AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : v9.1 HW 45945) DoclId: 32317496 JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information FBI 124-10353-10235 LA ELSUR 92-113C-202 Document Information FBI LA HQ 12/14/1962 3 JOHN ROSELLI (ELSUR) PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 4; 11(a) Redact 02/04/1999 INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF IRS Page 1 Date: 6/3/2015 Peleased under the John Kennedy Assassination Records oOllection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). ase#:NWU 45945 Date: 11-17-2017
O «a | 12/14/62 PLAIN TEXT AIRTEL AIR MAIL (REGISTERED) 10+ DIRECTOR, FBI (92+3267) FROM: SAC, LOS. ANGELES (Se-113¢) -{P) RE: JOHN ROSELLI, aka | ANTI ~ RACKETSERING ee on 12/13/62 PEP ON Revemie Service {7%RS), On 12/13/62 LA 4268-¢ advised that ROSSELLI appeared at the Friar's Club in Beverly Hilla at about 5:15 pam. on Wednesday, December 12; and after hisesarrival,. ROSSELLI had what appeared to be a conference with MAURICE | H. FRIEDMAN, HARRY KARL, BEN TEITELBAUM, and an unknown in- dividual described by informant as about age 55, 5 feet . 10 inches tall, 175 pounds, sandy hair, and ruddy complexion. ‘This unknown man did not appear to be of Italian or Jewish : déscent. After this conference broke up, everyone left .  exeept YRIEDMAN who went to the steam room. Informant talked 3 Bureau Bet Los Angeles . : | HED: bom | “SEARCHED O) en | ae 7 | — INDEXED FBILA a a FILED: habe f CF REROX COPINS. 2.» a | a é DATE? 4? INITIALS —c 7 : 92 SfEC ~ bob. a Qe one 2p ee ee ee me eS ee ee cc A HW 45945 Docld: 32317496 Page 2?
HW 45945 LA 92-3136 prterly with ROSSELLI in the ateam room area, and ROSSELLI . ammediately asked informant 1f he had séen "that guy" (meaning GEORGE SEEDMAN, for whom informant may work in eonneétion with SEEDMAN's vending machine operation). _ROSSELLI immediately started telling informant what informant a should tell SEEDMAN and again requested informant to find - out all he could about ‘SEEDMAN. Thereafter, FRIEDMAN and ROSSELLI “went into the _eoektail lounge at the Friar's Club and Joined ‘the unknown an mentioned above. 7 On 12/14/62 LA 4268-¢ advised that on the previous . | day, 12/13/62, he observed ROSSELLI at the Friar's Club at about five o'clock playing cards with an individual named ALEXANDER RUDOLPH. ROSSELLI was: losing money and FRIEDMAN | tock his place and shortly after "got ROSSELLI even.” _ Informant Learned that JOSEPH I. BREEN, IR.» a. ‘@lose friend and business associate of ROSSELLI, is currently weiting and directing a Biblical picture. Informant did not know for whom he was working or the name of the picture. . ‘Informant advised that at about 6 p.m, on 12/13/62. MILTON BERLE, JACK BENNY, and GEORGE BURNS, well-known enter+ tainers, arrived at the Priar's Club and a photographer took solored pictures of them seated in the coek pleture was taken at which time the doors were open into the gambling room, Included in this latter picture were ROSSELLI and BRIEDMAN playing cards. The purpose of the pictures waa. apparently to show that. celebrities belong to the club, and the Glub intends to make colored. post cards of these pictures, After the pictures were taken MILTON BERLE told informant that he was going to Las Vegas in the near future with Dodger baseball players, DRYSDALE, KOUPAX, MAURY WILLS, | and HOWARD, where these ball players would appear in an act in one of the hotels, which act would be bulit around MILTON BERLE. DoclIda: 3273174968 Page 3 ail lounge. They . then went inte the dining room where another group colored