Originator: FBI
From: ROEMER, WILLIAM F.
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 1967-07-18 00:00:00
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/7/2015

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-10208-10116

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

92-3171-2061

Document Information

ORIGINATOR :

FBI

FROM: ROEMER, WILLIAM F.

TO : DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE :

Released under the John F. Kennedy

Assassination Records Collection Act o

1992 |44 USC 2107 Notel. Case#:NW

55994 Date: 11-02-2021

DATE:

„PAGES:

SUBJECTS:

07/18/1967

24

SGI, OC, LEADER, INVEST, CURRENT, WHEREABOUTS

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION :

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS:

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 03/25/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

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FEDERAL BUREAU DF INVESTIGATION

REPORTING OFFICE

CHICAGO

TITLE OF CASE

OFFICE OF ORIGIN

CHICAGO

7/18/67

F445

REPORT MADE BY

WILLIAM F. ROMER

CHARACTER OF CASE

FrON

SAMUEL M. GIANCANA, aka

07.10821

ND305270U3 722231230

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BY DEF

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REFERENCE:

Report of SA WILLIAM F. ROEMER dated 5/18/67 at

Chicago.

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ENCLOSURES

TO BURRY

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memorandum

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in instant

report.

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the

sureal

are

forth characterization

LEAD

ON...

CHICAGO

copies of a letterhead

of informants utilized

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AT CHICAGO,

ILLINOIS.

Will continue to follow and

report the activities

of GIANCANA.

Case has been:

Pending over one year

/Yes

→ No; Pending prosecution over six months DYes No

APPROVED

COPIES MADE:

Le PENCHARGEN

IN CHARGE

DO NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW

92-3171-

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Dissemination Record of Attached Report

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Date Fwd.

How Fwd.

Organized Crime and Racketeer

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CG 92-349

INFORMANTS

Informant

CG T-1

PCI MARY KAY MC ALLISTER

CG T-2

PCI WILLIAM GOLDBAUM

MARRAN

CG T-3

156

CG T-4

SD 1064-C-TE

CG T-5

CG 6884-C-TE

CG T-6

CG 7100-PC

CG T-7

CG 6792-C

CG T-8

CG 7016-PC

Contacting Date

Numerous occasions to

SA WILLIAM F. ROEMER

July 3,

1967 to SA WILLIAM F.

ROE MER

June 8, 1967 to Legat, Mexico-*

City

May 25, 1967 to SA JOHN D:

ARMSTRONG, San Diego Division

May 17, 1967 TO SA PAUL B.

FRANKFURT

May

23, 1967 to SA WILLIAM

F. ROEMER

May 15, 1967, TO SA DENNIS W.

SHANAHAN

July 5,1967 to SA WILLIAM F.

ROE MER

CG T-9

WILLIAM C. AYERS, Tucson,

June 2, 1967 to SA DAVID O, HALE,

Phoenix, Arizona Division

Arizona (deemed adviseable)

ORGE

VAZQUEZ ROBLES, ChieF Sun 6, 1967 to Legat, Mexicoge dese

of Inspection, Mexican Immigration

CG T-11

CG 6404-C-TE

June 8, I967 to SA MERLE

4

HAVRE

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CG

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Informant

Contacting: Date

CG T-12

NY 5593 -C-TE

June 23, 1967 to New York Office

CG T-13

PH 599-C-TE

March 29, 1967 to J. ROBERT

PEACE,

Philadelphia Division

CG T-14

May 15, 1967 to SA VINCENT L.

ART PETACQUE, Reporter, "Chicago

INSERRAA

Sun-Times"(demed adviseable)

CG T-15

CG 6588-C-TE

May 11, 1967 to SA RUSSELL

GIRSCH

CG T-16

LV 240-C-TE

June 15, 1967 to Las Vegas Division

C*

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CG

92-349

DETAILS:. AT CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

I. BACKGROUND

Residence

CG T-l advised that he continues to be in position

where he can

observe the GIANCANA residence at 1147 South

Wenonah, Oak Park, Illinois, throughout the day and evening

hours.

This informant advised that he has not observed

GIANCANA in or about his residence

since his release from the

Cook County Jail on May 31, 1966. CG T-I advised that JAMES

PERNO and his wife and the daughter of GIANCANA, FRANCINE,

continue to reside there. U

CG T-2 advised that he is in a position to advise

concerning activities inside

the GIANCANA residence. He

stated

I that GIANCANA returned to his residence in Oak Park

following his release from the Cook County Jail on May 31,

1966.

Members of his immediate family held a small party

for him on June 1, 1966.

