Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, BU
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 07/31/1968
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

Date:

5/20/201

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-10226-10188

RECORD SERIES:

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 92-6054-2374

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: SAC, BU

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE :

DATE: 07/31/1968

'PAGES:

3

SUBJECTS :

LCN, LEADERSHIP, RECOVERY, THREE MILLION DOLLARS,

STOCKS CERTIFICATES

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/10/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS: INC NOTE

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FBI WASH DC

FEDERAL BUREAU OF IWESTIGATION

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

COMMUNICATION SECTION

JUL 8 1 1968

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FROM BUFFALO (92-337)

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• ACTING ON INFORMATION FURNISHED BY BUFFALO OFFICE LON MEMBER

DUEFALO

INFORMANI, BU THREE THREE TWO-C-TE, BUFFALO AGENIS USING SCUBA

SKIN DIVING EQUIPMENT HAVE TODAY RECOVERED APPROXIMATELY THREE

MILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF STOLEN STOCK CERTIFICATES FROM IRONDEQUOIT

BAY IN LAKE ONTARIO. AS REPORTED TO BUREAU IN BUREAU FILE EIGHTY-

SEVEN SASH UNE CRIS OH: ZIMO ONE TRUE, APPNOXIDAIELY THREE MALLION LE

DOLLARS WORTH OF COMMON STOCK CERTIFICATES WERE STOLEN JULY TWO .

LAST IN A BURGLARY AT HOME OF WEALTHY ROCHESTER INDUSTRIALIST DAVID

M. STRASENBURGH.

REC 36 42-6054-2374

INFORMANI WAS RECENTLY APPROACHED BY LEONARD BUSCEML AND FRANK.

RUSSELL MURIELLO, JR., LOCAL BURGLARS AND CLOSE ASSOCIATES G 9968

LA COSA NOSTRA

15 AUG

HESTER AREA LEN FIGURES. INFORMANI WAS TOLD BY BUSCEMI AND MUR-

IELLO THAT THEY HAD PULLED THIS JOB AND SOUGHT TO ENLIST ASSISTANCE

OF INFORMANT IN DISPOSAL OF LOOT WHICH HAD BEEN HIDDEN IN WATER

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1968

MR. DELOACH FOR THE DIRECTOR

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TIGHT SAFE IN IRONDEQUOIT BAY• INFORMANT KNOWN TO SUBJECTS

FIGURE AND IN POSITION TO HELP THEM. SUBJECTS SHOWED INFORMANT GEN-

ERAL AREA WHERE SAFE DROPPED OVERBOARD FROM BOAT.

BUSCEMI AND MURIELLO PART OF ROCHESTER BURGLARY OPERATION BE-

LIEVED CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH LON ORGANIZATION WHICH HAS BEEN RES-

PONSIBLE FOR RECENT MAJOR THEFTS FROM WEALTHY HOMES AND MUSEUMS IN

ROCHESTER AREA AMOUNTING TO SEVERAL MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN THEFT

LOSSES.

INVENTORY OF RECOVERED STOCKS BEING MADE; HOWEVER, FIRST IM-

PRESSION IS THAT ALL OF THE STRASENBURGH LOOT HAS BEEN RECOVERED.

AT THIS TIME, NO CLEAR EVIDENCE OF INTERSTATE TRANSPORTATION OF THE

LOOT IS INDICATED, THEREBY ELIMINATING FEDERAL JURISDICTION. PER-

TINENI FACIS HAVE BEEN FURNISHED TO LOCAL AUTHORITIES. LOCAL

PRESS RELEASE MADE LIMITED TO FBI RECOVERY OF STRASENBURGH LOOT.

BUREAU TO BE KEPT ADVISED OF DEVELOPMENTS.

PERSONNEL RECOMMENDATIONS WILL FOLLOW WHICH ARE BELIEVED JUS-

IIFIED AS RECOVERY MADE AS A RESULT OF DEVELOPMENT HIGHLY VAL

UABLE INFORMANT AND AGENTS TOOK CONSIDERABLE PERSONAL RISK IN

SWIMMING IN TREACHEROUS WATERS OF LAKE ONTARIO IN AREA WHERE THEIR

WORK WAS EXTREMELY DIFFICULT DUE TO EXTREMELY MUDDY AND MURKY WATER

WITH VERY DANGEROUS CURRENTS AND OTHER NATURAL HAZARDS.

END.

CAB

firer.

FBI WASH DC

CC: MR. GALE

mr. Callahon

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