# Kefauver Part 2: Commissioner Anslinger on Ignazio Antinori's narcotics trips to Havana (28 June 1950, p. 91)

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p2-anslinger-testimony-1950-06-28-antinori-havana/

The Commissioner of Narcotics told the committee that Ignazio Antinori of Tampa 'went to Habana, Cuba, frequently to obtain narcotics for middle western associates,' was killed in Tampa in 1940, and that the Bureau arrested his two sons and others in 1942.

Printed page 91 of [Part 2](/items/kefauver-part-2-federal-agencies-1950/), in Harry J. Anslinger's statement of 28 June 1950. Among cases he cited to support his recommendations, the Commissioner of Narcotics said: "One Ignazio Antinori of Tampa, Fla., went to Habana, Cuba, frequently to obtain narcotics for middle western associates." He named their leader as Joseph DuLuca (as the OCR reads; the Bureau's Kansas City supervisor, [Claude Follmer](/items/kefauver-p4-follmer-testimony-1950-09-28/), spells him De Luca).

He said that "Allegedly because he delivered some drugs of poor quality and did not promptly make restitution, Antinori was killed in Tampa by shotgun fire in 1940," and that in 1942 the Bureau arrested DuLuca, Antinori's two sons, Paul and Joseph, and several others, who were convicted. He added that a codefendant who testified for the Government was later killed in Chicago and that the murder was unsolved.

The account is the Commissioner's, given as an example. "Allegedly" is his word, and the page does not name anyone in Havana. Follmer's testimony of September 1950 in Part 4 describes the same Tampa organization as receiving drugs from Marseilles "via Havana, Cuba."

## Sources

- Internet Archive, scan of the printed hearings, Part 2: https://archive.org/details/investigationofo02unit
- Full text of the volume (Internet Archive, OCR): https://archive.org/download/investigationofo02unit/investigationofo02unit_djvu.txt