GIANCANA has not been observed by

the informant since June l, 1966 even though the informant

has been able to ascertain the identities of individuals

inside the GIANCANA residence on many occasions since June 1,

1966. CG T-2, who is in regular contact with members of

GIANCANA's household, advised that he is certain that GIANCANA

has not returned to the Chicago area since June 1, 1966. U

Current Whereabouts of SAM GIANCANA

a known associate of the subject,

'in her dealings with

Immigration furnished her addess as c/o her attorney, JORGE

CASTILLO Z., Plaza de la Republica 32,

Mexico City.

This

attorney also represented the subject.

Immigration officials advised,

however, there was an

additional address for her,

Box

1066, Cuernavaca, Morelos,

Mexico, telephone 2 61 75.

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CG

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CG T-5 advised that during conversation with

PEPE GIANCANA, the brother of SAMUEL GIANCANA, in mid-May,

1967, PEPE advised that he did not believe that his brother,

SAM GIANCANA, would ever return to the United States. U

CG T-6 advised that he is in contact with a member

of the immediate family of GIANCANA and that he has been

informed by this individual v that GIANCANA has not been seen

by members of his immediate family since his release from the

Cook Connty Jail and that GIANCANA has not been in Chicago

since that time.

This member of GIANCANA's family advised that

she is unaware

of GIANCANA's present whereabouts and that she

has received only one telephone call from him since his release.

that being a long distance call from an unknown location. u

Panamanian Immigration authorities were contacted

and they confirmed that SAMUEL M. GIANCANA arrived in Panama

aboard Varig Airlines Flight 811 on 10 September 1966 coming

from

Mexiço.

GIANCANA

#37542.

was in possession of Tourist Visa Card

check with Varig Airline Office in Panama also

confirmed

GIANCANA'S arrival and that he had reservations for

Varig Airlines Flight #815 scheduled todepart Panama on 15

September 1966 destined for Lima, Peru.

However»

GIANCANA

did not take this flight and departed Panama on 13 September 166

American World Airways Flight #516 destined for Guatemala

Guatemala.

An informant for the local investigator of the

Embassy Security Officer stated that GIANCANA arrived in Panama

accompanied by his personal bodyguard, RICHARD SCALZITTI CAIN.

CAIN was in possession of U.S. Passport #F-935979 dated 19

October 1965 obtained in Chicago, Illinois. He was travelling

on a Tourist Visa Card #37253 •

CAIN's passport indicated he

was born on

October

931 in Illinois and resides at 1533 North

77th Street.

Although GIANCANA Stated to airport authorities that

he would be staying at the Hotel Panama Hilton, hotel registries

at this hotel and othermajor and secondary hotels in Panama

were personally checked and disclosed that no guests answering

to the names of GIANCANA ORA CAIN registered at these hotels.

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CG

92-349

On June 5, 1967, Mrs. ROBERT GABEL, a resident of

the samebuilding in

Elmwood Park, Illinois, as the paternal

grandfather of the TISCI children, advised that he was in

Chicago on

May 3, 1967. She described this individual,

TISCI's father, as being 65-70 years of age, full head

of gray

hair, 5'10", slight build.

It is noted that this description

does not fit SAMUEL GIANCANA.

Subsequent investigation by

the FBI in Tucson, Arizona was unsuccessful in locating

GIANCANA and he was not therafter observed in Tucson. u

CG T-10 is a repesentative of another Government.

He adwised that he received information in June, 196 1967

indicating to him that during the first part of

SAM GIANCANA waS very possibly visiting PALMA de Nailerca,

Spain and Nice, France.(Q

CG T-11 advised that as

of early June, 1967, GIANCANA

continued to travel in and out of Mexico.

He stated that

JOE ESPOSITO, also known as JOE ESTY,, a resident of San Diego,

California, and a former Chicagoan who is the son of "Diamond

JOE" ESPOSITO, a hoodlum leader in the 1920's and a Chicago

labor racketeer, is the contact man for GIANCANA in that he

reportedly makes

connections for GIANCANA in Mexico where

ESPOSITO has numerous highly placed contacts. It is noted

that ESPOSITO, age 50, resides in San Diego at the present time,

moving there during 1955 after he was caught stealing as an

employee of the Public Administrator of the State of Illinois

and discharged.

ESPOSITO is known to be an associate of

GIANCANA and of FRANK LA PORTE, another leader of organized

crime in Chicago, who spends considerable time in California. U

CG T-12 advised that although he could furnish no

specific information concerning the current whereabouts of

SAM GIANCANA he was told by a leader of organized crime in

Chicago who was one of the closest associates of GIANCANA

that GIANCANA is presently residing in Mexico. Y

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