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a. a eee Los Angeles, Californias September 4, 1946 411, oe. HERE! WENO, BAC: D Re: BENJAMIN "BUGS" SIEGEL | MISCELLANEOUS; INFORMATION CONCERNING; CRIME SURVEY At 1:05 p.m. today Assistant Direotor ROSEN called with reference to our teletype earlier today concerning the C.P.A, hearing at San Francisco tomorrow. Mr. ROSEN wanted to know if I considere trustworthy enough so that we sould go to him and ask him if he p od to place the witnesses under cath at tomoreowts hearing in gan Francises and if not whether we could cusces At witnesses be placed pr mv oath, f told Mr. ROSEN that I fe at we could approach 9 on the matter. However, from my reading of the transcript 6 previous hearing it appears that it is the usual practice to examine witnesses without placing them under oath but giving them a warning that any fals mants are in violation of ths law. I told him that I believe ould receive our inquiry in a gracious ell us that he will not place the witnesses the at t vaneal 7 3 ~ — ae ee oan manner, but would probab under oath banause it ia Y n ce to that portion of our teletype today concerning of the C.P.A., Mr- ROSEN said that we should not approac Oo AB to work with us in connection with any attempts to bribe him. Mr. ROSEN said that we should place SIEGEL under surveillance and J told h t we had already done that. He also said that we should locat d place him under surveil How= ut our surveillance o is TRGEL in ordar that wa won a + ever, we are not investiga merely to cover our surveillance of SIR that uld be apprised in the event SIEGEL appr I told Mr. ROSEN that we were attempting to loca at we had checked the hotels at Las Vegas but ha ound h informant at Las Vegas was of the opinion tia QUAM: pioaadadtcalimedtesdade. 7 aivised Ur. ROSEN that we were going to se: of the C.P.A. LS © at Los Angeles since he had r e © agents on hin today and during the view wi the matter a uld be brought up and possibl can tell us “SS ¥ located. I told Mr. ROSEN that after we loca See will place him under ~ * discreet surveillance, At 1:25 p.m. I called Special Agent in Charge KIMBA the poe San Francisco Office and requested that he have Special agent