Originator: FBI
From: MM
To: HQ
Document date: 02/13/1964
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

4/23/201

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-90088-10123

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 92-6414-11

Released under the John F. Kennedy

Assassination Records Collection Act of

1 992 (44 USC 2107 Note). Case#:NW

545T& Date: 12-14-2022

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

MM

TO: HQ

TITLE:

DATE:

PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

02/13/1964

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BENJAMIN BINION

THOMAS J. WHALEN

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION:

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/14/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS : RPT

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MM 92-725

in Dallas, Fort Worth, and Las Vegas.

In April, 1947 these same detectives took haus

to a dice game in Fort worth being run by one GRaDyaforD.

The detectives got HALL drunk prior to the trip and he lost

$60,000 in a dice game. When he sobered up he refused to

pay, but according to a reliable source he subsequently.

settled the debt with a payment of $10,000. This same source

further advised in another incident in which GADDY and SMART

took HALL to a poker game in

a Dallas hotel, he lost $3,400.

A complaint was made by HALL's cousin, Dallas automobile

dealer W. O. BANKSTON, to the then Chief of Detectives, WILL

FRITZ. Information was received that FRITZ tried to discuss

the matter with the detectives but was told by them to "Leave

their business alone'

• No report of the incident was ever

made to the Chief

of Police by FRITZ.

TEXAS

In January, 1958, HALL hiredaformer Garland, Texas,

police officer to kill w. O. BANKSTON for $20,000. The police

officer subsequently contacted Dallas area hoodlum CHARLEY

DAVIS BOYD, but BOYD doublecrossed them by furnishing the

information to BANKSTON. Subsequently, nothing ever happenea.

Both GADDY and SMART are still employed by the

Dallas Police Department.

GADDY is assigned as Liaison Officer

with the District Attorney's Office, and SMART is a lieutenant in

the Auto Theft Squad.

- INFORMANTS-

MM T-1

IS PCI MAX COLLINGER, Miami.

MM T-2 is Mr. R. A. BURROW, Chief Special Agent,

Southwest Bell Telephone Company, Dallas, Texas.

MM T-3 is CS NY 1.

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