Originator: FBI
From: DL
To: HQ
Document date: 1964-05-20 00:00:00
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

11/22/20

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-90091-10042

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 92-4587-7

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: DL

TO: HQ

TITLE :

Released under the John F. Kennedy

Assassination Records Collection Act ol

1992 (44 USC 2107 Note]. Case#:NW

66000 Date: 11-03-2021

DATE: 05/20/1964

PAGES:

13

SUBJECTS :

RUSSELL DOUGLAS MATTHEWS

RUSSELL MATTHEWS

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION : Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/16/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS : RPT

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FEDERAL

BUREAU OF INV. STIGATION

REPORTING OFFICE

DALLAS

OFFICEOF ORIGIN

DALLAS

TITLE OF CASE

RUSSELL DOUGLAS MATTHEWS,

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DATE

5/20/64

REPORT MADE BY

SA IVAN D. LEE

CHARACTER OF CASE

INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD

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REFERENCE:

Dallas letter to Bureau, 1/28/64,

DOUCLAS MATTHEWS, ITAR - GAMBLING ptIOnS "RUSSELL.

Dallas teletype to Las Vegas, 3/10/64, captioned

JOHN ELI STONE, ET AL!' IO

Dallas teletype to New Orleans, 3/25/64-10

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Will identify subscriber to

telephone number 36-4508 and thereafter conduct appropriate

investigation to identify individual that MATTHEWS was in con-

tact with at this number.

It is noted that MATTHEWS made three

calls to this number on 3/5/64, and departed Dallas for Las Vegas

on, 3/9/64.

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DI. 92-213

appear that MATTHEWS may be resuming his bookmaking activities

during the11964 baseball season.

Mrs. ANNA HOWARD,

Southwestern States Telephone

dates indicated in the report.

INFORMANTS:

DL T-1 is DL 185-C-TE

DL T-2 is PCI DAVE

CHERRY, Dallas Division

DL T-3 is DL 181-C-TE

DI T-4 is DI 197-C;

The above mentioned informants have furnished reliable

information in the past and careful

consideration has been

given

to their coverage by a T-symbol number.

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FD-2CA (Rev. 3-3-59)

UN. ED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JüSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Copy to:

Report of:

Date:

Field Office File No.:

Title:

I - USA, Fort Worth, Texas

IVAN D. LEE

5/20/64

92-213

RUSSELL DOUGLAS MATTHEWS

Office:

Bureau File No.:

DALLAS

92-4587

Character:

ANTI-RACKETEERING

Synopsis:

RUSSELL DOUGLAS MATTHEWS continues to reside at

2207 Greenbriar, Irving, Texas, with DONNA SUE HELTON, the

prostitute wife of BILLY HELTon.

MATTHEWS booked football

_ games during 1963-1964 season from residence of Mrs. BILLY

HELTON, using telephone number BL 4-2584. MATTHEWS continues

to have contacts with bookmakers, gamblers and hoodlums in

in Las Vegas, Nevada.

bookmaker and gambler, traveled to Las Vegas, Nevada, night

of 3/9/64. MATTHEWS and STONE remained in the Sahara Hotel

while in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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DETAILS:

AT DALLAS, TEXAS

Information previously received from DL T-1 indicated

that RUSSELL DOUGLAS MATTHEWS was residing at 2207 Greenbriar

street, Irving, Texás, as of October 28, 1963.

Informant stated

that MATTHEWS was believed to be booking football bets on the

telephone at this residnce.

He advised that he ascertained that

the telephone number was BL 4-2584.

On January 28, 1964, and

subsequent dates, MATTHEWS' 1964 white over blue Oidsmobile has

been observed parked either in the garage or driveway at the

residence at 2207 Greenbriar Street, Irving, Texas.

It is noted

that the Oldsmobile presently has 1964 Texas license plates,

number PH 1443.

This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI

It is the property of the FBI and is loanel to your ngency: I aod

its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency

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DL 92-213

On May 6, 1964, a check of the Dallas County license

registration numbers revealed that PH 1443 is listed to a RUSSELL

DOUGLAS MATTHEWS, 4609 Southern, Dallas, Texas.

Assistant Chief of Police LEON POWERS, (National

Academy, Irving, Texas,

•Police Department, had

advised

previously, that the residence at 2207 Greenbriar Street is

allegedly occupied by Mrs. DONNA SUE HELTON,

the prostitute

wife of BILLY HILTON, who is presently in prison.

On January 30, 1964, DL T-2 advised that during the

1963-1964 football season he was in daily contact with an in-

dividual using telephone number BL 4-2584, concerning the

football line and the Saturday college football games and the

Sunday professional football games.

He did not know the identity

of the person that he had placed the bets with. DL T-2 stated

that he is acquainted with MATTHEWS but that he did not recognize

the voice on the telephone as that of MATTHEWS. Informant stated

that he placed the bets under the number 99, rather than his name

and that the payoffs and collections were made by a Negro male:

who works near the place where the informantis employed. In-

formant stated that he has not been contacted by the person at

BL 4-2584 since thenenddof the football season and doubts that

this individual is presently booking basketball games.

on february 7, 1964, DL I-l advised that MATTHEWS

had been in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, during the previous week and

is believed by the informant to be attempting to sethup a

gambling club in that city.

DL I-l advised on March 9, 1964, that MATTHEWS and

JOHN ELI STONE had advised him that date that they were panning

to fly to Las Vegas, Nevada,

via Delta Airlines, the evening of

March 9, 1964. The informant stated that they did not indicate

to him the purpose of the trip.

On March 11, 1964, Mr. R. H. MANLEY, Reservations

Manager, Delta Airlines, Love Field, advised that their records

indicate that a J. STONE and R. MATTHEWS departed Dallas, Texas,

for Las Vegas, Nevada, on the night of March 9, 1964, via Delta

Airlines Flight #809.

He stated that this flight departed

Dallas at 8:05 PM and scheduled to arrive in Las Vegas at

8:48 PM, Mountain Standard Time.

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