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would enable them to bring the heroin into the U.S. without having to fly outside Canada, Peroff explained (p. 27).

Peroff said that Bouchard made this flight in apparent violation of his bail restrictions which required that he be in every night by 9, that he remain in Montreal at all times and that he not be in the vicinity of an airport (p. 28).

Peroff said that Cote, Lemoyne and he took a taxi from the Windsor airport to a restaurant while Bouchard went to meet the man who wished to buy the heroin. Peroff said they waited in the restaurant for him two and a half to three hours. Then Bouchard joined them in the restaurant. Peroff said they returned to the Windsor airport, boarded the Lear jet and flew back to Montreal.

Bouchard was "very nervous" when the aircraft touched down in Montreal, Peroff said, noting that Bouchard walked to his car and put the brown briefcase into the trunk. Bob and his copilot went their own way and Peroff, Bouchard, Lemoyne and Cote drove off. They kept driving. Peroff said, through the streets of Montreal for the next two hours "to be sure there was no surveillance." After stopping at Bouchard's house for a time, Peroff said, he was driven back to the Martinique by Claude Lemoyne.

Peroff said he reported what had happened on this trip to the Customs agent, Sidney Bowers. Bowers, he said, showed him a picture of a man called Fecarotta. Bowers explained that Fecarotta bought the heroin from Bouchard in Detroit, Peroff said, adding that Bowers went on to say that the "entire trip was on video tape" (p. 28).

OFFICIAL REPORTS ON WINDSOR TRIP

In the March 26, 1973 cable to Washington, Customs Agent Sidney Bowers reported on Peroff's Windsor trip in the Lear jet.

Bowers said that on March 22 Cotroni dispatched Peroff, Bouchard, Lemoyne and a Cotroni operative named Louis Cote to Windsor, Ontario to meet with potential narcotics buyers. Bowers said the group was placed under surveillance and that Bouchard had a meeting with a Detroit mobster named John Fecarotta. Fecarotta, free on bail after being arrested for having eight kilograms of heroin, was reported to have $200,000 front money to finance a proposed 100 kilogram shipment of heroin.

Bowers said Bouchard was expecting a visitor from France during the week of March 25 to 30 who would "iron out details for taking delivery of 100 kilos in France." Bowers added that when the arrangements in France were completed, Peroff, with his executive jet and accompanied by Claude Lemoyne and Louis Cote, was to fly to France, pick up the heroin and return to North America. "Final details on route of return to North America would be in the C.I.'s hands," Bowers concluded.

Information copies of this cable were sent to the American embassies in Paris, Rome and Ottawa.

BOUCHARD MEETS FECAROTTA IN WINDSOR

Sidney Bowers reported that when Peroff, Bouchard and the others arrived in Windsor March 22 aboard the Lear jet they were followed.

Surveillance was carried out by a six-man team-five Customs agents from the Detroit office, one Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman. A 'Customs report was filed April 3 concerning their activities. The report, a copy of which was made a part of the hearing, dealt with "Surveillance regarding conspiracy to smuggle heroin from Europe to North America." It was written by Special Agent Frederic D. Haiduk. According to Haiduk, the Lear jet landed at Windsor International Airport at 4:35 p.m. The pilot and copilot of the jet stayed behind with the aircraft while their four passengers-Bouchard, Peroff, Claude Lemoyne and Louis Cote-got into a Checker cab and were driven to the Colosseo Pizzeria and Restaurant at 1459 Ottawa Street, Windsor. Agent Haiduk reported that Bouchard never left Windsor. Bouchard departed the Colosseo at 5 p.m. and walked one block east to the corner of Gladstone and Ottawa Streets. He carried a brown briefcase. He turned up Gladstone and walked 200 yards and entered a home at 1266 Gladstone. The occupant of the residence was a 25-year-old woman, Andrea Delisi, a native of Italy and reportedly a cousin of John Fecarotta.

A black over white 1972 two-door hardtop Oldsmobile was parked in front of the home. The license plates were from another car. They belonged to a Lincoln Park, Michigan, couple who drove a four-door Oldsmobile, not a two-door. Detroit police confirmed for the Customs agents that the two-door Olds was frequently used by John Fecarotta of Detroit, a known trafficker in drugs.

At 6:30 p.m., Peroff, Lemoyne and Cote went for a walk around the Colosseo. They returned to the restaurant at 6:45 p.m.

Bouchard left Miss Delisi's home at 6:55 and got into a Checker cab. The taxi circled the block and then pulled up in front of the Colosseo. Bouchard left the leather briefcase in the backseat of the taxi while he went inside to beckon his colleagues. The taxi waited.

