Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: LABADIE, STEPHEN J.
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 12/19/1961
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Date:

6/11/201

Agency Information

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

FBI

124-10213-10075

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 92-2781-401

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: LABADIE, STEPHEN J.

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE: 12/19/1961

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16

SUBJECTS :

LST, ASSOC, WHEREABOUTS, GENERAL ACT

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS:

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW:

_02/16/1999

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

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FD-263-(Rev. 5-1-59)

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

REPORTING OFFICE

TAMPA

OFFICE OF ORIGIN

TAMPA

SANTO TRAYPICANTE,

JR. ,

aka

DATE

12/19/61

INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD

12/5-19/61

REPORT MADE BY

SA STEPHEN J. LABADIE

CHARACTER OF CASE

ANTI-RACKETEERING

TYPED BY

jap

REFERENCE:

Report of SA STEPHIN J. LABADIE dated 12/4/61 at Tampa

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LEADS:

ATLANTA DIVISION

AT ATLANTA, GEORGIA

Will furnish information to Tampa concerning LEONARD

DARLINGTON LONG advising whether or not he would be in contact

with subject,

It not being known to the Tamps Office whether

or not he was the person in contact with SV 263-C.

Will contact DAN B. PAYNE, 1143 Bradley Road, NE,

for facts

concerning any hidden interest subject or his close.

associates may have in any San Juan Hotel, interosts subject may

have in W. H. MORRIS Or CARIBBEAN INVESTMENTS, and thereafter

APPROVED

PECIAL AGENT

IN CHARGE

DO NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW

COPIES MADE:

3Bureau (92-2781)

92-2781-401

2-Atlanta

2-Miami (92-88)

2-San Juan (92-52)

2- Savannah

12 DEC 26 1961

3-Tampa (92-1).

REC- 54

ELT-VI

Agency

Request Recd.

Date Fwd.

How Fwd.

Dissemination Record of Attached Roport

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Notations

STATINCT,

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consider contact with w. H. MORRIS.

Will cause interview of the person contacted by

SV 263-C concerning whether or not subject's whereabouts

and activities, endeavoring to establish subject's

whereabouts in Miami.

exact

MIAMI DIVISION

AT MIAMI, FLORIDA

Locate subjelt retro resultsol

Will report results of vigorous investigation to

Will report results of investigation at Merrill

Yarborough, Inc., concerning vehicle still located at

subjoet's Tampa residence.

Will report results of contacts with JAMES DUCA,

close associate of subject in Miami.

AT MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA

Will report results of contact with GEORGE CASPER,

Manager,

Pomenade Hotel, on the ocean at 25th Street.

Will report results of contact with SYLVIA LIEBOW,

1020 Lincoln Road.

Will report results of contacts with MAX CASTRO

regarding subject's glasses.

SAN JUAN DIVISION

AT SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO

Will continue efforts to establish whether or not

subject has interests in any gambling casinos.

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SAVANNAH DIVISION

AT AUGUSTA, GEORGIA

Will recontact SV 263-C for all possible informa-

tion concerning subject's exact whereabouts and any

information he may be able to obtain concerning subject's

activities.

TAMPA DIVISION

AT- TAMPA, FLORIDA

Will maintain contact with sources, informants,

and continue to explore further confidential

coverage of

subject, his family, relatives and associates so as to be in

a position to learn

his exact whereabouts.

Will report results of interview by the Albany

Office with EUGENE F. KEANE, whom it has been alleged

may have had some connections with subject in San Juan.

Will obtain latest telephone toll call billing

for subject residence 253-2207.

Will be alert for subject and any activities over

the Christmas holidays.

ADMINISTRATIVE:

The Tampa Office continues to explore the

possibilities of confidential Bureau techniques in efforts

to establish subject's wherabouts and activities.

By communication from Legat, Madrid to Diracto

dated November 28, 1961,

Legat pointed out that Dr.

GUSTAVO LOPEZ Y MUNOZ at Madrid advised that he had

been

interviewed by the Miami Office in this matter on thfee

previous occasions and had furnished substantially the

same

Information as set forth in a letterhead memorandum. i He

ad also been interviewed by Agent EDGAR ADAIR,

IRS,

Tampa, and in his desires tob of assistance,

voluntarily presented Mr. ADAIR his banking records.

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REVIEWED

RELEASE IN FULL

t.

RELEASE IN PART

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INFORMANTS:

TP T-I 1S NORMAN BERNARD PEETLUK, inmate, Avon Park

Correctional Institute, who was allegedly formerly

associated with numbers racket in central Florida.

TP T-2 is TP 50-PCI whose identity is known to Bureau.

TP T-3 is TP CS 51-C whose identity is known to Bureau.

TP T-4 is SV 263-C whose identity is known to the Bureau

and which information is reported in case entitled

AUGUSTINE PRIMO LAZZARA, IGA, Tampa f1le 162-6.

TP T-5 18 FRANK J. FALSONE, SR. ,

- PCI

TP T-6 IS MARIO CESAR CAPEZ - PCI, who is the only waiter

employed at the Columbia Restaurant who is there on a

daily basis.

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The accounting firm of FERNANDEZ Y FERNANDEZ of

Marianao, Cuba, according to Dr.

LOPEZ, was the firn that

had performed the accounting operations for the Sans

Soci Night Club up until 1958, at which time he vaguely

recalled

sone of the bookkeeping duties of this

firm may

have been taken over by the Consultorio Fernandez. This

was all that Dr. LOPEZ stated he knew of the accounting

operations of the Sans Souci.

