Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: DL
To: HQ
Document date: 10/28/1968
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

3/31/201

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-90021-10021

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 92-5704-19

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

DL

TO: HQ

TITLE:

DATE: 10/28/1968

PAGES:

45

SUBJECTS :

JOE CAMPISI

JOSEPH CAMPISI

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS:

CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 11/17/1997

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS:

RPT

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ADMINISTRATIVE

The extensive period and overlap of periods between

this report and referenced report is the result of including

investigation by other Offices and ResidenttAgencies.

matter has received continuous

attention.

This

Because of the number of Offices involved, leads

have been set forth by separate communication.

Information from the New York Telephone Company

relative to numbers WH 9-3004, ST 3-1669, and OR 7-3827

was furnished to SA JOSEPH STABILE by WILLIAM R. ENNIS,

Security Supervisor..

Information from the South Central Bell Telephone

Company, 1544 Madison Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee, relative

co number 682-4547 was furnished to SA FRANKLIN L. JOHNSON

by Mrs. PAT ROBERTS, Secretary, Division Security Manager.

Trader Bo's Club, 711 Borden Street, Fort Worth,

Texas, is owned and operated by BILL JORDAN.

JORDAN formerly

operated the

Surf Side Six Club, but sold that club and moved

to Trader Bo's Club in February,

1968. JORDAN is a well known

gambler and bookmaker in Fort Worth and has numerous contacts

and friends in Dallas and Fort Worth.

IDENTITY OF INFORMANTS

DL T-l is LV 241-C-TE who furnished information to

SA JAMES E. DOYLE On 8/20/68.

DL T-2 is PCI JOE WEBB JOHNSON who was contacted

by SA T. G. MCWILLIAMS, JR., on 8/13/68.

DL T-3 is KENNETH E. COMMONS, Director of Security,

General Telephone Company of the Southwest, San Angelo, Texas,

who furnished information to SA RICHARD J. BURNETT on

6/13/68.

DL T-4 is PCI MAUDINE BILES who furnished information

to SA WILLIAM B. HOLLOMAN on 8/30/68.

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DL T-5 is DL 135-C-TE contacted by SA FORREST F.

JOHN on 8/22/68 and 8/26/68.

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The following investigation was conducted by SA JAMES

E. DOYLE:

AT LAS VEGAS, NEVADA

Las Vegas telephone number 735-1122 is assigned to

the Desert Inn Hotel:

Las Vegas telephone number 384-1172 is issued to

CHESTER SIMMS, 1308

South Sixth Street, Las Vegas

DL ,T-1 advised

on August 20, 1968, that he is well

acquainted with SAM and JOSEPH CAMPISI and knows them to be

owners

and operators of the Egyptian Lounge Restaurant in Dallas,

Texas.

He added that he knows nothing derogatory concerning

these

two individuals and knows them to frequent Las Vegas

periodically, usually staying at either the Desert Inn or

Flamingo Hotels.

On August 27, 1968, DL T-1 telephonically advised

SA JAMES E. DOYLE that

he had just received a telephone call from

SAM CAMPISI, Dallas,

and he desired informant to make

show reservations for CAM ISI's nephew who was prosently in

Las Vegas. Source added that he did not know the nephew and

was making reservations for him at the Flamingo Hotel per CAMPISI's

request and the reservations were being made under SAM CAMPISI'S

name.

Records of the Desert Inn Hotel casino cage reflects

credit for SAM and JOSEPH CAMPISI in the casino cage of that

hotel extending back over the past two years.:

HELEN BURRIS advised on August 15, 1968, that both

CAMPISI's have in the past stayed at the Desert Inn Hotel, but

according to credit records, gambled rather moderately.

The Desert Inn Hotel does not record incoming long

distance telephone calls and it could not be

determined through

records checked the reason for call to that hotel by JOSEPH

CAMPISI on January 20, 1968.

CHESTER SIMMS, 1308 South Sixth Street, Las Vegas,

is a former owner in the Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas,

and has been

a long time Las Vegas resident.

During his ownership in the

Flamingo Hotel from 1951 to 1967, he also acted as casino manager

and was a person of predominant; authority in ali hotel and casino

operations. SIMMS is known to have numerous friends throughout

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On August 26, 1968, DL T-5 advised that on that date

the subject, upon finding JOHN ROSS PATRONO at the used car lot

operated by

10B CHAPM

chided them about.congregating

there as it would result in the police watching the place.

CAMPISI expressed concern about the bookmaking activities

of JOHN CAMPISI and attempted to enlist the aid of DL T-5 to

get JOHN CAMPISI to stop such activities.

On September 5, 1968, it was noted that one of subject's

automobiles had a bumper

sticker on the rear bumper stating Joe

Campisi and Associates, General Insurance.

The current telephone

directories lists Joe Campisi and Associates at 5526 Dyer, Dallas,

telephon 369-6141.… The Dallas City Directory shows the above

address

to be the Surburban Building.

The following investigation was conducted by SA WILLIAM

B. HOLLOMAN:

AT DALLAS,

TEXAS

"On August 30, 1968, DL I-4 advised that the subject's

DL T-4 advised

she met the subject through her daughter, BRENDA, and that BRENDA

met the subject at the Egyptian Restaurant. DL T-4 stated the

subject has sent her many customers for her girls, but he has

not been a trick himself.

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