Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SU
To: HQ
Document date: 09/25/1959
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note).

DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK Assassination System

Date:

4/23/201

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER : 124-90088-10088

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

92-3241-38

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: SU

TO: HQ

TITLE :

DATE: 09/25/1959

PAGES:

4

SUBJECTS :

BENJAMIN BINION

LESTER BENJAMIN BINION

DOCUMENT TYPE :

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS:

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

• DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/14/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

RPT

v91

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"Released under the John T. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (4T USC 2107 Note).

DATE: 11-14-2017

SU 94-253

1. Will maintain contact with SU 386-C, SU 353-C

and ROBERT CAUDILL, a close associate of BINION and also

SU 432-C who can furnish information as to any financial

2.

Will maintain contact with BINION for information

as to his intentions and his activities and observe persons

he is associating with in the Las Vegas

B*

"COVER PAGE"

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"Released under the John F. Kennedy AssassinatiOn Records Cöllectiön Act öf 1992 (41 USC 2107 Note).

DATE: 11-14-2017

FD-204 (Rev. 0-23-58)

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Copy to:

Report of:

Date:

File Number:

Title:

LEO E. KUYKENDALL

9/25/59

SU 94-253

LESTER BENJAMIN BINION,

aka.

Office:

SALT LAKE CITY

Bufile 92-3241

Character:

ANTI-RACKETEERING

Synopsis:

BINION returned to Las Vegas first week of 9/59, from his ranch

near Jordan, Montana.

Has remained in Las Vegas since that

date. Stated made some tremendous sales of horses during time

he was at ranch. Law Enforcement officer and businessman in

vicinity of BINION's ranch at Jordan, Montana, state no

association observed with BINION and

no unusual activity in

the area of BINION's ranch during summer.

BINION states has

received no information relative to the Government's appeal

of his Habeas Corpus hearing in Philadelphia which was decided

in BINION'S favor. DUE TO SUBJECT'S POSSESSION OF FIREARMS ON

OCCASIONS OF PREVIOUS ARRESTS AND HIS USE OF FIREARMS IN THE

PAST, HE SHOULD BE CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS.

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DETAILS:

AT LAS VEGAS, NEVADA:

SU 386-C advised on September 5, 1959,

that

BINION had returned to Las Vegas during the first week in

September from his ranch near Jordan, Montana, with his wife

and family. He stated BINION was having some remodeling

done on his home in Las Vegas and there was no indication

of any intended travel in the very near future. BINION

This document confeins neither recomme darions of on olens of be tribute out de your ge the Fl, and is a loan to your agency,

deote: 10-10201 000

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