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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY : FBI

RECORD NUMBER

:124-10204-10157

RECORDS SERIES

AGENCY FILE NUMBER

92-2781-106

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR : FBI

FROM : LEG, HAVANA

TO : DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE

DATE

PAGES

SUBJECTS

07/13/59

2

: LST,

DEPORTED FROM CUBA, REL, WEDDING, ASSOC

DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION

UNCLASSIFIED

• RESTRICTIONS

CURRENT STATUS

: RELEASED WITH DELETIONS

DATE OF LAST REVIEW

: 10/07/98

OPENING CRITERIA

.: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS

president agent. Kermedy

Assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64

Office M

UM • UNITED

VERNMENT

TO

Director, FBI (92-2781)

July 13, 1959

FROM :

Legat, Havana (92-1)

SUBJECT:

SANTO

TRAFFICANTE, JR., aka

59.

ANTI-RACKETEERING

Reference Havana letter dated June 10, 1959.

HAV-33 advised on June 15, 1959, that both the subject

and hENRY, SAVEDRA, who represented subject's interests in the

Hotel Capri, continue to be detained by Cuban police.

said it appeared that subject and

• SAAVEDRA might be deported

from Cubs in the near future.

On June 29, 1959, HAV-33 Informed that TRAFFICANTE

was temporarily released from jail on June 21, 1959, in order

to attend his daughter's wedding at the Hotel

Havana-Hilton.

Source said that TrAFFICANTE appeared at the hotel in the company

of representatives of the Cuban Ministry of Justice and the

Cuban Secret Police. Source noted that several hundred people

attended the wedding celebration at the Hotel Hilton and that

most of these individuals were persons employed by the gambling

LANSKY, and Boston Top Hoodlum, JOHN

the wedding celebration.

insaniese

On July 1, 1959, PCI Arthur Newman (conceal), Credit

manager of the gambling casino at the Hotel Nacional, advised that

the majority of the persons in attendance at the wedding of

subject's daughter were individuals employed in the gambling

casinos in Havana.

of

friends in Tampa, who came from the United States to be present

at the wedding

Source noted that most of the hoodlums in the

United States are well aware that police authorities would be

on the look-out for individuals possibly attending the wedding

Of TRAFFICANTE's daughter in Havana and for that reason many

hoodlums who might have attended stayed in the United States.

6 - Bureau (I-CC: Albany and New York

/sent 1/20/59

2-CC:

Miami 92-88)

<X-132

1 - Havana

DJB: MEG

(7) 900 50

18 00 1W.27

REC 897304761-106

bORCH U4 46 1959

DECID -

S JUL 26 1959

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Havana 92-1

7/13/59

On July 10, 1959, Vice Consul Hugh D. Kessler, Citizen-

ship Section, American Embassy, Havana, advised that he had

received information from the Cuban authorities that the decree ordering

subject's deportation would be published in the official Cuban

Government gazette on July 13, 1959, and it was expected that subject

would be deported to the United States on approximately July 14,

1959.

Extra copies of this letter have been prepared for

forwarding by the Bureau to the Albany (1), New

York (1) and

Miami (2) offices.

Pending.

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