Originator: FBI
From: DL
To: HQ
Document date: 03/27/1963
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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FROM:

DL

TO: HQ

TITLE:

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DATE: 03/27/1963

PAGES: 99

SUBJECTS:

ALBERT MEADOWS

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Confidential

RESTRICTIONS: 1A; 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 07/14/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF CIA

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LOUISE PECK, Southwestern Bell Telephone

Company, Longview, Texas, was contacted 12/6/62 by SA

ALAN L. MANNING.

MY. RON MAPLES, Southwestern Bell Telephone

Company; Tyler, Texas, was contacted 12/10/62 by SA MANNING.

Mr. CHARLES R. MASON; Office Manager, Southwestern

Bell Telephone Company, Cleburne, Texas, was contacted 1/22/63

by SA JOHN V. ALMON.

Mr . C.

0. KING, Braniff Airlines, Dallas, Texas;

was contacted 2/6/63 by SA RICHARD A. CARR

DL-177-CS whose identity is known to the Bureau

was contacted 3/19/63 by SAA RAYMOND C. ECKENRODE concerning

information in the records of the East Dallas Bank and Trust.

Company, Dallas, Texas.

The following is a summary of pertinent information

received from informants and confidential sources of the

Dallas Office in connection with captioned matter.

These

sources have requested their identities be kept contidential.

On 12/11/62 DL-141-C advised SAA ROBERT P. GEMBERLING

that on about the first of December 1962 MEADOWS was trying

to contact R. C. "ROOSTER" THREADGILL; & BriStol, Texas,

gambler, to go rishing ane MEADOWS had remarked to DL-141-C

that he, MEADOWS, had quit bookmaking and was glad that he

had because all bookmakers lost everything on the 1962

football season.

MEADOWS commented that he too would have

lost heavily if he had been booking during this season.

On 12/11/62 DL-172-6 advised that MADoNs, GrIEs

and & third person, whose name was unknown to the informant

but who was originally from Dallas and had previously worked

as a dice man in Corpus Christi, Texas, and for JIMMY GREEN

in the Key West Club, Hot Springs, Arkansas, were presently

running a crooked dice game at & house near Arlington, Texas,

which was formerly owned by Dallas gambler s. B. TURNS.

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other job other than being employed in a gambling establishment.

On 12/28/62, GREEN advised he was not acquainted

with anyone by the name of AlBERt Madows, however, stated

he knew that he had heard the name before and could not

recall under what circumstances.

He advised he was positive

he had never had any sort of dealings with anyone by that

name and wald not know MEADOWS if he were to meet him in

person.

GREEN further advised he was not acquainted with

anyone by the name of JANICE CHRISTAKIS and reiterated be

could furnish no information whatsoever concerning CHRISTAKIS

or MEADOWS .

On 12/31/62 H. L. KIRKPATRICK, Vice President and

Cashier, East Dallas Bank and Trust Company, described

president of the bank WARREN A. GILBERT, JT. as a "wheeler

and dealer" who would do anything "for a dollar". KIRKPATRICK

further stated an unknown gambler had been seen by KIRKPATRICK

in conference with GILBERT every Friday and Monday, behind

closed doors. KIRKPATRICK identified FRED MERRILL, & known

Dallas gambler as a frequent visitor with GILBERT in the

bank and further stated that subject MEADOWS is at the bank

on an average of once a week. (The unknown gambler was

subsequently identified by the Dallas Division as s. C.

"CHICK" FLOURNQY.)

On 1/15/63 the Savannah Division furnished the

following:

On 1/12/63, New Orleans informant NO 1139-C,

while in Brunswick, Georgia, area on a special assigament,

advised SAs RUSSELL L. SAVITZ and JOHN P. MC QUIRE he is

familiar with both the subject and LEO CARSON of Long County,

Georgia.

He stated both subject and CARSON are known by him

to be gamblers and confidence men.

He stated CARSON and

MEADOWS are gambling associates and CARSON has in the past

worked for MEADowS.

