Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: LABADIE, STEPHEN J.
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 02/25/1964
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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FK Assassination Syster

Identification Forr

Date:

6/11/201

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-10198-10467

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 92-2781-1014

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: LABADIE, STEPHEN J.

TO :

DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE: 02/25/1964

PAGES:

46

SUBJECTS :

LST, TESUR, FISUR, RES, TRA, ASSOC, TELCAL, AFFIL

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 10/19/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

REPORTING OFFICI

TAMPA

OFFICE OF ORIGIN

TAMPA

TILE HANGS

SANTO I RAFF ICANTE, JR., aka

TAStrong.

DATE

2/25/64

INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD

1/2 - 2/20/64

REPORT MADE DY

SA STEPHEN J. LABADIE

CHARACTER OF CASE

AR

TYPED BY

mw

Title is changed to add the alias T. STRONG, as subject used name

according to Miami Office, on Delta Airline ticket from Miami to

rampa.

REFERENCE:

Tampa reports of SA STEPHEN J. LABADIE, 12/11/63 and

1/20/64•

Jacksonville airtels to Tampa, 1/20 and 1/30/64 (I0).

San Juan letter to Niam1, 1/2%51. (10).

"EUGENIO ANTONIO LEAL POZO,

in case entitled,

Mobile letter to Miami, 1/24/64 (IO).

Bureau letter to Tampa,

1/29/64•

Los Angeles letter to Tampa, 1/30/64 (IO).

Bureau letter to Miami, 2/4/64, 1n case entitled,

"STEFANO ANTHONY RANDAZZO, aka, AR"o

Bureau airtel to Miam, 2/7/64.

Las vegas letter to Tampa,

2/7/64 (I0):

new fork airtel to lampa 2/7/64 (I0).

San Juan letter to Tampa; 3/10/64 (IO) :

Tampa airtel to New York,

4114/64 (10)

Tampa airtel to Jacksonville, 2/14/64 (IO) •

APPROVED

SPECIAL AGENT

IN CHARGE

COPIES MADE:

3) - Bureau (92-2781)En

30- 2)

= Is TERE

Tampa

- Las

(92-681)

3

- Miami (92-88)

(1 - USA, Miami) (Atta:

Mr .

WILLIAM KENNEY)

2 - New York (92-846)

2 - Татра (92-1)

Dissomination Record of Attoched Ropert

1- Daft 31/644

DO NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW

92-12781÷1014

MCT. 3

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Notations

Agency

Request Recd.

Date Fwd.

How Fwd.

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ENCLOSURES

TO BUREAU

Original and one copy of letterhead memorandun

characterizing informants.

LEADS:

LAS VEGAS DIVISION

AT LAS VEGAS, NEV.

Will locate through available sources known to

such office,

Mrs. FERNANDo PEREZ, who has been reported by

TP 8-C as having been divoroed fron FERNANDO PEREZ,

"FREDDIE"

aka,

, who is the youngest of two sons of RICHARD "I

•According to source,

FERNANDO's wife was a

vorced in las Vegas.

Source says FERNANDO Is presently

operating a casino in Equador and that perhaps his ex-wife

may be able to furnish the Bureau information of value

concerning his past gambling activitles, noting both

RICHARD and FERNANDO worked for the subject in Havana, Cuba

in the past.

MIAMI DIVISION

AT FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA:

Will report results of intervlew with GEORGE C.

WILKINSON

AT MIAMI, FLA

gation conducted concerning such subscribers.

Will continue efforts at Miami International

Airport Terminal to establish contacts of the subject,

noting the Bureau has

also pointed out in reairtel that

the subject's hoodlum activities have not been clearly

es

tablished and it is most desirable to develop carefully, all

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possible opportunities to find out how he maintains his

status in the criminal organization.

Will secure telephone tolls from telephone

booths used by the

berts uta be the the tet distance call ta tal earport

morning hours of 2/6/64;

when he was observed in conference

with an unknown male from approximately 12:20 a.m. to i:45 a.m.

on 2/6/64:

Will conduct appropriate investigation, possibly

through the Airport Parking Lot contacts to further identify

the unknown subject who drove the Continental or Grand Prix

who had met with the subject on 2/6/64.

Will secure telephone toll calls from the

telephone

booth used by the subject in the early morning hours of

for tomorrow"

2/11/64 when ho was overheard to state least a confidante

, "I"have reservations

, as same may identily at

of the subject.

Will recontact PCI DAVID ALLEN RUSSELL and endeavor

to identify "CHOPPER" whom source stated was an errand boy

for TRAFFICANTE,

and thereafter, upon identification, conduct

all appropriate

inquiry.

Will submit results of investigation outstanding as

leads have been set forth in previous reports.

Will intensify investigation of the subject's

activities, securing highly confidential Bureau coverage to

ascertain

exactly what subject is doing in Miami.

