Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: RICO, H. PAUL
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 03/27/1975
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

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-10197-10335

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 92-2781-1451

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: RICO, H. PAUL

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE:

PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

03/27/1975

5

LST, RECORD OF TRIPS TO AND FROM COSTA RICA

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 11/09/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

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RELATE: 11-16-204e John E. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (11 USC 2107 Motel.

ED-263 (Rev. 1-7-72)

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVL STIGATION

REPORTING OFFICE

MIAMI

TITLE OF CASE

OFFICE OF ORIGIN

MIAMI

SANTO TRAFFICANTE, JR., aka

DATE

3/27/75

REPORT MADE BY

H. PAUL RICO

CHARACTER OF CASE

INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD

711/74-3/17175

TYPED

jgn:

AR

REFERENCE

Report of SA ANTHONY AMORCSO, JR., dated

6/24/74, at Miami.

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LEADS

TAMPA

AT TAMPA, FLORIDA

CONVIC.

FUG.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS CLAIMED

FINES

SAVINGS

APPROVED

COPIESMOS

SPECIAL AGENT

IN CHARGE

Bureau

(92-2781)

1 - USA, Miami

1 - Miami Strike Force

(Attn: DOUGALD MC MILLAN)

2. - Tampa

(92-1)

2 - Miami

(92-88)

734

Dissemination Record of Attached Report

Agency

Request Recd.

Date Fwd.

How Fwd.

ser

* NONE

RECOVERIES

ACQUIT-

TALS

CASE HAS BEEN:

PENDING OVER ONE YEAR DEYES ENO

PENDING PROSECUTION

OVER SIX MONTHS

DYES EINO

DO NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW

92-2781-1451

MAR B1 1975

Notations

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Released under,

the John F Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 111 let 2107

Hote)

DATE: 11-14-2017

MM: 92-88

will continue to report information on traffIcantes

activities.

MIAMI:

AT MIAMI, FLORIDA

of TRAFFICANTE

Will continue efforts to ascertain current activities

ADMINISTRATIVE

This case has been maintained in a current status

by interoffice communications.

MIGUEL HERNANDEZ (protect), a part-time employee.of

the u.s.

ambassy,, San Jose,.

Costa Rica, advised that TRAFFIcaNTe

while in Costa Rica, was a close associate of LAZARO MILIAN DID.

HERNANDEZ, advised TRAFFICANTE is expected, to go back

to costa Rica as he left his 1974 green Oldsmobile in Costa Rica

He further advised that the last time TRAFFICANTE was in

costa Rica, approximately August or September; 1974, that he

was hospitalized in the Clinica Biblica for an eye operation.

SD 1064-CTE advised in August, 1974, that he had

received information that SANTO TRAFFICANTe, Jr. is very sick

and that he sent for his daughter.

Source further advised that

TRAFFICANTE had an eye operation but stated that his current

Sickness was not related to the eye operation.

TP 1960-PC advised on october 31, 1974, that TRAFFICANTE

was back in the Tampa area and that he is currently staying with

his daughter and son-in-law at 2505 Bristol Avenue, Tampa, Florida.

This source also reported that TRAPFICANTE is in poor healtn.

on January 172,1975, TP 41-CTE advised that TRAFFICANTE

departed the Tampa area for Miami, Florida.

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MM 1387-PC advised that he had been in contact

with SANTO TRAFFICANTE, JE Miami, Florida, and learned

that TRAFFICANTE is in Miami recuperating from severe illness.

Upon fuil recovery, TRAFFICANTE plans to visit his residence

in Tampa and leave the U.S, with his wife JOSEPHINE

They

plan to live in south America. This source further advised

that in the almost two years TRAFFICANTE has been outside the

u.sa he has had several illnesses and operations; that he has

had at least two heart attacks and that he underwent several

operations for skin cancer and eye disorders at a hospital

in Bogota, Colombia.

INFORMANT -

MM T-I 1s Legat. Mexico City:

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