# FBI memorandum, F. L. Price to Mr. Rosen, 3 February 1958, and New York report on Meyer Lansky: 'now spending most of time in Havana, Cuba, where he has interests in gambling enterprises'

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A headquarters memorandum on the Lansky Anti-Racketeering case states that he is 'now spending most of time in Havana, Cuba, where he has interests in gambling enterprises' of variable extent, and that he has been connected with race track and gambling casino operations in Havana 'since at least 1938.' A New York report lists his Havana hangouts.

Viewer page 10 of Part 03.1 of the Vault's Lansky file is a memorandum dated 3 February 1958 from F. L. Price to Mr. Rosen, subject "Meyer Lansky, was. Anti-Racketeering, Top Hoodlum Program," recorded on 4 February 1958. The Vault's Part 03.2 returned the same text layer. The stored image is page 10, read against the text below.

It says: "Lansky now spending most of time in Havana, Cuba, where he has interests in gambling enterprises concerning which the extent of his holdings have been variable." After a redacted passage it continues that "he has been connected with race track and gambling casino operations in Havana since at least 1938." The addendum on page 11, on a New York report of 27 February 1958, says the subject is "continuing to reside in Cuba" and continuing his interest in gambling there, and that he was picked up by the New York City Police Department on 11 February 1958 for questioning about the murder of Albert Anastasia.

The New York report's section on places frequented (page 36) lists "Hotel Nacional, Havana, Cuba," "Casino International, Havana, Cuba" and "Montmarte Night Club, Havana, Cuba," and says he frequents night spots only in the Havana and Miami areas and "closely associates with his brother, JAKE LANSKY, in Florida." A fragment on page 33, after a withheld page, says that as of 26 November 1957 he was connected with the "casino in the new Hotel Havana Riviera"; the text around it is lost.

These are the Bureau's own summaries of informants, files and the New York investigation. The memo's "armed and dangerous" caution is the Bureau's standard wording for such cases and is not repeated here as a characterization.

## Sources

- FBI Records: The Vault, Meyer Lansky, Part 03.1: https://vault.fbi.gov/meyer-lansky/Meyer%20Lansky%20Part%2003.1/view