Originator: FBI
From: KENNEDY, REGIS L.
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 02/07/1962
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/29/201

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

RECORD SERIES :

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

FBI

124-10205-10439

HQ

92-2713-272

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM:

KENNEDY, REGIS L.

TO : -

DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE :

-

DATE: 02/07/1962

PAGES:

68

SUBJECTS :

CM, BKG INVEST, ASSOC, REL, ILLEGAL ENTRY, US,

DEPORTATION, GUATEMALA, INS, B/F INT, GAMBLING

ACT, CRIMINAL ACT

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION : Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4; 11(a)

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 01/07/1999

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF IRS

COMMENTS :

Released under the John F. Kennedy

Assassination Records Collection Act of

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Report Form

FD-283 (Rev. '5-12-55)

RECY65

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, & A

REPORTING OFFICE

NEW ORLEANS

TITLE OF CASE

OFFICE OF ORIGIN

NEW ORLEANS

BE.

7 1962

INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD

1/31/62

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REPORT MADE BY

4/28/61-2/40/62

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TYPED BY

SA REGIS L.

CHARACTER OF CASE

KENNEDY

Jam

CARLOS MARCELLO, aka.

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5.1,

SYNOPSIS:

REFERENCE

Report of SA FURMAN G. BOGGAN, 5/5/61 at New Orleans.

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LEADS

MIAMI DIVISION

AT FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA:

Will maintain contact with PCI JOSEPH HEGEMAN fOr

information re MARCELLO's activities, particularly any efforts

he may be making to sell Churchhill Farms.

Will also attempt to develop any information which

gould indicate the means by which MARCELLO returned to the United

States.

Will determine from this PCI the possible connections

MARCELLO has with the Louisiana State Government or any of the

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State Agencies.

Particularly determine if MARCELLO has any

connections with GORDON LE BLANC of

the Louisiana State Mineral

Board.

NEW YORK DIVISION

AT NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK:

Will maintain contact with HARRY H, HANSEN, PCIg

in effort to determine whether MARCELLO has an interest in

Venezuelan Oil or has any possible relationship with ALBERT

Will determine the current status of EMKE's alleged oil

deal in Guatemala.

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NEW ORLEANS DIVISION

AT SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA:

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1. Will review the Court records, USDC, Shreveport,

to determine the exact status of MARCELLO's suit in Shreveport.

2. Will attempt to establish coverage of MARCELLO'S

activities when he periodically appeared in Shreveport.

AT NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA:

1. Will follow prosecutive status in USDC, EDLA

of the indictment: charging MARCELLO with illegal entry into the

United States.

?. Will follow the disposition of the indictment

charging MARCELLO with Fraud against the Government-Conspiracy

and PerJury.

3. Will follow the status of the Writ of Coram Nobis.

4. With Immigration & Naturalization Service, New

Orleans, follow the status of the deportation case pending against

MARCELLO.

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5. Will maintain contact with the Internal Revenue

Service, New Orleans, re the progress of the Internal Revenue;

investigation of MARCELLO's income.

6. Will interview M. DAN HOGAN, Parish President,

Jefferson Parish, re possible drainage development which

includes the area of Churchhill Farms.

7. Will maintain contact with PATRICK DUVALL, U.S.

Border Patrol, who is conducting investigations re MARCELLO' S

re-entry into

the United States.

no future activille on aiR contact with PEX RAYMOND ROLLING,

9. Will continue efforts

to develop information rel

MARCELLO's activities.

INFORMANT'S

T-1 is THOMAS G. WELLS, 433 B Drive, Vice President

American Physicians Insurance Company, Baton Rouge, Louisiana,

and a former PCI.

T-2 is JOSEPH HEGEMAN, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, a

PCI of the Miami Office.

T-3 is ALOYSIUS DARGIS, a PCI of the New Orleans Division.

T-4 is JOSEPH GILBERT MINTJAL, a former PCI of the New

Orleans Division.

T-5 is RAYMOND ROLLING, a PCI of the New Orleans Division.

T-6 is Liaison Sources for the United States Government

in Guatemala.

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T-T is Legat, Mexico City, reporting information received

from PETER J. PETERSON, United States Embassy, Guatemala City.

T-8 15 JORGE ESCOBAR FELTRIN, Assistant Head of

Security, Special Investigations, Banco de Guatemala (Bank of

Guatemala) Police.

