Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: LA
To: HQ
Document date: 08/19/1976
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Date:

4/9/2015

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-10351-10120

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 72-2382-41

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: LA

TO: HQ

TITLE:

DATE:

' PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

08/19/1976

8

JUDITH CAMPBELL EXNER

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 09/09/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

V9.1

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FEDERAL BUREAU UF INVIS:.CAMOA

COMMUNICATIONS SECTION

00 H956 CK YM

DELA

AUG 1,8 1975

0.1901? 8 AUG 76

TELETYPE

LOS ANGELES (72-125) @> I'EDIATE

TO DIRECIOP, FEI IMMEDIATE 22 <362

BOSTON IMMEDIATE

JACKSONVILLE INMEDIATE

MIAMI

IMMEDIATE

Assoc. Dir.

Dep.-A.D.-Adm.

Dep.-A.D.-Inv...

Asst. Dir.:

Adm. Sarv. .

ext. Affairs

Fin.

Ger. L

Ident

Inspection

Intell.

Laborat: ry

Legal Crun.

Plan. & Eval. -

Ree. Mgmty

Spec. Inv.7

Training

Telephone Rm.

Director Sec'y

EFTO

ATIN: GENERAL INVESTIGATIVE DIVISION

UNSUB; JOHN POSELLI - VICTIM. DOS. DO: MIAMI

RE LOS ANGELES TELETYPE TO BUREAU ALGUST 18, 1976,

AND MIAMI TELETY PE TO BUREAU AUGUST 19, 1976.

FOR GENERAL INFORMATION BOSTON, INVESTIGATION PY

JACKSONVILLE DIVISION DEVELOPED INFOPMATION REFLECTING

THAT ONE ROY JOSEPH THOMAS POSSIBLE SUSPECT IN ROSELLI

MURDEE COOPED BLURGER DESCENT BETWEEN THOMAS

AND ROSELLI IN MIAMI, FLORIDA AREA.

THIS INFORMATION BEING RELATED TO BOSTON BECAUSE

REST 2O 52 382-41

THOMAS WAS BORN AND RAISED YOUR AREA AND ALLEGEDLY

n2.06

INVOLVED IN CRIMINAL EFFORTS BOSTON,

MASSACHUSETTS. 3 AUG 26 1976

IN S8

72-2382

TELETYPED TD: 279

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PAGE TWO LA 72-185> EFI O

RE: FRANCIS XAVIER IHOMAS, ALSO KNOWN AS

FRANK THOMAS •

LA 9883-€-IE ADVISED ON AUGUST

17, 1976, THAT

FRANK THOMAS, WHOM HE HAS KNOWN FOR MANY YEARS, DIED

APPROXIMATELY TWO AND ONE HALF MONTHS AGO FROM A

HEARI ATTACK.

EMMETT MURPHY, WESI COAST DIRECTOR, THOROUGHBRED

RACING

PROTECI IVE BOARD (TRPB), ADVISED ON AUGUSI 18,

1976, HE WAS PERSONALLY ACQUAINTED WITH FRANK I HOMAS

PRIOR TO HIS DEATH AS HE WAS IN DAILY AITENDANCE AT

SANTA ANITA RACEIRACK, ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA. THE

LASI RACING MEET FOR SANTA ANITA OPENED ON DECEMER 26,

1975. ED BARNARD, INVESTIGATOR FOR IRPB, ADVISED ON

AUGUST 18, 1976, HE RECALLS SOMETIME DURING THE EARLY

PART OF THE MEET HE SAW FRANK THOMAS AND ASKED HIM

WHERE HE HAD BEEN AS HE HAD NOT SEEN HIM AROUND I HE

TRACK. THOMAS REPLIED THAT HE HAD BEEN LAYING LOW."

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RE: ROY THOMAS

LA 9383-€-TE RECONTACIED THIS DATE AND STATED HE

HAS NOT HEARD ABOUT ROY THOMAS. FOR APPROXIMATELY ONE

AND ONE-HALF YEARS. HE HAS NO IDEA AS TO HIS LOCATION,

BUT STATED IHAT LOS ANGELES GAMBLER NICK ASSAD IS A

CLOSE FRIEND OF THOMAS IHROUGH THE YEARS AND COULD BE CONTACIED

FOR CURRENT INFORMATION REGARDING HIM.

NICK ASSAD STATED HE HAS NOT SEEN ROY THOMAS

FOR OVER ONE YEAR AND THAT HE RESIDES IN MIAMI,

FLORIDA AREA NEAR HOLLINDALE. ROY 'S WIFE EITHER IS

OR AT ONE TIME WORKED FOR NATIONAL AIRLINES IN FLOPIDA

AS AN ADMINISTRAIOR IN THE TRAINING AND HIRING

DEP ARIMENT.

THOMAS GREW UP IN BOSTON WITH ASSAD AND WAS

CLOSELY ASSOCIATED THERE WITH LON MEMBER ILARIO

ANTONIO MARIA ZANNINO WHO ASSAD KNOWS WELL BY NAME

LARRY BIONI. IN ADDITION, THOMAS WAS EXTREMELY CLOSE

TO PHIL WAGGENHEIM, A CLOSE ASSOCIATE OF ZANNINO.

FOR INFORMATION OF THE BUREAU, ZANNINO IS LISTED AS

AN LON MEMBER BELONGING TO THE PATRIARCA FAMILY.

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