Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: FORSYTH, THOMAS G. III
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 03/24/1970
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (41 USC 2107 Hote).

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JFK Assassination System

Date:

5/28/201

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10222-10195

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 92-2914-354, 355, 356, 357, 358

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: FORSYTH, THOMAS G. III

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE :

DATE: 03/24/1970

PAGES:

64

SUBJECTS :

GM, ASSOC, ENFORCER, TRA, ILLEGAL ACT, PERSONAL

HISTORY, BKG, LCN, MEETING, B/F INT

DOCUMENT TYPE:

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION:

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS :

4

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/21/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

INC 4 RPT

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

REPORTING OFFICE

PITTSBURGH

TITLE OF CASE

GABRIEL

OFFICE OF ORIGIN

PITTSBURGH

MANNARINO, aka

DATE

8/17/71

INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD

5/19/71-7/27/71

REPORT MADE BY

SA THOMAS G. FORSYTH, III

CHARACTER OF CASE

AR

TYPED B!

CS

REFERENCES

at Pittsburgh.

Report of SA THOMAS G. FORSYTH, III, dated 5/11/71,

Miami letter to Pittsburgh dated 5/25/71.

-P-

LEAD

PITTSBURGH

AT PITTSBURGH, PA. (ALLEGHENY COUNTY)

will continue to follow and report activities of

subject and his associates in accordance with Bureau instructions.

CONVIC.

AUTO..

FUG.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS CLAIMED

FINES

•SAVINGS

@ NONE

RECOVERIES

ACQUIT-

TALS

CASE HAS BEEN:

PENDING OVER ONE YEAR

PENDING PROSECUTION

OVER SIX MONTHS

LYES DINO

YES LINO

APPROVED

COPIESMACY - Bureau (92-2914)

- USA, Pittsburgh,

pa.

2 - JULES T. BRUNNER,

Pittsburgh Strike

Force

2 - Pittsburgh (92-236)

SPECIAL AGENT

IN CHARGE

•DO NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW

92-

2914-358

REG- 78

5 AUG 20 1971

EX 100

-:: 19:099007

Notations

Agency

Request Recd.

Date Fwd.

How Fwd.

By

Dissemination Record of Attached Report

_OC. AAG, Criminal Division,

Organized

Section,

12744

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Hotel.

"DATE:-11-14-2017

PG 92-236

ADMINI STRATIVE:

On 7/27/71, PG878-C-TE advisen: 1

Yesterday SONNY

telephonically contacted

informant and said that KELLY MANNARINO wanted to see him.

Informant

met with MANNARINO at the latter's ranch in Allegheny

Township,

Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, on the morning of

7/27/71.

MANNARINO said he has a friend "out west" who is in

trouble, and 'Timay have to help him."

MANNARINO wouldn't tell

informant anything more but merely insisted informant keep

himself instantly available to leave to "do a job" for this

unidentified friend ofhis.

MANNARINO said informant could

take along a partner of his own choosing or he could take

SONNY CIANCUTTI.

MANNARINO turned to CIANCUTTI and said,

"You go with him and get dirty; it's about time." Informant

has no additional information at this time.

MANNARINO then asked informant if he knew GALLO in

New York, and informant said he only knows what he reads about

GALLO in magazines.

MANNARINO asked if informant knew what

GALLO looks like, and informant said he has only seen magazine

photographs of GALLO.. MANNARINO then said, "He may come up

next;" and MANNARINO said no more.

From his conversation with MANNARINO, during which

he did not ask any questions since so doing would be

uncharacteristic, he can only surmise that MANNARINO may have

been talking about a "hit" for his friend "out west" or a

"muscle job" or a "burglary," but there is no

way of being

sure without more information. Informant will try to get

additional information from CIANCUTTI if possible.

INFORMANTS:

PG T-1

is PG 878-C-TE.

PG T-2 is PG 1105-PC.

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DATE: 11-14F8Q43 (Rci

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

REPORTING OFFICE

PITTSBURGH

TITLE OF CASE

OFFICE OF ORIGIN

PITTSBURGH

GABRIEL MANNARINO, aka

DATE

5/11/71

INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD

1/15-5/4/71

REPORT MADE BY

THOMAS e. FORSYTH, III

CHARACTER OF CASE

AR

REFERENCES:

Report of SA THOMAS G. FORSYTE, III, dated

12/16/70, at Pittsburgh.

Pittsburgh letters to Miami dated 1/14/71,

and 3/24/71.

Pittsburgh airtels to Miami dated 1/19/71,

2/1/71, and 3/30/71.

Miami letters to Pittsburgh dated 1/25/71,

and 3/11/71.

Pittsburgh airtel to Boston dated 2/1/71.

Boston letter to Pittsburgh dated 3/17/71.

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TYPEI

ssI

CONVIC.

AUTO.

FUG

ACCOMPLISHMENTS CLAIMED

FINES

SAVINGS

APPROVED

COPIES MADE:

C 3-Bureau (92-2914)

1-USA, Pittsburgh,

Pa.

