Originator: FBI
From: BOGGAN, FURMAN G.
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 05/01/1962
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/20/201

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-10280-10123

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

CR 92-6054-26

Released under the John F. Kennedy

Assassination Records Collection Act of

1992 (44 USC 2107 Notel. Case#:Ny

68486 Date: 12-02-2022

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: BOGGAN, FURMAN G.

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE :

DATE: 05/01/1962

'PAGES:

44

SUBJECTS :

LCN, ASSOC, B/F INT, CM, RACKET ACT

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4; 4;11(a)

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 01/27/1999

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF IRS

COMMENTS :

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NO 92-365/1am

Will endeavor to establish the identity of the

individual or individuals in the New Orleans area who may

act as local representatives to the "Commission".

INFORMANTS

Informant

T-1

T-2

T-3

T-4

T-5

T-6

T-7

Identity

Former PCI BEN J. SHEAR

Former CI, ALBERT L. PILSBURY

Former CI, ALBERT L. PILSBURY

PCI RAYMOND L. ROLLING

SA NAURBON L. PERRY, IRS,

New Orleans

NO 1178-C

NO 1190-C

T -8

NO 1017-C

• T-9

Mr. CLARENCE JOHNSON

US I&NS, New Orleans

T-10

PCI RAYMOND L. ROLLING

T-11

PCI HOWARD D. BAUTSCH

7-12

PCI RAYMOND L. ROLLING

T-13

PCI RAYMOND J.. ROLLING

INS

REVIEWED BY FENJFK TASK FORGE

ON

4/14/92 OML/DAb/XL

RELEAGE I TE:

B

COVER PAGE

RELEASE ANAT

TUTAL DENIAL

Location of original

information in New

Orleans files

137-17-24

137-952-9

92-47-5, page 3

92-47-5, page 5

92-47-5, page 5

137-1582-26

137-1569-29

137-155-190

92-36-657 page. 56

137-1060-70

137-1761-9

137-1060-81

137-1060-90

REVIEWED BY ERER TASK FORRE

046. 7122/98-87

O RELEASE IN FULL

C/ RELEASE IN PART

C TOTAL DENIAL

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NO 92-365/1am

Informant

Location of original

information in New

Orleans files

T-14

F-15

T-16

T-17

T-18

T-19

T-20

T-21

T-22

T-23

T-24

T-25

Identity

PCI RAYMOND L. ROLLING

NO 1174-C

NO 1178-C

NO 1017-C

NO 1178-C

NO 1131-C

NO 1174-C

SA JOHN E. MONTGOMERY,

IRS, Gulfport, Mississippi

NO. 1190-C

NO 1178-C

NO 1190-C

Highly confidential source'

known only to SA's EDWARD M.

DAVIS, GEORGE R. MC NEIL,

JR.,

STUART E. SCHEER and L. M.

SHEARER, JR.:

Review of records of Metairie

Savings Bank and Trust Company,

detairie, Louisiana, May and

June, 1958

137-1060-88

137-1514-28

137-1582-34

137-155-217

137-1582-38

137-1012-121

137-1514-28

,92-346-5

137-1569-41

137-1582-37

137-1569-42

92-297-16, page

3

92-47-69,

pages 22,

23 &

26

COVER PAGE

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NO 92-365/1am

LA

On January 7, 1958, NO T-3 advised that JOSEPH

of the Nola Printing Company. T-3 believed that PORETTO

actually has some financial interest in Nola, but it is

general knowledge in gambling circles that the company itself

is owned by CARLOS MARCELLO. At the time of the interview

with T-3, the informant said that the wire service provided

by Nola costs $60.00 a week for individual books and $108.00

a week for bookmakers who operated business places.

The informant stated that in the middle 30's,

PORETTO lived in Houston,

Texas where he operated as a

gambler. He got in trouble with the Texas Rangers and was

ordered out of the state. PORETTO returned to New Orleans

and began associating with JOHN. J. FOGERTY, who then operated a

horse race wire service in New Orleans.

Informant said

MARCELLO moved in on FOGERTY and took over the wire service,

whereupon PORETTO associated himself with MARCELLO.

On December 17, 1957, NO T-4 advised that it is the

general opinion among bookmakers in Jefferson Parish that

Nola is controlled by CARLOS MARCELLO and that the operations

are managed by JOSEPH ALBERT PORETTO and MARCELLO's youngest

brother, JOSEPH MARCELLO, JR.

on January 3. 1958. NO T-S advised that

JEK

Law 11(a)

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NO 92-365/1am

JFK Law 11(a)

News, advised that his company was the New Orleans representa-

tive

of Continental Press.

