Originator: FBI
From: SJ
To: HQ
Document date: 12/15/1961
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/6/2015

AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-90008-10016

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 63-7103-46

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

Assassination Recorda

Collection Act of 1992

i44 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#:NW 45907 Date:

04-11-2018

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

SJ

TO: HQ

TITLE:

DATE: 12/15/1961

PAGES:

50

SUBJECTS :

RICHARD KAVNER

JAMES RIDDLE HOFFA

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4; 11(a)

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 01/15/1999

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF IRS

COMMENTS: RPT;

v9.1

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SJ 62-489

SAN JUAN

AT SAN JUAN

Will maintain contact with established sources for

any information bearing on the possible investment in the Flamboyant

Hotel by JAMES RIDDLE HOFFA through ALLEN M. DORFMAN.

'INFORMANTS:

On October 4, 1961, PCI FREDDIE CASTRO, San Juan,

advised SA's RICHARD S. BEIER and J. F. CUNNINGHAM, JR., that

in early 1960 when he and FRANK CHAVEZ, Secretary-Treasurer of

Teamsters Local #901, San Juan, were on a trip to the Virgin

Islands, they stayed at the Flamboyant Hotel, St. Thomas.

on

this occasion CHAVEZ told CASTRO that the Flamboyant Hotel was

owned by the Teamsters in addition to another hotel not identified

by CHAVEZ, in Miami, Fla.

CASTRO, who is a former organizer

for Local

901, stated CHAVEZ did not elaborate on his statement

and he asked CHAVEZ no further details.

The records of the Chase Manhattan Bank, Charlotte

Amaze, st. Thomas, Virgin Islands, were made available to SA

J. E• CUNNINGHAM,

JR., on dates indicated by ALVIN C. SCHLENKER,

Auditor of said bank.

• It 1s noted that SCHLENKER is former SAC

in the Bureau.

ALVIN C. SCHLENKER, St. Thomas, V. I., also advised

Hotel for a number of years.

PHILIP FRIEDMAN, possibly from Miami, was then the manager of the

Flamboyant but was a poor businessman and was later fired by the

owners of the hotel in 1960.

A new manager was then appointed,

down to manage

MCLEOD was later

fired for embezzlement from the hotel and is now believed to be

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