Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: AMBLER, JOHN A.
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 06/26/1968
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Date:

6/15/201

Agency Information

AGENCY :

FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-10197-10299

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

92-2781-1291

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: AMBLER, JOHN A

TO :

DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE :

DATE: 06/26/1968

PAGES:

46

SUBJECTS :

LST, TRA, ASSOC, TELCAL, B/F INT, SUR

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS : 4

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 11/12/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS: INC ADMIN PAGE

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FD-263 (Rev. 3-8-67)

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

REPORTING OFFICE.:

TAMPA

TITLE OF CASE

OFFICE OF ORIGINS E

TAMPA

INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD

3/7/68-6/3/68

SANTO TRAFFICANTE, JR., aka

JUN 2 6 1968

REPORT MADE BY

SA JOHN A. AMBLER

CHARACTER OF CASE

TYPED BY

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DECLASSIFIED BY 56668 SUO/KSR

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REFERENCES:

DAS INFORTION CONTAINE

HEREIN IS LNGLASSIFTED ACHS

WHERE SHOWS OTHERFISE.

WFO letter to Tampa 4/18/68

WFO letter to Tampa 4/8/68 captioned,

"LOUIS

SWED, ITAR - GAMBLING. "

Report of SA WENDELL W. HALL, JR.,

Report of SA JOHN A. AMBLER,

Miami,

4/24/68

Tampa, 4/26/68

New Orleans letter to Tampa 5/21/68

Louisville letter to Tampa 5/24/68

New York letter to Tampa 5/27/68

Atlanta

letter to Tampa 5/28/68

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ADMINISTRATIVE:

Declassity on: QADR STK

CONVIC

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FUG.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS CLAIMED None

FINES

SAVINGS

RECOVERIES

APPROVED

COPIESM.

PECIAL AGENT:

1537

Bureau

(98-2781)

USA, Tampa

Houston

• (92-310)

Jacksonville

(92-7)

3

Miami (92-88)

(1 - USA, Miami,

Attn:

WILLIAM EARLE,

Dept. Atty)

2

- New York (92-846)

OKO

Tampa (92-1)

Dissemin

on face or arrached keport

92-

ACQUIT.

TALS

CASE MÄS BEEN:

PENDING OVER ONE YEAR DYES INO

PENDING PROSECUTION

OVER SIX MONTHS.

DIES INO

DO NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW

2781-

1291

15 JUN 28 1968

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Notations

Agency

Request Recd.

Date Fwd.

How Fwd.

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Organized Crime

CC. A.1G, Criminal Divisios,

Sections hem 25ge ticketine

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TP 02-1

SECRET

Information from records General Telephone

Company of Florida was made available by Mr. GENE MASON,

Security Department, General Telephone Company of Florida,

Tampa, Florida.

On 4/26/68 MI 623-C-TE advised that during the

week of March 25-29, 1968 he had been contacted by two

IN members from Rockford, Ill. requesting the informant

to arrange an appointment

with PETER FRANK BALISTRIERI.

During the contact these individuals advised that the

boss of the Rockford, Ill. LCN family, JOE ZAMMUTO, had

recently returned from Florida where had been in frequent

contact

with SANTO TRAFFICANTE, JR.

PUERTORRO

On 4/26/68 MM 1298-PC advised that TRAFFICANTE

had departed Miami a couple of days previously indicating

would be gone for

a couple of days and when returned would

be making preparations for an extended trip to South

America and that an associate who might make the trip was

HUMBERTO PRUEBA ROJAS. Subsequently on 5/10/68 source

advised that ROJAS was planning to leave Miami for

Ecuador on May 13 or 14, 1968 and that TRAFFICANTE was

to follow three or four days later and that they planned

to negotiate for a gambling casing in Icuador and that ElA

TRAFFICANTE®

also be involved in the

s associate, pYART DO ARCIA VIDAL, would

Thereafter on 5/13/68

source advised that TRAFFICANTE's current plans are for

him to leave Miami, May 17, traveling to Guayaquil,

Ecuador to operate & gambling casino.

However, on

5/14/68, source advised that TRAFFICANTE's trip to

Ecuador

had been postponed until

after the ecuadorian

general elections to be held on June 8, 1968.

On 5/27/68

source advised that as of Saturday, May 25, TRAFFICANTE

was in New

York City where he had gone to appear before

an unspecified hearing and had contacted EVARISTO GARCIA

VIDAL by telephone from New York and that TRAFFICANTE still

plans to go to Ecuador shortly after the Ecuadorian

national elections.

