Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: LA
To: HQ
Document date: 12/14/1962
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

6/3/2015

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10353-10235

RECORD SERIES: LA

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: ELSUR 92-113C-202

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

Assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

144 U5c 2107 Notel.

Casef:WU 45945 Date:

11-17-2017

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

TO :

LA

HQ

TITLE:

DATE: 12/14/1962

PAGES:

3

SUBJECTS :

JOHN ROSELLI (ELSUR)

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS : 4; 11(a)

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 02/04/1999

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF IRS

COMMENTS :

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12/14/62

AIRIEL

PLAIN TEXT

AIR MAIL

(REGISTERED)

TO :

FROM:

DIRECTOR, FBI (92-3267)

SAC, LOS ANGELES (92-113C)

(P)

RE:

JOHN ROSELLI, ala

ANTI - RACKETEERING

vero

on 12/13/62 BARON LYNCH, Spectel Agent, Internal

Revenue Service (TRS), Los Angeles, California, advised that

on 12/13/62 LA 4268-C advised that ROSSELLI

appeared at the Friar's Club in Beverly Hille at about

5:15 p:m. on Wednesday, December 12; and after hissarrival,

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 Itallan or Jewich

descent

After this conference broke up, evezyone left

except

FRIEDMAN who went to the steam room.

Informant talked

Bureau

• Los Angeles

HEID: brm

55

(4)

FBI LA

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LA 92-1130

briefly with ROSSELLI in the steam room area, and ROSSELLI

Immediately asked informant 1f he had seen

"that guy"

(meaning GEORGE SEEDVAN, for whom informant may work in

connection with SEEDMAN's vending machine operation):

ROSSELLI immediately started telling informant what informant

should tell SEEDMAN and again requested informant to find

out all he could about SEEDMAN=

Thereafter, FRIEDMAN and ROSSELLI went into the

cocktail lounge at the Friar's Club and joined the unknown

man mentioned above.

on 12/14/62 LA 4268-C advised that on the previous

day, 12/13/62, he observed ROSSELLI at the Iriar's Club at

about five o'clock playing carda with an individual named

ALEXANDER RUDOLPH.

ROSSELLI was losing money and FRIEDMAN

took his place and shortly after "got ROSSELLI even."

Informant learned that JOSEPH I. BREEN, JR., a

close friend and business associate of ROSSELLI, 1s currently

writing and directing a Biblleal ploture.

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 BENVY, and

GEORGE BURNS, well-known enter-

tainers, arrived at the Friar's Club and a photographer took

colored

pletures of them seated in the cocktall lounge. They

then went into the dining room where another group colored

ploture was taken at which time the doors were open into the

sambling room.

Included in this latter picture were ROSSELLI

and FRIEDMAN playing carde,

The purpose of the pictures was

apparently to show that celebrities belong to the club, and

the club intend to make colored post cards of these pictures,

After the pictures were täken MILTON BERLE told

informant that he was going to Las Vegas in the near future

with Dodger baseball players, DRYSDALE, KOUFAX, MAURY WILLS,

and HOWARD, where these ball playere would appear in an aet

in one of the hotels, which act would be built around MILTON

BERLE

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