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. _^v OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10
^:>j^ MAY 1962 EDITION if^.--* " ; GSA FPMR (41 CFR) tOl-11,6 -^ifSpTiTED STATES lERNMENT Memorandum «
TO Director, FBI date: Ma;
FROM SAC, Miami (80-1229)
x'^^^JS'^JlTToKCONTAlflBiE WACKENHUT CORPORATION ^S^^pTsOTismEoGOVERNOR'S WAR ON CRIME
Today VICTOR Rr KMY, presently an employee of ^ ^ s The Wackenhut Corporation and formerly an Agent of the Bureau, /^'^ contacted me and advised that The Wackenhut Corporation /^ j a is having difficulty getting information from local law tJ^L^j enforcement agencies, KEAY said he is fully familiar with"^ the Bureau's regulations but he said he does feel they are being hampered by not getting information from local law enforcement agencies.
He said they have four or five excellent cases as far as local corruption is concerned and they intend to proceed on these cases in the near^^rfture. He stated the Governor recently contacted GEORGE^rwACKENHUT and advised him that he wanted to proceed agains^sr^the hoodlums inJFlorida and! requested that he get full background on them, KEAY said, of course, not having any inroads into this information, it would be almost an impossible situation.
KEAY said it was a situation that has to be resolved. I pointed out to KEAY the Bureau's regulations in connection with the dissemination of information to private investigative ag^ncies and told him we were precluded by law. He said he fully realized the Bureau's position and stated it is his
understanding » and he gave me |this information confidentially, ] :b7D J He stated that WACKENHUT in no way wanted to run in opposition to the Bureau and merely wanted to get the thing clarifjied. Apparently the Wackenhut people have been turned down b[y all authorized law enforcement agenfedes. ..2JIL
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KEAY indicated there is a possibility he might contact the Director, I emphatically pointed out to KEAY that the regulations are :b7D hard and fast and I could see no reason why Wackenhut or any one of his representatives] should contact the Director.
KEAY said he would keep me informed of developments
and what plan WACKENHUT and I I will keep the Bureau advised*
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^ 2 - i;MAY 1962 EDiriON GSA GEN. HEC. NO. 27 ^ UNITED STATES GC RNMENT i 4^ DeLoach ^^^/ 1 - DeLoach 1 - Rosen Memorandum 1 - Mohr 1 - Wick 1 - Casper 1 - M.A.Jones 1 - Gale TO MR. TOLSON DATE: March 2, 1967
FROM CD. DeLOACH ® Gandy SUBJECT: THE WACKENHUT CORPORATION ^v-^^V^^l'^'^-'^..^^ MIAMI, FLORIDA 5^C^^T\:n-"^-'S^^^^^^^ INVESTIGATION OF ORGANIZED CRIME - nTHEKfflSlS STATE OF FLORIDA - VICTOR P. KEAY, FORMER INSPECTOR
I received a call at approximately 10 a.m., March 2, >/. 1967, from former Inspector Victor Keay, who was calling from ^ Miami, Florida, rRprf^«enting th^ WarkAnhut nnyi»f corporation has been designated I ^ to investigate matters involving organizea" criige within the b7D \ state. There has been considerable criticism >with regard t o^ "^ Hictions in this regard Ap-- Mr, Keay made reference to the{ ]designat i on of the Wackenhut Corporation and indicated that there has been vv^^ criticism in the Florida area concerning this matter. He ^vd i\^ stated such criticism was chiefly being made by left wing ^ organizations. He told me th at the designation of the Wackenhut^ iCorporationI I in the fight against orgknlzed crimev^ [was I I He stated that! I , approached George Wackenhut concerning the matter during the Wackenhut , according to Keay, had never met prior to that time. Keay describedl as a very aggressive individual who j (>^' demands thai assignments be handled in an extremely rapid manner.; Keay attempted to explain that Wackenhut was[ ] had no other place , , ^^o turn. Keay stated^ obviously Florida Sheriffs, some of whom are corrupt, could not be expected to handle such a matter. Keay then stated there was a distinct difference between the ^^d Wackenhut Corporation and the designation of George Wackenhut to investigate organized criiie. He explained that George Wackenlfit has been made a member of the Governor's personal staff and as a^ result has an official or legal basis on which to conduct investiga- tions. Keay mentioned that despite the fact that the Wackenhut Corporation is using its investigators to handle this assignment, the files are nevertheless maintained separate and distinct from the Wackenhut Corporation.^ i^Ce.ay stated th^e files are regarded f i lesf^" on to tell me as Way went | | I 1 ;^ v^/ REC- 494^ ,?^^ /O '/i^/gj^" CONTINUED - OVER**^**^ "^^^^^"^^^ 8® /WAR J 4 Wj ,\ . 'V ^ 4 4 Memo: DeLoach to Tolson RE: THE WACKENHUT CORPORATION the chief magistrate of the State of Florida ana accoramg to xne constitution of the State has the prerogative of employing individuals to "protect the life and liberty of the State/' llegedly also has the authority to employ I a investigators for this particular purpose. :b7D Keay told me that ithe question has arisen regarding tthe obtaining of FBI criminal records by the Wackenhut Corporation. He stated there is also a q[uestion as to the Wackenhut Corporation receiving FBI information and^ particularly that information which the FBI has given to local law enforcement. Keay stated in some instances local law enforcemenit has refused to give Wackenhut investigators any FBI criminal information as well as information from their files. Refusals haifee been based on the fact that the information received from the FBI has been intermingled with that information possessed by the local law enforcement agency. Keay stated he wanted to make it Gl0ar Wackenhut and his group have not asked for any information yet; however, the Wackenhut Corpora- tion has been led to believe that the FBI will not cooperate neither will it allow local law enforcjement agencies to cooperate. I told Keay we, of course, have no jurisdiction over local law enforcement agencies; however, we did have every authority to dictate concerning any release of FBI criminal records or FBI information. Keay told me on onje occai^ion the assistant agent in charge of the Jacksonville Division of the FBI had advised a local law enforcement representative that if this representative's organization gave information jto Wackenhut and his group, this b7D organization would immediately be cut off from receiving further cooperation from the FBI. Keaiy stated a local agent in the Miami Division of the FBI had indicaited the same policy to another local law enforcement representative. Keay stated the reason for his call was to determine policy in this regard inasmuch as Wackenhut, being an official representative [ was entitled to receive information from local law enforcement files. I told Keay that Wackenhut was not authorized to receive any information from FBI files and that furthermore no local law enforcement agency had authority to turn ov"er xro"wi:uReifflK^~an3Ti^ ^ group any information which had originally been furnished^.by the FBI, criminal records or otherwise / -2- CONTINUED/- OVER k^i i 4 Memo: DeLoach to Tolson Re : THE WACKENHUT CX)RPORATION Keay replied that he thought perhaps should [ (correspond with the Director in order to properly identify the legal basis on which such records and information would be requested. I told Keay this, of course. [ Keay stated that he thought about this initially; however, did not want it to appear he was going over the Director's head with respect to this issue. I told him once again that despite IWackenhut's designation to[ ]staff it was true that :b7D [Wackenhut and his assistants represent a private detective outfit with whom we have no authority whatsoever to cooper ate and with whom very dd#f initely we did not cooperate. Keay stated! would write a letter f" asking for usage of FBI information and criminal records which could be obtained from local law enforcement in Florida* OBSERVATION ; The so-called "legal" or *'official'^ basis upon which Wackenhut, through Keay, is making a claim to FBI information and criminal records is, of course, absurd. We, nevertheless, should alert the Attni^nftv gpiniarai ±q the matter so that he can anticipate a request fromjI in this regard. :b7D ACTION: The Special Investigatlive Division is preparing a letter to the Attorney General in connection with the above facts. f^f*^/p i/ ^ -3- OFTIONAl fOKM-NO. tO MAY 1963 tOlTION OSA GEN. REG. NO. 37 Tols UNITED STATES GO«LNMENT * DeLocch . 1 - Mr. Co^ad>S^a< - Enc. Memorandum 1 - Mr, Jevons - Enc. 1 - Mr, Herndon - Enc. TO Conrad DATE: February 1967 Mr. !i>^^^ 27> FROM R. H, Jevon&'^;n^ Tele. Room ^-pHolmes Gandy SUBJECT: USE OF "LIE DETECTORS" - /6- ' COWTAIIfflD n. REPORT TO SUBCOMMITTEE ON 'ALL IHFORMATIOK _.^, * -'i.y ^i,i>^' FOREIGN OPERATIONS AND HEREIN IS MCLASSIIIEO. / GOVERNMENT INFORMATION EXCEPT n-SSE SHOWiSj ' ' ' ' OIHSllISI , . ,^ 1 Mr, Ernest C. Friesen,j Jr., Assistant Attorney General y for Administration, by memorandum February 23, 1967, (attached) requested our comments regarding an inquiry made by the above Subcommittee. Chairman John E. Moss (Democrat - California) by letter February 13, 1967, to the Acting Attorney General requested information concerning the use of *'lie detectors'* by the^?ackeiUiut_Cp.rporaj^ Coral Gables, Florida, under contract with the Department of Justice. The Bureau is already on public record (July 22, 1963) with the above Subcommittee thai we do not "contract with other public or private agencies to perform such tests," Therefore, *^ it is proposed that we advise tiie Department that the Bureau does not currently have or has ever had any contract with * the Wackenhut Corporation providing for the use of the polygraph. ACTION: If approved, attached is a memorandum to the Department setting out the above. Enclosures (2) 80-5 : =^-^s-^ 1 - Mr. Mohr - Enc. 1 - Mr. DeLoach - Enc. 1 - Mr. Wick - Enc. J /jik BPHrSAR -. "7 iSB'/ I : :. iViAK «^ ''• s^'S ,.• MAR 6 '%.s^ .19o7;--- '^CQ^ ^^S0 " 7 4-572 {Rev. 7-18-63) OMIONAI fOlM NO. 10 MAY 1961 lOITION CSA Gew. «C. HO. J UNITED STATES GOVERNMENTjBvef f Memorandum TO The Director DATE: Fel. 3/: m7 y^'lF^OM : N.P. Callah an '\, ^ SUBJECT: yhe Congressional Record vi Pages S2463-S2465, Senator Nelson, (D) Wisconsin, stated ^ *'I think there is cause to be deeply disturbed by a number of developments recently which seem to indicate an alarming :rend in this country toward the of tactics. I refer to the folbwing developments: First, , use police-state *^The lavish subsidization of the National Student Association and other private domestic organizations by the Central Intelligence Agency. Second. The widespread use of wiretapping and eavesdropping by Government agencies. Third. The subsidization of supposedly legitimate books by the U- S. Information Agency, primarily for propaganda purposes. Fourth. The > use of private detective agencies by large corporations such as General Motors to harass a private citizen such as Ralph Nader. Fifth. The widespread practice of industrial spying to discover competitor's corporate secrets. Sixth. The use of a private detective agency by the State of Florida, " ^allegedly to conduct a widespread investigation into crime and corruption. He also stated "When Federal agencies tap telephones and bug hotel rooms, I I they are not merely acting in secret—they are acting dishonestly. For the if law. Government regulations, and the comments of high Government officials have all reassured us that these things were] not being done. These assurances, it now appears, were lies. " He also indicated the newly elected Governor (Florida) has "engaged a close per|sonal friend, George R. Wackenhut, and directed him to unleashAhis detective agency throughout Florida in search of 'corrupt officials. ' ThenHackenhut Corp.| has 5, 000 employees in 28 offices stretching from Puerto Rico to Hawaii, with subsidiaries in several Latin American countries. Now this gigantic organization, with its tentacles involved in politics and other affairs over much of the globe, has . gone to work for a high public official. Presumably it will have access to all files, files other material I manner of official documents, police FBI and generally available only to responsible public officials. I have said that all I of secrecy I of these deplorable developments have in common the elements land dishonesty. C:f'M$3^' T RECORDED In the originaJ[_^of a memorandum captioned and dated as above, the Congressional Record for fe^h- ^3jJ^C ^ ^^'^ reviewed and pertinent items were ^ MAR 8 1967 marked for the Director's QX.ien'iion. This form has he^n prepared in order that portions of a copy of the original memorandum may be clipped, mounted, and place in appropriate Bureau case or subject matter files. l69MART4i9fiW v<»^ s '^.'•. -C' Willacrd F. Cox E TAMPA TRIBUNJ ¥ MORNING AND U N D A Y PUBUSMED BY THE TRIBUNE COMPANY I BOX 191 TAMPA, FLORIDA 33eoi March 5 Tolscrn^ eLoavl Mi- J Mnht.yl Mr. J. Edfear Hoover Director, Federal Btireau of Investigation Mr. CaV Washington, D.C. Mr. ConfiJfJl Mr. Folt.= Mr. Rosen.. Mr. Sulli'val 'Mr. Tavel.. Dear Mr# Hoover: Mr. Trotter! Tele, RooraJ Miss Holmel Florida GoVo Claude E. Kirk has designated the Miss Gandyl Vackenhut detective agency as his special consultant and representative in a "War on Orimew" There has been considerable reaction fckoHgh throughout Florida to the concept of a private detective agency working under the sanction of government and supported by private subscription* The Florida Attorney Gjeneral has since ruled that the detective agency has no standing other than that of any ipy\ other private citizen in obtainihg access to private police filefe. The ruling was requested by Tampa Police Chief J. P. Mullins* Tampa Mayor Nick Nuccito said one bf the reasons the attorney general's opinion was sought was that FBI records are on file in the police department land that opening them to the detective agency would endange the department's standing with the FBI. Question: What is the position of the F.B.I, in relation to cooperation with the Wackenhut Detective Agency as a representative of Florida Gov. Claude S. Kirk? Are the Bureau^s files open. to the Wackenhut agency? What would be the Bureau* ppsition if local police agencies made F.B.I.^ records available to the Wackenhut Agency? Have you issued any instructions to ^ special agents in Florida covering these situations? ' Thanking you in advance for a prompt reply, I remain, sincerely. /lIc6/o.^(, M t> Willard F, Cox I J^H'i^ V*rs»r«».T» • m ' 6..£^?/M/ m m:: 20 iS37 'ii 'WiARVriae/ a ^ ^ .c^ 0?T10n*.L fO«w. NO. to M-Klfti^AJ EDttlO'ft GiAOEN. REG. NO. 3/ "^ UNITED STATES GO€NMENT i DeLocch ^t^ emGrandum Cailahcir. „.^— "X ^' -/: i^o DeLoaqii] DATK: Iflarch 20, 19S7 : ;OM H. Gale •^' Hoi:no.: - Gandy — /^' SUBJECT C7JMINAL '5IJ-.IGSNCE PEOC'B/.v.I 0SH1S"-I^X During his campaign preceding his electtiou as I J ,../ Governor of Florida in Novciabek", 1966, Claude R, Kirk, Si. / p;romised to do sOiUething about organised crime activities in the Florida area and^ upon assuaiing office in January, n 1967, he appointed the v?ac -:.g-a hut_CGrporat J£in^ a private 1} detective corapany^ as *'a spacitl p^llco "xo'rce'' to conduct a privately financed investigr.tidn of crime conditions. According \ to recent press reports j, the Governor's approach to the problem has created wide-spreaii controversy and aroused the K j Florida Sheriffs Bureau (?3B) to atterapt to acquire more ? authority and stature as the primary official investigative sf agency for the State of Florida^ In anticipation of the Govei-nor's report on the influence of organized crime in Florida to be. released this v.'eek and prepared from the results r^: of.': the V/ackenhut investigations the FGB sent a report to the Governor and members of the calt»inet on March 17, 1937 ^ stating that the La Cosa Nostra has laade "significant'' inroads into legitimate businesses and raany of its members have established permanent residences in Florida o A copy of the ten-page report has" been obtained and aa reviev/,of this report discJ.oses specific data is contaiued therein, nor e^ any hoodlums or their places of au4:,n3S3 identifiedo The information is stated to be based on ^^c -vuL ;noJin detailed reports maintained by the FSB and the summar;'- ^3t fo::th pertains to situations which are already known to :s through our Criminal Intelligence P^^ogramo We have identif :\':^:' 31 La Cosa Nostra members and 18 possible members who re.i-r.de in Florida^ We have also i' rC v/ith ; identified approximately 2 individuals connected .: La Cosa Nostra activities who visit the Florida area from time \j to time* Our Miami Office I^as reported that the influence .. j'of racket money is limited '!:o approximately three per cent of I the 1,700 hotels and mote:.;^ :ln the South Florida area and is 'found in the. major reso: :K:o"„n f :.T) at hotels* Lesser criminal elements have invested in uignt clubs ;:est£urants _which_^ 62-9-29 - I - li.;-. dc/mdrews i Mr, DeLoach /t^, m:: v.< :a&/ •AH-2a 1967 - - m<28 1 Mr. Gale \ : o j j < "7^ ./ # io LlTo DeLoach Sa: Criminal Intelligence Program State of Florida :^3 used as a cover to carry oti gambling ^ prostitution and s .ylccl^i ;\ activities « V/e have also developed information on hoodlu::iA in:^iltratioiA of legitisiate businesses such as j r '}sta!ArantS; t^:.verns5 vending . produce 5 cartage and construction. As of February 28^ \%' Where it has '^j^en copsidered fe:^..sibiej information has been furnished to local authorities regarding gamblers after investigation determined these individuals v/ere not violating Federal statutes. In ten cases such as mentioned above^ 35 subjects have been atrested by local lav/ enforcement agencies 5 12 convictions were obtained ana 22 other individuals are av/aiting pi-osecutiono One was killed by a local officer before trial \ With the cooperation^ of feature v/r iters of the "Miami Herald'^ newspaper ^ to v/iiom general lead information was provided^ crime conditions and corruption have been exposed in the Miami area resulting" in county grand jury probes o These grand juries indicted Dade ^J^^utity Sheriff To Ao Buchanan on April 20, 1966, for perjury,, bribery and malfeasancco Broward County Sheriff Allen B* Michell has also \>^exi indicted in October j^ 1966 , for the second time for misfeasance ^ malfeasance and nonfeasance In the course ox our gf^/Tibling investigations in the city of Jacksonville y v;e devol;Dperi in: 'oruation concerning corruption in the police department r.'-iich was made available ': to the Duval County prosecutor and resulted of a shakeup of : agencyo V/e also provided pertinent infcrraation to the count. prosecutor concerning corx^uption of city officials and a couii;./ grand jury has returned several indictments for bribery misappropriation of funds and related violations on the part of councilmen and other city offijcialSo ACTION: For information Crime conditions in Florida are being cai^efully followed and every possible opportunity is being %^^^^ to develop the neciessary evic. ence to obtain prosecu- tions/ Federal statutes or^ where no Federal violation exists to make such info;:?mation available to responsible local authorities {/ 0--; j - 2 - ; / a 6;2-y^7?5^ Mr. Willard F. Cox "The Tampa Tribune Box 191 ezcz?ti::,t:isseowi ^ - ;TampQ[,/ Florida 33601 Dear Mr. Cox: In reajpons^ f^ your letter of Piiarch 3rd inquiring about the Wackenhutideteetiie agency havijig access to FBI records, I want to nial!:e it clmr that ^e files of this Bureau are confidential pursuant to regulations of tlie Department of Justice and that the FBI does not make its files amilaUe to tiiis company. -;" - The receipt ol FBI |Ldentfifi'catioiT|;\r^cbrds by duly * authorized law enforcement agencjics is, u3i<^el' Congressional en- actment and ruling of the Attomeyi^^s^eVal, su|)ject to cancellation if such records are used for otherMian offj^al purposes. All ' olice agencies are aware of tMs situation-. -i^hich exists to prevent e misuse of arrest records. I trust this will clarify our posiUon. Should you have any questions about the D©paii;mental ruling on this matter, you may desire to direct tliem to the A[*^orney General, ; ; ' Sincerely yoursj <.r> '% Edgar Wopver J) r\- I .1 -f /Miami --Enclosure 1 -^^ - Enclosure \K\^'^^V/ :„ Tampa 1 £Jacksonville - Enclosure - - iolson . jL 1 Mr. Trotter Enclosure lytyL ^ 1 - Mr. DeLoach - Enclosure Mr. Wick - Enclosure ^1 .,^EM:kcfi See Note on Next Page MAIL ROOM I I TELETYPE UNIT I 1 ..../M^^'^/ mmm 'T^ i Mr. WiUard F. Cox NOTE: Mr. Cos is not identifiable in Bufiles. We have enjoyed cordial relations v/itii The Tampa iTribune. The Wadcenhut Corporation lias been designated h^ Governor Kirk (R - Florida) to investigate matters involving oii'gaiiized crime v/ithin Florida. This is a very controversial matter and has heen the subject of considerable criticism directed against Governor Kirk for his action in utilizing a private detective agdncy in this regard. Authority for canceling the distribution of FBI identification records to law enforcement agencies is based upon appropriatim language dated June 11, 1930, and set forth in Title 5, Section 340, of the United States Code. The wording indicates that the FBI has authority for the acquisition, collection, classification and preservation of identification and other records and their exchange with and for official use of the duly authorized officials of the Federal Goveniment, of states, cities and other institutions, such exchange to be subject to cancellation if dissemination is made outside the receiving Departments or related agencies. The Department has ruled that these records are set up for the purpose of cooperation v/ith agencies having law enforcement fimctions.i The records are not available . to private individuals or companies. Departmental Order 324-64 dated 10-8-64 (previously Orders 260-62 and 3229) provides for the confidential nature of FBI files but does not relate to FBI identification 1 records in the possession of local or state law enforcement agencies* 3/9/67 Transmit the following in (Type in plaintext or code) AIRTEL AIR MAIL Via I Tele. K-yam^ (Priority) TO: DIRECTOE, FBI FROM: SAC, JACKSONVILLE (80-403) ^ SUBJECT: wAigK^Sjffi,,£Qi«ciSAmeK ''./ -••. iVlSiNOE'S WAE ON ClilME ^^ '^ V %y Transmitted to the Bareau and each of lice is cop er addressed by Attorney General EAEL FAftRjCLqjH toy Tampa, Fla*, on N^ X, LLINS, Chief of Police, 3^/6X. This letter wds in response to an inqiiiry by* MUCLINS regarding the authority of the Governor to require all" law enforcement officials to surrender confidential police^^f iles to Agents or employees of the Governor for examination or copy NT It is to be noted that Mr, FAIRCLOTH's opinion is that the Governor's agents have no more authority to eKamine police files than any other citizen. Fixrther, that the Governor has I no power to appoint except that granted by the legislature; \ /that there is no constitutional or statutory provision making the Governor a peace officer, and that the sheriffs are the chief la\v enforcement officers* The opinion further appears to state in effect that the Governor does not have authority to accept private funds and that the creating of a private investigating force is "immoral and unethical in concept (and) the antithesis of a democratic government.'* ^- Bureau (Enc. 1^ 2 - Miami (Enc. 17(1% 2 - Tampa (Enc. 1) - 1 Jacksonville > DKBzsjm ^^-v^/, (S) I' ^: 1^01 MAR VO 19S7 ik®*^ 4^ SMB s C^ COPY MADE FOR MR, TO Per Approved; 4m for Information Purposes Only- ,M Special Agent in C FDPS pages 29-30 'I TF 62-.25& I would be willing to enter ar^as outside their normal juris- dictional area to handle presentation of cases to local grand Juries where the state attorney for that particular circuit had demonstrated an unwillingness to move vigjDnous- ly to prosecute various criminal activities in the political and general crime area. Among those who have assured Gover- nor KIRK of their willingness to participate in this program, according to COOPER, are State Attorney GORDON OLDHAM, of the Pinellas Judicial area and St ate. Attorney PAUL ANTINORI of the Hillsborough County area. COOPER stated that OLDHAM would present the Wackenhut case on GROSS to a Grand Jury in the "very, very" near future in the hope of obtaining an indictment of GROSS. At this point in the discussion other members of COOPER* s dinner party arrived at his table and he immediately broke off the discussion. It should be further noted that all information contained herein was freely volunteered by COOPER and was in no way solicited by the writer. For Information Purposes Only FDPS pages 29-30 ^*J|V--1 ^1 OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 mL f 5 ma;' 1962 EDITION ^ ~_ r rJV* ^ QSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-1U6 UNITED STATES GO^fe-NMENT ' . . Memorandum DIRECTOR, FBI SAC, MIAMI (66-2466) (RUC) O WACKENHUT CORPORATION GOVERNOR'S WAR ON GRIME Enclosed are two copies of instructions furnished investigators of the Wackenhut Corporation for informatiOTi of the Bureau, Jacksonville and Tampa, ,_^-... T-^ r \Sf3l^I®- / fT)- Bureau (Enc 2) 1 - Jacksonville (Enc 2) 1 - Tampa (Enc 2) 1 - Miami LLK/ysb (5) 3 KEC5I -i^tSCi^sslS^ T'TrTTTrrrrrt taaiti£nc!3E3 MAfHUS 1967 01967 ^ Sajy t/.i". Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan V. Po Keay GOVERNOR'S WAR ON CRIME TO: A11 Area Managers in Florida DATE: February 21, 1967 FROM: George R, Wackenhut r-yy j/ DIVISION: Executive SUBJECT: Instructions for Investigators, Governor's War on Crime The following instructions are being furnished for your guidance in connection vnth investigations made under the Governor's War on Crime. All investigators, whether full or part time, who do \ any investigations should be familiar with these instructions. In^ the future, you should have each of them read and initial these in- structions prior to being assigned to such investigations. A copy -of this Memo should be maintained where it will be available for review by the investigators when necessary. 1. The special credentials being issued by the Governor's office may not be used for any purpose other than in connection with ^ investigations made for the Governor's War on Crime. The use of these credentials for any other purpose, including obtaining information in connection with an investigation for The Wackenhut Corporation, will be cause for immediate dismissal, 2. The investigators have no powers of arrest and no right to carry firearms by reason of receiving the credentials from the Governor. Investigators are in no sense JDoTice officers, but are authorized only to make investigations in connection with the Governor's War on Crime. 3. All correspondence, reports, and any other documents relating to* the Governor's War on Crime must be kept separate and apart from The Wackenhut Corporation's files in your office. They must be kept secure and under lock and key at all times when the office is unattended. Under no circumstances may information obtained through the investigations for the Governor's War on Crime be used in connec- tion with The Wackenhut Corporation's matters. 4. No information should be gi^^en to representatives of any of the news media, and in response to inqiliiries, you should answer that you have "no comment*'. Refer the person making the inquiry to Coral Gables. All inquiries should be reported immediately by memorandum to thre Coral Gables office, or by phone if the nature of the inquiry indi- cates the matter should be handled expeditiously. You should also use care to avoid discussions concerning inve$tigations made for the War on Crime in the presence of any representative of the news media. ffi^CLC^UIck- i A-11 Area Managers in Florida February 21, 1967 . 5. It is the Governor's desire that the Director of the War on Crime coordinate with and operate through regularly constituted law enforcement authorities. You should refer to headquarters any complaints or information you receive indicating that an investigation may be de- sirable before taking any action. You should seek instructions from headquarters in order' that these matters may be properly coordinated prior to referring any investigations to local or federal authorities and prior to presenting cases to county solicitors or State's attorneys for legal advice or prosecutive opinions. 6. If any state or local law enforcement officers refuse to cooperate, you should immediately advise headquarters and pursue the matter no further unless instructed. 7. In all phases of handling the Governor's War on Crime, in case of any doubts whatsoever as to proper action, you should immediately contact headquarters for instructions, by phone if necessary. V MEMORANDUM TO: ALL INVESTIGATORS IN FLORIDA DATE: 21 February 1967 FROM: Victor P. Keay . DIVISION: Legal SUBJECT: Investigations - The Wackenhut Corporation. All investigators whether full or part time, when conHuctmg interviews or seeking Information during an investigation for The Wackenhut Corporation., must advise all persons contacted that the matter being investigated is NOT a port of The Governor's War On Crime. There must be no confusion and no misunderstanding on the part of the person Interviewed that the investigator Is acting for The Wackenhut Corporation and not on behalf of The Governor's War On Crime. Failure to follow these instructions will result in severe disciplinary action. VPK/nb 12-/^7^ 'ijj^u:. •'\. Jtate of Ft.orida office: or the governor Clattdb R.Kirk, Jh. GOVERNOR January 3, 1967 Mr, George Wackenhut \ 3280 Ponce De Leon Boulevard Coral Gables, Florida Dear Mr. V/ackenhut: As Governor of the State of Plori under and by virtue of the authoK^tyy^vested me by the Constitution and Laws/of e said S^ate, I do hereby CommiBSion yopi E|l ctor of! t)ie Governor's War on Crime SlHcereXy,! mbvi CRKism m&^^^M-Z -U-i The Attorney fianeral Birecter, fBI ach Rosen 5 TBS wmmmsm tmmmkitm Sullivan MIAllIy WWMWk Gale HcAndrews CEins m THE STATS OF WWSLim Ware t thought you vould h9 iaterested in tbe atat^Mtats attributed to Sovemoir Claudit Kirk of Florida folloning his visit vitb you on April 3, lf67. According to th« JH^rtl 4, 1967, ed^^lon of the *1?lorida times BlnioB,** GoverBor Kirk jeepo^tm^ltc e&for««Mpi9fit statod that while meeting «ith you, lav , probleas generally were discussed, as veil as^a^iosal prohle«8 mlib. uhlch you are confronted and KiiBit*8 ova program on crime in Florida. Governor Kirk mti^ quoti^ as stating "We're going to cooperate veil, the Attormey General has a total purviev of crime nationally and I have the picture in Florida. I n^ll furnish him all tbe infoxm&tion I can. M In the event any additional pertinent information in this connection comes to my attention, I shall forward it f& you. Z/'V). XEROX APR 6 1967 NOTE: See memo J. H. Gale to DeLoach, dated 4/4/67, captioned same^ McA:dsa. j^ \...