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Viewer page 17 of Part 01 of the FBI Vault's Santo Trafficante file: an Office Memorandum dated March 29, 1957 from SAC, Miami (62-1273 Sub E) to the Director, FBI, subject Miami Field Division General Investigative Intelligence File (Top Hoodlum Coverage), enclosing memoranda on thirteen individuals
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FBI Miami memorandum on Santo Trafficante, Jr.: the federal gambling-tax case and Havana's Sans Souci casino (29 March 1957)

A supplementary FBI memorandum on Miami-division 'top hoodlums' reports the Trafficante brothers' gambling-tax charge and new trials, and that the Legal Attache at Havana advised on 20 December 1956 that the Sans Souci Night Club and casino was operated by Trafficante.

Date
1957-03-29
Kind
case-file
Source
FBI Records: The Vault
Retrieved
2026-10-12
Rights
A record of the Federal Bureau of Investigation released under FOIA. A work of the United States government, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105.

Viewer pages 17-19 of Part 01 hold an Office Memorandum of 29 March 1957, from the Miami office (file 62-1273), one of thirteen supplementary memoranda on Miami-division “top hoodlums.” It says Santo Trafficante, Jr. and his brother Henry, charged with conspiring to violate the gambling tax laws, had their federal case moved from Tampa, and that in January 1957 the Florida Supreme Court granted new trials to the brothers after five-year sentences for bribing an official of the St. Petersburg Police Department (the name is redacted).

The memo reports that the Legal Attache at Havana advised on 20 December 1956 that the Sans Souci Night Club and gambling casino in Havana was operated by Trafficante. The OCR of that sentence loses the first letters of the verb, so “operated by” is the safe reading. It also passes on an informant’s report of talk in Tampa that a bomb was dropped at the Sans Souci Hotel in Havana. These are the Legal Attache’s reports and informant reports, not findings. This record rests on the Vault viewer’s OCR text layer; the page image of viewer page 17 is now stored here. OCR names and file-number lines are partly garbled or redacted.

itemFBI Miami memorandum on Santos Trafficante, Jr.: Top Hoodlum Coverage (30 September 1953)A Miami office memorandum to the Director transmits a background memorandum on Santos Trafficante, Jr., with birth data for him and his father and informant and newspaper allegations that the family headed an 'Italian Syndicate' in Tampa.itemHouse Select Committee on Assassinations report (1979), pp. 153-154: Trafficante detained at Trescornia, Cuba, June to August 1959The committee states that Trafficante and others controlling gambling interests in Cuba were detained on 6 June 1959 and held at Trescornia; Cuban documents show his release on 18 August 1959. He said in testimony he did not remember Jack Ruby visiting him there.