Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: HART, ARTHUR V.
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 11/20/1959
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

4/24/201

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-10290-10327

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 63-4426-349, 366

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

ussassination Records

Collection Aet of 1992

{44 USC 2107 Note!.

Case#:NW 45754 Date:

01-17-2017

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: HART, ARTHUR V.

TO :

DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE :

PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

11/20/1959

29

JFC, REL AND ASSOC, CRIMINAL ACT, APALACHIN

MEETING, HOODLUMS, NUMEROUS INTV

DOCUMENT TYPE :

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION :

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4; 11(a)

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 10/30/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF IRS

COMMENTS: INC RPT

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Identity of source

I-4 is NY CI 169-0

T-5 is Philadelphia PCI

as in Philadelphia letter

to Director dated 3/23/55,

"The

Mafia -- Philadelphia Division,

General

Investigative Intelligence File'

T-9 is AL CI 2889-C

I-46 1s AL PCI FELIX ANTHONY JULIAN

I-54 is Legat Hanvana

I-69 is Philadelphia CI PH 526-C

T-116 is Havanna PCI GUIDO

DE PHILLIPS, as in Legat letter to

Director dated 2/19/59 (former body-

guard and personal chef of SANTO

TRAFFICANTE, SR.)

T-132 is Miami CI MN 665-PC

T-133 is AL CI -3003-C

T-138 is Dallas CI DI 105-C

T-140 is Field Supervisor ERNEST GENTRY,

Federal Bureau of Narcotics, Dallas, as

in Dallas letter to Albany, 9/17/59

T-141 is

Dallas PCI HODGES DUBOIS

HAMILTON, Secretary to HARRY DAVID

KAHN, as in Dallas letter to Albany,

9/17/59

T-142 is NY PCI

described in New York letter to Albany,

8/5/59

T-143 1s Philadelphia PCI ORLANDO MENCHI,

as in

Philadelphia letter to Albany,

9/29/59

File Where Located

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Identity of Source

T-144 1s Philadelphia PCI WILLIAM

STRUBECK, as in above Philadelphia

letter

I-145 -- This symbol number not used

T-146 is JOSEPH DI MAGGIO, General Manager,

Joseph Cerrito's Lincoln-Mercury Sales,

Los Gatos, California

T-147 is JOHN HENNESSEY, Intelligence Unit,

Internal Revenue Service, Treasury Dept.,

Binghamton, New York

T-148. is

Houston source

described in Houston radiogram to Director

and Albany, 11/9/59

File Where Located

JEK Act 6 (4)

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on September 22 and 28, 1959, and related that from further

talks with various Italians in the Endicott,.

the person who made all the arrangements for the meeting

at BARBARA's on November, 14, 1957, and then invited the hoodlums

from the various parts of the country. He said they gathered

they

were just using JOSEPH BARBARA.

On, October 6,

1959, Confidential Informant ALi; I-133

informed SA MUNLEY that ANTHONY FRANK GUARNIERI had been in'

his restaurant on several occasions lately for lunch and the

informant reported that what he

could get from his conversa-

tions with GUARNIERI led him to believe that RUSSELL BUFALINO

had a lot to do about the planning of the meeting and inviting

the people to attend.

said that he also gathered a

similar

Impression from his talks with some of his friends in the

Buffalo area.

In this connection, it is of interest to note that

on March 10, 1955, Confidential Informant AL. T-5 confidentially

informed Agents at Philadelphia that not long after 1904, SANTO

VOLPE, who came from Montedoro (in sicily), settled in Pittston;

Pennsylvania, and eventually became head of the Mafia in that

area.

According to this informant, some, years later, after

VOLPE prospered in coal operations; his superiors realized that

his personal business was put ahead of his Mafia business and he

was eased out as head and one JOHN SCIANDRA was put in charge.

The informant said that SCIANDRA remained in chárge

of the Mafia in the area until his death, when one RUSSELI

BUFALINO was made head of the organization In about, 1947 or

1948.

The informant said that BUFALINO (in 1955) was in. charge

of Mafia activities in' the "anthracite area" and his immediate

-superior was JOSEPH BARBARA of Binghamton; New York.

I-5 said

he believed that BARBARA was In charge of activities in northern

New York State and portions of Pennsylvania, with another man'

"on a level with BARBARA operating out of either Philadelphia

or Wilmington, Delaware.

The informant said that CHARLES "LUCKY"

LUCIANO was and continued to be the head of the organization.

D. FACILITIES OF HOODLUMS AT MEETING

Individual investigations of the hoodlums who attended

captioned

meeting, as previously reported, have determined that

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RESULTS OF INVESTIGATION

The following data were received by confidential

sources,

confidential informants or potential confidential

informants and thus, in accordance with instructions in SAC

Letter 59-77, 12/15/59, Section H, "Criminal Intelligence

Program," they are set

out on the following cover pages.

In previous reports I-synbol informant styling has been

utilized and the following material would have been included

in the details of former reports.

A. INTERVIEW. PROGRAM

A definitive interview program was established in

this case to insure that logical sources of information were

interviewed as a supplement to the existing efforts of all

interested offices to develop informants who could furnish

information confirming data previously received in this case

as to the purgose of instant meeting and possibly develop

additional and new information about the meeting.. This

program was also to insure that information might be received

in advance of any similar future meeting.

