An anonymous businessman from Kansas City, Missouri wants to be known as "Secret Santa" and is traveling the country for the holiday season . . . to give away $100 bills.

--He started with 1,000 of them . . . and he's going to give them all away.  That's a total of $100,000.  

--He's been to San Diego . . . Chicago . . . and Charlotte, North Carolina.  And last week he hit the New York City area to give money to victims of Superstorm Sandy.     

--He travels with a security team of former cops and FBI agents . . . since he's carrying a lot of cash on him.

--And he's been doing it for the last five years.  He replaced another Kansas City businessman named Larry Stewart, who gave away more than a million dollars in $100 bills before he died in 2007.