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August dO, 1942 baw On the west coast of Florida for the past 10 years there's bem a band of smigglers operating from Tarpon Spr ings on down to Cape Sable. The three main points of contact with this gang of smugglers have been in the vicinity of Punta ae Gorda Harbor, Pine Island and Big Hickory Pass, out from Bonita spr ings, Florida. The group is so tied up with commercial fishe f- en in that area that the fisherman have openly declared that here are not enough coast guard boats and seaplanes to keep ¥ AoeD t track of them because there are so many places they can operate f Tome ao N Ny A Before we gO further in this situation, there is one x x Z° angle that seams quite strange and that is that part of this-} é ~\ 5 46 group of smug lers have on several occasions been talking in? : Ax Fs =N the roadhouse known as "The Towers", which is seven miles. north YSN of Punta Gorda. They were wondering Why it was on three ooca- zee sions in the past three years snorted tentuerce quietly visited an isiand located very near Fish Island and Bird Island, in ‘ are located twelve miles out in the gulf off of Fort nent e COPIES DESTROYED Understand that the "Towers" has been one of t R878 ocr 6 BggP ine Places and one of the Teaders of this group of sntgel ors who drives a big Packard car (nasi mS own around this romdhousee -.. ~~ This gang ‘of smugglers started are g in Oninese 1942 _ vi