FOGERTY said he had been operating

a horse race news service in New Orleans for the past 26

years.

FOGERTY said that a new horse race wire service had

just opened up in the New Orleans area.

He identified it

as the Southern News and Publishing Company and said it

was the local representative of the Trans-American Publishing

News Service Company, Inc.

He identified the operators of

the Southern News and Publishing Company as JOSEPH ALBERT

PORETTO and one SYLVESTRO CAROLLO, whom he described as a

local Italian alien and an ex-convict who had been the subject

of a deportation case since 1937. FOGERTY was of the

opinion that PORETTO and CAROLLO were receiving the financial

backing of CARLOS MARCELLO.

With regard to the Mississippi Gulf Coast, NO T-6

while acknowledging that gambling and the sale of illegal

liquor flourished, advised on September 20, 1961 that

this activity is carried on by local individuals of Anglo-

Saxon descent with no organization and no leadership.

NO I-T on September 19, 1961, confirmed the opinion expressed

by NO T-6 as did NO T-8, who

., so we contacted o

was contacted on September 2 and

19, 1961.

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NO 92-365/eah

During the course of the interviews with

ANDERSON and CONWAY, no gambling paraphernalia was observed.

NO 1-19, Gulfport, Mississippi,

advised on

August 21, 1961, that Dr. FELLA HE

DUNN resident of 38th

MISS, Avenue in Gulfport, is currently President of the Gulfport

chapter of the National Association for the Advancement Of

Colored People (NAACP) •

He advised Dr. DUNN owns considerable

property on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, is a physician and

surgeon, and reportedly has an interest in a number of music

vending machines in a company wherein Harrison County Sheritt

CURTIS DEDEAUX is a silent partner.

hES' NO T-19 advised it is common knowledge among

the Negroes in the Gulfport area that Dr. DUNN and Sheriff

DEDEAUX made some kind of "deal" before

DEDEAUX's election

to office, whereby DUNN guaranteed DEDEAUX the bulk of the

Negro vote in the election, in return for which DEDEAUX agreed

to let DUNN sell illegal whiskey through Negro front elements,

and to have the "okay" sign for the music vending license in

the area.

NO T-20,

Gulfport, Mississippi, advised on

February 5, 1962, that on Saturday night, February 3, 1962,

Dr. FELIX H. DUNN was engaged in a crap game at the Two-Pal

Club, a Negro night club on old Highway 49 North, Gulfport,

with several other men, two of whom were local white gamblers

2/222

and hoodlums, GEORGE ANDERSON, owner of the Hi-Hat Club, and

"COONEY" BURT.

NO T-4 advised Dr. DUNN is alleged to be

gambling heavily recently, mostly in crap and "skin" games.

NO T-21 advised on January 25, 1962, that

JFK Law 11

a)

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NO 92-365/eah

NO T-21 stated

JFK Law 11(a)

NO T-22, Gulfport, Mississippi, advised SA

WILLIAM F. DUKES, on February 8, 1962, that

within the

past week

or ten days an unknown white male identifying

himself as JACK GANAS, reportedly a gambler and night club

operator from Montgomery, Alabama, had taken over operation

of the Ace of Clubs, night club on West Beach, Biloxi,

Mississippi, formerly

"Little Asa, „Operated by ASA GARRIGA, JR., also

Informant advised there is

a

blackjack table in the Act of Clubs, but he did not know

how long it had

been there and he was not aware whether

gambling was presently going on in the club.

NO T-23, Gulfport, Mississippi,

advised on

February 8, 1962, that he was not aware of

who is presently

operating

the Ace of Clubs on West Beach at Biloxi, Mis-

sissippi, although she knew that ASA GARRIGA, JR. 's ex-wife

was reported to be giving the place up.

NO T-24 advised on February 14, 1962, that

since previously contacted on February 8, 1962, he has

learned that JACK GANAS had been instructed by Harrison

County Sheriff CURTIS O. DEDEAUX to get out of Harrison

County•

Informant stated he believes that "Little Asa"

GARRIGA had complained to DEDEAUX about the possible

competition from GANAS, after which DEDEAUX took the

action against GANAS.

Informant was not aware whether

GANAS had gone or not.

On February 8, 1962, a 1960 Cadillac, two

door, pink in color, displaying 1962 Alabama license 3-44022,

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