Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, LA
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 08/22/1968
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (41 USC 2107 Hoter.

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JFK Assassination System

Date:

5/20/201

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER:

RECORD SERIES :

FBI

124-10288-10419

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

92-6054-2408

Document Information

ORIGINATOR :

FROM:

TO:

TITLE:

FBI

SAC, LA

DIRECTOR, FBI

DATE: 08/22/1968

'PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

LCN, INVESTMENTS, LEGITIMATE BUSS, ASSOC, JRO, FAS,

B/F INT

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/08/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

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"FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

COMMUNICATION SECTION

AUG2 & 1968

TELET

FBI WASH DC

FBI LOS ANG.

1219AM

URGENT 8-22-68 LAC

IO DIRECTOR (92-6054), NEW ORLEANS, & NEW YORK (92-2300)

FROM LOS ANGELES (92-1112)

144-1

Mr.

Tolcon

Mr.

DeLoach

Mr.

Mohr.

Mr.- Bishop

Mr.

Casper.

Mr.

Callahan

Mr.

Conrad

Mr. Felt

Mr. Gale.

Mar. Rosen

Mr.

Sullivan

Mr.

Tavel

Vr. Trotter

Tele. Room

Holmes.

Miss

Gandy

staffill

RA COSA NOSTRA. AR - CONSPIRACY.

FOLLOWING INFORMATION RELATES TO POSSIBLE LON

INVESIMENIS INTO LEGITIMATE BUSINESS.

Gor

Engery

A LOS ANGELES SOURCE ON AUGUST SIXTEEN

LAST RETURNED TO THE U.S. FROM A IWO WEEK TRIP MADE TO THE

ORIENT. THIS INFORMANT IS AN ASSOCIATE OF NICOLO LICATA

BOSS OF THE LA FAMILY INFORMANT WAS ACCOMPANIED ON TRIP

BY OZZIE CURTIS AN LA RESIDENT WHO IS ON THE PAYROLL OF

HOWARD HUGHES.

IN TOKYO, JAPAN OZZIE CURTIS AND INFORMANT MET

NiY:

B. APPROX 1 2 18

WHO PANE NICHOLAS ZAPPETI DESCRIBED AS MAE, AAN, A 2408

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17 AUG 28 1968

86 SEPS

1968

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FIFTY YEARS OLD, WHO HAS BEEN IN TOKYO FOR TWENTY TWO YEARS

AND WAS RAISED IN THE NYC AREA. PRIOR TO MEETING, CURTIS

TOLD INFORMANT THAT OVER PAST SEVERAL YEARS HE HAS MET WITH

ZAPPETTI IN TOKYO ON APPROXIMATELY THIRTY OCCASIONS.

ZAPPETTI ACCORDING IO CURTIS WAS A CLOSE ASSOCIATE OF THE

LATE ALBERT ANASTASIA AND DUTCH SCHULZ• CURTIS FIRST MET

ZAPPETTI ON A MESSENGER INTRODUCTION ARRANGED BY JOHN ROSELLI

LON MEMBER RESIDING LA BELONGING CHICAGO.

IN MEETING WITH ZAPPETTI, ZAPPETTI ADVISED THAT

EARLY IN NINETEEN SIXTY EIGHT HE TELEPHONED THE U. S. AND

Grippin

INSTRUCTED EDWARD

PUCCI TO COME TO TOKYO. PUCCI DESCRIBED,

> AS CURRENT BODYGUARD FOR WELL KNOWN ENTERTAINER FRANK SINATRA AND

A FORMER FOOTBALL STAR FOR USC. ZAPPETTI SET UP AN UNKNOWN COMPANY

FORMED IN PANAMA WHICH OPERATES GENERAL STORES

IN THE LOUISIANA AREA.

THESE STORES ARE USED TO. PURCHASE FROM TRAPPERS NUTRIA FURS WHICH

ARE SENT TO JAPAN FOR PROCESSING AND SUBSEQUENT SALE IN THE

ORIENT• PUCCI WAS SENT TO CARLOS MARCELLO, LON BOSS

NEW ORLEANS TO ARRANGE THAT NO OTHER COMPANY COMPETE WITH HIS

MARCELLO AGREED TO MAKE

GENERAL STORES IN PURCHASING FURS.

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SUCH ARRANGEMENTS AND BECAME A PARINER WITH ZAPPETTI.

INFORMANT AND CURTIS HAVE BEEN COMMISSIONED BY

ZAPPETTI TO SET UP DISIRIBUTORSHIPS IN THE CALIFORNIA AREA

SO THAT THESE FURS CAN BE SOLD IN THE U.S. INFORMANT

INTENDS TO MEET WITH JOHN ROSELLI AND LICATA CONCERNING SUCH

ARRANGEMENTS AND IN THIRTY DAYS WILL AGAIN TRAVEL TO TOKYO

AND MEET WITH ZAPPETTI.

NEW ORLEANS THROUGH APPROPRIATE SOURCES, DETERMINE

WHAT COMPANY

OPERATES PURCHASES OF NUTRIA FURS LOUISIANA

AND OBTAIN LIST OF OFFICERS AND HISTORY OF SUCH COMPANY•

NEW YORK IS REQUESTED TO REVIEW INDICES AND

FORWARD TO NEW ORLEANS AND LA ANY PERTINENT INFORMATION

CONCERNING NICHOLAS ZAPPETTI WITH PARTICULAR CONCERN TO LCN

INFLUENCE OR TIES.

FOR INFO ALL, CURTIS DESCRIBED ZAPPETTI AS BEING

ACTIVE IN ORGANIZED CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES TOKYO

AND HAVING STRONG INFLUENCE OVER JAPANESE ORGANIZED CRIME

LEADERS THAT AREA. ZAPPETTI CLAIMS CLOSE TIES TO LON.

BECAUSE INFO SET FORTH IS IN EMBRYONIC STAGE

OF DEVELOPMENT AND SINCE INFORMANT IS CLOSELY INVOLVED IN

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