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Frank Sinatra — Part 24

101 pages · May 09, 2026 · Document date: Mar 11, 1960 · Broad topic: Public Figures · Topic: Frank Sinatra · 92 pages OCR'd
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100-19333~-2029, Cont: 100-24345B-7 100-70451-1 &7c- Agent: £7pP = Informant: Date Furnished: 10/ Original Evidence Teletype to Director, FBI, from SAC, Los Angeles, dated 12/6/63, captioned as follows: “CPUSA, NEGRO QUESTION, COMMUNIST INFLUENCE IN RACIAL MATTERS, IS-C" "King arrived on Delta Flight 829 in Ontario, Calif. about 8 PM 12/6/63. King proceeded to Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California, where he arrived 10:20 PM PST, and attended Stars for Freedom Program. Performers in program included FRANK SINATRA, Dean Martin and Count Basie. Date of Activity: 12/6/63 Date Furnished: 12/6/63 and 12/7/63 b7c Agent: SA bz Informant: = E£7P Original: _ Prob. Oral News Article(xerox copy)taken from the "West'' magazine, Los Angeles, California, Page 10, dated 9/3/67. , "The heading on this news article reads as follows: “THE HOLLYWOOD 10 PLUS TWENTY" “Albert Maltz, writing films, short stories, novels, and a play all the while pseudonymously in Mexico, subsequently took on the holy Kennedys and the un- holy Hearsts. When in the election heat of 1960, JFK's pal FRANK SINATRA, donning his producer's cap, announced that he had hired Maltz to seript William Bradford Huie's anti-military novel, The Execution of Private Slovik, the heavens rumbled from Hollywood to D. C. So pilloried was FRANK by the Hearst press that within days he released (some say under pressuré from Papa Joe Kennedy)a curious, oblique statement saying he would 'lLike to comment on the attacks in certain quarters on Sen. John F. Kennedy(for whom FRANK was campaigning vigorously). This type of partisan politics is hitting below the belt. "But that was not the end of it. Three weeks later, Maltz, who was in Europe researching a novel, read in the newspaper that he had been fired altogether. He has neither seen or heard from SINATRA since. ” -106-
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