OCR transcription — Page 65
BU 92-61
He further advised that the house is equipped with alarm signals and he has been in the club on routine checks about twenty times and has not observed a rake-off at the tables. He further advised that the club issues membership cards and the identity of each member is closely checked before he is admitted.
[REDACTED] advised that the club changed its name to the Frontier Veterans Association in July, 1957 and he has never heard the subject's name mentioned in connection with the gambling establishment operated in Fort Erie, Ontario.
[REDACTED] stated the following men appeared to be employees of the club:
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On January 3, 1958, [REDACTED], Ontario Provincial Police, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, advised SA LEO J. KENNEDY that he had developed no information concerning the subject since the time that he furnished the original information to the Buffalo Office on May 23, 1957. [REDACTED] stated that he had asked CHARLES J. GORMAN, Director of Safety, Niagara Falls, New York, to assign him a detective for use in interviewing MAGADDINO but GORMAN had flatly refused to do so. [REDACTED] stated he wanted to see the subject in order to possibly “stir up trouble” in the gambling fraternity in Canada by telling the subject that it was rumored that the subject was paying him a bribe through an intermediary and the money was being retained by the latter. He stated that GORMAN, in refusing his request for a detective to accompany him, had merely stated that it was futile to seek information from the subject and GORMAN had added that the subject “would spit in your face.”
On February 1, 1958, T-3, who has furnished both reliable and unreliable information in the past, advised SA [REDACTED] that he had heard rumors to the effect that STEVE MAGADDINO was actually at the meeting at Apalachin on November 14, 1957. Informant said there were twelve “big shots” at this meeting who were never identified by the state police or at the subsequent hearings regarding the Apalachin meeting. He said that these twelve men, all of whom could speak and read English, were hidden in a secret room in the BARBARA home, at the time that the police made their appearance at the meeting.
This informant described SAM LAGATTUTA, ROY CARLISI, and JAMES LA DUCA, all of whom were in attendance at the—
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