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apie TT Ow Los Angeles, California att TU" -_ ™ ELEIED August 23, 1946 HERE Lan ay Sf ae BD. MEMO., SAC: RE: BENJAMIN "BUGS" SIRGEL, with aliases MISC., INFO. CONC.-CRIME SURVEY On 196, Special Age: d the writer wed! local enforcement compliance ef of the C.P.A. 8 advise Agents would like to examine the file pertaining to his investigation of the Flamingo Hotel construction in Las Vegas in br connection with investigation being conducted at the Los Angeles office of the FHI, He was told tha s Bureau were in San Francisco, conferring with eithe at the C.P.A. offices in that oity and that short] ly be contacted by telephone from the regional offices of GePeAs in San Francisco regarding our inquiry. While awaiting this cal) SRD tarkea “off the record” to the reporting agents, saying that in the event he were ever quoted in connection with his remarks that “I will swear both of you are liars.” ‘the original oease-work telegram sent to the Flamingo builders was one of fourteen to br twenty such wires sent out along the highway #66 from Los Angeles to Kingman, Arizona and south to the Mexican border, placing freeze orders on construction work on different cities along the route which construction was not considered essential and proper. He said that these wires had a very good effect on each one of the communities in which they were received in that it did put a temporary halt to unnecessary building and requests to build in each of these communities. However, about 90% of these projects were immediately approved for continuing construction by the oonatruction division of the C.P.A. He appeared extremely discouraged in this connection to the Agents and remarked that in one instance a dog and oat hospital was being built immediately adjacent to another dog and cat hospital and that the building was authorized to continue after the wire to stop had been received. This is also true in conneotion with certain cocktail bars. -In di sous sing tri p to so ET Reno Pte that it is him impression that a public stenographer was called in office and that the letters were dictated in his office where: ointed out what progress had been made in the building at Las Vegas an that if what was said in the referenced letter were true the hote a continue building, These letters to eachother were dictated 4 office before the public stenographer who was called in. Discussing the testimony in San Francisco before Conn! sions TD said that the defense took the position that the buildings comprising ‘ the Flamingo Project were joined to the power wit which in effect made them hb? one bull ne MI on ce out tha hen made a end ———- FEDE DRE AVE 1'§ RAL B GRAY Br VESTISATIEY 8. RSA TMENT IF eTE AUG 27 1045 TiVIeo TO 1F fe fw wee nee oy