Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: DL
To: HQ
Document date: 12/18/1967
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

6/1/2015

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-90091-10102

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

166-636-30

Released under the John

F. kennedy

Mosassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

i44 USC 2107 Note) .

Case#:NW 45869 Date:

11-16-2017

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: DL

TO: HQ

TITLE:

DATE: 12/18/1967

PAGES:

19

SUBJECTS :

RUSSELL DOUGLAS MATTHEWS

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT.

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS : 4; 11(a)

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 02/10/1999

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF IRS

• COMMENTS: RPT

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DL 166-102

for its main file 166-117 on RUSSELL DOUGLAS MATTHEWS

and its file 166-1785, captioned as the last listed

reference above.

R. D. MATHEWS in all likelihood is

identical to Dallas origin case on MATTHEWS, subject of

this report, and who is currently running a bookmaking

operation in Dallas.

For additional information of Oklahoma City,

which will be reported separately under your case on

JOHN DAYTON RITTER, DL 275-C-TE has advised that he has

known RITTER for many years as a bookie and that RITTER

had stopped by CI's place of business recently on return

from New Orleans to Oklahoma City®

CI states that RITTER

and GEORGE BARNES, gambler, known

to your office, are

close friends, and as Oklahoma City is aware MATTHEWS

and GEORGE BARNES are also acquainted and have been known

through prior investigation to call each other.

CI says

that BARNES has returned to Oklahoma City, having given

up his operation in Reno, Nevada.

DALLAS

AT DALLAS, TEXAS. (1) Will consider request-

ing Bureau authority to review telephone records on other

telephones available to MATTHEWS, as according to recent

information received by Dallas, subject is apparently

furnishing betting line to out-of-state bookies, possibly

one in Oklahoma.

This aspect is involved in separate

case, Oklahoma City origin.

(2) Will continue to check subjects bookmaking

location and will maintain contact with the Special Service

Bureau, Dallas PD, re local charges pending against GEBRON.

(3) Will follow and report results of leads set

out separately to determine the subscribers and background

of calls made from subjects telephones in Garland as set

forth in details of this report.

AT GARLAND, TEXAS. Will follow local prosecution

of subjects.

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