Originator: FBI
From: SU
To: HQ
Document date: 06/05/1958
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

4/23/201

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER : 124-90088-10064

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 92-3241-17

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

SU

TO: HQ

TITLE:

DATE:

PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

06/05/1958

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BENJAMIN BINION

LESTER BENJAMIN BINION

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION :

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS :

4

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/14/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS: MEMO

Heleased under the John F. Kennedy

Assassination Records Collection act of

H 992 (44 USC 2107 Note). Case#:NW

58252 Date: 09.22.2022

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SU. 94-253

"BINION advised his source had told him that

MELTZER would return to Los Angeles on 2/19/58.

MELTZER

did depart by Western Air Lines

3 at 1:50 pm on 2/19/58.

In contacts with BINION during March, 1958,

he was very friendly, expressed a high regard for the

Bureau and made numerous disparaging remarks regarding

convicts who were in the United States Penitentiary

at leavenworth during the time he was there, and

frequently discussed their present activities. A

number of them known to agents previously.

BINION has advised on two occasions that he

would take

an oath on his family that he had nothing

to do with the killing of HERBERT NOBLE near Dallas,

and stated in his opinion that law enforcement officers

in Texas know who killed NOBLE. BINION stated he

has made inquiry and has been doing so since he was

released fron the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth

3/19/57, as to who was the killer of NOBLE, and he stated

in strict confidence, that he had taken one person to

an abandoned well on

some ranch land near Dallas, and

that the body of "TINCY" EGGLESTON was found in this

well and he was almost positive the person who killed

EGGLESTON was the same who killed NOBLE. He stated

when he determined definitely he would advise Agents

of this information he obtained in this regard. He

stated the person he thought had killed EGGLESTON and

NOBLE had had numerous "strokes" in the past year

and would not live much longer.

It was determined from SU 386-C that IVY

MILLER, a number of years ago was associated with

BINION in the gambling rackets in Dallas, and is

reportedly seriously ill and has had a number of

strokes and it is the informant's opinion that this

is the person BINION has in mind. BINION, at this

point, has not been pressured in this regard.

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SU 94-253

INFORMANTS

Informants contacted and from whom information

was received which is included in this summary are as

follows:

T-1. is SU 386-C whose identity is known to

the Bureau and who has been in close contact with

BINION, his activities and associates for the past

twenty-five years.

T-2 18 SU 285-C, (deceased) whose

identity

is known tò

the Bureau and who was closely associated

with BINION from 1947, until the time of informant's

death in October, 1956.

SU 353-C whose identity is known to the

Bureau and who was employed in the past by BINIoN

and has known him since 1947.

SU 340-e whose

identity is known to the Bureau, and who is a

former employee of BINION.

PCI BYRON A. TANNAHILL, a former employee

of BINION for a number of years.

PCI H. P. WHITE of the Dallas Office.

A confidential source, CURTIS TRAHAN, who

is the manager of the Nevada Room Restaurant of the

Horseshoe Club, a former Mayor of Texas City, Texas,

and a relative by marriage, of JOE W. BROWN, principal

owner of the Horseshoe Club.

Horseshoe Club and also

JOE W. BROWN.

PCI HAL U. ME CORNACK, &

former employee

of BINION and a very close associate of his from

1947, to 1953.

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