RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: ‘ PAGES: SUBJECTS : COMMENTS : v9.1 Docld: 323027675 Page 1. AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW: OPENING CRITERIA : JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information FBI 124-10282-10140 HQ 92-3267-576 Document Information FBI SAC, LA DIRECTOR, FBI 04/24/1964 2 JRO, ASSOC, RES, GAMBLING ACT PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 4 Redact 04/20/1998 INDEFINITE Date: 5/1/2015
FD-36 (Rev. 10-29-63) md + Date: 1/24/64 PBI i | | Transmit the following in (Type in plain text or code) Via AIRTEL AIR MAIL ! ' (Priority) | ae LL LL LL LL bo TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (92-3267) FROM: SAC, LOS ANGELES (92-113-C) _ | RE: JOHN ROSELLI, aka. “er AR i On 4/20 and 24/64 SHARON SHERMAN, Switchboard Operator at the Glen Towers, where ROSSELLI resides, advised . that she did not see ROSSELLI around the apartment during the period from 4/10-15/64, but that she saw him on either the 16th or 17th leaving the apartment garage with a red-haired girl. She further stated that on 4/10/64 JOE BREEN, of Las Vegas, called for ROSSELLI, who was not in, and during the period from 4/10-15/64 a man named IRVING LINK called about three times for ROSSELLI, JOSEPH I. BREEN, JR. is, by his own admission, ‘one of ROSSELLI's closest friends. He was formerly a director and producer of motion pictures but is now employed in a bank in Las Vegas, Nevada. According to LA 4268-C, IRVING LINK frequents the Friars Club in Beverly Hills, California, and reportedly is engaged in real estate activities. He is friendly with ROSSELLI and frequently plays cards with ROSSELLI. He is also friendly with MAURICE H. FRIEDMAN, part owner of the Hotel Last Frontier Corporation in Las Vegas, and with JACK BARENFELD, a clothing manufacturer in Los Angeles, and also a part owner of the Hotel Last Frontier Corporation. FRIEDMAN and BARENFELD are friends of ROSSELLI. On 4/24/64 SHARON SHERMAN advised that she had not seen ROSSELLI at the apartment during the current week and has taken no calls for him. She said that normally if calls come in for ROSSELLI arid he does not answer, the calls are referred to the switchboard OFRECS apartment building. 4b 3.4 Bu AM - $$ LLIO Be Barer CH 25) (50-N67) a) yyy, A AOL - Los Angeles heb: sr BL LA AM DIF wutA Tg, leans rs ” ' Docld: 32302626 Page 2?
Le LA’ 92-113-C On 4/23/64 BETSY DUNCAN, PCI, who is currently appearing as a singer-entertainer at Dino's, a night club on the Sunset Strip, advised that since she has been at Dino's for the past nine weeks, ROSSELLI has been there about three times. The last occasion was on Friday, 4/17/64, when ROSSELLI came there for dinner with a red-haired girl friend. ROSSELLI introduced the girl to DUNCAN as "KATHY" and gave no last name. DUNCAN said she does not know the girl and does not know her last name. DUNCAN further advised that ROSSELLI has recently been gdaing with a woman named DOROTHY TOWNE, a former wife of JACK WEBB, the TV and motion picture actor, It was DUNCAN's understanding that TOWNE, who is an interior decorator, was the person who decorated ROSSELLI's new apartment. © DUNCAN mentioned to ROSSELLI that she would finish her engagement at Dino's in about three weeks. ROSSELLI suggested that she get in touch with BOB ABRAMS or BERNIE RICH as they could probably get her an engagement at some hotel in Las Vegas. She said ABRAMSand RICH operate a talent agency and formerly handled EDDIE FISHER, well-known singer. DUNCAN said she told ROSSELLI that she did not need their help to get work in Las Vegas. She did not know if ROSSELLI has any interest in the talent agency of ABRAMS and RICH, This talent agency is no doubt Selena Enterprises, Inc., mentioned previously in this investigation, for whom ROSSELLI obtained free office space for several weeks at 8490 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California. On 4/22/64 LA 4448-C-TE advised that in the 1920's, when ROSSELLI first came to Los Angeles, he engaged in bootlegging and also in hi-jacking liquor trucks of JACK I, DRAGNA, who prior to his death in 1956 was reliably reported to head the criminal syndicate in the Los Angeles area. Informant stated that ROSSELLI's closest friend during the 1920's was one JOHNNY BURNS, who was associated with ROSSELLI in bootlegging and hi-jacking operations. He said subsequently ROSSELLI and DRAGNA patched up their differences and became close associates. Informant further advised that BURNS currently lives in the Los Angeles area and is about seventy-five years of age. Efforts will be made to locate BURNS so he may be interviewed. ~2.- ‘ Docld: 32302676 Page 3