^' / ( - -47 iLoach i W'/^ McA:dsar/ vt m. llahan (10) nrad — «67 II APR 6 |tter Rooi Idy- _ MAIL ROOM I I TELETYPE UNIT 1, I Sp^, '" ye }Wtl^\. 3'JiOa Oh' IMViSTIGATIOrj U. S. DZPAiffMENT OF JUSTICE COPiJy.^iCATiO^' SECTiOM fbi wash dc hold for two messeses. fbi tampa 1055am est urgent 4-4-67 blm Director 4-^ attention: inspector sterling donahue from tampa (62-256) 5p THE WACKENHUT CORPORATION, J\OVERNOR'S WAR ON CRIME. THE -TAMPA TRIBUNE" APRIL FOUR INSTANT ISSUE, CONTAINS ARTICLE PAGE FOUR B CAPTIONED "KIRK DISCUSSES HIS CRIME >- WAR WITH U, S. ATTORNEY GENERAL." ARTICLE IS UPI DATELINED AT WASHINGTON. ARTICLE INDICATES THA T GOVERNOR CLAUDE / IRK BUOYED BY NEWS OF NEW SUPPORT FROM HIS REPUBLICAN STYLE WAR ON CRIME, DISCUSSED HIS CRUSADE YESTERDAY WITH U. S. ATTORNEY GENERAL RAMSEY CLARK. FURTHER THAT KIRK BROUGHT ALONG HIS APPOINTED PRIVATE CRIME FIGHTER GEORGE WACKENHUT. ARTICLE FURTHER INDICATES THAT ATTORNEY GENERAL CLARK, WHO PREVIOUSLY EXPRESSED MISGIVINGS ABOUT USJNg/r^ATE AGE t%m REC 5 IN "HARD CORE LAW ENFORCEMEN'T HAT) 'NO COMI AND FORTY-FIVE MINUTE CONFERENCE WITH KIRK AND WACKENHUT. """^ "" END PAGE ONE ^^f 11 APR 6 fiW •y^^ ,^ MR. OaOACH m THE DIRECIDR PAGE TWO TP 62-256 ARTICLE ALSO MENTIONS THAT AFTER ARRIVING FOR THE CONFERENCE, KIRK TOLD REPORTERS HE RECEIVED NEWS THAT ALL FLORIDA SHERIFFS HAD JOINED IN GIVING HIS CRIME WAR A NEW ENDORSEMENT GOOD FOR NINETY DAYS. HE WAS REFERRING TO THE FACT THAT FLORIDA SHERIFF'S BUREAU HAS GIVEN GOVERNOR AUTHORITY TO USE ANY INVESTIGATORS FROM THE FLORIDA SHERIFF'S BUREAU FOR INVESTIGATIONS IN ANY OF FLORIDA'S SIXTY-SEVEN COUNTIES WITHOUT AN INVITATION FROM THE SHERIFF TO DO SO. UNDER PRESENT LAW, FLORIDA'S AUTONOMOUS SHERIFFS HAVE JURISDICTION OVER THEIR OWN DOMAINS UNLESS THEY ISSUE SPECIFIC INVITATION TO OUTSIDE AGENCIES IN THE STATE. THE NINETY DAY LIMIT WAS USED IN ANTICIPATION OF LEGISLATIVE ACTION TO CHANGE THE EXISTING LAW CONCERNING UTILIZATION OF FLORIDA SHERIFF'S BUREAU INVESTIGATORS. THIS IN EFFECT IS NOW MAKING AVAILABLE TO GOVERNOJIR KIRK THE SERVICES OF THE FLORIDA SHERIFF'S BUREAU FOR INVESTIGATIONS IN THE END PAGE TWO ^^ t PAGE THREE TP 62-256 VARIOUS COUNTIES WHICH PREVIOUSLY HE COULD NOT DO WITHOUT AN INVITATION FROM THE SHERIFF OF A RESPECTIVE COUNTY. AIR HAIL COPIES TO JACKSONVILLE AND MIAMI. END BAP FBI WASH DC C€s MR, GALE I FD-36 {-Re v..^-2^-6 4) FBI 'f^ Date: 4/4/67 MK Conrad r, Pelt r, 6ale Transmit the following in (Type in plaintext or code) Sullivan.-. AIBTEL AIRMAIL Mr. TaveL.,^ Via Mr. 1'rot^r..^.^.. (Priority) Tei*. Room.. ..^.m,,, MisB Gandy, sae. TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (62-107335) mi FROI: SAC, TAMPA (62-256) f :;-..!3 fC' THE WACKENHUT CORPORATION -.jm: GOVERNOR'S WAR ON CRIME ATTORNEY GENERAL EARL FAIRCIjOTH Transmitted h^ewith are the following mwspaper clippings concerning AG EARL FAIRCLOTH's activity in the "War on Crime" • It will be noted that FAIRCLOTH has been "at odds" with Gov. CLAUDE KIRK, JR. and his utilizg^tion of the Wackenhut Corporation for conducting investigations in the State of Florida* The clippings are "St. Petersburg Times", ,4/1/67, y captioned "Crime War Escalation by Faircloth Propos^", "Tampa Tribune", 4/1/67, captioned "FAIRCLOTH Crime-Buster Unit Urged", "Tampa Tribune", 4/4/67, captioned "30-Man State Vice, Crime Squad Urged", and "St. Petersburg Times" / dated 4/2/67, captioned "Crime War Legislation Plan / Criticized". As will b^ noted from these clippings, FAIRCLOTH, who has working f|>r him the State Committee on Law Enforcement an<^Mte Administration of Justice, is apparently ei^deavoring to l^t up an investigative agency on his own. ZJ- Bureau (Encls^ 4) %- Jacksonville (End. 4) (Info) 1 - Miami (En<^is. 4) (Info) 2 - Tampa ^ (1 - 80-532) ^iCr ^ JFS:cj (7) 4^' ~^^^ Approved: Sent Ji^^'Pei Special Agent in Charge ' FD-350 (Rev. 7V16-63) » (Mount Pipping in Space Befow) r Lrime War tscaldtion By Fairchth Propusi By DONALD DAVIS ;^ has paid his debt t9 soceity. (Indicate page, name of . Times Bureau FAIRCLOTH ^aid the main newspaper, city and state.) XtAMPA — Atty.. Gen. Earl weapon will be the state's F\irdoth yesterday threw an- power* "to control the establish- otMl^r bucketful of Criticism on ment of corporations and re- Gov. Claude Kirk's use of the newal of licenses. He said the privately owned Wackenhut de- bill would be ready by the mid- tective agency as the main' die of next week, force in Florida's war o,n cri^.?*j, Faircloth was emphatic as he Shortly afterwards, uic, r*i3aid a central group or top per- Committee on Law Enforce- [son is needed to handle a "pub- ment and the Administration of lie supported, public directed" j Justice proposed legislation to 'war on crime. He said he feels give Faircloth's office a new the use of a privkte firm is ' platoon of investigators to esca- ' 'fraught with danger, [ * late that same war. 'Private sleuthing and public- The idea was proposed shortly law enforcement don't mix," he after Faircloth addressed a spe- said. cial meeting of the committee HE CHIDED Kirk on the with state law officials, during claim that Wackenhuts have no which he imderlined what he power over sheriffs. ^ said is the need to have some- "A sheriff looks just above one or some group in Florida the Wackenhut agent's shoulder coordinate the fight against or- -^pes the man who can re- ~ ^ST. PETERSBURG ganifeed crime. .-iove liui? from officZ.- ' . . ^id. I TIMES THE PROPOSAL is one of the ST. PETERSBURG, planned bills the committee in- FLA. tends to take to the State Legis- Date: lature. Zf-1^67 The attorney general also an- Edition: nounced that his office is pre- Author: DONALD DAVIS paring legislation that would EditorCOURTLAND **pierce the veils of corporations ANDERSON Title: owned by organized crime." He said he plans to strengthen the laws in the civU field that could be turned against " racketeers Character: and hoodlums who have infil- or trated reputable business fields, Classification: such as motels, hotels and res- taurants. Submitting Office: TAMPA "I maintain that the state has I I Being Investigated the police powers," he said, "to prohibit a convicted felon from being the managing .director of a $10-million corporation." He said; this is aimed at members of organised crime syndicates ""^^'-^ B%.._.,,': ;ome kid" whn -=^^^ - an aiii&iii jbile for a Jc^ 1 FD-350 (Rev. 7^16-63) •" (Mount Clipping in Space Below) ^, - ^ SO^Man Statt'^^ \im, Zrime Squad Urged TALLAHASSEE (m - Au- thorization for a 30-man vice and crime squad topped a long list of legislative proposals submitted yesterday by Atty. Gen. Earl Faircloth. (Indicate page, name of The special trouble-shoo- newspaper, city and state.) ters, operating from the attor- ney general's office, were rec- ommended earlier by Fair- cloth's committee on law en- forcement. The committee was ap- pointed by former Gov. Hay- don Burns last year, it recom- ' mended that the special agents have arrest powers and be available for use by the governor or any law en- forcement agency. The six-page list of recom- mendations forwarded to Gov. Claude Kirk and all members , ' of the legislature, also in- eluded proposals ranging from fiscal autonomy for the State Board of Regents to a ^^e^ iiu . [HibHc cfP.f^h^'- Rnd emi;-uyes; .=— , > kE TAMPA TRIBUNE TAMPA, FLA. Date: 4-^1-67 Edition: Author: Editor:JAMES A, CLENDINEN Title: Character: or Classification: Submitting OfficeOCAMPA Being Investigated 1 1 i ^ - ^>.-/^ fj^.r-J'"-- //e^'-'^ iSNCLOSiM! : FD-350 (Rev. 7-^16-63) (Mount Clipping in Space Below) i/-^ Faircloth Crime-Bustj^r By BILL PURVIS Tribune Staff Writer ^ FJorida Attorney General K a r 1 Faircloth yesterday blasted the governor's strate- Urged in the war on crime and a Unit (Indicate page, name of gy newspaper, city and state, F a i r c 1 t h-organized com- I After ^peakinsr, Faircloth mittee came up with a battle 1 D a \ i s said the squads !tol thorities ' won't, was proposed private agency early this cen- public interest." by tlie State Committee on tury resulted in abuses. One Law Enforcement of- and the Ad- I Faircloth disclosed his ministration of its agents became knoM^n of Justice. I fice is drafting laws to give The committee was organiz- as **The Available Man" be- lawmen the authority to ed by Faircloth last Septem- cause he worked as a govern- f "pierce the corporate veil" L^.^^'.^*' ^^® request of then- ment agent, a private agent \\hich shields racketeers who control private businesses. Gov. Haydoii Burns. Faircloth and as an extortionist. Other legislation recommen- is a member of the committee I There is a temptation to mi- a cen- I ded by the committee: and opened a conference on suse ~ such power, Faircloth tral agency to store inform a- law enforcement at the Hil- told the reporters, and the tion and made it available to lsborough Courthouse yester- possibility of a conflict of in- all lawmen; a permanent day. * ! terest 'exists to a marked de- committee of the legislature gree." to keep abreast of changes in PoUcemen, sheriffs, pro- Faircloth suggested instead tlie law; minimum standards secutors and other officials a publicly-financed agency for policemen; a change in lA TAMPA TRIBUNE gathered at t he courthouse to with no (divided loyalties, and prison release provisions TAMPA, FLA. offer comments on anti-crime . possibly under direct com- \^'hich would keep convicts un- Ifeffislation proposed by the mand of the governor. der parole supervision for committee* their full sentence, even if an The Florida Sberiff^s release from prison is early Date: 4-1-67 Faircloth criticized Gov. 3ureau is something which earned through good behav- Edition Claude Kirk's war on crime could be built upon and ex- as "fraught with danger," panded along those lines, said Author: BILL PURVIS and in of re- Faircloth. A proposal which would need one leader Editor: JAMES A, CLENDINEN sponsible to the public. He ur- have polished procedures for Title: ged unity among government Faircloth, in his speech, release without bond for good ^said he doesn't necessarily risks who could not afford to '1 a w enforcement agencies post bond was dropped when want to head such an agency. fighting crime. the lawmen voiced disap- And Edward Cowart of the Faircloth left after his open- proval. Character: the committee , attorney ing speech and general's office said or proposal for a special enforce- ' the same, explaining to the^^ Alachua County State Attor- Classification: ment team under the attorney said it didn't lawmen that tlie ney Ted Duncan I 30-man spe- general came later in the day. make sense to work hard for Submitting Office: TAMPA cialist .squad could be- placed Organized crime and vice arrests and convictions and under any Being Investigated government offi- } then it easier for the I are principal theaters in the make cer, although tlie proposed prisoners to get out of jail. governor's war on crime. applauded him. legislation has it under the at- The lawmen Gov. Kirk has said he is the The committee meets today torney generaFs office. general in the war on crime 1o discuss the language used Pinellas County State Atty. ;• in the proposed laws. and responsible to the people, Clair A. Davis was the only but Faircloth's comments ap- ^ lawman to speak against the parently were aimed at proposal, and his comment - t an objection to the George Wackenhut, the heac '~"if'e taut only tlie wor- of the private detective age i ax ^ ey responsi-^ fd' invp'^t^ * ^^' -' — '>\'' '^ tion:/"" - I FD-3S0 (Rev. 7,-16-63) (Mount Clipping in Space Below) *'I don t advocate puttine th<> U:\. . .i^-.^^ment agEu*-^^ ..~^ ill at organized crime would ic one Cabinet officer. investigated by this agency as Crime Wor "WHILE PASSING laws for to its corporate structure." the attorney general, you should Cowart estimated it would re- pass some for other people or^ quire $1.25-million during the Legislation they are going to raise a little next biennium to launch the heU." project. However, the committee On Friday, Davis brought up statement" Plan Criticized passed a "policy the key opposition to the propos- that said: al of giving the attorney general (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) By DONALD DAVIS **The state investigative 'au- extra powers in the field of thority should be under the di- prosecution. He said the powers Times Bureau . rection of the attorney general of fUing informations and set- TAMPA — The director of the or a similar central, experi- ting up^ grand juries would be Florida Sheriff's Bureau yester- enced legal authority. The gov-f "infringing on the_s^teV^tor:_ that proposed legis- ernor should have power to' day warned ney^s rights and could be sub- broaden the scope of order investigation 'by such lation to j(K:t to abuse." general's office agency.** the attorney He suggested the powers be Earl Faireloth "the The proposals are tied in with could make amended so they could be used greatest, strongest and most Faircloth^s proposal Friday to "only when local authorities fall powerful man in Florida." set up legislation to attack orga- down." nized crime in Florida. While The comments by Ed Yarbo- deploring the use of the Wack- IN OTHER action yesterday, rough of Baker County criti- 'enhut Detective Agency by Gov. tlie committee: cized part of the proposed legis- Claude Kirk, Fairclotti empha- i^ Set in motion lative package of the S^^ action to sized the need to have a central have a bill drafted to provide a person - or group coordinating unified reporting ment and the Adri^i^Jl^ion of service, set- strategy in the war on crime. ting up . Justice. computer system for Under the new proposals, if^ law enforcement using existing One bill would ball on the passed by the Legislature, that facilities and to be expanded as of investigators under number jieeded. .the attorney general from four >* IB ST. PETERSBURG to 30 and give them police- pow- Agreed to prepare and en- dorse ers in certain areas pertaining a bill to let a state attor- TIMES th COWART, an" assistant at- ney appoint to organized crime and vice. his own assistant ST. PETERSBURG, FLA. torney gen^eral, told the commit- These investigators would be di- rather than having the governor tee yesterday that ''the chief vided into three squads of 10 appoint 'the assistant legal officer (Faireloth) should Date: 4_2-67 and stationed in the state courts t^ Approved a measure that operate in the -fields of enforce- Edition: of appeal districts. They would wbuld pla,ce on-'' probation ment and prosecution." men into an area at the request of Author: DONALD DAVIS go who get out of prison early by local authorities or the at- Cowart said Editor: when that ''concerted receiving time' off for good con- BOB STIFF torney general ordered^ them to, opposition is expected" to the duct and work. The State Par- Title: plans. - don and Parole Board would , THIS SECTION is upsetting a be in charge of Yarborough i said the former prison- number of state law officials, privately [ that "it'll never pass." ers until after the date tliey Yarborough said. Character: would have ordinari]y been Cowart told the committee re- The second proposal under or . -> . meeting leasee}. . i at the give attorney Sheraton-Tampa study would the Classification: Motor Inn the crime-busting general the power to file infor- force planned would "investi- Submitting Office: TAMPA mations in criminal cases, im- gate specific areas of organized panel Grand Juries and subpoe- Being Investigated 1 [ crime and vice ... it is na witnesses in an investigation. not set- ting up a state police These functions are currently in force. the realm of authority of state's "It would exist as a backup attorneys. Pinellas County State squad to assist local agencies Atty. Clair Davis voiced strong and keep abreast of changes" in opposition to the bill at an ear- organized crime. lier committee meeting. ' He was emphatic that the "You are alienating many plan was aimed at organized sections of law enforcement and "=- cr'^mp. and not the mdividualj y.O ^-J J^:^ ^' now you are alien: .,^ ^^iudi- ' -i'l-!^!^ of n ();,; nial act. * -"--' -^ " cia ough ^..: .' ENCLOSUKB SPECIAL MSTIGATIviDisiON April |]||1967 Attached airtel encloses a iiiefflO' randuTO froia Special Agent[ of the Tampa Division, which repor s that, according to former FBI [Special Agent Sheldon Cooper, now with the Vackenhut Corporation, Governor Kirk of Florida is embarking on a program to prosecute Sheriff Kenneth Gross, Uanate County,, on charges of corruption, Governor Kirk has also | edilsted aid of state attorneys to prosecute political and general crime violations anywhere in Florida regard less of their territorial jurisdiction. State attorney from Pinellas Judicial area reportedly to prosecute Sheriff Gross of lianate County. llcA:tjm ^ . . # ^' \\ \ u I ii mn i i n j^ /^% 1^ Mr. Mohr, ^ F B I Date: 4/4/67 MfT Conrad y^ ^ Mr, Felt. Mr. Gal (Type in plaintext or code) AIRMAIL Mr» SullivaB—.- Mr. Tave!.-.. (Priority) Mr. Trr>tter™...--.. .^^-- _ ll^le.Jloom Holm«a ^s^i^^ Miss Miss Gandy-o^— - DIRECTOR, FBI (62-107335) . c .^ SAC, TAMPA (62-256) (P) " cn/>^. " H- THE WACKENHDT CORPORATION - ^ GOVERNOR'S WAR ON CRIME ^ KENNETH GROSS, SHERIFF OF M/INATEE COUNTY V. tf- Several newspaper clippings have been furni^ed to the Bureau in the recent past concerning County Grkkd Jury inquiry into irregularities in the office dt KENJflETH GROSS, Sheriff of Manatee County, Fla« These clippings have indicated that the Wackenhut Corporation has ha#| l;nvestigators checking into the matter « KENNETH Gipi^ is a l^epublican sheriff. In connection with this inquiry and invi6stigation, :b6 transmitted herewith is a memo dated 4/3/67, suj>toitted by :b7C SA| which is self-explanatory. [ A^i^' "^ ^'^''^^.^"^ ,. 9^ 3^- Bureau ^eVv D ^ - Jacksonville (Info) (End, 1) 1 - Miami Unfb) (End. 1) 2 m Tampa J.l., <1 - 80-13) JFS:cj (7) ^2-/*73£f--f0 1! APR 6 1967 Approved Sent Special Agent in Charge U^>1^^^/.^ , -;^ ' *^ -^^ OPTIONAL FORM Na lu . MAY 1082 EDITION J :^ CSA FPMR ((U CPR)^Ot>li.e * UNITED STATES G|^ERNMENT ' Memormdum date: TO SAC, TAM]^^^ FROM SA CCNTAINSHD 'AIT, rv^C^^'^'^'^Xi^ subject: THE WACKENHOT CORPORATION bo :b7C GOVERNOR'S WAR ON CRIME This is to advise that on Saturday evening April 1, 1967, the writer had a chance encounter with SHELDON COOPER at the Jesuit High School Benefit night at Curtis Hixon Hall, Tampa, Pla. COOPER, who is a former FBI agent and during his employment with the Bureau was an acquaintance of the writer, commented that in recent months he has been extremely busy coor- dinating the work of the Wackenhut Corporation fight on crimes for Governor Kirk in the West Florida area. COOPER volunteered that of recent weeks the Wackenhut investigators have been concentrating on 7 or 8 sheriff's offices in the western and south western areas of this state. Among those upon which concentrated investigative attention has been focused has been the Manatee aCounty Sheriff's Office. COOPER furti^or volun- teered that Governor CLAUDE KIRK has called KENyIfeROSS> Manat ee County Sheriff, into his office on three separate occasions and "laid down the law!' that GROSS must "clean up" corruption in Manatee County and to "beef up" law \^, enforcement in that area without further delay. /^(^//'/^ /A^Vv' /'- COOPER also related that Wackenhut investigators had made a recent "break through" as far as GROSS was con- cerned and that Wackenhut and ^Governor KIRK now feel that they have a "solid" c^se against GROSS which would support an indictment and subsequent prosecution. COOPER stated that in so far as GROSS is concerned, Governor KIRK feels that he in affording GROSS three chances to clean up Manatee County has been more generous and intends to extend no further courtesies or delays to GROSS. COOPER stated that Governor KIRK has recently called in certain selected state attorneys throughout the state and has obtained from them their assurance that they 3J- Tampa (1 80-13) WFDrad (3) Buy US, Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payrol Fd^.6 (Rev. 5-22-64) F B I Date: 4/5/37 Transmit the following in (Type in plaintext or code) Vir, AIRTEL AI'.: ilAIL (P riority) TO: DIISCTOii, ti'BI FIIOH: SAC, JACKSONVILLE (80-'^:;03) .„.- 6.^-0^ COHTAIHED THE WACKEHHUT CCllPCliATIOH GOVSIJOB'S v/AL CN ClJLiE Eemytel 4/4/67. Enclosed is nev/soaper atory appearinc in ''Florida Times-Union" which was 3umr:iariri:ed in retet be :b7C f' cH^ 11 6' (S>- Bureau (Snc. IL i - Jaclisonville "^-^ DKB:cod (4) 3i^?/ WC'W VV" ^ i^^.-. . (l)'l;^PP^°^i= ^feg Sent I cial Agent in Charge ~^..r. ^ FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63) (Mount Clipping in Spac« Blelow) Sheriffs Authorizing [Indicate page, name of Crime Investigation newspaper, city and state.) TALLAHASSEE, April 3 «P) Under present law, the Sheriffs Bureau Director governor cannot send his own Ed Yarbrough said today agents into a county for Florida's 67 sheriffs are send- investigative work except by ing written authorization for invitation of the sheriff. Kirk crime investigation in their' said this regulation is being counties. waived for 90 days. Gov. Claude Kirk, in Wash- Kirk was accompanied to ington to discuss his anticrime the conference with Ramsey activities with U.S. Atty. Gen. by George Wackenhut, ap- Ramsey Clark, immediately pointed by the governor to expressed his pleasure at the head the anti . operations at Cape Kennedy. This, he said, will give the "^"'^Var on Crime Legislature time to act on a Kirk said there appears to bill sponsored by the sher- be some question as to iffs to give the governor power whether the Johnson Adminis- tration plans to continue to send bureau investigators Character: pp , technological experiments on anywhere in the state. ox Kirk said he has not seen a solid fuels. Kirk said Florida in Classification: full statement concerning the is interested these experi- Qf)_ii.n'^ ments and that he feels that o«i«= sheriffs* action. But, he said, submitting nville| neither liquid nor solid fuels jackso , his understanding is that most Being Investigated of the state's sheriffs have should be neglected. "We're r~| vc*fed to give him the authori- not getting ahead if we negate any system," he said. ty He said he understands' those sheriffs who have not Kirk left by plane for v[)f«d are being polled for Tallahassee shortly ^&a?—to :;. ARCHED maid— jliuir^approv^. conference with Clark. _ riiiALlZED FILED APR 5 -1967 /o733r^^ ^ L.^ t^^ . —— FD-36 .(Rev. 5-22-64> Mf. tolsoi :''')y^ # Mr, Mohr .ys:!^ Ury^^r I ^Uahan F B ^ Mr. / Date: 4/4/67 Transmit the following in (Type ir<. plaintext or code) T^X- TaveL... AIRTEL AIRMAIL KJ^r. Trotter : Via Tele. Room (Priority) — Miss Holmci! 4«48g-G*ndy--.=.3^- • TO: DIRECTOR , FBI (62-107335) ^ FROM: SAC, TAMPA (62-256) (P) ' ;:.:.3;7i? \,'- THE WACKENHUT CORPORATION GovEMfdR's wM oii Crime <.,^jl:--- / For the information of the Bureau and recipient ofilces. [ |a confidential source l l advised an agent of this iof flee on 3/30/67, on a confidential basis, that he was contacted by Bfpp, SHELDON COOPER, former FBI agent and manager of the T&mpa office of the captioned organization* COOPER fl told Jiim that the Wackenhut Corporation is interested in gambling activities at the horse track known as Florida ?owns, Oldsmar, Fla>, and in other activities connected ' be Inamed herewith | :b7C ]coopbr asked f tfor authorization to tap the :b7D telephone extens ion ln[ ~|which is used by i lApparentlv the feeling is that[ ] may be taking local bets on the te lephone[ 3,COOPER assured! jthat if he did approve this, there would be no trouble whatsoever and that the procedure would be permissible J ladvised that he did not give permission to COOPER to do this and that before doing anything about it, he would have to consult wit |he lattorney h^^ | [ whose approval he did not feel would be forthcoming. q^'^- Bureau - /o rs3S' - Jacksonville (Info) 1 - Miami (Info) 2 - Tampj :b7D C/^^^ Approved: ^^ op^al Agent ia«< 62APRat967 OPTIONAL FORM NO. tO MAY 196J EgtJION G;U^<5EN. REGf NO. 2 7 UNITED STATES G^^]ERNMENT f Memorandum TO : Mr. DeLoaw] DATE: April 4, 1967 FROM : J. H. Gal^',.^ SUBJECT: THE WACKENHUT CORPORATION ALL jrVOm.L'T^m COHTAINED LIAMI^ JLORIDA ^^^ NViiSTIGATION Qi^GANIZED r CRIME IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA On the attached teletype from Jacksonville, Florida, reporting statements made by Governor Kirk of Florida following his interview with the Attorney Generst / the Director instructed that the Attorney General be advised by memorandum of Kirk's statement « The Director also inquired as to whether our Florida Offices have been advised that we were not going to cooperate with Governor Kirk. By airtel dated January 12, 1967, each of our X Florida offices was informed that the Bureau does not i recognize the Wackenhut Corporation as a properly <^ constituted law enforcement agency and each was instructed \^ to take all necessary steps to insure that no records or information is given to this organization or its representatives by the, FBI « These instructions were telephonically reiterated to the Special Agents in Charge of our three Florida offices on April 3, 1967. ACTION : There is attached for approval a letter to the Attorney General advising him of Governor Kirk's comments following the meeting between the Attorney General, /r ^ George Wackenhut and Governor Claude Kirk of Florida. (£ ^^^^^SUM^ Enc C -^-^-O 1 - Mr. DeLdkJ ^iit 1 - Mr. Wick 1 - Mr. Rosen 1 - Mr. Sullivan % TTiiTiiirtiEriiiiiii 'iTtttntrnicfitf 1 - Mr. Gale 1 - Mr. McAndrevs 1 - Mr. Ware McArdsadl-A^..- (8) 79 APR'1419il ... ^. ^ibERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION HV 'ms. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE COMMUNICATION SECTION APR 4 1967 FBI WASH DC TECETYPE FBI JACKSVLE 9t22AM EST URGENT 4/4/67 GCM DDIRECTOR, FBI illSS J0: qij^IISa' FROMj JACKSONVILLE /80-403/ 2P THE WACKERHUT CORPORATIO»yflSOVERNOR*Sh WAR ON CRIME, RE TaEPHONE CALL FROM MR. STERLING B, DONAHOE, APRIL THREE LAST. aORIDA TIMES-UNION FOR APRIL FOURTH CONTAINS NEWS STORY, DATELINE y4 ' TALLAHASSEE, FLA., UNDER CAPTION SHERIFFS AUTHORIZING JJRIME INVESTIGA- TION. STATES FLORIDA SHERIFFS BUREAU DIRECTOR EoJrliRBROUGH HAS ADVISED O o ALL FLORIDA SHERIFFS ARE SENDING WRITTEN AUTHORIZATION FOR SHERIFFS BUREAU TO CONDUCT INVESTIGATION IN THEIR COUNTIES. (NOTE UNDER PRESENT LAW SHERIFFS BUREAU CAN ONLY INVESTIGATE WITH AUTHORIZATION OF LOCAL SHERIFF.) SECOND PARAGRAPH OF STORY STATES "GOV. CLAUDE KIRK, IN WASHINGTON TO DISCUSS HIS ANTI-CRIME ACTIVITIES WITH U.S. ATTORNEY V VWeRAL RAMSEY CLARK, IMMEDIATELY EXPRESSED HIS PLEASURE AT THE ACTipN." Vnew^ap ER STORY AFTER EXPLANATION OF RESTRICTIONS ON FLO ? SHERIFFS ^I'Hl Ar^SOES ON "KIRK WAS ACCOMPANIED TO THEHE CONFERENCE WITH RAMSEY.RAMSEY, BY , GE0RQE;^«ACKENHUTtQE]HWCKI APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNORR TO HEAD THE ANTl^WE^UNHx' I "KIRK, A REPUBLICAN WHO TOOK OVER AS GOVERNOR IN JAi^AlAPi^ II^iPIe AND CLARK DISCUSSED LAW ENFORCEMENT GENERALLY, ABOUT CLAm«*9"NATI0 '^ tjOj^^ PROBLEMS AND ABOUT KIRK'S OWN PROGRAM IN FLORIDA. il^^S&^^ " END PAGE ONE MADE FOR MR. TOL^ MR. DaOACH FOR THE DIREGM COPY <^ If ^ & ^-^^1^ ^rf\e ^*^iim^ PAGE TWO "WE'RE S0IN6 TO COOPERATE WELL, " KIRK SAID, "THE ATTORNEY GENERAL HAS A TOTAL PURVIEW OF CRIME NATIONAUY AND I HAVE THE PICTURE IN aORIDA, I SHALL FURNISH HIM ALL THE INFORMATION I CAN." STORY THEN CONTINUES WITH INFORMATION KIRK WAS IN CONTACT WITH NATIONAL AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION CONCERNING SOME TECHNOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS ON SOLID FUELS IN FLORIDA AND CftONCLUDES THAT KIRK LEFT BY PLANE FOR TALLAHASSEE SHORTLY AFTER HIS CONFERENCE WITH CLARK. END G«IG FBI WASH DC *^ #^^»^»fi'^t':'^~' O^^LVi-iSLili.^ • JU ^ K GALE ) - % FBI Date: 4/4/67 tran^ii the following in (Type in plaintext or code) Vi^ AIRTEL AIRMAIL (Priority). TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (62-107335) ATTN: IN^CTOR STERLING F DONAHUE FROMi.- SAC, TAMPA (62-256) (P) THE^CKEJHOTftii CORPORATION S WAR ON CRlli :r" 1^^^^' /i. rt-s ReTPtel, 4/4/67, concerning article appearing in the 4/4/67 issue of the ''Tampa Tribune'', ':x> Transmitted herewith is the article in qu^tion. 5A :&ureajj (Encl^ 1) 1 - Jackgpnvi 1 le (Enc 1 . 1 ) ( I nfo 1 -Miami' (End. 1) (Info) ^^ 1 - Tataptr JFSrcjm V--'^ 1^07ssT' NOT RECORDED tl APR 6 1967 ' FD-5& {Re^. 7-16-6 3) # (Mount Clipping in Space Below) Kirk DiscussesHis Crime War With U.S. Attorney Generat, WASHINGTON (UPI) — Florida Gov. Claude Kirk, buoyed by news of new sup- port for his Republican-style (Indicate page, name of war on crime, discussed his newspaper, city and state.) crusade yesterday with U.S. Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark. Kirk brought along his ap- pointed private crime fighter, George Wackenhut, who heads a huge private detec- tive agency in Florida. Clark, who previously ex- pressed misgivings about us- ing private agencies in "hard core law enforcement," had no comment on his hour and 45 minute conference with Clark Kirk and Wackenhut. Ramsey After arriving for the con- ieriTtr'Trp=-t ference, Kirk told reporters, parent}^, uijd tHe p-day limit he received news that all Fl( "" '*^"" \ in ahlii2; cff' legislative / rida sheriffs had joined in action to clarify the legal giving his crime war a new standing of Kirk crime fight- endorsement for 90 days. good ers, Yarborough admitted that the sheriffs acted on what In an unprecedented move, they felt would be a lesser of kB TAMPA TRIBUNE sheriffs yesterday Florida two evils. placed themselves at the TAMPA, FLA. mer- It followed recommendation cy of Florida's first Re- by the attorney general for publican governor in nearly a creation of a 30-member rack- century. w etibustiirg- squard blinder fee at- The sheriffs wired and Date: 4-4-67 ^^orhey /general lito^fighiorgag^ mailed to Sheriff's Bureau Di- Edition: rector Ed Yarborough blanket ized crinxe^and'Vifec as well as ' ' Author: prosecute* ^ if ' *lMs il aiiiho^ities authority for Governor Kirk "" failed, to investigate crime in their !''