NEW YORK DIVISION

AT NEW: YORK, N. Y.

Will report results of investigation and interview

Of OLGA PEREIDA and ISABEL CASINO, a young Cuban female

residing in New York City with an individual named TRAFFI-

CANTE, reported by the Miami office to possibly being an

older brother of the subject. (Lead set forth by Miami tele-

type to Director, 1/22/64•)

For the information of the New York Office, the

subject has an older brother, FRANCISCO C. TRAFFICANTE,

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INFORMANTS:

TP. T-1 18 CARLOS ALVAREZ, PCI, Mtami Office.

TP T-2 18 CG 6538-C-TE, contacted at Miami, Fla.

TP. T-3 15 TP 120-C.

TP T-4 18 CHARLES SAMS, U. S. Mail Carrier.

TP T-5 18 TP 41-C.

TP T-6 15 TP 31-G.

TP T-7 16 TP 97-C.

TP. T-8 18 MM 897-PC•

TP T-9 1s TP 8-C.

TP T-10 is NO 59-C.

IP T-11 16 PCI DAVID ALLEN RUSSELL, Miami Office.

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Police Department, reviewed same date,

, reflect no informa

tion concerning JUAN SALVAT,

and do not record his name.

The current Las Vegas telephone directory does

not reflect the name

SALVANT

For information of Tampa, Las Vegas Sheriff'S

Office and Police Department requir work permit registration

of all persons

employed in hotels,

, casinos, or establishments

connected with gambling.

These work-permit registration

records were included in the record checks at the Sheriff's.

Office and Police Department.

ISABEL CASINO;

GLADYS ALVAREZ

doRCASANOVA;

OLGA PEREIDA

GUS M. ZENOUS, Policeman First Class, newly

assigned to the Intelligence Unit,

Miami Police Department,

received information fron Cuban

CASINO,

a young Cuban female, is residing in New York City

with an

individual named TRAFFICANTE,

"was believed to

possibly be an older brother of the subject.

works as a prostitute in the apartment of GLADYS ALVAREZ de

CASANQVA, Apartment 811, in the building next to Breston

Hall, supposedly on 87th Street and Broadway. He said an

additional prostitute in the same apartment is one Dominican

•female named OLGA PEREIDA. He said GLADYS is presently in

Miami, awaiting the arrival of her husband,

who is expected from Costa Rica; that ISABEL and OLGA are

running GLADYS' apärtaent in her absence..

F .

GEORGE

WILKINSON

CUBA.

Fort Lauderdale, Florida and

Mobile, Alabama

On January 21, 1964, TP T-10 advised SAS JOBL D.

COLGLAZIER and JAVES A. DAY as follows:

He stated that he was an employee of GEORGE C.

WILKINSON for a period of 15 years during which time the

employment progressed from an employee-employer relation-

ship to a

full partnership, until informant purchased

WILKINSON's share of the used car business they operated.

He stated that during that time he and WILKINSON became

close friends and confidants:

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to his

knowledge,

operat state type ViNs over to of his

own,

although he used to like to gamble and habitually

went to Cuba to spend time there at the area known as

Verderado (phonetic) Beach.

While in Cuba, WILKINSON would shoot craps at

the little casinos there, but other than playing poker

with friends and occasional bet with an acquaintance on a

football game or basketball game, he never actively engaged

in gambling.

TP T-10 stated that while in Cuba, WILKINSON

presently resides in Fort Lauderdale,

pecson a resides in for La descare, torida, somewhere

near where WILKINSON lives now

Becäuse of this association

with BUSTAMONTE,

it was rumored in Mobile at one time that

WILKINSON brought thousands of dollars out of Cuba at the

time of the Castro revolution:

TP T-10 stated he knew

personally this to be a false

rumot

but said that WILKINSON

liked to have such

rumors being passed around as that lent

credence to his way of life and indicated to people that

he had a considerable amount of money.

TP. T-1O said that WILKINson has over the years,

made and

lost a great deal of money and in one deal alone,

received one million dollars for his share in an insurance

company

stated that at present, WILKINSON is devoting

his full time to an insurance company, name unrecalled,

that during the previous week, he had

attempted to interest

TP T-10 in selling his used car business and investing in

this insurance company

TP T-lO stated that since he had

devoted his while life

to the used car business, he had no

desire to leave this business to start another oné.

TP T-10 further stated that WILKINSON is the type

of individual who keeps all money in his possession

invested in various enterprises and at one time, purchased

a motel in Mobile for one hundred thousand dollars,

which he borrowed ninety thousand dollars from the bank

and five thousand dollars from TP T-10, but rumors indi-

cated he was the sole owner of the enterprise.

As an

example of how little cash WILKINSON keeps, TP I-10 stated

that often, he borrows money in twenty and fifty dollar

amounts when in Mobile because his finances are all tied

up in investments.

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