DI LOPEz advised he knows nothing about the

subject's present or future plans, stating he has had no

legal contact with the subject since subject's departure

from Cuba in 1959.

C. GENERAL ACTIVITIES AT TAMPA, FLORIDA, TO LOCATE SUBJECT

On December 5, 1961, subject's daughter MARY JOSEPHINE

PANIELLO was observed at Henry Grady School and on the same

afternoon, subject's daughter, SARAH ANN TRAFFICANTE, waS

observed at 2505 Bristol Avenue.

On December 5, 1961, Dr. ANTHONY PERZIA, Citizens

Building, advised SA JOHN R. BRETT that he saw JIMMY LONGO

in theColumbia Restaurant a week ago, Saturday, at which

time he asked LONGO where SANTO was and LONGO said he was

in Miami.

He has not seen TRAFFICANTE in a long time and

can furnish nothing further as to his location.

He last examined TRAFFICANTE on March 22, 1961,

and gave hin a prescription which he knows he had filled

with MAX CASTRO in Miami.

He believes CASTRO's place is

called the Union Optical Co. and SANTO had several pairs of

glasses made there. When asked why he would have several

pairs, he said he likes a lot of different kinds of glasses,

some dark glasses, some plain, some with bifocals, some

without the bifocals, pink glasses, etc. He said he had had

some contact lenses made when he was in Cuba and thinks he

had the examination for these made in Cuba.*

He is near

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sighted buthas no special problem with his eyes, other than

needing bifocals, too.

DI. PERZIA had no further nformation

of value.

On December 6, 1961, SARAH ANN attended classes

observed on the night of December 6, 1961, alone at the Dream

Bar, 2801-05 Nebraska Avenue and the new vehicle that

was observed at 2505 Bristol Avenue,

bearing 1961 Florida

license 10W-62025, which vehicle was traced to Merrill

Yarborough, Inc., used car dealer, Miami, Florida, was still

observed in the garage at 2505 Bristol Avenue.

TP T-1

advised SA BENJAMIN H. COOKE on Degember 6,

1961, that he was personally acquainted with the subjeet

and

on several occasions in the past, he has been a guest of

the subject on the subject's yacht when it was anchored near

Havana, Cuba, during the BATISTA days in Cuba.

Source

stated

that the last information that he had concerning the

subject was that the subject

is now residing in the keys off

Florida, in the vicinity of Key West. Source stated the

subject is supposed to have a home there and to be living

there using the name LOUIS SANTOS, which is also the name

that the subject

used when he registered in a notel while

he was attending the "Apalachin meeting" in New York State

several years ago. Source then noted that he did not care

to discuss the matter of the subject any further.

Captain ELLIS CLIFTON, Vice Squad, Hillsborough

County Sheriff's Office, advised SA LIONEL E. BELANGER on

December 6, 1961, that subject's whereabouts was unknown to

him and his sources.

TP T-2 advised on December 6, 1961, that no

information

developed that subject was in Tampa, and noted

that source was with SAM TRAFFICANTE, NICK SCAGLIONE and

JIMMY BRUNO at the Palm Service Station on December 6,

1961. Source further noted that he was with such persons as

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AUGUST PANIELLO, NICK SCAGLIONE, SAM and FANO TRAFFICANTE

on the night of December 6, 1961, at the Dream Bar and

the only indications concerning subject was that he

continued to reside in Miamt, no address being stated by

this group.

TP T-3 made avallable the information to SA LABADIE

on December 4, 1961, that AUGUST C. PANTELLO was still

employed by Bay Distributors, Inc., and sold liquors to such

establishments as Crystal Bar, 1209 N. Gall Blvd.,

Zephyrhills, Florida,

, Rock Station, Highway 301, Route I,

Bushnell, Florida, about Novenber 17, 1961,

Source made available the information that on

September 1, 1960, SARAH ANN was in Miami Beach, Florida,

and wrote a letter to her sister MARY JO PANIELLO at 2505

Bristol Avenue, giving the return address of La Salle

Apartments.

She noted in the letter,

among other matters,

that "Daddy invited"her boyfriend, RICK (RICHARD VALDES)

to eat with them and the group also included a JIM and a

MILO.

Source furnished the information

1961, that HE SANTO TRAFFICANTE SHOE a ea and ere "dos's

was "Twinkle", that LUCILLE TRAFFICANTE ALBANO, ak2.,

MrS.

FRANK ALBANO, received two silver knives for her

weading from MARY JO

and AUGUST PANIELLO and that SANTO

TRAFTICANTE, 2505, Bristol Avenue,

was sent from Miami Beach,

Florida, a letter with return address The Promenade Hotel

on the Ocean at 25tl St. The envelope apparently contained

a letter from the Manager, GEORGE CASPER of the Promenade

Hotel noting "It is with a great deal of pride that I can

write and tell you of my appointment as Managot of the

Promenade..."

Apparently Mr. SANTO TRAFFICANTE had been a

previous customer to Mr. CASPER.

Detective BERNARD PACER,

Tampa Police Department,

advised sA JOiN R. BRolT on December 8, 1961,

that he gets

his naircuts in Ybor city section of lampa at the barber

shop of BENNY MARCHESE, who is

SANTO's brother-in-law.

About three weeks ago, he was in there when one of the

customers asked where SANTO was and a man in the barber chair

who is unknown to PACER, stated that SANTO was in San Juan,

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