Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, BU
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 09/14/1968
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (41 USC 2107 Hote).

DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK Assassination System

Date:

5/20/201

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-10288-10438

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 92-6054-2429

Document Information

ORIGINATOR :

FBI

FROM: SAC, BU

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE: 09/14/1968

• PAGES:

5

SUBJECTS :

LCN, FINO, JOSEPH M., UNDERBOSS, MAGADDINO FAMILY,

ILLEGAL GAMBLING ACT

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 07/08/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS: INC NOTE

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DATE: 11-11-2017

FBI WASH DC

FBI-BUFFALO

L2-38 PM

Kenuretty

Assassination Records

Collection not or

1992 711 050

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

OMMUNICATIONS SECTION

SEP 1 4 1968

TELETYPE

Hotey.

MI. Toleca

Mr. DeLorch

Mr.

Mr.

aspe

Mr. Callahan

Mr.

Conrad

Mr. Felt

Mr. Gale

Mr. Boson

Mr.

Sullivan

Mr.

Gavel

Mr. Trotter.

Tele. Room

Miss Holmes

Mies Gandy

PM URGENT 9/L4/68

O DIRECTOR 192-60541

FROM BUFFALO /92-3371

AntimTaCKO 0051148

ELA COSA NOSTRA, BUFFALO DIVISION, AR

ON JULY SIXTEEN LASI, BU THREE ZERO FIVE C TE

ADVISED THAT ON PREVIOUS NIGHI, LOCAL DICE GAME HAD

OPENED OVER OLD TOWERS BAR, NINE FOUR EIGHT HERTEL

NEW YORK

AVENUE, BUFFALO, NY. GAME BANKED BY JOSEPH MOSFINO, ~, y

La Cosa Nostre

"UNDERBOSS," "MAGADDINO FAMILY" OF LON. INFORMANT

STATED GAME SUPERVISED BY NICHOLAS ANTHONY *MAURO.

ACCORDING TO INFORMANI, SECURITY SETUP FOR GAME IS

EXTREMELY ELABORATE. LOOKOUT UTILIZES ELECTRONIC

DEVICE WHICH, WHEN PRESSED, FLASHES THREE LIGHIS OVER

MAIN DICE TABLE. IN ADDITION, ALL OPENINGS ARE HIGHLY REC 5

BARRICADED WITH PLYWOOD AND STEEL BARS. ENTRANCEATO GAME

CAN ONLY BE MADE THROUGH THREE SUCCESSIVE DOORS, EACH

FOUR

FiSHES THICK IOGECH ARE MANNED BY LOOKOUTS UTILIZING

• ONE WAY

MIRROR PEEPHOLES. AFTER IDENTIFYING PLAYER,

END PAGE ONE

MR. DELOACH FOR THE DIRECTOR

92-6054-24291

HI OCT

4 1968

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BU 92-337

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LOOKOUTS RAISE TWO HEAVY STEEL BARS BEHIND DOOR AND ALLOW

PLAYER ENTRANCE. PLAYER MUST THEN BE IDENTIFIED BY NEXT

LOOKOUT MANNING SECOND DOOR AND SAME PROCEDURE FOLLOWED

AT THIRD DOOR. TO SUCCESSFULLY ENTER GAME, PLAYER MUSI

BE THEREFORCE IDENTIFIED BY THREE SEPARATE DOORMEN.

AS ARESULI OF CLOSE INFORMANT COVERAGE BY BU THREE

ZERO FIVE C. TE AND SURVEILLANCES BY BUREAU AGENTS,

SUFFICIENT INFORMATION DEVELOPED YESTERDAY TO OBTAIN

SEARCH WARRANTS FOR THIS HIGHLY ORGANIZED CASINO TYPE

GAMBLING OPERATION.

INFORMATION DISSEMINATED TO CAPTAIN KENNETH P

POLICE DEPFARTMENT

KENNEDY /NA/, GAMBLING SQUAD, BUFFALO, NY PD, WHO LATE

LAST NIGHT OBIAINED LOCAL SEARCH WARRANT FROM BUFFALO

CITY JUDGE THEODORE S. KASLER. WARRANI EXECUTED AT

APPROXIMATELY TWO TEN AM THIS MORNING BY TRUSTED OFFICERS

POLICE DEPARTMENT

OF BUFFALO PD, WITH BUREAU AGENIS ACTING AS DISCREET

OBSERVERS.

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