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biD ‘4 bie ° the District Court's finding of guilty. The Los angeles District Office of the Imaigration and Naturalization Service issued an order on May 12, 1949, that Smiley be deported to Canada, and if that country would not accept him then to Russia. INS reopened its hearings on Smiley on August 1, 1950, for the purpose of including in the record Smiley's conviction at Los Angeles on charges of falsely claiming citizenship. H. James Tarantino Westbrook Pegler has made reference to.Tarantina's.asseciation with Prank Sinatra in his newspaper “column on October 3, 1947. Tarantino is the editor and publisher of a scandal sheet published in Hollywood, California, "Hollywood Nite Life", When interviewed at his request by the San Francisco Cffice on May 18, 1949, he claimed that Frank Sinatra had helped finance this Magazine in 1948 with $15,000, On November 10, 1949, an inspector in the San Francisco Folice Depart- ment advised that he believed that Tarantine's publicution is sponsored by Frank Costello's criminal syndicate. ALLEGATIONS OF BEING A DCP RACKETEER er to the Attorney General under date of June » claiming that he had quite a bit of information concerning vice rackets narcotics and jewel VES, nen QD =: interviewed by Bureau Agents he re ed, among other it enisy | ae Frank Sinatra handied dope on the west Coast for "Bugay" ~aeepere ‘Cllen” Smiley ‘and. George. Raft, the movie actor. alleged that Sinatra maintained his headquarters in one of the bigger hotels in Hollywood, either the Roosevelt or Hollywood Hotela. ~€ + ASSOCIATION WITH PROSTITUTES I 21) nn prostiiuse in New York. City, informed aida i visit to Frank Sinatra on Aprid ents ite. SA Serpe a eT Te CL, Tk, pursuant to a call fran Bioots™ se to a call from "Toots" Te TOUT Sia ie a onlt fram tfoots” shor) Ney York restaurant operate New York restaurant operator. Bureau