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~ ry i ee Fm ee ce Se A RL he RE A Emm ne te ce are TTON t rane CEC FLED wy SP LDL RE: BENJAMIN "BUGS" SIEGEL, with aliases Los Angeles, California art tT!” : , August 23, 1946 HORZIN -— MEMO., SAC: On 1945, Special acon i: the writer ein::’: local enforoement oompliance ohief of the C.P.A. 8s advise Agents would like to examine the file pertaining to his investigation of the Flamingo Hotel construction in Las Vegas in prc comection with investigation being conducted at the Los Angeles office of the FBI, He was told tha ts of this Bureau were in San Francisco, conferring with sithe at the C.P.A. offices in that oity and that shortl probably be contacted by telephone from the regional offices of wes aS Se wee! fel tae FsRuussely sc egals While awaiting this call talked “off the record” to the reporting agents, saying that in the event he were ever quoted in connection with his remarks that "I will swear both of you are liars." ‘he original cease-work telegram sent to the Flamingo builders was one of fourteen to pre twenty such wires sent out along the highway #66 from Los Angeles to Kingman, Arizona and south to the Mexican border, placing freere orders on construction work on different cities along the route which construction was not considered essential and proper. He said that these wires had a very good effect on each one of the communities in which they were received in that it did put a temporary halt to unnecessary building and requests to build in each of these communities. However, about 90% of these projects were immediately approved for continuing construction by the construction division of the C.P.A. He appeared extremely discouraged in this connection to the Agents and remarked that in ane instance a dog and oat hospital was being built inmediately adjacent to another dog and cat hospital and that the building was authorized to continue after the wire to stop had been received. This is also true in connection with sertain cocktail bars. -In di sous sing nD trip to oD: Reno iy, that it is him impression that a public stenographer was called in to office and that the letters were dictated in his office wherein out what progress had been made in the building at Las Vegas an that if what was said in the referenced letter were true the hote continue building. These letters to eachother were dictated i office before the public stenographer who was called in. Discussing the testimony in San Francisco before Commissione said that the defense took the position that the buildings comprising the Flamingo Project were joined to the power wit which in effect made them br one building ointed out the EEE nen made a Te 6 eee a get eR ISS SPELT