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Frank Sinatra — Part 17
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LA. 62-4867
On 11/5/54, a raid was made on an apartment
located at the intersection of Waring Avenue and Kilkea
Drive in Hollywood, California. The raiders apparently
broke into the wrong apartment being confused by separate
entrances to three apartmenta in the same building, and
hurriedly made their exit. It developed that this raid
was made by private detectives BARNEY RUDISKY and FHILIP
IRWIN, accompanied by FRANK SINATRA, JOE Di MAGGIO, HENRY
SANICOLA and PATSY D'AMORE, ‘The group apparentviy were
fearching for MARTLYN MONROE, then the wire of DI MAGGI2,
the former New York Yankee baseball player. Migs MONROE
was about to cbtain a divorce from her husband at the time
and apparentiy was in the apartment house but in ancrcher
apartment at the time oi the raid. This inezaent, known
ae the “wrong door" raid, received a great deal of inquiry
by the Log Angeles County Grand Jury. A State Senate
Committee investigated private investigators in March, 1957,
and held hearinegin Loe Angeles. FRANID SYNATR. claimed he
did not even appear on the scene at the above described raid
aithough he was identiriea by cvhers in the area es having
been present. DY MAGGIO successrully evaded 2 subpoena,
thug did not testify, although he gave an allidavit to support
the story of SINATRA, .
FRANK SINATRA and PETHR LAWFORD are reported to be
the owners of Puccini's Restaurant in Beverly Hills, Califomia,
LAWFORD is the brother-in-law of Presidential candidate JOHN
F. KENNEDY.
In the epring of 1960, FRANK SINATRA announced
he had hired ALBERT MALTZ to write the screen play for a
motion picture SINATRA planned to produce. MALTZ was one of
the group of writers in the motion picture industry whe
received considerable publicity in 1947, and thie group became
known by the newspaper term “Hollywood Ten". ‘The group
included 10 motion picture pergonalities who were subsequently
called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in
Washington, D.C., in the fall of 1947. As a resuit of these
hearings, the 10 individuals were cited and subsequently
convicted for contempt of Congress and served prison sentences,
Informants have advised that all 10 were or had been members
of the Communist Party in Holipiood,.
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