RAUL ORLANDO LEAL GARCIA.
Originator: CIA
From: CHIEF OF STATION, WH/MIAMI
To: WITHHELD
Document date: 10/26/1972
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

TO

INSO.

DISPATCH

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Chief,

Western Hemisphere Division

Chie f

of Station, Santo Domingo 1i).

PROCESSING ACTION

MARKED FOR INDEXING

NO INDEXING REQUIRED

ONLY QUALIFIED DESK

CAN JUDGE INDEXING

FROM 15

SUBJECT

p. Chief of Station, WH/Miami

RYBAT PLAHABYSS/Raul Orlando LEAL Garcia

ACTION REQUIRED - REFERENCES

MICROFILM

Action Required: As per Paragraph 3.

REFS:

A.

B.

DIRECTOR 30866 (Not sent Santo Domingo)

8 September 1972

C. HDCA-10233, 12 October 1972

The following traces on Raul Orlando LEAL Garcia have

been locally acquired from LNYAPA and LNAGON.

LNERGO traces

have been requested and any pertinent information will be forwarded

to addressees.

LNAGON:

of Eugento LEAL PozO (201-890270).

Raul Orlando LEAL Garcia 1s an associate

(LEAL is & partner of

Rolando Lucas GONZALEZ Nunez in a

gambling casino on San Andres

Island, Colombia.

GONZALEZ Nunez was arrested in late August

1972 on a narcotics charge, and LEAL Pozo was deported from

Panama to the U.S. on 22 October 1972 as part of a cocaine net.)

LEAL Garcia has

managed the casino at the Embajador Hotel in

Santo Domingo.

He' is an associate of Santo TRAFFICANTE, kingpin

of the Mafia

in Miami.

Subject is presently running the casino

of the Intercontinental Hotel in Curacao (Reference B indicates

he left this position).

LNYAPA provided the last known addresses of Subject

(no: date) as: 842 S. W. 12 Ave., Miami, Florida and 508 Caribbean

Towers, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

They also provided a list of

his present and

past associates, including:

Distribution:

2/C/WHD

2-COS/DR

CROSS REFERENCE TO

E2 IMPDET

DISPATCH SYMBOL AND NUMBER

UFAA-4484

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DATE

TYPED: 26 October 1972

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200-11011/3

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UFAA-4484

Santo TRAFFICANTE, JI. (See Above).

Raul FERREIRA Garcia (No Station traces).

Meyer LANSKY (well known Mafia figure).

Joseph August RICORD (Subject of recent extradiction

proceedings from Paraguay).

Carlos MARCELLO (Station Traces: A Carlos MARCELO

Ricero

was a Cuban Prisoner at the Isle of Pines, Cuba,

in April 1963, according to sensitive information.)

Dino Vicent CELLINI (Station Traces: Information

from 1964 identifies Dino CELLINI as a well known gambler

and underworld gangster who formerly worked in Cuba.

Iis citizenship was given as U.S. (presumably naturalized).

In July 1964, he requested a visa for the Dominican

Republic.

Dino and another unnamed brother were reported

by their sister Julia,

in 1960, to have had long association

ith dope and prostituion in Cuba

An LNERGO Document,

o longer available at Station DBA-86263 of 10 July 1957

is a long report on the CaLLINI family.

Vicent ALOI (No Station Traces) •

Station is aware that although LEAL's contacts make him

a possibly interesting target, he will be a difficult and wary

However, we are encouraged that we are right on target

in trying to get closer to him by LNYAPA's confirmation of his

associates and their obvious connection with drug trafficking.

3. Please see paragraph 6 of Reference B, which requests

that a

copy of Subject's 201 file be forwarded

to us along with

any results you may have from a covert name check.

Upon receipt

of Headquarter's approval of DAMOTA's approach to Subject in Santo

Domingo, DAMOTA will provide addressees with his itinerary.

Paula a Hootnuck

Paula A. HOOTNICK

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