Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, CG
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 5/3/61
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Date:

6/12/201

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER : 124-10199-10154

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

92-3182-199

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: SAC, CG

TO: DIRECTOR; FBI

TITLE :

DATE: 05/03/1961

PAGES:

SUBJECTS:

GAL, ASSOC, GAMBLING

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS :

4

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW :

03/04/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS: INC A/T

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92-3182-199

TO:

SAC, Chicago

FROM:

Director, FBI

GUS

ALEX,

aka.

AR

Reurtel 5/3/61.

The information reported by CG 6443-C indicating

huge gambling operations carried on in factories and business

places opens an avenue which may lead to interesting and signifi-

cant information as to hoodlum gambling operations.

With this

in mind, you should exert every effort to develop

further informa-

tion concorning bookmaking at factories and other business places

in order that a comprohensive picture of such activities may be

developed.

You should attenpt to establish the connection between

the individuals who actually operate these books and their

intermediaries who maintain llaison with and carry out the orders

of the top-ranking Hoodlum figures who dominate this racket.

This matter should be given immediate and vigorous

attention, and the Bureau should be kept closely advised of

pertinent developments.

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

COMMUNICATIONS SECTION

MAY 3

1961

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Mr. Tolson

Mr. Parsons._

Mr. Mohr.

Mr. Belmont.

Mr. Callahan

Mr. Conrad.

Mr. DeLnach

Mr. Evans

Mr. Malone

Mr. Rosen

Mr. Tavel

Mr. Trotter.

Mr. W.C.Sullivan

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FROM SAC CHICAGO

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ALEX, AKAO, AR, DAILY SUMMARY. CE SIX FOUR FOUR THREE DASH C

ADVISED THAT ANOTHER FORM OF GAMBLING OPERATIONS WHICH I'S NOT

WIDELY KNOWN BUT WHICH BRINGS IN HUGE AMOUTS OF MONEY TO THE CHICAGO

OUTFIT ARE HANDBOOKS WHICH OPERATE IN FACTORIES AND COUNTLESS PLACES

OF BUSINESS. HE ADVISED THAT THESE INDIVIDUALS OPERATING HANDBOOKS

MIGHT WORK FOR THE COMPANY OR FACTORY AS WELL AS OPERATING A

HANDBOOK• HE STATED THAT THE OPERATOR WOULD GET TEN CENTS ON EACH

DOLLAR COLLECTED OF HORSE BETS OR OTHER GAMBLING OR ELSE A PERCENTAGE

OF THE GROSS EARNINGS FROM THE HANDBOOKS. IN THIS REGARD ON APRIL.

EIGHT, LAST, AND ARTICLE APPEARING IN CHICAGO SUN TIMES DISCLOSES

THAT IRS AGENTS ARRESTED JOHNÄPIGNATO, FRANK CAUTHIER, CLYDELAYTON

AND ROBERT COY LEMING ON APRIL SEVEN, LAST, IN THE STATE MADISON

BUILDING FOR FAILURE TO PURCHASE WAGER TAX STAMP AND NON PAYMENT OF

A HANDBODE IN DUE STATE MABISON JULDING MILE EMPLOT IN ARENA

TEN PER CENT WAGERING TAX: THIS WAS RESULT 65

TEASE PEOPLE OPERATING

A HANDBOOK IN THE STATE MADISON WILDING WHILE EMPLOYEE AND

ELEVATOR OPERATOR.

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BERNARD NAGEL, MANAGER OF THE STATE MADISON BUILDING ADVISED THAT

PIGNATO, GAUTHIER AND LAYTON WERE SUSPENDED PENDING THE OUTCOME

OF PROSECUTIVE ACTION. NAGEL STATED THAT HIS INTERVIEW WITH THESE

EMPLOYEES REVEALED THAT THEY WERE ACTUALLY ACCEPTING HORSE BETS AND

FLEMING AN EMPLOYEE OF THE CENTRAL TERMINAL RAILROAD AT THE TIME.

EFFORTS BEING MADE TO LOCATE ABOVE PERSONS FOR INTERVIEW. CG SIX TWO

SEVEN TWO DASH C ADVISED THAT SAD

MINKUS, OPERATOR OF SPORTS HANDI

CAPPING SERVICE KNOWN AS NATIONAL PUBLICATIONS, CHICAGO, HAS BEEN

MUSCLED BY THE OUTFIT AND IS PAYING THE OUTFIT BETWEEN FIVE HUNDRED

DOLLARS AND ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS, PER MONTH. CG SIX TWO SEVEN TWO -

DASH C STATED THIS INFORMATION IS NOT FROM MINKUS A CLOSE FRIEND OF

HIS BUT FROM OTHER INDIVIDUALS, ONE OF WHOM WAS PRESENT IN MINKUS

OFFICE WHEN TWO THUGS PHYSICALLY BEAT MINKUS IN ORDER TO SOFTEN HIM

UP TO OBTAIN THE PAYOFF TO THE OUTFIT. IT IS TO BE NOTED THAT MINKUS

HAS PREVIOUSLY BEEN INTERVIEWED AND DENIED EVER BEING MUSCLED OR

PAYED ANY MONEY TO THE OUTFIT. HE SAID AT THAT TIME; HE HAD ONLY

FOUR ACCOUNTS IN THE CITY OF CHICAGO, THESE BEING SMALL ACCOUNTS.

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CG SIX ONE ONE SEVEN DASH C ADVISED THAT GUS ALEX-S. NAME IS PROMINENT

IN GAMBLING CIRCLES OF THE SOUTH SIDE AS BEING A SYNDICATE HEAD FOR

THAT AREA• MARSHALL CAIFANO AND TWO UNSUBS, WHITE MEN, ARE FEARED

BY GAMBLERS ON THE SOUTH SIDE AS MUSCLE MEN FOR GUS ALEX. CG SIX ONE

ONE SEVEN DASH C ADVISED FAT LAWN WHO FREQUENTS PERSHING HOTEL IS

PROMINENT IN THE NUMBERS RACKET.

A BOOK IS BEING OPERATED BY JOE

INC CULLOCH IN A TAVERN AT ONE ZERO TARTE NINE EAST EICHTY TOO STREET.

RAY PAREN LNU EN PAREN AKAO, TINY, A BIG FAT ITALIAN MALE,

FORMERLY RESIDENT OF LAKE MEADOWS WITH A COLORED WIFE WAS OPERATING

A HANDBOOK AT THE CRANE COMPANY, CHICAGO. JAMES IRVING, OPERATOR OF

THE PANAMA LOAN OFFICE AT SIXTY THIRD AND COTTAGE GROVE, WHO CANAGO ILL

DID TIME FOR INCOME TAX EVASION REPORTEDLY HAS SYNDICATE

CONNECTIONS, AND COULD FURNISH INFORMATION. ON MAY ONE, SIXTY ONE,

JAMES D, IRVING ADVISED THAT HE OPERATES A PERSONAL LOAN SERVICES

AND THE IRVING MUSIC COMPANY ON COTTAGE GROVE, CHICAGO. IRVING

MUSIC COMPANY PAYS DUES TO THE COMMERCIAL PHONOGRAPH SURVEY THROUGH

DAN GAINS, A FRIEND OF JAMES D. IRVING. IRVING DENIES SYNDICATE

CONNECTIONS OR BEING MUSCLED BY SYNDICATE HOODLUMS, ALTHOUGH

ADMITS HAVING DONE TIME WITH SYNDICATE FIGURES. ARMED AND DANGEROUS

WITH SUICIDAL TENDENCIES.

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