Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: LEG, MX
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 09/20/1946
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Date:

5/27/201

Agency Information

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

FBI

124-10303-10123

RECORD SERIES:

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : CR 88-2357-202

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: LEG, MX

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE :

DATE: 09/20/1946

PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

PRJ, ASSOC, LIPSKY ACT

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS:

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 05/06/1998

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COMMENTS: INC MEMO

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DATE: 11-11-2017.

OFFICE OF THE CIVIL ATTACHE

EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

MEXICO CITY

September 20, 1946

Director, FBI

RE: RUBIN

SHETSKY,

with aliases,

FUGITIVE,

1.0• No. 2023;

UNLAWFUL FLIGHT TO AVOID

PROSECUTION (MURDER) •

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to report of SIS #1206 dated 7/18/46

at Mexico City,

setting out the results of investigation conducted

at Ensenada and Tijuana, Baja California,

Mexico, with reference

to the location of

above captioned subject.

also made to Bureau cable dated August 3, 1946, stating that an

informant had related

that the location of this fugitive may

known to LEO FRIEDMAN who was visiting EDWARD JONES, Chicago,

Illinôis,

south side policy king, who was residing in Mexico,City

Referenced cable requested that appropriate investigation

conducted for the purpose of ascertaining whether SHETSK.

in Mexico City in company with the above, and that, if necessary,

LEO FRIEDMAN and EDWARD JONES be interviewed for the purpose of

determining

the location of this fugitive.

This is to advise that a physical surveillance was

maintained on the residence of EDWARD JONES at Calle Patzcuaro

No. 161' in Mexico, D.F., from August 15 to August 31, inclusive.

The surveillance

failed to reveal the presence of any individual

bearing a likeness to instant subject.

It likewise failed to

the presence of LEO FRIEDMAN in the residence of EDWARD

JONES.

On September 7, 1946, EDWARI

JONES was requested to

present himself at the American Embassw

ana was interviewed by

Special Agent Manuel A. Sanchez.

In this interview he advised

that he was acquainted with RUBIN SHETSKY, but that he had not

seen SHETSKY for approximately one year.

According to. JONES,

the last time he had seen SHETSKY was in Chicago, Illinois.

He further stated that

to the best of his knowledge SHETSKY

is not in Mexico nor has he been in Mexico in the past.

88-13157-70

W6s 40-1-16

Letter to 24 Perced

08.0-1-41

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Mexico from Chicago usually communicates with him and that none

of. those having done so, whouwould be in a position to know if

SHETSKY were in Mexico, have stated that he is presently in this

country.

With reference to LEO

FRIEDMAN, he/explained that LEO

FRIEDMAN visited him in the latter part of July and remained at

his home for approximately five days. According to JONES, during

the time FRIEDMAN was in Mexico, he did not mention SHETSKY. |

Continuing,

JONES related that FRIEDMAN is presently in Chicago

again and although he does not know his present address, he can

be reached through his brother who is known as "BIG SNEEZE"

FRIEDMAN and is well known in Chicago.

•It will be recalled that in the report of SIS #7206

dated 7/18/46 at Mexico City, it was indicated that subject was

alleged to have stopped at the resort hotel in Ensenada, B. C.,

during May of 1946, although investigation during the month of July

failed to reveal any information indicating the presence of SHEISKÝ

in that area.

Continued investigation at both Tijuana and Ensenada,

Baja California

presently director of the magazine "Detective Internacional"

has failed to reveal any Information of value in instant casé.

FRANCISCO, ORBE ALEANA who is presently incarcerated

in the Tijuana CIty Jait and who was, interviewed in connection with

he investigation of BENJAMIN "BUGS!

*SIEGEL and reactivation of the

CAPONE Gang from September I to September 6, 1946, when questioned

concerning SHEISKY stated that he was not acquainted with SHETSKY,

nor did he ever recall MAX COSSMAN, for whom he worked and who

'acted as SIEGEL's front man' for illegal activities in Tijuana,

ever mentioning that SHETSKY was in that area.

According to

GALEANA, he is certain that if SHETSKY had been in that area, he

would have contacted COSSMAN, as

nearly all the Chicago racketeers

or west coast mobsters would

visit COSSMAN whenever in Tijuana.

PAUL ROLANDI

JONEs, a member of the MARCUSA LIPSKY Gang,

Chicago, who was interviewed by a representative of this office

on July 27 in connection with the investigation of the LIPSKY ac-

tivities in Mexico, was also unable to furnish any information

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