JFK Assassination System Date: 6/3/2015 Identification Form Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: _ 124-10353-10156 RECORD SERIES: LA See Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: LA TO: HQ TITLE: ~ AGENCY FILE NUMBER: ELSUR 92-113C-282 DATE: — 11/23/1963 “PAGES: 2 SUBJECTS : JOHN ROSELLI (ELSUR) DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified . “RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: | 11/17/1998. «* OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE K COMMENTS : ee EeeEEESSFSFSSSSSSSSFMFMMMeeeee v9.1 l | HW 45945 DocId:32317419 Page 1
O | © AIRTEL 7 AIR MALL TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (92-3267) __ FROM: SAC, LOS ANGELES (92-113¢) > > ij . No ao [. RE: al ROSELLI, aka On 11/15 & 16/63 LA 4393-C advised that ROSSELLI and MAURICE H. FRIEDMAN and two women, ARLENE MILLER and DINA STEPHENS planned to leave Los Angeles early on the morning of 11/16/63 for Phoenix, Arizona, where they would stay overnight and then proceed to Washington, D.C., where they would arrive on the evening of 11/17/63. Informant said they were to be accompanied by a “high powered" attorney and were going to Washington "to meet a Congressman, " = The above four people proceeded to Phoenix, 5 Arizona, via American Airlines Flight #70, which left Los Angeles at 6:55 AM on 11/16/63. . The Phoenix Office advised that ROSSELLI and FRIEDMAN arid two females, later determined to be A, MILLER and D. STEPHENS checked into the Mountain Shadows Hotel, Scottsdale, Arizona, on the morning of 11/16/63 and left on the morning of 11/18/63; that ROSSELLI and FRIEDMAN traveled via air to Las Vegas, Nevada, and the two girls returned via air to Los Angeles, California; that A. MILLER gave the limousine driver several postcards to mail and that one of them was addressed to her mother, a Mreé. CONSTANCE PRESCOTT, Santa Ana, California, and . contained a message that the Washington trip had been postponed. r pa ieee nee fide ed = é - Bureau _ 1)= Los Angeles INCEX Dp t ‘tee —_—- & = hye | NW 45945 DocId:32317419 Page 2 a “yt ve ta”
LA 92-113¢ . While at. the hotel a call was made to a Mr, SUGARMAN at telephone #274-9201 in Beverly Hills, California. He was not in but returned the call to ROSSELLI a couple of hours later. The hotel records reflect that a Mr. SUGARMAN made the reservations for the four people - Telephone #274-9201 ts listed to the H & B American Corporation,. Beverly Hills, California. A Dun and Bradstreet report regarding this company shows a HAROLD R. SUGARMAN as Vice President and Treasurer, On eo PCI, advised that he had had lunch ‘tha ay with JONIE TAPS (a frieng Stated that ROSSELLI and FRIEDMAN had gone to Scottsdale, Arizona, last Friday with a couple of girls and were to return to Los Angeles on 11/20/63. ] WhO was a member of the“syndicate"went with FRIEDMAN and’ ROSSELLI. The Las Vegas Office advised that ROSSELLI ana FRIEDMAN arrived in Las Vegas on 11/18/63 and ROSSELLI . registered at the Desert Inn Hotel. Subsequently ROSSELLI . was observed in a lengthy conversation with RUBY KOLOD of the Desert Inn Hotel. ! NW 45945 DocId:32317419 Page 3 i
[ . & 11/16/63 ATR MAIL : DIRECTOR, FBI (92-3267) FROM: SAC, LOS ANGELES (92-113C) RE: JOHN ROSELLI, aka ~ A LA 4396-C* has furnished information that ROSSELLI has been in Les Angeles during the past week and residing at his apartment at 1251 North Crescent Heights Boulevard. On 11/12/63 a woman who identified herself as Miss DAVIS and a former employee of the firm of Rothman, Cantor and Glassman (this firm handles ROSSELLI's accounts) called VERNON E. LYNTH, I.R.S. (in Los Angeles) and said she had - important information concerning ROSSELLI. When interviewed by LYNCH on 11/12/63 Miss DAVIS, 45084 West 23rd Street, Los mea stated she had left the employ of the above firm on 11/8/6 f Her “important information" | was to offer IRS the keys to the firm's offices and instructions as to how to get into the firm's safe where the files concerning ROSSELLI were kept. IRS Agents declined the offer. During the course of the interview Miss DAVIS (who IRS Agent LYNCH determined to be TINA ROSBURY) stated that ROSSELLI and EMANUEL ROTHMAN were currently involved in a venture concerning some "very o1a trust deeds" and they 23S Bureau (RM) (x00) A Los Angeles ig ae ARN fr 7 ae SEARCHES 47 od % ie INS Nec a we" Tt dais! Wikis a $e. WEL. 48) pr oo a | HW 45945 DocId:32317420 Page 1