Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, DL
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 03/26/1962
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

4/27/201

AGENCY:

RECORD NUMBER :

RECORD SERIES :

FBI

124-10206-10122

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 62-9-12-303

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

Assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Note!.

Cased:WH 45760 Date:

11-16-2017

Document Information

ORIGINATOR :

FBI

FROM:

SAC, DL

TỌ :

DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE: 03/26/1962

PAGES:

4

SUBJECTS :

CIP, FORT WORTH, TX, RACK AND SUBV, CORRUPTION,

GAMBLING, CONSPR

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4; 11(a)

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 01/22/1999

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF IRS

COMMENTS :

v9.1

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FBI

Transmit the following in -

AIRTEL

• Date: 3/26/62

PLAIN TEXT

(Type in plain text or code)

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(Priority or Method of Mailing)

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SUBJECT:

: DIRECTOR, FBI (62-9-12)

SAC, DALLAS (94- 55A-SUB)

CRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM

WEEKLY SUMMARY

DALLAS DIVISION

Re Dallas airtel 3/26/62.

Re: SHERMAN FRANKLIN LITTLE, aka.

IGA (DL 162-129)

CURTIS YEAGER, aka,

IGA DL 162-176)

On 3/21/62, DL-95-C advised that CURTIS YEAGER

had left Dallas because of the "heat being generated

through the Federal and State investigation of gambling

in connection with the fixing of swC basketball games.

stated YEAGER had gone to either Del Rio, Texas or Juarez,

mexico to watch and bet on the quarter horse race.

CI also

stated that gambler WELDON WEATHERALL was Quite "shook up'

over his being interviewed recently by the FBI and had left

town and gone to victoria, Texas.

He stated Dallas gambler

GLENN ERNEST BURNETT had received two $100 money orders

from WEATHERALL mailed at Victoria.

in.

3) - Bureau

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- Dales

(162-129)

Dallas

(162 176)

Dallas

(92-192)

Dallas

(92-196)

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Dallas

(87 9733)

Dallas: (94-47)

tach

5500.

Dallas

(94-53)

Dallas

-(92-222)

Dallas

(92-36)

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Dallas

(94 - 55A- SUB)

RMB/11

(13)

Approved:

S0zspeciai Agent in Charge

FC- 101,

62-9-12-303

13 MAR 28 1962

Sent

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DIL

94 55A - SUR

Re:

GIIF, Tyler; Texas

(DL 94-53)

On 3/22/62, DL-95-C stated that DON FULTON, part

owner or the Redman Club, 3109 West Davis,

that culen CLock also part owner of the club had advised

FULTON that during the Fall of 1961 CLUCK's girl friend had

approached CLUCK to "set up" her husband for $20,000.

husband, GORDON MINSCHEW, a Hawkins, Texas Postal employee,

had been

found murdered near Hawkins, Texas, CI also stated

that CLUCK was again arrested by an unknown law enforcement

agency on 3/21/62 for requestioning concerning this murder.

The above information was orally furnished to LI. JACK REVILI,

Dallas PD on 3/22/62.

Re: JOE IANNI, aka.

AR (DL 92-192)

On 3/23/62, ROBERT L.: ALBRITTON, Intelligence Unit

IRS, Dallas, advised that

JFK Law 11(a)

Re: FRANK TORTORIELLO, aka.

AR (DL 92-196)

On 3/22/62, officers of the Dallas PD contacted the

Dallas Office for information concerning TORTORIELLO as they.

had received information from an informant that he was possibly

involved in recent Jewel thefts in Dallas. Based on the

background information furnished by the FBI Dallas, TORTORIELLO

was arrested at his residence on 3/22/62 by the PD and his

apartment was searched. Officers noted that there was not one

scrap of paper in the apartment with a name ör phone number

on it and that this

appeared to be extremely odd to them.

TORTORIELLO was extremely polite but when told that he was

going to be fingerprinted

and photographed he became quite

upset: He admitted that he was a gambler, he had over $1,000

IRS

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Dy 94 55A-SUB

in cash in his pocket at time of arrest, and that he had an

account at the Merchants State Bank, Dallas, and was making

payment of $105 to this bank on his

Cat

Re: GIIF - Dallas, Texas

(DL 94-47)

On 3/21/62, LT. JACK REVILL advised that one EARL

ABRAHAM FOREMAN had taken over as new owner of the Roadrunner

Lavern, 450s Columbia.

This is a known hangout

for police

characters, pimps and prostitutes. PD informants had ascertained

that prostitutes were obtaining dates at this tavern.

Re: RICHARD LEE BLANKENSHIP, aka. -

FUGITIVE, ITSP (DL 87-9733.)

On 3/26/62, SA ALFRED D. NEELEY received information

that PEGGY ANN FRYE, subject's girl friend, had been arrested

during an attempted

armed robbery at Artesia, N.M. on 3/25/62

but that her associate, unidentified, had

escaped. Later

on the morning of 3/26/62, subject, who is brother of ELVIS

RAY BLANKENSHIP (DL 92-222), ROBERT LEE HERROD and HERROD's

wife (possibly identical with Ft. Worth prostitute BETTY JOYCE

PHIFER) were apprehended by local authorities at 6 AM in a

farm house they had rented near Gainesville, Texas. Bureau

Agents are interviewing these people 3/26/62.

Information developed by Dallas from DL-144-C*

(DL 137-1106) is being furnished the Bureau by separate

communication; a weekly summary airtel, designated for

Bureau 162-589, 162-596, 162-607.

Information developed in Dallas file 165-29,

Bureau 165-392 entitled WILLIAM MEADOR SMITH, aka. et al

165-29 a1

(LTWI, IIAR) - BRIBERY - GAMBLING • CONSPIRACY is furnished

the Bureau in a weekly summary airtel submitted by Dallas on

Thursday of each week.

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