^.'V.^'r:":^;^,;^'. . Editor:JAMES A, GLENDINEN The /suggestion caihe from counties at will. Title: committee The action was started at a Fair cloth's state law enforcement and the meeting of the sheriffs at a on j law enforcement seminar in administration of justice. The sheriffs left that meet- Tampa called by Atty. Gen. Character: on their own Earl Faircloth. ing and gathered | ' or *l'm pleased to hear about to hand Governor Kirk the I Bureau, it," Kirk said. Florida Sheriff's Classification: neatly wrapped up and tied Submitting Office: TAMPA The effect of the sheriffs* with a bow. Republican gov- move. Kirk said, is that his It gives the Being Investigated which the I I crime fight has aii automatic ernor a weapon Florida have invitation to move into any of sheriffs of pre- Florida's 67 counties during fought, bled and died to ; the 90-day period. vent falling into the hands of Under present law^ Flo- previous Democratic gover-^ rida's autonomous sheriffs have jurisdiction over their own domains unless they is- si]£-wiuu Uip invitationf: to out- "^": 3J"' side agencies in tli " ENCLOBDBB FB»36 (Bev. 5-2'S-64) Mr. Tolsony. ^jfy # Mr*: DftLoach^Jlyiir ^ F B I T (^ Mr. CoDYad Date: 4/4/67 il .,j Transmit the following in (Type in plaintext or code) AIITEL AIRMAIL Virr . Mr. Trotf^r^ (priority) Tde. Room.*- TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (62-107335) FROM^ SAC, TAMPA (62-256) (P) THSrWACKENHUT CORPORATION GOVERNOR *S WAR ON CRIME FLORIDA SHERIFF'S BUREAU ^^ Transmitted herewith is an article appearing in ^ the 4/1/67^ issue of the "Tampa Tribune*' captioned '^Sheriffs Offer Governor Kirk Full Use of Thdbr Bureau^* In connection with the Governor's War on Crime as noted in the article, a number of sheriffs met in J Tampa, Fla. , and after polling the sheriffs who were n4>t o in attendance, agreed unanimously to make it possible i a fq^ the Governor to request the Florida Sheriffs V Bureau to send Investigators from the latter bureau into any county without the specific request of the sheriff of that county* talking with Sheriff D01|fDENUNG (NA ) , Pinellas County', he indicated the sheriffs felt they had to^'Ho "^^V ifomething to offset the Wackenhut Corporation being utilized by the Governor and that it was felt that by making available the services of the Florida Sheriffs Bureau, the Governor J^is now in a position where he cannot say as he did at one time that his hai^s were tied as far as askir^ the Sheriffs' Bureau for assisMnce in hjs investigations throughout the State* GENUNG ffated that a piimber of the sheriffs have on f sj- Bureau (En \^^ j \ 7-16-53) Fp-550 (Rev. # # (Mount Clipping in Space Below) Sheriffs Offer Gov. Kirk Fall Use ofTheir Bureau Sheriff Malcolm ~BeaTflf ^r By DAVID WATSON At a^onvention in Orlando Hillsborough (Jdtoty, Wha*|J.so Tribune StafMVriter ~^_ in Janii^ry, Florida's sheriffs threw their support behind attended , h a s '6n file in TallaT Florida Sheriif s. Association (Indicate page, name of hassee standing invitation the principle of a state inves- a state.) yesterdaj^ handed Gov . newspaper, city and tigative agency and the au- for bureau investigators to come into his major wea- thority for the governor to use coujit^^i^ili^e Claude RJ^^a in^purnrnf of their work. and it. The association was to fol- pon in l?f war on crime J low up with a bill for the leg- put tie Fiojod^: Sheriffs islature to put the machinery Sm-eau atliis disposal ^-." .. into motion. ^ Yesterday's action simply This was accomplished at a < gets the idea to work faster meeting of more tiiaii li.alf the and is a hedge against any state's ,67. sheriffs . at the delay about getting the bill SJieraton-Tampa Motor Inn, passed, said Yarbrough. when members unanimously \ The governor now is chair- voted to circumvent techni- a man of the Sheriff's Bureau -- cality in the law. even though he can't assign In a wire to Kirk on behalf investigators. The attorney of all sheriffs, the association general and five sheriffs are said it made a blanket re- board members, so to speak. quest for use of bureau inves- In an Orlando address Kirk tigators anywhere. This had told the sheriffs that need for the effect of overcoming a use of Wackenhut investiga- leiral restriction on bureau tors could be materially re- work, allowing agents to go duced by such a bill as pro- into a county only when in- posed by the association, and vited by a sheriff. commended it. lA TAMPA TRIBUNE Although only a bout half th^ As the law now stands, the Wackenhut TAMPA, FLA. "state's sheriffs were present, sheriff's bureau may use in- • • chief sleuth yesterday, Association.^=4y;or-! vestigators from any state ney John Madigan said'^'^ agency so long as the agency others . immediately wefeJHffl^ itself consents. It may use Date: i|._l_67 fornied of the decision an^S^ county law enforcement offi- dissent ha^ been receiveSS^^ Edition: cials, too, if the officials Bo far Jn his war on crime choose to cooperate. It also Author: DAVID WATSON Kitk h^# useid agents of the may use its own staff. Editor:JAMES A. CLENDINEN Critical Georgdj^acl^enhjiU private de- portion of the law tectiv/iirmfahd hasj^aid the! which limits scope of investi- gation, bill frbm J'fund of private, do- however, states: "... any of said investiga- nations A fU^ \ tors may, upon request of the It 4s &e use of a^rivate| Character; firm and Wnatiogs which has; sheriff in any county investi- gate or causiid^ctmtiiove^sy to swirl. crime in such county and Ye^'rdax^s^ action by the shall have authority to bear Classification: arms." ass^ia^^X said Sheriff's Submitting Office: TAMPA Bureiir'' Director Ed Yar- Into this section the sher- brougb* has^thc effect of put- iff's association wants the leg- Being Investigated I I ting a siate^ agency at the islature to write authority for governor's disposal with sup-, the governor to issue the or- port by public funds. ders of investigation. W. P. (BiU) Joyce of Leon It is conceded, however, 1 that a bigger staff and more County is president of the as- sociation. Sheriff money are needed if bureau Don Genung of Pinellas investigatory; are to be put in County is a board the ^Vi(T 1\ strengtl*^; — ^ memher and attended yester- UHy^";^^an. ^ '^'/^/-^-^ J"'-^ EKCLOSUKB i Act To Aid Kirk's War on Crime Sheriff Don Genung, left, Ed Yar trough and Sheriff Malcolm BcUTr^ «^ OfTlCK^t fi^,^M NO. 10 '^osAoeN. no. .*io. if UNITED STATES ERNMENT l-MToDe Loach Memorandum 1-Mr.Wick • TO MR. TOLSON DATE: FROM C. D, DE LOACH SUBJECT: GOVERNOR CLAUDE KIRK ^^EQ^E WACKENHUTi / _ ^^?0' :G0 HE:mAeKE.NH«-T-GOR.PORAXION -^^-"^""155^^^^ STATE OF FLORIDA -::..-' 'i>:*'-"^ -x^"" v-\-7.A S'^S0#' INVESTIGATION INTO ORGANIZED CRI ."< % SS ^ 01^'xrSlS^ Former Special Agent George Wackenhut, who is now h^atiing up Governor Claude Kirk's drive against organized crimie in the State of Florida, called me from the Madison Hotel, Washington, Do C. , at approxi- mately 10:15 a. mo this morning. He stated that he and Governor Kirk were in town to visit the Attorney General riegarding the Governor's investigation into ;^: organized crime in Florida. He mentioned that Governor Kirk would K • : like very much to drop by and see me iupon leaving the Attorney Generars office^ :He asked what time would be convenient. .n '1 Vj t I told Wackenhut that I had a full schedule and, as a matter of ::fact, 'most of the appointments were out of town appointments. He stated that '' Governor Kirk planned to return to Florida early this afternoon but stated that if the Governor decided to stay over that perhaps they could drop by after 4 p. m. In view of his persistence, I told him that I could see him and Governor Kirk between 4 and 5 po m. Apparently he had a change of mind because he then stated that he thought it best that they return to Florida and that they come to FBI Headquarters some other time. \3 At approximately 12:15 p. m. , Wackenhut called again and stated ' he wanted to put Governor Kirk on the phone. Governor Kirk next came to the f^ phone and indicated that he had an e I told him that while it, would be nice to shake hands with him, I knew of no H reason why he shoiild'stop by FBI Heaidquarters. He stated he would have to return to Florida in order to be there early this afternoon but that he would be s OH glad to stop by after 4 p. m^ if I felt there wre some conipelling reasons. I told M him I knew of no compelling reasons. CDD:amr y i\ (5) 0- C. D. DeLoach to Mr. Tolson Governor Claude Kirk; George Wackerihut Governor Kirk then indicated that he hoped to explain to the Attorney General that his investigation in Florida was a bonafide investigation and that he and Wackenhut were not as naive as newspaper accounts had made 1 them out. He asked again if there was any reason why he should stop by the FBI. I told him that I knew of no reason. It appeared quite obvious that Governor Kirk was attempting to draw me out from the standpoint of stating that there was a problem insofar as furnishing information to him and Wackenhut is concerned. The Attorney General and the Department have been completely advised as to this situation and the FBPs position is on record, i. eo , that we will not furnish any informa- tion to the Wackenhut people. The Attorney General called me at 12:35 p. m. about the explosion at the Turkish Embassy. I gave him the same details which had previously been furnished to the Director in memoranda form. While talking with the Attorney General, he mentioned that Governor Kirk and Wackenhut had already been in to see him at approximately 11:00 a. m. this morning. The Attorney General stated that Assistant Attorney General Vinson was with I him at the time inasmuch as he wanted a witness during the meeting. V The Attorney General told me that the interview was very Vs 5 disappointing inasmuch as Governor Kirk knew very little about law enforce- I .-J ^^ ment in the State of Florida and, as a matter of fact, had no idea as to the f f activities of law enforcement officers in his state. The Attorney General also stated that in answer to a direct question from Governor Kirk and I' Wackenhut, who was with the Governor at the time, he told them he would not honor Governor Kirk's request for furnishing information to Wackenhut and that furthermore he could not under any circumstances put the stamp of. i approval on Wackenhut. The Attorney General told me that Governor Kirk seemed to take these remarks, however, it appeared obvious that he was here simply 5 for the purpose of getting the Justice Department's approval of Wackenhut and his activities. The Attorney General stated that Governor Kirk agreed that there would be no press release reporting the results of the conference. The Attorney General stated that knowing the propensities of Governor Kirk, I it appeared probable he will make some release on his return to Florida. ACTION: I am advising the Florida Special Agents in Charge regarding this njatter. For record^ purposes* ^ j/ (U'^'^ FU.-36 VPCHt. S-22-64) ^ FBI Date: April 13, 1967 Transmit the following in .(Type in plaintext or code) Via AIRTEL (Priority) TO: DIRECTOR, FBI FROM: SAC^MIAMI (80-1229) GEORGE R. VACKENHUT u) .^^ ^ICin&imPt CORPORATION GOVERNOR'S WAR ON CRIME f INFORMATION CONCERNING / // Enclosed is a newspaper article which appeared in "The Miami Herald," Miami, Florida, on 4-13-67, reporting O that GEORGE WACKENHUT, Governor CLAUDE KIRK*s General in the Governor's War on Crime, was arrestejd for speeding on 4-12-67 when he was going 50 miles an hour in a 30-mile zone* The article further indicates that WACKENHUT had previously been arrested in 1964 and 1966 for speeding, I am sure that this recent incident is extremely embarrassing to WACKENHUT as well as the Governor KIRK, in ' view of the fact that on 4-11-67 Governor KIRK proclaimed a state of emergency because of the alarming death and injury tolls on the Florida highways. Governor KIRK recommended ^^^ that licenses of drivers who exceeded the speed limit by f if 25 miles an hour be suspended for a month, f -^ It is noted that WACKENHUT 's appearance in Metro Traffic Court is not set until June 5, 1967, V^^ - ^^''-"'^ 3 Bureau (Enc. 1 .-33^ ^^^'ij 1 - Miami D«M:injs ^ f^-m33SAS (4) # ^v^ ^fh^'-^-^r^ t:'.:'^ -:j::^:0 m APR M W7 *-U.:^< ^;.->^ f^3M^^p0P''^f J^4^.'f-€^ U 1^ FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63) (Mount Clipping in Space Below) Wadicnhut JVabbed for Speeding Kirk '^GeneraV Runs f J foul of the Ldw (Indicate page, name of ^ r?^ By ROBERT This time — though Wack- newspaper, city and state.) eri^>' -si-^lu^jnts" don't add up "^ackenhut, the Gcoiic to enough to net a licejise f n e r a in Gov. Claude g suspension — -he might lose Kirk's "other war" — the his license based on recom- one on crime turned up JlL — mendations of his own boss. Wednesday as a casualty in Gov, Kirk - his boss's new war, the one recommended Tuesday that drivers on traffic violators. exceed- in^f the speed limit Jlhe MIAMI HERALD He charged into it willy- by "more than 25 miles an hour" lose nilly, so to speak, in a bright red Corvette clocked at 50 theii' license for at least 30 days. miles an hour- in a 30 miles .Miami, Florida an hour residential zone. No one in the Governor's The governor had hardly Office Tuesday cared to say if declared his "state of emer- Kirk meant the^ suspension gency on Florida's high- should start with a 25-mph ways" Tuesday before Metro excess or at 26-mph. The (reorge Wackenliut Deputy John Stack respond- go\jrnor himself report- was . , , has court date the 46- ed by flagging down er' but of town and unc*}/aila- year-old former FBI agent bl' on 120th St. near 67th Ave. )eputy Stack set J ne 5 "I was Just testing the a U date for Wackenlji^it to office '"^s reaction to th<^*^oV- ajuaear in Metro court. ernor pronouncemen , said -Being f ollowed Wach 'fhut with som; rony. He t ENCLOSURE p — ^'^^ -^ FBI CaUa Date: 4/14/67 JMr. Conr; Mr. Felt Mr. G4 I (Type in plaintext or code) tlr. K< 'Mr. Sullivan AIRMAIL Mr, Tavel -- - Trotter .— -- (Priority) Mr. J Tele. Room-:..— '0j^s Candy-- DIRECTOR, FBI (62-107335) ....-^ o-^}'^^'^ SAC, TAMPA (62-256) \ ^ir-vjT :,..--" WACKENHUT CORPORATION *.'/ GfifERNOR'S WAR ON CRIME J I. it ReTPairtel, 4/4/67, captioned as above. « For the further information of the Bureau and re J K rotect identitv)[ be a confidential sourcef advised an Agent I :b7C this office! jhas given authority to the Wackenhut :b7D iCorporation^b tap the extensioni;e telephone assigned to I i The authorization jwas effective 4/14/67. Source advised an Agent that he had occasion to I (be (b7C fe)7D Bureau will be kept advised. ^x b7D ^£C. 60 ^i-/0 7J3^„^4, mi3 Sji: APR i'?1957 i , 22-64} y *^ ^ t '|l'', .r*',. F B I Dail: ,..,4/10/67 Transmit the following in (Type in plaintext or Via ATRTET. ATRMATT (Priority) ^X TO: |I DIRECTOR, FBI ; PROM: ' SAC, TAMPA (62-256) (P) a ^ACKEnIuT CORPQRAaJm-^ ., ^vernor's war ON CRIME ,, ,; A>j:^ . INFO ^NCERNING n^-f^" .:^ ^;^.-..^..-i" *^ On 4/5/67 ]furnished the following information to SA ^JAMES B, HAFLEY: During necent weeks several WACKENHUT investigators have visited his office and have advised him that they are currently conducting an intensive investigation Into alleged corruption on the part of state officials in nearby Seminole Co. , Fla, These^^ invest gators ^ who apparently are aware of the fact that ^ possesses a considerable amount of valuable intelligence information regarding the over-all crime picture in North Central Florida, have obtained from him names and addresses of potential witnes^e^ who might be interviewed for pertinent information regarding the Seminole Co. area. explained that at no time have any of the h investigators requested information from FBI Identif icationj | ' records. ^ He said one of the investigators recently confided in him that Governor KIRK now has sufficient derogatory information regarding four Florida sheriffs to suspend them from office. The investigator mentioned that among the four are Sheriff JUDSON L* HOBBY of Seminole Co,. and the g>l Bureau BEt^^ A2t/^7J^ 1 " Jacksonville (Info) 1 - Miami (Info) ^PX-llS S' APR IB I 2 " Tampa JBH : cwp (7) Approved: .Sent '_ Special Agent in Charge • 4 TP 62-256 sheriff of Dixie Co. , Fla, He did not mention the other two sheriffs involved. Further, said that Governor KIRK intends to issue suspension orders against all four of the sheriffs involved simultaneously and that one or two other sheriffs be could possibly be added to the list by the time the :b7c Governor's announcement in this regaijd is made public From contacts with the Wackenhut investi- gators, he gained the impression that Governor KIRK would not take any affirmative action regarding the proposed suspensions until after the current Florida State Legislature adjourns its present session/ probably on or about 6/1/67. The Governor's reason for this timing is that he feels the Legislature, which has a Democratic majority in both the House and Senate, could reverse the suspensions by the adoption of certain legislative action. However, if he delays making the suspensions until after the Legislature adjourns, it is highly improbable that a special session of this group could be convened just for the purpose of vetoing the Governor's suspension action against the sheriffs^ This matter is being followed discreetly by the Tampa Office and the Bureau, Jacksonville and Miami will be immediately advised of any further pertinent developments. ^'^A « 2 - -:» , I SAC». Miami Director, FBI SAC, FSEDSEXCK A. FROEBOSB AT SEAT OF GOVEHHMMT 4/3-14/67 During the period of SAC Frobbose^s re^ visit to the Soat of Government, the following blatters i^^er^ discussed with hiza: 'r/-""-- ^ :;:--—^'''':t ;': ,; <1) It was poiated out that spocial- atteat ion should he given to five bank robberies, six bank burglaries aad five bank lareeaies which were uasolved. (2) The case of victim in a kidnaping case"^ discussed with SAC Frohbose. He indicated that the Miami office was pursuing all leads to resol^'e the question as to ^iheth^T this lyas ;a legitimate kidaapiag. V ^' :" (3) The CrijBiaal IntellijjeEce Prograa^as dis- cussed poiatiBg out that the MiaBi area is opea territory for the Ezajor national crime orgsiaisiatioa, La Cosa Mostra, aad as a result leading La Cosa Nostra, families throughout the country have representative ia the Miam area to look after their racket interests and iavestmeats^ primarily . gambling, shylockiag, estortioh aad prostitution* The activities of Meyer and Jake Laaslcy were discussed aad it CO ^as pointed out that every effort should be r«ade to keep 2i s! abreast of theii" activities so that if possible a criiainal .case caa be saade' agaisast theia. in (4) . lie was advised :we isfould not supply authorities of the Bahamas aay inforsj^tioa of a^ criiaiaal character in view of their not hajadliEg. rs2ateriai in a ; confidential maaner aad their eudeavoriug to- pressure us to have so:iteoae fx^ora the Burea'u come to the Bahamas and iTolson testify before a- special ^cojaipissioa. narg-^itv^-jiTiV trjWjsae^'i lOeLoach . iMohr Wick (5) I1p:3Kas also ^dmn^Ti^nW^concBTnisxg the I ICasper activities of the^a£fega^^g;IorgaaisatiOB aad its coii^' hM\\/8 ICallahan . IConrad uectlan with Goveraor>Sirk of Florida that it should be Felt plainly understood^iSb information is^to^e ^ven to"^atfi/e iGale iRosen — ISuliiv, OLD-.mkc ^VVf^ (7) miKmrmmti 119671 iGandy MAIL ROOM I Y\ TELETYPE UNIT I I . - J^. -J I Letter to Miami •;. ESs SAC Fred^ariek A, WrohhoB^:. at Bm, 4/3-14/07 in uny capacity aad jao local autliorities ^bd ,itr© working fo:g? Goverisor Kirk ar© to giv©'tM Wackeet^B t. / group ,aay/:.- iEformtioa w&icia tiaey havo^ofctaia??^ f rosa. tlig; FBJ > Xf BOt already dcss^e^eo,; ad^iq®: tl^e'Busreau as to i?liat actiosa Ms b©e^ takeE coiicemiBg - the afeov^ mattors since th© r^tura of SAC Frohbi^s© to tliia' Miami Office. -2- ' 0-19 {^ev. 12-9-66) ^-/^ t % Gov, Kirk Agrees tfhCi'^ Up Hi^ Prhmx By MARTIN WALDRON Special to The New York Times cially as "the Gov^ernor's war TALLAHASSEE, Fla., May on crime." 5—Gov. Claude R. Kirk Jr. has "Twenty-three persons have agreed to abolish his controver- been arrested on 71 criminal sial private police force, ac- I counts," the Wackenhut spokes- avel knowledging privately that It man said. "A number of other Trotter might not have been a "good cases have been referred to j Tele. Room idea" to establish it. Federal, state and local police j In a special message to the for action." Holmes ' Florida Legislature this week, Governor Kirk said ^the Gandy W 1 Governor Kirk, a Republican 'Wackenhut agents had planned w^ith Vice-Presidential aspira- campaigns against organized tions, asked for a $1.5-million crime, especially in southeast appropriation to set up a Florida around Miami arid the special state police force to Fort Lauderdale a]:'ea, with one investigate organized crime in of the first projects to be "an Florida. This special poUce attempt to break up a nar- force would be under the Gov- cotics ring in Miami." ernor's control and would re- 'But of course what we've place the private police force, planned to do is not as im- the Governor said; pressive as what we have done," 'Tm not actually giving up, the Governor said. "Anyone can Wackenhut," the Governor saidj say that he plans to do such and such." in an interview • in his office.' "What I have asked for was' In asking the Legislature for authr^-'^y to crec'/- r Florida :the transfer of 32 or 36 agents, DepaiwAcift of GHIrJIII^-Jus- ' ''" however many there r--"\ 2 ti^^ ^nor Kir'.L- / ~ visoned a state police force, an| I '^ile Wackenhut. Oo^'T^-^'n'^tion, investigative divijdon - and a^ third largesf private detective^ crime communications network,! agpcy in the United Stated all under a crime commissioner [ hsj been furnishing the Gov appointed, by the Governor.* The Washington Post nol . with 36 special agents, Florida has no state police, and Times Herald evh of whom have been asszg"j^:d, its highway patrol officers are to^ investigate public officials.? limited to enforcing traf- The Washington Daily News ,fic laws, Governor Kirk proposed In J The Evening Star (Washington) , Governor Kirk induced two January that the private police Democratic legislators to intro- The Sunday Star (Washington) _ force be paid from public do- duce his bill in an effort to Daily News (New York) nations. However, the public gain bipartisan S'Uppprt. Al- though Republicans did not respond to appeals for hold more Sunday News (New York) than a third of the seats in money, and the Wackenhut York Post the Legislature, all positions New . Corporation has been bearing of importance are held by Dem- The New York Times - the cost of the investigations,} ocrats. World Journal Tribune estimated at about $1,000 a day. Legislative leaders have said they will support the Governor's In a telephone interview from (New York) _: plan to investigate organized^ Miami, an aide to George Wack- crime, but that it might be! The Sun (Baltimore) __ the enhut, former agent of the changed considerably so that The Worker Ip^ederal Bureau of Investigation other public officials will share, control The New Leader who heads the detective agency, of the state police with: the Governor. said oOO investigations were The Wall Street Journal " Surprised at Reaction tween Jpyt "'""n^^May The National Observer A .source close to the Gover- * People's World nor said Mr. Kirk \^'i ''trj^^iTr- ' V^'^'' "X >f the widetspreaa pub-* 6 W^ Date -A' X^lf^f 33^ |66MAY 1519671 | ^^^^ \ \ Uc^ reaction against hij^jrivnte poiice force. *'The concept was good, but .the way it was presented to the public made it a bad idea," the j Governor was quoted as having said. The .Governor was said to have deliberately created the private police force in an effort to get ' legislative approval for the plan he has now presented, Critics of the piivate police^ force idea charge that Governor Kirk had directed tihe Wacken- hut agency to investigate pub- lic officials, most of whom are^ Democrats, for political reasons. One of the Governor's aidesr said many of the "tips" givenj to the private police force con-! earned public officials, but hek said no breakdown of the num-[v ber of public officials involved •was available. ' The Wackenhut spokesman said- 910 letters , were received from the public, 114 from anon- ynipus sources and J96 signed. I The 23 persons 3,rfested "^as a; result of Wackenhut investi- gations face a vari(ity of charg- es. Five have been charged with perjury, five with narcotics vio- lations, six with g]:and larceny, two with burglary, and one each with bribery, conspiracy to com- }mit bribery, conversion of of- .ficlal funds and malfeasance, ' "" ' " ' '* . e ^^ t^n and the illegal ^ jpractice of medicine.~^ t Mz««itor» 3^ 5/4/67 ms, J^it^m&mtllm U*13Q> Esc?^'.: r--:::;! 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F B I Date: 5/12/67 (Type in plaintext or code) AIRMAIL (Priority) ~T¥y^ .L. i// DIRECTOR, FBI (62-107335) SAC, TAmPA (62-256) (P) THE WACKENHOT CORPORATION GOVERNOR'S WARi: ON CRIME Re Tampa airtel to Bureau, dated 4/4/67. On 5/12/67 a confidential confidential source ! advised on a basis that all arrangements had been made to install an extension telephone which would be connected to the ln extension assigned to the desk of | | addition, arrangements had also been made to install a voice acl^uated tape recorder to record conversations telephone extension. He stated, however, that when the telephone company employee, who had no know ledge of the purpose of the extension, was connecting same ^^ made a comment to the l ___ 1 switchboard operator, "I wonder what you switchboard operators have been up to because the Security Office of the telephone company is making a check on you". The regular operator and relief ^ immediately went to ttnd he in turn contactedl Iregarding this. I [informed the /^- Bureau "1 - Jacksonville ^fnl'o) 1 - Miami (®af}>) «-/^ 2 - Tampa (1 H :b7D JJG:jt (7) 14 ^At X^^0[, Serit .M 1 Agent in Charge 62 m zzW" • //' t operators at the time that he would check with the phone company andi later told the operators that the telephone company had been in error and that the phone company denied making any such check* ''". ',>." [advised that because of the above, he immediately cancelled the installation with the telephone company and Wackenhut Corporation. He stated that it has been left on the basis that an installation could be made at a later date/ « .0-20 (Rev. 1-26-66) ach<^ ^^' Mohr.- ' Callahan Conrad _ , elt CA. ale. sen Sullivan Tavel _ Trotter _ Tele. Room Holmes Gandy .^ ^liimmm^mmiumm t 'PI -105 . O ' ^^ASHINGTON "-GEORGE P« VACKENIIUT tdDAY HOTLY DENIED THERE I'.'AS ANY C0?::7L1CT OF INTE??EST 3ETI":EEN HIS MISSION AS FLORIDA. GOVo CLAUDE KIHK'S PRIVATE POLICE CHIEF AND THE IROUND-THS-CLOCK PROTECTION KIS FIRM GIVES TO T3S DAUGl-iTER: OF Bfeftf^IAlM LINKED KITH GAMBLING KTF^FgTS ! ' UACKENHUT TOLD SEKATE INVESTlSAtdftS tKAT HIS FIRM EMPLOYED TiZ 'DAUGHTER OF SIR STAFFORD SAMDS FOft. Sg^/ERAL VEEKS EARLY "EMS YEAR 'AND STILL GIVES HER PROIZCfTlCN PENDII-JG KER FINAL DIVORCE '""M^ GRAY -HAIRED^ CHEV-CUT,'-FtORlB»- .SftlD • KE DlSraSSED SA.MD'S DAUGHTER WHEN MAGAZINES- -- PUBLISHED AllTtCLES AND "THE INFORMATION CArE OUT TL'AT SIR STAF •ORD MAY BE OR. :i$, .ALLEGED TO 5E CONNECTED '^rtV: GAMBLING INTEREST. rACKERHUf ADMITTED THAT HE ALSO PROVIDED PROTECTIVE SERVICES AT OKE TIME FOR SAMDS„ A FORf-IER PRICC tll^ltSTEn OF THE -BAHAMAS » FERNARD j« FEMSTERIMLD. JHo. COU^$EL,:FCH THE SE^5ATE SUBCOMMITTEE, '•-YCU HAVE DONEl'JORK FOR PEOPLE... IN GAHBL'|KG AI^D HOV' YOU ARE TRYING ' "TC FERRET IT OUT. DOESN'T THAT RAISE,. 1^ GREAT CO^^VLICT OF INTEREST,' k -'ACKENLrUT HEATEDLY DENIED THE ALLldMlDM, ffE SAID °.I HAVE LEGAL ' CP.T>^:IO^^ THAT THERE ISN^T A CONFLICT lOFlK'TERESTo * 'THERE IS. NOTHING UKTO¥ARD IM-, Tlflfe. IIOTHING AT ALL/' HE TOLD " ,;v-,, SENATE IK^VESTIGATORSo . VACKEKHUTo PICKED BY KIRK TO. HEAD' FLORIDA'S l-IAR ON CRIMEo IS MAJCRITY STOCKHOLDER OF TE UAC! • , i /. FIEF CRI^E -BUSTER, . j/l£—TS213PED WASHINGTON CAPITAL NEWS SERVICE f. liAY a FOR MR J TOLSON ^^' —— 7 f J fe. Tofeoa DC I FBI WASH • i SECTION) ^' fe. DeLoExfe COMMUHteflAS^^ pi &t. K^hi— '4 Mr. CaspsE- FBI unfh 4 Mr. Fe!t_ 643 Ptt 5-il-6t URSEHT R©B My. Gale- T© DIRECT0R 62-107535^ Mr. Suilivaa. Mr, Tavd 62-256 OTliEf^^'iSE Mr* Trotter— FR0M tIkBPA Tde* Eaom Miss Holmes WcKEHHBT CORPORATietl, 6®VERN©R CLAOD KIRK'S MAR OB CRIME, ARTICLES LOCAL PAPERS AND HEW YOllK TIMES TODAY HAVE WACKEBHOT STAT1R6 THAT OS WAY TER LAST, GEORGE WACKEHHOT, OF FLORIDA C0RPORAT1OII, APPEARED BEFORE A JOINT HEARIH6 OF THE TALLAHASSEE, STATE SENATE AND HOtTSE ABTI CRIME COMMITTEE IB PROGRESS IN THE aA. HE READ A FORTY MINUTE STATEMENT OF HIS IN STATERS iNTI CRIME FIGHT IN WHICH ME DEPLORED THE CRIME WHO HE CLAIMED FLORIDA. HE ALSO LISTED NAMES OF RACKETEERS STATE. LlQlSLAtORS WERE LINKED WITH NEFARIOUS ACTIVITIES IN THE INSTANCE CHALLENSfD SOME OF HIS INFORMATION AND IN ONE HAD NOT LOCATED. SUPPLIED HIM WITH INFORMATION HIS INVESTIGATORS TO HE RECOMMENDED A STATE BOARD OF INQUIRY RESPONSIBLE THE CRIME SITUATION. THE THE GOVERNOR TO HOLD HEARINGS ON END PAGE ONE 6SL' /a 7^^S1<^^ « MAY 18 35? 