(Classified) AN INFORMER WHO HELPED F.B.I. U.S. OFFICIALS SAY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400160004-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 22, 1998
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: March 9, 1968
• Content Type: NSPR

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vities as an undercover ab^r we o r to pre
v' s pcccd together by Ti "- m Gr t so-cond wife is under guard
New York Times a nc all te- ;, %t' nnn.
:Figure in Marcus Case Said d adar
t. n rc al of Mr. Itlcin's friends
1 onfirmcd by Govern , ett o ge r inV"t ~ cribed him as confi-
' a ~} ants say pnvaeiy
to Have Risked rife to ic;alN -,lcr extensive inter ! a
Itkin : a' - dy v c} C 1 G ,~ when the Marcus
`Stand Up to Mafia' Views ..d . search of public get of r, ed rru.uer Io case comes to trial his "teat
for which t~4 1 ry .. " as an undercover agent
and private documents and 1~ , i iunu ct. otters ,ire now unde Federal indict
wi be made clear.
PYRGHT Washi ment although he has never `1a'cr,'t Bea Defendant'
By BA'Zri'A D L COL on ti19 l rig an area and '
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'Daniel J. Motto a union leader, Investigations are already . but it is said that it had noth-j Itkin in its files,
and Charles J. Rappaport, a proceeding on the basis of in ing to do with the Marcus kick-! Mr. itkin appears to have
former law partner of Mr. Itkin, back case. been many things to many pea-
formation Mr. ? Itkin has pro Judge Frankel also ordered: pie. To some lawyers who knew
ri.r. itkin--called one of the, vided. Federal officials say they that the Government name the! him he was, as onef put it,
most important Government in are hopeful that the inquiries city or .other place where they "brilliant in his law practice.",
formers in recent years-is de- two men or "collaborators car-1 Another described the swarthy,
scribed as having provided un- will enable them to obtain tied on any activities connectedi well-dressed Brooklyn Law
ldercover information to the future] indictments in the near with 'arranging the murder' as ,School graduate as "normal, re-
F.B.I. while he engaged in Government officials would 'charged in the indictment," and' tiring, not one to seek the spot-
numerous private business van-I? not specify whether Mr rrt:in the names of any persons who: light."
ER been o t ?
FertierL .rain, one of six per- LL:Illi intended victim.
sons indicted in the Marcus On 1,icz nptivif;- n- T- of el when z:. case comes u n." Mr.
kick-back scandal, has been de- an undercover agent, Mr. Itkin aspect yesterday, Federal Itkin is quoted as having told
a friend. "I didn't do anything
;scribed by Federal bfficials as ryas involved in numerous in. Judge Marvin Frankel or I didn't have to do to keep{
ternaEional business ventures. dared the Government to dis ?
an undercover agent who in-; close officially who the murder from being suspect.
filtrated the world of organized Some of His Involvements target was. The indictment did , 'iis current :;taros as a de-~ nda crime and reported regularly His associations and business not name anyone as the in- .1could nt in the Marcus case
to the Federal Bureau of In- dealings-at least those indicat- tended victim. .could be changed before the
trial and the charges against
vestigation. ed by the available documents Identification Due Soon )hint could be dropped, Federal,
Mr. Itkin, now under 24- and by people who are willing Assistant United States At- -officials say.
hour armed Guard by Federal to talk about him-show that torney Robert G. Morvillo said Mr. Itkin has also told?closei
marshals, is to be the Govern- his involvement was. not only would identify the alleged friends that within the last five,
Y victim
ment's week to the law- Years he provided information'
's key witness in a Federal with Mafia figures like Corallo
yers for two men indicted in, to the Central Intelligence
conspiracy case, He is a co- and public figures like Mr, the murder plot.
I Ageg y on t i acit vities of pea=
defendant along with former) `,Marcus, but with polit4cians in The two under indictment sbns in the Dominican Republic,
Water Commissioner James. L:) the Dominican Republic, coup- are Robert Schwartz, 43, a law-j' where he often traveled, and in
Marcus; a reputed Mafia leader, l (d'dtat-minded exiles from Haiti, Yer, of Huntington Station, ?Haiti, whera? he is also known
Antonio (Tony Ducks) Corallo; businessmen in Miami, union L. I., and Robert Roden, 39, of to have had dealings.
Uniondale, L. I., a carpenter. .1 A spokesman for the Central
Henry Fried, owner of a New officials in New York and De- No motive has ever been .Intelligence Agencdenie'diat that
York construction company; troit, and gamblers in London. ascribed to the alleged lot t tee re'u"i" s an him about M
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on his motives for becoming an tovernment officials are Mr. Itkin's relationship with: as "a fast-talking guy, a fast-
quick to point out, however, Mr. Marcus, as far as is nowithinking buy, who said he knew
informer. However, one high that Mr. Itkin, despite his kn
Federal official has called the free-spending ways over the own, was as a friend, bus:-everybody and could make a : "Herb 41-year-old Manhattan lawyer last several years, did not, as ness partner and his pers
a "strange" man who risked lawyer onal l-ie in the blink of an eye."
far as is known, amass a lot City Hall officials o on n a g swas always;
. Citials say ajeet t going omewhere-tol
his life to "stand up to the of money from his business that Mr. Marcus introduced Mr. London, Geneva, Rome, Santo
Mafia. " P, W t,aa. Itltin to other commissioners Domingo, Haiti, Puerto Rico."
fact said one Federal and city 04161aaa ab +it
"v Many pt nl;le rersard Mr; Itkin
An Element in Other Cases `offiial, , damned near ta'''yer?" as a specialist in labor law, but
j Federal officials d isclosed: b- `e, his `.a' iy life is in a' According to some of these several tabor leaders and mP
.that Mr. Itkin was providing' he can't practice law'; commissioners, Mr. Itkin made diators say they know little of
Covei?::invent with and he can't do .inythir but: attempts afterwaFd to meet andj his activities for unions.
c .c:nfuic' of "inside" iniornrl '~''ait it all out." discuss business matters with It was the highly publicized)
t Concern has beer expessedi t,j ni? 1 Marcus cgs, a scandal that)
;.a rn underworld charge u 4 1 -j so ?g , `;` v : me t of- Mayor Lindsay has said that stunned Mayor Lindsay's ad-i
I .C 3 1 .evciy cy official ., that first . t1
0 c, Cal ri 10: - in
Mr? Itkin has been under pro-1
incse cases are said to in?'>l Edward Bennett Williams , 1, after he was arrested by th
volve labor racketec:ing, gam-.::;the WashingtoQ lawyer who.is~ F.B.I. last Dec. 18 in connec
bling, bribe income tux eva rep- '.'ntinn tion with the Marcus case
r5. s Mr. Marcus in, Aside from Federal and loca
sign and a whole range of other s tl c onspiracy case, said he: I