Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, DL
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 03/29/1962
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

4/27/201

AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-10206-10121

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

62-9-12-304

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM:

SAC, DL

TO:

DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE :

DATE:

PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

03/29/1962

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CIP, WILSON, WILL, CONTRIBUTIONS, LAS VEGAS

GAMBLERS

DOCUMENT TYPE :

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION :

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS:

4

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 10/06/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

v9.1

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FJ-36 (Rev. 12-13-56)

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Date: 3/29/62

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TO

FROM

: DIRECTOR, FBI (62-9-12)

SAC, DALLAS (94-55A) (P)

SUBJECT:

CRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM

DALLAS DIVISION

ReBuairtel 3/22/62.

DL-149-C was recontacted by SA JOSEPH M. MYERS on

3/25/62 and he advised that shortly after WILL WILSON was

elected Attorney General for the State of Texas, informant

"heard" from several sources,

two of whom he named as being

w. M. "BOSTON" SMITH and WILBUR FRANCIS HICKS, aka. Bud Hicks,

Fort

Worth, Texas gamblers and from other sources around

Fort Worth

that WILSON had received money from Las Vegas

gamblers, the names of which were not mentioned prior to

WILSON's allegation.

Informant stated that there was no way

for him to prove this but that the information that he

received was the common talk among the gambling circle in

Fort Worth.

There is no indication in the files of the Dallas

Division that the above information has been received from

other sources and there is no data available which will

confirm or disprove this allegation.

For the information of

the Las Vegas Office, information was developed at Fort Worth

from DL- 149-C who stated that he had heard that WILSON, Attorney

State of Texas, had taken money from Las Vegas,

Nev. gamblers at the time of his election to keep Texas

closed up as far as gambling was concerned, thus forcing the

Texas people to travel by air and other means to Las Vegas

to do their gambling.

With reference to the hoodlum element in Denver,

Colo. purchasing milk companies all over the United States,

DL-149-C stated that he had received this information from

BILL WOODWARD, who resides in the Arlington Heights Section

3) - Bureau

REC

2 - Denver

2 - Las Vegas

3 MM

Atta 1962

25 MAR 311962

Apprpgga:

Sent

Special Agent in Charge

& C • Wick

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DL 94-55A

of

Fort Worth, Texas, and who was formerly from Kansas City,

MO.

Informant stated that WOODWARD married a distant relative

Of EUGENE SMALDONE of Denver, Colo, and WOODWARD's wife's

relatives are still in Denver.

Informant stated that he

understood from WOODWARD that his wife's people were "big"

in the Italian circle in Denver, Colo. and that she has an

uncle in Denver, Colo. Informant stated that the reason he

believes that WOODWARD knows people in Denver was because at

one time informant was having trouble in operation of his

gambling establishment at Ft. Worth, because a ft.

Worth

hoodlum,

MARTIN BUSTER LOICANO, waS

trying to force informant

into paying 25% of the take of

his gambling establishment.

Informant stated that he knew that WOODWARD knew some Italian

people in Denver and asked WOODWARD to find out if LOICANO

was connected with the mafia from these people in Denver.

Informant stated that WOODWARD who is not Italian, after

having a few drinks, make a telephone call to someone in

Denver and asked them if LOICANO was a member of the mafia,

and according to intormant, whoever was at the oner end of

the line "ate WOODWARD out"

WOODWARD then told informant

that he could not ever go back up to denver.

stated that he would attempt to develop further information

concerning this, however, if

so anyone

Informant

anyone questioned WOODWARD at

this time, it would "heat up" informant.

LEAD

LAS VEGAS OFFICE

Will review files for any information contained

therein regarding WILL WILSON, Attorney General for the state

of Texas, receiving any contributions from las vegas gamblers.

DENVER OFFICE

Will review files to determine if there has been

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