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ater MEMO, SAC August 22, 1946 Re: BENJAMIN "BUGS" SIEGEL ig reputed to be a aspec e ual and we fee % would rather quickly furnish truthful information to us rather then take a rap for SIRGEL. I also stated that we planned to go into the records of the Del Webb Construction Company and that one of our purposes was to trace back the money that had gone into the construction of the Flamingo Hotel in order to determine how h_ money SIEGEL had put into the Hotel and also if any money of land the Syndicate had been put into the Hotel. Mr. ROSEN then Inquire I was not the authority granted in the telegram from the Bureau authorising this investigation and I told him I did not believe so if the telegram was based on the letters that I had submitted to the Bureau requesting the authority to conduct this investigation; that those letters had indicated what 1 intended to do if this investigation were authorized. Mr. ROSEN then atated that he felt I could probably juatify the investigation on the theory of Fraud Against the Goverment and he stated that the Bureau would handle the matter of forcing C.P,A, to make their files available to use He requested that I submit a memo to the Bureau outlining my conferences with C.P.A. Officials in Sen Franciscs in order that it could be made a matter of record at the Bureau in the event of any future difficulty. then discussed i EE: 0r1y the planned kidnaping —— advised him tha tructed the Los Angeles Office to 86 r to the Bureau with copies to Chicago and St. Paul furnishing them the information 8 proposed kidnaping and aleo furnish Photographs of croc alia Mr. ROSEN inquired if that were the old picture of SIEGEL bearing a police number and I teld him that we had in the Los Angeles file a more recent photograph, the source of which I did not know, but which was apparently a good likeness, and he said that we should send copies of this photograph to the Bureau. 1) c A. EB. OSTHOLTHOFF 62- pre pb? c