Manuel Capestany
A Cuban senator whose letter in Cuban immigration records, as the FBI reported in 1947, guaranteed Luciano 'as a person of democratic ideals' with the means to avoid becoming a public charge.
- Role
- "Cuban Senator," as the FBI reports of 1947 describe him
- Rights
- Biography on this page is limited to what the cited federal records state.
On the record
- 1943 — An FBI headquarters memorandum of 14 February 1947 cites a Legal Attache report of 1 December 1943 that "Dr. Manuel Capestany, a Liberal leader in Havana, aided Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin," and notes a bill he presented to the Cuban Senate on 20 May 1942 with two other senators acknowledging the Good Neighbor Policy.
- 1944 — The FBI report of 12 February 1947 says a source described him as "elected by the Liberal Party in the Province of Las Villas in 1944" and a close friend of Dr. Indalecio Pertierra.
- 12 February 1947 — The same report says Cuban immigration records "contained a letter from Cuban Senator MANUEL CAPESTANY, stating he knew LUCIANO personally and guaranteed him as a person of democratic ideals, who had sufficient financial resources to prevent him from becoming a public charge."
Capestany was a Cuban public official. The statements on this page are the FBI’s reports of Cuban immigration records and of its own files; none is a finding against him. No record filed here gives his dates of birth or death.
Records
itemFBI report of Special Agent Leo J. Fox, Havana, 12 February 1947: Luciano's entry into Cuba, the Pertierra visa, and the gambling at the Gran Casino Nacional and Oriental ParkThe Havana office's first full report states that Luciano arrived at Camaguey by airplane on 29 October 1946 as Salvatore Lucania, that his visa was backed by a Cuban senator's letter, that Congressman Indalecio Pertierra 'reportedly controls the gambling at the Jockey Club at Oriental Park and at the Gran Casino Nacional,' and that Luciano frequented both.
itemFBI memorandum, A. Rosen to E. A. Tamm, 14 February 1947: who helped Luciano enter Cuba, and his reported gambling associates in HavanaSummarizing the Legal Attache's radiograms, headquarters records that Luciano had help from Congressman Pertierra and Senator Manuel Capestany, that he 'is managing gambling concessions at the Jockey Club and National Casino for Pertierra,' and that he was associated with Charles Simms, Conrad Immerman, Victor Vesta and Meyer Lansky.