Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: CG
To: HQ
Document date: 2/2/68
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Date:

4/28/201

Agency Information

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER:

FBI

124-90058-10086

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

91-18345-110

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

TO:

CG

HQ

TITLE :

DATE: 02/02/1968

PAGES:

22

SUBJECTS :

GERALD TOMASZEK

RICHARD CAIN

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION:

Unclassified

• RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW :

06/12/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS: RPT

v9.1

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CG 91-3396

LEADS

DETROIT

AT LIVONIA, MICHIGAN. Will attempt to identify the

motel, bank, and shopping center and verify fact at Livonia

Police Department that stolen cars were taken and abandoned

in manner described by MICHAEL LA JOY concerning the trip

to Detroit during 9/63.

CHICAGO

AT CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. 1. Will continue interviewing

and attempt to develop additional cooperative witnesses among

the subjects and their associates.

2. Will continue attempts to develop additional

evidence in this matter based on material located and

seized at the time of the arrest of the various subjects

in this and related matters and through review of records

of the Chicago Police Department.

ADMINISTRATIVE

On 12/27/67, PCI JEROME HASS advised SA GEORGE H

PARFET that JACK MORAN, a former sergeant in RICHARD CAIN'S

investigative unit with Cook County Sheriff's Police was

vitally afraid of being questioned

regarding his association

with CAIN, particularly in connection with the gangland

slaying of GUY MENDOLIA.

On 1/15 and 24/68, CG 6775-C furnished the following

information to SA JOSEPH B. GRAFF:

In about 1951 Captain JOHN SCHERPING (deceased);

Chicago Police Department, incorporated Accurate Detective

Laboratories in Chicago, a private investigative agency.

In about 1954 or 1955 SCHERPING took on as partners RICHARD

CAIN and Informant.

They continued as partners until 1959,

when SCHERPING wanted to retire, and he wrote a letter

to

Springfield naming Informant as the sole owner of this firm.

During the partnership of the three men, it became apparent

that CAIN was not fulfilling his obligations, and as

a matter

of tact, CAlN stole about $10,000.00 from the firm.

This

was never proven, but it had to be one of the three men, and

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CG 91-3396

SCHERPING confided to Informant that he was certain that CAIN

had stolen

Informant knew he had not stolen the

money, and he regarded SCHERPING as complately trustworthy.

At the time the partnership was dissolved, SCHERPING told

Informant that he did not want CAIN retained in any way in

this firm.

With regard to CAIN's true name,

Informant was

told by CAIN that his ancestry was not Italian, and that his

mother was married to an Italian, but he was born after she

had remarried, and his father's name is CAIN. He indicated

that authorities could never locate a birth certificate

reflecting that his father was Italian.

In about October or early November, 1967, CAIN called.

Informant, and after a

couple of minutes of

small talk,

CAIN asked

Intormant it he would do some work for him, CAIN,

and it was apparent that this work would involve bugging a

telephone, and Informant then told CAIN that he would not

then took

do it.

CAIN never mentioned the name of any party:

On 1/19/68, ARI PETACQUE made available a copy of

a letter received by the "Chicago Sun-Times" written over

the signature of RICHARD CAIN.

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