7 9 MAY 18 1961 MR DaOACH FOR THE DIRECTOR 'i r PAGE TWe SENATE IS C0NSI6ERIN6 SUCH A BILL AS WELL AS A DEPARTHENT Of CRIMINAL JUSTICE, BGTH @F VHIGM WERE ENDORSED BY VAGKE1IHUT, VM@ STATED THE BOARS 9F INQUIRY WOULD COORDINATE AND DISSEHINATE INFORMATION RECEIVED* ON MARCH THIRTEEN LAST, TAMPA DIVISION RECEIVED TWO LETTERS FROM 6E0R6E WACXENHUT FORWARDINQ TWO LETTERS RECEIVED BY THE GOVERNOR, ONE FROM A FORMER INMATE OF THE TAMPA STOCKADE, WHICH MATTER WAS INVESTIGATED IN TAMPA FILE FORTYFOUR-FIVE FIVE SIX, BUFILE FORTYFOUR-THREB nVE SIX FIVE NINE. THE OTHER LETTER CONCERNED THE PASCO COUNTY JAIL AND WAS INVESTIGATED IN TAMPA FILE FORTY FOUR DASH FIVE FIVE FIVE, ENTltLED? UNSUBS? OFFICERS OF THE be PASCO COUNTY JAIL, DADE CITY, aAjl kviCTIW. b7C TAMPA DIVISION HAD NEVER RECEIVED ANY OTHER INFORMATION OF CASES FROM THE WACKENHUT CORPORATION. K MIAMI AND JACCSONVILLE ADVISED AIRMAIL. END RCH FBI WASH DC P cr. ff}\- pA--^"^ , — Mr. DeLoachlr,... ^^•'* ' ^; - " tIlfjyPi unit /^""^ w 'Mr* Mohr Kr. Wick Mr, Casper .... Mr. Callahan Mr. CoBrndy Mr. Felt Mr. Gale., Mr. Rose K/ Mr. Sui) Mr. Tavd Mr. Trotter Te?le, Eoom ^ Miss Holmes.™ Ax%y PM URGENT 5/11/67 SHR f Miss Candy Jfl DIRECTOR 62-107335 ATTN: SPECIAL INVESTIGATIVE DIVISION FROM MIAMI 66-2466 3 P GEORGE R» WACKENHUT, WACKENHUT CORP., MIAMI, FLA. r/-;^ REBUTEL CALL MIAMI, TODAY. NO INFORMATION HAS BEEN FURNISHED THE MIAMI DIV, ON ORGANIZED CRIME, GAMBLING OR CORRUPTION BY GEORGE R. WACKENHUT WHO IS THE DIREC- TOR OF GOVERNOR KIRK'S WAR ON CRIME NOR ANY OF THE INVESTIGATORS WHO ARE WORKING FOR THE GOVERNOR UNDER THE WAR ON CRIME CAMPAIGN, THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION HAS BEEN REFERRED TO THE MIAMI DIV. BY THE WACKENHUT CORP. SINCE WACKENHUT WAS APPOINTED GOVERNOR KIRK'S DIRECTOR ON THE WAR ON CRIME: "UNSUB; CLAUDE KIRK, GOVERNOR OF FLA. - VICTIM, EXTORTION", MIAMI FILE NINE DASH ONE EIGHT EIGHT NINE, BUFILE NINE DASH FOUR SIX TWO NINE TWO. END PAGE ONE 0^ is^/^rns^- 100 ® MAY 18 1867 9 MAY 18 1967 7 !MR. DELOACH FOR THE DIRECTOR PAGE TWO ON FEB. ELEVEN, SIXTY SEVEN, WACKENHUT CORP. ADVISED THAT GOVERNOR KIRK HAD RECEIVED AN ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION THROUGH THE U.S. MAILS WHICH CONTAINED AN IMPLIED THREAT, THIS CASE ^S NOT INVESTIGATED BY THE FBI BUT INVESTIGATED BY THE FLA. HIGHWAY PATROL AND WEST PALM BEACH COUNTY SO. "DADE COUNTY, FLA., AUGHORITIES, MIAMI, FLA.; AKA - VICTIM, CIVIL RIGHTS". be :b7C BY LETTER DATED FEB. SEVENTEEN , LAST, ON STATIONERY OF THE GOVERNOR'S WAR ON CRIME, GEORGE R. WACKENHUT REFERRED A COMMUNICATION WHICH HAS BEEN RECEIVED BY GOVERNOR KIRK FROM WHO ADVISED GOVERNOR KIRK THAT HE WAS IN DADE COUNTY JAIL AND THAT HIS RIGHTS WERE BEING VIOLATED. DETAILS RE THIS INVESTIGATION WERE SUBMITTED TO THE BUREAU BY AIRTEL DATED FEB. TWENTYTHREE, LAST, WHICH ENCLOSED A LHM. ON MARCH EIGHT, LAST, GEORGE WACKENHUT, ON STATIONERY OF THE be b7C GOVERNOR'S WAR 0N(^IME, REFERRED A COPY OF A LETTER WHICH HAD BEEN RECEIVED BY GOVERNOR KIRK AND THE WACKENHUT CORP. FROM NORTH MIAMI BEACH, FLA., RE A CAR WHICH HAD BEEN STOLEN FROM END PAGE TWO J >. $ PAGE THREE ^ND WHICH WAS SUBSEQUENTLY RECOVERED IN DADE COUNTY, FLA. STRIPPED AND BURNED. THE LETTER FROM CRITICIZED THE HANDLING OF THIS MATTER BY THE DADE COUNTY SO. SINCE THIS WAS A LOCAL STOLEN be CAR, NO VIOLATION WITHIN THE BUREAU'S JURISDICTION, :b7c "UNSUB, AKA., COMMANDER OF ALL FLA. MINUTEMENj DIRECTOR OF ALL MIAMI AREA MINUTEMEN COMBAT GROUPS; ELMO B. HUNTER, U. S. DISTRICT JUDGE - VICTIM; GOVERNOR CLAUDE KIRK - VICTIM OOJ; EXTORTION- ON APRIL NINETEEN, LAST, FORMER FBI AGENT AND NOW A SUPERVISOR FOR THE WACKENHUT CORP., FURNISHED A POSTCARD WHICH HAD BEEN RECEIVED BY GOVERNOR KIRK WIHICH CARD MADE A THREAT TO GOVERNOR be KIRK. THIS CARD WAS SIGNED DIRECTOR OF ALL MIAMI AREA MINUTEMEN b7c COMBAT GROUPS. THIS MATTER IS PRESENTLY UNDER INVESTIGATION SINCE TftIS CARD IS VERY SIMILAR TO A POSTCARD WHICH HAD BEEN RECEIVED BY U. S. DISTRICT JUDGE ELMO D. HUNTER U THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI, KANSAS, MO., WHICH INVESTIGATION HAD BEEN INSTITUTED UNDER THE OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE STATUTE. AIRMAIL COPIES TO JACKSONVILLE AND TAMPA. END be b7C LMRGMPQHXCQYTHJAGRHFVHXBBCYQGN B'PS^^ m MR. fiALfi WA HL FBI WASH DC '0 .^\, mimi eijiayriNVESTiGATioN U.S.DI^I'iEflT OF JUSTICE Msr. Delioacli VT... COi^CATION SECTiOW Mr. Mohr— Mr. Wick-. Mr. Casper Mr. Callahan . Mr. Conrady ^frsR,^sv. FBI WASH DG DTis >^!l i< E Mr, Felt Mr. GaL Mr. Kof Mr. Su Mr. Ta FBI JACjeSVLE Mr. Trotter- AiAQ^ URGENT 5/11/67 6CM Miss HoimP3 JTOj DIRECTOR /62-107335/ FROM: JACKSONVILLE /80-403/ 2P . ;; Oilv^^w^'^^^ ' ;J a THE WACKENHUT CORPORATION RE BUREAU PHONE CALL THIS DATE., NO REPRESENTATIVE OF THE WACKENHlUT CORPORATION HAS FURNISHED RE- SULTS OF ANY INQUIRIES MADE BY WACKEMHUT OR ITS REPRESENTATIVES TO JACK SONVILLE. ONLY MATTERS REFERRED TO THIS OFFICE TO DATE WERE RESULTS OF/ LETTERS SENT TO SPECIAL POST OFFICE BOX, CORAL GABLES, FLORIDA, AND CO-N SISTED OF THE FOLLOWING! LETTER FEBRUARY EIGHT LAST FROM PENSACOLA SEL^ESCRIBED AS COMMANDING GENERAL, THE FLORIDA HOME GUARD, WHICH INDICATED TO GOVERNOR KIRK THAT THIS ORGANIZATION IS INVESTIGATING be COMMUNIST INFILTRATION IN FLORIDA. hAS BEEN SUBJECT OF PRE- | :b7C VIOUS COMMUNICATIONS WITH BUREAU, RETPREP OCTOBER ELEVEN SIXTYFIVE ENTITLED/ MI NUTEMEN, ETC,/ BUFILE SlXTYTWO'DASH I ONE, JKFILE ONE FIFTYSEVEN DASH SEVEINTYONE. BY LETTER DATED APRIL TWENTY LAST, JACKSONVILL&=#A& ftlRiriSTreD' A END PAGE ON 9 MAY 18 W MR. FOSTHE WECJOR 'It' .•^ POOACH *^«MA?i 1967 i PAGE TWO COPY OF AN ANNOYMOUS LETTER RECEIVED BY WACKENHUT CORPORATION SETTING FORTH THE NAMES OF ALLEGED STATE EMPLOYEES IN TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA, WHO ARE ENGAGED IN SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES. NAMES FURNISHED WERE NOT IDENTI- FIABLE IN JX FILES, MIAMI AND TAMPA ADVISED BY MAIL. END WRD FBI WASH DC P CC: 1_ diPTION^FORM iA NO. 10 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENTi Memorandum TO Mr, DeLoa^ff'yir DATE: May 12, 1967 FROM J. H. Gale SUBJECT. CKENHJffi:^?JPORATipN iVERNOR*S WAR ON CRIIIl FnX)RIDA In connection 'ivith an article captioned Aide Backs Anticrime Fight," which appears in the 1967, issue of "The New York Times," the Director inquired if the Wackenhut State outfit of its results to the FBI« Our offices in Jacksonville, Miami and Tampa have advised that several nonspecific complaints on matters within our jurisdiction have been disseminated to us by The Governor's War on Crime » These complaints are in the form of letters from private citizens delivered to a special Post Office box maintained by Wackenhut in Ck>ral Gables^ Florida, to receive citizen complaints, anonymously or otherwise* Communications referred to our offices have included allegations in matters pertaining to civil rights, extortion, theft of motor vehicles and sub- ^;yersive activities* We have conducted preliminary inquiries in some of these casi&s* No substantive case has been developed to date* ACTION: For information* i^' Mr* DeLoach - Mr* Wick 1 ** Mr. Rosen 1 - Mr* Sullivan 1 - Mr. Gale 1 -» Mr* McAndrews 1 - Mr* Ware ARW:tjm /C^ (8) . ?-„7f0 "^/M / — v'ii^24-6 6)" HeUstedthe nameg-^^fegsjs^s^r-" ous r^civtiLeeTs who he said had definitely been linked 'io ne-j farious acti\'ities in the state' during the Investigation. This evokfjd a challenge by ANTICRIEFMTI one of the legislators that the same information was in the files of the Florida Sheriffs Bu- Says No Cases in Florida reau. It was also said that the Motivated "' Are Politically ^pirnlp -^a^ !Probati^g^;^^|^is- Sullivan'^ ^J sion had the address7Sa_eyen Tavel HI numTc(ga-$£-^^ie Special to The New York Times the^ldfi^^e a member of Trotter TALLAHASSEE, Fla„ May CocoTdescriljed as the Cosa Nostra. Mr. Wacken- ^^\e. Room 10—Florida legislators were as Coco's hut's stateraent listed Holmes sured today that not a single address as "unknown to us." case undc^c}nvestigation in Gov. *Mr. Wacli;enhut replied that Gqndy Claude K^feirk Jr/s privately his investigators had not re- from n:. financed wa^ on crime was po- ceived full cooperation state agencies. He said data litically motivated. that was' provided had been Geroge Wackenhut of Miami, given surreptitiously to his the Republican Governor's ?1- men. a-year general of -the crime war, This ' gav^ him the chance told a joint hearing of the state to emphasize his recommenda- immediate solu- Senate and House anticrime tion that the could best committees that each of the tion to the problem board matters now under Investl- take the form of a state 442 few ^tion stemmed from a com-' of injury comprised of a unimpeachable plaint or allegation received, individuals of appointed by and re- from citizens of the^tate. integrity Governor. Mr. WatJtenhuit, who.- is sponsible to the be assumed head of the Wackenhut Cor- He said it must witli the poration, a nationwide security that such a board ~ public and pri-| agency based in Miami, also re- power to Jiold subpoena! ported that as of May 8 a total vate hearings, to and records, to grant of 933 letters and nearly as witnesses witnesses and to many telephone calls had been immunities to necessary investi- received giving information on' secure the to implement its crime in the state. Some 30 per gative foro ' operations — would receive the cent of these contained infor- of al l official mation of substance, he said,' cooperation <«—--^r^"^ adding that, as all law-enforce- agg3icies-»« committee is con- ment officials know, this repre- '^TTHe Seiftite ;Sents an unusually high per- qidPriTig^^^ hiij that would create The Washington Post ' Icentage. " ' «. bSnmisSon of inqllU'^. "* a former Times Herald „ Mr. Wackenhut, It also has before it a bill ^gent of the Kderal Bureau to establish a department of The Washington Daily News ^f Investigation, read a 40-min- criminal justice- as proposed by statemenlf outlining the The Evening Star (Washington) uje Governor Kirk. Such a depart- progress of the state anticrime' ment would consolidate the in- The Sunday Star (Washington) _ fight, in which 38 agencies, as- vestigative - and law-enforce- signed by his private agency Daily News (Ne'w York) ment activities of all state to Governor Kirk, are engaged. agencies into one department Sunday News (New York) He presented recommendations with enforcement, crime anal- for 'continuance of the battle. New' York Post „ ysis, rehabilitation and educa- Then, he faced* 45 minutes of tion divisions, The New York' Times questions from the legislators. Mr, Wackenhut endorsed this Many .of the queries were un- World Journal Tribune fes the nong-range approach, friendly. tout said the board of inquiry -"; (New York) In his statement Mr. Wack- could provide the coordination enhut said he had been shocked The Sun (Baltimore) _ ^and dissemination of in- at the extent of official cor- telligence that enforcement The Worker U!^ ruption that exists in the state ac ed in thg^nl-^^pa- today and amazed that so little fc^>.:£JKgto The New Leader medMeIy,„, — ~-^— has been done for so many years The Wall Street Journal -^- to correct this deplorable state of affairs, The National Observer ^„ Appalled at State Plight ; :^\ Peo^e's World He stated that, despite -his experience in the field, he had Ate been appalled at what he had WAY 1 1 1967 learned concerning organized crime, which he said exists in .^ iWWis 1967" all its heinous forms and is centeredcenterea Inin thetiin; Southeast 1/ Florida.. Tampa Bay^ and 3' - FD-36 (Rev. 5-22'\6A} t F B I Date: 5/12/67 Transmit the following in (Type in plaintext or code) Vi„ AIRTEL (Priority) TO: DIRECTOR, FBI FROM: SAC, TAMPA (62-256) WACKENHUT COREMJATlON GOVERNOR CLAUDSSCIRK ' S ^a. W'J \ ReTPtel 5/11/67. 0'*: Transmitted hferewith for the Bures offices are the following articles captioned as shown below, appearing in the papers indicated: 1. TAMPA TRIBUNE, 5/11/67, "CORRUPTION SHOCKS WACKENHUT;" 2. TAMPA TRIBUNE, 5/11/67, "WACKENHUT LISTS CORRUPTION CASES;" 3. ORLANDO EVENING STAR, 5/10/67, "ORLANDO BOL I TA HUB;" 4. ORLANDO SENTINEL, 5/11/67, "WACKENHUT NAMES 64 RACKET CHIEFS;" 'Jl 5. TAMPA TIMES, 5/11/67, "WACKENHUT URGES ELITE CRfME BOARD;" 6. TAMPA TIMES, 5/11/67, "OTT UNMOVED BY WACKENHUT;" , 7. TAMPA TRIBUNE, 5/12/67, Editorial "SHOTGUN LOAD OF -ROCK. SALT;" 8. ORLANDO EVENING STAR, ,67, "ORLANDO NO CRIME HUB;" 6^ Bureau (Encs. 10)^^^! 1 - Jacksonville (EncsTT-O U.t'13^^-^ 1 - Miami (Encs. 10) (info) 2 - Tampa 1967 ll^^T 92-26) Id MAY 15 '\ JFS:j'n h . ,,. , (7) i A -"^u ^'- .?i GBIIuB KI:-^ 56 MAY 31^ " Approved: - Sent M p.eF.->S:d:-^ Special Agent in Charge € i TP 62-256 9. ST. PETERSBURG TIMES, 5/11/67, "WACKENHUT SHOCKED AT CRIME'S EXTENT IN STATE;" 10. ORLANDO EVENING STAR, 5/11/67, "SANFORD MAN DENIES BOLITA LINK." '--% 1 FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63) jr i i (Mount Clipping in Space Below) Among Florida Officials— Corruption ^Shocks* Wackenhut By ^ At the^ outset he said did DAVID WATSON he Ed Yarb rough, bureau Tribune Staff Writer not inti^M fhis. | cpji^ments^o be clirector, said Wackenhut's TALLAHASSEE — Veteran i an indittmentof all 1bw en- reiiuest was' rejected;- because FBI man George S. Wacken- forcement' and prosecution of- the files o\i the Mafia contains (Indicate page, name of hut yesterday told joint legis- information ficials confidential FBI newspaper, city and state,) lative crime committees he is because most are hon- available only to lawmen. shocked and amazed at the est and forthright. But he also extent of official corruption in made it clear his opinion does In a statement following the Florida. not apply to all. liearing he said he had sug- gen- Wackenhut and his private As Qov. Claude Kirk's gested that Wackenhut get crime he detective agency are em- , eral in the war oh written approval from the corrupt officials ployed by Kirk to conduct a charged that FBI director to use the files, statewide push against organ- are operating from one end of opinion describ- or get a court , the other. ized crime. ; 10 U the state to ing him as a law enforcement ^ cohduc1;e(f 5f5 investigaEons, And corruption breeds officer. Yarborough also said crime which breeds . corrup- 442 of them still active, Wack- lie has an attorney general's tion in a vicious circle, legis- ; enhut said. against releasing the | opinion lators were told. Cooperation from state i'iles to Wackenhut. agencies has been less than : Much of Wackenhut's said he as- complete, charged. Ques- 1 Wackenhut was he recount of Mafia "family" or- ; signed by Kirk to probe or- tions by committeemen dis- J jjanization in Florida covered with ganized crime and has never closed a head-on clash j previously Sjground ploughed \_ conducted a political investi- ' the Florida Sheriff's Bureau, by other agencies appearmg Station. He said so in answer i before the committees. But to a direct question posed I "I'm not looking to get Into makes ', said he from the committee, although a fight with any state agency Wackenhut are opera- ' the point that they it is common knowledge that here," said Wackenhut, invFIorida. his agents run checks on pressed by committeemen to tmg, not visiting, state employes. be specific. Rep-. Elvin Martinez .of lA TAMPA TRIBUNE r asked But he said he had Tampa asked the agent if his Agents also have, admittedly the Sheriff's Bureau for a list opening s^tements meant TAMPA, FLA. of names and was re- :|d^j|^o4|if.pf^Gest.^f>aab- , Mafia some officials in Tampa or jii\t members, but ot fused. His men developed a n for PQ- * Hillsborough County are being l^^f fii^a ! r^srprpfWacienhut list of their own, j Date: ' '^^^'^^- refused to corrupted, thus aUowing 5.11.67 ^ - 1 "Not everybody S^id;'' ^^ , or- said ganized crime Edition: On the other hand, his in- cooperate," Wackenhut to function. vestigators have established of investigation troubles with Author: , DAVID WATSON officialdom, "but some re- "My statements speak for that , members of the crime Editor:j;s,MES to 'officially' cooperate. themselves," replied Wacken* A. GLENDINEN dkrtels are in tEe state i-ight , fused Those who did cooperate did hut, "I'm not going to poini Title: the finger no^^^ ^tjkMiut said. They j so under the table, and I at any area. Tha ar^ engagM%n illegal g^m- think that is a damnable way Trafficante organization oper* j bling, shylocking, bribery,' ex- to assist a governor's appoint- ates out of Tampa. Beyond that, I don't care Character: tortion, strong arm activities, ! •ed investigator." to com- narcotics, labor racketeering Gordon Blalock, head ment." i Rep. or and Kav^" 'muscled in" on the of the house crime corny Classification: mittee, said he was dismayed"^ He told the committees: vending i^achinp and garbage , at the apparent lack of coop- "Santo Trafficante, also Submitting Office: TAMPA dtjsposaL^usinq^;;; - ^, '• eration. He said he does not known as Louis Santos, also Organized crime cari,e?£ist Being Investigated agree with use of a private known as J. Gonzalez, recog- i [ and grow only where it has agency for state nized as the Florida investigative reprcsen- l the umbrella of protection of functions, but if that is the tative of the Cosa Nostra, corrupted local authorities, method the governor has cho- controls the bolita and Cuban Wackenhut said. ) sen, and as the governor is lottery rackets throughout ^ ' the head of the Sheriff*s Bu- Florida and has been reported The bulk of organized crime reau, he would expect cooper- as one of the largest impor- has centered in the Tampa ters of South American co- Bay area, an^ sottth and cen- ' ^^ss-^.^ the countryr^-—^-^-*' tral FI :;;£:?., the ic^slators were ioiv. Eve-;. pC; 'uic Grime 5) war boss savo. i-e iiorH ...at at ETsTCEOSURH' this time point the finder for " ^ ^ ^^nyone. « ^^—^ ^ 4. /i?: . : {5_ i *" "Although TraffiQante^orl^l- jyackei^ut estimated a cost 01 v^..." '-"C2 miUioITToJrT^w operations from Tampa and job right. still visits Tampa at frequent Sen. Truett Ott of Tampa, intervals, he is now headquaiv head of the senate committee^ tered and residing In Mi^ ." and Blalock, in -Essence' J^ami. , \ * agreed ' S a m Cacciatore Traffl- that Wackenhut's rd-. cante, also known as Toto; port solidified some legisla- who is in charge, together tive thinking, but the presen- with Frank Diecidue. AngelQ tation wasn't entirely ttpju;^ Bedami and Augustine Primo H' Lazzara, are all top lieuten<> -^ ants in the Trafficante organ- ization operating out of th© Tampa Bay area. These lieu- tenants control at least jf dozen more Mafia members of this organization known to us. "Diecidue was arrested on gambling charges recently. ^' ''Samuel Cacciaftore, anoth* cr lieutenant in the Traffi- c a n t «i organization, is in charge of all activities operar ting out of the Orlando area. From his base in Orlando he directs the Harlan Blackburn organization which extends throughout central FlorldaT and most points north and east. "Working for Blackburn^ and operating in the Brevard^^ Orange and Seminole County areas are at least 10 lesser representatives of this organ- isation that have come to our /attention. "Trafficante attended a* Cosa Nostra meeting in New York last Sept. 22 and during: George Wackenhut Makes His Repor t the course of that meeting^ '. ^ . Gov, Kirk listens to 'crime fightefT ;A7r^ was allegedly awarded the New Olrleans territory of- Carlos Marcellos, the leader' there." He said Trafficante was ar- rested in February in Miami, while returning from a New' Orelans visit with Marcellos.^ * The charge involved an 'in- temperate, profane and viCK lent outburst" when con- fronted with officers, and the result was a loss of Traffi-; cante prestige in the Cesar t Nostra, Wackenhut said. L "* - » His recommendations were to leave basic law enforce- ment with local agencies, but create a statewide investiga- tion arm with authority to. tackle official corruption and^ organized crime. A board ol inquiry would be best, ho] said, appointed by the gover- nor» -- ^ --^"- • ' -^ • 1: FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63) ' 7 I # * (Mount Clipping in Space Below) Wdckenhut List^ Lorruptton Cases From Tribune Reports c ' TALLAHASSEE — Crime war boss George Wackenhut • yesterday listed various official wrongdoings he said his ; investigators have looked into in Gov. Claude Kirk's war on crime. (Indicate page, name of newspaper, and *Termit me to be brutally frank and candid," Wackenhut city state.) told the committee as he ticked off, without names, cases of ' ^ corruption now under investigation, examples he called j "shockingly blatant." —An official falsifying court records and pocketing bond j forfeiture's. ' -7A county official who is busily saving his friends tens j of of dollars In taxes by shaving assessments of thousands ; their properties, j / —County employes who are profiteering from prison, /labor. —Two public officials who are in deadly competition with each other to determine who is going to he king of local bo-^ lita operations. —Officials converting to their own use materials and supplies purchased with public, funds. ' —The official bigwig who solicited bribes from suspend- ed licensees on the promise to get them reinstated. —A judge who juggled the facts to clear a hoodlum goon. —A group of officials who attempted to destroy judicial process W bribery. —Agents of a state body accepting bribes to overlook ^ violations of regulatory laws. 12A TAMPA TRIBUNE —An official who elicits bribes and kicks back a large TAMPA • FLA. ; portion to higher officials. A lawman who is Mr. Big In a countywide bolita ring which is part of a national syndicate. Date: 5_11_67 incompetent widow An official who deprived a mentally Edition: of a portion, of her deceased husband's estate by forging rec- Author: ords and confiscating the property for himself. —A group of nearly a dozen officials who engaged in a Editor JAMES A. GLENDINEN sex orgy with a woman threatened with criminal prosecution. Title: Officials who used persons in custody to pose for por- — ^ nographie photographs. ! The extent of organized crime, under the umbrella pro- tection of corrupted local authorities, is "tremendous," he Character: told the legislators. or "I am not naive and I was shocked and appalled." He conceded the "vast majority" of public officials are Classification: war. honest and are cooperating with Kirk's anti-crime But . Submitting Office: TAMPA some have thrown roadblocks In the way, cutting off sources Being Investigated offi* 1 ofjnformation. In the next breath he said the extent of 1 c^uT^*^Tuption was "tremendous." ^ ^—^^ y ///J^^^' |03 ... . /^X^ mcLosum X (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) lA ORLANDO EVENING STAR, THE ORLANDO, FLA. Date: 5-10-67 Edition: Author: D . G . LAWRENCE Editor: WILLIAM P . SUMMERS! Title: Character: or Classification: Submitting Office: TAMPA Being Investigated I ] / ^NCLOSURB ^ ' HP^l i BASIC responsibility for ""^ i v7^/::/ cement sT. irvr 1- retained by local police Ktfk Eye agencies. A statewide investigative group should be created ^Shocked' with the necessary auth- ority to attack official cor- ruption and investigate or- At Grime ganized crime permitted and promoted by this cor- By D. G. LAWRENCE ruption. Staff Writer He said the statewide organization should be res- TALLAHASSEE — Ten- ponsible to the governor. tacles of the Costa Nostra Wackenhut cited numer- entanged organization have ous examples of official in a two- Central Florida corruption now under inves- state bolita operation, Gov. tigation by the 38 investiga- Kirk*s crime war director tors he has in the fields. told a senate anti-crime These include an official hearing Wednesday. who is falsifying court George Wackenhut pin- records and pocketing bond pointed Samuel Cacciatpre forfeitures. - as crime overlord operat- ing out of Orlando to direct ANOTHER who is saying s u b - 1 i e u tenant Harlan friends money by shavinigJ Blackburn in bolita opera- property assessrnents'. tions in Brevard, Orange ; County emplbyes 'pro- ' and Seminole counties with fiteering from prison labor. the' help of at least 10 Two public officials in Costa Nostra henchmen.- deadly competition to de- CACCIATORE has a termine who is to be king of lieutenant known as Ralph" bolita operations. Strawder, who coordinates State agents accepting, activities between the bribes to overlook viola- Blackburn unit and the tions of regulatory laws. bolita organization in Geor- Wackenhut^ cit€!,d names gia, according to Wacken- of several dozen Costa ^ .' ][s[ostra hut. ,, operatives who live extent of in Florida. Wackenhut said I organized crime in Florida, "WE definitely, concentrated in the vicinity HAVE established that members of Orlando, the .Tampa.bay of the cartels are in this area and South Florida, state engaged in>.nefarious * ' s h c k e d and amazed him." activities -of' illegal gam- bling, shylocking, bribery, * * C rrupt officials are operating from one end of extortion, strong arm ac- i this state to the other," he tivities and narcotics," he j j told the committee headed said. "They are also en- < ' by Sen. T. Truett Ott, gaged in labor racketeer- T a mpa. Orange-Seminole ing and have muscled in on Sen. Bill Gunter and Ken the vending machine and Plante are members. garbage disposal bu- Wackenhut told the com- sinesses." mittee, which is consider- Overlord of the whole ing a statewide organiza- state's criminal syndicates, tion to replace the Wacken- i n c 1 u ding operations in hut forces recruited by the Central Florida, is Santo governor to fight crime, Trafficante, Wackenhut de- that new legislation should Glared. Trafficante has err^'r^'^^^-nvo cont^*"^^^^'^"— changed his headquarters recently from Tampa to '^ ^.iK^:. ^ Q reportwil/ ^K FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63) # # (Mount Clipping in Space Below) |.__^ Including Central Florida's Vice Overlord .--^^ ^ I IWaekenhut Names M Rackets Chieisl ^(m&:^S^iML ^ ,. ,. . By D. G. LAWRENCE ^^^ofcehite't;' named Samuel Ga,c- ^ ciaf^fe. a'^ Sentinel Staff Cbsa Nostra overlord f '>' ! in Central^ HlpfIda. Operating^^ odf TALLAHASSEE "-r Crime war of Otlando," 'Cacciatore oversees leader George W a c k e n h u t re- ' (Indicate page, name of i Harlan Blackburn's bblita. opera- vealed the names of 64 rackets newspaper, city and state.) tions in Orange, Seminole and leaders operating in Florida , Brevard Counties, Wackenhut re- Wednesday, including the overlord I | ' ported. for Central Florida, but was i informed by Hou^e Crime Chair- iI OVER-ALL FLORIDA rackets man Gordon Blalock his com- i is ; boss Gacciatore's boss, Santo mittee was familiar with everyone 1 , Trafficante who operates both j of them. ; from Tampa and Miami. **We even know his telephone Wackenhut also identified a I number/* Blalock said of Eddie I Ralph Strawder as coordinator of Coco, Cbsa' Nostra member, con- \ activities between the Blackburn victed murderer' prize fight •• organization and . and the bolita or- promoter in the Miami area. ganization in Georgia. Wackenhut said his men could not W a c k e n hut repeatedly com- locate Coco. plained of lack of; cooperation from law enforcement- agencies in BLALOCK DECLARED at a the work of his 38 operatives. joint house-senate * crime com- mittee hearing — which heard Gov. "IT SHOULD be noted our Kirk's crime war director detail investigators were forced to work his operatives' activities — that under extreme handicaps imposed ; 3C ORLANDO SENTINEL names of the Cosa Nostra hood- i by certain irresponsible officials ORLANDO, FLA. lums operating in Florida had in this state, who — for one reason I been supplied his committee by the or a n t h e r known only to j Florida Sheriffs' Bureau. themselves — -hrew roadblock Date: 5-11-67 the after roadblock in the path of our "We asked bureau to cooper- Edition: ate with us and were turned down investigative progress," he com- Author: D, G. LAWRENCE three times," Wackenhut declared. plained. Editor: detailed his inves- ROBERT J. HOWARD . Wackenhut "It . seems strange,*.' replied finding before Blalock Title: Blalock, Jacksonville attorney, tigators* informed him of the committee's "that the governor is head of the bureau and yet they wouldn't knowledge. Wackenhut said he was the Character: cooperate with his crime war." proud of uncovering Cosa Nostra operators in his four-month or WACKENHUT CALLED on the investigation. Classification; committees to organize a Florida asl<£d."what "Just imagine," he Submitting Office: TAMPA commission of inquiry as proposed t:uuiU bS accomplishdd in this state Being Investigated by Sen. Robert L. Shevin to pick up I I the crime investigation from the Wackenhut forces. Later a depart- ment of criminal justice, including a statewide police force, could take oyer the inquiries, he said. An appropriation of $1.5 to $2 million would be "adequate," said Wackenhut. Shevin's measure calls for $350,000 over the next two bj _s^n ' j.perienced and qualified Wackeiihiifs Faulty investi^i.. v^e force that recJ.ved proper cooperation and assistance DataLYarbrough , No without obstructive roadbiocks and Sentinel Tallahassee Bureau unfounded -destructive criti- ; and TALLAHASSEE — Head of the cism." . Florida Sheriffs* Bureau called it all George 'wackenhut's fault HE REJECTED a suggestion of Wednesday that the bureau Sen. Lee Weissenborn that Atty. wouldn't turn over files to the ' Gen. Earl Faircloth be inmpowered ' governor's criine fighter. to investigate crime, and call Wackenhut, said Ed Yarbrough, ^ grand jurys into session. bureau director, was told he*d : *'No," said Wackenhut, /^le's have to get permission from the charged with civil matters. The to see bureau files because governor should be the boss. He is FBI confidential federal the state's chief- magistrate^ and is they contain agency information. , answerable to the people/ all 6 million of them, and he can be "He declined to do so," said imoeached." Yarbrough. — -4-^:^ ^a ^ ~ - - - V 'Wackenhut sai-d he opposed tak- - ing prosecution and polke inves- *tTgatio|i' a| ^'IfQar^-autb- ities?; ^^^y-^-^,^,^^r. HE SAIDlhVto^rd (flitS^t^ up under Shevin's bill should hire .. a well, paid staff. ''You're not going to get^the.job^ done' unless you get competent men and you can't get competent -ones for a pittance," he observed. The .sheriffs' bureau and other state agency investigative bodies should be brought under the inquiry commission, he said. He had high praise for the Bureau's laboratory facilities. "WHAT is needed," said Wack- enhut, "is a hard-hitting group to go through the whole shooting match to get the job done." Wackenhut reported his 38 inves- tigators were investigating 442 cases, mostly involving official corruption. He answered negatively by a question from Sen. Ralph Piston whether people in public office had been under "political investigation apparently in reference to a charge two months ago by Sec- retary of State Tom Adams that he'd b?en "tailed" by Wackenhut operatives. (UPI) "We have not opened one inves- WACKENHUT OUTLINES FORTHCOMING REPORT tieation that was not sent to us GEORGE ^ - f-*. To legislative crime commission as Gov, Kirk puffsV'Pe other than b^^ a complaint of a citizen." said Wackenhut. ^ ^ -.J . F.fc-350 (Rev. 7-16-6 3) •y (Mount Clipping in Space Below) Wackenhut Urges Elite Crime Board (Indicate page, name of TALLAHASSEE - The The implication that' theri m newspaper, city and state.) director of Gov. Claude Kirk's were corrupt officials in th* war on crime, claiming crime three areas named. was ques- and corruption are wide- tioned by Rep. Elvin MarQ- nez, D-Tampa, but Wackenhul spread in Florida, has urged refused to change his remark. lawmakers to create a board "I STAND on my state- of "untouchables" to lead the ment," he said. '^Organized state crime fight. crime cannot exist if corrup- George . Wackenhut of tion of officials does not Miami, whose private inves- ' ^ exist." . tigative firm has furnished Although there hSs ^eei the men for Kirk's privately widespread criticism of Kirk'i financed anti-crime effort, use of private detectives said the proposed board of in- his war on crime, Wackenhui quiry should be given some $2 repeatedly contended that th( million and be authorized to effort the complete confi- ' had hire private investigators. dence of the people The fate of the present sys- WACKENHUT MADE the tem was brought up in statements in a 90-minute ap- question and answer perioi pearance before a joint meet- that followed Wackenhut' ing of the house and senate talk. Asked vjhat would ha] anti-crime committees which ^en to the aclenuut ihves- w are Considering various forms Jt^atoprif the le^slat^le pro- lA TAMPA TIMES of state-financed crime-fight- vided '^ii state finailGe€ agency TAMPA, FLA. ing agencies. to fight crime, Wackenhut 1 The former FBI man em- said: . | phasized time after time in "THAT'S PRETTY much 5-11-67 his 20-page talk that known Date: up to you gentlemen." leaders of organized crime, Wackenhut also recommen- Edition: *'the top dogs of the Mafia," ded that the legislators pass a Author: are operating in Florida. law against consorting with Editor: BENNETT DE LOACH He said the bulk of organ- known criminals. ized crime activity was cen- Asked if Kirk's life were in Title: tered in South Florida, the jeopardy, he said there was Tampa Bay area and Central more exposure to "crackpots" Florida. because Kirk was more in the public eye, but said he se- Character: ''THERE IS no doubt that riously doubted if organized or organized crime can exist and crime would try to ''knock Classification: -grow only where it has the off" the governor. umbrella of protection of cor- Submitting Office: lAMPA rupted local officials," said KIRK HAS asked the legis- I Being Investigated the governor's general in the lature to increase his "secur- I I crime war., **And as it grows, ity force" of highway troopers so grows its need to involve from the present six to 10. public officials at all levels of Kirk and Wackenhut held a Kjvu': h; testate gov^nifietit.