Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, NO
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 4/12/61
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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FROM: SAC, NO

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE :

DATE:

04/12/1961

PAGES:

6

SUBJECTS :

CM, TESUR, NOLA PRINTING CO.

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION : Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 1B

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

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NO 66-1230

On the nights of 2/27, 28/61 and 3/1/61, efforts were

made to gain entry to the building through the back door.

had a key to the No. 5 Master Lock, which secured the iron-barred

door,

but we found we did not have

a key to the fire door and

accordingly were unable to gain entrance on the nights of

2/27,28/61.

However, on thenight of 3/1/61, the fire door had

been

was effected. On this night, a survey was completed to de-

ratected one

left unlocked by theoccupants of the building and entry

termine the type of technical

equipment needed and to decide

where to locate the equipment.

On this same night, a key was

found in PORETTO's office for

the fire door and a wax impres-

sion was made.

3y radiogram of 3/2/61, the Laboratory was requestec

to furnish certain

cechnical equipment needea to make the

installation.

This equipment was received 3/12/61 and on the

night of 3/13-14/61, installation of the equipment was made

inside the building.

In order to complete a circuit from the physical

property of the Nola Printing Co. to the New Orleans Office,

a telephone company disguised drop line had to be installed

from the building to a telephone pole located in front of the

building on Iris

Ave.

Spot-check surveillances were conducted

on the Nola Printing Co. 3/15,16,17/61 for the purpose of

establishing when

all employees left the building.

It was

determined that the employees usually left the building by

5:00 PM each day. A confidential source at the Southern Bell

Telephone & Telegraph Co. in New Orleans agreed to make

telephone company truck available for our use and explained

that the presence of a truck in any neighborhood created no

suspicion

provided the truck and the telephone linemen were

working during day-light hours. This source pointed out that

the use of a telephone company

truck after it became dark

could cause observers of the truck to become suspicious. The

purpose of the surveillance was to determine when employees

left the building in order that we could install the drop

during the day-light hours using telephone company equipment

and our own disguised wire.

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Using a telephone company truck, an efiort was made

to install the drop 3/24/61; however, employees did not leave

Nola until about dark on that date.

Another effort was made

to install the drop Sunday morning

3/26/61; however, Nola em-

ployees were at the building

at that time.

On 3/27/61 and on

3/29/61, plans were made to

install the drop,

but on both of

these dates, there was considerable precipitation. It is to

be noted that the telephone pole from which the drop would

have to be installed is also a pole carrying high voltage lines

and it was deemed unfavorable to climb the pole on these two

dates.

Finally on 3/30/61, the drop was installed from the

pole in front of Nola to the

outside protector block located

at the rear of the building.

On 4/1/61 the confidential

source at Southern Bell

Telephone & Telegraph Co. advised that the final leg of our

leased line circuit would be completed and ready for use.

Later

in the day of 4/1/61, after being advised that this circuit had

been completed, a test was made of the technical installation,

and it was determined that the installation was not operating

properly.

The circuit of the above installation in running from

the premises of Nola Printing Co. to the New Orleans Office in-

volves approximately 9 wire miles and passes through 3 central

offices.

The confidential source at the Bell Telephone & Tele-

graph Co. advised that he was not able to complete this circuit

for us by himself.

He said it was necessary to use other tele-

phone company personnel in completing the circuit.

The confi-

dential source was aware from the outset that the circuit being

provided for us was to be a dry (free of electrical current)

circuit.

It is the conclusion of this office that due to the

complicated nature of the telephone company circuit, some time

during the completion of the circuit after the misur was installed,

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NO 66-1230

telephone company personnel allowed electrical current to

enter the circuit, thereby burning out the mite unit.

On the night of 4/1/61 efforts were made to gain

entry to Nola Printing Co. to test the mite unit and to re-

place it if necessary. On this night, Agents observed that

all lights were burning in the building, which was unusual

in that on previous times only one light was burning over a

printing machine, which gave minimum illumination in the front

part of the building.

Further, on this particular night it

was noted that an International Pickup Truck belonging to

Nola Printing Co. was parked in front of the building.

Operat-

ing on the theory that the building might be occupied, Agents

working on this matter made pretext telephone calls to Nola

Printing Co., but were unable to get anyone to answer the

An Agent using a suitable pretext knocked on the

front door of the building, but was unable to get anyone

to answer the door.

Still

in an effort to ascertain if

the place was occupied, Agents looked in through the barred

windows and, although not able to see anyone in the place,

felt reasonably certain that someone was there. Consequently,

no attempt was made to enter the building.

On the night of 4/3/61, an additional effort was

made to gain entry.

On this occasion, it was noted that only

the one light over

the printing machine was burning.

truck was parked in front of the building. Again pretext

telephone calls and knocking at the front door failed to arouse

On this occasion, Agents felt it was

to gain entry through the

challenged by someone inside the building. At the

were challenged, the No. 5 padlock was already removed from

the iron-barred

door at

the rear of the building and due to

the circumstances, no effort was made to replace this padlock.

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NO 66-1230/pal

With regard to the presence of persons in the

building obviously posted there from a security standpoint,

it is to be noted that there has been considerable newspaper

publicity in the New Orleans area concerning efforts by the

Federal Government to deport CARLOS MARCELLO, as well as

requests made by local officials for a Federal Government

investigation of the gambling situation in Jefferson Parish,

La. In addition, local newspapers have carried stories that

Attorney General ROBERT F. KENNEDY was making a study of the

Jefferson Parish situation to determine whether some type of

Federal investigation could be made.

It is felt that this

publicity caused the management of Nola Printing Co. to post

a night watchman in the building.

It is not believed that

the management of Nola realized that prior entry had been

made by us, since none of the locks had been changed and on

the night that Agents were challenged, they could observe that

no one had been tampering with disguised wiring, which led

from within the building to the protector block on the outside

of the building.

oh 4/7/61 as a final check of this installation,

the circuit was tested at the pole in front of the Nola

Printing Co, and from this test, it was determined that

the leased line from the pole to the New Orleans Office was

operating properly; however, the circuit from the pole to the

mite unit was not operating properly.

In view of the above circumstances, it is felt that

from a security standpoint we must abandon our efforts to

effect technical coverage at the Nola Printing Co. at this

time.

We had previously requested authority for the installa-

tion of a technical surveillance at the Jefferson

Music Co.,

Gretna, La.,

and the

Bureau approved this request. As notec

in referenced airtel, all night surveillances conducted at

the Jefferson Music Co. disclosed that personnel constantly

enter and leave the establishment at all hours of the night as

they go about their tasks of repairing and putting back into

service pinball machines, which the Jefferson Music Co. has on

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