Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, PG
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 02/18/1966
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Date:

5/28/201

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY :

FBI

RECORD NUMBER : 124-10284-10051

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

92-2918-161, 162

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM:

SAC, PG

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE :

DATE: 02/18/1966

PAGES:

17

SUBJECTS :

SMO, RETIRED, REL, GM, CONTROL, B/F INT, GAMBLING,

RACK ACT

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 09/11/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS:

INC RPT

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(Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note).

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FD-263 (Rev. 9-17-65)

FEDERAL BUREAU OF IN'. ESTIGATION

REPORTING OFFICE

PITTSBURGH

TITLE OF CASE

OFFICE OF ORIGIN

PITTSBURGH

DATE

3/21/66

INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD

12/6/65 - 3/15/66

REPORT MADE BY

THOMAS G. FORSYTH, III

CHARACTER OF CASE

TYPED BY

alb

SAMUEL, MANNARINO, aka.

AR

REFERENCES

Report of SA THOMAS G. FORSYTH, III dated 12/10/65, at

Pittsburgh.

Bureau airtel to Pittsburgh and New York dated 12/6/65,

ARD Eloned, "ILANDO CAPOLINO; GUIDO CAPOLINO; SAMUEL MANNARINO;

Pittsburgh airtel to Bureau dated 1/4/66, captioned as

Immediately above.

Pittsburgh letter

to Cleveland dated 1/19/66.

Baltimore letter to Pittsburgh dated 1/18/66.

Cleveland letter to Pittsburgh dated 1/20/66.

Charlotte letter to Pittsburgh dated 1/26/66.

Pittsburgh letter to Bureau dated 2/18/66.

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ENCLOSURES

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

MEXE

1187211,326

TO BUREAU

DATE

8/36186

Case has been: Pending over one ye

[Yes I No; Pending prosecution over six months D Yes ENo

APPROVER ON MACHING AGE

DO NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW

COPIES MÄDE:

92-

2918-162

REC- 31

1. 109

4-Bureau (92-2918) (Eactr-2)

1-USA, Pittsburgh,

Pa.

2-Las

Vegas

Cut:

2-Pittsburgh (92-228)

NOTED

9 20 MAY 22 1972

Dissemination Record of Attached Report

Agency

Request Recd.

Date Fwd.

How Fwd.

By

25 MAR 22 1966

A

Notations

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PG 92-228

Two (2) copies of a LHM in which informants

utilized in this

report are characterized.

LEADS

LAS VEGAS

AT LAS VEGAS, NEVADA

Will ascertain if there is any record of an

organization known as Domino Corporation holding real estate

for possible future development in the area of Las Vegas.

2.

W1ll also attempt to ascertain the identity of

officers of the Domino Corporation.

PITTSBURGH

AT PITTSBURGH, PA. (ALLEGHENY COUNTY)

Will continue to follow and report the activities

of subject and his associates in accordance with Bureau

instructions.

ADMINISTRATIVE

While the period of this report 1s longer than

would be considered desirable, it is due to the lack of

activity on the part of subject; the preoccupation of the

preparing Special Agent with several bank robbery invest1-

gations; and the handling by the preparing Special Agent of

other,

more pressing, matters in connection with the Criminal

Intelligence Program.

INFORMANTS

PG T-1 1s PG 775-C.

PG T-2 1s former PG 615-C.

PG T-3 1s PG 804-PC.

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PG 92-228

PG I-4 1s Legat, Ottawa,

enclosing letters

from RCMP •

PG T-5 1s PG 792-PC.

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PG 92-228

Numerous sources had previously

Washington County, Pa "trigger man" for the MANNARINOS of

referred to ZEID as

New Kensington, Pa.,

and other "syndicate groups" for many

years.

