Originator: FBI
From: PH
To: HQ
Document date: 12/30/1958
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

6/15/201

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

FBI

124-90068-10129

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 62-75147-210-160

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM:

PH

TO : HQ

TITLE :

DATE: 12/30/1958

PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

AMERICAN GAMBLERS IN CUBA

AMERICAN GAMBLING ACTIVITIES IN CUBA

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS : 4

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 06/24/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS: MEMO

Heleased under the John F. Kennedy

Assassination Flecords Collection Act of

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

68262 Date: 09.22-2022

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64

Office Men.

Aim . UNITED

GOVERNMENT

TO

FROM

DIRECTOR, FBI

OSAC, PHILADSIPEIA 192-692)

DATE:

12/30/58

SUBJECT:

ALL INFOP"/ ITION CONTAINE

HEREI

CLASSIFIED

AVERICAN GAMBLING ACTIVITIES

IN CUBA

AR

DATE 4/3/82 BY SPuTembar

1-18-97

5668

Re Philadelphia airtel 10/24/58.

SID /ISR

on 10/30/58, PCI MORRIS KOVLER

in the week he had had dinner with CHARLES SCHWARTZ while

JFK)

he was in Philadelphia®

KOVLER does not Know MORISI, who

accompanied SCHWARIz from Cuba.

KOVLER said SCHWARTZ has a home in Philadelphia,

but does not get along with his wife and is seldom there.

He has a girl friend, name unknown to KOVLER.

Lears ago

SCHWARIZ was & bookmaker and ran dice games in Philadelphia.

Then he went to Atlantio City, N.J., and operated the Bath

and lurf club there.

That club haa roulette wheels, aice

games, eto., and since, according to KOVLER, HERMAN

" STUMP Y"

ORMAN

controls all the

gambling in Atlantio City, it was

Likely that ORMAN either wholly or partly owned the Bath and

Turf Club.

At present SCHWARTZ is working at the Hotel

Nacionale in Hawanag, where he could be a front man or an

employee.

KOVLER belleves 1t is also possible that ORMAN owns

a piece of the Nacionale, and that SCHWARTZ is watching it

for him.

KOVIER said he, himself, was offered a job at the

Nacionale, but turned it down because it is too confining and

the employees are too strictly controlled, not being allowed

to go anywhwee.

He said shares in the Cuban gambling establish

ments are sold by the "point,

the return being in proportion to the number of

" each polat being pointed and

owned.

Bureau

- Miami (INFO-)

1a

+ B5

Newark (94-660) (INFO) pE

1 • Philadelphia (92-692)

RWH: MCB

(8)

66 JAN

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PH 92-692

on 11/6/58, PH 269-C told SA DALE M. HIESTAND

that he has been a close personal friena of CHANLES

SCHWARTZ for many years.

SCHWARTZ told PH 269-C that he

bought the Bath and Turf Club in Atlantic City. The

informant described it as a plush gambling house with a

dignified and prosperous clientele.

He said that SCHWARTZ

told him that MAX WEISBERG and SAMUE HOFFMAN, Philadelphia

Top Hoodlums, and STUMPY ORMAN all owned pieces of the Bath

and Turf Club. PH 269-C sald SCHWARTZ is an important

figure in International gambling circles, and is a close

personal friend of MEYER LANSKY, whom he met in Baltimore,

Md. PH 269-C said LANSKY Is the main figure in control of

gambling in Cuba, as well as in some parts of the United

States.

with SCHWARTZ, owns a casino in Las Vegas, Nev.

not know the name, but said it is near the Sands Hotel.

PH 269-C said he has personal knowledge that SCHWARTZ has

become very prosperous from his activities in gambling cireles.

PH 530-C reported that on 10/30/58, MAX "WILLIE"

WEISBERG oalled his brother in Atlantic City

and inquired how

Later WEISBERG told his

wife that

He said that he would have to go to Atlantic City on Monday,

November 3,

believed to be referring to

STUMPY ORMAN• On 11/4/58, WEISBERG told PH 530-C that he

had been in Atlantic City

and that it was an

"all payday."

It is requested that the Bureau furnish two copies

of this letter to Legat, Havana®s

RUC.

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