Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: NY
To: HQ
Document date: 08/19/1976
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

4/9/2015

AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-10351-10138

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

72-2382-60

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

NY

TO: HQ

TITLE:

DATE:

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SUBJECTS :

08/19/1976

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JUDITH CAMPBELL EXNER

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION:

Unclassified

• RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 09/09/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS:

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TO DIRECTOR (92-3287) ROUTINE

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ATTENTION GENERAL INVESTIGATIVE DIVISION

UNKNOWN SUBJECT JOHN ROSELLI - VICTIM, DOJA DOEMIAMI

FOR INFORMATION OF RECEIVING OFFICES:

REC 12: 72-2382-60

3 AUG 26 1976

EX-113

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ON AUGUST 18, 1976, X SHELDON ABEND X, FORMER SOURCE OF THE

NO WAS INTERVIEWED AND PROVIDED THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION CON

CERNING ROSELLI

ABEND ADVISED THAT IN 1969 HE HAD BECOME ACQUAINTED WITH A

WOMAN WHO WENT BY THE NAMES OF X NANCY

CZAR X. AND X NANCY KOWALSKI X.

ACCORDING TO ABEND MISS CZAR WAS ALWAYS VERY TALKATIVE AND OFTEN

DISCUSSED HER RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHER PEOPLE. SHE OFTEN SPOKE

OF BEING CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH JOHN ROSELLI AND AL SMILEY IN

LOS ANGELES AND THAT SHE HAD VISUTED ROSELLI WHILE HE WAS IN

PRISON.

ABEND MAINTAINED CONTACT WITH CZAR AND IN 1972, WHILE

TRAVELLING TO CALIFORNIA WAS GIVEN THE USE OF NANCY CZARS® APART-

MENT LOCATED IN THE FOUNTAIN VIEW WEST TOWERS, 1155. NORTH LA

CIENAGA, BEL AIR, CALIFORNIA. WHILE STAYING THERE ABEND OBSER-

•VED PICTURES ON THE WALLS WITH NANCY CZAR AND JOHN ROSELLI TO-

GETHER •

ABEND ADVISED THAT NANCY CZAR IS NOW MARRIED TO A BUSINESS-

MAN NAMED X SAM BREISFIELD X AND NOW LIVES IN BEL AIR ESTATES, BEL

AIR, CALIFORNIA. THE HOME TELEPHONE NUMBER IS 213-476-2268.

BUSINESS PHONE 213-748-8701.

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ABEND DESCRIBED CZAR AS BEING A "MOTOR MOUTH" AND THAI SHE

HAD BEEN IN CLOSE CONTACT WITH ROSELLI UNTIL VERY SHORTLY BE-

FORE HIS DEATH.

ABEND ALSO STATED THAT AT 4 PM ON JANUARY 26, 1976 HE HAD

MET WITH JOHN ROSELLI IN THE LIBRARY ROOM OF THE BEVERLY HILTON

HOTEL. AT THIS MEETING ABEND, WHO IS A LITERARY AGENT, APPROACH-

ED ROSELLI AND ASKED TO PURCHASE ROSELLI'S STORY ABOUT HIS IN-

VOLVEMENT WITH THE CIA, SAM GIANCANA AND THEIR ATTEMPIS TO

ASSASSINATE FIDEL CASTRO. ROSELLI ALLEGEDLY TOLD ABEND THAT

HE WOULD THINK ABOUT HAVING THE STORY PUBLISHED. AT THIS POINT

ABEND ADVISED ROSELLI THAT EVEN IF HE DID NOT WISH TO PUBLISH

HIS STORY AND GET IT OUT IN THE OPEN HE SHOULD AT LEAST GET IT

DOWN ON PAPER WITH A LAWYER. AT THIS POINT ROSELLI ALLEGEDLY

STATED THAT HE HAD ALREADY PUT THE STORY DOWN IN PRINT "IN

TRIPLICATE"•

THIS MEETING HAD BEEN ARRANGED BY A WEST COAST LAWYER

NAMED X DON BUSBY X WHO WAS REPRESENTING ABEND AND WAS PRESENT

AT THIS MEETING. BUSBY RESIDES AT X 45D NORTH ROCKSBURG DRIVE,

BEL AIR, CALIFORNIA X, HOME PHONE 213-278-2016, BUSINESS PHONE

213-273-85660

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ABEND BELIEVES THAT BUSBY MAY KNOW WHETHER ROSELLI'S STORY

WAS IN FACT PUT DOWN ON PAPER BY ROSELLI, AND IF SO, WHERE

COPIES OF THE STORY MAY BE.

ABEND INDICATED THAI A POSSIBILITY EXISIS THAT ROSELLI'S

STORY MAY HAVE BEEN TURNED OVER TO ROSELLI'S LAWYERS.

ABEND INDICATED A KNOWLEDGE OF PAST INVESTIGATIONS OF

MATTERS CONCERNING X HOWARD HUGHES X, X ROBERI VESCO X,

AND X ROBERT A. MAHEU X WHICH COULD ALSO BE READILY AVAILABLE

IN THE NEWS MEDIA•

IT SHOULD BE NOTED BY LA THAT BUSBY IS AWARE THAT ABEND

HAS CONTACIED THE FBI IN REGARD TO THIS MATTER.

BASED ON INTERVIEW ABEND APPREARED RATIONAL, HOWEVER, HIS

PRESENT RELIABILITY IS UNKNOWN AT THIS TIME.

ADMINISTRATIVE

REBUTELETYPE TO ALL SACS, AUGUST 13, 1976.

LOS ANGELES AT LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. INTERVIEW MRS.

NANCY BRETSFIELD REGARDING HER RELATIONSHIP WITH JOHN ROSELLI

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