Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: DIRECTOR, FBI
To: SAC, DN
Document date: 02/13/1953
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

4/23/201

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-10286-10059

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

CR 62-75147-13-69

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

issassination Recorde

Collection Aet of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel.

Cased:HT 53025 Date:

05-23-2017

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

SAC, DN

TO :

DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE :

DATE:

PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

02/13/1953

4

EHB, VEP, SENTENCES, FRAUD, CONSPR, SWINDLE, TRA,

B/F INT, REL, ALC; GAMBLING ACT, SURVEY

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 05/18/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

INC RPT

V9.1

HH 53025

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ARTHUR LEWISICLARK, Wa.

Artie clark

FBI. #3709258

Den ver PD $36761

CLARK, who

was

mentioned in the previous survey,

according to Informants of the Denver. Office, during the

Summer and Fall of 1952 spent considerable time in the Denver

area and made frequent trips to Newcastle, wyoming, where

he was reported to have been interested in an o1l well which

was being developed by VICTOR EMANUEL PEREIRA and EUGENE HALE

BRADING who will be described in more detail in this report.

It was further reported that CLARK was also associated in

o1l drilling operations with SAM GARFIELD,

•an associate of

PEREIRA and BRADING in the operation of the Richlund 011

Company In Denver, Colorado®

DN-115-C reported in December, 1952, that CLARK

1s Wintering In Miami, Florida, where he is reported to

own a home and where he formerly operated a gambling establish.

ment known as the Golden Shores Casino.

VICTOR EMANUEL

PÉREIRA, was.

FBI. #2157349

wyomini

and

EUGENE HATE BRADING, waS.

USM El Pasg,_Texas,

128400 CoLD

* NO A

PEREIRA and BRADING have been described in previous

surveys as confidencemen who specialize in defrauding wealthy

women out of large sums of money. In August, 1952, PEREIRA

married MrS. LEE LITTLE at Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Newspaper

publicity concerning this marriage reflected that Mrs. LITTLE

Is the widow of the late D. A. LITTLE of Dallas, Texas, who

was formerly the President of

the Magnolia 011

Company.

and DN-119 have reported that

• Mrs. LITTLE 1s sald to

DN-115-0

worth several million dollars.

Informants have reported that Mrs. LITTLE's sister,

Mrs. FRANKIE HARWELL, Is a constant companion of EUGENE

BRADING. It has been established through sources at the

Brown Palace Hotel, Denver, Colorado, that PEREIRA and his

wife spent several

months at the Brown Palace during the

Spring and Summer of 1952, and that during the Fall of 1952

they moved to the Park Lane Hotel In Denver.

TeLA

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During this period, PEREIRA and BRADING bave

operated a business known as the Richlund 01l Company,

1650 Califomnia Street.

SAM WEST, a Deputy Collector

of

the U.S. Bureau of Internal Revenue, has informed that

as of

1/20/53 this office was still in operation and was

under the management of a female Secretary Identified as

Mrs. PEARL A. GORDON.

It is noted that in january, 1952, PEREIRA and

BRADING received sentences of twelve years

each in the

U.So District Court, El Paso, Texas, on charges of Mail

Fraud; Conspiracy; and ITSP alleging that they defrauded

Mrs.

GERTRUDE J. JOYCE of Roswell, New Mexico, out of the

sum of $48,000. BRADING and PEREIRA have been at liberty

on bond awaiting appeal of this case to the 5th Circuit

Court of Appeals, New Orleans, Loulsiana.

Information has been received from the New Orleans

Office reflecting that this appeal was argued in the United

States Cirouit Court of Appeals In New Orleans In December,

1952, but that the decision of the court has not yet been

renderedo

It was determined through DN-115-C and DN-1190

that PEREIRA and BRADING, accompanied by Mrs. PEREIRA and

Mrs. FRANKIE HARWELL, left Denver during the

latter part

of December, 1952, en route to Miami, Florida, where they

planned to spend the Winter season.

Infornation was received from the Miami Office

on 1/14/53 that PEREIRA and BRADING are presently residing

at 1431 Wo 22nd Street, Sunset Island #4,' Miami Beach,

Florida.

SAM WEST, Deputy Collector, U. S. Bureau of Internal

Revenue, Denver;

Colorado,

reported in January, 1953, that

Mrs. PEARL A. GORDON, Secretary at the Richlund

011 Company,

has told him that she is in almost daily contact with either

PEREIRA Or BRADING by telephone in Miami Beach, Florida, and

that they will probably remain there during the Winter

soason

and return to Denver around the first of April, 1953.

JOSEPH,

GOODMA N,

WA.

Joey Goodman,

Los Angeles PD_#8 5029

KARL MEHLMAN, Assistant Manager, Brown Palace

Hotel, has reported that JOEY GOODMAN, who was mentioned in

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