Originator: FBI
From: TALBURTT, ORVILLE R.
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 07/22/1964
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/19/201

AGENCY : FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10208-10408

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

92-6054-685

Document Information

ORIGINATOR :

FBI

FROM:

TALBURTT, ORVILLE R.

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE :

DATE: 07/22/1964

PAGES:

22

SUBJECTS :

LCN, TROPIANO, RALPH, CRIMINAL ACT, CONSPR, BRIBE,

POLICE OFFFICER, ARREST

DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS : 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 06/25/1998

OPENING CRITERIA : INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

Released under the John F. Kennedy

Assassination Records Collection Act of

1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). Case#:NW

68262 Date: 09-22-2022

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

REPORTING OFFICE

NEW HAVEN

TITLE OF CASE in

OFFICE OF ORIGiN

NEW YORK

DATE

7/22/64

INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD

12/13/63 - 7/20/64

REPORT MADE BY

SA ORVILLE R. TALBURTT

CHARACTER OF CASE

LA COSA NOSTRA

AR - CONSPIRACY

REFERENCE

Bureau airtel to New Haven dated 6/23/64.

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ENCLOSURES TO BUREAU - 2

of informants.

To dote e loreroad amorado costeria, characterize: 1o

ENCLOSURES TO NEW YORK - 2

Two copies of letterhead memorandum concerning characterizations

of informants.

ADMINI STRATIVE

In connection with RALPH TROPIANO, Bureau authority has been

granted to conduct a survey in connection with the installation

of a highly confidential source, and it is pointed out that the

SPECIAL

AGENT,

IN CHARGE

APPROVED

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NH

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survey has been completed and will be furnished to the Bureau

on or about 7/22/64.

If authority is granted to complete

the installation, it is hoped that valuable information

will be received

in connection with the illegal activities

of TROPIANO and further develop his associations within

La Cosa Nostra.

INFORMANTS

NH T-1 is NH 420-C.

NH T-2 is PCI LAWRENCE ZERNITZ.

NH T-3 is Sergeant STEPHEN AHERN, Special Services Bureau,

New Haven, Conn. Police Department.

NH T-4 is NY 3461-C-TE.

NH T-5 is BS 670-C-TE.

NH T-6 iS NH PCI WILLIAM ELLISON.

NH T-T IS NH 340-C.

NH T-8 is NH 438-PCI

NH T-9 15 NH 397-C.

NH T-10 IS NH 429-C.

NH T-11 is NH 416-C-TE.

NH T-12 iS NH PCI FRANK PACHESNICK.

NH T-13 is NH 415-C-TE.

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DETAILS

At New Haven, Connecticut

EXISTENCE - ORGANIZATION AND LEADERSHIP

During the past six month period, investigation in the New

Haven,

Connecticut area has failed to reveal that there is

a particular La Cosa Nostra "family" in Connecticut, although

investigation indicates that individuals who will be named

later in this report have definite associations or tie-ins

with certain New York "families", which are in the framework

• of La Cosa Nostra.

So far as leadership is concerned, it cannot be determined

member of a particudar New York reamaby reporter et cont

New York "family", has direct control

over other Connecticut La Cosa Nostra members.

It does

appear that members in Connecticut are largely concerned

with illegal gambling activities, from which they derive

their largest income.

RALPH "WHITEY" TROPIANO

MEMBER SHIP

It has been reported by reliable New York sources, and other

sources in New Haven, Connecticut considered reliable, that

TROPIANO is a member of the JOSEPH ANTHONY COLOMBO "family"

formerly headed by the late JOSEPH PROFACI.

Also reliably reported by New York as a member of the same

organization is GEORGE TROPIANO, brother of RALPH TROPIANO,

residing in the Brooklyn, New York area.

During the past pertinent period, NH T-1 and NH T-2 both

have reported RALPH TROPIANO to be a member of the late JOSEPH

PROFACI "family".

On June 17, 1964, NH T-2, when questioned as to TROPIANO's

activities, advised that he had heard from underworld contacts.

that the late JOSEPH PROFACI was the boss of TROPIANO.

He also

remarked that not being Italian himself (NH T-2 is of German

2.

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