Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, NO
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 05/31/1965
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Date:

5/21/201

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-10279-10128

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 66-2542-11-33-44

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM:

TO:

SAC, NO

DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE:

PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

05/31/1965

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DOCUMENT TYPE:

CLASSIFICATION :

RESTRICTIONS:

CURRENT STATUS :

DATE OF LAST REVIEW:

OPENING CRITERIA:

COMMENTS :

GWG, CM, ASSOC, TRIAL, GAMBLING ACT, B/F INT, SUR/

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Released under the

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4010-00-49

MAsT1152 291118N

GSA GENT: REG.-NO. 2

UNITED STATES GOV

NMENT

Memoranaum

TO

BUREAU (66-2542-11-33)

DATE:

5/31/65

FROM

SAC

NEW ORLEANS (137-1871) (P)

SUBJECT

TOP, ECHELON

CRIMINAL INFORMANT PROGRAM

NEW ORLEANS DIVISION

Enclosed herewith are six copies of memorandums

concerning the three top echelon criminal informants of the

New Orleans office, all of whom are

"located in headquarters

city.

It is noted that by memorandum dated 4/30/65,

regarding

NO 1232-C-TE and NO 1227-C-TE, those were inadvertently

submitted a month early.

lno enciosed memorandum concerning

these two informants vill, therefore, only cover the period a

May 1 to May 31, 1965.

Concerning enclosed memorandum as to NO 1244-C-TE,

it is noted that by letter April 30, 1965, captioned NO 1244-C-TE,

Bureau file 137-9919, a

summary of

information furnished was

submitted which covered

the period from November 13, 1963, to

April 13, 1965; therefore

the enclosed memorandum concerning

this informant will have

summary of information covering

the period 4/13 to 5/31/65.

ENCLOSURE

2/023/96

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

SpamAC/GAT (JFK

HEREIN IS UNOLASSIMED

- Bureau (Enc. 6) (RM)

2 - New Orleans

REC-9

DATE 2-3415 BYfBakya

: 254307.

RWJ/jms

(4)

(REC- 34. 06-254/2-11-33-44

12 JUN 4 1965

BECEIAFD

13

58 JUN 1 7 1965

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

DATF: 11-14-2017

In Reply, Please Refer to

File No.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF Ji fICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

New

Orleans,

Louisiana

May

31,

1965

SYMBOL. NUMBER

NO 1244-C-TE

BUREAU FILE NUMBER

137-9919

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT OR ACTIVITY

This informant operates a restaurant and lounge

owned and controlled by New Orleans's top hoodlum CARLOS

MARCELLO. He is in almost daily contact with MARCELLO and

is associated with such well-known associates of CARLOS

MARCELLO aS VINCENT CAMPO, FELIC GALINO, ERNEST PALMISANO,

and others who have been suspected members of the organized

Italian Criminal Element.

Some informants have described

CAMPO, at one time, as being more important in the Italian

Criminal Element than MARCELLO.

DATES OF CONTACT

May 10 and 28, 1965

(Attempts-April 19, 27, 1965

May 4, 18, 24, 25, and 26, 1965.)

It is noted that during lato April and early

May, 1965, informant was

suffering from a lung condition.

OUTCOME OF CASES

None.

SUMMARY OF INFORMATION FURNISHED

CARLOS MARCELLO

AR

NO 92-36

2/23/95

SpOmACGAT (JFK

PALL INFOERATIOH CONTAINED

HEREIN IS UNOLASSIFIED

254309

662542-11-33-44

ENCLOSURE

Biddletsi

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Released

under the John T. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (41 USC 2107 Note).

DATE: 11-14-2017

In Reply, Please Refer to

File No.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

New

Orleans,

Louisiana

May 31,

1965

SYMBOL NUMBER

NO 1227-C-TE

BUREAU FILE NUMBER

137-9347

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT OR ACTIVITY

There has been no change from that set forth in the

April 30, 1965, memorandum concerning the informant.

DATES OF CONTACT SINCE APRIL 30, 1965

May 1, 17, 22, and 31, 1965.

OUTCOME OF CASES

None.

SUMMARY OF INFORMATION FURNISHED

CARLOS MARCELLO

AR

NO 92-36

On a May 1, 1965 contact, informant said that he

had spent that afternoon with one of CARLOS MARCELLO'S

attorneys who was to represent him in a coming jury tampering

trial, U. S. District Court, New Orleans, Louisiana. He and

the attorney got to talking about HUBERT HEBERT, an

alleged

government witness in a recênt trial against MARCELLO, during

which trial HEBERT gave the U. S. Government an affadavit

testifying he had been hired by MARCELLO to kill another

government witness by the name of CARL NOLE who had testified

against MARCELLO in the same trial.

