Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: LA
To: HQ
Document date: 2/10/58
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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

DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD_ NUMBER: 124-90068-10046

RECORD SERIES: HO

AGENCY FILE_ NUMBER: 62-75147-210-108

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: LA

TO: HO

TITLE:

DATE: 02/10/1958

PAGES: 2

SUBJECT: AMERICAN GAMBLING ACTIVITIES IN CUBA

DOCUMENT TYPE:

ORIGINAL

CLASSIFICATION:

PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Unclassified

NEW

CLASSIFICATION:

REVIEW DATE:

STATUS

06/24/1998

Redact

UPDATE DATE:

RESTRICTIONS:

JFK Act 6 (4)

COMMENTS:

MEMO

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Rec

DATE: 11-14-2017

STANDARD FORM NO. 64

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Collection Act of 1992 (11 USC 2107 Hote)

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FROM

SAC, LOS ANGELES (94-430)

SUBJECT:

AMERICAN GAMBLING

ACTIVITIES IN CUBA

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ALL INFORMATION

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Re Legat Havana letter 1/16/58, Havana f1le 64-153.

Page two of referenced letter, next to last paragraph, stated

that PCI FREDO CELLINI (conceal) has advised the legat at Havana that

one so LEO To Co Me California, has been selected to

operate the gambling casino at the new Hevana Hilton Hotel, Havana, Cuba.

CELLINI Indicated he had seen DE TILLIO In action and that DE IILIIO

appeared to be pretty much an amateur as a gambler. PCI doubted that

FI.A

DE TILLIO could operate a casino the size of the one that would be in

the Havana Hilton. (

Indices of the Los Angeles Office contain only one reference to

& person whose name approximates that of JOE DE TILLIO.. This is a

reference in September, 1950, to One JOE DETILLIA. DIE

LAURENCE ROLAND KYLE, 118 Garcelonia Avenue, Monterey Park,

California, advised that his sister-in-law has written about the fabulous

activity of the sister-In-law's husband, JOE DETILLIA at Key West, Floride,

where he reportedly was connected with a hotel on the island of Key West.

KYLE advised that his father-in-law, RAWLING CAMPBELL, Route 1, Box 15,

Noble, Louisiana, checked at Key West and found that DETILLIA and wife

were behind in their rent, and he was unemployed, not approximating by

any means the story furnished by DElILLIA's WiSe to ber relatives. feW

DETILIIA vAs described by KYLE as having the name JOSEPH. A.

STOCKSTILL, Wa., Count, JOSEPH-A: DEMILIA, and as residing: in 1950 al

116 - 16th Street, Jacksonville Beach, Florida (LOs Angeles file 105-699)

It appears from the information furnished regarding this individual that

he night be engaged as a confidence man and that he may possibly now be

In Cuba. CoM

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" Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination RecoyasyCollection Act of 1992 (14 USC 2107 Hote).

DATE: 11-14-2017

IA 94-430

Another Individual with the name somewhat similar to JOE DE IILIND

18 JOSEPH C DIPPOLITO, FBI No. 141307, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office

photograph No. 348351 He is the son of SALVATORE (CHARIES) DIPPOLITO and

resides in San Bernardino County, California, where he has been engaged as

a bookmaker and gambler, as vell as the proprietor of a liquor store. UD N

A photograph of JOSEPH C. DIPPOLITO 1s' being'forwarded with this

communieation with the request that it be transmitted to the Legal Attache

at Havana, Cuba, for display to PCI CELLINI 1n an attempt to identify.

the JOE DE TILLIO mentioned in referenced letter.

Extra copies of this letter have been prepared for forwarding

by the Bureau to the legal Attache, Hevana (with photograph).

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