1-9 IS NAURBON PERRY, Special Agent, U.S. Intelligence

Service, Treasury Department, New Orleans.

T-10-1s OSCAR CABELLERO, Special Agent, U.S. Intelligence

Service,

Treasury Department, New Orleans.

T-11 is JOSEPH J. TUCKER, a PCI of the New Orleans Office.

I-12 is STANLEY SING, Southwestern Bell Telephone Company

Houston, Texas.

T-13 is NO 1169-C.

T-14 is WARREN J. LANDRY, a PCI of the New Orleans

Division.

ADMINISTRATIVE

The interview of FERREL O. MASON, 6210 Perlita Street,

former. Vice President of Pelican State Hotel Corporation, which

corporation owns the Fontainebleau Motor Hotel was originally me

reported in the report of SA JOSEPH G. ENGELHARDT, dated November 3,

1961, page 12, entitled JAMES RIDDLE HOFFA, ET AL, Information

Concerning.

Reference is made to Bureau airtel of December 21, 1961

requesting investigation to locate a FRED BARON.

A separate

report will be prepared regarding the efforts to locate FRED

XBARON and appropriate leads will be set out.

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Reference is made to Houston letter to Bureau dated

January 12, 1962, entitled WILSON WALTERNBROWN, JR., aka, ITSP,

Bufile 87-23671, Houston file 87-4700.

following

release by the United States District Court, El Paso, Texas,

on & suspended sentence recieved January 31, 1961, was interviewed

by the New

Orleans Office regarding MARCELLO. BROWN then

departed from New. Orleans and his current whereabouts are not

known. BROWN was able to furnish no specific information re-

garding MARCELLO and no leads are being set out in connection

with the MARCELLO investigation to locate BROWN.

By airtel dated June 30, 1961, the New York Office

furnished information from PCI HARRY H.

HANSEN, to the effect

that ALBERT EMKE, New Orleans, attempted to set up a deal through

the use of the International Time, Inc., a company incorporated

under the laws of the State of New York

through which a large

amount of Venezuelan oil could be bought at reduced prices.

HANSEN alleges that tike claimed that this oft could be secured

cheaply through the cooperation of DE LESSEPSA

Mayor of the City of New Orleans and now Ambassador to the i

Organization of American States.

To date, no information has been secured to substantiate

this information or connect MARCELLO to this oil deal, therefore

the information is not being included in this report.

By communication dated June 16, 1961, the Miami Office

advised that on June 11, 1961, PCI JOSEPH HEGEMAN advised SA

VINCENT K. ANTEL that MARCELLO was intent on obtaining a six

month delay in his Immigration & Naturalization Service deportation

HAGEMAN alleged that MARCELLO

to the National Democratic Campagn and $300,000 to the successtul

campaign of Governor DAVIS for office.

He also alleged that

Senator RUSSELLS

LONG would be interested in assisting MARCELLO.

HEGEMAN alleged that MARCELLO would attempt to contact

the hearing officer and this officer will be approached directly

or indirectly to delay the deportation.

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Officials

1961, Immigration & Naturalization Service

at New orieans, advised that the hearing would be held

in New Orleans by an inquiry officer designated by the Immigration

Headquarters at Washington, D.C., who is unknown to the New Orleans

Office.

HEGEMAN was reinterviewed at New Orleans on June 26, 1961

by SA REGIS L. KENNEDY at which time it was learned that HEGEMAN'S

source was a Baton Rouge contractor named WILSON P. ABRAHAM, who

- Special Inquiry, who was

being considered for the post lot collector of Customs, New Orleans,

and whom HEGEMAN believed was being considered for a position

with the Immigration & Naturalization Service.

In view of the

fact that the information furnished by HEGEMAN 1s not based on

fact,

it is not being included in this report. On July 6, 1961,

HEGEMAN advised that he was unable to secure additional information

regarding any attempts to delay MARCELLO's deportation.

Extensive investigation of MARCELLO's activities have

been conducted in the case entitled CARLOS MARCELLO, aka Joseph

Marcello, Fraud Against The Government; Conspiracy; Perjury,

which information is reported in New Orleans file 46-1731, Bureau

file 46 42600.

This investigation resulted in the indictment of

MARCELLO and the details of this investigation are not being repeated

in this report.

There has been an extensive period of time since

the submission of the last report, however, the Bureau has been

advised of all pertinent developments by airtel and letterhead

memoranda and in the Fraud Against The Government, Conspiracy,

Perjury case referred to above.

