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i } : ' MEMO, SAC August 22, 1946 Re: BENJAMIN “BUGS” SIEGEL ED. «8nd to bes Taspectapie Tndiviaual and we feel that he would rather quickly furnish truthful information to us rather than take a rap for SIEGEL. I also stated that we planned to go into the records of the Del Webb Construction Company and that one of our purposes was to trace back the money that had gone into the construction of the Flamingo Hotel pre in order to determine how mich money SIRGEL had put into the Hotel and also if any money of ami the Syndicate had been put into the Hotel. Mr. ROSEN then inguire I was not the authority granted in the telegram from the Bureau authorising this investigation and J told him J did not believe so if the telegram was based on the letters that I had submitted to the Bureau requesting the authority to conduct this investigation; that those letters had indicated what 1 intended to do if this investigation were authorized. Mr. ROSEN then stated that he felt I could probably juetify the investigation on the theory of Fraud Against the Government and he stated that the Bureau would handle the matter of forcing C,.P.A. to make their files available to use He requested that I submit a memo to the Bureau outlining my conferences with C.P.A, Officials in San Francises in order tha could be made a matter of record at the Bureau in the event of any future difficulty. [then discussed withMMP>riefly the planned kidnaping Lear Se advised him that T had indtructed the Los Angeles Office to sem a er to the Bureau with sopies to Chicago and St. Paul furnishing pre them the information 8 proposed kidnaping and also furnish photographs of ces iilialg Mr. ROSEN inquired if that were the old picture of SIEGEL bearing a police mumber and I told him that we had in the Los Angeles file a more recent photograph, the source of which I did not know, but which was apparently a good likeness, and he said that we should send copies of this photograph to the Bureau. - ih wi iu A. BE. OSTHOLTHOFF