Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, NO
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 03/29/1961
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/29/201

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10210-10281

RECORD SERIES:

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

92-2713-129

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM: SAC, NO

TO:

DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE:

PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

03/29/1961

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CM, ASSOC, CRIMINAL ACT, DEATH, FALK, MERLYNN

KATZ

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW:

12/04/1997

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

V9.1

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FD-36 (Rev. 12-13-56)

FBI

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Date:

3/29/61

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AIRMAIL

(Priority or Method of Mailing)

TO:

FROM:

SUBJECT:

DIRECTOR, FBI (92-2713)

SAC, NEW ORLEANS (92-36)

CARLOS

MARCELLO, aka.

AR

DAILY AIRTEL

BETTY PARENT, PCI, advised on 3/28/61 that a woman

named FALK (phonetic)

Street.

was beaten to death at 325 Bourbon

She advised that this is a restaurant known as The

Annex, and that the woman's husband, LARRY FALK, was indebted

to CARLOS MARCELLO for $46,000 for money and expenses advanced

to him by MARCELLO.

She advised that FALK had apparently wasted

all the money, advanced to him.

DecepsE

Pile,

- JOSEPH VITARRI, Detective Division

Homicide squad,

New Orleans Police Department, advised the death of MERLYNN

KAT FALK is still/ unclassified.

He advised that her husband

rirst reported his wife to be 1ll with an overdose of narcotics,

but the coroner's examination has

failed to disclose. narcotics

in the body.

He advised that the woman had been in an auto-

mobile accident two days before she was found unconscious at

the apartment and the coroner is now conducting examination

to determine if the woman could have been fatally injured in

the automobile accident or whether she could have been killed

behe tere

Detective VITARRI advised that he

has found no connection in the preliminary investigation that

he has conducted to indicate that FAlk is in any way connected

with CARLOS MARCELLO, bait that FALK has been connected with the

activities of CHARLIBASMITH, also known as CHARLES ADAM SMIL

who is in FBI cudtody in Kansas. for violation of the rist

Bureau

- New Orleans

•RLK/ tal

REG

12-2113-128

APRI

Approved:

Special Adolfih Charge

Sent

Per

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