Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: LEG, MX
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 9/12/74
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Aot of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hotel.

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JFK Assassination System

Date:

5/7/2015

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

FBI

124-10210-10072

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

92-3171-2474

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FROM:

TO :

TITLE :

FBI

LEG, MX

DIRECTOR, FBI

DATE:

'PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

09/12/1974

5

SGI, ASSOC, TRA, RES, RCA,

DOCUMENT TYPE:

CLASSIFICATION:

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS :

4

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW :

05/01/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

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MEXICO CITY AIRTEL,

OCTOBER

31, 1967, REPORTED THAT

SUBUECT AND RICHARD CAIN APRIVER IN MERIDA, YUGATAN, IN MEXICO,

ON SEPTEMBER 12, 1966, ON FLIGHI 607 OF MEXICANA AIRLINES

AND STAYED AT THE HOTEL MERIDA, DEPARTING SEPTEMBER 15, 1966,

ON FLIGHT 62P OF MEXICANA. AT THE HOTEL AND ON THE AIRLINE

MMIESTS, TRY ISED THE LANES GUARLES L RICAR AND ERNIE ROT SISSI

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MEXICO CITY AIRTEE, SURE 18, 1967, ADVISED THAT P. O.

BOX 1066, CUERNAVACA, MORELOS, MEXICO, WAS LISTED TO RICHARD

SCALZETTI, CALLES DE NUBES 2, RANCHO TETELA, CUERNAVACA. 22 SEP LT 1974

INQUIRY BY A SOURCE AT THIS ADDRESS DEVELOPED INFORMATION FROM MA

CERVANTS THAI THE OWNER OF THE HOUSE WAS KNOWN AS SALVADOR

/SCALZETTI.

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CONF MENTAL

MEX 92-13

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MEXICO CITY LETTER JULY 3, 1968, REPORTED THAT THE

MANAGER OF "LAS MANANITAS", THE LEADING RESTAURANI IN

CUERNAVACA, IDENTIFIED A PHOTOGRAPH OF SUBJECI AS A FREQUENT

CUSTOMER AND STATED THAT HE KNEW THIS PERSON AS A MR. SCALZETTI.

HE ALSO STATED THAI THE NEPHEW OF SCALZETTI, ALSO KNOWN AS

SCALZETTI, WAS A FREQUENT CUSTOMER AND IDENTIFIED A PHOTOGRAPH

OF RICHARD CAIN AS THIS INDEVIDUALI

MEXICO CITY AIRTEL, APRIL 4, 1968, REPORTED THAI MEXICAN

IMMIGRATION INSPECIORS HAD DETERMINED THAT A MR. OCTAVIO

CISNEROS HAD KNOWN THE SUBJECT AT THE CLUB DE GOLF IN CUERNAVACA

AND KNEW HIM AS SCALZETTI. HE SAID THE SUBJECT HAD SOLD HIM

HIS GOLF CART AT THIS CLUB MANY MONTHS EARLIER. @LU)

MEXICO CITY LETTER MARCH 24, 1972, REPORTED AN INTERVIEW

WITH GERALD W. SCHULTZ, FORMER OWNER OF THE HOUSE KNOWN AS

VILLA SAN CRISTOBAL' OR QUINIA SAN CRISTOBAL IN LAS QUINTAS

IN CUERNAVACA• SCHULTZ IDENTIFIED A PHOTOGRAPH OF SUBJECT AS

THE PERSON CALLING HIMSELF SAM DE PALMA WHO PURCHASED THE ABOVE

HOME FROM SCHULTZ IN ABOUT NOVEMBER OF

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CONFIDENTIAL'

MEX 92-13

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A FORMER EMPLOYEE OF THE SUBJECT, CELSOCARRETO BENITEZ, EX•:

JOLD AGENTS OF THE NEWARK OFFICE IN MAY AND JULY, 1973, AFTER

N.I.

VIEWING A PHOTOGRAPH OF SUBJECT, THAT HE KNEW SUBJECI AS

SAMUEL DE PALMA AND WORKED FOR HIM IN MEXICO FOR APPROXIMATELY

THREE YEARS UNTIL LATE AUGUST, 1971. HE INTALLY STATED HE

DID NOI KNOW ANYONE BY THE NAME OF SAMUEL GIANCANA. A U

CS MEX-287 ADVISED ON AUGUST 22, 1974, THAT SUBJECI DID NOT

ACKBONLEDGE MIS TRUE IDENTITY TO HIS GOLFING AND CARD PAYING

ASSOCIATES IN MEXICO CITY BUT WAS ALWAYS REFERRED TO BY THEM

AS SAM DE

PALMA. THIS CONTINUED OVER A PERIOD OF NEARLY FIVE

YEARS EVEN THOUGH MOST OF THESE INDIVIDUALS HAD CONCLUDED THAT

SUBJECT WAS GIANCANA AFTER AN ARTICLE APPEARED IN "TIME"

RE: ADDITIONAL FOREIGN TRAVEL

JAMAICA - SUBJECI REPORTEDLY MADE A TELEPHONE CALL TO

HOLLYWOOD, FLORIDA, IN MID-FEBRUARY, 197D, CLAIMING THAT HE WAS

IN JAMAICA (LAS VEGAS FD-302 DATED MARCH

1970, RECORDING

INTERVIEW WITH PHYLLIS MC GUIRE). EV

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