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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

10/6/201

AGENCY: HSCA

RECORD NUMBER: 180-10104-10294

RECORD SERIES: NUMBERED FILES.

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: HSCA

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: HSCA

FROM:

TO:

TTTLE :

DATE: 00/00/0000

PAGES:

14

SUBJECTS :

BINION, BENNY.

CAMPISI, JOE.

JAFFE, MILTON.

INS, FILES.

CIVELLA, JOSEPH.

DOCUMENT TYPE: OTHER TEXTUAL.

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 3

CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 01/27/1997

OPENING CRITERIA:

COMMENTS :

INS file review; typed notes. Box 250.

Released under the John F. Kennedy

Assassination Records Collection Act of

1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). Case#:NW

B8326 Date: 2025

v9.1

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Howard Shapiro

414048

INS File Reviews

A. Benny Binion

File #A8 952 077

DOB: 11/20/04

POB:

Pilot Grove, Texas

FBI #206 216

General Information:

- Took over policy in Dallas after Freiden killed in

1936 -- ex-boss of Dallas million dollar policy

racket -- had 40% of Herbert Noble's take -- in

protection racket he had trouble with Noble, bitter

enemies

-- 7 attempts to kill Noble -- Noble's wife

killed 11/29/49 when she started her car.

- DPD It. reportedly tapped phone calls and miked room --

BB supposedly knew who killed Noble's wife and would

have him killed in jail as good-will gesture if Noble

let BB back into Dallas rackets. BB fled Dallas in

1946.

- Record:

charged in Freiden killing but released 12/28/36.

charged concealed weapon 9/30/32.

homicide conv. of bootlegger 5/25/32; got

suspended sentence.

- 12/6/53 news clip:

- BB pays $516,541.93 in back taxes

- Still got 5-year

sentence on tax evasion rap.

- 1956 invest. satisfies INS that BB is U.S. citizen

through birth as he claimed and will not be deported.

- 7/8/55 INS memo:

- BB currently prisoner at Leavenworth.

- BB file also contains reference to invest. of Harry

Remer Urban.

DOB:

9/9/06; Dallas

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Howard Shapiro

INS File Reviews... page 2

B. R.D. Matthews

File #A14 529 111

- 3/23/65 report:

- RDM was born 9/26/20 under the name Russell Douglass

Boya, Jr. and later changed his name in court.

- Says RDM has been arrested many times since 1948.

- INS concludes that RDM appears to be U.S. citizen.

- Name change was in Dallas court on 11/17/60 (Bureau

of Vital Stats Certificate #39787 #5139).

- Attached affidavit from RDM's mother:

- Says RDM served in Marines in WW-II

- RDM used Matthews after father died and mother

remarried.

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Howard Shapiro

INS File Reviews...page 3

C. Joe Campisi

File #A12 531 109

- 8/5/69 letter

- Says JC, Peter J. Piccola, and Jimmy I. Maggiota are

of interest to O.C. and racket section of Justice

Department.

- 3/7/62 report:

- Verifies JC's citizenship (through his father and

school records).

- Carlo Campisi - says he came to U.S. with wife in

1907 to La.

Moved to Dallas in 1917.

- Lists JC as a gambler, making bets in excess of

$1000 on baseball games and says he knows many

influential people in Dallas city government and DPD.

- 11/7/61 memo

- INS investigator lists Dallas residents who are

involved in gambling rackets and/or liquor rackets:

JC

S. Campisi

Jimmy Maggiotta

Joe L. Tinnerrello

Joseph J. Colletta

John Michael Carcelli

Johnny Patrona

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Howard Shapiro

INS File Reviews... page 4

D. Sam Campisi

File #A12 531 043

DOB: 5/20/20

- 10/23/63 memo:

- Lists individuals identified as ICN members:

SC

Charles P. Manicchia

Ross Peter Interrante

Luke Cortemeglia

Jimmy Maggiotta

Phillip Municchia

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Howard Shapiro

INS File Reviews... page 5

E. Joseph Civello

File #A11 302 676

DOB: 2/3/02, Port Allen, La.

- 9/9/59 • memo

- Original family name was Shivera; changed to

Civello in 1932.

- Few news clips on Civello and Appalachia meeting.

-5/22/59 memo

- Says Civello and Frank Desimone claim to be cousins.

INS unable to verify this.

- 3/13/59 news clip

- JC won't testify before L.A.

g.j. - his attorney saya he's uneducated and confused.

g.j. - will give him another chance before contempt

rap.

-9/11/58 report

- Ross Musso is JC's brother-in-law.

Civello's file contains testimony given by John Cusach, Narcotics

Agent, on 1/19/58 before N.Y. Joint Legis. Comm. on Govt.

Operations.

- This text runs down list of top Mafia men in 1958 with

brief bio sketches.

- Civello is mentioned; says he was convicted in Dallas in

1937 (on narcotics rap?) and got 15-year sentence -

commuted and released from prison 11/6/48. Now he has

pardon application pending.

- Gabriel Mannarino is mentioned: DOB - 10/31/16, Pa!

- Says he runs numbers and slot machines with brother

Sammy in Westmoreland Cty, Pa.

- In 1950 word was that GM was going to move in on

Pittsburgh numbers racket and let "Cuban mob" take

over in New Kensington.

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Howard Shapiro

INS File Reviews..• page 6

E. Joseph Civello. (Cont'd)

- Info that Mannarino has concession at Sans Souci in

Havana (owned by Trafficante) .

- 11/26/57 report

- Lists murder arrest for JC on 7/14/23 - later

exonerated.

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Howard Shapiro

INS File Reviews... page 7

F. Milton Jaffe

File #A13 093 381

DOB:

8/19/95, Braddock,

Pa.