^ briefing at the governor's ' mansion for newsmen before W^rckenhut went in front of i ' -^ ti?^:: ! ;ommittee.". 1^7:^ j^' til>}V^ijvJ kD U ^XL .FD-350 (aev, 7-16-63) S (Mount Clipping in Space Below) Ott Unmoved by Wackentiutl TALLAHASSEE (UPI) « HE LATER described Legislative feelings ranged Wackenhut as a *'square- from warm io chilly today in shooter." the backwash of private eye George Wackenhut's charges Going into the house cham- of official corruption *'from ber for- the hearing, Wacken- one end of this state to the i hut quipped, **Call me Daniel. other." I'm going into the lion's den." (Indicate page, name of On the chilly side were two But committee members newspaper, city and state.) of the key men as far as anti- applauded when he finished crime legislation is con- his 50-minute, 20-page written c e r n e d , Sen. Truett Ott, presentation. D-Tampa, and Rep. Gordon Wackenhut read off a list of B 1 a 1 o c k, ' D-Jacksonvillef Mafia and Cpsa Nostra people chairmen of the senate and in Florida but said his investi- house crime committees, gation had not developed : seemed unimpressed after j enough information to provide hearing the square-jawed I crimefighter say that the so- a basis for informations to be • filed or indictment issued. lution for cabinet-to-constable an \ I w r n g d in g is a justice department 'run by the gover- HE INSISTED the governor nor. should be the "boss'* of the crime fight, helped by a f OTT AND BLALOCK said group of "untouchables." The i Wackenhut's testimony was attorney general, he said, j I stick civil ' helpful, but that most of it ! should to law. was alrciady known to the leg- He was critical of some islature. ;State law enforcement agencies for failing to" give Blalock labeled the gover- j information requested, nor's justice department pro- him he posal "too broad and cumber- a point which brought ex- pressions, shock from some some," while Ott suggested of 4A TAMPA TIMES that the idea be shunted into committee members and a denial from the sheriffs bu- TAMPA, FLA. an interim committee for reau that Wackenhut was en- study. *^.^^.__,; titled to the information he Wapkenhut also j- : .^. a is'oui,""?^ . J ^ propps^al by Sen. Robert Sho- Date: 5-11-67 vin, D-Miami, to create a Edition: state crime commission with wide powers of arrest and in- Author: vestigation, a bill which was Editor: BEInFNETT DE LOACH at the top of the senate crime Title: committee's agenda for this afternoon and which stands'', a good chance of approval. HOWEVER, he said the Character: provision for a $350,000 appro- or priation '%as too small, Classification: **$1 million or $1.5 million Submitting Office: would be more like it if you TAMPA really want to do the job/* he Being Investigated said. I 1 -. Wackeiihut, who has been hired by the governor as chief of his .^private war on crime, worl the war approval of ^en. Ralph Poston, D-Miami, Poston told Wackenhut in the middle of his presenta- tion, "I for one approve of 1.. I6Tj:t-£ wha^ vnu're doing and hope - .-^- ^^~~^,;r,uo :t/' - . . EN-CiPSuiii — FD-350 (Rev, 7-16-63) # # (Mount Clipping in Spaco Below) >Shotgun Load of Rock Salt^ Legislators have a right to be Florida Sheriffs Bureau seems to disappointed and honest public us the logical agency for the task, officials at all levels in Florida while he wants a separate "elite" irate at the appearance of George state crime commission along with Wackenhut, director of Governor a state department of criminal Kirk's "war on crime," before a justice. But more credence could be (Indicate page, name of joint legislative committee newspaper, city and state.) "Wednesday. given to his arguments had he been more specific in his , Wackenhut did ,say at the out- either of official corruption set he didn't intend an indictment charges legislative hearings carry a meas- of all public officials' because most in such matters— are honest and fprthright. Then he ure of privilege least couched them in less tossed off blanket charges of or at ' terms. "shockingly blatant" official cor- sweeping General Wackenhut ruption. And he spoke of 515 in- Crime war opportunity Wednes- vestigations conducted by his men, had a golden day to take aim with a high-pow- 442 of them still active cases, as ered rifle at Florida's organized if many of .them concerned official corruption misconduct. crime and what official there may be. Instead, he went ' The sum of his testimony was armed with a shotgun loaded with a scattershotting of public officials rock salt, and in the process im- in general that had all the irre- pressed legislators very little sponsibility of Joe McCarthy in his while stinging the hides of a lot of heyday. honest public officials. Specific Cases summarized by Wackenhut, without names, dates impugned among others 8B TAMPA TRIBUNE or places, Pay Up, Pepys! all court officials, tax assessors, TAMPA, FLA. county public works ^ employes, county commissioners, city police- There is a saying that nothing certain except death and taxes. men, state regulatory agencies, is Date: 5_12-67 ' in England, the tax men are and county law enforcement Over Edition: officers. proving, perhaps, that taxes can Author: certain. . d i d. more ; Oh, yes, Mr. Wackenhut ^ be E^iit^^JAMES GLENDINEN name some names. He reviewed Pubhshers G. Bell & Sons Ltd. , A, Title: the Mafia-Cosa Nostra, or what- received an inquiry from the Brit- ever, crime organization in the ish tax offices requesting that and state, reeling off the same roster Samuel Pepys come forth that has been public knowledge identify his tax district ^nd report Character: since Estes Kefauver came to Flor- whether he receives a pension. or for ida and has been periodically re- The publisher responded Classification: the diarist by returning the tax viewed by political crime-chasers, Submitting Office: TAMPA national magazines and others form with a .notation that "Mr. Being Investigated ever since. Pepys is no longer employed by I I We agree with Mr. Wacken- ourselves." hut's basic thesis that a stronger That's the penalty of achieving state investigative arm is needed. immortality. Tax people, 264 years '*ree with him in that the after death, keep t:rying"''-^TT-'^cct. mchosum FD-350 mev. 7-16-63) i (Mount Clipping in Space Below) Chewnin^ said^il^^amajne OHandoM^^ has information of such c r i m inal activities, that they should bring it to the Crime Hub: police who * * w 11 1 take prompt action towards the arrest and conviction of G/jew0/ng thopo x£SJ>5>nsible/* By FLQYD HENDRICKS page, name of Staff Writer (Indicate newspaper, city and state.) Orlando Police Chief Robert J, Chewning said ' Thursday Orlando **is not the hub of any criminal activity of major proportion according to information resulting from the best of investigation," Chewning was referring tQ a story which appeared ^ in The Star's Night Final edition Wednesday and was j ' headlined "Orlando Bolita , Hub?" He criticized the headline saying it was "unfair to the citizens of Orlando." CHEWNING and Deputy lA ORLANDO EVENING Police Chief J. W. Prichard said Orlando "is one of the STAR cleanest cities in the South- ORLANDO, FLA. east," as far as vice and criminal activities are Date: 5_11_67 concerned. Edition: Chewning said the people Author: HENDRICKS mentioned in the story, FLOYD filed from Tallahassee, Editor^^XLLIAM P- SmMERS are. residents. of other coun- Title: ties and do, not even "oper- ate in Orlando." Prichard said the others Character: mentioned are residents of or Seminole County, . Classification: BOTH OFFICERS said Submitting Office: TAMPA they have constantly "is- Being Investigated sued orders for aggressive I I action against vice and criminal activity in the city" as soon as informa- i^ tion is obtained that such activities- are being con- / / iyy^' mc-A^i^uM " 01 .FP-3S0 (Rev. 7-16-63) ^ ^ ' .^^ (Mount Clipping in Space Below) WackenhuMs 'ShocFe^" At Crime's ExtenfJii State 1 -"^If^ON QUESTIONING by the (Indicate page, name of newspaper, Times-Miami Herald Service coramittee, Wackenhut said the city and state.) Florida Sheriff's Bureau refused TALLAHASSEE — Widespread and'^shockinglj^ blatant"- to give him information. corruption of public officials in Florida at all levels of govern- ^ Other agencies, he said, coop- mmX was disclosed yesterday by George Wackenhut, director \ erated reluctantly. of Gov. Claude Kirk's "war on crime." E]d Yarborough, director of -^g«ies f»f crqok^gj^^^of bribed officialS; of Mafia en- the Sheriff's Bureau, replied tren^^|gf.^use|t.,pu bjic lyiQney; ofja^^ft^y feted that when' the FBI opens its upon prison inmates were related by Wackenhut before a | files to Wackenhut, *'we will do ' stuHtied^ joint Hojase-Senate Criiipe Committee. i likewise." Wackenhut said the roots of organized crime,, nurtured by Asked if there were corrup- j corrupt locaPofficials, have been deeply planted in South tion on the Cabinet and state f ^and Central Florida and, the- Tampa Bay area. He named agency l^'^^, Wackenhut said i Saitto-TrafficantG^ longtime Tampa Mafia bo$"^, now living in * he had "looked at state offices" ^ftiatm, as head of ^toup^^aj; organizes crime in Tampm and I but would not comment further panap "RIGHT NOW, this -Minute,; on the ground that it would Kirk, Wackenhut named by you need the type of thing this "endanger something we are $l-a-year to lead his working on." as > m^n board of Jnquiry will give you," crime crusade, shared the com- again Wackenhut said. " He refused to comment - mittee'S>E4?ctiGn. - -. the ^ ; The Senate^ committee is ex- on question later, saying "I am shocked and amazed," only that all of the 442 investi- pected to approve a bill spon- Wackenhut told them. gations under way the re- sored by Sen. Robert Shevin, were lA ST. PETERSBURG "... shocked at the extent of D-Miami, creating a five-man^ sults of allegations from the TIMES official corruption that exists in public and were not political. board of investigation. \ our state and amazed, that ST. PETERSBURG, FLA. today Wackenhut also urged the Wackenhut said corruption of so little has been done for so Legislature to consider Kirk's public officials, intermeshed correct this de- many yearsfCAto plan for a state department of with bigtinie organized crime Date: 5-11-67 . plorable state of affairs syndicate operations, reaches criminal justice — including a Edition: state police force — as a long- from. the local level up to the HAND IN HAND with public Author: range solution to Florida's state government level. corruption, said Wackenhut, is Editor:COTJRTLAND ANDERSON crime problems. organized crime and he identi- •"I DON»T mean that every Bur the information' he gave Title: fied — by names and addresses public official with his hand in the committee, Wackenhut- said, — some 50 '*high echelon" the cookie jar is a captive of or- showed some o^ the "remark-* Mafia bosses whb work in Flori- ganized crime,'* he said, "but , able results" of Kirk's war on da. one feeds on the other. Orga- Character; crime which began with his in- He said the list would have nized crime cannot exist with- or auguration last January. been *'five times as long" if he out cooperation from officials ' Classification: Wackenhut said those results' included all the known orga- and police." 4- inckiding 2^*ai?re&ts and near- Submitting Office: J-AMPA nized gangsters in Florida. In his detailed listing of crimi- Wackenhut's review of Flori- nal activities, Wackenhut said Being Investigated lyVsOO^^s^cm-reBHTundGr re- I I ^'^'-^^i^ da's crime and corruption pre- crime in th^ view^- came despite tl-. lac^< >>i faced his appeal that the Legis- cooperation from high statp cr i lature create a state crime com- ^^^jg ^ ^ mission with broad investigative ' ^^ J .5 13S ^^^ /o-J .5v 1^' ':i^ Bay area is controlled by more ^ ; tilt. . '"^zen Mafia* 'fr. r ' '^^s under the direction of Santo Trafficante. He said crime in the Orlando area is directed by Trafficante' s associate, Samuel Cacciatore. Wackenhut said the Orlando group works in close coordina- tion with bolita operations in Georgia. OF THE CASES still open but without mentioning names, Wackenhut gave what he called a "brutally frank and candid" summary of a few, involving: t^ An official who is falsifying court records and pocketing bond forfeitures. *^ A county official who is busily saving his friends tens of thousands of dollars in taxes by shaving the assessments of their properties. *^ County employes who are profiteering from prison labor. 1^ Two public officials who are in deadly competition with each other to determine who is going to be king of the local bo- lita operations. i^ Officials converting t o their own use, materials and supplies purchased with public funds. u^ The policemen who nightly sit in parked cars outside a prostitute-ridden bar, go inside' for a drink, and never make an arrest. *^ Agents of a state body ac- cepting bribes to overlook viola- tions of regulatory laws. *^ An official who solicits bribes and kicks back a large portion to higher officials. i> A lawman who is Mr. Big in a county-wide bolita ring which is part of a national syn- dit-*.- -- - - ^j ': FD-350 tRev. 7-16-63) i C rr:^ (Mount Clipping in Space Below) Strawder waj I -A ?S^J^ 1 hl^iiuueu by Waclwilmiraia coordinator of activities be- tween the Blackburn or- ganization and the Georgia Man Denies bolita interests, the San- ford man said he hasn't seen B 1 a c k b u r n in six Bolita Link months. "I am no rack- eteer," he declared, *'and Sanford's Ralph Strawd- have no criminal record. If (Indicate page, name of er said Thursday he is not newspaper, city and state.) Wackenhut wants to talk the person named Wednes- about jpe let him come ^see ~ day by crime war boss Tile." —' ^ George Wackenhut as a co- ordinator of Central Flori- da bolita activities and de- nied any connections with *'any of kind of rackets." Strawder, who lives at 1206 Park Ave., challenged W a c k e n hut, who heads Gov. Claude Kirk's state- wide war on crime, to "come see me, instead of talking to me through the newspapers.'*- STRAWDER, former own- er of the Flamingo ;CIub, a.; popular Easb Hwy. 50 nightspot ^ that|went .out ; of lA ORLANDO EVENING .h^u s'i n^e s> 1n 1953, skid "there's I not .one: ounce of STAR truth, so help in \ me God" ORIANDO, FLA. any Charges Wackenhut made before joint house- a Date: 5-11-67 senate crime commission Edition: Thursday in Taillahassee. Author: Strawder, who says he*s Editor: been state distributor since i WILLIAM P- SUMMERS I 1958 for Fabrication Steel ! Title: Co., Greenville, N, C, maker of children's cars, told The Star he doesn't even know Santo Traf- Character: ficante, the alleged bolita or boss from Tampa and Mi- CLasslflcation: '*! a m i , and added, Submitting Office: TjT^pA wouldn't know (Samuel) Cacciatore from Adam's p~| Being Investigated cat." Cacciatore was named by Wackenhut as the boss of the Cosa Nostra operation in Central Florida, over-- seeing Harlan Blackburn's ^s-. /o7'3'y'i bolita ope rations in n Or a jg^ , SemirvnTe and Brevard Count! es.'^"^"^^^ FD-36 ,(S£|^VSrS^-64) Transmit the following in AIRTEL _ ^ DOTATION GOVERNOR CLAUPE KIRK^S WAR ON CRIME On S/5/fi7J furnished . the follow- _ ing information to SA JAMES B. HAFLEY, requesting that h^ ^not be identified in connection with the furnishing of the M[Lnforiiiatlon: He recently learned from a reliable source, whose identity he cannot reveal, that Waqkenhut investigators have uncovered a considerable amount of derogatory information regarding Seminole Co. Sheriff JUDSON L, HOBBY. According td I not only is there evidence of corruption on HOBBY *s part, but there is also some evidence to the effect that the latter may have used one or more of the prisoners in the SeminQie Cn. Jail for labor work on HOBBY *s private property [advised that he did not have any specifics '|b7C J |:b7D regarding the latter allegation, however, it is his under- ' standing that State Attnrnftv MTICR f^VJm Oylartrin in q ja O' explained that the [ \\y \§> nacKennut iegax stall is or tne opinion that there is ^ sufficient evidence for prosecution in this matter, and atIt I / . {j/- Bureau 1 - Jacksonville U' 1 -^ Miami Ptp ^^' 6 - Tampa U! 18 MAY 31 1967 -^(1 - 80-20) (Seminole Co. SO) '¥'- - _#^(1 80-18) (Polk Co. SO) . „^ , (1 - 80-12) (Lee Co. SO) ^"^ ^ (1 - 165-105) (HARLAN BLACKBURN) - 92-26 Sub (Crim. / (1 3) Activities, ^lando)— JDU ; cwp (11) Approved: Sent .M Per ^il^^cial Agent in Charge . g n i TP 62-256 the present time Governor CLAUDE KIRK is in the process of selecting a state attorney from another distr ict to handle the proposed prosecution of HOBBY. It is[ information that this matter will eventually be presented to a state court grand jury in the near future. Continuing ] I advised that Wackenhut investi- gators have also been investigating the alleged corrupt :b6 activities of Polk Co. Sheriff MONROE BRANNEN, and his :b7C :b7D Chief Deputy iHe said the above investigators | have definitely linke t^ K it is tyelAevgd the source means f IS Known to fre I He also pointed out that the Wackenhut investi- .gators have recently been investigating alleged corruption op th6 part of Lee Co. Sheriff FLANDERS *^SNAG" THOMPSON, Ft. Biyers^ Fla., and there is some indication that the be I allegations regarding him may be substantiated. :b7C :b7D said that his source of information confided I in him that the Wackephut investigators had found so much tangible evidence of corruption on the part of state authorities in Dixie Co., Fla., that the sheriff of that county, as well as all of the county commissioners, would undoubtedly be suspended from office in the near future, and that criminal charges would probably be brought against them Further, he said that Sheriff L. 0. DAVIS, St. Johns Co«, St. Augustine, Fla., was also under investigation for all eged corrupt practices by the Wackenhut investigators; however j "| has been unable to ascertain the status of the investigation. be advised that his source of information b7C b7D indlcatea to mm that Governor KIRK plans to take positive action against "several sheriffs and a few other state officials*' in the near future, but would prefer to talce this action on his own initiative after the Florida State Legislature adjourns its current session. According to the Governor feels that the Legislature could not revoke any action that he sees fit to take, if he waits until that body adjourns. « 2 « « . ^ TP 62-^256 Although the source of| information in | :b6 th is matter is unknown, a probability exists that good it :b7C is :b7D Information copies of this airtel are being furnished the Miami and Jacksonville Offices. No active investigation is being conducted by the Tampa Office in this matter ^ however, the Bureau will be kept currently advised of any further pertinent developments. «* 3 - L ^ ' '# t> \r % 11 .iMiiii^ Cmet of Kirk's Private Anticmw m t m r Qftve Denies UsoidyVirt^iMt: Charj^f^ri^ ^ n\'rr7,Ra!Qusness '^ "^ 'i;jiing:, aroun4-tho-rlock By A.\ V ROBEE!r.'!;\* ovct"z.iiii^^^:..MSS j *'ii uiaL's not .^otwCL-w^!. while she ^^.. ^J- I Special to Ttie New York Times and ignoring the law of the divorce. At one time, he said, 1 WASHSWaTON, May 18 — land I want to know what is/' also provided ^i^^ his company George Rr Wackenhut, general Senator Long said. "You're .still guards for Sir Stafford. Tavel ' of-thS^'FIorida "aovgftLOr' s pri- and! just an ordinary citizen "You have done work for peo- Trotter vate "war on crime," to your' swore you can't take the law into ple in ^apibling and, now^vQU Congress today that nobody in own hands as you said in this it ^^., Tele. Room aiw „ . /, to ferret his "detective agency had ever statement." " '-t"r ' waid said. Doei-r^t tlv it Holmes tapped a telephone "so help me replied that the "^^^ The witness great coi^-^.o., ox God." quote had been taken from an Inteiest?" Gandy P\j; But he conceded that he had l i^tcr-QffLCe memo to Jiis. ^to Mr. Wackenhut, obviously t .. i ^.. .u^nager, who , done a bit of, bugging in his |x*. nettl:'d, said there was "nothing. day. Juan T ^t; untoward in this; nothing at « thatthe^an ^\; J r^^ -^ The jut-jawed witness, testi- iTTTTTT^; protect L.. t.Liu.ia.. i: '/ 4^t]>at . he :fiad : ::^L.:- ^m- -^ fying at a Senate Judiciary, sub- against union assailants. ion vj ., u him u>, committee hearing chaired by "It was written in anger," Senator Edward V, Long, Demo- Mr. Wackenhut said. "It's a crat of Missouri, said: long way from saying' it and "The Wackenhut Corporation carrying it out." has never tapped a telephone In his prepared testimony, th wire—and I'm under oath, sir- witness quoted a host of author- so help me God/' A Federal law ities, from Senator Robert F. in 1934 made wiretapping ille- Kennedy, Democrat of ' New gal. York, to Justice Learned Hand Mr. Wackenhut, a former r and Britain's Privy Qouncil, to kgent for the Federal Burefi^ support his argument that law enforcers |)f Investigation, who heads fte' should be allowed Third largest detective agency electronic surveillance of gang- in the nation, said that his me^' ster activity. ' had used miniature radio trans- 'why commit law enforce' mitter bugs "infrequently" um ment to the horse and buggy )til last year, when the Federal days while the criminals us6 the Communications Commission most sophisticated devices?" he ruled them illegal. asked. Many Devices Authorized Senator Long said that he had read that in the last i'our He was not asked whether months Mr. Wackenhut had his agents used a wide variety caused the indictment of 23 The Washington Post ,of * electronic snooping devices public officials in Florida and still lawful under statutes and Times Herald was preparing cases against "at Supreme Court decisions. The least 70 leaders in organized Daily News devices Include hidden micro- The Washington _ crime." phones that transmit by wire! The Evening Star (Washington) I Mr. Wackenhut was "that instead of radio waves, direc- I successful" in gaining convic- _ tional mikes, or gadgets that j The Sunday Star (Washington) tions without the use of bugs can be pressed against a wall Daily News (New York) jand wiretaps, Mr. Long asked, or door sill to pick up conver- sation in a room. why did he need such devices? Sunday News (New York) The witness answered that he A Johnson Administration: York Post would have been much more New bill being pushed by Senator ^^. Long would outlaw all elec- successful had he been able to The New York Times ^ use those techniques. He (Con- tronic surveillance except in; World Journal Tribune cases involvdng national secur-| ceded that all the indictm S4 Jm^ 19S7f 0-19 (Re^. 12-9-66) Callahan • Conrad Felt Gale Rosen M' a Sullivan Tavel UjJ^r K^A^^^'^'^'^^^f'^'' Trotter Tele. Room olmes Gandy UPI Photo .FOR BUGGING - George R. ^^L ^'/ ^^^^^ ^ackenhut, head of a detective gency hired by Florida for gangbusting, told a Senate* The Washington Post sub-committee yesterday he was ^ Times Herald ifor electronic eavesdropping and; The Washington Daily News -A. against the AdministratKon's _|. right-to-privacy bill. He was The Evening Star (Washington) security in- [questioned about the The Sunday Star (Washington) _ side his own agency., He denied Daily News (New York) possible conflict of interesi; by having as a client a former Ba- Sunday News (New York) hamian official linked with New York Post gangland. He told the senators The New York Times _ he was only p r o t e c t i n g; the World Journal Tribune (New York) The Sun (Baltimore) The Worker The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The National Observer _ People's World Ife Date wwiaag 191 MAY 25 1967 :f % 1967 0j;^19 j^e"^ 12-9-66) 'y Florida Gangbuster Trotter Put on Defense Here Tele. Room Holmes *> By George Lardner Jr. A Gandy Washington Post Staff Writer George R. Wackenhut, right - to - privacy bill. He square - jawed director of claimed that it goes too far in forbidding wiretapping and Florida's privately paid gang- electronic eavesdropping. He busters, went to Capitol Hill contended that law enforce- yesterday to plump for stiffer ment agencies ought to be per- laws against "the sinister mitted to do both under court forces of crime, corruption order, with the evidence thus and subversion." gained admissible in prosecu- He left with a promise tions for major crimes. to /!' investigate a member of his For his pains, Wackenhut own board of directors. A Sen was put on the spot about his ate subcommittee disclosed own activities stretching back that one of them had been la to the mid-1950s. beled a "security risk." Pointing out that the Wack- The Senate Subcommittee enhut Corp. had substantial The Washington Post on Administrative Practice, contracts with the Atomic En- GEORGE WACKENHUT headed by Sen. Edward V, ergy Commission and other ... his zeal questioned Long (D-Mo.), also accused Governme.'it dLg^noies for Wackenhut of past "overzeal-' guard services, Subcommittee ousness," questioned him Counsel Bernard Fensterwald' ter of Sir Stafford Saiids, with 'about conflicts of interest, and asked how that squared former Minister of Finance irevealed that one of his pri one Wackenhut director's loss and Tourism in the Bahamas, vate clients was a former Ba- of his- security clearance sev- but said he saw nothing The Washington Post a hamian official linked with eral years ago for "mishan- ^ American gambling interests. dling classified information^" wrong with that. Times Herald fijO "All we're doing is provid' Wackenhut, who makes a' He said his firm also em- The Washington Daily News ing protection iov his (the offi- sideline of warning against ployed Sands's daughter for The Evening cial's) daughter," Wackenhut the Communist threat in a several weeks earlier this Star (Washington) said. He denied any conflicts monthly publication called the year, but he said he billed Sir The Sunday Star (Washington) _ of interest. ^ Wackenhut Security Review, Stafford. for her pay and dis- Daily News (New York) defended the director, whom missed her when "the infor- Idea Is Questione4^ both he and the Subcommittee mation cameoiit that Sir Staf- Sunday News (New York) As head of the wackenhul declined to name, as "an out- ford may be or is alleged to New York Post Nation's largl with gambling r^T^kr-^^^ tKrd standing . American, complete- be connected The New York Times _ -'est^ private detective agenc ly trustworthy ... a victim of^ interests." Wackenhut was drafted ea circumstances." ''You have done work for World Journal Tribune lie^ this year by Florida^s Re' people who were immediately No Check Needed, He Says (New York) publican Gov. Claude R. Kirk involved with top gamblers in The Sun (Baltimore) Jr. to track down crime and The Wackenhut board, he the Bahamas and now youare _ corruption in the Sunshine added, needs no security trying to ferret (gambling in The Worker State. Sustained by voluntary checks since "by resolution, Florida) out,*' Fensterwald; The New Leader contributions so far, the prl they are barred from receiv- said. "Doesn't that raise a The Wall Street Journal vately paid force touched off ing information of a classified great conflict of interest?" cries of "Gestapo" and, recent- nature from the Federal Wackenhut said he had ob- The National Observer . ly, an acknowledgement by Government." tained a legal . opinion that it People's World Kirk that it might not have In any case, Wackenhut said did not. He said he was simply been a good idea, he would investigate. protecting Sir Stafford's MAY 1 9 196? Date Wackenhut came to Wash-, Wackenhut also acknowl- daughter from her estranged ington yesterday to testify! edged providing round - the - husband and is still providing against the Administration I clock protection for the daugh- that service. i^J.c 1967 191 MAY 29 1967 .