Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, BU
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 05/16/1968
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John F. Rennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (11 USC 2107 Hote).

DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK Assassination System

Date:

5/20/201

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY:

RECORD NUMBER :

RECORD SERIES :

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

FBI

124-10288-10475

HQ

92-6054-2327

Document Information

ORIGINATOR :

FBI

FROM: SAC, BU

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE :

DATE: 05/16/1968

'PAGES:

3

SUBJECTS :

LCN, SIXTY-THREE TV SETS, STOLEN, RECOVERED, NY

POLICE RAID, ASSOC, SACCO, JOHN C.

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/10/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

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FÉDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

V. S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

COMMUNICATION SECTION

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Top Echelon Informant

ON MAY ELEVEN LASI, BU THREE ZERO FIVE C TE ADVISED CONTACTED BY

LA COSA NOSTRA: (LON) MEMBER, JOHN C. SACCO, TO PURCHASE STOLEN COLOR

TV SETS BEING FENCED BY SACCO. INFORMANI DECLINED OFFER BUT DETERMINED

IV'S WERE FOURTEEN IN. ZENITH COLOR SETS STOLEN BUFFALO AREA. INFORMANT

NOTED THIS IS ONLY LOOT WHICH SACCO HAS ATTEMPTED TO FENCE SINCE

BI RAIDS ON HIS OPERATION LAST OF On

Potential Crimina

ON MAY FIFTEEN LAST, PCI PETER ATIGAN ADVISED RUSSELL DE CICCOL

ATTEMPTING TO DISPOSE OF FOURTEEN IN. ZENITH COLOR IV SEIS FOR

SACCO AND ASKING ONE HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS PER SET.

SUBSEQUENT INVESTIGATION BY BUFFALO AGENIS DETERMINED IV SETS

BEING: FENCED BY SACCO AND DE EX 995AR REC-A ROM ARE THIRTY NINET 51:7

REC-40

AdA SIXTY-EIGHT BURGLARY OF JOSEPH STRAUSS CO.,

SIXTY-FOUR CHURCHILL, S1.9

BUFFALO. SIXTY-THREE ZENITH COLOR: TV!SETS. TAKEN THIS THEFT.

PAST AUD

END OF PAGE ONE

25 MAY 21 1968

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MR DELOACH FOR THE DIRECTOR

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BU FOUR FIVE ONE PC ADVISED THIS DATE STOLEN IV SETS FROM STRAUSS

BURGLARY BEING STORED BY SACCO AT FOUR ONE FIVE BUSTI AVE., BUFFALO.

NAL

THIS INFO DISSEMINATED CAPI. HENRY WILLIAMS, COMMANDER, BUREAU OF CRIMIA

INVESTIGATIONS, NEW YORK STATE POLICE (NYSP), BUFFALO.

ACTING ON THIS INFO DEVELOPED BY BUFFALO AGENTS, LOCAL SEARCH

WARRANTS OBTAINED FOR FOUR ONE FIVE BUSTI AVE. TODAY AND EXECUTED

BY TRUSTED OFFICERS, NYSP, AI APPROXIMATELY SIX O'CLOCK PM. THIS RAID,

WHICH WAS DISCREETLY OBSERVED BY BUAGENTS, RESULTED IN RECOVERY

OF SIXTY-THREE FOURTEEN IN. ZENITH COLOR IV SETS STOLEN IN

STRAUSS BURGLARY. CAPT. WILLIAMS ADVISED LOOT HAS RETAIL VALUE OF

TWENTY-THREE, THOUSAND DOLLARS.

IT IS NOTED THIS IS THIRD MAJOR RAID ENGINEERED BY FBI OF LON

BURGLARY RING CONTROLLED BY SACCO SINCE LAST DEC. LOOT RECOVERED,

TO DATE, IOTALS APPROXIMATELY ONE HALF MILLION DOLLARS.

AS RESULI IODAY'S RAID, CHARLES J. CALIERI, WHO WAS STORING

IV'S FOR SACCO, CHARGED BY NYSP WITH CRIMINALLY RECEIVING STOLEN

PROPERTY®

IV CARTONS TO BE EXPEDITIOUSLY EXAMINED BY NYSP IDENTIFICATION

OFFICERS FOR LATENI PRINIS OF LON BURGLARY RING MEMBERS.

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MATTER BEING AFFORDED WIDE-SPREAD COVERAGE BY TV, RADIO, AND PRESS

WITH FBI CONTRIBUTION BEING HIGHLIGHTED.

FOR INFO BUREAU, BACKGROUND RE BU FOUR FIVE ONE PC BEING FURNISHED

SPEARATELY.

MATTER BEING CLOSELY FOLLOWED BY BUFFALO IE INFORMANIS.

BUREAU WILL BE KEPT ADVISED OF ALL PERTINENT DEVELOPMENIS.

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