Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, MM
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 10/24/1963
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

6/12/201

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-10305-10003

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

137-9761-1, 2, 3, 4

Released under the John

Assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

144 0SC 2107 Notel.

Cased:NW 53932 Date:

08-17-2017

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FROM:

TO:

TITLE :

FBI

SAC, MM

DIRECTOR, FBI

DATE: 10/24/1963

PAGES:

17

SUBJECTS :

JAN, AKA, ASSOC, BKG, RES, ANTI-BATISTA

ORGANIZATION, B/F INT, INTV, ABR, LST, DOMINICAN

REPUBLIC, CRIM ACT

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4 •

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 12/17/1997

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS : INC 3 MEMO, LHM

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FROM

SUBJECT:

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

DATE

NAL FORM NO. &

5010-106-03

162 EDITION

GSA UN./REG. NO. 27

UNITED STATES G/ ERNMENT

Memorandum

DIRECTOR, FBI (137-9761)

DATE:

7/30/64

SAC, MIAMI (137-2830) (P)

CONF. INFT.

MM 897-PC

TECIP

MIAMI DIVISION

Re Miami letter, dated 5/19/64.

MM 897-PC was

designated as a target for

development on 10/24/63. Since that time he has been

contacted with regularity. Informant, who is a Cuban exile,

has furnished extremely valuable information regarding

criminal activities of the Cubans in exile here in Miami.

Hed has also furnished information relative to his association

with top hoodlums, ANGELO BRUNO and SANTO TRAFFICANTE.

on 5/1/64, informant furnished extensive information

relative to plans by ANGELO BRUNO and SANTO TRAFFICANTE

involving anticipated gambling operations in the Dominican

The informant has advised that these plans have

not materialized. He has not been in recent contact with

ANGELO BRUNO and, therefore, is not in a position to

advise the status of this program in the Dominican Republic.

The informant on 7/2/64, furnished information

relative to reported plans of Cuban hoodlums living in lo

Miami to raise funds under the guise of promoting a plot

to assassinate FIDEL CASTRO. Information concerning this

has been furnished to the Bureau by teletype and letterhead

memoranda.

The informant identified the

"Cuban gangster"

Other members

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associated with DIAZ Included FUNHERTO NUNEZ WEBSTER, aka

HUMBERTICO and HECTOR DUARTE.

He reported that DUARTE,

, Cuban gangster, recently arrived in Miami from Mexico.

DUARTE allegedly was involved in the shooting of two

policemen in Cuba.

Informant advised that a second group

of gangsters, headed by ANGELITO ESTEVES, is operating in

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OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10

MAY 1962+EDITION

GSA'SEN. REG. NO. 27

UNITED STATES GO! INMENT

Memorandum

Director, FBI

sus, seas 1203-2a50) 102

JOSE BRAULIO ALEMAN y GUTIERREZ, aka

TOP ECHELON CRIMINAL INFORMANT PROGRAM

MIAMI DIVISION

DATE: May 19, 1964

1-1,

Re Miami letter to Bureau, 2/10/64.

Enclosed to the Bureau is one copy of a letterheadM

memorandum dated May 7, 1964, captioned "Proposed Business

Activity in the Dominican Republic by ANGELO BRUND and others, iS

which had been previously submitted to the Bureau in Philadelphia

origin case entitled "ANGELO BRUNO, aka; AR."

Enclosed memorandum is a summary of the information

relating to SANTO TRAFFICANTE, JR. and ANGELO BRUNO, furnished

by the informant on April 22, April 29, May 1 and May 6, 1964.

Informant was also contacted on March 20, 1964, but no pertinent

information was obtained at this time.

Informant continues to be developed under the Top

Echelon Criminal Informant Program of the Miami Division. It

appears that satisfactory progress is being made with the in-

formant and that within the near future he can be converted to

a top echelon criminal informant, it being noted that ANGELO

BRUNO and SANTO TRAFFICANTE, JR., about whom informant is fur-

nishing information, are highly placed members of La Cosa Nostra. \"

- Bureau (Enc. 1)

2 - Miami (137-2830) (1 - 137-2206)

PAS: amc

137-9761-3

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ENCLOSURE

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ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

DATE 9/2/83 BY SP3cc/C

(JFK)

10-5-95 3603 SLD/KSR

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L FORM NO. 10

UNITED STATES GOT RNMENT

Memorandum

TO

Director, FBI

SAC, Miami (137-2830) (P)

DATE: February 10, 1964

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UBJECT:

: JOSE BRAULIO ALEMAN y GUTIERREZ, aka

CONE. INFT. MM 897-PC

TOP ECHELON CRIMINAL INFORMANT PROGRAI

13

MIAMI DIVISION

fo 217

Re Miami letter to Bureau, 10/24/63.

This informant continues to be a target for development

under the Top Echelon Criminal Informant Program of the Miami

Division. He was contacted on October 23, 1963, November 5, 1963,

December 20, 1963, January 15, 1964 and February 6, 1964.

During initial contact on October 23, 1963, he fur-

nished information relative to a business deal

in the Dominican

Republic involving himself, SANTO TRAFFICANTE, JI., ANGELO BRUNO,

PETER MAGGIO, and an unknown lawyer, since identified as BENJAMIN

ABRAMSON. This deal involved the construction of low cost hous-

ing in the Dominican Republic, but never was consummated. Existence

of this deal was verified by the Philadelphia Office.

On November 5, 1963, informant advised he had been told

by his attorney, GINO NEGRETTI, that SANTO TRAFFICANTE lived on

Hawthorne Avenue, Miami Beach.

Investigation failed to reflect

any such residence for subject but informant in this instance

merely passed along information which had been told to him and

did identify source of same.

Bureau (AM)

Miami (2 - 137-2830) (1 - 137-2206)

PAS: amc

(5) ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

DATE 12/83 BY SP3CLC/CK

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

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Date:

AIRTEL

(Type in plain text or code)

10/24/63

Via

TO:

FROM:

RE:

AIRMAIL

(Priority or Method of Mailing)

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

Director, FBI

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIMIED

DATE 9/2/83 BYOU UCCA

SAC,

Mean (137, New)

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10-5-95

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JOSE BRAULIO ALEMAN y GUTIERREZ, aka

Ins Jose B. Aleman

MM, 897-PQ

TOP ECHELON CRIMINAL INFORMANT PROGRAM

MIAMI DIVISION

2÷1

As of 10/2 4/63, the Miami Office is designating

JOSE B. ALEMAN as MM .897-PC as a target for development under

born 12/28/31, at Miramar, Havana, Cuba.

the Iop Echelax Gettnal Informant Program. He 1s a white male l

JOSE B. ALEMAN is a Cuban exile residing 8826 Hawthorne

Avenue, Surfside, Florida. He is the son of JOSE ALEMAN, who was

a member of the Cuban Cabinet during the regime of ex-President

CARLOS PRIO SOCORRAS. Prior to 1/1/59 informant was the leader

of an anti-BATISTA organization, "Cuba Rebelde" with headquarters

in Miami. He returned to Cuba

after the collapse of the BATISTA

regime.

Even though he had befriended the supporters of FIDEL

CASTRO during the revolution, informant's holdings and property

were confiscated by the CASTRO regime.

Informant took his family

to Spain in 1961 and then came to the United States where he owns

certain real estate, including the Scott-Bryan Apartment Hotel,

3300 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, Florida, which he operates.

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