> SPECIAL INVESTIGATIVE DIVISION ^2124/67 Attached airtel rems that has advised neibers of the Orange County Sheriff's Office have furnished information to an Investigator of the Vackenhut Corporation that Sheriff Starr is considered dishonest and has instructed no investigation or arrests should be made in gambling and prostitution matters. Very few arrests havei been made in these categories in recent years. said that Sheriff judson HobDy^ Seminole County was probably number one on the Governor's list of corrupt state officials^ according to the Vackebhut investigator. For information, FD'36 (Rev; S-22-6.4) F B i Date: 5/20/6? '. Transmit the; following .i)i {Type in plaintext or code) Via AIRMAIL /priority) TO: SI9EGT0R, FBI FROM: SAC, TAMPA (62-256) (P) J^WACKB^IHOT CORPORATION, J.J-' GOVERNOR'S WAR ON CI^IME i" INFO^T][ON C^ERNING ^' -'''''•" ^'M^rJ^ 0/01 4if.MUf,M V^ -i2_i_ 5/J7/67 f^dentia],ly furnished th© follcfWjLng ILiiformieittott t<> SA JAMES B. HAFL£Y, with the request that hilf. identity be pirotected as the soiirc|8 of the information: he Several weeks ago a local Orlando newspaper hlC reporter, TODD PERSONS, wrote a letter to Governpr CLAUDE b7D KIRK, anci informed him that he had come into possesElon of a goQd amount of information relating to coj'ruption on the part 9| the Ofa5ge,.Cpjjnty_Sheriff , DAV^^STARRj, Orlgndo, FjLtriJf|» PERSpNS explained in his letter thait ~pirt of ^^iiii regular "newspaper b^at'* was the above Sheriff's Office asKjl he felt the infer mat ion he had received should be brought to Governor KIRK'S attention. * As a result of PERSONS letter ^ a Wackenhut Agent , wbQse last name is bame to Orlando recently | ' explained th<» jsituation privately b6 | ] and reoufisifid-that the latter allowl TFF" :b7C utiljg office! b7D jpr t lie purpose of discreetly interviewing Dosssgih le ] 9 witnesses tn tih;Ls matter > acceded to[ | T A request, aqd made the private facilities of l^is office available^^ f f Continuing, explained that made 'S/Bureaui Jacksonville (Jnfo) 8 MAY 24 1967 ^ .i^ 1 Miami (Infp) 5 STfu ^ Tampa — ^ . ._ "14 (S.O. ,Orlan<^o) (l-tSO'-Seminole County SL^asJi? j^ Sub 3 (Crim. Act., Orlando, Fla. ^^^V Approved Sent _M Per Special Agent in Change £^ m. H ^?' fp (feS"2S© i: disf.r&&t nayttaiiP-.t; withl ] WiUdB arraiigementfe /^, , m4 be for the latter to appe^tr i ^fic@ lor' a confi- JlH--'""^ hic deantial isat©ryi0wJ speared u b req^a^t^d,, and wit ho^t hesitatioxx, ixiformad that he ^ould coop- erata by an^wejfing' aay md all aijiestioBS regarding corrupt' practices' b@iBg utilised •I Allhougt^ ,does not have the full results ,, , 'i interview with i I has apparently confided the' general s^b^taimce of the intervfew t o [ ] It was understanding that ]was .*.Verv cooDarative-f " and specifically pointed out to that most of the men working under Sheriff be H b7C STARR considfsr him to be ditshonest, and feel that he is b7D "wprki^ng hand-^inr-glove" with the organ ized criminal / element in and around Orlando, FloridaJ the ^amblipg and prostitution field® » and as the record will show, the Orange County Sheriff's Office has made very few, if any, arrests i^ those categories dur:Lng ' receipt years. lalso told be I b7C b7D iPrange Couiity^jSig woiild substantiate ] testimony, in this regard. He also named a third officer f Iwho would confirm this information o however ! Iwas unable to recall the name of this officer. According to[ Ithe other unidentified officer, 'subsequently came tof office, w here they were individually interviewed by Hand each conf irmed the information previously furnished b7C \s^iW that b7D . I TSherif f. JirosqUflOlSY ofjemipqle county was "probably No. i on the Goverril)r*s list of corrupt State officials." He stated that a vast amount of information had been developed by the Wackenhut investigation indicating that B fP /^•^l^ 2S6 duFisig the pa$it ye^r S&erlff HOBBY hsis h^mn utiliisiiag convict labor frpm tfe@.. Ses^ita^le Cotasity 1, Sanford, Florida, ip dqi^g wjo&jrfc o^ ^ farm ojf he, HOBBY, owns som^whar© lE-'^Sotitfe^'^ewgia* Iki concludiag advised that Goverioior b6 KJRl is po?itiKming to raoeI?ir©gualts ©f WACKMHUT :b7C in^er^t ig^t ioxjs throughout th@ Stat® of Flojrida, amid b7D is ^'amaaB^d'' at th© pr@poinid©jraine© of evidemice accumulat^da to dat^, particularly the evideBC® poiEting to the vast amount' of corrtjption .pia the part ©f Bumerous State officials in Florida. V Although no active inve^tlgatioB in this matter is being conducted by the fampa Of fie®, the situation is beinjg closely followM^- through reliable sources, and the Bureau will be kept advised of any further pertinent developments. 0-19 (Rev. 12-9-66) i J Trotter Tele. Room Holmes Gandy ^//l n. '^ the Nation backerhut Fined MIAMI—George Wacken- hut, the general of Gov. Claude Kirk's war on crime in Florida, was fined $30 for driving 55 miles an hour in a 30-mile zone. Wackenhut pleaded guilty six weeks after Kirk told a news conference that any- one traveling 25 miles an hour above the speed limit should have his license lift- (^J- ed for 30 days. But Judge Thomas G. O'Connell limited Wacken- hut's penalty to the $30 fine The Washington Post and three points against his Times Herald M_ driving record. News Wackenhut said he The Washington Daily — t^oufht .the sentence waa The Evening Star (Washington) '' *^ —-^ "faii-." The Sunday Star (Washington) - Daily News (New York) Sunday News (New York) G^ORGE^WACKE]gIUT New York Post . '. T . a:.fbe does \.^^ ^,6.y The New York Times _ World Journal Tribune (New York) The Sun (Baltimore) — The Worker The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The National Observer _ People's World JUN6 198? Date m ^^^ ^ ^^^' r'' c ' ^-^^ y^ ^ . S Q*^*'^- 'Si DIRECTOR, FBI 5/17/57 SAC, JACKSOHVILLF (1-130) JAMES CAI.VIM mmxm fovsmv Chief of Bstfeetives Diival CotiRty She3?iff *f Oftic&- Jacksonville, Florida • ' '" ;Ks;tioii!al ' '; Actadtmy , Ke^Klet date4 %/H/B*?^ which aontainad 4^rofatot*y inf^rmatiOB <*OB€ei:^iBg PATRICK* ^inclosed for th^ Bureau ai^ the original aikd one Kerox copy of an: at^ti^ie. #4icb appi^ar^^ in the fuesday moiMiing ##itioB|, May If * 1967> af the Fioridifc This artiela states that PA|:t$CK resigned fpom his |>osition as lBir#stigator ^ith th^^^ckenhut Corf^gration effective Fir^iaay^ Kmf lif ISStf aii<3 fS^^rtlclii indieat^t "^ the rasignatlon was net voltirrtari?* ^^(^ ^^- >* This artic^X^ at^^t^s? that tteokenhut Investigators have b^en eonduotiBg -i^^eitlg^^ion r^gardliEg the Duval County Sh*§tf*iff*s Office sinei April 13^ 1967^ and that at i^^a^t thre# Sfacdcanhtit Inveatif^tors- are itorkimg in the . JackBOBville mt^^^ Infomatici^ii t^c^iiriid indicates that the si eiiri^nt inv^estigation r^gar^diag the Sheriff^e Offtea UMB instituted .regarding -infiprtMtioft furnished W several . dlsgrniitl^d' persoiis. who- i^er^ foimerXy '-of fieer^ with the Duval Cotiiitjr Sheriff's Offia^.*^ #'A NOT RECORDED I 202 4UN 21 1967 ©-62-107335) -» 3 Jacksonville , (1 « 8G-.it03 WacJcenhut Co;p|>oiPation) MiR:jlb . (7) ^^^ ^ #6 ^. ' ' lotol^ FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63) m (Mount Clipping in Space Below) ;SWackerihiit 'iltiifislJgabvs') Detective Kave been- checking ' on' 'The' Ideal sheriff's office sinceV April n, ' when Albert T.- Hcaly; one of the'lo'pf men in"- tlfe ,. organization, , was sent'\ ,' h^re from Miami. i.^:; '.,-' ^ |CurrentIy^'at least two; other ^^ - \Y:ackenhut irtvesti gat'ors . are^- ^^Jqrrking • >' > '; here.^ . iVi esigns If' ( '^'^ ' le of them is^ JWill is I. • . '' - (Indicate page, name of icnner . The other is Gene I Duval Man Quits as newspaper, city and state.) ^yce ;'-a ; member of. the;;, ^ , A3finta;^office . of :theJWacke'rtv. l Wackenhut Probe |The Wackenhut" investigation. i Here Continues \ s^:arte^^here soon; . after^^Dr. ! \^il]iara^iiBTnbree del'ivereB^^a A former ,| Duval County --^^siiiech-^MerFFcUd '^s being t detective chief, J. C. Pat- cfltical of Ahe dV^I' Comity ' '. trick, has ' resigned grarid .lury ' and . K tHe sta te as an . , nnvestigator with the attorney's office. : 1 10- i Wackenhut Corp., the Mi- : ^The grand jury, iin^a page ami-based report, fired back at Hembree, ; private detec- I sayi . tha t his ; ^ charges were itive organization commis- ng :; rsioned, politically motivated iand that' by Gov. Claude I hfe didn't know what,-he was ; ;Kirk to conduct his *'war I talking about. ' ,\ -- Ion crime." 5 i. . ,.; |Hembree, a dent>:st,|is^, chair- i [ Patrick's '' _ resignation~^^.ft»«vww ~— ef-ci- man- of the Duval County* fective last Friday -came at .-Rgpublican. 'Executiv^ Com-,:: the same time that Wackenhut fmrt'tee^^ncl' Is a •Republican' detectives were, and are, Tal^ate for mayor. • ;: conducting an investigation Hembree said Monday that- into operations ; of the office of his 'interest was in "possible" Duval' ' County Sheriff Dale ;. corruption "of r, public.-officials Carson-. ' -v and; Ihe -"possible lack- of :-v Patrick had been with the prosecution of these officials." Florida Times-Union [ sheriff's office for 15 years Hembree also acknov;ledged'. Fla, I when he resigned his post as that-abo'ut two week's before Jacksonville, chief of detectives in mid4965. j the, Wackenhut i?.westigation Date: At the time of Page B-1 Patrick's , started here, hejwas instru- 5/16/67 j, resignation tere, Carson said I Edition: Morning [:; mental in preparing aj package, Patrick "advised me that he li of information that subse-'. Author: |'; had taken an investigative ', position quently reached Gov. Kirk, Editor: with,a large firm in : f' ;>|«'ival:e '^-:-,> ' containing allegations about industry. . .\ Title: DETECTIVE county public officials includ- WACKENHUT I Ralph K^el, public relations '| ing the sheriff. AGENCY man for Wa,ckenhut in Miami.-f I eaid ' Much of the information CRIME'V Patrick' had been employ- ''WAR ON ^ |d ,by, received by the govcrlnor then Character: .Wackenhut, in i pj^ January | 1966. He said. he had' resigned' and since then came from f: .effective May 12. Claude West, a former ser- geant in the sheriff's office, Classification: 80 — 403 [. |> When asked if the Wacken- who was fired by. Carson two > ;', butV organization , had asked Submitting Office: , _ _ years on grounds of atinck. • ago f to resign, Keel . re- Jacksonville insubordination. Being Investigated S; plied, "We understand he had I i 1 ]|jsch' looking for other employ- Since the Wackenhut investi- j ^lent^ince last December* ": >': gation started more' than a ' Keel, then was. asked whetii- A month ago, investigators have i Patrick , had, ^ been taking^-: questioned local newsmen,, a I , j|jjr(:.in^ the "investigation of the ^ n nil bee of present ancl former ' '^u'val (County „.._ empIoySte^ the sheriff's office ,,, sheriff's' office,_„, ^ J 4l^l5i^-^~sjid, ''No, I don'.t think,';j and Al^^rsons, a former iffi' win'' working up.^lhcrc','?^' ',. ! ^'^^'.^^"^tl^iil'^J- A-IlP-V^^^^l^foi: "rWJlXT"," who wToUi a special .^ f rFporl dealing with the Duval ''" ^^- - ',. .' 1 County jail. r :: ^- ^ ENOiaspp r ^:^ ^ r: ^ ' 1 e ' '-y!b:' *,,•.';;": ^ H..av ^STITUTE- FOR Ali^ER!CAR rEMOCP^CY, l^( a; .TOIKOT,P..C,:v;^5;^> 1- ' ,;.The Wackenhut ' ti(:firppfmim.yX^':-H-:i 0k^'B: ' • ; •Enclosed yoi Wl&'ifitifi C0;i>is^---6i' M 'reo^^t-.'.'IAD, m)norandunii§^ '„:,. on... tliQ seditious 'tot&et.^r.'^;^--t&^^^ , : •••p Society prx>pagsin#/-^aftpa^^i^r^:-^ the-;-'--. | '' ' caiipa'iga aj'.ii tv^-:;^«3ielj- pSMfioa j^aij!©::^^! .f-ati.:SO" ignclo^^ad}- ' . .- -'.^.<;alXed» ""Tii^ frTS^I|;i4feot#:iyieifcnam*i;':M aljowt;-; .t .' :• •;':,order: to M!pt' ^y:#$i*#'|;ga.j|p^'j .::,'•:£•- .- ^^ -cQi^yjiist-^pi^inSijill^ ':':> ' .^;B'' '-'''":'€i?^'^:^?:^.Jj5k^ %i^f^' ' ' • i8 saving' fciia/ti/sil^'^ljiaa:^: t|ls^'-^5«igo*- 'Clubaii;. ^'the^'Bomini^CaiiA " '' ' , .. : ; Washingtori;,'. ^-wh^te'; .^l|t^i^.t;:%^^'-m-^b2i(bi«J©ri.: . tsimedx or'-.-:. b '' '. H(2 charges thes« .|io^3;.ie.i^3'^'l^^^^ ''m^ " "•'. &";'•• ,vPoXlt Cle^irly , in ViBikiici§^'^aiCh'-'^ji^ fe,..:A#l<:h is . .seak-" ing to. tuiTa .citizens agaia!3t-ttelr;g©^r0rjament« llliis . goss far beyond,\c.gitici$m of'gpv.i&r:vliiiient\|;>olic Th-ite--;- propaganda 0ffo?»V;tis'.;5ust;,,:ia^g-:s^^ any of ths, •;:. '"Cprmaunist Far^y .- 6|l'i>3f^^-tby:'.raa^^ ". e^tscted officia^sv' The Birch SociQiy;:i«!3£4ctitlTtf?a ' fcoMiiitt^^ indii^it carapaig;!: ±&;bQiag'^<^a^?pi©4^?^lit'c^^^ of : A . recent diractit®.;--- to" tW:%'0IQ e^^- ,;ao' -Birclu£gl, taliJ-e,d in. t]a:0:'-0|:||-^ial' Biiarlsl^^^ Joim. B.y*c§/Sopiety, .••1v Mr. George V/ackenhut -2- June 23, 1967 called upon the members to involva DAR chapters and American , Legion Posts and others xsfho; might be sympathotic in the petition campaign. A patriot could hardly kjiow:lnigly cooparato in this effort to convince his fellow citisene that they wero governed by traitors, particularly when he knew this to be a Big Lie* Thus, Mr. Welch is forcinF. his followers to choose betwe ei\ a basic loyalty to the United States and loyalitv to the John Birch Society ^ and ho;' has the support of his" executive committee in doing so. Since tvijo directors of the Wackenhut Corporation al^o. function as a part of the John 3irch Society propaganda apparatus and since * the V/ackenhut complex has contracted to take over certain police and security functions on both the st^to and national level, it seems to me the public has a , right to know what position these directors and the Wackerihut GGrik>ratio^^ taken in these mat- ',?'' . ^-:- ters. M'r* . The V/ackenhut directors .closejLy identified with the Birch Society arei Wackenhut I)j[,ractor| |-* He haB been a misimber of the tJoixncii Iiie John Birch Society for eome years.. appeared in the . JBS Council picture ciruiiiatid nationwide in the paid Sunday supplement the Birch Sooiety ran in major newspaper Si in the v^e ' '::-'-^--^' '''':':':'" Spring of 1965* ' - ^;„^-' \;;-^:^^ )fackenhut Di^^ectoy ^ He ia also Vice President of ^ ^ the 197<^ Committee wnicn mai?es no secret of the fact that it is "half-Birch,^' and he wrote the forw^d to ^ book called, ^'Fabian Freeway," printed by the, BiTiih Society p Western Islands press and now being circulated in the Scci^ty^s American Opinion libraries. ; . If these directors have secured Wackenhut Corporation acceptance of the Birch premise that> ''bi-partisan treason is rampant every- ' v/here,^' X would pres\Ame that much of your activity in connection with your work for the Atomic Engrgy Commission and National Aeronautics and Space Administration must be "devoted to seai-^ching for traitorous activities within the JExecltive and Legislative branches of our government. - It is my understanding also that Wackenhut has prime NASA con- tracts involving the Goddard Space flight Center near Washington and the Lev^ris Research Center in Cleveland and that your General Plant Protection subsidiary has a similar contract at the Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Certaijxly many .i\merican taxpapers'will be inclined "to question the wisdom of entrasting ©eciirity matters to a co3?poration whose directors also function as a part of. the 'Birch Society* . . Jy<-- %•'.'}''''. 'v.vTV'''''^"' V''"-.''i ? 1 Mr* Georse Wackenhut ^3-: Jujao 23, 1967 Inithe February, 1962, edltioti of th© American Bar Association Journal, FBI Directd© ,1* Edgar; Hoover wrotat "Today, far too many self-etylnsd exports on cQiamvjiism are plying the highways' <3t America giving erroneous and . distorted information* -This causes hysteria, f^Sise apprehension by many of our citi- • . alarms, and misplaced sens. We need enlight(snsi;©nt' about coimaunism ~ but this . information must be factiual, accurate and not tailored to echo personal idiosyncracies." Does not I'Ir. Hoover's 1962 statement accm-ately describe the current Birch campaign? ^Unless yot^r Birch*affiliated directors disassociate, themselves from this GaJnpa'ign.,: will, not: the Wack^- hut Corporation itself W su$p#ct? Since the VJackenhut Corporation attempts to evaluate security matters and publishes thi Wacki^nhut Seciirltv Reviev? . I presume you do-' expose Communist efforts. to conyinqe Americans that they cannot trust their govsxtaaent and warn against Oommuiiist efforts to undermine basic Americaja laoiralie.:' . Do you also lyam against ^dical Eight- ei^orts tov acliieve the - same propaganda goals ? . Does the V/ackenhut Corporation have policies sstemmlng from acceptance of the basic I'lSl^ prealse that* "Democracy is a ' '/' perennial fraud?" '''W'/'-y- -. Does the V7ackenhut Corp ' If not, has any member cjf the Waekenhut .Corporation taken a position opposed. tothe.'*^>iri:fsnt unAmeriean John Birch Society . campaign? Currently^ the Wackenhut Corporation is having it 3 agents inves- tigate me, presumably b^scause of my Sanction as executive director of the Institute, for American Democracy. When I learned of this, I sent word to your agent asking that ne come to my office. Having nothing to hide, I went out of my way to be co- operative. ' V/hen a private investigatory complex accepts- quasi-public police power, as the V/ackenhut Corporation is doing, it seema to me the public has a right to know to what extent radical political ' theorists are influencing corporate policies. Accordingly, X hop© you can answer my questions with*|^lame candor v;ith which I • :' replied to those of your .private investigator : '• '• \. i. £7x .,1; -. ,^5 Mr, George Wackonhut •*/f- June 23 , 196? Yoiir cooperation in answering these pertinent questions of' general public interest will be much apj)reciated#\ ^ ' ' .iJery truly youfB^ - CRBtblm he Enclosures (3) hlC c c : U > S . Department of Defence y r:.-;:::^ !7, ; « July21» 1967 4>^U^I013^^-^^1 REGISTERED \y RCx^TA: .'.!."" Pofit Office Box 51 r-: :~''^ V--- Paimerton, Pennsylv^iia 18071 ' -' SEOMi ySJiiii'JJ,'sK« Dear Your letter of July 18, 1967, has t^en received in which you request the assifi^aace of our Identification Division in analyzing fingexprints oi possible suspects in connection with a series of robi>eries at T^tie New Jersey Zinc Company in Palmerton, Pennsylvania. It is not possible to coinply with your request as the FBI is iHily autlKirized to provide such services to law enforcement and governmental agencies. You may desire to contact local authorities for suc^i assistance. Your enclosure is returned herewith. 715788 Sincerely yours, miims 9. ragar R^oeii JUL 21 1967 Joittt Edgar Hoover DOMM>FBI Director Enclosure NOTE: Bureau indices negative on correspondent. He is a guard with the "Wackenhut Industrial iSecurity Guard" with whom we have f olson "arms length" dealings in view of involvement in political activity in State of . Florida. ij \ ; , Eniblo^iire^'is taped "envelope" containing unknown number/ly|^J of fingerprints. ^--^ CEGmmr.: Felt advisable to address correspondent as pMr. " as 1^1 ' . y» '"'ILt. " is employment title and not an officialHiKre. t^ » (^ MAIL ROOM TELETYPE UNIT I 1 J .^ \ July 18, 1967 l^ Federal Bureau of Investigation Fingerprint Division Washington, D.C. f&ki^/^hur Cocpopf^ TIC Gentlemen: I work for the Wackenhut Industrial Security Guard whose home office is in Coral Gables ^ F lorida. iMy position™is^LieutenanF^or Super- visor of The New Jersey Zinc Company iin Palmerton, Pennsylvania. En- closed find fingerprints of possible suspects in a robbery. Would you please see if it is possible to piece these fingerprints together and classify them for me. I do not have j access to a fingerprint library so I would appreciate all the help you could give me. In the past few months, we have had quite a few series of robberies of company property. Please mail the results to: he P.O. Box 51 hlC Palmerton. Pa. 18071 Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. Very truly yours'', - /^ "^ 3 3 5 iwCT-IS l^^ 9 JUL-T9M967 L^ .^^i^C^ [ OPTIONAI. FORM NO, 10 ^,^ ' •^^^SiiAY 1B82 fiSjlTION *^^ •i^- **^ GSA FPMR (41 CFR) lOl-n.S UNITED STATES GOvjksTMENT Memorandumlaum TO DIRECTOR, FBI DATE FROM SAC, TAMPA (62-256) subject: GEORGE R. WACKENHUT WACKENHUT CORPORATION MIAMI, FLORIDA Agent, Credentials! of the Wackenhut Cdirporatlon, contacted" SA JAMES R. RYAN at the Cocoa, Florida, RA, concerning any ill feeling a£nd general non-cooperative attitude existing jjetween the Brevard County Sheriff's Office an<^ 3he [ Brevard County Solicitor also requested the .[ names of other Agents, who might be knowledgeable of tliis situation. specifically made inquiry as to Former I I SRA JOHN R. palmer's present duty assignment, indicating he believed SA PALMER had worked on the case involving one which was also investigated by the Brevard County Sheriff's Of fice. Apparentlvle xs referring to case captioned aka. ^ITSMV-RING CASE, TP 26-7283, Bufile 26-374426. It shouldybe noted that in the past Brevard County Sheriff LEE^"**!*^ and Solicitor) Thave reportedly had differences of opinion centering around Sheriff *s Office Investigator who was the former Brevard County Sheriff. SA KYAJN, actxng in accordance with current Bureau ^ the Wackenhut orporation ^ to insftructions regarding C declined '^H^ .-r^ furnish any information to f 11 WFO should alert SA JOHN R. PALMER concerning he this inquiry; however, it should be noted that SA PALMER was \hlC transferred prior to investigation of the case. T | [ SA PALMER should be advised that the Bureau does not recognize the Wackenhut Corporation as a properly constituted law enforce- (^^ Bureau REG 11 (^;i-/0733i^^F 2 - WFO 1 - Miami (Info) 1 - Jacksonville (Info) duUa^l967 1 - Tampa us PRS:jn t> i jm V.S, Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan "^^^ TP 62^256 ment agency, and that no records or information is to be given to this organization or its representatives by the FBI. All personnel of the Tampa Office are fully aware of these instructions and are continually alert for any possible infringement by the Wackenhut Corporation on the jurisdiction of the FBI. The Bureau will be kept advised of any subsequent contacts by representatives of the Wackenhut Corporation. ,#^ 2 - ^ ^. -^ SA.C» Jacksoaville August i, 1967 ^^'^ Director, "^X^.fCl^^ PERSONAL ATTENTKMf r t"/-; -*^r.-! r-— - Reurlet '7-25-67. J^ireau reeorete <^dlose titat no one 1^ tlie samel etrer Xx&ti^ ait pmnTnypft nf theth( PBI. Barean reccnrds do shov iaformatloa on cmi bom TuU^y OMabon^ Social Security Nnmbar irtio may be idCTtieal with cap~ tififlied iadfaridualj y b6 lias operated bv AlbBaaergae b7C Office as a crimiital lafprmaatr ] fal963r :b7D i»s described asL poandsJ^^TSalrl^id eyes. He was tfawi employckj as aaalesmaa aad laborer 1 Alfauflueraiie. NewMexieo. He bad ^M^married fori lyeare to J was the father of IchildrepJ""^ R is suggested fou dev^op more iaijihoatioB concerning the badc^onmd of eaiitiosed individual and cplSjis Some good reason den^offfi for not doing so, e^tact him and tell ;liim to cease and desie^ foom rejptresentii^ hims^ as a loirmer FBI era^oyee. Advise Bureau. y VRGH:mfs 9t./. (4) \i^ __-JL=-Mr. DeLoach (Direct) fiBlLIQai _ ill*, Bishop (Direct) ':\\ Gale (Direct) a 1 - Mr. Rosen (Direct) COMM-FBi Jacks<)nfm|,notecl| claims to be former Tolson — NOTE: By letter 7-25^67 SAC, DeLoach — is employed by Wackenhut Corporation at Tallahassees, Florida. He Md ^ent and ^^ is reputedly in charge of Wackenhui forcesrttQgasted in the ''GoveGovernor's War on Callahan, requested Bureau to be Crime'' in that area. He is said to be abod I SAC Conrad concerning Fort. :b7C Felt . furnish summary of any infor /ailable .^^\ ^ Trotter _ ^^^'--^u "> (' ' Tele. Holme| ^ I dandy f^AIL" ROOMfci^V TELETYPE UNIT I . date: 7/25/67 SiiC, Jacksonville (62-New-) ^tn^^ COHTM^'® I NIJDBM A^T nrTmNCERNI NG i-o^HESJ^^^® —-Hdffption^a indiv^ualjj who claims to be a former FBI Agent, is employed b^N^ack^nhut CoriiajLiaJblaa^ t Tallahassee, S3j}X±.6b^^ He is reputedly in charge of Wackenhat forces engaged ^^ in the ^'Governor's War on Crime" in that area. He is said hlC jyears ojld. Bureau is requested to furnish summary of any infonaaltion available in its file con- cernind 2)- Bureau - Jacksonville DKB:ced (4) // (id b c^ Jc^i 16 jiTl 2? 1967 'M^fii- Buy US. Savings Bonds Kegularly on the Payroll Savings Plan . [ 'Optional form no. lo MAY 1962 EDITION GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6 ,. UNITED STATES G0\^RNMENT / Memorandum TO date; DIRECTOR, FBI 8/16/67 SAC, JACKSONVILLE (80-403) subject: KfilH IS IHCMSSIFIED EXCIPT ViTIERZ SHOWl^ ' INFORMATION CONCERNING ReBuLet 8/1/67 and JK let 7/25/67, con ^^1*4 alleged prior employment by the FBI< _^^ The original information to the effect that was a former FBI ,Agent came to me throug'h Mr. ED YARBR15yGH Director, Florida Sheriffs Bureau, Tallahassee, who simply remarked that a re-tired FBI Agent was in charge of Wackenhut investigations a!t Tallahassee, Fla. Upon receipt of re BuLet , SA ROBERT W. CLARK recent acted Mr YARBROUGH and told him that was not an ex-FBI Agent. /^He was asked whetherl I had made any such representations --'-I4r^ YARBROUGH said] had never made such a Rta-hPmpp-t- to YARBROUGH persortaiiy He did say that ] Ta former Wackenhut investigator had told YARBROUGH thaij was a fortaer FBI Agent. Efforts to locate | J were unproductive. YARBROUGH claims that[ worked fpr the Wackenhut gr^x^niz^tjon but Investigator , State Att orney's Of fie Tallahassee, advised that he learned that and[ another Wacken lut Investigat or, we re investigating YARBROUSTf^ OSI in I I said that [told him| was formerly with 1950, received and thereafter went to work with either the FBI or Department of Agriculture ^said . he has been in the presence of[ ]on' many occasions and has never said he was formerly an FBI employee , and tne only person he has ever he ard make this statement ,x*7a5 that attributed to :b6 :b7C Florida Board of Regents, a former FBI, Ag.eht'V'^ advises he hasLS metmet^ ^onon several occasions | [ and has never heard "Tiientaon[mentaon^ oeing with the FBI.FBI.^ ] m ^% advised he has been associated with and has never heard | | him make any statement that he vjas with the FBI . ,,, V ^...,, ,„,_^ ^ :^Bureau y)*^ rVin S AUG 2-Jacksonville r_A J-^^^ . PKB:bet . .™ . Bonds Kegalarly on the Payroll, Savings Plan CJ* ) Wlmf^^y^-^- ^^^^^i,-^ . [ JK 80-403 JOEL SHOOK (Former FBI Agent), Secretary of c;t;=}tp^ Pt Office, Tallahassee, advised .he had not heard claim that he was' an FBI A^ent. but that he had received a telephone call from JOHN MONTGOMERY (Former FBI Agent), a privat e dete ctive in Tallahassee, during which MONTGOMERY asked if l were a former FBI "Agent. :b6 :b7C JOHN MONTGOMERY ^dy JRec; that he did call SHOOK- mquiring concerning activities inasmuch as [ ] was conducting an investigation of Secretary of State TOM ADAMS andl llocal businessmen. MONTGOMERY advised [ ]had never reterred to himself as a former FBI employee and he does not recall having even asked SHOOK about this matter. On 8/11/67, ( Former Agent ) , a Wackenhut employee at Tampa. Fla. , telephoned SAC, Jacksonville, to say that he had c ome to Tampa, at which time he "Intended | ^ " lift his . to credentials I Isaid that had become | [ av/are the Bureau was conducting inquiry to determine whether I I waspgoepresenting himself as an FBI Agent and further said that the^JJackenhut Corporatiori. was_jiaJ:__ei^ing to tolerate such mis repress eht at it) ny: T''asked[ if he had any direct information that had made such misrepre sentations . He :b6 said he did not but he intended to interview[ :b7C and determine the facts, Efforts were made to contact] [but it was determined that he is away from Tallahassee at an undisclosed location conducting investigations of other public officials. His location could no doubt be determined from the Wackenhut Corporation at Miami. I do not feel it advisable to contact Wackenhut at this time, and had instructe d the Senior Resident Agent at Ta llahas see to strai.ghte H out when next he encounters at Tallahassee. Subsequently, on 8/14/67, I was contacted by Former Special Agent JOHN E. (JAKE) EDVJARDS from Tampa, Fla., EDWARDS said he had| I come t o Tampa, he had thoroughly :b6 interviewed him, anoTTTa denied making any such hlC statements EDWARDS said he asked directly (1) Whether he had claimed to be an ex-Age nt > and (2) Whether anyone in his prese nce had said, was an„_^ ex-FBI.. Agent, , EDWARDS said i b eemed to give straightforward answers he that Iha d never in his denials, and was convinced _ ] made such misrepresentations, Accordingly, was not discharged by Wackenhut -2- J' , i i JK 80-403 EDWARDS asked that he be immediately advised if we received information that had made such he misrepresentations as ]v70uld promptly be discharged. | hlC It appears that we have checked about as much as we can without locating i i He probably can be readily located through the VJackenhut Office in Miami, Fla. However, I doubt that the Bureau will want this inquiry further pursued, and it will not be done UACB, I am instructing the Resident Agents at Tallahassee to be alert for any further information to the effect that is making these false representations and I vtHI take immediate action in the event we can positively shov7 this has been the case. All persons contacted have been advised that be has never been employed by the FBI, The :b7C description furnished in relKt, indicate s that Drobablv he is identical with the ! j born l I However a check of the Drivers License ^BureaiT'Ht Tallahassee y /^ failed to locate a driver's license application ^ which ^^ ^^ v/ould give us information concerning this man's birth date'. His description is identical. -3- /l-XXD 9-20-6t PLAINTEXT TELETYPE URGENT 1 - Mr. Shroder 1 - Mr, A, Ware TO SACS, JACKSONVILLE (80-403) MIAMI (66-2466) TAMPA (62-256) r" FROM DIRECTOR FBI (62-107335) C^ JJ WACKENHUT CORPORATION, INFORMATION CONCERNING (CRIMINAL SECTION). RETELS FROM RECEIVING OFFICES MAY ELEVEN, LAST, CAPTIONED MATTER. IMMEDIATELY SUTEL NUMBER OP CASES REFERRED TO W' FBI BY WACKENHUT CORPORATION SUBSEQUENT TO MAY ELEVEN, LAST. IDENTIFY CASES IN WfflCH INVESTIGATIONS INSTITUTED FURNISHING CAPTIONS OF CASES AND BRIEF SUMMARIES OF ALLEGATIONS AND RESULTS OF INVESTIGATIONS. SUTEL. ^ ^^^itU) FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 21 19B7 COMMUNICATION SECTION moa SEP RISrhc SEP 2 01967 (4) Tolson DeLoach . ^ Mohr Bishop — Casper Callahan . Conrad Felt Gale Rosen Sullivan „ Tavel Trotti Tele.W^o: Holm EP2 5 1967 Gandy MAIL ROOM I I TELETYPE UNIT M X tumn BUREAU m mmskim Mr, Tolson. OC^AWMElff OF. JUSTICE 07& ^ Mr. DeLoach Mr, Mohr 01967 Mr, Bishop SEP2 Mr, Casper. Mr. Callahar rrecETXEE Mr, Conrad „ ^^ Mr. Felt„. ^ i Mr. Gale Mr. Ros Mr. Sulli^tei_„ I Mr, Tavei | FBI, WASH DC Mr. Trotter I I- Tele. Room Miss Holm^ Miss Gaudy FBI JACKS VLE 6:49 PM ED^-*tJRGENT 9-20-67 W6R yj^ TO Dip^OR (62-107335) ..:..ovJ^ FROlf JACKSONVILLE (80-403) IP O'ii'-"' ^CKENHUT CORPORATION, INFORMATION CONCERNING CRIMINAL SECTION..