From: SAC, RH
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 1964-02-25 00:00:00
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/7/2015

AGENCY:

RECORD NUMBER:

RECORD SERIES:

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

FBI

124-10195-10009

HQ

92-3171-1350

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: SAC, RH

TO:

DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

Released under the John F. Kennedy

Assassination Records Collection act of

1992 (44 USC 2107 Notel. Case#:NW

65994 Diate: 11-01-2021

DATE:

'PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

02/25/1964

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DOCUMENT TYPE:

CLASSIFICATION:

RESTRICTIONS :

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 03/27/1998

SGI, ASSOC, ACT, GAMBLING, BUSS

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Unclassified

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FBI

Date:

2-25-64

(Type in plain text or code)

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TO:

FROM:

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SAC, RICHMOND (92-New)

SANTEL M. GIANCANA, aka

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SUBJECT:,

keep

FD-217

Re Richmond airtel to Chicago, dated 8-15-63 (IO)

Richmond tel to Chicago, dated 2-19-64, entitled 'PCI ELLIS

BERNSTEIN" (IO)U

ELLIS BERNSTEIN,

PCI,

a former CI of the Richmond

Office, is President of the Reliable Home Equipment Co.,

118 South 6th Street, Richmond, Va. PCI and his brother,

JACK BERNSTEIN, are reputed to

be wealthy businessmen in

Richmond, Va.,

who deal in various business enterprises

including construction, real estate, and so forth. &

In the early part of 1963, PCI obtained option

for operation of a gambling casino at Normandy. Hotel, san

Juan, Puerto Rico, where he and his brother have other

business interests.

PCI is anxious to obtain financial

backing on a partnership basis in this venture. .

In July,

1963, he read an article in the magazine section of a

Miami, Fla., newspaper indicating that SAM GIANCANA, the

well-known Chicago hoodlum, was seeking partnership arrange-

ments with American businessmen who could obtain gambling

concessions in the Caribbean area and South America, which

article indicated GIANCANA

interested in investment in

such ventures. U

- Bureau (Regular Mail)

- Chicago (92-349) (Air Mail)

(1-

137-4976)

2 - Miami (Air Ma11)

3 - Richmond

(1- 137-6)

922317/13509

€ FEB 27 1964

CAB/pgh

(11)

Approved:

57 MAO

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN IS UNOLASSIFIED

Agent in CAdE Y 25134 BY Se5e06CA

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RH 92-New

Subsequently, PCI. contacted an acquaintance,

DAVIDASAX, of Chicago, owner or former owner of Saxony Hotel,

Miami,

Fla., and now a

banker in Chicago, formerly a manufacturer

of punch boards.

He told him of the article and asked

how GIANCANA could be approached.

SAX told the PCI he

knew one of GIANCANA's close business associates and could

arrange a contact. v

PCI received telephone call from

One DAVE (ENU) and TEDDY (INU), who claImed to be GIANCANA'S

business associates and desired a meeting to discuss the

matter.U

PCI met DAVE and TEDDY in Miami, Fla., and they

seemed to know considerable about his financial

standing,

the fact that his resources were committed and that the

brother of PCI was principal controller of their business

interests. U

At first, DAVE and TEDDY wanted to know something

• Of PCI's connections to assure themselves he could get

gambling concessions in Puerto Rico and/or another Caribbean

area..

In the presence of DAVE and TEDDY, PCI called

I. 0. PENDLING, a Negro attorney and member of Parliament,

Nassau, Bahamas, with

whom PCI had had prior business

associations and made appointment to meet PENDLING in

Washington, D.C., in late August, 1963.

PENDLING was unable

to keep the appointment since the March on Washington made

It impossible to get hotel reservations. u

On or about 10-19-63 PCI met TEDDY and DAVE at

The Americana Hotel, New York City.

At this meeting, DAVE

and TEDDY began talking about "protection" and ability of GIANCANA

Syndicate to furnish slot machines for gambling operation.

With this turn in the negotiations, based on PCI's original

understanding. that GIANCANA desired to invest money, he

insisted on seeing GIANCANA. DAVE and TEDDY gave him no

encouragement along this line and told PCI it was not

necessary to contact them, but they would contact him

always from a pay phone from wherever they were calling. &

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