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Document date: 05/21/1959
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

6/2/2015

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-90100-10175

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HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

52-72398-161

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

Assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel •

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05/21/1959

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JOSEPH RAYMOND MEROLA

STUART SUTOR

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FD-36 (Rev. 12-13-56)

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TO:

FROM:

RE :

DIRECTOR, FBI (52-72398)

SAC, MIAMI (52-3290)

STUART

SUTOR; ET AL

TGP; ITSP; FFA; MN.

Rerep of SA GEORGE E. DAVIS, JR., 3/30/59, at

Miami; Pittsburgh airtel to Miami, 3/24/59;

and Miami teletype

to Pittsburgh, 3/18/59.

On 3/16/59, Mx. JOHN KERNAN, PCI, Manager, Sea Gull.

Hotel, Miami Beach, Fla, advised that he is personally

acquainted with SAMMY MANNARINO of New Kensington, Pa.;; that

MANNARINO has in the past been a frequent guest of the Sea

Gull and that MANNARINO usually registers under a fictitious

name. He recalled that in the fall or early winter of 1958,

MANNARINO was a guest at the Sea Gull while using the name

Of MANN. Mr. KERNAN said he himself did not register

MANNARINO, nor checked him out.

Mr. KERNAN produced his registration card file,

examination of which réflected registration card number 1908,

in the name of "Mr. SAL MANN"

, Brooklyn, N. Y., no street

address given. MANN registered in room

409, at 1:36 A.M., on

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Bureau (52-72398) (AM)

- Cleveland (52-1918) (Info)

2 - Chicago (52-3498) (Encl. 1) (AM)

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52-72398-161

2 - Pittsburgh (52-1687) (AM)

20 MAY 28 1959

2 - Miami

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FD-36 (Rev. 12-13-56)

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10/24/58,

and departed on 11/7/58. The card reflected

that MANN came to the hotel off the street, apparently

without previous reservation. The registration card bore

a time stamp reflecting the actual time of arrival at the

hotel was 1:36 A.M., on 10/25/58, and that the actual time

of departure was 9:07 P.M., 11/7/58.

Mr. KERNAN, upon examining this card, stated that

although he felt reasonably certain that this was the

registration card of MANNARINO, he could not testify to this

effect as he was not present at the time this party checked

in and checked out.

The card bore the initials of JAMES T. VERBY,

Night Auditor, as the clerk who checked MANN in.

Mr. KERNAN, after examining the registration card,

said that the party was checked out by WERNER MITCHELL, who

is no longer employed by the Sea Gull Hotel. He said that

MITCHELL was married to a daughter of BEN CHASIN, President

of the Sea Gull Hotel, has since separated from this woman,

and now reportedly lives in Chicago.

On 3/27/59, Mr. VERBY, upon examining the above

described registration card, was unable to recall MANN

as an individual, nor identify him as being SAMMY MANNARINO,

although he stated he can identify the registration card which

bears his initials. YERBY explained that as Night Auditor

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he handles very few registrations and pays little attention

to guests of the hotel as he rarely comes into contact

with them.

Mr. KERNAN produced a folio card on SOL MANN,

Brooklyn, N. Y., Room 409, registered from 10/24/58 to 11/7/58.

He also produced Sea Gull Hotel records of long distance

telephone calls which reflected that the following calls

were charged to room 409, during the period 10/24 - 11/7/58:

1. LD Telephone Slip, #31965, reflecting call 10/27/58, to

Pittsburgh ED 5-7571, at cost $3.03.

2. LD Telephone Slip #31998, call on

, 10/28/58, to Havana

310562, -at cost of $6.71.

3. LD Telephone Slip #26033,

call on 10/29/58, to

Havana 310562, at cost of $4.95.

4. LD Telephone Slip #26034, for call on 10/29/58, to

Pittsburgh. ED 99209, at cost of $1.87.

5. LD Telephone Slip #26069, for call on 10/31/58, to

Pittsburgh ED 57571, at cost of. $1.87.

6. LD Telephone Slip #26107, call on 11/2/58, to Pittsburgh,

ED 57571, at cost of $2.26.

7. LD Telephone Slip'#26162, on 11/3/58, by "MANN" to

Pittsburgh, ED 5-8897, at cost of $1.87.

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8. LD Telephone Slip #26184, on 11/4/58, to Pittsburgh

ED. 5-7571, at cost of $1.87.

On 3/25/59, Mr. KERNAN located telephone toll

slips of the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co.,

Miami, which are returned at the end of each monthly period

by the telephone company to the hotel. Calls charged to

room 409, at the Sea Gull Hotel during the period

10/24 - 11/7/58, are set out below.

The calls, in some

instances, differ as to dates, however, correspond substantially

with the above listed calls and furnish additional information.

10/26/58 LD #368, SAL MANN, room 409, to ED 5-7571,

Pittsburgh, 7 mins., $2.75.

10/28/58. JE 8-6631 (Sea Gull Hotel) Room 409, MANN

to ROTHMAN, Havana 310562 - 5 minutes, $6.10.

10/29/58

LD #368, MANN Room 409, to Pittsburgh ED 99209,

4 minutes, $1.70.

10/29/58 JE 8-6631, r00m 409, MANN to Havana 310562,

ROTHMAN, 5 minutes, $4.50.

10/31/58

LD #368, MANN, Room 409, to Pittsburgh ED 5-7571,

3 minutes, $1.70.

11/1/58

LD #368, MANN Room 409, to Pittsburgh, ED 5-7571,

5 mins. $2.05.

11/3/58

LD #372, MANN Room 409, to Pittsburgh #ED 5-8897,

4 mins., $1.70...

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FD-36 (Rev. 12-13-56)

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11/4/58

LD #368,

MANN Room 409, to Pittsburgh #ED 5-7571,

3 mins., $10.

Mr. KERNAN said that the hotel does not keep

records of local calls placed by guests. Only the number

of calls placed locally ise recorded.

Mr. KERNAN agreed to maintain all the above described

records in the hotel safe of the Sea Gull Hotel for safe

keeping.

On 3/30/59, DI. LOUIS C. PESSOLANO was interviewed

at his office by SAS

GEORGE E. DAVIS, JR. and ROBERT JAMES

DWYER. He was shown a photographic copy of the registration

card, #1908, reflecting registration on 10/24/58, at the

Sea Gull Hotel, Miami Beach, by SAL MANN. He was asked

if helew if MANNARIND had been registered at the Sea Gull

under this name during the period 10/24 • 11/7/58.

PESSOLANO replied that he had discussed with

AUSA TEILLBAUM, Pittsburgh, his acquaintance with MANNARINO

and that he himself considered any contacts he has had with

MANNARINO to be privilegedbecause of their doctor-patient

relationship and that he did not want to discuss MANNARINO.

He was then asked if the telephone call that MANNARINO

had made to him several days after apprehension of STUART

SUTOR, for the purpose of inquiring if SUTOR would talk,

came within this privileged doctor-patient category.

PESSOLANO remarked that there was some question about

such

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