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pry Rag aia rT, Jones to Nichols Memorandum January 23, 1957 that a campaign of propaganda has been running in the press, the magazines and on the radio to rehabilitate Frank Sinatra, whose reputation was impaired "last winter'' when Sinatra was observed associating with notorious persons in tt tt Cuba including fhartas Lucky" Luciano the deported Italian criminal who had inc udaing _nar ive served part of a long term in New York for prostituting women" and who "is a gangster in the Al Capone tradition and is associated with the narcotics trade as well as with prostitution," (62-83219-A, "New York Journal American, " issue of 9/10/47) eof ay Tay bets The column of Westbrook Pegier in the ''Times Herald, " Washington, 2, C., issue of September 11, 1947, sets forth that when Frank Sinatra flew to Havana, Cuba, on Februaiy 11, 1947, he was accompanied by Joe and Rocco Fischetti. According to the article ''the Fischetti's are related to the Capones and have many interests in common with the Capone gang."' (62-83219-A, "Washington Times Herald" 9/11/47) Westbrook Pegler in his column which was printed the "New York Journal American," issue of September 12, 1947, which was captioned "Tells of Parasite Hoodlums of Hollywood," sets forth that Willie Moretti, alias Willie Moore, underworld boss of Bergen County, New Jersey, was a friend of Frank Sinatra. The article stated that "it was in Bergen County that Sinatra was arrested in 1938 on a charge of seduction and causing the pregnancy of an unmarried young woman. Sinatra was in the roadhouse stage of his career and Moretti ar Moore was his friend of some years. The complaining witness developed a husband in about one month so that the charge was reduced to adultery which naturally was beneath the notice of the worldly Bergen County Grand Jury. No indictment was found and Sinatra was discharged." Westbrook Pegler in his column in the ''Times Herald," issue of October 4, 1947, set forth that James Tarantino, editor and publisher of the magazine "Hollywood Nite Life," Hollywood, California, was a friend and protege of Frank Sinatra. Pegler described Tarantino as "a swipe and hustler who used to hang around Jacobs Beach, a stretch near Madison Square Garden where the fighters, managers and racketeers gather." Pegler stated in the above article that George Evans, Sinatra's press agent and manager. had denied that Sinatra had anything to do with T arantino. In contradiction to this Pegler reported that on February 4, 1946, Frank Sinatra's name was signed first as a member of a "'Citizens Committee” in a telegram to the prosecuting attorney of Los Angeles County, California, demanding police tort} £ ae ntin na hi £ nd ldo whn “5 ith waatanad and protection for Tarantino and his wife and child who had been "threatened and - eo =u mt 347 Fe ene . re ae cen hoe ee or es