Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, MI
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 4/6/62
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/29/201

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10206-10305

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

92-2713-305

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: SAC, MI

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE :

DATE: 04/06/1962

PAGES:

5

SUBJECTS :

CM, ASSOC, REL, CONTACTS, TELCAL, MEETING, DESCR,

MISCONDUCT, DOJ, INS

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS : 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 11/21/1997

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

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UNITED STATES

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ERNMENT

Memorandum

DIRECTOR, FBI

DATE:

SAC, MILWAUKEE

CARLOS MARCELLO

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(92-247)

(P)

Mr. Tolson_

(Mr. Belmont

Mr. Mohr...

Mr. Callahan.

Mr.

Conrad:

Mr. DeLoach

Mr. Evans

4/6/62Mr. Malone:

Mr. Rosen

Mr. Sullivan.

Mr. Tavel

Mt. Trotter_

Tele. Room.

Miss Holmes

Miss Gandy

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New Orleans

Stitcom

ReBUairtel 3/28/62.

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Set out hereafter

are answers to Bureau suggestions in referenced

airtel, based on information presently at hand.

Additional

information will be obtained and furnished as promptly as possible.

Bureau has compléte background information as to PCI FRANK HYLAND

russels, furnished in Milwaukee letter dated lay 22, 1961'cos-tionee

FRANK HYLAND RUSSELL, CI, wherein he was designated

(since discontinued.as a

symbol informant). His information has

been reliable in the past.

It will not be possible to verify the telephone

calls

to the

MARCELLO group

in New. Orleans March 20 and Washington, D. C.

March 22, 1962 Until after billing date, which is April 10,

1962.

"This matter will be followed by the

Milwaukee

office.

As to his meeting with MARCELLO and DONOHUE in Washington,

the following information is set out. Milwaukee letter to

the Director March 24, 1962 did not mean to convey the im-

pression that General Trujillo, former dictator of the Dominican

Republic, net with these individuals; only that General Trujillo

was the "high government official" referred to above.

regard to this matter, RUSSELL produced his receited

bill for

1961 and said that the meeting was held in his room.

was not staying at the Statler-Hilton and RUSSELL was unable to

recall the name of the hotel but described it as a large, well-

known hotel in the downtown area, where MARCELLO always stays

2- Bureau

(RV-AM)

- New Orleans

(92-36)

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(92

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(RM)

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MI 92-247

and he described the approach to the entrance as walking across.

the sidewalk and up a flight of outside stairs to thelobby.

No past contacts between FRANK BALISTRIERI and CARLOS MARCELLO

are known to Milwaukee

he said that he did not know how they originally knew each

other, nor what the full extent of their relationship is,

except that they are both the Italian hoodlum type and probably

associate, in this respect.

With regard to more specific information as to times, dates and

places and identities of DONOHUE and DUFFY, the following in-

formation is fürnished:

By checking his telephone bills, RUSSELL was able to advise that

on January 19, 1961 he had called MARCELLO at Shreveport, La.,

phone 4101 and it was during this conversation that BALISTRIERI

verified to MARCELLO the fact that-RUSSELL was "OK to do business

with." It is noted that other New Orleans telephone numbers

called during this period

as reflected by RUSSELL's telephone

bill were as follows:

January 6, 1961

New Orleans FO 6-3466

January 10, 1961 New Orleans VE 5÷1701

With regard to his contacts with SAM MARCELLO by telephone in

March of 1962 as pointed out above,

the exact dates and numbers

called will be verified from the telephone bills after April

10, 19620

RUSSELL did

state, however, that he called MARCELLO

on March 16, and reached him at Jefferson Music Company, Gretna,

Louisiana but that they had no conversation beyond RUSSELL

telling MARCELLO to call him from a public phone to a specific

public phone in the Plankinton Arcade where RUSSELL'S office is

located in Milwaukee at 3 PV on that same date. MARCELLO did

call him back, and although RUSSELL is unable to furnish the

exact phone number that he called, it was one of the following

numbers which were observed to be on the public booths in the

Plankinton Arcade:

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BR 2-9458

BR

2-9333

BR

2-9649

BR

2-9969

BR

3-9910

BR

3-9494

'BR

3-9899

BR 3-9575

When MARCELLO did call him back on one of the above phones,

MARCELLO told him that everything was taken care of and not

to "spend a buck" in trying to do anything for CARLOS.

The DONOrUs reterred to is JAMES JOSEPHDONOU DONCHU Kn

Wisconsin (?) May 17, 1922, father JAMES JOSEPH

8310 North Port Washington Road, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

DONOHUE attended Marquette High

School for two years and

according to Credit Bureau records was in the Navy for five

years, having previously discontinued high school in his

last year for the purpose of entering the Navy. RUSSELL

said that he, DONOHUE, can be located almost any time through

the office of Senator CHAVEL, that he spends most of his time

In the Senate Office Building. He is also a member of the

Gaslight Key Club, where he spends a great deal of his time:

It is noted that RUSSELl was a little reluctant as to furnishing

thé exact address of DONOHUE (if he knows it) and this point

was not pressed, and the above information was obtained during

the course

of general conversation.

With regard to LAVERN DUFFY, RUSSELL did not know whether he

was the same one who had been on the McClellan Committee but

has heard him described as "BOBBY KENNEDY's right hand" and

believed

therefore that he was a special assistant in the

Department of Justice. RUSSELL did say that he was very

close to Attorney General

KENNEDY and, in fact, had taken

care of his children on occasions when

KENNEDY

was abroad.

With reference to Page 2, third paragraph of Milwaukee letter

dated March 24, 1962, RUSSELL advised that the Guatamalan

officials whose names he furnished to CARLOS MARCELLO through

his brother SAM, which apparently enabled CARLOS to speedily

return to the United States, RUSSELL now advises that they

were as follows:

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GUILLERMO FLORES AVENDANO, who at that time

was Guatamalan Ambassador to Rome and is now

believed by RUSSELL to be Guatamalan repre-

sentative to the United Nations.

Second was GEORGE RUIZ, at that time a colonel

in the Guatamalan Air Force and president of

Avernica Airlines.

LEADS

NEW ORLEANS DIVISION:

Should endeavor to identify from a public pay phone 'in the

vicinity and/or telephones available to SAM MARCELLO. and the

Jefferson Music Company, the phone call to one of the listed

public telephones in Milwaukee on March 16 (?), 1962.

WASHINGTON FIELD OFFICE:

Will identify DONOHUE and DUFFY and condut logical investi-

gation as to their activities in connection with Subject.

It

is pointed out that DONOHUE has a service record.

If additional information is obtained as to the hotel used by

CARLOS MARCELLO when in Washington, that information will be

promptly furnished to WFO.

MILWAUKEE DIVISION:

After April 10, 1962 will attempt to verify from phone records

telephone calls to New Orleans and Washington, D. C. in con-

nection with this matter from

RUSSELL's phone.

Will maintain contact with RUSSELL for additional information

relative to this matter.

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CAUTION:

In view of potential danger to PCI RUSSELL

if it were known

he had furnished information to the government

and in view of the possibility, if his story

is correct in fact, of 'misconduct in high

Department of Justice and/or INS circles,

extreme care must be taken in the investi-

gation of this matter and dissemination of

any information so as to not reflect that

it originated in Milwaukee or from RUSSELL.

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