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YT ERE ey sages vee f > wv / Fe 2 toraw 1,2 ¢ 7 ‘S$ if %, od OK, Havana 94-13 iii ae bee, Mr. VAUGHAN \said that ibassador SMITH was sup- posedly the only American in Cuba who knew that this had transpired but that he (VAUGHAN) had learned it from TOMPKINS because of a close personal friendship that he has with TCMPKINS. According to VAUGHAN, TOMPKINS believed that by forcing LANSKY out of Cuba and back to the United States, enough bad publicity could be brought to bear on LANSKY to make him “tell what he knows about the Anastasia murder." ($-1) QQOu) The Office of the Legal Attache, Havana, has noticed a recent development of a strong reluctance to furnish informa- ion on the part of some important American gamblers who pre- viously had been developed to the point where they were willing to furnish some information is office. Based on the infor- mation set forth above sd it would appear that By these gamblers have receive aoiormation from high Cuban of- ficials that the American Embassy was behind MEYER LANSKY's exclusion from Cuba. SN) (8) (u) The Legal Attache, Havana requests that the informa- tion furnished by Mr. VAUGHAN not be revealed to anyone outside - the Bureau since it would jeopardize the source. In the event . the Bureau desires to make available the information furnished by CT concern, the comments made to him by high Cuban officials, identity should not be revealed Sufficient extra copies of this letter have been Prepared so that the Bureau may forward copies to New York and Miami Offices captioned file as well as files on MEYER LANSKY and For that purpose six copies br are furnished the Bureau, and in addition four copies are furnished for New York as well as three copies for Miami (Information). v bre Zar Tws a4 Ne Pat