Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: NY
To: HQ
Document date: 9/4/58
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Date:

6/15/201

Agency Information

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

FBI

124-90068-10118

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 62-75147-210-151X1

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM:

NY

TO:

HQ

TITLE:

DATE: 09/04/1958

PAGES:

3

SUBJECTS :

- AMERICAN GAMBLERS IN CUBA

AMERICAN GAMBLING ACTIVITIES IN CUBA

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION : Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS : 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 06/24/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS: MEMO

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64

Office Men.

Granda UNITED LATES GOVERNMENT"

TO

FROM

DIRECTOR, FBI (92-2989)

F0-2175 1 9, 442,50, 9191m.

&, NEW YORK (92-886)

DATE: 9/4/58

SUBJECT:

AMERICAN GAMBLING ACTIVITIES - CUBA

AR

GI. I. F. - Cuba

Re Legat letter to Director dated 6/11/58, and Newark

jetter to Director dated 7/23/58.

During contacts with PCI EUGENE F. KEANE bY SA

EDMUND FLANAGAN on 8/18/58, the informant advised the following:

KEANE, who was affiliated with the Sans Souls

Gambling Casino for several months in the fall of 1957, stated

a roulette dealer at the Sans Souri, arranged

through

SHIY DIAGOREY (PH), a Cuban Government official,

to legalize

the operation of a punchboard

game called

"Lucky

Punch"

'":

KEANE stated that in the past, all punchboard

had been Illegad in

Cuba.

Prizes for the

"Lucky punch, games

goone

are cuban lottery tickets. Accoraing to KEANE, REY has

It arranged for the operators of "Lucky Punch"

to buy the

lottery-tickets for 20 per cent of the wholesale price.

Because REY had "Lucky Punch legalized, he gets a 50 per cent

share in the profits of the game.

KEANE explained that Cuban

lottery tickets are made up of 100 squares and each square

sells for $. 25.

He said that the usual wholesale price for

the lottery tickets 1s $21.

KEANE stated that abouts25 or

$30 is made for each

"Lucky Punch" board sold.

Referenced letter from the Legat Havana advised NYC

- telephone number DA 8-8971 as one which was mentioned by an

individual named DI MARCO in connection with a narcotics

operation of which he was a part.

on 8/4/58, Mr. EDWARD I. BRAUNE Of the NYCHOLO

Isea

SA PAUL F. ROWLANDS that telephone number DA 8-8971 1s

subacribed to by EDUARDO BERRY 939 fox St., Bronx, NY, apartient

number 64.

62-75147-210-151X1

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- Bureau (92-2989)•2!

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REC- 1 :

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- New York (92-886)

EFF: ab

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ALL NORMATION COMTANE

toss 85682/151

AERO (7FK)

SER N

1954 HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED I

DATE 5/4/82 BY SPYSAM PHT.

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