Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: ROEMER, WILLIAM F.
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 02/22/1961
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

6/12/201

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10199-10074

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 92-3182-123

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

Assassination Records

Collection det of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel.

Caset:NI 45679 Date:

11-16-2017

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: ROEMER, WILLIAM F.

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE: 02/22/1961

PAGES:

24

SUBJECTS :

GAL, ADDRESS, ACT, GAMBLING, ASSOC, TESUR

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4; 11(a)

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 09/15/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF IRS

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MARIANNE RYAN ALEX

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SA WILLIAM F. ROEMER

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SA WILLIAM F. ROEMER

SA JOSEPH G. SHEA

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Standard Refuse Removal Service

1220 South Leavitt

Chicago, Illinois

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information had come to his attention indicating that GUS

ALEX was interested in obtaining accounts for the Standard

Refuse Removal Service at 1220 South Leavitt.

He stated that

it is not clear to him that ALEX actually has a financial

interest in this company but stated that it is possible that

ALEX has been attempting to line up customers for the company

to no up customer s

due to the fact that its owners are associates of his and that

he is interested not in financial profit but in doing favors

for these individuals.

IV. TRAVEL

Europe

MARY LOU BARRETT, Assistant to the Manager, Swiss Air,

Chicago, Illinois, advised SA ROEMER on January 12, 1961,

that GUS ALEX had

booked space on Flight 863 which was

scheduled to leave New York City Idlewild Airport on

January 14, 1961, at 5:55 p.m. non-stop to Geneva.

Miss BARRETT

advised that this reservation was made by ALEX while he was

in New York some time just prior to January 12, 1961,

BARRETT also advised that ALEX had reservations at the

Richmond Hotel in Geneva, Switzerland, for the evenings of

January 15 and 16, 1961,

and the Bayershire Hotel in Munich,

Germany, on January 17 and 18, 1961.

On January 14, 1961, Miss BARRETT advised that

ALEX didnot appear at Swiss Air either in Chicago or in

New York to pick up his tickets and that Swiss Air had,

therefore, canceled his reservation.

Geneva Police advised on January 19, 1961, that

ALEX arrived in Geneva, Switzerland, on January 18, 1961,

and resided that evening at the Hotel Richmond in Geneva.

They advised that he departed Geneva by air at 6:37 a.m.

on January 20, 1961, and arrived in Munich, Germany, at

10:15 a.m. on January 20, 1961.

The Geneva Police Department

advised that they surveilled ALEX during the period of his

stay in Geneva and that he made no significant contacts

and was involved in no unusual activity in Geneva. However,

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information was subsequently received that while ALEX was

who is a resident of Istanbul, Turkey.

The Geneva Police

Department advised that thesignificance of the contact with

COHEN was unknown, since COHEN had not come to their

attention previously.

They advised that the meeting between

COHEN and ALEX may have been a chance meeting in the bar

of the Hotel Richmond and that it appears that there is

no significance to the contact, COHEN not having come to

their attention previously.

also indicated that ALEX had been in touch with one PAUL

previous had been

BINER, the superintendent of a business building in Geneva.

They indicated that the significance of this contact was

likewise unknown since BINER had not previously come to the

attention of the police.

ALEX was under police survéillance

during the entire time he was in Geneva and did not visit

or contact any banks in that city.

The Geneva police

also advised that when ALEX arrived in Munich, he rented

an automobile, a Mercedes Okven, and departed Munich

accompanied by a blond woman in

the direction of Rosenheim

and Salzburg.

He also indicated that he wished to visit

Innsbruck and Kitzbuehl, Austria.

On January, 26, 1961, the German Federal Police

advised that they had determined that ALEX arrived in Munich

on January 20, 1961, and stayed at the Hotel Four Seasons.

He was seen at the hotel with a woman who was apparently.

ALEX apparently en route to the ski area.

