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OPTOna, FOR. NO. 1d S5OFO-106 mar 19a? pon UNITED STATES GC RNMENT y ee CONFIDENT Memorandum VITAL TO : W. C. Sullivag paTE: 3/31/66 9/y — 4 oal wke.. lutea yu} Tove CLASS. B EXT RY gra | ; ESYAREASON - FCIMPR 242... wee LY | i SURJECT: FRANCIS ALBERT SINATRA, AKA aii ixrorMATiON CONT | Frank Sinatra ca HEREIN IS UNC! ASSIFIEBS. . | SECURITY MATTER - C: EXCEPT WHERE SHOWN | | oe OTHERWISE | a aan On 3/30/66; Colonel John R. Elting (U. 8. Army); G-2,_ witstary,pistriet of Washington, advised that on 3/25/66, u> “NO eph. F, Getz (Colonel, U. S. Air Force, Retired), a public 5 relations man located at 1500 Massachusetts Avenue, nr |. Washington, D. C., contacted him and informed him that he : Reins aN had been commissioned by Frank Sinatra, the entertainer, to | XE By. || determine the identity of the "S.OvB," who had “tagged” a eye a Sinatra as a "somete ,"' ‘Wage Colonel Elting explained that in 1950, 1952, and / ’ natra had offered his services for entertainme o 1954, Sinat d off ices f tergainment of A_ cleared by Army because of hia reported affiliatfoa..wi subversive organizations. Elting added that Sin&t¥a w later cleared in 1962 to entertain troops oversed4$; but. that this clearance expired in 1966 without the clearshce baying been used, military troops. overseas. In each instance, he yas sa with Elting furnished ,the attatthed intra-Arny meméranden setting forth the details of a conference between representa- tives of Army and Sinatra in response to a request made by Sinatra for an appointment to discuss the matter of his clearance for a Christmas holiday entertainment tour to the Far East in 1954, During this conference, Brigadier General Alfred E, Kastner, Assistant to the Assistant Chief of Staff, f G-2, informed Sinatra that over a period of years, many items A Ee appeared in the public press which reflected adversely on ws = Declassi sd Gong (DRG) ciscsitied by Sinatra and which, to a considerable degree, identified Sinatra with the communist line, Sinatra, at the time, stated that he hated and ow everything that pertained , Ss aw 72. SR 2A4- ELS ; Vv Day l1- W. A, Branigan b 1 ~ Liaison - P, D, Putnam DENTIAL CONTINUED - OVER Sana VIEW COMMITTER y ~ ee a EPARTMENT RE ZL 1 = Sullivan 9 pri dtass™ 0 ¢ CLASSIFIED DECISIONS FINALIZED BY D Ql pate mig" re My fé