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ee e) ») Office Memorandum + onrrep states GOVERNMENT - C To Director, FBI : DATE: danuary 7, 14F Q FROM : 840, New York sovject: BINJAMIN "BUGSY" SIBGEL; - . MISCELLANEOUS - INFORMATION CONCERNING Fs x Reference is made to the telephone calls votyon SD b the Bureau and Assistant Special Agent in Charge 4. H. Belmon iow Tork on January 5th and 6th, 1949. . On January 3, 1949, an informant of this office advised that while fre- quenting barrooms, etc., and contacting mexbers of the un ea friend of eader of the gambling syndicate are alleged a advised sca ld: in New Jersey, and as such, a national figure in the undervorld in this comtry, as the New Jersey syndicate controls to a large extent the ganbling activities throughout the country. known racke est Coast. ormant further The indices of this office fail to reveal any information oD be The Crime Surveys of the Los Angeles and San Francisco Divisions which available to thie office were checked for incormation (iia with negative results. It is understood that the information nonin: the killer of /7 SIEGEL was furnished to the Bureau by the Newark Divigion y letter dated December 9, 1948. AL cc Sewark Los Angeles uv