Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: LEG, LO
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 12/7/61
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John T. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (41 USC 2107 Hote).

DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK Assassination System

Date:

5/7/2015

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-10294-10430

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

92-3171-533

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

TO :

TITLE:

LEG, LO

DIRECTOR, FBI

DATE:

'PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

12/07/1961

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DOCUMENT TYPE:

CLASSIFICATION:

RESTRICTIONS :

CURRENT STATUS :

DATE OF LAST REVIEW :

SGI, ASSOC, TRA, US, ABROAD

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Unclassified

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Redact

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OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

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'Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote).

DATE: 11-14-2017

JARD FORM NO, BA

Uffice Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

DIRECTOR, FBI

DATE: Dece

1961

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/FROM

LEGAT, LONDON (91-12)

SUBJBCT:

SAMUEL M.

GIANCANA,

ANTI-RACKETEERING

aka

ReBucab dated November 21, 1961.

(Л)

For the information of the Bureau, there are

enclosed the original and four copies of a memorandum con-

taining information

which reflects results

conducted in london regarding subject. ( anvestigation

As subject departed England on November 14, 1961,

Rome, Italy, and is now believed to have returned

States and there are no furthe

to the United

being placed in an RUC sta tus

Heads outstanding, this case 1s

RUC

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Released under the Join F. Kernety Assassinat

DATE: 11-14-2017

Recorus Colection act of 1992: (44 USC 2107 Hotel.

SE AVERSE

SID.

SOR

CIASSIPICATION

ACTO

CLASS. &

ORCLASS

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

In Reply, Please Refer to

File No.

CONFIDE

3 WASHINGTON 25, D. G.

December T,

HE

COMEDOMING

SAMUEL M.

GIANCANA

0TH

#: 3 825895469

On October 16, 1961,

was ascertained py

the Legal

*Attache,

American Embassy,

London,

England, that when the

McGUIRE sisters arrived in London on October 12, 1961, they

were travelling unaccompanied and were to reside at the Savoy

Hotel during the period:

they,

were appearing at a London nightelub

"Talk of the Town.

1(4)

Inquiries at the nightclub on October 17, 1961,

reflected that an individual generally fitting subject's descrip-

tion was seen around the nightclub in the vicinity of the

MCGUIRE sisters dressing room.

However, without photographs. w

It was impossible to

impossible to derinately establin identity. dograp

On October 25, 1961, allen records produced a record

reflecting subject's arrival

in England on October 13,

1967, i

and furnishing a residence at the Strand Palace Hotel&

Through police sources of this office at New

Scotlana

Yard, contact was maintained

with hotel security officers at the

Savoy Hotel and the Strand Palace Hotel, It being noted these

hotels are directly across the street from each other bet

Chief Inspector PEARCE, New Scotland

Yard, ascertained

from the Strand Palace Hotel that GIANCANA was a resident at the

hotel but kept very Irregular hours, returning at 4:00 or 5:00

in the morning and some nights not at all.

Chief Inspector

PEARCE also determined

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Only local telephone calls were made by GIANCANA

while

at the hotel and he always paid for his bills in English

currency.

He made no known contacts with any of the London

hoodlum element according to Inspector PEARCE, and the hotel

security officers. S.

CAVA

His identity was definitely established

by passport (U)

photographs and his signature. on the passport photograph appeare

to match that of his signature on the hotel registration ford

The, McGUIRE sisters ended

the ir ensagement in London

on October 12, 1961, and on November 14, 1961, GIANCANA and

PHYLLIS McGUIRE departed London together for Rome,

Legal Attache in Rome was contacted and Punished

copies of

GIANCANA's photograph!

it - 3/12

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