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NY 92-911 _ a - oo. "yesterday ordered a probe into the political pressures fought on benzlf of CALENTE. He said the committee will di a mesting Monday or Tuesday to question all those invcived in the case. ederal "On Thursday a veteran/icreotics agent told the watchdcg zommittee GALENTE 18 known 4n underworld cireles as the killer of CARLO TRESCA, anti-Fascist publisher of a New York Italian-language newspaper. Mr. TRFSCA was slain in 1943." ‘In an exclusive interview to the "New York Journal American" on January 11, 1958, PASSANNANTE was quoted as saying: "I don't think that I should talk at this time because I have notified Assemblyman WILLIAM R. HORAN of Tuckahoe, chairman of the Watchdog Committee that I'll be in Albany to testify on Monday. I'm voluntcering to do this. "I lmow that my name has been connected with the GALENTE case but I don't know the man. “However, as long as my name has been con- nected with the case I think I can vive my side. "As I recall it a lawyer - I don't recall who it was right now ~ called me in 1956 and said GALENTE had been arrested by the State Police at Binghamton on traffic charges. Heasked me, I think, if I would take the casc.