2-Jules T. Brunner, Pittsburgh

Strike Force

2-Pittsburgh. (92-236)

SPECIAL AGENT

IN CHARGE

_ NONE

RECOVERIES

ACQUIT-

TALS

CASE HAS BEEN:

PENDING OVER ONE YEAR

PENDING PROSECUTION

OVER SIX MONTHS

LITES INO

YES

DO NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW

9222914+3578614

17. MAY 12 1971

Dissemination Record of Attached Report

Agency

OR NAG, frimical Deristos,

Request Recd.

• Date. Fwd.

Organsad Crine sad Rechoteering

How Fwd.

By

53 MAY 17 1971

Motorions ONE

STAT SECT.

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 19700-375-139

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PG 92-236

LEAD

PITTSBURGH

AT PITTSBURGH, PA. (ALLEGHENY COUNTY)

Will continue to follow and report activities

of subject and his associates in accordance with Bureau

instructions:

INFORMANTS

PG T-1 is MM 1506-PC.

PG T-2

is PG 838-C-TE

PG

957-PC

PG

PG

T-4

T-5

i

is

PG

612-C

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PG 92-236

PHIL (LNU) and

FREDDIE (LNU), both from Indiana County

and the latter an official with the local of the Iron workers

Union.

Then he heard that BAZZANO was going into some sort of

a deal with PHIL to operate a hotel in that area.

Somebody

went to KELLY MANNARINO and falsely informed him that informant

had a silent piece of PHIL's share of the new venture and that

informant hoped BAZZANO was not going into the deal with the

idea of fleecing PHIL.

Shortly thereafter, MANNARINO brought

in BAZZANO, sat him down and told him that he should either

operate the hotel deal on the square or not go into it at all.

Reportedly, BAZZANO assured MANNARINO that his intentions were

strictly legitimate.

E. LEGITIMATE ENTERPRISE

On January 25, 1971, PG T-3 advised:

GABRIEL "KELLY" MANNARINO reputedly owns 51% of a

firm known as Paragon Plastics in the New Kensington - Allegheny

River Valley area and the other owner is allegedly NEIL HAGEAL.

Some of associates of MANNARINO and individuals that work in

his organization are "SPEEDO" HANNA, who is a torpedo, and

also an individual known as "BAD EYE", who is married to

HAGEAL'S sister.

This information is just rumor among gamblers in

the New Kensington area, and it is known that when he is in

town, MANNARINO spends no time at Paragon Plastics and con-

tinues to actively operate Catoris Candies, Inc.

F. TRAVEL

On January 15, 1971, RAYMOND ECHEMENT, Deputy U.S.

Marshal, Pittsburgh, telephonically advised SA THOMAs G.

FORSYTH g

11!, that GABRIEL MANNARINO had just boarded United

Airlines Flight Number 905, which departed Pittsburgh at

9:00 a.m., Eastern Standard Time, en route to Ft. Lauderdale,

Fla.

He

Said MANNARINO, traveling under his own name, had

a male traveling companion, no description obtained, who was.

traveling under the name S. MANNARINO.

• It is noted that SAMUEL MANNARINO, subject's brother,

has been dead for about four years, and no other MANNARINO

is known to have a first name commencing with the letter "s."

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FD-363 (R+ 73-3-67)

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

REPORTING OFFICE

PITTSBURGH

TITLE OF CASE

OFFICE OF ORIGIN

PITTSBURGH

DATE

12/16/70

INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD

6/23-12/3/70

REPORT MADE BY

THOMAS G. FORSYTH, III

CHARACTER OF CASE

TYPED BY

inj v

GABRIEL MANNARINO, aka.

•AR

REFERENCES:

Report of SA THOMAS G. FORSYTH, III, dated 6/24/70,

at Pittsburgh,

Pittsburgh letter to Las Vegas dated 8/14/70.

Las Vegas letter to Pittsburgh dated 10/28/70.

Pittsburgh letter to Detroit dated 11/30/70.

- P

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CONVIC.

AUTO

FUG.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS CLAIMED

FINES

SAVINGS

NONE

RECOVERIES

APPROVED

101

COPIES MADE:

3) - Bureau

(92-2914)

1

- USA,

Pittsburgh,

Pa.

2 - JULES T. BRUNNER,

Pittsburgh Strike

2 - Pittsburgh (92-236)

SPECIAL AGENT

IN CHARGE

Force

ACQUIT-

TALS

CASE HAS BEEN:

PENDING OVER ONE YEAR I

BYES L NO

PENDING PROSECUTION

OVER SIX MONTHS

YES INO

DO NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW

92-2914-356

REC 18

EX•112

4 DEC 22 1970

Dissemination Record of Attached Report

Agency

Request Recd.

OC, MAG, Crimil Division,

Date Fu 6 lol 2 91970

Racietceting

How Fwd.

By

Section,

Rcom_

Notations

sales

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PG 92=236

LEAD:

PITTSBURGH

AT PITTSBURGH, PA. (ALLEGHENY COUNTY)

Will continue to follow and report the activities

of the subject and his associates in accordance with Bureau

instructions.