The German Police

subsequently identified this woman as DITGARD MAIER, who was

at that time residing with her mother in Munich and who

formerly resided in Chicago, but whose present United States

address is 721 N. E. 25th Street, Miami, Florida.

Her

husband was reported by the German Federal Police to be a

solicitor employed in the United States.

The following information was furnished by the

Bundeskriminalamt (BKA - West German Federal Criminal Police)

and was obtained by the BKA from the Bavarian Landeskriminalamt

(LKA - Bavarian State Criminal Police).

One Miss DIETRICH, an employee of the Munich,

Germany,

office of Swiss Air, advised that according to

information from her firm's office in New York, the

ALEX on January 6, 1961, had booked a flight with Swiss Air

from New York to Munich,

Germany, via Geneva and Zurich,

Switzerland.

Together with this

flight reservation he had

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reserved hotel reservations through Swiss Air for January 15-17,

1961, at the Hotel Richmond in Geneva,

and from January 17

through 18, 1961, at the Bayerischer Hof Hotel in Munich.

He was expected to arrive in Munich on these reservations at

January 17, 1961.

On January 11, 1961, the

reservations.

On January 20, 1961, the BKA was informed by Interpol

authorities in Switzerland that ALEX had departed from

Geneva, Switzerland, at about 6:15 a.m., January 20, 1961,

en route to Munich with anticipated arrival at Munich at

10:15 a.m.,

the same day. This information was furnished by

the BKA to the LKA in Bavaria.

As of January 23, 1961,

the LKA had been unable to verify the subject's arrival

in Munich and had determined that specifically he had not

checked into the Bayerischer Hof Hotel.

It was learned that

this hotel had made a revised reservation for the subject for

January 20-22, 1961, but that these hotel reservations had been

canceled by telephone by Swiss Air when the subject had not

arrived in Munich from Zurich, Switzerland, as expected

on Swiss Air on January 20, 1961. On January 25, 1961, the

LKA determined that ALEX had been in Munich since January 20,

1961, but had been residing in the Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten in

Room

201/2.

He had been registered under the name of GUS

ALEX, described as born April 1, 1916, at Chicago. He had

been observed on several occasions in

the company of a woman

who spoke excellent German.

At about 11:00 a.m. on January 24, 1961, ALEX went

to the Swiss Air Office at No. 5 Maximiliansplatz

in Munich

and there had had an airline ticket endorsed to Air France at

23 Theatinerstrasse in Munich. At this latter airline he

booked single first-class passage for a flight leaving Munich,

January 30, 1961, at 3:05 p.m. to arrive Paris, France,

4:35 p.m., the same day, and also on the same day from Paris

at 5:20 p.m., en route to Montreal, Canada, to arrive 7:10 p.m.

(all times local time). He also booked reservations to leave

Montreal for Detroit at 12:00 o'clock.

ALEX checked out of the Hotel Jahreszeiten and at about 10:20 a.m.

left Munich using a hired Mercedes automobile carrying plate

number M-CV 281. He was traveling on the Autobahn (express

highway) out in

the direction of Rosenheim, Germany, and

Salzburg, Austria.

He was accompanied by an unidentified

blond woman.

His

route was generally in the direction of

German Austrian alpine ski areas and this, together with the

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fact that two pairs of skiis were fastened on the car,

indicate the possibility he planned to take part in winter

sports.

The car had been hired by ALEX from the Selbstfahrer-

Union

• at Munich No. 27 Birkerstrasse.

ALEX had departed from the hotel on January 25,

1961, unexpectedly and without giving prior notice to the hotel

and removed all of his luggage.

After leaving the hotel and

while driving to the highway he picked up on Sendlingerstrasse

the blond woman, who was described as about 23 to 25 years old

and well dressed. At the car rental firm Selbstfahrer Union

Fahrer ara

it was learned that ALEX had been recommended to this firm

by one STEVE LOHR of General Tours, 595 Madison Avenue,

New York 23, New York, who is a business friend of the

Manager of the Munich

firm, one Mr. HILZBERGER. When ALEX

had approached the Munich firm he had done so by referring to

LOHR. He came to the firm first on January 20, 1961, about

noon and asked for a car to be available at a later date.