The initial chart on the results of the interview

program is set out in the report of SA ARTHUR V. HART dated

5/21/59, at Albany, and additional interviews have been set

forth in chart form in supplementary reports.

Set out below in chart form are additional results

of the program:

1. CHART

JEK Act 6

SUBJECT

POSSIBLE SOURCE

VITO ANTHONY Old Orchard

GENOVESE

Country Club,

(Newark)

Etontown, New

Jersey (hangout)

INTERVIEWED? RESULI

Yes

PCI

bar

and restaurant

operator at club,

advised in conver-

sations GENOVESE never mentioned

Apalachin meeting. PCI said

relationship with GENOVESE

(4)

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SUBJECT

POSSIBLE SOURCE

INTERVIEWED?

RESULT

required that he be discreet and

he did not feel he could bring

up the topic with GENOVESE if

GENOVESE did not volunteer.

GEORGE J, SULLIVAN,

golf pro, identity

concealed at his

request) advised has

known GENOVESE for twenty-eight

years, friendly twenty years,

visits at home. Said that in

spite of this does not know any-

thing about GENOVESE's associates

or activities. No information

pertinent to Apalachin meeting.

Thinks GENOVESE derives income

from a

"bag" factory in New York

City.,

JFK Act 6

(4)

Yes:

JOSEPH SALVATORE:

RICCOBONO

(New York)

(weekly maid

or cleaning

woman)

DOMINIC JOHN

MAX W STEIN,

ALAIMO

partner of

(Philadelphia)

ALAIMO and

RUSSELL A.

BUFAL, INO

I in AB&S Contract-

ing. Co.

RUSSELL A..

BUFALINO

(Philadelphia)

MAX W. STEIN

PCI

348 Cary Street,

Staten Island, New

York, unable to

furnish any pertinent information

concerning the meeting

225 19

Yes

Interviewed by NYO

Agents; no informa-

tion,

Yes

Interviewed by NYO

Agents; no informa-

tion.

(PCI of Philadelphia)

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on 11/19/59, SA GEORGE P. JOHNSON of the Philadel-

phia Division interviewed

father of Philadelphia

confidential informant PH 454-C, atl

request. The

following information was obtained on a strictly confidential

basis and must be treated as coming from a confidential source:

With respect to instant meeting,

said

that he had no information as to what took place. He said that,

from his knowledge of the Mafia, it was definitely a planning

meeting and it encompassed the entire United States.

said attendance at this meeting was no accident and pointed

out the type and amount of food on hand and the distance from

which some of the people came to be there.

said that he read the names of the people

who attended instant meeting and that he knew most of them

personally. He said he had not had any recent contacts with

any of them. (He did not define what he meant by recent.)

Ny

specifically mentioned JOHNONTANA (of

the Buffalo Division)

and said he knew MONTANA when he was a

small boy in Sicily.

He said MONTANA was known as a man of his

word and that when he promised to do a favor he would do it and

would do it in the way he promised.

did not use the word "Don" in describing

the heads of the Mafia, but he did say that JOSEPH BARBARA (SR..)

was the leader of a geographic section which extended into New

York as far as Auburn and south into Pennsylvania as far as

and including Hazelton. He said MONTANA was not a leader and

said that MONTANA belonged to another group other than that

over which BARBARA was the leader.

NY

mentioned that JOHN SCIANDRA (before he

died) was the bag man for AUGUST)EIPPI and visited all of the

mine operations weekly in order to collect the contributions

for LIPPI..

alleged that RUSCELL A. BUFALINO is now

LIPPI's bodyguard, and that BUFALINO does not accompany LIPPI

and they are never seen together, but it is understood that

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that if änything happens to LIPPI, BUFALINO will handle the

reprisals.

Additional information furnished by

is

not included herein as it is not pertinent to the meeting of

hoodlums at Apalachin. It is noted that|

is in his

late seventies although he gives the appearance of being much

He was located for interview by SA JOHNSON in the

Board Room of J. H. Brooks and Company, a brokerage firm in

Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. According to PH 454-0,

divides his time between Brooks and another brokerage house

(Bache and Company) where he watches his investments.

2. Nevada Cambling

It has previously been reported (report of SA

ARTHUR V. HART, 11/20/59, Albany, page 26) that GERALD SOVELLI,

subject in a

, car theft ring prosecuted at Houston, Texas, had

advised the Houston Division that in contacts with JOSEPH

"CEASAR". DI

ARCO. and JAMES "MONKS ALLEGRETTI (of Chicago,

Illinois) and NICK/DANOLFO and WILBURASLARK (of the Desert Inn,

Las Vegas, Nevada), he had obtained information indicacing that

the purpose of instant meeting was to finance acquisition of

the Chicago control in the State of Nevada, thereby, obtaining

control of policy, gambling and prostitution.

It is noted that COVELLI entered a plea of guilty

to a twenty-count indictment in an ITSMV ring case at Houston

and is to be utilized as a witness against two Chicago attor-

neys who have been indicted for conspiracy in the case. He

was interviewed on 10/29/59, and 11/5, 5 and 6/59.

On 11/5/59, the matter of the Apalachin meeting

was again discussed with COVELLI. He had previously stated he

was not familiar with the purpose of that meeting and it is

not known why he furnished the following information after

his supposed lack of information. COVELLI said that the pur-

pose of the neeting was to gain control of gambling within the

State of Nevada by financing acquisition of political control

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