At 7:03 p.m., Bouchard, Peroff, Cote and Lemoyne drove away in the cab, headed toward the airport. The taxi stopped once and one of the occupants went into a tavern and bought a pack of cigarettes. They arrived at the airport at 7:15 p.m. At 7:31 p.m. the Lear jet was airborne.

Meanwhile, back at Andrea Delisi's place, the surveillance continued. At 8 p.m., Fecarotta left, got into the Oldsmobile and drove two and a half blocks west on Ottawa Street. He parked in front of a furniture store and went inside. He stayed in the store until 10:15 p.m. when he drove off. Custom agents radioed Windsor police to request a positive identification that it was Fecarotta. A patrol car stopped the Oldsmobile and the driver was positively identified as being John Fecarotta. Facarotta was given a ticket for speeding.

PEROFF LEAVES MONTREAL

Peroff said that the day after filling Bowers in on the Windsor trip. he left Montreal. Peroff said Bob, the pilot, and the Customs copilot, dropped him off at the Newark Airport and then flew on to West Palm Beach, Florida.

Customs Agent Richard Dos Santos of the New York office met Peroff at the Newark terminal and took him back to his family at the New York Hilton. Peroff said Dos Santos called Customs Agent

Douglas McCombs in Washington. McCombs' instructions were that Peroff should make a full report to Dos Santos on the Canadian trip (p. 29).

Peroff said he made his report the next day at Customs offices in New York. Peroff said he also turned over to Dos Santos cassette recordings he had made of telephone conversations between himself in New York and Bouchard in Montreal. These calls were made to Bouchard when the Peroffs were staying at the Ramada Inn Motel at Kennedy Airport and at the Hilton from March 16 to March 20 (p. 29). Customs documents and independent inquiry by the Subcommittee staff established that Peroff did turn over cassettes to Dos Santos on this occasion and that he was extensively debriefed by Dos Santos concerning his March 20-22 trip to Canada. Customs reports confirmed virtually all aspects of Peroff's testimony concerning this trip. These Customs documents were made part of the hearing record.

VI. CUSTOMS KEEPS FRANK PEROFF ON BOUCHARD CASE

FIRST GOAL IS ACHIEVED

In his June 13, 1974 testimony before the Subcommittee (pp. 757810), Customs Agent Sidney C. Bowers said that the Customs Service sent Frank Peroff to Montreal in March of 1973 to "infiltrate" a group of Canadians, including Conrad Bouchard, who were planning to smuggle a large shipment of heroin into Canada or the United States. By late March of 1973, Peroff had achieved that goal. He had succeeded in infiltrating the Bouchard group. Moreover, Peroff had established that Bouchard did want to organize a big heroin transaction. And he did intend to rely on Peroff's Lear jet to move the drugs.

But Bouchard, hard pressed financially due to his court battles, did not have enough cash on hand to buy a big shipment of foreign heroin. So, while Bouchard and his associates tried to raise the needed funds, Peroff returned to the United States, moving back in with his family at the New York Hilton Hotel.

PEROFF AND BOUCHARD TALK FREQUENTLY

Peroff told Senators that he spent the next three weeks in his room at the Hilton. Peroff said Customs Agent Richard Dos Santos became his control agent during this period. Dos Santos testified that he formally assumed the Peroff control agent duty April 11, 1973 (p. 361). Peroff said that while he stayed in the hotel and with Dos Santos' concurrence he kept in frequent touch by telephone with Conrad Bouchard (p. 30).

Peroff said Bouchard talked about his own trial, about possible future narcotics transactions and about his plans to raise money to finance a big heroin deal through the use of stolen securities. Peroff described one of Bouchard's fund raising plans this way:

Bouchard and his people were ready and willing and proposals were made to me to try to raise cash for the narcotics deal by me going out and doing some stolen securities transactions. One specific deal that came up at this time was $2.5 million worth of Simpson-Sears debentures. A portion of this stock had already been recovered and the balance of it at the time was under the control of Conrad Bouchard (p. 30).

Peroff said he asked Dos Santos and Sidney Bowers if he should go into a stolen securities transaction with Bouchard. Peroff felt he could "have done it successfully" but Bowers and Dos Santos both told him not to (p. 30).

Previous inquiry by the Subcommittee has shown how stolen securities are sold, traded and used as collateral for loans by organized crime figures. Independent inquiry by the Subcommittee staff established that Frank Peroff was experienced in stolen securities transac

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