- REBUTEL INSTANT DATE, JACKSONVILLE FILES CONTAIN NO CASES REFERRED TO FBI BY WACKENHUT CORPORATION SUBSEQUENT TO MAY ELEVEN LAST. END BGM FBI WASH DC P a SEP a? 1967 :^'' .>St-Z ^ Mr. .<:> FEDERAL B(ffl£AU OF INVESTiGATIOIt Toisosi ^•« Mr. s. justice DeLoach »u. DEPAerMEirr of I \^ Mr. Mohr COMMUNICATIGN SECTION Mr. Bishop FBI WASH DC SEP2 01967 A> Mr. Casper.- Mr. Callahan Mr. Conrad. TELETYPE Mr. Felt „_„X- Mr. Gali FBI TAMPA Mr. Kosei Mr. Sullivan. 7 :5'9 PM URGENT 9-20-67 SGW Mr. Tavel. f. Mr. Trotter I Tele. Room m DIRECTOR (62-107335) Miss .i iiaes | Miss Gandy i FROM TAMPA (62-256) (j WACKENHUT CORPORATION^ If^ORMATION CONCERNING CRIMINAL SECTION. REBUTEL TODAY. WACKENHUT CORPORATION HAS REFERRED ONLY THREE CASES TO TAMPA OFFICE SINCE MAY ELEVEN LAST. THESE ARE AS FOLLOWS: MINNIE LEE DARKUS - VICTIM CR BIFILE FOUR FOUR • THREE SIX TWO SEVEN 'NINE BY LET MAY NINETEEN LASTj^ WACKENHUNT ENCLOSED LETTER FROM VICTIM IN WHICH SHE ALLEGED MISTREATMENT BY POLICE OFFICERS^ ST. PETER- BURG> FLA. PD DURING AN ARRESX, I^'IeCEMBER^ SIXTY SIX. INVESTIGATION DISCLOSED OFFICER PLACE HAND ON VlCTlM^S ARM TO AID HER TO WALK> VICTIM BEING AGE SfeVENTY - FIVE. . m j^.^ ^J'^U //C? 1 bo EATONVILLE* FLORIDA ^t 1967 :b7c ' SEP irFORMATION CONCER^NGi ITSP ^^^^^^ ON JUNE EIGHT LAST, WACKENHUT F URN I SHED A COPY OF^ 'LEffER FROM WHICH ALLEGED SHE HAD BEEN F LIM-f LAMMED OUT OF THREE HUNDRED SEVENTY F IVE DOLLARS BY A COM' IDENCE MAN. END PAGE ONE ^ kc f PAGE TWO THIS MATTER REFERRED BY THIS OFFICE TO LOCAL AUTHORITIES AS NO FBI INTEREST. LEE COUNTY, FLORIDA PROSECUTOR DEPUTY SHERFF, LEE COUNTY FLORIDA S05 VICTIM bo ON SEPTEMBER EIGHTEEN LAST# WACKENHUT INVESTIGATOR ADVISED :b7C THAT A WACKENHUT INVESTIGATOR INTERVIEWED VICTIM AND IN SIGNED STATEMENT STATED A DEPUTY SHERFF > ASSAULTED HER AND SHE WAS NOT ALLOWED TO OBTAIN WARRANT THROUGH THE PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE CF LEE COUNTY. LHM SUBMITTED SINCE ASSAULT NOT DONE UNDER COLOR OF LAW. (AIR MAIL COPIES' SENT TO MIAMI AND JACKSONVILLE. END.. BAP FBI WASH DC c^ t;.: '^4H FD.36 (Rev; :5.22.64) Bisho; IMT'*, Caspei F B! I Date: September 18 Transmit the following in (Type in plaintext or code) Via. AlRTEL ' (Priority) _'_ -2^-1 -.,— -j. . i_,,^^ . ~7^ «-«:^ —.— ^ , — Mi&^^-^^^^fi-, / TO: DIRECTOR, FBI i^.^i.^^^mmtt'lT'^ I'ROMs. sac;' MIAMI ANDREW JAFFEE REPORTER NEWSWEEK !BaafWTf»'flEiewPS!»«e<*^^ S '^" *> i. Today I received a call from captioned^ rndividual, V who wanted my comments relative to Governor KIRK's>^ar on 4 ^ Crime and further what my thoughts were concerning the ''^> M -f Wackenhut organization, I specifically told JAFFEE I. had ; no comment whatsoever to make in connection with either item, V JAFFEE was calling from Atlanta where he is apparently^ : headquartered. He stated he intended to do an^rticle c ;: concerning Governor Km on Crime and tauy WackenhuN ;> organization arid^'^^w^^ having the FBI's commJ&Sts. 'I told him I had no comment to make. He adv^ised that he received information that the Wackenhut organization had furnished the FBI in Florida 27 specific cases and wanted my comments concerning this. I again told him I had no comment whatsoever to make. 'I got the impression he was perturbed because-- DEO j would not comment concerning the Governor and the WackKCfifti^^^CO) OCT 2 lfl67 I organization. J80 Copies are being furnished Atlanta, JacksonviJJLa^ and Tampa for ^heir information in the event JAFFEE contacts any one of these offices. "•' ' '/'Vi . J /^/-; Bureau ... ^^^ csr^*4/\>. ':;;\:V^' Atlanta .,/ ••^; f^^^^^S^fSsS 1 - Jacksonville -;V O 1 - Tampa IB Xr^ 1 -.Miami FAFrmjs ,.-'. __- (7) ^ c. (K;/"BTsiier " .'• ' '-^ -Approved; ul . Sent M Per — in Charge :7:9 OPTIONM rORM NO. 10 MAY 1V6) EDITION 0»A OEN. lEO. NO. if o UNITED ^TATES GQHR]NMENT I Memorandum TO Mr. DeLoach DATE: September 21, 1967 FROM : J. H. Gal SUBJECT: ORGANIZED CRIME CONDITIONS MIAMI, FLORIDA q The Miami Office has reported that informatiop ha been "leaked'* to the press by the office of Dade County State Attorney Richard E. Gerstein indicating ! I Gersteiln's office reportedly received I I the tip from a Wackenhut Detective Agency source. :b7D A recently developed ] -N m commenting upon this situation advised that t his was the laugh to and biggest hit Miami in some time that ] | \ ]is, "their" number one connection in the Miami area. The informant added "Them guys, including Wackephut and all A the locals haven't yet come close to us. The ohly,; people who s» have the proper line on us are those in the FBI>"_, a ^ , ' ACTION - %^c^^v^/^r ^a:/^^/>'f«.^:nf''^?;^ ;; : ; ^ = rt: For information. : ; o 1 - Mr . DeLoach 1 - Mr . Gale 1 - Mr. McAndrews !> -" 1 - Mr. Ware • ;^" ^;,_1 - Mr. Kelly"«H;:^?J;?;;(;irjj <.*'.- JEK:bjn (6) ' NO^'HliffeTtDBP;, I '".'^^ "^'.-•• • '?.s:r, '/;••'*' ;- \^:-;:'fef ^# i'?, ^^^ ^^"^-^ '-1967 ^L- .-. ... S£ 54 0-€t3:/: ^'i967r naffiaja '.L'jaag^AtfLgai.i^fcjr:-;! 1^Mr, Tolsois Mr. DeLoach- Mr. Mohr Mr. Bishop ^ FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Mff. Casper I U. S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Mir. Callahan, COMMUNICATIONS SECTION Mr. Conrad™. Mr. Felt SEP2 11967 Mr. Gale, FBI WASH DC Mr. Hoj Mr. 3uj Mr. Ta^ Mr, trotter- FBI MIAMI Tda. Ecom- 1045 v^ URGENT 9-21-67 HEJ T^DIRECTOR 62-107355 FROM: MIAMI 66-2466 O WACKENHUT CORPORATION, INFORMATION CONCERNING, CRIMINAL SECTION. ALL mORWJiOH CONTAINED B^M^SJ&fO REBUTEL SEPT TWENTY LAST. ^f^^ SUSBSEQUENT TO MAY ELEVEN LAST, NO CASES HAVE BEEN REFERRED TO THE MIAMI OFFICE BY WACKENHUT CORPORATION IN WHICH INVESTIGATION HAS BEEN CONDUCTED. BY LETTER DATED AUGUST NINE LAST, WACKENHUT RELATED * THAT ACCORDING TO A CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE, A BINGO GAME WAS BEING OPERATED ON MIAMI BEACH SPONSORED BY THE U.S. COASTAL CADETS. THIS WAS REFERRED TO THIS OFFICE AS POSSIBlg„|MATION OF IMPERSONATION STATUTE. U.S. COASTAL CADETS IS A •*'**' LEGITIMATE ORGANIZATION, NO VIOLATION EXISTS A^ND NO I NVESTIG/VUiMJ CONDUCTED. INFO RE THIS ORGANIZATION PREVIOUSLY FURNISHED^p ^^ "0 BUREAU UNDER CAPTION U.S. COASTAL CADETS, INC., POB NINE THREE TWO SEVEN , FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA., RESEARCH (CORRESPONDENCE AND TOURS). END PAGE ONE ^ A 660014^^1967^'^' £ PAGE TWO BY LETTER DATED AUGUST TEN LAST, VICTOR P. KEAY, ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT, WACKENHUT CORPORATION, FURNISHED A MEMO WHICH HAD BEEN GIVEN TO THE PHILADELPHIA OFFICE OF THAT CORPORATION WROTE ON LETTERHEAD be OF "SOVEREIGN ORDER OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM KNIGHTS OF MALTA", :b7c AND RELATES DETAILS OF AN ALLEGED PLAN TO INVADE CUBA INVOLVING MARIO GARCIA KOHLY, PRESIDENT OF THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT IN EXILE. KOHLY HAS BEEN SUBJECT OF A NUMBER OF INVESTIGATIONS IN PAST IN CONNECTION WITH HIS CUEJAN REVOLUTIONARY ACTIVITIES. HE IS GENERALLY CONSIDERED TO BE MENTALLY UNBALANCED BY CUBANS IN MIAMI, ALTHOUGH HE APPARENTLY IS A PERSUASIVE AND CONVINCING SPEAKER, BECAUSE OF THE NATURE OF THE INFO, NO ACTION WAS BELIEVED NECESSARY. THIS MATTER WAS REFERRED TO PHILADELPHIA, BALTIMORE AND WFO UNDER CAPTION "SOVEREIGN ORDER OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM KNIGHTS OF MALTA" FOR THEIR INFO AND ANY ACTION APPROPRIATE. END WRD FBI WASH DC OPTIONAL FORM NO. \0 MAY 1962 EDITION G5^' GEN. REG,"*^©. 27 k UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum TO Mr. DeLcM^ DATE: 9-21-67 1 -Mr, DeLoac FROM A, Rosen 1 - Mr. Rosen O y 1 - Mr. Malle/j-^, SUBJECT: THE MnKE^fflnL^^ 1 - Mr. Shroder ^JS THl^OVERNOR'aW ON CRIME 1 - Mr. McGowan STOTE OF FLORIDA ^^yr, y-c: -:r-^ dc-mm^ i - Mr. Gale ^^? ^"^ r -V-- ' --^--r^D 1 - Mr. SuUivan Our three Florida officeis have advised that the Wackenhut [Corporation has not turned over any substantive cases to us. During May, 1967, the Jacksonville, Miami, and Tampa Offices advised that several nonspecific complaints on matters within our jurisdiction had been disseminated to us by The Governor's War on Crime. Preliminary inquiries were conducted in some of these matters; howeveo:,; no substantive case had been developed. See memo Mr» Gale to Mr.^DeLoach 5-12-67 attached. Our three Florida offices have advised that since 5-11-67, the Wackenhut Corporation ha^jgfeEXgdJ^ejn^^^ Two of these concerned Givil Rights complaints involving local police officers. One was a confidence scheme in which no Federal violation was pre- sent. Another £^oncerned a letter written by a citizen regarding ^an alleged plan to invade" Cuba, and the last involved a possible violation of the Impersonation Statute; however, it was determined there was no basis for investigation. None of the matters referred to us to date by the Wackenhut Corporation have developed into substantive cases. ACTION: ..^'- This is subinitte(^for information. RISrhcs f- (8) yy f *:r==S^ ; \:^ 0-19 (Rev. 7-27-57) /I Tele. Room Fis: Governor Emh Holmes Gandy _ Privatetlrime War TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Nov. The phase-out of the Gov- 8 (AP)—Gov. Claude R. Kirk ernor's force began Oct. 1,- when the new State crime- Jr. proclaimed the death to- fighting agency went into op- day of his privately financed eration. (E=-^*r^^?—^ * "war on crime," a campaign that stirred up ten months of controversy and led to the cre- ation of a State police force. All that remains of the much-publicized effort that touched off widespread furor, Kiirk said, is a $300,000 debt ' and files that are being proc-j essed to be turned over to the new Florida Bureau of Law Enforcement.- "My investigators are zero, zero, zero," Kirk said in his weekly news conference. "We don't have any money." Kirk did not like for the Governo^ investigators, hired to The Washington from thPwackenhut Corp. , Post be called Wacketimt afents. . Times Herald M. Today he said that the agents The Washington Daily News who want to go to the new State Bureau are being "trans- The Evening Star (Washington) ferred." The Sunday Star (Washington) _ The unusual approach to fighting organized crime and Daily News (New York) official corruption was an- Sunday News (New York) nounced in the Governor's New York Post . Jan. 3 inaugural speech. The "war on crime" was The New York Times a Ges- called many names— The Sun (Baltimore) _ tapo, Kirk's private police foTXcVj^and Wackencops among The Worker ^ otb. ^^^^^-^ The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The National Observer _ People's World ^QU Q / Date A''^ (i \^ NOT RKCCsRPSt- NOV 27 1967 54 N0V2 7 1867 m 4 ii-528 CHANGED TO \ "v l'J36llo 1 — r T f f ^ ^ --^^ $k $5f Fabraaty24, 1969 &3L'f«T3iy^/y/ ; t :,....,.Ji£ 8400 Georgia Avenn^i N» W. be Washingtmi, D. C. 20012 :b7C Dear Mr* Boave? f«)c^ir€d s^imr l^«r of F^xuary t7th, wi& enclosure* He !iaa ai^d mt to advise ^fimi ibat he api^red* ates the interest which pfoxaiJttd ^rcm to wdte aM fiunlsh Ms leaHet* Sincer^y yoorsy MAILED 10 FEB 2 4 1969 Hei(mW. Oan(^ COMM-FBI J ^cie^ary ^ NOTE; is a former Special Agent who EOD and re^^ed His services were satisfactory. He was on the mailing list to receive the Law EMorcem^; Bulletin and Uniform Crime Reports bulletin* tt has been recommended and approved by the Director that as we learned ^\. be throu^ service record inquiries and the like of affiliation by former "^Tolson — b7C DeLoach . S £^)ecial Agents with Wackenhut, they be ranoved frcan the Special I Mohr Correspondents list if they sure on it.^^ name was removed from Bishop . ! Casper . the mailing list 8/1/67. Bufilles contain no record of the "Sduare" movement ^allaha |\Conrad . or the Square Center juid no jinformation identifiable withf r-Telt _ 3ale - Rosen . Sullivan . I =S favel u Trotter ^ele. Roorr ^^' Iriolmes 0/ iGandy MAIL ROOM I J ^TELETYPE UNIT I I \ '^ . j1 Mr.XJWTso v/ Mr. Callahan.. Mr. Conrad ; Mr. Felt. Mr. Gale., Seroices for manoffement and the profk^:^iQ;t^Q] Mr. Sullf Mr. Tav EXECUTJVE OFF/c|s;,Mr. Trotter. 32eO PONCE DE LEON CORAL GABLES, FL WASHINGTON AREA 6400 GEORGIA AVEN February 17, 1969 TA 9-0211 The Honorable J. Edgar. Hoover Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington, D. C Dear Mr. Hoover: As a fornner Special Agent (1951-57) and now Area Manager for The Wackenhut Corporation which has responsibility for security at Trinity College, I have, several times in the past, forwarded literature and items found on campus which I felt the Bureau would have interest in. Again, I enclose a leaflet, approxiniately 100 of which were found on the . Trinity campus, presunnably for distribution there. Respectfully yours, :b6 hlC Enclosure ST-IO' ^.%%^-- y a-'/S 111 6 *v^ V. fT ~- > TUNE INI ^ TURN UPI fFOR THE H l-G H- N Q N4-1I -S-AT-U R-D AY-—1^1-—1^ & BR-U -1-9-69 MCPHERSON SQUARE ll 15th AND K STREETS, N.W. WASHINGTON,. D. C. TO BE FOLLOWED BY I 5) .- HALL OF NATIONS [ll G.tO.RGETOWN UNIVERSITY h P.M. SATURDAY UNTIL 4 P.M. SUNDAY The SdUARE-IN and SQ.UARE POWER Conference are open, non-political gatherings for discussion of SQUARE viewpoints. If you are interested in leafletting, organizing or participating in any way contact: SQUARE CENTER (D.C.), 1000 Vermont Avenue, N. W. , Room 608, Washington, D. C. 20005 LET'S SHOW PRES. NIXON AND THE WORLD THE REAL FACE OF AMERICA , - HERE'S T«E STORY, P, You've probably read about the swinging new SQUARE movement in TIME, ESCLUIRE, or NATIONAL REVIEW, heard about it on radio, or seen part of the story on TV or in newspapers. Here are the facts behind the headlines from The Westwood Village $Q.UARE magazine, "official" organ of the SQ.UARE movement.,.. American ^^^^\r]^ade every that be te squares, if .^^rican dream^ ,, ^he Other people •., -c;nnare". swine 'changin. ^^^°nnTonow the ^^f.^^^^^ B^ndeed every arena action^ J^^,;tenTgr^ ^^ create ment ever ,^,ed. certain rr^usi ,^f,of,, dishonored It g our old-tasn 01 It is that was defensively. process ^^MTenced.influence-'"^>"!"^ all w in the P'-o^^'^H radicallydically white- saia . to be mere"gw foolish. . . a Square? ^ ^^iqus are bo""d be not"o^ , am, P institutions^itutions in themt^em m^^f^be pre- "^A/addaya th'"^ > parade .ss'bad*°J-mPa onlyW^^ w^^^ ^^^^^ssant °^ -, every ^what niust not that to see they ob ^^ ^" when ^er^^Slale and but eras ntfnedawLvtunea ^^j^^^e^ ana washed, ^^^^^ those who and ,^ ^;f^^ fi om phonies, ^^^ ^^^^^ but exten andfhSSenhidden ^ot we served, ^ ^^ exalting eve^^SoJe it. But P^^'^'^ri'S the wSe ^-eci- will -g-re^^^^^^^^^ ""ntS'it - ScSy'we^-ded to us. ^^^^^^^ --we cord to notice \frnd%tsJakenajV^ ^^^ did iSle ^OPJ;/ o'rced to ^^re i^. ^^gj^ts ana ^ struggle "^^ uw u >^ y^V^en we In the really^rrieans. avo.dJt^e^^„g and what square ^^.^ , ays ^^^ ^^^,3 about couldn't fstraght th ee d decay "ot a ,,d he sounds otf individualism, ^^^^ was every ham Lincoln cej^^^J'^s^ald hated Lee Harvey^ gj^aven. a beard. 1 wore and he was we stand for, ,,3;^ Thing a Square^f ^^, Franklin was ^^.^ Ben Rockwell wasnt Na^iNazi liong.long. y '0"B- ., . . _ .uat counts short. squares pasi^': Soon we ^or the ^^^ fene* citizens farnea. - To''^^^":Sf«««see ppiguse.«"tTo congrat- garnenngapp^^^^.g^^^^_ rece.v cynicism and corrup haUucnatjo,^ ^^^^^,^^„^^^ matter .deas^ ,.,„.ement of a--';,<,^s, ,ot tragedy happiness, ev ^^^^. a"d ,^ wrong, good ^.^ ^^^""^' all tace u. m?demaae and God, . Wewc U ,^ . . ,m/niiition decided: revolution irmed'"p-ntheeyes^^.^^,3„,p„»,«sherS of Squares. p^^d through tne ^ worid- ^^^ y" Ed- ^tle r will serve as National Cha^irman at "the SQ.ul\k^ Power Conference^ He"is the author o^f RE VOLUTION IS MY PROFESSION and narrator of y "Oswald: Sel f-Portrai t ," a TV documentary concerninc Butler's debate with Lee Harvey Oswald shortly^efQ.*^ the assassination of Pres. Kennedy ^.t"^' X' I Mareh25, 1969 s^ 4^ L2-i01^3^-11^ N^ Thelffiackenhttt qorporatlon Suite 23, CHare Aerospac;^ Center 4849 North Scott Street be :b7C SchiUer Park, Illinois 60176 Dear Your letter of March 21st has been received. Mr. Hoover regrete he is unable to comply \7ith your request. Sincerely yours, 'i Helen W. Gand^ ^ u^ Secretary NOTE \ [wrote to the Director on January 29th requesting an autogr aphe d photograph . He was advised by letter over Miss be Gaudy's signature that the Director was unable to comply with the :b7C many requests he r eceives f :oi> his autographed photograph due to his heavy schedule. ,„ot„ identifiable in Bufiles. Tolson DeLoach AWTrpaa Mohr V Bishop (3) Casper Callahan — MAILED 10 Conrad Felt MAR 2 5 1969 Gale . Rosen Sullivan COMM-FBI ^ Tovel (W^ Trotter J| Tele. Room : 0- Holmes ~Q^ iGandy : MAIL ROOM TELETYPE UNIT , Services for management and the pro) blltoHssen Mr. Sullivan Mr. Tavel Mr, Trotter EXECUTIVE OFFICE, Tele, Koom. 32SO PONCE DE LEON BC ^TOss ifolmes-, ,/ . J CORAL GABLES, FLORIC Aj W^ CHICAGO AREA OFF! SUITE a3,o'HARE AEROSPAC q-S^e N. SCOTT STREET SCHILLER PARK, ILLINOIS 60I76 March 21, 1969 Miss Helen W. Gandy Office of the Director United States Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington D. Z. 20535 Dear Miss Gandy, We would very much..appreciate |a photograph (autographed, if possible) of Mrr 3. Edgar Hoover. We are in the midst of re-decorating our suite ofuoffices and have a prominent space available for Mr. Hoover's picture. We hope this won't present too much 0"^n inconvenience and thank you in advance for your courtesy. ^C / j _./ Q ?J ?4^ ^ // «««««««a m^^^mm Very troly yours CORPORATION^ MAR g8 1969 THE WACKENHUT be ^""yiss^ 4**^ :b7C » H 5^ -f'' \ THE WACKENHUT CORPORflTION SUITE 23, o'HARE AEROSPACE CENTER ^849 N. SCOTT STREET ^^*^*LLER PARK, ILLINOIS 60I76 ^ * C^^nOMAl f.'KM NO. 10 ^ ^'^i^l96: EDITION "UISUTED STATES GofcRNMENT Memorandum rp Mr. Callahan DATE: 1/15/70. Ror,C'p.' 1_ SuUivan 1- Tave], _J rii Soyars : J« P« Dunphy^ . FROM .y Toie. Room Holmes 0/7 "1 COOTAINED Gandy '•/iSSIFI ^'.f^,^:^ yS-aBJECT: GUARD - THIRD FLOOR ;^i2s. £.^ OLD POST OFFICE BUILDING (OPO) OTHERWISE T^ The Bureau^s Exhibits Section occupies about one third (7450 sqo feet) of the third floor of the OPO where the majority^042,of its employees are ^^ located. The remainder of the floor is occupied"ByIJnited States Information ^ Agency (USIA)o Floor plan attachedo Our space is blocked off from USIA v!^ and we are generally isolated at one end of the building. C OiR P ^--J..^ Previous memoranda have advised"USIA contacted Bureau about Nij their hiring civilian guard outfit, such ^^^^^^^^^^^io sit at a desk near one of two elevator bankSo USIA feels guard needed as they have been having trouble with undesirables wandering in bothering their people^, stealing and damaging equipment and creating a security problemo (Exhibits Section has had no problemo) The Director noted he did not want a guard ^\ near our area from the Wackenhut Company and on 11/24/69 I spoke concerning this witl Assistant Director of Security , USIA [ s o n the Spe cial Correspondents iist and is a former Agent who t ^1 entered on duty and resigne.^ be :b7c" > subsequently advised he had instructed his people handling contracts to open the bidding whereby USIA would accept the lowest bidder. He felt this would result in an outfit other than Wackenhut being low biddero f— b6 ''.5 On 1/14/70| b alled me and his Chief of Protection, b7C 1 came to see meo Both advised the bids were in on their ' i o solicitation for a guard for the third floor of the OPO and also a guard for the second floor of this building. (The Bureau has no space on second floor «) Contrary to their expectation, Wackenhut was low bi dder at $3o 60 per hour; the next lowest bidder being $4, 40 per hour.| kdvised he has been informed by his contracts people that it would not be proper for USIA to avoid the normal bidding procedures and negotiate with a comipany. \^ ' Enclosure 1 - Liaison Section (Att: Mr^ McDonnell) A3^li^S9y^ '^' 9^ IS JAN JPD:kokO, n, f) 1( 211i^0 \(d •>pjAN CONTlNtyED^" OVER - »i*w.l«^rt-»-VJ,> "* J^ Memorandum to Mro Callahan Re: GUARD - THIRD FLOOR OLD POST OFFICE BXnLDING (OPO) In order to help resolve this matter and still accept low bid sub- mitted by Wackenhut advised they could have the guard on the third J [ jfloor not wear a police type uniform. He would be instructed to stay be completely away from Bureau space^^ not interfere in any way whatsoever :b7C ^with the Bureau^s operation, and to remain as unobtrusive as possible as far as we are concerned. was advised we will be in touch with him \ Under the restrictions mentioned, the operation of this one guard should not affect the functioning of our operations^ The guard will be located in a position well removed from our area and people coming to our space will pass nowhere near him* He will be on duty from 9:00 a.m* to 5:30 p* m. , normal working hours for USIA. Guard would be stationed on 11th Street side of building, whereas our entrance is on 12th Street side. . Thus, we would have little or no contact with him. RECOMMENDATION: It is recommended that USIA be advised that if they persist in utilizing a Wackenhut guard they be informed to instruct him to stay away from Bureau space and not interfere in any way whatsoever with the passage of individuals to and from Bureau spaceo Whether he is in uniform or not is immaterial to us. cr ij he hlC -2- J OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 •-^ JOtO-IOd MAV 1963 fOITION G»A GEN. KEG. NO. 37 '"jg^^ > UNITED STATES G(HfeRNMENT Brcrman, CD. Memorandum Callahan Casper Conrad TO Fell Mr. BishoM DATE: 8/12/70 Gale Rosen Tftvel Woltcrs I FROM ' Soyara i : M. Pty^^^ Tele. Room _^ Holmes ^ I \}L Candy f SUBJECT: GERMANTOWN, MARYLAND SURVEILLANCE OF SENATOR GALE W. MC GEE (D-WYO.) Chief Counsel and Staff Director of the Senate Post Office and Civil Service Committee, on 8/10/70, advised Inspe ctor that I an individual identified as[ Germantown, be Maryland, during the last several weeksi had been observed parked across the ^^^c street from the residence of Senator McGee on several occasions. He said on at least one occasion this individual had followed the Senator, his wife, and the Senator's oldest son when they left the residence in separate cars. He allegedly followed each of them for about two or three blocks- On other occasions he allegedly has taken photographs of membprs of the McGee family, stated has used two vehicles in this alleged surveillance, one a Chevrolet bearii^ 1970 Maryland license and the other a Pontiac bearing Maryland license stated Senator McGee had become quite concerned about this situation and had requested him to expeditiously attempt to find out something aboull e asked if might advise him of any information the I H we FBI has on ]was not identifiable either in Bufiles or the criminal files of the Identification Division, and| ~|was so advised. On 8/1 1/70 pdvised he had learned from the Montgomery j^g County Police that allegedly is. employed by the Wackenhut), Corporation. b7c ] [ He stated he had telephonically contacted ^ &rffiS^ [| Washington office of Wackenhut ,, who advisee^ lis an employee of Wackenhut: I but indicated he knew of no activities on the part of involving the Senator. ]stated ad proo^iaed>misea to.X\ I^^uer and advise him at | ^ a later date. N()T^ RECdlDEl) iTiAJ Our relationship with Senator'McGfee and_ Jias been excellent. Senator McGee is Chairm^jjjpij^gJEtostA^w^ Civit^Service Com- mittee. RECOMMENDATION; ^^\ SENT DlRECpOR > For information. 1 - Mr. Sullivan 1 - Mr. Bishop 1 - M. A. Jones 1 - Mr. Bowers DWB:mj '^-yM 55 AUG 2 ciai>': J **^^ONAljqRwTlftO. 10 .; MA^96i*'€DITti3-N GSA GEN. REG. NO. 27 # Tolson . UNITED STATES GOMfeNMENT SuUivan Memoranaum hop . TO :Mr. Callahan DATE: December 10, 1970 Gaie_ • Jsss^ Rosen . I Tavel - \y,alters FROM • J. Adams(\4j^^ :^t;^*c^^ ^T Tele. Room . Holmes . Gandy , suBjECT^SERVICE RECORD SUMMARIES ON AND LISTING ON "^SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS' LIST OF FORMER EMPLOYEES AFFILIATED WITH WACKENHUT CORPORATION A \ / ; of ''^ /7 By letter 12-2-70 to George R. Wackenhut, former Agent now President g' \ H M ~, ^ of the^ackenhut Corporation^ the Director responded to Wackenhut^s communica- .-L) N <^) M ^ tion of 11-23^0 wEicBT^oSSned generous remarks and Wackenhut's' support of ^"J CO tsT "v > ec o '' • -'! the Director's direction of the FBL Similarly, we have sent cordiaf responses , i^ h, CO under date of 12-3 or 12-4-70 to three officials of Wackenhut in respbhse to their ::. r^ -^ -' r< * letters showing support of the Bureau, This suggests reconsideration^of Bureau ;; i:l ^- .• r : w / "" M policy in responding to requests for service record inquiries by Wackenhut on ' : £'^ ^ former Bureau employees and listing of employees affiliated With pt j^ former Waq^^hutl n:; i ' o m on the Special Correspondents' List. < ui U U. ' Since March, 1967, when Wackenhut Corporation requested service . . summaries on eight former Agents, one of whom, retired former Agent Roht^ Fy Ryan (who made comments slandering the Director), was already employed by^C/ I Wackenhut, our summaries to Wackenhut have not included comment as to charac- ter and services of the former employees regardless whether their services were satisfactory (per Ryan's file, he has not been with Wackenhut since June, 1968). It was also approved in March, 1967, that as we learn through service record inquiries and the like of affiliation of former Agents with Wackenhut, they be removed from the Special Correspondents' List^if they are on such list. Relations with Wackenhut have been up and down; however, in view of the current support by Wackenhut and three of his associates, one of whom is on the Special Correspondents' List and would otherwise be removed now, and the fact that we did respond cordally to their letters, it is believed the Bureau should henceforth handle service record inquiries from Wackenhut on the merits of each case just as we do from other sources ^^|liat we should no longer remove anyone from the Special Correspondents' List/because of affiliation with Wackenhut. '^RGH:mjb^ (5) REC-54 DEC 18 19r 1 - Mr, Sullivan '^' 1 - Mr, Bishop ...c^ ? 1 - Mr, Adams (OVER) ^7 ^^ 'W'^^* Memorandum Adams to Callahan Re: Service Record Summaries on and Listing on Special Correspondents^ List of Former Employees Affiliated with Wackenhut Corporation RECOMMENDATIONS: (1) That service record inquiries from Wackenhut be processed on the merits of the individual case and in the same fashion as we process and treat service record inquiries from any other source. (2) That we no longer remove from the Special Correspondents' List former Agents affiliated with Wackenhut. >Tr. Sullivan. ?Ir. Mohr Mr. Bi.shop T-jC. CaUnhan . 'Mr. Crvspct ;)!' K Mr. Conrad v^ri 1 'r!.AU' '"'".'Vrrr'-'' Mr, Dalbcy, Mr. Fclt.„. _-. 357pr4 MITEL 5-1S-71 FMW Mr. Galn,„./1^/| Mr. RoncMlYJL ! TO DIRECTOR Mr. TavcLVj... i Mr. Waltcra— FROM MIAMI 91-4059 "Ir. S-jyars.-. Tele. Room }A\m lTolmc3-. Miss Gandy„ 'nicnown'SiiK^^^ 4J#^ErS (TWO); BANK OF PALM BEACH AND TRUST CO., FORTY ny .. ^ Florida ; ^^n:^^4. COCONUT ROW, PALM BEACH, &k<, MARCH THREE, SEVENTY ONE,>fr; 9^^^' ALT.:-- .:-^c=MTAi. Reference teletypes ' EXC-^PI iVIESE piHffitJISl .(.. -RE- MIAMI T^EirS- TO BUREAU. NUMEROUS CALLS RECEIVED ADVISING THAT ATTORNEY IN THE FT. PIERCE - VERO BEACH, FLA., AREA BEARS ; J t LIKENESS TO ARTIST'S CONCEPTION OF UNSUB TWO. ALLEGEDLY HAS QUESTIONABLE be REPUTATION AND ASSOCIIATES, INVESTIGATION bVC INSTITUTED TO DETERMINE If INVOLVED IN CAPTIONED BR. ^^ CHECK OF SEVENTY PLYMOUTH FURY TWO'S,. BROWARD COUNTY, __^ > FLA., REFLECTS THAT A WHITE, SEVENTY PLYMOUTH FURY TWO 197** TO (^.j^R 22 REPOSSESSED BY A BANK /^T , VERO BEACH, FLA. INVESTIGATION ^^^^^ INSTITUTED TO DETERMINE IF BANK STILL HAS ABOVE CAR OR IF MENTIONED ABOVE,- HAS ACCESS tO THIS VEHICLE. PALM BEACH COUNTY 'SO' CONTACTED BY AUTHORITIES, STATi: KANSAS, RELATIVE TO TWO ESCAPED PRISOINERS IDENTIFIED AS X K FBI NO, AND FBI NO. END PAGE ONE /l^/kYT S 1 MAR 2f 1971 / /» r-^^«». t-J PAGE TWO - ^-' --4-"-'^^'~-~- "^tf P"-^'j' { f^l ...TW ,':T.