Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: LA
To: HQ
Document date: 06/18/1962
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/7/2015

AGENCY:

RECORD NUMBER :

FBI

124-10353-10355

RECORD SERIES: LA

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ELSUR 92-113C-82

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

LA

TO: HQ

TITLE :

DATE:

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SUBJECTS:

06/18/1962

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JOHN ROSELLI (ELSUR)

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION:

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 11/18/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

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FD-36 (Rev. 12-13-56)

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URGENT

6/18/62

Via

(Priority or Method of Mailing)

TO:

DIRECTOR, FBI (92-3267)

FROM:

SAC, LOS ANGELES (92-113C)

• JOHN ROSSELLI, AKA. AR. PCI WILLIAM BERKELEY ADVISED

THAT ABOUT NINETEEN TWENTYSEVEN, HE FIRST OBSERVED

ACTIVITIES OF VARIOUS RACKETEERS AND RECALLED THAT JACK

LA RUE, MOTION PICTURE ACTOR, LOST LARGE SUM OF MONEY TO

HARPO AND CHICO MARX OF MARX BROS. ENTERTAINMENT TEAM.

LA RUE WOULD NOT PAY AND ROSSELLI INTERCEDED AS COLLECTOR

OF GAMBLING DEBT. IN ABOUT NINETEEN THIRTIES, INVOLVING

MOTION PICTURE UNION, IATSE, PCI ASCERTAINED THROUGH

WILLIE BIOFF THAT LOUIS PISCOPO, AKA QUOTE DAGO LOUIE

UNQUOTE, LOUIE MERLI, HAD ENTERED INTO LABOR UNION BECAUSE

ROSSELLI HAD SO DIRECTED BIOFF. IT IS PCI-S OPINION THAT

PISCOPO CANNOT ACT WITHOUT INSTRUCTIONS FROM ROSSELLI.

AS PREVIOUSLY REPORTED, ROSSELLI HAS MANY FRIENDS IN

ENTERTAINMENT FIELD.

NEIGHBORHOOD SOURCES UNABLE TO FURNISH ANY INFORMATION

INDICATING ROSSELLI RESIDING AT HIS LOS ANGELES APARTMENT.

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