Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: LABADIE, STEPHEN J.
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 11/15/1960
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

6/11/201

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER:

FBI

124-10195-10348

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 92-2781-129

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

Assassination Records

Collection Aet of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#:NW 45966 Date:

11-16-2017

Document Information

ORIGINATOR :

FBI

FROM: LABADIE, STEPHEN J.

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE: 11/15/1960

'PAGES:

10

SUBJECTS :

[Restricted]

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4; 11(a)

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW :

_02/16/1999

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF IRS

COMMENTS :

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TP 92-1

Will report subscriber to New York telephone RE 7-2137, which

number was called on 6/22/60 from St. Petersburg Beach, Florida,

#22-4513, and thereafter advise whether or not subject could be using

this number or location. (Lead set out by referenced letter.)

TAMPA DIVISION

AT ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA

Will report subscribers to following numbers and conduct appropriate

inquiry to determine if subject visiting at such locations:

22-3475 called 8/1l and 8/16; DI 4-9922 called 9/19 to KEVIN KUENZEL;

DI 3-3161, called 9/20 to RICHARD P. DILLON.

AT TAMPA, FLORIDA

Will maintain contact with informants and sources to report

activities of subject.

ADMINISTRATIVE:

This report reflects hereinafter that SANTO called from Havana, Cuba

3-9435 on 8/8/60 collect to his residence RE 6-6073, Tampa; however,

no extra copy of this report is being furnished inasmuch as the Tampa

Office understands there is no longer a Legat at Havana.

Some information is set out in this report that was not deemed

'necessary to set out in the referenced summary report for

dissemination which accounts for

the conflicting periods.

TP 23-PC advised SA JOHN D. MEDAGLIA on August 14, 1960, that on

such date SANTO TRAFFICANTE and his wife left Tampa, Florida,

on National Airlines flight 808 ostensibly for Miami, Florida.

The Jacksonville Office advised that regular contact with

Jacksonville CIs and Sources failed to develop any information

that subject has traveled in the Jacksonville Division.

As of July 26, 1960, PCI HORACE FALLEN, Jacksonville, advised SA

FREDERICK W. BUOL that JOHN DE SALVO of Jacksonville, Florida,

and one JUNIOR CROCKETT, Valdosta, Georgia, formerly

of

MacClenny, Florida, were bolita operators and they were allegedly

"laying off" to the TRAFFICANTE group in

Tampa.

-B-

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JFK Act 6 (4)

TP 92-1

The Miami Office advised by communication dated August 23, 1960,

that all logical PCIs and CIs were contacted in the Miami

area

for information regarding subject covering the period from July 8,

1960 through August 4, 1960, with negative results.

They advised

no information had been received from Immigration and

Naturalization Service, Miami, Florida, regarding any notification

of subject's contemplated travel.

PCI, advised SA JAMES P. O'NEIL on 9/22/60

that he believed the TRAFFICANTEs were "steering clear" of

bolita in the area and that with the incarceration of HENRY

TRAFFICANTE perhaps they would move into horse or dog booking.

PCI, Tampa, advised SA JOHN J. GAFFNEY

on October 21 and 27,

1960, that according to his sources,

subject was in Miami,

Florida, and that he had been unable to

determine the exact address in Miami or what subject was doing

in Miami.

PCI, advised SA O'NEIL on October 20, 1960,

relative to JAMES M.

McEWEN's public charges that Republican

U.S. Congressman WILLIAM C. CRAMER received money from FRANK

TRAFFICANTE, that there was no chance that the money had been

given to C. RAY SMITH, DRAMER's partner, and then not be turned .

in by him.

Source said he was sure that the money went to

CRAMER though in all probability it was not reported as a

campaign contribution. He

noted he had received information

from "good sources"

, and in addition knew CRAMER had been the

guest of SANTO TRAFFICANTE in Havana, after the 1954 election.

He said he had been in Havana the week following, stayed at the

same place, the name of the apartment hotel he could not recall,

and learned then that CRAMER, with ROYCE KILPATRICK, former

law partner of CRAMER, had been there and SANTO TRAFFICANTE had

picked up the tab.

PCI said he would not and could not testify

to such but that he believed ROYCE KILPATRICK furnished the

above information to JAMES M. MC EWEN.

SA EDGAR ADAIR, Intelligence Unit, IRS,

Tampa, who requested

his identity not be disclosed outside this Bureau, advised on

October 28, 1960, that

JEK Law

11(a)

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JFK Act 6 (4)

TP 92-1

JEK Law 11(a)

On October I1, 1960, EVANDER "RED" HAMILTON, JR., who requested

his identity not be disclosed outside this Bureau, and who is

owner of Hamilton Brothers, Banana brokers, Tampa, advised SAs

FRANCIS X. O'BRIEN and STEPHEN J. LABADIE that he

the past week spoke with subject.

had been busted by the CASTRO regime in Havana, and that with

the CARo 2021 0 1a

had during

He said subject advised he

his brother HENRY serving time, things were very bad.

Source

said subject was not observed to be wearing his usual diamond

rings or two to three hundred dollar suits.

He said subject

also was not extravagant with money and he was definitely of

the opinion subject was having a hard time.

On October 12, 1960,

_former PCI of Tampa,

who requests his identity not be disclosed, advised SA's FRANCIS *

X. O'BRIEN and STEPHEN J. LABADIE that he had personally seen

SANTO TRAFFICANTE; JR., dining at the Columbia Restaurant,

22nd Street and E. 7th Avenue, Tampa, on October 10 and 11, 1960.

On October 31, 1960,

PCI, advised

SA LABADIE that subject was broke, that the Cubans took him for

everything, and that he supposedly did not get out of Cuba with

a lot of money.

Source said subject was not supposedly in Tampa

but in Miami, location unknown.

On October 31, 1960

](former PCI), who

requested his identity not be revealed outside this Bureau,

advised SAS WILBURN K. DeBRULER and STEPHEN J. LABADIE that subject

had not been seen by him at the Columbia Restaurant since

approximately October 12, 1960.

He said his source related to

him that subject was in Miami, address unknown.

On November 7, 1960

advised SA LABADIE

that subject was personally observed

by

him at the Columbia

Restaurant at approximately 3:00 pm.

He said this was the first

time he had seen subject at the Columbia in approximately three

weeks.

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