The information regarding the manner of the return of CARLOS

MARCELLO to the United States as reflected in this regort has been

furnished to the United States Immigration & Naturalization Service

at New Orleans.

United States Border Patrol Inspector PATRICK DUVALL

has been conducting active investigation since MARCELLO's return to

the United States to determine the means by which he did re-enter

the United States

and efforts are being made to identify

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NO 92-36

UATEMALA

JOSEPH

DOr: 81911422

DRAWLER

POR BASCOE, TEX

On

January

4, 1962/ NO T-4 advised that

had occasion to) meet J. T. (JOHN) BRAMLETT in

Guatemala City. BRAMLETT's business card which is

plain white, contains his name - J. T. (JOHN) BRAMLETT,

Office Telephone 6-1485 and home phone 2-0485 and

address 10 Calle 12-31, Zone 1.

This source advised that it was his impression

that BRAMLETT was a"fixer"in illegal activities in

Guatemala and that BRAMLETT was close to the Chief of

Police in Guatemala.

BRAMLETT admitted to the source that he had

contacted in Guatemala by ' an attorney named

MAROUN from Shreveport, Louisiana in April 1961 about

two days after MARCELLO arrived in Guatemala City.

MAROW wanted BRAMLETT to use his influence in getting

MARCELLO released from custody which BRAMLETT did do

through influences of the Chief of Police in

Guatemala City.

BRAMLETT also claimed he had been

instrumental in getting MARCELLO and MAROUN out of

Guatemala into Honduras although he did not go into

details with the source. BRAMLETT told source that

after MARCELLO had been in Honduras for about five days,

through arrangements made by BRAMLETT, MARCELLO was

taken by small boat to an island off the coast of

Honduras about 50 or 100 miles where MARCELLO transferred

to another boat which brought him back to the United

States.

Source said he did not question BRAMLETT

concerning any of the details of how MARCELLO returned

to the United States because he felt BRAMLETT must be

a real "operator" and he did not want to be too

interested because he did not feel it would be in his

best interests from the standpoint of his own welfare

while in Guatemala City.

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PAXTON was properly cautioned and no further investigation

was conducted in this matter.

T-8 advised T-T on November 17, 1961 that efforts were

made to determine whether MARCELLO had any connection with

PAXTON or BRAMLETT in Guatemala and no information was developed.

T-2 on October 22, 1961 advised SA VINCENT K. ANTEL at

Miami, Elorida, that he had

met MARCELLO personally at Baton

Rouge, Louisiana and there was a possibility that MARCELLO might

contact him in Florida.

T-9 advised on November 24, 1961 that he observed MARCELLO

at the Moisant Airport apparental arriving from Miami, Florida on

November 21, 1961.

T-2 advised SA VINCENT K. ANTEL on November 14, 1961 that

he thought CARLOS MARCELLO would be in New York about October 28,

496l and that MARCELLO was desirant of selling real estate in the

New Orleans area because he wanted operating capital. T-2

stated that MARCELLO was trying to sell the area known as

Churchhill Farms and was asking a price of $12,000,000.-

On December 5, 1961, T-2 advised SA VINCENT K. ANTEL that

CARLOS MARCELLO was in

the Miami area on November 21 and 22, 1961

inquiring as to a place to live in the Fort Lauderdale area.

T-2

advised that MARCELLO claimed he wanted to get away from the

situation in the New Orleans area and reside temporarily in this

area.

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In Reply, Please Refer to

File No.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

New Orleans, Louisiana

February 21, 1962

CARLOS MARCELLO, aka

ANTI-RACKETEERING

Re report of Special Agent Regis L. Kennedy,

New Orleans, February 7, 1962.

The following is a characterization of

the sources listed in referenced

report:

T-1 is an official of an insurance company

at Baton Rouge.

T-2 is an oil promotional enterpriser with

extensive connection

among gamblers.

T-3 1s a bail bondsman.

I-4 is an o1l field worker who has an

extensive criminal record and in the past has been

suspected of dealing in narcotics.

T-5 1s a professinal gambler.

I-6 1s an United States Government Official.

T-7 1s a United States Government Official.

I-8 1s a government officer in Guatemala.

T-9 1s a United States Government Official,

United States Treasury Department.

I-10 is a United States Government Official,

United States Treasury Department.

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