Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, DL
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 4/2/62
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

4/27/201

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

FBI

124-10206-10111

RECORD SERIES:

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

62-9-12-314

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

issassination Recorde

Collection Act of 1992

i44 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#: NIT 45760

Date:

11-17-2017

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

SAC, DL

TO :

DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE: 04/02/1962

PAGES:

8

SUBJECTS :

CIP, FORT WORTH PDT, CORRUPTION, GAMBLING, RACK

AND SUBV, INVEST

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4; 11(a)

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 01/22/1999

OPENING CRITERIA: APPROVAL OF IRS, INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

v9.1

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FD-36 (Roy 2-13-59).

FBI

Transmit the following in

AIRTEL

Date:

4/2/62

PLAIN TEXT

(Type in plain text or code)

via

(Priority or Method of Mailing)

TO

Reston

SUBJECT:

DIRECTOR, FBI (62-9-12)

SAC, DALLAS (94- 55A-SUB)

SCRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM

WEEKLY SUMMARY

DALLAS DIVISION

Re Dallas airtel 3/26/62.

Re: EDDIE TOM GREEN, aka.

AR (DI 92-360)

On 3/26/62, DI-95-C advised GREEN had just returned

from California,

On 3/29/62,

, CI advised GREEN had returned

to Dallas from

"Gardena, California" (believed to be Garden

City, Calil. › On 3/29/62, GREEN was seen by CI at Redmen

Club, 3109 W. Davis

(DL. 162-129) with GLENN EARNEST BURNETT,

MARVIN RALPH PRESTRIDGE and MARVIN SELLS, all known Dallas

gamblers.

GREEN told CI he was returning to California

within a

day or so and indicated he was staying in Dallas at

his mother's.

Cl also determined GREEN was to meet a girl

named "PEGGY" that night at Earl's Club, a private Dallas

nightclub,

550

Above information furnished to IT. JACK REVIL,

Dallas PD Intelligence Section, 3/29/62.

1

3 - Bureau

Dallas

(92 260)

Dallas

(162-129)

Dallas

(92-339)

Dallas

(92-231)

Dallas

(92-39)

Dallas

(162-20)

Dallas

(165-29)

Dallas

(162-115)

Dallas

(162-114)

Dallas

1137-514

Dallas

80265)068 10

- Dallas

194- 55A- SUB

R 1719

Ex - 102

REC- 58

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SHES

18 APR 5 1962

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Special Ägent in Charge

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IRS

REVIE BEO 3Y SUURE TASH FURCE

ON 7/9/98-902-000

I LEADE WI FL

RELEASE IN PARO

MA DEMAR

in connection with Dallas investigation in Di. 165-29, Bufile

165-392, captioned WILLIAM MEADOR SMITH, aka. et al,

ITWI,

ITAR - BRIBERY - GAMBLING; etC.

Results of other investigation

conducted in this matter are furnished Bureau by Dallas in

a weekly sumary airtel, submitted on each Thursday.)

It was noted there were calls to ft. Worth phone

PE 8-9091, 00 1/29 (2 Calls), 1/30,31/62; 2/1,6/62; and 3/4/62.

calls to LLOYD RIDDIE

at Ft. Worth phones

WA S-9421 and ED 2-0231 on 1/10 and 24/62, respectively.

(It was determined on 3/29/62 that RIDDLE,

a Ft. Worth

accouatant,

2301 - Bth Ave., Ft. Worth, prepared

tax returns for one of subject SMITH's

business intereste

income

the Turf Bar

Building 701 Commerce st., Ft. Worth, for the

years 1955 through 1958.

SMITH's partner in this venture

WAS

listed as W.

F, MINNICK,. aka. "SPOT" (DL 162-114).

FK Law 11(a)

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DI. 94: 55A-S0B

JEK Law 11(a)

Re:

SHERMAN FRANKLIN LITTLE, ala.

IGA (DL 162-129)

On 3/28/62g

tolls

charged to the home phone of

FRED COMPTON (listed

Of the owners of LITTLE's

gambling club at 3109 W. Davis) wero obtained from South

western Boll Telephone Co., Dallas.

On 1/18/62 and

2/2/62, there were eatis to know

Arlington, foras gambler

BUDDY HAAS; on 11/26/61

known gambler ROBERT..

HOOKS, WILlS Point, Texas.

It was also noted COMPTON had

been in contact with Ft

Worth phones la 4: 0412 anc

MA 4-0239, On 1/28/02,

MA 4-0415 on 12/13/61; 2nd MA 6-2646

on 12/14/61. COuTON has Dallas phone FL Y-3014, au

unlisted number, at his residence, 3611 Darango,

The above information re COMPTON was furnished

LT. JACK REVILI ON 3/30/62.

Re:

FORT WORTH,

TEXAS PD

(DI 80255)

The Bureau was previously advised that material

furnished by Patrolman LEONARD. DORSETT and BERT EDMONDSON

would be reviewed and information cortained therein concerning

burglaries

and other matters would be furnished to Honorable

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JFK Act 6 (4)

DI 94- 55A SUB

Noration from DEAN's records from ex-police officers

(Dallas PCI) and others and

furnish all of

this

information to the

Covenor and the Attorney

Genera

..of the

State of Texas.

On 3/28/62, according to Ft. Worth newspapers,

Mrs. VIRGINIA GROODY,

who is Secretary to Police Captain

ED LEE in the Tallic Warrant Division as picked up on

3/28/62 by Et. Worth police after a downtown department

store (Monnigs) detective stopped Mrs. GROODY for shoplifting

and found a $25 dress in her purse. CONNIE ODOM, & Secretary,

Ft. Worth PD,

advised SA MYERS: On 1/1/62 that Mrs. GROODY

was formerly

the secretary to City Manager I. P. COOKINGHAM

and had been shoplifting for over three years.

Mes. ODOM

stated that RUSSELL YOUNG of the Property Division of the

Ft. Worth PD told Mrs. ODOM that he had 150 dresses in

the Property Room which Hrs. GrOODY had shoplifted.

Mrs,

GROODY is presently out on s $500 bond. (The information

supplied by YEAGER above was furnished to JAlES DePRATO,

IRS, by SA MYERS On 3/39/62, at which time DePRATO stated

there was nothing much that could be done at this time with

this information because of the year in which the payoff

would have been obtained.

DOPRATO stated that this informa

tion may be valuble in 1964 or 1965 but that his squad was

primrily concerned at this tine with the years 1957 through

1960).

Information developed by Dallas from DI 144-C

(DL 13Y-1106) is being furnished the Bureau by separate

communication,

weekly sumnary airtel. designated.for

Burean

162-589,

162-590, 162-607.

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