- 6/4/63 report

- Lists prior residences as:

- 5725 Torkes Ave., Pittsburgh

6308 Pennsylvania Ave., Pittsburgh

- Employment last five years:

- Casin2, interest in Karat, Inc, aba stardust

- Prior occupations: gambling, 6308 Penn Ave.,

Pittsburgh.

- Details Jaffe family history -nothing startling.

- 2/18/63 memo

- Lists MJ as important figure in L.V. gambling

circles along with: B. Rothkopf

M. Rubin

J... Gottlieb

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Howard Shapiro

INS File Reviews...page 8

G. Pedro Digno Fox-Zamora

тОве #0/13/13, 246

3, Havani

- Copy of PF's naturalization certificate - #38033; 3/15/68

- Signed Pedro Rudy Fox (wants name changed to this):

- Admit ed to 03 12/29/61

- Res.:

302 Beacon Blvd., Miami.

- Says since 5/29/61 he has never left U.S. for more

than six months.

- Last place of foreign residence is Tropicana

- Present occupation: restaurant captain at

- Denies Communist affiliation and criminal record.

- Other names used: Rudy P. Fox

- Was general manager at Tropicana.

- Records show entry into N.Y. 5/18/60

Miami: 3/13/60

- Passport #14776

- Fox applied for immigrant visa at American Embassy in

Mexico City®

- Says he is a merchant.

- Lists assets as: $ 5,000 cash

81,200 bank deposits

15,000 real estate

10,000 investment

- Residences:

1924-29

Havana

1929-39

Miami

1939-60 Havana

1960-date Miami

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Howard Shapiro

INS File Reviews... page 9

H. Martin Gabriel Zamora-Fox

File #A12 416 893

DOB: 3/18/96, Matanzas, Cuba

- 3/25/66 letter to Social Sec. Adm.

- Says ME is Pedro Fox's brother.

- ME entered U.S. 7/2/61 at Miami from Mexico as permanent

resident.

- This is response to Pedro Fox 3/23/66 request for info

so his brother can get Medicare benefits; note on

request says applicant is mentally ill -- don't know

if this means Pedro or Martin.

- 7/2/61 immigrant visa application

- Martin has passport #13603

- Lists occupation as real estate owner

- Assets: $ 15,000 cash

50,000 bank deposits

30,000 real estate

- Martin was

always in Cuba.

- 6/26/61 letter from Pan American Bank, Miami to U.S.

Consul, Mexico City

- Says MF has had checking account with substantial

deposits since October 1952.

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I. Luis Eusebio Balbueka-Calzadillo

- Naturalization certificate #47462 - 5/1/70

File #A12 854 523

- DOB: 12/15/28; Guantanamo, Cuba

- Denies Communist affiliatons and criminal record

- Residence:

450 N.W. 45th Ave., Miami

-Lave amite 8/23/116152

- Previous U.S. addresses: 927 SW 3 St., Miami

918 SW 10th St., Miami

- Employment in U.S.:

1/68

9/65 - 1/68

2/64 - 9/65

3/63 - 2/64

10/62 - 1/63

Aero Cast, Inc.

Air Craft Casting

Spring Lock Scaffol

Singer Co.

Richards Dept. Store

- Occupation:: caster

- Worked for U.S. Government, Guantanamo Bay, from

1943 - 10/61.

- Untitled documents:

- States LB can't return to Cuba for political reasons.

- 10/4/62 report - Lists LB as anti-Castro "founder of

anti-Castro Patrionatas de Libertad in Oriente Province."

"ex-member of MRR," "connected w/Nino."

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Howard Shapiro

INS File Reviews...page 11

J. Edward Browder, Jr.

File #All 876 213

- 6/8/60 letter from INS to Browder (at 6300 Snapper Creek

Drive, Miami)

- Informs EB that he is not to depart from U.S. to

Cuba until further notice.

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Howard Shapiro

INS File Reviews... page 12

K. Norman Rothman

File #A11 885 359

- 6/11/63 memo from Bureau of Narcotics to INS

- Lists Cuban types mixed up in narcotics

- NR listed as violator and suspect along with others,

including: Trafficante

Tourine

Lanally

- Lists associates of NR:

Michael Morrison

Jean Baptiste Croce

Josef Albert Bistoni

Paul D. Mondolini

- States NR spends much time around Havana casinos.

Was associated with Lucien Rivard in operation of

El Morocco casino in Camagney, Cuba into which he

imports slot machiens from U.s.

- INS recommends deportation from Cuba to U.S.

- 6/13/60 - news clip

- Says George Mecalling has revealed himself as true

owner of Biltmore Terrace Hotel in Miami and will

ask for Fed. bankruptcy.

- Hotel is described as haven for Batista Cubans and

NR described as big-time builder in Cuba under

Batista and as front man at hotel until

Mecalling's disclosure.

- Says NR was convicted in Feb. in case involving

smuggling weapons into Cuba - now on appeal.

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Howard Shapiro

INS File Reviews...page 13

L. Dominick Bartone

File #A10 190 157

- 10/28/

memo

- DOB:

8/8/13; N.Y.

Res.:

25 Lansdowne Rã., Toledo, Ohio

- Mentions DB's long record and some specific raps

- "Unconfirmed rumors have circulated for years that

during the

w/the CIA, „late 1950's

he was involved in some capacity

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Howard Shapiro

INS File Reviews...page 14

M. Edward Ivan Arthur

File #A13 137 451

6/15/35

SS #290-28-2188

Res.: 92 Belpre P1., W.,

Waterville, Ohio

43081

Fit over to hi ten a ana tea on Arenat

- Only thing in the file is FBI report (10/30/63) deleted for

HSCA due to 3rd agency rule.

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