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124-10204-10152 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (01/01/1963)

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64


Olit   e Memo rdadum     . UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT


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T ;SUBJECT:


Director, FBI (92-2781)

Legal Attache, Havana (92-1)
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SANTO TRAFFICANTE, JR., aka
ANTI-RACKETEERING


DATE: June 10, 1959


          Re Havana letter dated April 29, 1959.

     -    On April 20, 1959, HAV-33 advised that BENITO FERNANDEZ
continued to be the Manager of the Hotel Comodoro gambling casino
for SANTO TRAFFICANTE.


             On May 4, 1959, HAV-33 informed that TRAFFICANTE had
   been observed in the Hotel Deauville casino on April 25, 1959.
   Source noted that  RAFFICANTE was in the company of rUEYkIST
   fGARCIA and EUGENI    L, his two partners in the Hotel Deauville
   ib61ing  operatio=.  Source said that LEAL formerly had been a
   partner of the PERTIERRA brothers in the Montmartre casino.
   Source noted that many of the Cubans who were frequenting the
   Hotel Deauville casino were known users and sellers of ,narcotics.
   Source stated that TRAFFICANTE apparently was stopping by the
   Hotel Deauville casino on a daily basis about opening time.
   Source advised further that TRAFFICANTE also dropped by the
   Hotel Comodoro casino, in which he has an interest, in the
   early morning hours on a daily basis.

             On May 4, 1959, HAV-31 verified the fact that SANTO
   TRAFFICANTE's partners in the Hotel Deauville casino were EVARISTO
   If
   GRCIA  and EUGENIO LEAL.

             On May 6, 1959, JAC    NSKY, Miami Top Hoodlum, and DIN
    ELLINI, floor boss at the Hotel Havana Riviera gambling casino,
  -wed&7arrested by Cuban police authorities on allegations that  7
  they  were international narcotics traffickers.  On May 7, 1959
  PCI  ARTHUR NEWMAN (CONCEAL), Credit Manager, Hotel Nacional gamJ
.  bling casino, advised that TRAFFICANTE had been sitting in the
   Hotel Riviera casino when the police picked up JACK LANSKY and
   DINO CELLINI there.  Source said that when TRAFFICANTE learned
   that the police were also looking for him, he sneaked out of
   the Riviera and had gone into hiding.


6 - Bureau
    (1 - Albany  c
    1  - New York
    2  - Miami, 92-88)
1 - Havana
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JUN 15 1959


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