-t INDIVIDUALS POSSIBLY IN WEST PALM BEACH AREA AND PHOTOS OF ABO VE WILL BE EXHIBITEb TO WITNESSES^ REQUESTED D WAS ARFORDED TWENTY FOUR HR. PROTECTION OF HIS HOME BY WACKE NHUT GUARD SERVICE (WGS), WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. THIS SERVICE INSTITUTED ON MARCH THREE SEVENTY ONE. DURING THE .b6 :b7C AFTERNOON OF MARCH SIXTEEN SEVENTY ONE, WAS TELEPHONIC ALLY CONTACTED BY WACKENHUT GUARD ''^""K^mmimmm WHO ADVISED THAT HIS LIFE HAD BEEN THREATENED. HAS DUTY AT RESIDENCE FROM SIX PM TO EIGHT THIRTY AM. JCONTACTED'THIS DATE AND ADVISED THAT HE RECEIVED felep^one AN ANOKYMOUS^EL CALL AT HIS RESIDENCE, WEST PALM BEACH, FLA., APPROXIMATELY TWO PM, :b6 MARCH SIXTEEN, SEVENTYONE. HAS UNLISTED TEL NO. hlC MALE CALLER STATED, "KNOCK IT OFF." FEMALE VOICE THEN ADVISED, "YOUR LIFE IS IN JEOPARDY.' THE CALL WAS THEN TERMINATED. Sheriff's Office CONTACTED PALMBEACH COUNTY >(f RE ABOVE CALL. STATED THAT THE IMPLICIT CLARITY OF .THE ABOVE CALL INDICATED TO HIM THAT IT WAS MADE LOCALLY. AFTER END PAGE TWO i l PAGE THREE MM 91-4059 CALLING SO, CALLED \T HER RESIDENCE AND ADVISED THAT HE HAD RECEIVED THREATENING PHONE CALL. SO, PALM BEACH be COUNTY, ATTEMPTED TO INTERVIEW AT HIS RESIDENCE :b7c AFTER RECEIPT OF ABOVE CALL, NOT LOCATED AT HOME AND ANOTHER ATTEMPT IS BEING MADE BY THE PALM BEACH SO TO INTERVIEwl ] ' WGS, WEST PALM BEACH, FLA., ADVISED THAT HAS BEEN EMPLOYED BY WACKENHUT FOR ONE MONTH. HE IS A RETIRED NAVY CHIEF AND APPEARS TO HAVE GOOD RECORD. be ADVISED THAT WILL BE PERMANENTLY REMOVED b7C FROM DETAIL. PALM BEACH COUNTY .SO HAS INCREASED PATROL DUTY SINCE DATE OF ROBBERY AND WILL CONTINUE THIS SERVICE TO THE RESIDENCE. : AM COPIES TO TAMPA AND JACKSONVILLE. ARMED AND DANGEROUS^ END PLS HOLD The Attor&MSj^ G^tera! A^m 1, 1871 V>. J Director, FBI (f. J.: MR. GEORGE H. WACKENHUT THII%ACKENHUT CORPORATION CORAITOABLES, FIXIRIDA Enclosed is a copy of a letter from Mr. Wack»iihut which is most compUmeatary of my directioa of the FBI and vMch was prompts by tiie recent attacks cai my work hy Seaator McGovem. h:. Enclostire 1 - The Depufy Attorney General - Eadosure Xi^^ X.o <^ JBT:nmi (6) Toison _ Sullivan . Mohr /-(# Bishop APRS 1971 Brennan, C.D. Callahan Casper Conrad f.- *' Dal bey Felt Gale Rosen : Tavel ^^'UHc X Walters -U# Soyars Tele. Room Holmes Gandy MAIL roomCZI teletype unit I i t i May 12, 1971 Mr. George H. Wackenhut President ^zm J5"''i .rf:;vIJ,D The Wackenhut Corporation 3280 Ponce de Leon Boulevard Coral Gablea, Florida 33134 Dear Mr. Wackenhut: The copy was received on May 4& and I i^iank you for your thought- fulness. I am indeed grateful for your continued support and hope my ^iture endeavors ccoitinue to merit your con- fidence. Sincerely yours, Jl. Edgar Hoover iYiAYlS1971 W NOTE: Mr. Wacken|iut is a former SA who EOD 2-12-51 and resigned 5-21-54 following gatjsfg/ctory ^services. Unsubstantiated allegations were later received v^hicliinchlcated he and his wife had each had an extramarital affgf^Jtj; ,In 1962 instructions were issued for offices to refrain from contac^-with his orgahi^iation; however, these instructions were later rescinded. Corvdspj^eni Vf2i3 thanked lo^ Bulet 4-1-71 for his expression of support in view of attacks ty Senator Mcboverri. fit, ^^ < 5}^" MAIL 1 ROOMi 1 TELETYPE UNIT I n^ ^v'*^^:^ v^"'^ ^^-eT. . :tiHi :iTi management and the professions . Services for '^'^^r>^'^'--x .^¥'r EXECUTIVE OFFICES LEON BOULEVARD ^ 3280 PONCE bE ;. MS^:fM^§^ CORAL GABIXS, FLORIDA HiGf''UANO S-14SI ^^"e 9th and Penn^lvfnla 20530 ; ^prU29, im Washington, D.C. | U.S. Senator Edvtford J. Gurnay; ..^v4^^ // „l"-# Senate Office Building M Woihlngton, D.C. 20510, Dear Edt Congres* may weicpnw n r point where members of I Mfe k I constituents. >^5 ' D>,«.or end .h. Bureau ..«. ,™p,,«io«d.o«alno,«.«»pal9noaoW both A. reasons - polim*. ^ for the shabbiest of ^ .K. f^c, rt». *»W .|.. 6^,,/obv.ov. I. ^J^^^^^^^^^ th.F»l».l»horMultaivtweak<>nlne »»"''*"' reliability of ^. .= '>'°"'- indsed, >uff« o ariwo"" : - .«u,i.y of o„r«..on. Jt^b"::^ 30 Lh .0 *, ,hl. oaoney rt«. ho. (3eo^e l?Wacltenhut / 'gcT^Mr; Hoovfer . . 6 WAY ^1971 M. Chiles Ltrs to: U.S. Senator Lawton Fascel I C^pngressman Darite B . .^., ^v' 4 ' .M// ^^51 sspa «5C. May 25, X971 / l5 Mr. Jolm.S. Ammarell, Jr. Bicecutive Viee President The Wackenhut Corporation r-r---:^. 3280 I once de Leon Boulevard Coral Gables, Florida 33134 Dear Mr. Ammarell: I would like to express my appreeiatlon for your kind letter regarding »y Aonlversary as Director. It was most thoughtful of you to remember this occasion and your remarks and best wishes certainly mean a great deal to me. I am Indeed pleased to know that t have y^ur wholehearted st^pcni in the face of recent criticisms. Your comments are most gratifying, as is your offer of assistance. Sincerely yours, J. Edgar Hoover MAY 2 7 1971 <±: List. Tolson _ NOTE: Correspondent is on the Special Correspondents' Sullivan . is a who 5-11*42 and resigned 12>31-54. Mohr He former SA EOD nX^ Bishop Brennan, CD. Callahan Casper Conrad AWTiklm (4) Oalbey Felt Gale Rosen Tavel Walters Soyars 8i?J&N8 /l97l, S^^ROOMl 1 TELETYPE UNIT I I Mr. Tolsoi Mr. Mr. M: Mr. Callahan. My. Casper Seroices for management and the p^^c^ss^p^i^^.^ Mr. D^^Wey Mr. Felt EXECUTIVE OFFI Mr. Gale. 3230 ponce: de LEON CORAL GABLES, FLO Mr. Walters {30s} A-^E>- ^sMr. Soyars Tele. Roo] IS Holmes. May 12, 1971 Mr. J. Edgar Hoover Director Federal Bureau of Invesfigation 9th and Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, D.C. 20530 Dear Mr. Hoover: Congratulations on having passed the 47th Milestone in your career as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Your record of perform- ance and service to the American people is certainly without peer in the history of our great country. I continue to be disturbed on almost la daily basis because of the concerted j (.attacks on you and the Bureau. Needless to say, I feel that they are un- justified and emanate from individuals who seem to have less concern for the best Interests of our country than they have for personal and political ends. In spite of these attacks, I stijll feel that the majority of the American people support you and question the motivations of those persons involved. I have had several opportunities recently to discuss this situation with prominent individuals in various leading positions, and to my surprise, found several whose thinking has been considerably distorted by some of the publicity. On these occasions 1 hav^ endeavored to explain as carefully as possible my high regard for you and the Bureau and justifications for various Bureau policies that are being attacked. I feel that I have been successful in some instances in correcting certain misconceptions and hopefully have added more supporters in your behalf;. You may be assured that I shall con- tinue to stand firmly behind you and the Organization^ you have headed in^ /*} ^ ^^ ^^ such an outstanding manner for forty seven ye«BU"31^oP -^J^ ^ s^^"^ — 1@ JUN 2 1971 \ 9^^ tv i<t^SS^ ^ "^^^'^ ^ Mr. J. Edgar Hoover May 12, 1971 Washington, D.C. Page -2- K If I can be of any assistance to you or any of your representatives at any time, you may be assured of my complete cooperation. John S. Ammarell, Jr. Executive Vice President M, T FEDERAL BUi^EAU OF INVESTlGAflO^ COMWUNICATICNS Mr. Baker SECTIO^ Mr, Ca]lahan . Mi. Cleveland nAYl4i3/3 Mr. Conrad — Mi. Gebhardt Mr. Jenkins ^O^? Mr. Marsha] Mr. Miller, Tf^^ Mr. SoYcam^ Mr. Thomson — m. Walters Tele, Boom Mr. Bais© Mr. Barnes ADVISED CAPT ORGANIZATION WHICH IS HEADQUARTERED AT «-r— HAS RECENTLY SUBMITTED A PETITION TO THE GOVERNMENT :b7D TO OBTAIN AUTHORIZATION FOR A PRIVATE POLICE AGENCY AND GU^J^d :b7E FURTHER ADVISED THE HOME OFFICE OF WACKENHUT IS LOCATED IN CORAL GABLES, FLORIDA, AND THIS FIRM IS KNOWN TO SPECIALIZING IN SECURITY SERVICES AND' INVESTIGATIVE MATTERS. FUR- NISHED THE FOLLOWING NAMES OF INDIVIDUALS WHO COMPOSE/THE JBOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WA^pWHUT GEORGE.:r RUSSELjMCKENHUT, JR. CERNING ABOVE-NAMED MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS ON AN URGENT |3t^ .. (U)" BASIS. SUTEL i^Kum^i / ' € igust27, 1974 ^m^in<^''--"^' ; cz^'^sjim ' '• Pf YIT-^V-^ "'.-T.-.m_ Mr. John #r^mmarell, Jr. Exe(;uti¥e Vice Pj^eaMest The WaekenbE^ QaxpQjration />ii'r}fUf6-// 3280 Ponce de Leon Boidevard ) J^ Coral Gables, Florida 33tM Dear Ifr. Ammarell: I am in receipt of your letter of August 16, 1974, wherein you requested that a Bureau representative be designated to app^r at your seminar mi the subject of internatknial terrorism in Miami Beach, Florida, November 21 and'^2, 1974. Although I would like to be ctf assistance to you, the schedules of my representatives who normally discuss terrorist activities are such that it will not be possible for any of them to participate in your seminar. You have my best wishes for a most successful and fruitful gathering. Sincerely ymirs, 'AUG 27 1974 « 4-FBI k/ Clarence M. E^ey HA' ^^A Director Assoc. D > Dep. AD AdvaSMT Pep. AD Inv. - NOTE: See memoraaidum T. J. Smith to Mr. W. R. Wannall,^ted ^ ,8/22/74, captioned "Request for Bureau Speaker on Subject-^pfliternational "" Si', X^^^7^?l!errorism before seminar sponsored by Wackenhut Corporation, i./&c..._ ^^^o^einber-21-j232l^;" " "-' Gen. Inv, _ Ident. Inspection Intell. Laboratory^ JCWrnmi (4) Plan. & Evol. _ Spec. Inv, Troining Legal Coun, ^ U>' Telephone Rm, 5 Director Sec*y fYPE UNIT nZ] Comp. Syst* . AHairs _ & Com. Services for management and the professions EXECUTIVE OFFtCES 32aO PONCE DE LEON BOULEVARD CORAL GABLES, FLORIDA 33(34 C305) 44S-I4S1 August 16, 1974 The Honorable Clarence M, Kelley Director, Federal Bureau of InvesfigaHon Washington, D.C. 20535 Dear Director Kelley: For the past year and a half The Wackenhut Corporation has been actively invpjved in providing Executive/Family protection services for some of the \ nation's top executives and other persons of similar status and vulnerability. > This service has been rendered on an international basis and has met with much success. Currently, we have six highly skilled men assigned exclu- sively to this type of service. They are all stationed here at Headquarters, although 80% of the work is performedjon premises In the field. In order to better inform and educate executives at all levels on how to prevent such things as extortion, kidnapping, and terrorism, we have decided to launch a series of seminars on the subject of international terrorism, pre- cautionary measures, and related matters. The first one will be held at the Dorado Beach Hotel located on Miami Beach, Florida, November 21 and 22, 1974. We have a distinguished panel of experts, and to name a few: Ambassador Lewis Hoffacker, Special Assistant to the Secretary, coordinator for combating terrorism. Department of State. Mr. Reg Murphy, Editor of me Arranta Constitution n^spq^eti /<^^K who, as you know, was a victim of kidnapping and has since ^ become an expert on preventive measures. «^be^:^ Mrs. Marilyn Baker, of KQED-TV, San Francisco, who positively WSl At3€kl9 J§74 identified members of the SLA and who is also an experienced crime reporter. "^ ^ "^-l .^'^ t The Honorable Clarence M. Kelle^ Page 2 8/16/74 The purpose of this letter is to ask that you conside r assigning one of your top staff members most experienced in this area of terrorism to also appear along with our other guests. I have called W. Raymond Wanna II, Assistant Director of Domestic Intelligence to alert him concerning our interest in having a Bureau representative. Since a majority of persons attending this first seminar will be executives and businessmen of national prominence. We consider it mandatory to attract experts with the broadest possible experience levels. We are, of course, prepared to assume transportation, hotel, and meal costs in connection with the appearance of our guests. In the event that you are able to assign such a person, it would be appreciated if you would have him contact me directly for further details regarding a back- ground sketch and suitable photograph for reproduction. Sincerel JohirS. Ammarell, Jr. Executive Vice President . -*-> r- i 4 Smith to W. R, Wannall Memo RE: REQUEST FOR BUREAU SPEAKER ON SUBJECT OF INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM BEFORE SEMINAR SPONSORED BY WACKENHUT CORPORATION, NOVEMBER 21-22, 1974 men together to discuss lautual problems, and the New York Port Authority on terrorism in which registration fees were charged. We have consistently taken the position and so advised Congressman Ichord during testimony before the House Committee on Internal Security that we welcome the opportunity to advise the business community of the dangers of terrorism* As noted above, wte have appeared before business groups such as the Chamber of Commerce and the American Society of Industrial Security and also are reaching the business community through our talks before businessmen's groups such as Rotary Clubs, Lions Clubs and other Chamber of Commerce Groups, It is felt that this is a better way to reach the overall business community than through a conference sponsored by a pt-ivate corporation such as Wackenhut. As previously noted, 10% of the conference Wackenhut is sponsoring is to be promotional and the Bureau might be placed in a position of being criticized for assisting private business ventures and we might thereafter be expected to appear at similar-type seminars conducted by other private corporations. It is therefore felt that we should continue to reach the business community through professional-type organizations and not through private concerns. RECOMMENDATION: ^^- /O^S^S'^ If you agree, that the attached letter be forwarded to the Wackenhut Corporation declining this offer. - 2 - OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 At^y-1963 EDITION ikA GEN. REG. NO. 77 UNITED STATES GOl NMENT 1 - Mr. J. J.tMcDermott Memorandum 1 - Mr. W. R. Wannall 1 - Mr. T. J. Smith 1 - Mr. F. S. Putman '^^'^^- TO Mr. W. R. Wannall t.2w(0^ 8/22/74 T. J. Smith ''^OS SUBJECT: ;QUEST-^-F0E3JJEEAU.. SPEAKER..Oif- , Legal Coun. SUBJECT OF INTERNATIONAL- TI^ORISM Telephone Rm. BEFORE SEMINAR SPONSORED B^VaCKENHUT Director Sec'y CORPORATION^ NOVEMBER 21-227 By letter dated 8/16/74 to the Director on which the Director noted "advise please >'' the Wackenhut Corpor^ion advised that in order to better inform and educate ^^cecuti#|s at all levels on how to prevent such things as extortT^, r^ kidnapping, and terrorism that Wackenhut Corporation 11^ Jpcided to launch a series of seminars on the subject of internatil^nal terrorism, precautionary measures, and related matters* The first seminar is to be held in Miami Beach, Florida, November 21 and 22, 1974, and the Director was asked to consider assigning a representative familiar in the area of terrorism to appear with other guests which include Ambassador Lewis Hoffacker, Chairman, Working Group, Cabinet Committee to Combat Terrorism, Mr. Reg Murphy, Editor of the '^Atlanta Constitution" newspaper and Mrs. Marilyn Baker, a crime reporter for KQED-TV, San Francisco. It has been determined that there will be approximately 100 to 125 executives and businessmen of national prominence in attendance. The seminar will be approximately 90% educational and 10% promotional, since Wackenhut is engaged in providing protective services A $260.00 to defray expenses. It is noted that Bureau representatives have in the past appeared at conferences of the American Society for Industrial Security, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the World Trade Center conference sponsored by Probe International , a management consultant firm, concerned in gettif^jgHbus*Kpesep^^^' Enclosure y q/ E® SEP 19 1974 TJS:cae/sjg "^f^t^ - ( 5 ) CONT I NUE©==^=^PAGE -TWO^ 3^iy).,SEP25 ^ --^'ff^ Thdnk you for having written about my seccoid anni- versary. It is true that daring this time the Bureau has been under almost continuous attack, but I do think that we are going to weather the storm and come out perhaps even strmger thsui ever before. Much of tiie difficulty has been a failure to reaUy try to understand our mission, but in this area we seem to be making some progress. I hope things are going along well with you and from reports about the expansion of your business, you seem to have this assured* Sincerely, FRO Mailing List l-iL-l^-'^L Copy mad© for Oorres. and Tours Section - 569-920 H'T' GPO : 1975 O — ITiOi ^ Services for management and the professions EXECUTrVE OFFICES 32ao PONCE DE LEON BOULEVARD CORAL GABLES^ FLORIDA 33134 (305) 4-4-5-1481 July 2, 1975 Assoc. Dir. — Dep.-A,D.-Adm Dep.-A.D.-Inv. Asst. Dir.: •/- Admin. Comp. Syst. Ext Affairs Files & Com. The Honorable Clarence M. Kelley Gren. Inv, Director I dent. Inspection . Federal Bureau of InvesMgation Intell. Washington, D. C. 20535 Laboratory _„_ Plan. & Eval. Spec. Inv. — Dear Director Kelley: Training Legal Coy Teles As you well know, two years have almost gone by since you were sworn in as a Director of the FBI on July 9, 1973. I wish to congratulate you at this time on your past two years of service. UnforWnately,\i. it appears that the Bureau has been under attack from one quarter or another durfng r X these two years. I want you to know that I and my associates here, who are former ^^^*<-^ Special Agents of the FBI, fully support your endeavors and avail ourselves at every / if] I lopportunity to refute any unfair criticisms bf the Bureau. ^Y ^«Yj I ^"^^ If we here can help you at any time, please feel free to call on us Si George RT^ackenhut * •' ^.—~.~--« I i i-rrfii[ iiii.i,.,..^. v\t>m. President ^^^^ , - ^^ &^ — —J7I be 1S...J«fc=^7 1975 ;b7C I mm whckAhut m O O c o (0 CO CO o> The Honorable Clarence M» Kelly ? Director in Federal Bureau of fnvestigaHon If)o Washington, D.C, 20535 en c o Dear Director Kelly: JZ Q. 0) Unfortunately, since my letter to you dated July 7, 1976, we have had a new administration. You have served as Director under unusual pressures which, I am sure, were riever before contemplated. We here at The Wackenhut Corporation, on your fourth anniversary as Director, express our appreciation for the responsibilities you have bravely carried for the < past four (4) years. »— CO Whenever the media attacks you and the Bureau, we all feel that we too, even though no longer in the Bureau, are being attacked and, therefore, will support you and your agents to the utmost. Li_ Sincerely, ^ . . -o QQ George Rt W& kenhut c o President o Q. O CO C\J CO RHC-53 ^^'/arsjj'l^i ST-31r^ oo 1* JUL X 1977 ^^^ ^1^ July 13, 1977 o ^i^si^i&s m^sc^g Mr. George R. Wackeahii^ President The Wackenhut Osrpoi^ion " jBisrasciASSifin". 3280 Ponce de Leon Blvd. Coral Gables, Florida 33134 Dear George: Your letter of July 5th was a most welcome one. Yes, it is true I served under mo^ unusual circumstances and was subjected to most unusnat pressures. My tenure, towever, las beai c«e wMch Ihas been ^joyable and interesting to me inasmuch as it enables me to make some contributions toward tiie re^val of the l^reatt and hopefully in a posture where we will even be more significantly contributing to the welfare of the nation. This may sound somewhat stilted, but nonethe- less I have been ai^rehensive during these four years as to the effect on the csqpabilities of our organization and the safety of our (x>untry. Now I feel that when I leave we will have a great deal more pos^bility of stabilldng than for a while seemed to &dst. I hope that we get tog^her during a visit to Florida which I make from time to time, but certainly during the lACP Conv^otion in Ix>s Angeles. / "^ /AT^S^ Assoc. Dir Dep. AD Adhn. 2 JUL 20 1977 Dep. AD Inv Asst. Dir.: Adm. Serv. CMK:mfd Crim, Inv, _ Fin. & Pers (3) I dent. Intell Laboratory Legal Coun. Plon. & Insp Oorres. TIME ^/b^rt^ Copy made for Rec Mgnt. tjMiiag List Section Spec. Inv, and Tours Tech. Servs, BY eC~~ Mi? Training Ghttngo Kofed Public^ffs.Off. ^1^.'?. £m>... Telephsp'e Rtp. 1 1 m \ ^ Director's Sec*' MAIL ROOM TELETYPE UNIT FBl/DOJ I 0^ ^ SECURITY SYSTEMS AND SERVICES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD EXECUTIVE OFFICES THE XA/ACKENHUT CORPORATION 32BO PONCE DE LEON BLVD. %^-^^i^vJ^* CORAL GABLES. FLORIDA 3313-4 ;0& (305)445-1481 February 22, 1980 The Honorable William H. Webster t Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington Field Office Washington, D. C. 30535 Dear Judge Webster: As a Director of the Society of Former Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,, Jand I have met both you ancj_ , not only at the San Francisco Convention, but also at the Washington, D, C. Convention this past year« I recently camefback from attending the Executive Committee Meeting of the Society and Congressional Night, We were all disappointed that you could not bo :b7C attend but understand that prior commitmeriits made it impossible* I wish to send to you our congratulations on your second anniversary as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and look forward to seeing you in Hawaii for our next annual convention. Sincerely, "pi^z^^'^^ James E. Hastings Vice President and General Counsel (m a^Aii 18 mo ^^^^ ^ '-nan . U .1 m. BJFORMATION CONTAINED HSmsni IS tNCLikSSIEIED. , .:,^ d# / » f f-^'-?^ m^cii ^, 1900 cfT.\S^^ 35^ pi Mr* Anmen E*^*i4^tlngs Vice Presi^H^nfe '"«id G©i^atal Counsel The£>'^vackenhut Corporation^ 3200 FoSce^e^ ' teon""^ BouKvrr Coral Gables 1^ riori^^a 33134 Dear Mt* Hastings? "Th^nk vou Eor th€ best wiches you express-^c in your }^:-%ti:'r of February '^^n^' on r^.\: ::^:HJoau anniv^t::^ary ^:: Director of the FBI* It is always a pleasure foi: ^e to attend functior:^ ^ "^^ of i:.!*u >^oc£ety of Forr^^er fjpecial Ht^ents ^nc I hope to be // able to attend trm next convention in Eawaii. / | Thank; yoa again for %*ri.ting. All of xm in the FBI appr^fciate your support William H, Webster Wllliai^ H* 'Webster be lui :b7C I «S3C Youno - Enclosure - I Enclosure ^'^S^- f»73^S^ 1 •" Telephone Room - Enclosure J30 JK)TE$ Mr, Hastings is a former SA who EOD 4/17/50 and resigned 4/4/63, The Hawaii Convention of the Society of former SAs of the FBI will be held 10/21--26/80. -- Exec AD Inv. _MN2Jitih (6) Exec AD Adm. Exec AD LES Assl. Dir.: AP^ 10 1980 Legal Coun, Adro, Servs. _ APPBOViD: Adm. SefV.^ _ plan. & Insp. Crim. Inv. Cfim. Inv. _ MQ^^t Ident. 4^, Rec. „_ Intel) Exec. ADtnv Went. Tech. Servs. Laborotory _ Exec. ADAdm InteH. Training Legal Coun. - LalDoratory^ Plan. & Insp. Rec, Mgnt. _ Tech. Servs. tj^dt^. Training itiJU Ui Director' s Sec y~I MAIL ROOM CZl FBI/DO. % % C O N^^rl D E IpS^^A L March 27, 1989 FEDERAL GOVERNMMI BY LIAISON Department ot State be Room 6821 :b7C Washington, D.C. Dear Enclosed please find an undated blind^emorandum concerning alleged improprieties on the part ofOfacligaiiut Corp^QxaJtion^n its dealings with U-S, Embassies in Central and South America. The information set forth in the enclosed was provided by three individuals to a representative of the FBI during early March 1989. The three individuals requested confidentiality for fear of reprisals. I am forwarding the enclosed for whatever purpose you deem appropriate. \ Sincerelv|;?,/d7J5r-/3/ .-^ Martin V. Hale "^ Inspector-in-Charge; , Office of Liaison and JLh International Affairs Exec AD Adm. Exec AD Inv. Exec AD LES Asst. DIr.: Adm. Servs. Crlm. Inv, _ ld6nt Insp. Intell Ub. Legal Coun. Off. Cong. & Public Affs. . 1 - Mr. Revell Rec. Mgnt. _^ '1 Tech. Servs. - Mr. Clarke Training — (Attn: Off. Liaison & ) ' SAP : Int. Affs. _ had A 6 DECLASSIFIED BY ^^35'^'^^^*^" Telephone flm. _ Director's Sec'y . MAILRi %P O N >>^'D E NV;^ A L NOTE: This letter provides the IG, Department of State, with informat-ion nrovided to Unit Chief, Foreign Liaison Unit, OLIA, b6 I I In early March 1989, [By three Individuals b7c from three U.S. Embassies in Central and South America who reported improprieties on the part of Wackenhut Corporation. The Embassies* locations are not being provided in the letter as to do so would pinpoint the sources to that location and the time frame the sources were in the Washington, D.C.,. area. Sources were adamant that their identities be protected and indicated that several Regional Security Officers in Latin America could provide substantiating information. C O N F lybE^E^NSff I A L -2- . ^ * ^^ 9 O^^I D E NJP^^^^JA L Information has been received that at least three U,S. Embassies in Central and South America currently have contracts with the Wackenhut Corporation to provide security at these sites. Allegedly, when Regional Security Officers (RSO) attempt to have a guard taken off the Embassy Protective Detail for whatever reason (found asleep at post, dishonest, etc.)/ Wackenhut management generally tries to keep the guard on the Embassy detail. If the RSO/Embassy tries to push for the guard's removal, Wackenhut will imply to Embassy personnel that if the Embassy will not allow the guard to continue, Wackenhut will appeal to their Washington, D.C., "contact". On several occasions, the RSO has received instructions from the Department of State (DOS) recommending that the guard remain on the detail. The sources of the above information were of the opinion that someone at DOS is the Washington, D.C., "contact" for Wackenhut. The sources further indicated that Wackenhut will hire local nationals at the three sites for a certain salary. The guards, fearful of loosing a good job, will sign for the agreed upon pay, however, will receive much less. The guards are told that the money they do not receive is held for their pension plan, medical insurance or any other nonexistent reason, when they leave Wackenhut Service, they never see this money. In addition, the sources indicated that the Wackenhut Corporation seems to have the "inside track" when bids are advertised for guard contracts,, as they appear to know that the Embassy has been instructed to reduce the cost of the protection detail or appear to know the amount the Embassy is willing to expend On several occasions, Wackenhut has included their guards, detailed to other than the U.S. Embassies, to participate in Embassy scheduled firearms training for the Embassy Protective Detail, where U.S. Government cimmunition, targets, etc., are utilized. The sources are of the opinion that an investigation is urgently needed in order to look into what they perceive to be irregularities on the part of V/ackenhut and possibly DOS persons, not further identified. The three sources, who did not wish their identities revealed, suggested that RSOs in Latin America be contacted for corroborating information. A /5 //\^i^.^<^ I D ^Nil T fiECLASSlFlED BY^^^^^^i^^^.^ ifled pw: fy o/ii QK v35L>#iiif2£;:^ t t April 18, 1989 The^Wackenhut Corporation be 1500 San Remo Ave:nue :b7C Coral Gables, Florida 33146-3009 Dear Thank you for your letter of February 15, 1989, inal concern | As you are aware, J has been interviewed extensively on two occasions by Special Agents of the FBI in tJie Washington, D.C, area. During these interviewaj. it has been determined that be b7C I 1 does not possess any credible information that would be of value to the FBI, As a result, we plan no further contact with[ Again, thank you for your interest in this matter. Yours truly. Neil J.'^llagher, Chief Counterterrorism Section Criminal Investigative Division 1 - Mr. Clarke (Info) 1 - Mr. Daniels (gnfo) 1 - Mr. Walton (Info) /^^"-^ 1 (Info) H l 1 - Jor. Gailaalier ^ j^M7J^ 1 - # be Exec AD Adm. 1 - Mr. Lyon Exec AD tnv. _ 1 " Mr. Erskine M^ 2.^ ®^ :b7C Exec AO LES "1 - Asst. Dir: Adm. Servs. Crim. Inv. _ K Ident. SAE//ld??-veil) Insp. Intell \j^ Lab. ___ MliE0; Legal Coun. Off. Cong. & ^A^\^\« Public Affs, Ree. Mgnt. 101989 Tech. Servs Training __ '__ Off. Liaison & FSl" Int. Affs. . -_ Telepfione Rm. Director's Secy MAIL ROOM L P 4 4 be :b7C NOTE: This letter is a reply to a letter from ]to Glover > requested the former Assistant Director John f I FBI to interview ror a "Xhithird time. ] I was originally interviewed in December 1988 by S.^ J Washington Metropolitan Field Office (W^OT^—gA[ letermined thatf had no information of any value anI that was a nut. In January 1989 (supra) telepnonicaliy contacted the j^omestlder: and requested the FBI to recontact possessed infonrtation in -regard to the hostages was re-interviewed by S.aT WMFQ- on "February 3^ 1989 j. at time was again 5 Which it aerermmea b6 thatj possessed no information regarding the hostages [ b7C During this interview f [ claimed that he is blessed with the ability to mathematically answer questions which have plagued mankind for centuries. He further related that he obtained this great talent by rubbing elbows with PHD's in mathematics. As a result of these two interviews of is., being advised that the FBI will not interviewLnte again. n 3/0 ly' raa J SECURITY SYSTEMS AND SERVICES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD \/ EXECUTIVE OFFICES THE WACKENHUT CaRPORATON 1500 SANJ REMO AVENUE CORAL GABLES. FLORIDA 33146 Octobers, 1993 POSJ 66e-5S5B The Honorable Louis J. Freeh - ' Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation 9th and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20535 Dear Director Freeh: It was a pleasure to read the September; issue of The Grapevine and learn the impressive details of your background and your extensive qualifications for the post of Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. I would like to offer my personal and! most sincere congratulations to you for being nominated to this important position by: the President of the United States and for your subsequent confirmation by the U.S. Senate. It is reassuring to know that the Director's position has been filled by a person with your eminent personal and professional reputation and distinguished record of professional achievements. Please accept my best wishes fori continued success and significant further accomplishments as you carry out the grave responsibilities of your new position. Sincerely, / : George R Wackenhut : Chairman of the Board oi^^^-^^h^ REC; !v; *L 'HEv Fufi 231 ^v^-^ ^a. \^ uici •^ ^' 27 |.!ii '93 -^7^ VS7 ^ -^// ^ i^t^^^ a ,. OCT 2 6 1993 ) 4 ^1^^ m Mr. ^George^^_Wackenhut Chairman""of "the Bdard' ^h§5_Wackenhut Corporation 1500 San Remo Avenue Coral Gables, Florida 33146 Dear Mr. Wackenhut: ' i Thank you for your recent congratulatory message on my becoming FBI Director. I appreciate your confidence in my ability to lead the Bureau. I look forward to the challenges ahead and am deeply grateful for your best wishes. " Sincerely yours, iO C3^ Louis J. Freeh o O^ CM Director a r-. m U^ ^ Cv3 ^ 51 - Mr. Collincfwood (7240) Ol (7176) 1 be 1 :b7C , 1 1 TOTE : Correspondent is a former SA who EOD 2/12/51 and resigned Oep. Dir. ADD Adm. 5/21/54. ADD Inv, Asst. Dir.: Adm. Sefvs._ 3HM Ijbm ^a-073^s^M Crim. Inv. CJIS Ident (^b/ Info. Mgnt. _ Insp. Oft. 0? lj>t<^^Vi Intell. Vs int. ^^-v _,^. Lab. t. i: ijd OCfiirv. Legal Coun. Oftp. Dir. .^^ , Tech. 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