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a Loe Angeles, California August 12, 1546 Re: BESJA'IN "BUGS" SIEGEL , MISCELLABROUS; INFORMATION CONCERNINGs CRIZE SURVEY Om Auguet 9, 1946 at 5:30 p.m. BEN SIEGEL called MEYER LANSKY at Trafalgar 7-6269, Wew York City. The following conversation took place: 8. Well, X have been outon the @,D. property. x. You've been there too? 3. Yeah, and I got to go beck again. J should have busted « leg before I got into thie thing. Every time I go I see something this did, you know; contracts he signed. Got an ice machine for eightew thousand, makes 20 tons of ice a day, we need 2, needs four guys to make it. We'll sell ice. Gives you an idea of what is up there and the other day they took the license dom. I don't hear. wu That is whut I told you a couple of weeks ago. 8. That is atuff he bought himself. He committed for the contract then we took it into our outfit. Now we arv trying to sell it and get a maller one. You never know what he was making until we look into those things. I build the plant, get the stuff, and everything and he is « part- ner and all he is is a lot of headaches. Yeah, got another headache. First thing I do when I go back the other day I go up....are you listening? x. I'm listening. B. 80 I go up for a hearing for the license so they take it under advisement. So I had to go up to get nine S of B to make an appear- ance. Bawled the J out of them, granted the license for liquor and gambling. Getting {t Tuesday. I get the license, get a oall from the 43 C.1.A. in Fashington building imaediately or they will indiot us criminally. they got an OK to go ahead right after you left o week a£0. ecsces x. Yeah. B. All they got ts a oouple of stakes in the ground and they got an 0.K. to build and they will start to build. See. He oane to me about the proposition to go with him. It is something worth a $1,000,000. They are building, you know a wooden shack...-..%6 started in Yacesver, wiich wets A g if §