CI further advised it was his under-

standing MADONS had recently, within the past year, helped

CARSON open two restaurants located along U.S. 301 (Long

County) which restaurants are used as fronts for tourist

fleecing activities.

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On 2/15/63 DL-146-C advised SA JAMES W. BOOKHOUT

that MeADONs had, on 1/18/63, purchased a 1963 Olasmobile

Starfire at the W. O. Bankston Oldsmobile Dealer, Dallas.

Total cost of this car was $4,400, MEADOWS reCeiving a

trade in of $1,707 on a 1962 Oldsmobile and financed

$2,693 through the East Dallas Bank and Trust Company.

On 2/28/63 DL-146-C advised that MEADOWS has been

buying automobiles from W. O. Bankston since 1934. Informant

also advised that MEADOWS' assoCiate BILLY RAY GRIMES on

4/4/63 purchased 1963 Oldsmobile, traded in a 1961 Oldsmobile

and financed the balance of $2,300 through the First National

Bank, Dallas, Texas, with payments of $89 per nonth.

•K*

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On February 27, 1963 the Washington Field Office

furnished the following:

It was determined that Washington, D.C. telephone

number DI 7-6646 is listed to Attorney JOHN

J. NEALON, Number

1 Thomas Circle, Washington, D.C.

On January 16, 1963, SA C. DENMARK JOHNSON

reviewed records of the Credit Bureau, Incorporated,

Washington, D.C., at which time the following information

was obtained regarding NEALON:

He is married to ELIZABETH ANN, resides at 7315

13th Street, Northwest, where he is buying a home. He

has been in Washington, D.C., for a gopd number of years

and is self-employed as an attorney.

He is a graduate of

George Washington University and passed the bar in 1953.

Instant files failed to reflect any derogatory information

regarding NEALON.

On February 7, 1963, JOHN J. NEALON, Attorney,

during the previous summer through RAY MC CONNON

of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). NEALON stated that

C(MC CONNON had engaged him as an attorney

for some personal

matters and that apparently DRISCOLL was referred by (MC CONNONIC)

to him, NEALON as & potential investor for oil fields that

DRISCOLL was connected with.

He stated he never actually

met DRISCOLL but talked with him on the telephone on several

occasions during which times DRISCOLL discussed the possibility

of NEALON investing in DRISCOLL's oil business.

He said

DRISCOLL believed he, NEALON, had money to invest from clients

he represented and that the oil investment was strictly a

exploratory arrangement which would result in s tax write-off

for the investor.

NEALON stated he received a long distance telephone

call from DRISCOLL ho was in New York and two or three other

calls from him in Dallas. He stated he wrote to DRISCOLL

on only one occasion and received & prospectus from DRISCOLL

concerping the oil investment.

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NEALON stated on no occasion did DRISCOLL discuss

anything other than investing in his oil business. He said

subject's name is not familiar to him.

On February 19, 1963, B. RAY MC CONNON, 1400 South

Joyce Street Arlington, Virginia, advised he is employed by

CIA and met ED DRISCOLL in about July or August, 1962.

stated DRISCOLL was an Army buddy of another CIA employee

with whom he, MC CONNON was having lunch one day, during

which lunch

DRISCOLL was present.

He stated DRISCOLL was

seeking contacts with money to invest in an oil operation

in Texas: He stated he had a prospectus from E. B. FLETCHER,

Dallas, Texas, and that the arrangement was a 100 per cent

gamble

from an investment standpoint, but the investor could

benefit from a tax write-off arrangement.

(C) MC CONNON]stated he gave DRISCOLL the name of

JOHN NEALON as a contact because NEALON represents several

individuals whom he though might be interested in making

an investment with DRISCOLL.. He stated DRISCOLL never

discussed anything other than the oil business while in

his presence and that he received a telephone call fron

him from New York several weeks after meeting him to

determine if he was interested in making an investment.

He stated there have been no other contacts since that time.

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