Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SU
To: HQ
Document date: 8/11/59
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note).

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JFK Assassination System

Date:

Identification Form

4/23/201

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-90088-10087

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

92-3241-37

Document Information

ORIGINATOR :

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TITLE:

FBI

SU

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DATE :

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SUBJECTS :

08/11/1959

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BENJAMIN BINION

LESTER BENJAMIN BINION

DOCUMENT TYPE:

CLASSIFICATION :

RESTRICTIONS :

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CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/14/1998

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Unclassified

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records COllection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote).

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SU 94-253

has advised BINION will probably return to Las vegas on

August 15, 1959.

SU 386-0 who is very closely associated with the

BINION family has stated he understood that BINION

and his

family would return to Las Vegas about August 15, 1959.

LEADS

THE BUTTE DIVISION

AT JORDAN, MONTANA

Will report the unusual associations or activities

on the part of BINION during the time he has been on his

ranch near Jordan, Montana.

THE SALT LAKE CITY DIVISION

AT LAS VEGAS, NEVADA

Will contact BINION on his return to determine any

activities or associations he might have had on his ranch

during the summer months and attempt to further altivate

him as an informant.

Wil] contact SU 386-C, SU 353-0, SU 432-0 and

ROBERT CAUDILL for information concerning business activities,

his assaiates and his intended travel, and any persons he

intends to contact outside Las Vegas.

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supplied by SU 386- who stated that he had learned that

BINION would stay no longer than August 15, 1959, inasmuch

as it would be necessary to take BRENDA BINION to Fort

Worth, Texas, where she was to enter Téxas Christian

University for the fall term of school.

Mr. ROBERT CAUDILL advised he had been in

conversation with BINION and that he had received no informa-

to when a hearing would be held by the supreme Court or

Court of Appeals on BINION's writ of Habeas Corpus which was

decided in BINION's favor by Judge WELSH of Philadelphia and

was appealed by the United States Government.

CAUDILL

stated BINION would certainly make no attempt to invest in a

gambling casino in Las Vegas or obtain a license from the

Gaming Commission until a decision had been reached by the

courts on this appeal.

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