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Viewer page 76 of Part 01 of the FBI Vault's Santo Trafficante file: report page 31, file MM 92-88, relaying a Newark Office communication dated November 6, 1967 on source MM T-10's statements about Santo Trafficante and the Tropicana Casino, Havana, with redactions
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FBI Miami file 92-88, November 1967: a source's report on Trafficante and the Tropicana Casino in Havana

A paragraph in the Miami field-office file relays a November 1967 Newark Office communication in which a confidential source says Trafficante had 'a large interest in the Tropicana Casino' in Havana and was considered one of the 'big bosses' there. The source is redacted.

Date
1967-11
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 74-76 of Part 01 (file number “MM 92-88” appears in the text of page 76) include a paragraph relaying a November 1967 communication from the Newark Office. In it a confidential source, designated “MM T-10” and otherwise redacted, recounts that Trafficante had “a large interest in the Tropicana Casino” in Havana and was considered one of the “big bosses” there. The source also described a large bolita bank in Miami as made possible through Trafficante.

The OCR also names two men as co-owners of the Tropicana. That is not repeated here because it is the informant’s account alone. The Tropicana is also named in an FBI summary of 1955 and in the House Select Committee’s report; those pages are filed separately. Everything on this page is an informant’s statement passed on by the Bureau. This record rests on the Vault viewer’s OCR text layer; the page image of viewer page 76 is now stored here. OCR names and file-number lines are partly garbled or redacted.

itemFBI 'Top Hoodlum Coverage' summary on Meyer Lansky: Havana gambling and the Tropicana Night Club (14 September 1955)An FBI intelligence summary says information from the Bureau representative in Cuba was that Meyer and Jake Lansky were trying to set up a gambling operation in Havana, and that agents saw Meyer Lansky with Dino Cellini, credit manager at the Tropicana Night Club's gambling concession. Part is redacted.itemHouse Select Committee on Assassinations report (1979), pp. 151-152: Lewis McWillie and the Tropicana casino in HavanaThe committee reports that Jack Ruby's friend Lewis McWillie worked in Havana casinos from 1958 to 1960, names the Tropicana as 'the casino for which he worked,' and says his files indicate ties to Meyer Lansky and Santos Trafficante.