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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM
IDENTIFICATION FORM
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AGENCY INFORMATION
AGENCY FBI
RECORD NUMBER 124-10204-10157
RECORDS SERIES HQ
AGENCY FILE NUMBER 92-2781-106
DOCUMENT INFORMATION
ORIGINATOR FBI
FROM LEG , HAVANA
TO DIRECTOR , FBI
TITLE
DATE 07/13/59
PAGES 2
SUBJECTS LST , DEPORTED FROM CUBA , REL , WEDDING , Assoc
DOCUMENT TYPE PAPER _ TEXTUAL DOCUMENT
CLASSIFICATION UNCLASSIFIED
RESTRICTIONS 4
CURRENT STATUS RELEASED WITH DELETIONS
DATE OF LAST REVIEW 10/07/98
OPENING CRITERIA INDEFINITE
COMENTS
puz5Release under the
President John F. Kennedy
Assassination Records
Collection Act of 1992
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STANDARD FORM NO: 64
'Sffice M
Vml UNITED VERNMENT
TO Director FBI '92-2781) July 13 , 1959
9
FROM Legat
9
Ravana (92-1)
SUBJECT: SANTO TRAFFICANTE , JRo , aka
ANTI-RACKETEERING
Reference Havena letter dated June 10, 1959
HAV-33 advised On
June 15, 1959 , tbat both the subject
and HENRY SAAVEDRA
9
who represented subject 9 interests i0 the
Hotel Capri
9
continue t0 be detained
Cuban police Source
said it appeared thet subject and SAAVEDRA night be deported:
from Cuba 1n tbe Dear future
0
On June 29
9
1959
9
HAv-33 informed that TRAFFICANTE
released from jail op Juze 21 , 1959
9
1n order
was
eteenaraialgaugleese
s wedding at tbe Hotel Havana-Hilton_
0
to
said that
TRAFFICANTE appeared at the hotel in the: company
Source
of the
Cubap Ministry of Justice and the
{ubae Seceet tojee
Police
Source noted that severel
hundred people
Ctbendee
the wedding celebration at
tbe Hotel Hilton and that
most of these individuals were
persons employed by the 'gambling
casinos in the Havana area
0
Source said that
Miami Top Hoodlum
JACH LANSKY _ and
Boston TopHcodlum
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JOHN ILLIAMS
9
were
"observed
rauatene
MaZ-242
~at
Ene wedding celebration
0
Op July 1 , 1959
9
PCI Arthur Newman
(conceal)
9
Credit
of the
gambling casino at the Hotel Necional, advised that
tbeagejority
of tbe persons in attendance at
the wedding Of
subject 8
daughter were
individuals employed in
the gambling
casinos ip Ravana
Source noted there was only one Small groups;
Of persons comprising TRAFTICANTE 8
immediate family and close
friends in Tanpa wbo came from
the United States to
be present
9 Source noted that most of the boodlums in the
at the wedding
that
police authorities would be
United States are well aware
ettending tbe wedding
on the look-out for
individuals possibly
of TRAFFICANTE' 8 5 daughter ip Havana and for that reason many
hoodlus wbo
might bave
attended stayed in
the United States.
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Bureau (1-cc : Albany and New York
2-CC : Miami 92-88)
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Havana 92-1
7/13/59
On July 10, 1959 , Vice Consul Hugh D. Kessler Citizen-
Ship Section, American Embassy Havana advised that he had
received information from the Cuban authorities that the decree ordering
Subject S
deportation would be
published in the Official Cuban
Government gazette
On
July 13 1959 and it was
expected that subject
would be deported to
tbe United States_ on
approximately July 14 , 1959 _
Extra
copies of this letter have been prepared for
forwarding by the Bureau to the Albany (1) , New York (1) and
Miami (2) offices _
Pending _
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