ADMINISTRATIVE:

The surveillance on 6/25/70, was conducted by

SAS HENRY B. BRITTON, III, And JOHN SKUPIEN, JR.

INFORMANTS:

PG T-1

is

PG 612-C

PG T-2

is PG 775-C

PG T-3

is PG 2689-C-TE

PG T-4

is

. PG 603-C-TE

PG T-5 is PG 878-C-TE

PG T-6

is PCI JOSEPH RICHARD MATASSA

PG T-7 is PG 785-C

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HIL: 11-14-201

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

-==

REPORTING OFFICE

PITTSBURGH

TITLE OF CASE

OFFICE OF ORIGIN

PITTSBURGH

GABRIEL MANNARINO, aka

DATE

6/24/70

INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD

3/10/70-6/12/70

REPORT MADE BY

SA THOMAS G. FORSYTH, ILI

CHARACTER OF CASE

AR

TYPEDE

djb

REFERENCES:

Rop 1000

Report of SA THOMAS G. FORSYTH, III, dated

3/24/70, at Pittsburgh.

Miami letters to Pittsburgh dated 3/30/70, and

5/18/70.

Pittsburgh letter to Philadelphia dated 4/9/70.

Cincinnati letter to Pittsburgh dated 5/27/70.

-P-

LEAD

PITTSBURGH

CONVIC AUTO.

FUG.

AT PITTSBURGH, PA.

(ALLEGHENY COUNTY)

ACCOMPLISHMENTS CLAIMED

LE NONE

FINES

SAVINGS

RECOVERIES

ACQUIT-

TALS

CASE HAS BEEN:

PENDING OVER ONE YEAR X YES. LINO

PENDING PROSECUTION

OVER SIX MONTHS

DYES @NO

APPROVED

SPECIAL AGENT

IN CHARGE

COPIESMADE:

DO NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW

9213914 135540

3-Bureau (92-2914)

1-USA, Pittsburgh, Pa.

12 JUN 26 1970

1-Pittsburgh (92-236)

-

Dissemination Record of Attached Report

Agency

Request Recd

Date Fwd.

How Fwd

By

OC.

Criminal Division,

Organized Crime and Rachetering

Soction, Books

5 5 JUL 1

1970

Notations

+ PRINTING OFFICE: 19700-375-139

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Will continue to follow and report the

activities of subject and his associates in accordance

with Bureau instructions.

ADMINISTRATIVE

Special Agents JOHN SKUPIEN

, JR., and

RONALD WETHERINGTON observed MANNARINO at the Inn

America on 3/2/70.

INFORMANTS

PG T-1 is PG 878-C-TE

PG T-2 is PG 612-C

PG T-3 is PG 874-C-TE

PG T-4 is MM 986-C-TE

PG T-5 is ROBERT WALLS, Manager, Mariner Motel,

Hollywood, Florida (protect per request)

PG T-6 is PG 775-C

PG T-7 is JAMES DOWDS, Pittsburgh, Pa.,

to SA EDWARD L. STEWART (protect per request)

PG T-8 is CI 477-C-TE

PG T-9 is CI 407-C

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

REPORTING OFFICE

PITTSBURGH

TITLE OF CASE

OFFICEÖF ORIGIN

PITTSBURGH

GABRIEL MANNARINO, aka

DATE

3/24/70

INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD

12/5/69-3/7/70

REPORT MADE BY

SA THOMAS G. FORSYTH, III

CHARACTER OF CASE

AR

TYPED EY

djb

REFERENCE:

Report of SA THOMAS G. FORSYTH, III, dated

12/23/69, at Pittsburgh.

-P-

LEAD

PITTSBURGH

AT PITTSBURGH, PA. (ALLEGHENY COUNTY)

Will continue to follow and report the activities

of subject and his associates in accordance with Bureau

instructions.

CONVIC.

AUTO

FUG.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS CLAIMED

FINES

SAVINGS

None

RECOVERIES

ACQUIT

TAL

CASE HAS BEEN:

PENDING OVER ONE YEAR XYES LINO

PENDING PROSECUTION

OVER SIX MONTHS.

-YES XINO

APPROVED

COPIES MADE:

SPECIAL

AGENT

IN CHARGE

DO NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW

3/BUrEau (99-2914)

92-2914-

354

REC 21

1-USA, Pittsburgh, Pa.

16 MAE 26 1970

2-Pittsburgh (92-236)

Agency

Request Recd.

Date Fwd.

How Fwd.

Dissemination Record of Attached Report

OC.

AAG, Criminal Divicion,

Organised Crime and Racketeers

Barto Rama.

744

Notations

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PG 92-236

INFORMANTS

PG T-1 is DE 862-C-TE.

PG I-2 is WILLIAM BUTLER, Justice of the Peace,

157 Gilmore Road, Wilkins Township, Pa. (protect

per request).

PG T-3 is PG 878-PC.

PG T-4 is PG 612-C.

PG T-5 15 PG 775-C.

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