Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, LA
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 04/24/1964
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Date:

5/1/2015

Agency Information

AGENCY :

FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-10282-10140

RECORD SERIES:

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

92-3267-576

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM:

SAC, LA

TO:

DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE: 04/24/1964

PAGES:

2

SUBJECTS :

JRO, ASSOC, RES, GAMBLING ACT

DOCUMENT TYPE:

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION : Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS :

4

CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 04/20/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

v9.1

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FD-36 (Rev. 10-29-63.)

• FBI

* D.

4/24/64

Date:

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Via

AIRTEL

AIR MAIL

(Priority)

TO:

FROM:

RE:

DIRECTOR, FBI (92-3267)

SAC,

LOS ANGELES (92-113-C)

JOHN ROSELLI, aka.

On 4/20 and 24/64 SHARON SHERMAN, Switchboard

Operator at the Glen lowers,

where ROSSELLI resides, advised

that she did not see ROSSELLI around the apartment

during the

period from 4/10-15/64, but that she saw him on either the

I6th or 17th leaving the apartment garage with a red-haired

She further stated that on 4/10/64 JOE BREEN, of

Las Vegas, called for ROSSELLI, who was not in, and

during

the period from 4/10-15/64 a man named IRVING LINK called

about three times for ROSSELLI.

JOSEPH I. BREEN, JR. 1s, by his own admission,

one of ROSSELLI's closest

friends.

He was formerly a

director and producer of motion pictures but is now employed

in a bank in Las Vegas, Nevada.

According to LA 4268-C, IRVING LINK frequents the

Friars Club in Beverly Hills, California, and reportedly is

engaged in real estate activities. He is friendly with

ROSSELLI and frequently plays cards with ROSSELLI. He is

also friendly with MAURICE H. FRIEDMAN, part owner of the

Hotel Last Frontier Corporation in Las Vegas, and with JACK

BARENFELD, a clothing manufacturer in Los Angeles, and also

a part owner of the Hotel Last Frontier Corporation. FRIEDMAN

and BARENFELD are friends of ROSSELLI.

On 4/24/64 SHARON SHERMAN advised that she had

not seen

ROSSELLI at the apartment during the current week

and has taken no calls for him.

She said that normally if

calls come in for ROSSELLI and

he does not answer,

the calls

are referred to the switchboard ofrech

apartment building.

1 Bureau (AM),

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Vegas

(Info (92-467) (AM)

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1964

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LA 92-113-C

On 4/23/64 BETSY DUNCAN, PCI, who is currently

appearing as

a singer-entertainer

at Dino's, a night club

on the Sunset Strip, advised that since she has been at

Dino's for the past nine weeks, ROSSELLI has been there about

three times.

The last occasion was on Friday, 4/17/64, when

ROSSELLI came there for dinner with a red-haired

ROSSELLI introduced the girl to DUNCAN as

and gave

no last name.

DUNCAN said she does not know the girl and does

not know her last name.

DUNCAN further advised that ROSSELLI has recently

been going with a woman named DOROTHY TOWNE, a former wife of

JACK WEBB,

the TV and motion picture actor.

It was DUNCAN'S

understanding that TOWNE, who is an interior decorator, was

the person who decorated ROSSELLI's new apartment.

DUNCAN mentioned to ROSSELLI that she would finish

her engagement at Dino's in about three weeks.

suggested that she get in touch with BOB ABRAMS or BERNIE RICH

as they could probably get her an engagement at some hotel in

Las Vegas.

She said ABRAMS and RICH operate a talent agency

and

formerly handled EDDIE FISHER, well-known singer.

said

she

told ROSSELLI that she did not need their help to get

work in Las Vegas.

She did not know if ROSSELLI has any interest

in the talent agency of ABRAMS and RICH. This talent agency is

no doubt selena Enterprises, Inc., mentioned previously in this

Investigation, for whom ROSSELLI

obtained free office space for

several weeks at 8490 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California.

On 4/22/64 LA 4448-C-TE advised that in the 1920's,

when ROSSELLI first came to Los Angeles, he engaged in bootlegging

and also in hi-jacking liquor trucks of JACK 1. DRAGNA, who

prior to his death in 1956 was reliably reported to head the

criminal syndicate in the Los Angeles area.

Informant stated

that ROSSELLI's closest friend during the 1920's was one

JOHNNY BURNS, who was associated with ROSSELLI in bootlegging

and n1-lackine operations.

He said subsequently ROSSELLI and

DRAGNA patched up their differences and became close associates.

Informant further advised that BURNS currently lives in the

Los Angeles area and is about seventy-five years of age.

Efforts will be made to locate BURNS so he may be interviewed.

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