JFK Case: TRACES ON SANTOS TRAFFICANTE, LINK TO MOISES SANTI Y MARCHELI IN CUBA

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00548494
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: October 23, 2023
• Document Release Date: September 1, 2023
• Case Number: F-2021-01328
• Publication Date: March 1, 1977

� Approved for Release: 2023/09/01 C00548494
March 1977
.MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Traces on Santos TRAFFICANTE
1. There is no official 201 file on TRAFFICANTE.
Following are extracts from references in Agency files:
a. Memo for the Record dated 6 March 1964 on
Moises SANTI y Marcheli, sourced to AMNIP-1
(Miguel ROCHE - former G-2 defector)
(201-354406)
I. . This memo concerns the involvement of
.AMNIP-1 (A.-1) with a.group in Cuba headed by.SANTI, in
\exchanging dollars for Cuban pesos. A-1's 'involvement
was by. invitation of SANTI who turned out to be G-2. SANTI
told,A-1 that they would have to be on the alert because .
of Other important group, also involved in money changing,
.directed by Evaristo GARCIA, then in Miami and a friend of.
Cuban' gambler fnu SANTOS Trafficante (sic); Roberto SUSI; -
'and fnu LEAL, with whom they would sooner .or later have
trouble. � Money was sent to Miami by diplomats accredited to
Cuba in the false bottom of a cardboard. suitcase made by
BANTI's younger brother in, the latter'.s.office in "old -
'Havana." The suitcase was received in Miami by a person
of confidence who.had a passport and a Visa. Travel by -
plane and permission to leave the country was obtained by
SANTI through the Chief of the Department.of.Technical
Investikations:(DTI) of the Department of I'n'vestigation of
the Rebel Army. (DIER) at the International Airport at
Rancho. Boyeros.' Suitcases with -false bottoms for the other
groups were also made by SANTI's brother as he. was the only
one who could make them with perfection. 'A crisis did
'develop between SANTI and the other groups, because they
diverted money exchanges to themselves. .
2.: SANTI reportedly left Cuba .on a Greek ship
-(date unknown). In October 1962 SANTI.had reportedly just.
opened a-store in New Orleans, Louisiana. A-1 learned from
a person .in Miami in 1963 that SANTI had said he was.prepar-
ing.a.false bankruptsy for his store in New. Orleans'. .SANTI
also reportedly- declared a false bankruptsy for a stoke he..
'owned in Caracas, Venezuela, when he returned :le 'Ggba
following the downfall of Batista.. c`I
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