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STANTA... FORM Nu. 64 meentTEE. OVERNMENT Office Menn = tum . ae, 1967 ra » ay Nichnis ™~ Tot son ichals FROM : M.A. Jones Baa dman . Belmont AKA. FRANK’SINATRA Tene Nease SYNOPSIS: Tels. Reon — anh ne Holloman _ Gandy —__—_ Ko Frank Sinatra was born December 12, 1915 or 1916, at Hoboken, New Jersey, of Italian-born parents. He left high school in 1935 to obtain employ- ment and during that year, began his singing career in night clubs and road houses in the northernNew Jersey area. He was married in 1939 to Nancy Barbato and has three children by that marriage. He divorced her n 1951 and married actress Ava Gardner, from whom he was separated after approximately two years of ,marriage. Allegations concerning his contacts with the Communist Party and ‘numerous communist front groups came to the Bureau's attention for a number of years and were included in a memorandum sent to the State Department in ‘December, 1954, on their request for a name check on Sinatra. In yiew of a sworn affidavit, executed by him on January 10, 1955, in connection with his application for a passport, to the effect that he had never been a member of the Communist Party or of any organization of a subversive character, the State Department requested an investigation by the Bureau to determine whether prose- cution was warranted against Sinatra for making a false statement in the applicatior iThe investigation developed no evidence connecting Sinatra with the Communist {Party or any of its front groups aside from his membership in the Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions in 1946. ° This organiza tion was cited by the California Committee on Un-American Activities as a communist front and included a number of other prominent citizens in its member- Bhip. In 1948, Sinatra allegedly took part in an appeal to the voters of Italy to vote against the communist ticket in the elections then being held in that country. Material has appeared in the press linking Sinatra with known hoodlums, and in February, 1947, he was alleged to have spent four days in the company of Lucky Luciano, the deported Italian criminal who was prominent in the narcotics traffic ‘in America. His name has also been prominently linked with Joseph and Rocco Fischetti, members of the Capone gang, Willie Moretti, former underworld boss | of Bergen County, New Jersey, James Tarantino, an associate of Benjamin ..,, "Bugsey" Siegel, and other hoodlums on the west coast. As recently as 1955, = arrest Recorpen-ag 4 e-f 32/7 -39 OS RGE: jim v d eeu (6) LD.. : ee |