2/23/98

STATED

HALL INFGA

HEREIN IS UNOLA

SOMED

DATE 230450 2 817p6 Aga

254308

ENCLOSURE

16-525=35

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The attorney, named G. WRAY

AST lIindicated that

HEBERT had contacted GIll and another MARCELLO attorney, Mr.

WASSERMAN, as well as CARLOS MARCELLO recently at MARCELLO'S

camp at Little Farms, Jefferson Parish.

HEBERT apparently

told MARCELLO and his attorneys that although he had told

the FBI or Justice Department attorneys that MARCELLO had

hired him to kill NOLE; that this had been strictly oral and

he had never given a written statement. He told MARCELLO'S

attorneys that the FBI and/or the Justice Department attorneys

my are or ta sunti

had offered him $75,000 to testify that he had been hired to

kill NOLE. Supposedly at this meeting with MARCELLO and his

attorneys, HEBERT

a signed statement in which he has

allogedly related that he had never actually been contacted

by MARCELLO or anyone else to kill the Government witness

NOLE. Informant stated that supposedly HEBERT and the

ed that s

MARCELLO attorneys are of the belief that the Government

does not know that HEBERT has gone to MARCELLO and his

attorneys and given a statement refuting his previous

testimony as a Government witness.

Informant stated that GILL appeared to be very

optomistic that MARCELLO would be acquitted of the bribery

charges against him pending in USDC; further MARCELLO's

attorneys wanted the attempted murder and bribery charges

brought at the same time in USDC.

Apparently the Departmental

Attorneys had requested the court to hear the bribery and

attempted murder charges separately. Informant also stated

that HEBERT had indicated taMARCELLO and his attorneys that

he had been an undercover man for the Government in connection

with the JIMMY HOFFA case.

Informant also advised that BENNIE LE HANN, presently

operating a motel and restaurant for CARLOS MARCELLO in

Alexandria, Louisiana, had bilked MARCELLO out of $25,000.

Informant did not know if LE HANN was still operating the

motel in Alexandria or not.

Informant also stated that GILL's former

investigator DAVE FAIRRIES

(phonetic had recently beei

operating a

gas station

on Airline Highway near the airport

FAIRRIES had started this station on money loaned him or on

credit from CARLOS MARCELLO. FAIRRIES allegedly lost control

of this gas station as the gas company owning the station

learned of his past reputation.

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Informant also stated that a millionnaire by the

name of LEE RATTNER (phonetic) from Miami, Florida, was

coming to see CARLOS MARCELLO for a conference at Little

Farms to buy the acreage around Little Farms.

Supposedly

the land involved was to be used as an expressway.

Informant also stated that while riding around

with G. WRAY GILL, GILL stated he wanted to go to an address

on Loyola Avenue to look at some stolen property he might

be able to use.

He and GILL stopped at 4737 Loyola Avenue

and looked at some of the alleged stolen property which

consisted of duplicating machines, dictaphones, IBM calculating

machines and the like.

The above was considered very pertinent as it

indicates possible defense plans MARCELLO's attorneys may

use in VARCELLO's coming trial for jury tampering. It is

also considered good intelligence information concerning

the well-known New Orleans criminal attorney G. WRAY GILL.

On a 5/22/65 contact with informant, he advised

that he has been having considerable trouble with a well-known

madam KAY ROBERTS. ROBERTS had taken over one of the informants

best prostitutes by the name of POLLY SUE HARRINGTON. In

connection with this, he had put much "heat"' on ROBERTS and

HARRINGTON.

HARRINGTON is a close friend of EARNEST PALMISANO,

who in turn is a very close associate of CARLOS MARCELLO.

Apparently HARRINGTON told PALMISANO about informant's

possibly harming HARRINGTON. PALMISANO in turn went to

CARLOS MARCELLO who told PALMISANO that if HARRINGTON could

come up with $500, MARCELLO would arrange to have four men

beat up the informant to where he would be hospitalized for

at least three months. The four men to be hired to beat up

the informant were to be lead by one of the CONFORTO brothers

named JUNIOR. The informant learned of this through HARRINGTON

who apparently decided, at the last moment, that she did not

want the informant maimed.

Although the above is a minor instance, it points

out that CARLOS MARCELLO is an individual who can be contacted

to arrange for "muscle!'.

It is also interesting to note that

informants have previously described the CONFORTO brothers

as being very important cogs in the Italian Criminal Element.

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