Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: FORSYTH, THOMAS G. III
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 11/13/1961
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/28/201

AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-10278-10016

RECORD SERIES :

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

HQ

92-2914-237

144 U5C 2107 Notel.

Case#:NW 45839 Date:

04-10-2018

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

FORSYTH, THOMAS G. III

TO :

DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE: 11/13/1961

PAGES:

39

SUBJECTS :

GM, RES, LCN, SMO, RACK AND SUBV, GAMBLING ACT,

RAID, BKG, ASSOC, ARRESTED

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4; 10(a)2; 11(a)

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 01/19/1999

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF IRS

COMMENTS :

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PITTSBURGH

At Pittsburgh, Pa. (Allegheny County)

Will follow and report activities of MANNARINOand his

associates in accordance with Bureau instructions.

ADMINISTRATIVE

This report had been delayed due to the preoccupation

of the preparing Special Agent with important investi-

gative

aspects of this and related cases.

Information in this report of possible value to the

Internal Revenue Service has

been furnished orally to

Special Agent JACK SCHWARTZ, Intelligence Division,

Internal Revenue Service, Pittsburgh, who is conducting

the investigation of subject for his

service.

On Friday, 7/20/61, JACK SCHWARTZ, Intelligence Unit,

IRS, Pittsburgh, advised SA FORSYTH that on Tuesday, 8/1/61

JEK

Law 11(a)

On 7/28/61, SA FORSYTH contacted PG 612-C concerning this

matter and

on 7/31/61, PG 612-C advised that the girl 1s

CHRISTINE "CHRIS" SUPRANO, 610-2nd Avenue, New Kensington,

Pa.

REVIEWED BY POWURK TASK FORCE

ON

1/21198

* RELEASE IN PART

TOTAL DENIAL

92-2914-231

1(a)

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COVER

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On 7/31/01,

the above name was furnished to Agent SCHWARTZ,

and on 8/1/61, SCHWARTZ advised that NOLL affirmea that

CHRIS SUPRANO was the girl to whom he had referred, JEK Law 10(a)2

on 8/1/61,l

the same date,

_testimony,

before the November, 1961, FGJ,

would probably result in

IRS indictments against SAM and KELLY MANNARINO plus

WILLIE SAMS, as proprietors of Nuken Novelty Company and-

against JENNIE MORENO, RAY CALGAGNO and TONY WARDOCLIP,

as employees.

INFORMANTS

The I symbols utilized in this report will be the same,

where applicable, as those used in the special summary

report of 7/28/61:

PG I-2 1s PG 612-0.

PG I-3 is PG 615-C.

PG T-4 is PCI ANTHONY JOHN WISE, JR., Pittsburgh.

PG I-21 is PG 581-C.

PG I-24 1s PG 621-C.

PG T-25 is PCI JAMES W. BURGART, New Kensington, Pa.

PG T-20 is JOSEPH R. MEROLA, Miami Beach, Fla., who

furnished information on 8/14-15/61 at Miami, Fla., to

Pittsburgh Special Agents THOMAS G.

III, and

TCH SA PORTELL Meet Me ME, Requested

his identity be protected, and he is now incarcerated

at the Federal Correctional Institution at Tallahassee,

Fla.

PG 1-29 is PCI EDWARD J. BURKE, Pittsburgh.

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New Kensington, Pa., Mayor RAYMOND GARDLOCK and the

majority of his City Councilmen have been

"owned" by

the MANNARINOs since their election approximately eight

Kensington City

Council chambers so that tape recordings of the proceedings

could be made.

Chiel JOHN BORDONARag, New Kensington, ra.,

Police Depart-

nent, is the personal selection for the job of KELLY

MANNARINO.

It is noted that Mayor RAYMOND GARDLOCK of New Kensington

was defeated in the primary elections of May, 1961, and

will not be a candidate for re-election in the general

mary electection

elections of November, 1961.

The August 29, 1961, edition of the "Daily Dispatch,"

an editorial entitled "The MANNARINOS Rule.

daily newspaper published in New Kensington, Thi carried

editorial

is as follows:

"That the Mannarino mob owns the administration

•I Mayor Raymona t. Garalock Lock, stock and

barrel and has absolute control of Chief John

Bordonaro's police department as conclusively

demonstrated to the satisfaction of even the most

skeptical last Thursday during the raid on the

notorious gambling casino.

"For three hours not a policeman showed up to

regulate traffic in the vicinity or to control a

crowd upwards of 500 which formed while the

federal agents were at work.

"To offer the excuse,

as citv hall has done.

that the police department did not know what

was happening is ridiculous and no one in his

right mind will believe it. You can be sure that

police officials knew all along exactly what was

happening and that the failure to send officers

to the scene was deliberate. And they also knew

right along of the existence of the casino and yet

never raised a finger against it.

To ask why

they failed to act is needless - everyone knows.

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J. CHARACTERIZATION OF INFORMANTS

PG T-2 is a New Kensington, Pa., numbers writer, formerly

connected with prostitution

activities.

PG T-3 is a physician whose professional services have

on occasions been used by members of the MANNARINO

organization and who frequents MANNARINO controlled

gambling and after-hours establishments.

iG 1-4 1s a Pittsourgh, Pa., man who nas actea as a

consultant to the MANNARINOs in connection with some

IS UARVARINOS

of their legitimate enterprises.

PG T-21 is a Pittsburgh, Pa., businesswoman who frequents

places where gamblers and

l racketeers congregate.

PG I-24 is operator of an Allegheny County, Pa., gambling

casino which competes with the MANNARINO casino.

PG I-25 is a man with current activities regarding numbers,

horse bets, and

sports bets in New Kensington,

Pa., and

surrounding area.

PG I-28 is

a man with experience in used cars, prostitution,

robbery and burglary who is readily accepted

py racketeers

throughout the country.

PG I-29 is a man who has been associated with narcotics,

prostitution and vice of all kinds for over 15 years in

the Pittsburgh, Pa., region.

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