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12-0-922 CONTINUED PAOM PAGE lose friend of such criminals and willingly macs sich a trip with two of them for e specific purvose, I fail to see how your men can possibly allow him to go free. There must be something wrong somewhere. bLven walter Winchell gave the tip-off on his pregram before that trip wes made. Also, how is it that SINATRA has just been given a five-year TV contract with a network who has been doing such a magnificent job in this connection, their ‘Nation's wightmare' series just ended, during which they carried Moretti's voice, Moretti who gave SINATiA his start and maintained him also wes instrumental in having the sex charge arrest recuced te seduction and then dismissed, though it had gone te the grand jury. ihere is something peculiar gcing on and people weuld like to know what it's all about. It's anything but healthy and SINATHA is anything but un-American when he is aiding criminals." Photostatic copy of letter cated 3/30/51 to Director signed thisgusted and indignant". Letter as follows: tT don't vretend to understand the workings of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. [I've always felt that since we had your agency everything, more or less, was under control. However, I'm now puzzled by something and also have a very thorough feeling of revulsion about another asnect of it, Not so very long ago Walter Winchell is his broadcast gave a tip-off about a trip being made to Havana by the notorious Fischetti brothers, a trip to take drug money to Luciano, and he went so far as to mention the name of third person who would be taking the money —- FRANK SINATRA! I have just read an article by Lee fortiner in the August issue of the ‘American Mereury,' which is a vartial expose of gangsterism in the entertain- ment world and he has mentioned the above stated facts. What is more, his material for the article was taken from the files of ow Treasury Department and there is a photograph showing SINATRA getting off the plane, carrying the suitcase purportedly containing that money, and in company of the two Fischettis, and, further, that the T-men were on the scene at the airport. Did not the fact that he was in their company and carrying a suitcase, a large one, (the SINATRA of all people carrying a suitcase of any sizes) at least make him suspect enough for attention on the part of your agents? No doubt, there was good reason for his not being apprehended, As I said, I don't understand the methods employed by your agency. Something just recently has happened, too, that makes me wonder, Maybe I'm just becoming suspicious of everything. On his 'flight' back from Mexico, forced out by the attentions of the press (one of whom he deliberately drove his car at’ and jammed on the brakes as he touched the photographer's leg with it and then threatened to kill thim the next time) he and Gardner, according to a @ CONTINUED ON PAGE h. RET