When he picked up the car on January 25, he also asked for

maps of Austria and stated that he would travel to Innsbruck

and Kitzbuehel, Austria, and would return the car on Sunday,

January 29, 1961, at the latest.

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Record of ALEX was again located in Munich, when it

was determined that on the night of January 26-27, 1961, he

stayed

at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof, where he used Room

Number 30. He checked out of this hotel at about 10:40 a.m.

on January Ll, 1961, leaving by taxi and carrying all his

luggage, which consisted of two suitcases and a pair of skis.

It could not be established where ALEX went with this taxi.

According to the Chief Porter at the Bayerischer Hof, ALEX

did not have any visitors at that hotel, nor was he observed

in any conversation other than with hotel personnel.

It could not be established where ALEX went after

leaving Munich on January 25, 1961, until he checked in at the

Bayerischer Hof Hotel on January 26. He arrived back with

his rented car, which he arranged to have picked up by the

rental firm at

the hotel on January 27, 1961, at 9:00 o'clock.

He had traveled a total of 265 kilometers (159 miles) .

After leaving the Bayerischer Hof on January 27, 1961,

ALEX checked into the Hotel Koenigshof on Karlsplatz in Munich

and stayed at this hotel until be left Munich on January 30,

1961, aboard the previously described Air France flight.

Prior to leaving, he made a reservation through Air France for

a room at the Hotel Ritz Carlton in Montreal, Canada, for

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the night of January 30-31; 1961. ALEX was seen off from the

airport at Munich by a woman who was later identified as

DITGARD MAIER.

This leave taking was described as very

intimate by police.

It was determined that DITGARD MAIER

was born December 3, 1938, at SeewalChen, Austria, and was

at the time of ALEX's departure from Munich domiciled with

her mother, Mrs. FUEGER, at Number 12/IV Rosenstrasse in

Munich.

She is

reported to be married. to one HELMUT MAJER,

born at Munich, Germany,

May 18, 1929, who is now said to be

employed in the United States as a solicitor. The MAIER

couple is reported to have been domiciled in the United

States for the past three years.

They are said to have

resided at "59th North Avenue,, Chicago, Illinois" and their

721 N. E. 25th Street, Miami,

Florida. DITGARD MATER came to Munich from the United

States

on January 10, 1961, and originally planned to fly

back to the United States on January 31, 1961, but changed

this plan and reportedly would delay her departure for

approximately one week.

The German Federal Police advised on January 31,

1961, that ALEX left Munich by air for Montreal, Canada,

on January 30, 1961.

It is noted that 59 North Avenue in Chicago,

indicated above as a former address of DITGARD MAIER,

is the

address of the Plaza Hotel.

BERNARD CETCHINSON, Manager,

advised that HELMUT and DITGARD MAIER checked out of the

Plaza Hotel on December 15, 1959, leaving a forwarding

address of the Lincoln Hotel, 1800 North Lincoln Avenue,

in Chicago.

MARSHALL REAL, Desk Clerk, Lincoln Hotel, Chicago,

advised that his records contain no indication that HELMUT

and DITGARD MAIER ever resided at the Lincoln Hotel and

that they are not currently registered there.

He advised

that his 1959 records have been destroyed and that the 1960

records were not at that time available.

The records of the Chicago Police Department as

reviewed by IC FRANCIS G. KAHL contain no information

identifiable with HELMUT or DITGARD MAIER and the records

of the Chicago Credit Bureau, Inc., as reviewed by Mrs. C.

HART, Clerk, were found to contain no information which could

be identified with these individuals.

The records of the

Chicago Credit Bureau,- Inc., and the Chicago Police

Jepartment were checked on February 14, 1961.

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