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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Los Angeles, California In Reply, Please Refer to September 21, 1976 File No, UNKNOWN SUBJECT; FRANK SINATRA - VICTIM During August 1976, the Los Angeles Office of the FBI received information concerning a threatening communication directed to Frank Sinatra at Palm Springs, : California. The envelope, which was postmarked at (?) shing, New York, on July 29, 1976, contained a typewritten letter, which advised Sinatra in part that he should arrange a press conference and denounce Spiro Agnew. The unknown author of the letter stated that Sinatra's eyes would be put out by the use of African blowing tubes. On August 9, 1976, Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Earl E. Boyd, Los Angeles, California, stated that the wording, as stated in the letter addressed to Sinatra, constituted a technical violation of the Extortion Statute and that Boyd would consider prosecution of the writer if identified. By a letter dated September 16, 1976, from Helen Montrose, Secretary to Attorney for Frank Sinatra, Milton A. Rudin, 9601 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 526, Beverly Hills, California, Montrose forwarded a letter dated August 30, 1976, from Richard H. Sheehan for Secretary and Corporate Counsel, Ceasar's World, Inc., Las Vegas, Nevada, which letter had as enclosures an envelope postmarked at Chicago, Illinois, PM 20 August 1976, addressed to "Ceasar's Palabe, Strip on the, Las Vegas, Nev." and letter addressed to Frank Sinatra. Gy. FHI “ff 4 - Bureau Coen — a (2-Sec. Serv., Wash., D.C.) -_ 1 - Secret Service, Los Angeles Noo ai 2 - Los Angeles (9-5949) ae 6 TMK/aml moe ATS oe “MWe ung This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions oY #0f the FEI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to E@Ry your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed rutside your agency. Pag gt c HIC4 wt 4 ®e