Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: EDGERTON, HAROLD J.
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 11/29/1967
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

4/23/201

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-10298-10057

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

92-2824-134, 135, 136

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM: EDGERTON, HAROLD J.

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

• TITLE:

DATE:

PAGES:

SUBJECTS:

11/29/1967

49

JFC, REL, TRA, RES, EMP, B/F INT, FISUR, TOLL CALLS,

CRIMINAL ACT, BKG, FINANCIAL STATEMENT

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 05/11/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS:

INC 2 RPT

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Sev. 9-17-65)

EDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

UnfICET

DALLAS

DALLAS

TITLE OF CASE

JOSEPH FRANCIS CIVELLO aka

BATE

3728/60

REPORT MADE BY

HAROLD J. EDGERTON

CHARACTER OF CASE

INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD

117 00167-3/21768

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TYPED BY

jah

REFERENCES:

Report of SA HAROLD J. EDGERTON dated 1/29/68 at Dallas.

Dallas letter to Chicago dated 2/8/68.

San Antonio letter to Dallas dated 3/7/68.

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LEADS

DALLAS

AT DALLAS, TEXAS. 1. Will maintain close contact

with DL 289-C as to when subject goes to Hot Springs and afford

appropriate coverage.

•2. Will review results of leads outstanding in several

offices concerning telephone contacts and determine logical persons

to be interviewed.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS CLAIMED: None

",Case has been: Pending over one year XX Yes

APPROVED

08. V

COPIES MADE:

No; Pending prosecution over six months I Yes

SPECIAL AGENT

IN CHARGE

XXNO

DO NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW

3

Bureau (92-2824)

12.

2824.

REC-75

136

1 - USA, Fort Worth, Texas

2 - Dallas (92-36)

5 APR. I

.. 1968

1:.3.

* Dissemination Record of Attached Report

Agency

Request Recd.

Date Fwd.

How Fwd.

By

CC.

Section, Room

55 APR 2 31968

AAG,

Criminal Division,

Organized

Crime and packeteering

Notations

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DL 92-36

Will maintain contact with DL 271-C and DL 275-C-TE

as to subject's daily activities.

4. Will spot check subject's activities.

ADMINISTRATIVE

Noted the period of this report is prior to date of

last report due to the fact that some pertinent investigation

was received too late to be included in the prior report.

IDENTITY OF INFORMANTS

DL. T-1 is DL 289-C contacted by SA HAROLD J. EDGERTON.

DL T-2 is Dun & Bradstreet, Dallas, Texas.

DL T-3 is DL 271-C contacted by SA HAROLD J. EDGERTON.

DL T-4 is JOHN STASSI, PCI, New Orleans Office,

contacted

by SA's THOMAS L. COLARELLI and JOHN E. DECKER.

MISCELLANEOUS

Records of the General Telephone Company, Garland,

Texas, were made available by WAYNE KING, Commercial Manager.

Records of Southwestern Bell Telephone Company,

McKinney, Texas, were made available to SA JOHN B. FULKS by

JOHN. LA FORGE, District Manager.

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FEDERAL SUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

REPORTING OFFICE

OFFICE OF ORIGIN

DALLAS

TITLE, OF CASE

DALLAS

JOSEPH FRANCIS!

CIVELLO aka

DATE

1/29/68

REPORT MADE BY

HAROLD J. EDGERTON

CHARACTER OF CASE

INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD

11/22/67 - 1/26/68

AR

TYPED BY

hje

REFERENCES:

Report of SA HAROLD J. EDGERTON dated 11/29/67, Dallas.

Dallas letter to Los Angeles dated 1/12/68.

-P-

LEADS

DALLAS

AT DALLAS, TEXAS

1.

Continue to spot check subject's addresses of residence

and part-time employment so as

to be alert to his whereabouts and

contacts.

2. Will maintain contacts with informants.

3. Will follow and report investigation outstanding in

other offices.

CONVIC.

AUTO.

FUG.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS CLAIMED

FINES

SAVINGS

None

ACQUIT.

RECOVERIES

TALS

CASE HAS BEEN:

PENDING OVER ONE YEAR

EYES DINO

PENDING PROSECUTION

OVER SIX MONTHS

JYES XINO

APPROVED

SERIES MADE:

Bureau (92-2824)

SPECIAL AGENT

IN CHARGE

1 - USA, Fort Worth

2 - Dallas (92-36)

DO NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW

92282451351

REC 22

& JAN 30

1968

4/52

STANCI

Dissemination Record of Attached Report

Agency

Request Recd.

Date Fwd.

How Fwd.

By

CC.

