Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SE
To: HQ
Document date: 11/11/76
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Date:

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Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-10351-10492

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 72-2382-403

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

SE

TO: HQ

TITLE:

DATE:

• PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

11/11/1976

JUDITH CAMPBELL EXNER

DOCUMENT TYPE :

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION:

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS :

4

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW :

09/17/1998

OPENING CRITERIA : INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

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COMBARGUCATIONS SECTION

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TO DIRECTOR 72-2382 PRIORITY

MIAMI PRIORITY

Limitod Clessification

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DOJ. 00: MIAMI.

THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION WAS OBTAINED FROM A FORMER

PC AND IT IS BELIEVED THAT DISSEMINATION REQUIRES EXTREME

CAUTION AS THE FORMER PO BELIEVES HIS LIFE COULD BE IN DANGER

IF THE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN WAS LEAKED TO INDIVIDUALS

OUTSIDE OFFICIAL GOVERNMENI CIRLES.,

ON NOVEMBER I0, 1976, FORMER SE 2434-PC FURNISHED THE

"FOLLOWING INFORMATION:

IN. APRIL, 1961, AN INDIVIDUAL KNOWN ONLY AS MAX WAS CON-

JACITE RY A PERSON NUDY ONLY AS PHIL THE STICK IN MEN YOR DE-ENO ON

CITY. MAX WAS A "HIT MAN AND WAS INSTRUGTIOBRY PHILEGE

STICK TO GO TO FLORIDA.

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IWO. SE 72-54 493

MIAMI BEACH AND MET WIIH SAM GIANCANA. GIANCANA INTRO-

DUCED MAX TO STURGIS, A CIA AGENI DESCRIBED AS A WHITE MALE,

5'11", AND WELL BUILT. STURGIS QUESTIONED HIM ABOUI HIS,

MAX'S PROFICIENCY IN WEAPONS AND INDICATED MAX SHOULD PRAC-

TICE ON TARGETS IN THE OKEEFENOKEE SWAMPS. DURING THESE

TARGET PRACTICES, STURGIS INSTRUCIED MAX IN THE. USE OF THOMPSON.

SUBMACHINE GUNS.

AROUND MAY 18, 1961, MAX MET WIIH GIANCANA, JOHN ROSELLI,

AND STURGIS WHO TOLD HIM, MAX, AMONG OTHERS, WAS IO "HIT" IHE

DICTATOR OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, RAFAEL TRUJILLO. MAX WAS

INTRODUCED TO ANGELO MARADANO (PHONETIC) WHO SPOKE FLUENT

SPANISH. IT WAS DECIDED MARADANO WOULD PLAY PART OF MAX'S FATHER

WITH MAX BEING A MUTE, THUS HIDING THE FACI THAT MAX COULD NOT

SPEAK SPANISH.

ON MAY 18, 1961, MAX AND ANGELO MARADANO FLEW TO MEXICO CITY.

ON A COMMERCIAL AIRLINE, AND ON MAY 19, 1961, ALSO ON COMMERCIAL

AIRLINES, FLEW IO SANTO DOMINGO. THEY WERE MET BY AN UNKNOWN

CAB DRIVER WHO KNEW THEM AND ULIIMATELY TOOK THEM TO A HOME OUT-

SIDE SANTO DOMINGO WHERE THEY WERE INTRODUCED TO WILLIAMS,

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•ANOTHER CIA MAN DESCRIBED AS WHITE MALE, 6'2"

WILLIAMS GAVE THEM MAPS OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC AND

SANTO DOMINGO AND TOLD THEM IO STUDY THEM. MAX STILL HAS

THESE MAPS AND THEY ARE AVAILABLE IF WANTED.

WILLIAMS INDICATED IT WOULD BE VERY HARD TO "HIT" TRUJILLO

INASMUCH AS TRUJILLO CHANGED ROUTES DAILY, GOING BACK AND

FORTH FROM HIS OFFICE TO THE PALACE AND WAS PROTECTED BY

SHARPSHOOTERS.

ON THE NIGHI OF MAY 29, 1961, WILLIAMS INDICATED TRUJILLO

WAS GOING TO SEE HIS MISTRESS IN SAN CRISTOBAL DURING THE

EVENING OF MAY 30, 1961., HE WAS GOING VIA THE COAST HIGHWAY

AND WOULD BE IN A WHITE CHEVROLET PRECEDED BY A JEEP. IN ORDER

TO FOOL PEOPLE, ANOTHER WHITE CHEVROLET AND JEEP WOULD FOLLOW

HIM SOME TEN.

; IO FIFTEEN MILES.

IN THE AFTERNOON OF MAY 3D, 1961, MAX, MARADANO, WILLIAMS,

AND UNKNOWN OTHERS OF SPANISH DECENT, WENT IN TWO JEEPS TO

FIND A PLACE TO "HIT" TRUJILLO. A SUITABLE PLACE WAS FOUND

NEAR A PORT CITY.

