ANY PROPERTY IN FLORIDA AND SAID THAT

FROM THE DESCRIPTION FURNISHED OF THE PROPERTY IN QUESTION SHE WOULD

CERTAINLY KNOW IF HER HUSBAND HAD ANY INTEREST THEREIN. SHE STATED,

HOWEVER, THAI SINCE HER HUSBAND-S DEATH IN NINETEEN FIFTYNINE SHE

HAS BEEN QUOTE ENLIGHTENED UNQUOTE ON MANY OF HIS ACTIVITIES WHICH..

SHE HAD NO PRIOR KNOWLEDGE. SHE STATED THAT DURING THE YEARS NINETEEN

FIFTYSIX UNTIL HIS DEATH SHE COULD NOT RECALL HIM MAKING ANY TRÍPS TO

TO FLORIDA.. AT ANY RATE, SHE, HERSELF, MADE NO TRIPS AND IS NOS

AWARE OF THE LOCATION OF LAKE WORTH.

ARNOLD NOR WAS SHE ACQUANTED WITH THE GAME LESTER BUSE.

SHE IS NOT ACQUAINTED WITH

IRENE

SHE RELATED

THAT HER HUSBAND HAD MAINTAINED SAFETY DEPOSIT BOYE'S

AT THE EXCHANGE

APR 26 1961

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Released under the John I. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (14 USC 2107 Hote).

DATE:. 11-14=2017 '

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NATIONAL BANK AND COSMOPOLITAN NATIONAL BANK IN CHICAGO AND THAT UPON

HIS DEATH THE BOXES WERE OPENED IN HER PRESENCE BY THE STATE

INHERITANÇE TAX DIVISION, AT WHICH TIME IT WAS ASCERTAINED THAT

THE BOXES WERE COMPLETELY EMPTY. MRS. MC DONALD STRONGLY SUSPECTS

THAT SOME INDIVIDUAL OR INDIVIDUALS MAD QUOTE RIFLED UNQUOTE THESE

BOXES IMMEDIATELY UPON THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND. IT IS NOTED THAT

CG SIX FOUR FOUR THREE DASH C ADVISED RECENTLY THAT THERE ARE TWO

INDIVIDUALS CONNECTED WITH THE EXCHANGE NATIONAL. BANK WHO HAD BEEN

MAKING A PRACTICE OF DIPPING

INTO SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES OF DECEASED

PERSONS AT THIS BANK. MRS. MC DONALD CONTINUED THAT THE ONLY "PROPERTY

LEFT TO HER BY HER HUSBAND IS THE PROPERTY IN RIVER FOREST AND

SOME PROPERTY IN WISCONSIN• THE ONLY OTHER

3 MATTER OF A MATERIAL

NATURE LEFT BY HER HUSBAND WAS A TEN THOUSAND DOLLAR LIFE INSURANCE

POLICY. SHE SAID THAT SHE KNEW THAT HER HUSBAND AT ONE TIME HAD A

ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLAR POLICY, HOWEVER, THIS WAS NOT FOUND AFTER

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eleaged wer the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (11 USC 2107 Hote).

DATE:, 11-11-2017 •

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SINCE THAT TIME. MIAMI AND NEW ORLEANS HAVE BEEN REQUESTED TO FULLY

EXPLORE ALL DETAILS PERTAINING TO THE LAKE WORTH PROPERTY INCLUDING

PRINCIPALS INVOLVED. AN INTERVIEW WITH LESTER KRUSE WILL BE HELD IN

ABEYANCE PENDING RECEIPT OF ALL INFORMATION IN CONNECTION WITH THIS

PROPERTY. ATTEMPTS WERE MADE THIS DATE TO CONTACT WILLIAM BO CRAWFORD,

CHICAGO, A LAWYER MENTIONED AS REPRESENTING JOHN MC DONALD., HOWEVER,

CRAWFORD IS OUT OF TOWN UNTIL NEXT WEEK. BUREAU ATTENTION DIRECTED •

TO CHICAGO CASE CAPTIONED "JOSEPH J. AIRDO, ET AL, TFIS", CHICAGO FILE

FIFTEEN DASH ONE NINE TWO OONE SEVEN. WILLIAM MURPHY, AKA., "ACTION"

JACKSON, ALONG WITH SEVERAL OTHER SUBJECTS, ARRESTED CHICAGO APRIL

FOURTEEN LAST IN CONNECTION WITH THEFT OF TRAILER CONTAINING SOME

SEVENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS IN STOLEN MERCHANDISE. CG SIX FOUR FOUR THREE

DASH C STATED RECENTLY THAT ABOUT TWO MONTHS AGO, JACKSON APPROACHED

HIS RESIDENCE AND THREATENED INFORMANT-S WIFE AND CHILD WITH BODILY

HARM IF INFORMANT DID NOT "PAY UP", INFORMANT AT TIME OWED THREE

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Felease Undef he John If. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection dot at 1992 (1d USe 2107 Hote).

DATE :

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THOUSAND DOLLARS

Ti, SAM LEWIS, PAAR FINANCE CU... ANY, AND THIRTY TWO

THOUSAND TO LESTER KRUSE AND JOHN DREW. MONEY REPRESENTED "JUICE"

FOR GAMBLING DEBTS. JACKSON ALLEGEDLY MUSCLE MAN FOR "JUICE" INTERESTS

WITH SAM DE STAPHANO, WHO IN TURN IS ALLEGEDLY ASSOCIATED WITH WILLIAM

"POTATOES" DADDANO, LIEUTENANT OF GIANCANA. NOTED, HOWEVER, DE

STAPHANO INTERVIEWED BY BUREAU AGENTS. LAST YEAR AND ADMITTED BEING

MUSCLE MAN FOR "JUICE"., HOWEVER, DENIED BEING AFFILIATED WITH

SYNDICATE PEOPLE, INVESTIGATION CONTINUING. U ARMED AND DANGEROUS.

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