AAG,

Criminal Division,

Organized Crime and Racketeering dVd

Section, Room 252M

54 FEB2 7 1968

i Notations

Copier

A x-13

790.23

2/20/78

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DL 92-36

ADMINISTRATIVE

The Bureau by airtel dated 11/24/67 authorized

continuous check of telephones available to

subject.

The telephone

company is still checking for the records of the public telephone

located at the Airway Liquor Store operated by subject, his brother,

and brother-in-law.

Leads concerning check of toll calls set out

in details of this report are being set out separately.

IDENTITY OF INFORMANTS

DL T-1 is DL 289-C

DI T-2 is

DL 275-C-TE

DL

T- 3

S

DI

271-C

DL

T- 4

S

DL 99-C

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ED-26S iRev. 3-8-67)

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

REPORTING OFFICE

DALLAS

TITLE. OF CASE

OFFICE OF ORIGIN

DALLAS

DATE

11/29/67

REPORT MADE BY

INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD

9/7 - 11/20/67

TYPED BY

HAROLD J. EDGERTON

CHARACTER OF CASE

ges

JOSEPH FRANCIS CIVELLO aka

AR

REFERENCES:

Report of SA HAROLD J. EDGERTON dated 9/21/67 at Dallas.

Houston letter to Dallas dated 9/25/67.

Los Angeles letter to Bureau dated 10/13/67, entitled

"LA COSA NOSTRA, AR" and "AARON SAMUEL MARSHAL aka,

AR".

Dallas airtel to Los Angeles dated 10/24/67.

Dallas teletype to Los Angeles and Kansas dated 10/26/67

Kansas City teletype to Dallas dated 10/27/67.

Kansas City airtel to Dallas dated 11/2/67.

Los Angeles airtel to Dallas dated 11/14/67.

-P-

LEADS

CON VIC.

AUTO.

APPROVED

COPIES MADE:

DALLAS

FUG.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS CLAIMED

FINES

SAVINGS

None

RECOVERIES

ACQUIT-

TALS

CASE HAS BEEN:

PENDING OVER ONE YEAR

PENDING PROSECUTION

OVER SIX MONTHS

RiYES INO

LYES ENO

UMP SON CHARGENT

IN CHARGE

- Bureau (92-2824)

DO NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW

92-2824-

134

+.1U2

1 - USA, Fort Worth

18 DEG 1 19571

2 - Dallas (92-36):

Dissemination Record of Attached: Report

Agency

_CC. AAG, Criminal Division,

Request Recd.

Date Fid.

-...

Organized Crime and Racketeering

How Fwd.

By

66DE 131520 ladent

Notations

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DL 92-36

AT DALLAS, TEXAS®

1. Continue to spot check subject's

activities and be alert to his whereabouts and note contacts with

Dallas associates.

2. Will maintain contacts with informants.

ADMINISTRATIVE

The Los Angeles Office advised by airtel dated

11/14/67 that LA 4476-C-TE maintained contact with Doctor

JOSEPH DESIMONE, Los Angeles, but other than learning

that

CIVELLO had arrived in Los Angeles and then departed for Lake

Tahoe, Reno and San Francisco, DESIMONE did not get a chance

to talk to CIVELLO.,

By letter dated 9/25/67, the Houston Office advised

that the following informants had been contacted in an effort

to determine the identities of the three individuals who had

reportedly been in contact with CIVELLO at Dallas concerning

possible purchase of land on which the new Dallas-Fort Worth

airport is to be built, with negative results.

HO 1082-C contacted 9/7/67 by SA ALFRED G. GUNN

PCI JOE LUCIA, contacted 9/15/67 by SA GUNN

HO 1248-C contacted on 9/15/67 by SA GUNN

Under date of 10/13/67, the Los Angeles Office

furnished the following pertinent

information re CIVELLO as

furnished by LA 4476-C-TE.

The occasion was a meeting at the home of above

source on 8/28/67, present being ALMARSHAL, JOE IANNI, Dallas

associate of CIVELLO, PHIL DAVID and source. Group were

discussing purchase of property in Las Vegas, specifically

pocat and during

the Riviera Hotel and during discussion MARSHAL remarked that

JOE IANNI's father, FRANK IANNI (deceased), went to Federal

penitentiary on a narcotics violation and the father was the

"Patrone" in Dallas before JOE CIVELLO. MARSHAL also said that he

obtained a pardon for IANNI's father from President TRUMAN:

MARSHAL said that IANNI is a courier for JOE CIVELLO and

his

right arm.

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DL 92-36

IDENTITY OF INFORMANTS

DL T-1

is

DL 289-C

DL T-2

is

DL

350- PC

DL T-3

is DL 271-C

DL T-4

DL 275-C-TE

DL T-5

is

• DL 99-C

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