AROUND MIDNIGHT ON MAY 30, THE JEEP AND THE WHITE CHEVROLET

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WITH TRUJILLO APPEARED. SIX MEN

IN THE FIRST JEEP "TOOK OUT"

TRUJILLO'S JEEP, DISABILING THE RADIO AND TIRES. MAX, THE

DRIVER, WILLIAMS, AND MARADANO PULLED UP NEXI TO TRUJILLO

IN THE WHITE CHEVROLET AND MAX AND MARADANO KILLED HIM,

USINGTHOMPSON SUBMACHINE GUNS •

APPROXIMATELY SIX HOURS LATER, THEY RETURNED TO SANTO

DOMINGO AND DEPARTED. FOUR DAYS LATER, ARRIVING IN MIAMI BEACH

VIA MEXICO CITY, PORI AU PRINCE, HAITI, AND THE BAHAMAS, ALL

TRAVELLING BY COMMERCIAL AIRLINES. ONCE THEY ARRIVED IN MIAMI

BEACH, STURGIS PAID MAX AND MARADANO S3D, DOO A PIECE.

PRESENT DURING THIS PAYOFF WAS SAM GIANCANA WHO TOLD MAX

TO CONTACI PETE BRADY,A PIT BOSS IN THE DESERT INN IN LAS

VEGAS, CONCERNING A "HIT" IN HAVANA, CUBA. APPARENILY, BRADY

HAD BEEN WORKING AT THE CAPRI CASINO IN HAVANA AND WAS

FAMILIAR WITH THE AREA.

IN MID-JUNE, 1961, CONTACT WAS MADE BY MAX WITH BRADY

UTILIZING THE SERVICES OF JOHNNY GEORGE, A GAMBLER IN LAS

VEGAS, CURRENTLY BUILDING THE ATLANTIS HOTEL IN LAS VEGAS.

BRADY INDICATED TO MAX HE WAS

INSTRUCTED BY SOMEONE WHOM HE DID

NOT NAME

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THAI HE WAS SUPPOSED TO TELL MAX ALL ABOUT HAVANA AND THE

HILTON HOTEL THERE. IT WAS ASSUMED BY MAX THAI HE WAS

BEING INSIRUCTED SO THAT HE COULD "HIT" FIDEL CASIRO.

AFTER RECEIVING THE INFORMATION

FROM BRADY, MAX RE-

TURNED TO MIAMI BEACH WHERE HE CONTINUED TO TARGEI PRACTICE.

A SHORT WHILE LATER, MAX LEARNED THAI GIANCANA HAD. A "RUN IN"

WITH ROBERT KENNEDY IN LAS VEGAS AND THE "HIT" ON CASTRO WAS

CALLED OFF. MAX WAS INFORMED HIS SERVICES WERE NO LONGER NEEDED.

IN FEBRUARY OR MARCH, 1975, JOHN ROSELLI TOLD MAX THAI HE

AND SAM GIANANA WERE BEING INVESTIGAIED BY THE SENATE SELECI

COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE CONCERNING THE ATIEMPTED ASSASINATION

OF CASTRO. ROSELLI SAID GIANCANA HAD AGREED TO TESTIFY BUT HE,

ROSELLI, WOULD NOI SAY ANYTHING.

IN JULY, 1975, GIANCANA WAS KILLED WITH SEVEN 22 CALIBER

BULLETS AFTER TWO CHICAGO POLICEMEN ON SURVEILLANCE WERE LURED

AWAY. TWO WEEKS LATER, ROSELLI TOLD MAX THAT HE HAD CHECKED IN

TO CHICAGO AND GIANCANA'S MURDER WAS NOI A "MOB HIT", ROSELLI

TOLD HIM IT WAS A MURDER BY THE CIA TO INSURE THAI GIANCANA

WOULD SAY NOTHING TO THE SENATE COMMITTEE CONCERNING THE INVOLVEMENT

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'OF THE CIA WITH " THE MOB". ROSELLI FURTHER INDICATED TO MAX

HE FELI HE WOULD BE FORCED TO TESTIFY BEFORE THE SENATE COMMITTEE

AND WOULD PROBABLY BE "KNOCKED DOWN" OR KILLED BECAUSE OF IT.

IN THE SUMMER OF 197.6, ROSELLI WENT TO FLORIDA IO SEE

HIS SISTER AT WHICH TIME HE WAS MURDERED.

IT IS CONJECTURED BY MAX THAT ROSELLI'S MURDER WAS DONE

BY THE CIA TO KEEP HIM FROM TESTIFYING BEFORE THE SENATE COM-

MITTEE •

THE SEATILE DIVISION HAS NO WAY TO VERIFY THE TRUTH OR

LACK OF II CONCERNING THE ABOVE INFORMATION. ON A LIMITED SCALE,

THE SOURCE'S, PREVIOUS INFORMATION PROVIDED TO THE FBI HAS BEEN

RELIABLE. SHOULD FURTHER INFORMATION BE DESIRED, THE SEATTLE

DIVISION SHOULD BE NOTIFIED. THE INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE

SOURCE IS OFFERED FOR WHATEVER USE IS DEEMED DESIRABLE.

GLASSIFIED 149ZXGDS ZANZ INDEFINATE.

ADMINISTRATIVE: - SE 2434 PC IS MAX FRANK KURSCHNER, BUFILE

137-2136, SEFILE 137-5003, LAFILE 137-637, FBI NO. 262-219A,

WHO ADVISED HE WOULD BE RELUCTANI TO TESTIFY TO THE ABOVE IN-

FORMATION BUT DID NOT RULE OUT THE POSSIBILITY HE WOULD

TESTIFY.

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ALSO PRESENT DURING INTERVIEW WAS SERGEANT CARL OLSON,

INTELLIGENCE DETAIL, SEATTLE POLICE DEPARIMENT, WHO IS NOW

, UTILIZING FORMER SE 2434-PC AS AN INTELLIGENCE INFORMANT.

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