Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: AMBLER, JOHN A.
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 01/26/1968
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Date:

6/15/201

Agency Information

AGENCY :

FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-10205-10231

RECORD SERIES:

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

92-2781-1251

Document Information

ORIGINATOR :

FROM:

TO :

TITLE :

FBI

AMBLER, JOHN A.

DIRECTOR, FBI

DATE: 01/26/1968

PAGES:

32

SUBJECTS :

LST, BKG INVEST, ASSOC, REL, TRA, TELCAL,

SURVEILLANCES, B/F INT, GAMBLING ACT

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS:

4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW :

10/20/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

v9.1

5

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FD-265 TRev. 38-671

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

REPORTING OFFICE

TAMPA

OFFICE OF ORIGIN

+ TAMPA

TITLE OF CASE

CHANGRO

SANTOU RAFFICANTE, JR., aka

S. Jacobs,

S.JValdes,

T.QUaldes

reat: it:

JAN 2 € 1963

REPORT MADE BY

• SA JOHN A. AMBLER

CHARACTER OF CASE

INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD

12/12/67-1/17/68

AR

TYPED BY

bg.

10

Titi

this report being marked "Changed" to reflect

aliases used by TRAFFICANTE when obtaining airline passage.

REFERENCES:

Report of SA JOHN A. AMBLER, Tampa, 12/14/67

New York letter to Tampa, 12/28/67

Jacksonville letter to Tampa 1/10/68

Miami airtel to Tampa 1/4/68

Miami airtel to Director, 1/4/68

-P-

ENCLOSURES:

TO MIAMI

de

CONVIC AUTO.

FUG.

ACCO

#LISHMENTS CLAIMED None

FINES

SAVINGS

RECOVERIES

ACQUIT-

TALS

CASE HAS BEEN:

PENDING OVER ONE YEAR DYES ONO

PENDING PROSECUTION

OVER SIX MONTHS

DYES INO

APPROVED

COPIES MARE

SPECIAL AGENT

IN CHARGE

156

Bureau

(92-2781)

-

USA, Tampa

3

MIami (92-88) (Enc. 1)

(1 - USA,

Miami Attn;

WILLIAM EARLE,

Dept.

Atty)

New York (92-846)

- Tampa (92-1)

15'37

Dissemination Record of Attached Report

DO NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW

92-2281-125/Mc739

10.

REG 21

18 JAN 29 1968

EX-103

Notations

STARISECT.,

Agency

Request Recd.

Date Fwd.

Orgarized g

e and lickettering

How Fwd

Section, Kom 25 2y.

2/9/16.0

By

54 FEB14

1968

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TP. 92-1

Photograph of GABRIEL MENDOZA, Tampa PD #96928

taken August, 1962.

ADMINISTRATIVE:

Information from records of the Southern Bell

Telephone and Telegraph Company, St. Augustine, Fla.,

was made available by Mr. RANDY PIERSON.

On 12/20/67 TP 120-C advised that Mrs. TRAFFICANTE

was definitely in Miami but that the exact whereabouts

of SANTO were unknown but there was some reason to believe

that he might be in Mexico. Subsequently on 12/21/67

TP 120-C advised that on the morning of 12/21/67 SANTO's

daughter MARY JO had talked with her mother in Miami and

that SANTO was definitely in Mexico and that Mrs.

TRAFFICANTE was to be in Tampa later during the day and

that subsequently around 4:15 p.m. MARY JO had met her

mother at

the Tampa, Fla. airport.

Subsequently on 12/24/67 TP 120-C advised that

TRAFFICANTE had returned to Tampa some time during the

day of 12/23/67.

On 12/26/67 TP 120-C advised that the:

only persons present for Christmas Day dinner at the.

SANTO TRAFFICANTE Tampa residence were SANTO, MrS.

• TRAFFICANTE, Mrs. TRAFFICANTE'S father, MARY JO PANIELLO,

and her family.

and SARA JANE VALDES and her family.

On 12/28

ani 29/67 TP 120-C remarked that TRAFFICANTE

was not in Tampa and was believed to be in Miami, Fla.

but would be in Tampa for New Years.

On 1/9/68 TP: 120-C advised that TRAFFICANTE

had been in Tampa from 12/30/67 until 1/3/68 and that 'he

had left on Wednesday, 1/3/68, for New York to attend

a wedding and that the individuals who were to be wed

was a couple who had arrived in Tampa with SANTO just

before New Year's and who had apparently been guests at

the TRAFFICANTE home in Miami just prior to coming to

Tampa.

Informant stated that the male had stayed at either

the International Inn, Airport

Motel, or the Tampa-Sheraton

and

was known as FRANK and could be described as white,

male, 45-55, 6' tall, heavy set, of non-Latin or non-Italian

extraction, but possibly Jewish. Informant stated that

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TP 92-1

INFORMANTS:

Identity

TP T»1 is TP 120-C

TP T-2 is TP 303-PC

TP T-3 is PCI RUDY HEINY

TP. T-4 is JAMES. E. MCMAHON

Security Director, General

Telephone Company of Florida

TP T=5 is PCI AL CONGDON

TP T-6 is Agent RONALD

SIEBERT, Federal Bureau

of Narcotics, Miami

TP T=T iS TP 182-C-TE

TP T-8 is TP 41-C-TE

LEADS:

MIAMI

Location of Original Information

137-460-259

1371563-34

137-1705-21

162-679-2

REVIEWED BY RESUFA TAEK FORCE

0M 726/95 gAb/DW/TH

PELEASE IN FULL

RELEASE I PART

TOTAL DEMAL

137-1702 10

Instant report

137-1028-214

137-142-391

AT MIAMI, FLA•

1) Will exhibit photograph of GABRIEL MENDOZA

to PCI CECIL BAIN in an attempt to determine if the above

is the MENDOZA referred to ,by BAIN as shown

in the report

Of SA WENDALL W. HALL, Miami, 7/17/67 on page 19:

2) .. Will continue efforts to determine. TRAFFI

CANTE's activities

on &

day-to-day basis.

NEW YORK

AT WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK

D

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