On January 11, 1966, PG I-5 advised:

If the Federal Bureau of Investigation were to

check and find out the identities of two young men whom

SAM MANNARINO was instrumental in getting out of United

States Penitentiary, Lewisburg, Pa., approximately one month

before MANNARINO himself got out, two of the murderers of

AL ROSS

would be known.

On February 18, 1966, PG T-3 advised:

Recently, it was suggested to MANNARINO that he

may have had some part in the shooting murder of AL ROSS in

1965.

MANNARINO laughed and stated that this would have been

Impossible since he was

not released from the penitentiary

unt1l June 1, 1965.

MANNARINO treated with disgust the

rumor that he had managed to secure the release of two young

inmates from the penitentiary and had hired them to do the

shooting.

killings for him and possibly put him in the electric chair,

He stated that he had done his share of killings in the past,

and if he were going to do one today, he would do it himself,

possibly accompanied by someone with whom he has done business

for a great many years.

La Cosa Nostra

On February 18, 1966, PG T-3 advised:

Recently,

during a conversation with MANNARINO,

MANNARINO stated

"we" don't get involved in murders anymore,

MANNARINO said there

up until the

shooting of At ROSS, for

area,

30 years.

MANNARINO

was asked how he could makely that statement with the

frèquent murders in the Chicago, Ill., area, and in the

recent past, in Youngstown, Ohio..

MANNARINO replied that

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Released under the John E. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (41 USC 2107 Mộte):

DATE • 11-14-2017

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

In Reply, Please Refer to

File No.

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

March 21, 1966

SAMUEL MANNARINO

ANTI-RACKETEERING

Reference is made to the report of Special Agent

Thomas G. Forsyth, III, dated and captioned as above at

Pittsburgh, Pa.

PG T-l is an individual highly placed in gambling

activities in the New Kensington, Pa., area for more than

20 years.

PG T-2 is a professional man whose business

activities frequently

bring him into contact with members

of the underworld in the Allegheny Valley Section of Western

Pennsylvania.

PG T-3 is an individual who has known Samuel

Mannarino all of his adult life and is accepted as a friend

of Mannarino.

PG T-4 1s a confidential source in Canada,

engaged in investigating the activities of the criminal

element there.

PG T-5 is a professional man in the New Kensington,

Pa., area, whose services are frequently used by members of

the underworld in that region.

This document contains neither recommendations nor.

conclusions of the FBI; It isithe property of the FBI and 1s

loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be

distributed outside.your agency.

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Released under the Iohn F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote).

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5010-107-5

OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10

MAY 1962 EDITION

GSA GEN. REG. NO. 27

UNITED STATES GU

R NMENI

Memoranaum

TO

DIRECTOR, FBI (92-2918)

DATE: 2/18/66

FROM

PITTSBURGH (92-228) (P)

SUBJECT:

SAMUEL MANNARINO, aka.

AR

(00: Pittsburgh)

ReBuairtel dated 1/31/66, captioned

"CRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM.

With respect to the one specified item for

inclusion in the ADP programming, the following has been

determined:

ILLEGAL ACTIVITY

on 2/4/66, PG 775-C advised SA THOMAS G.

FORSYTH, III:

Since at least 1958, SAM MANNARINO has not

all gambling and

related activities in the northern part of

Westmoreland County, Pa., and he actively took part in their

management. However, a schism occurred between SAM MANNARINO

and his younger brother, GABRIEL MANNARINO, reason not known,

and since then, for all practical purposes, SAM MANNARINO has

been retired and control of rackets has passed on to GABRIEL

MANNARINO. SAM MANNARINO keeps busy in

the management and

promotion of legitimate business interests.

On the same date, PG 612-0, Former PG 707-0

and Former PG 615-C presented substantially the same descriptions

of subject's past and present relationship to illegal activities.

Th

on this subject.

The roreggief ernes - 2091

willube set out in the next report

-161

SAMUEL, MANNARINO SHOULD BE CONSIDERED ARMED AND

DANGEROUS.

3

Bureau

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18 FEB 21 1966

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