Originator: FBI
From: CG
To: HQ
Document date: 03/18/1969
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

4/1/2015

AGENCY:

RECORD NUMBER :

RECORD SERIES :

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

FBI

124-90086-10222

HQ

92-7824-NR

Released under the John F. Kennedy

Assassination Records Collection Act of

1 992 (44 USC 2107 Note). Case#:NW

54578 Date: 1214-2022

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: CG

TO: HQ

TITLE :

DATE: 03/18/1969

PAGES:

3

SUBJECTS:

JOSEPH STEIN

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/14/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

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FROM CHICAGO

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RICHARD MAUFF• TESIP.

00 CHICAGO.

HAUFP RECONIACTED MARCH SIXTEEN AND SEVENTEEN LAST

A: FEDERAL PENIYENTIARY, TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA BY CHICAGO

AS BUREAU AWARE, HAUFF WAS CLOSE ASSOCIATE SAM

GIANCANAS MARSHALL CAIMANO AND SEVERAL OTHER UPPER

SCHELON LEADERS ORGANIZED. CRIME IN CHICAGO.

ON ONE OF PREVIOUS CONTACTS HE ADVISED THAT HE

HAD BEEN INFORMED BY SEVERAL OF MIS ASSOCIATES IN

ORGANIZED CRIME INCLUDING WILLIAM "WILLIE" MESSINA,

JOSEPH "GAGS" GAGLIANO AND TONY SPILOTRO THAT THERE

HAS BEEN A "MORATORIUM" ON GAGLAND SLAYINGS IN CHICAGO...

AREA FOR PAST TWO YEARS OR SO FOR REASON THAT CHICAGO

MAR

22 1589

GROUP WANTED TO PLAY DOWN THEIR IMAGE AS KILLERS SINCE

END

PAGE ONE

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3/19/69

ENCLOSURE

ORIGINAL FILED

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PAGE TWO CG 137-4596

PUBLIC HAD BECOME AROUSED OVER NUMEROUS KILLINGS AND

COURTS WERE BEING INFLUENCED BY THIS IMAGE TO REFUSE APPEAL

BONDS, GIVE REAVIER SENTENCES, ETC.

HAUFF ADVISED HE HAD SPECIFICALLY BEEN ADVISED BY

MESSINA THAT ONE OF REASONS

FOR "MORATORIUM ON HITS"

WAS APPEAL OF FELIX"

MILWAUKEE PHIL BALDERISIO WHICH HAD

BEEN PENDING IN U•SO SUPREME COURT• SINCE ALDERISIO

KNOWN IN CHICAGO AS CHIEF "HIT MAN", CHICAGO GROUP DID

NOT DESIRE TO CONTINUE PREVIOUS FAST PACE OF KILLINGS. DUE

TO THEIR BELIEF SUCH WOULD PREJUDICE SUPREME COURT AGAINST

ADLERISIO&

HAUFF ADVISED MESSINA TOLD MID ON THAT OCCASIONS

"VAIT UNTIL PHILLY GET REVERSED. HE'LL SHOW. THESE STOOL

PIGEONS WHO HAVE BEEN BLOWING OFF THAT THINGS HAVEN°T

REALLY

, CHANGED AFTER ALL."

MAUFE ALSO ADVISED BY SPILOTRO, UNDERLING OF ALDERISIO,

THAT

WHEN ALDERISIO'S CASE WAS REVERSED, AS ALDERISIO WAS

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NOD THREE CG 157-4696

SO IT WOULD DE, "THINGS WILL BE STRAIGHTENED OUT•

/ THENE WILL BE SOME MORE TRUNK JOBS THEN.*

NAUFF NOW ADVISES HE UNDERSTANDS THAT WITH RECENT

SUPREME COURT DECISION ON ALDERISIO CASE "THE MORATORIUM

IS OFF" AND POLICY OF ORGANIZED CRIME IN CHICAGO WILL.

REVERT BACK TO PHYSICAL VIGLENCE AGAINST ANYONE WHO

(VIOLATES TIME HONORED PRECEPTS. OF CODE OF UNDERWORLD.

WARFE ALSO ADVISED CONTRIBUTING TO DECISION OF

MACoN DEOD NO DECLANE "MORATORIUM" WAS APPEAL DY

CAN HOTTAGLIA, DORMEN TOP LEADER OF ORGANIZED CRIME IN.

CHIG.00, WICH HAD BEEN

PENDING IN ESFORT TO HAVE

BATTAGLIA RELEASED ON APPEAL BOND• HOWEVER, U.S,

CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS HAS AFFIRMED BATTAGLIA'S

CONVICTION AND CHICAGO GROUP IS APPARENTLY CONVINCED

THAT BATTAGLIA'S APPEAL HAS SMALL CHANCE OF PREVAILING

AT HIGHER LEVEL •

HAUFF ADVISED GANGLAND SLAYINGS WILL NOW RECOMMENCE

AND THAT RECALCITRANT HOODLUM FIGURES WHO HAVE BEEN SPARED

PHYSICAL VIOLENCE DURING "MORATORIUM" WILL NOW BE DEALT

WITH.

CHICAGO CLOSELY FOLLOWING THIS SITUATION AND BUREAU

WELL BE KEPT ADVISED, LHM FOLLOWS WITH COPY TO USA, CHICAGO O

END

LRO FBI WASH DO

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