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f Loe - , . | . a) Ios Angeles, California ; August 21, 1946 «z b2 ALL IyTonye tron CONDSENED bre RECN LS og MS IFIED | —_ Dace pr 5 I te ropn Re: BENJAMIN “BUGS” SIEGEL MISCELLANEOUS; INFORMATION CONCERNING; CRIME SURVEY At 1:15 p.m. today I spoke wit in the absence of A tant Director ROSEN, hat in connection with ¢ posed kidna: 5 in connsetion with Hg | telephone call at as at 7:17 peme on Augui 1946 which we believe was = The conversation was as follows: ® fi STRGEL: a. are you in Cleveland? SIEGEL: Well, I'll see you tomorrow. At least I'll see you tomorrow night. I crise MD «1 we are not certain at this point where SIEGEL would be tonight, but we are covering his activities; that be he had planned to come to Los Angeles tonight, but we have since learned that he has reservations to % . iii by plane, leaving Las Vegas at 6:50 pom. tonight. I tol hat we would communicate with the Chicago Office and instruct them © Fo technical and microphone surveillance, T also advise at through our microphone gs ce ht, SIEGEL had a con nae in SIBGELt the Laat Frontier Hotel at Las Vegas. During the discussio! told of the diffioulty they were haying in getting bh a loan. He said that he ~ e gone to about ont bank in IC Los Angeles and were turned down by each one: that! each one then went back to a very good friend of his in the Bank of anertes = asked n to Cover SIBGELts activ: , >; him why they were getting such a cool reception. The banker said: “You fellows are hot. Both are investigating you". lso said tha had ed and told him that two F.B.I. Agents had been in to see him on Mon lays that one of the agents was nanedFand they had ing ‘OF TRVESTIBAT ENT OF STH AUG 22 1946 LOS ANGLES, CALIF, ERAL BUSEAD - Be DeeARTM bre