MM 1298-PC has advised that TRAFFICANTE'S

associate ROJAS had recently been in San Juan, Puerto

Rico

for TRAFFICANTE presumably to invest TRAFFICANTE

funds

in & Haitian shrimp factory. Source mentioned

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TP 92-1

CUBA

that the

Miami contact for TRAFFICANTE when TRAFFICANTE

absented from

Miami is in usual instances, VINCENT/BRUNO, F

owner of Capra's Restaurant. Source indicated that the

only person arparently who knows where TRAFFICANTE is

on a daily basis is his attorney, FRANK RAGANO, and that

since TRAFFICANTE's assoCiate, EVARISTO GARCIA VIDAL,

became involved with IRS all of TRAFFICANTE's funds are

nOW

kept by this

same attorney. Informant stated that

for a period of several years, TRAFFICANTE and VIDAL

were abie to obtain the winning numbers in the Cuban

National lottery in advance of the weekly drawing and

were able to make from $80, 000 to $100, 000 weekly and

had

been able to obtain this advance information by

contact with a high official in the Cuban Government and

were in contact with this official through the Cuban

Consulate in Canada.

Source stated that VIDAL's associate,

LAZARO MILIAN DIO, made regular trips to Canada to obtain

the

number.

Source stated that a logical government

official with whom this contact would have been made

would have been JORGEYGIACIA BANGO, brother of TRAFFICANTE'S

aSSOciatE, RAFAEL GARCIA BANGO.

FLA.

On 4/15/68 a search of Mexican Airlines flight

manifests maintained at Tijuana, B.C., Mexico, failed to

Locate

any record of TRAFFICANTE and his wife leaving

Tijuana for Mexico City on 4/11 or 12/68, however the

records are not maintained in good order and therefore

this search would not be conclusive.

Extended investigative period occasioned by

desire to include results of investigation conducted by

an

auxiliary office which were not available at time of

last report.

INFORMANTS:

Location of Original

Information

Identity

TP T-1 is TP 120-C

TP T-2 is TP 41-C-TE

137-460-279, 284

137-142-408, 410, 415

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TP 92-1

SEC

TP T=3 is RUBEN VI LARDEBO

3135

North Boulevard

Tampa, Florida (by request)

TP T.4 is TP 349-C-TE

TP T-5 iS TP 97-C

TP T-6 is TP 402-C

Instant report

TP T-8 is TP 296-C

TP T- 9 18 TP 363-PC

TP T-10 is MM 1231-C-TE

TP T-Il is Former TP 8-C

TP T-12 iS PCI BOOKER DOBY

TP T.13 is Dun 8

Bradstreet, Atianta;

Ga.

(by request)

TP I-14 iS AT 1979-PC

TP T-15 iS AT 1824-C-TE

137-1792-30-32

137-360-253, 254

137-1705-36

92-351-20

1371400-75-77

137-1843-22, 26

MM137-2206

137-8-356

137-1978-5

Instant report

92-1-4428

92-1-4428

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TP

92-1

SEXIET.

LEADS:

HOUSTON

AT HOUSTON, TEXAS

target, for details of alleged association

WiLI INEBrULEN JOSEPH PETER L between

TECIP

and TrAFFICANTE and/or LOUIS SWED, aka Max Bordon,

Max

and

Borden, and

for any past association between SWED

TRAFFICANTE.

LUKE

NEW YORK

AT NEW YORK, NEW YORK

Will recontact MARTA BETANCOURT, 402 W. 45th St.,

Apt. IC, to determine if recently contacted by TRAFFICANTE.

MIAMI

AT MIAMI, FLORIDA

1)

Will interview

PCI lOU PEREZ and fully

identify TONY (LNU) residing with PAULA NAVARETTE,

2120 N.W. Flagler Terrace, Apartment #110 to thereafter

interview TONY to determine association with TRAFFICANTE.

2) Will interview MANNY GONZALEZ, c/o Hamilton

Gift shop,

to determine

his association with TRAFFICANTE

and/or his associates.

Will also determine if there is

any association between MANNY's brother, FRED, and

TRAFFICANTE®

TAMPA

AT TAMPA, FLORIDA

1)

Will interview JAMES CHEATHAM, 2003

25th St. whose 1959 Oldsmobile has been observed at

TRAFFICANTE's residence.

2). Will interview

•. W. RAMOS, 2605

Beach Drive,

along lines

above.

3)

Will at General Telephone Company identify

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