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Memorandum to Mr. Nichols: December 2, 1954 bought Monte Carlo ts because tt ts located in one of the Jaat Furopean principalittes, Monaco, which levies no income tares, personal or corporate. The article relates that Onassis received his start in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and was allegedly assisted by Alberto Dedero, the deceased South American shipping magnate, and Frit2 Mandl, the munitions king. - We pe es = Onaesia’ wife, Athina, is described by the author as a slender, dark-eyed Grecian-type beauty of twenty-five, mother of the two Onassis children. Her father, Stavros Livanos, tsa the head of a Greek shipping dynasty. Her sister ts married to Stavros Niarchos who tae Onassis’ biggest competitor and with whom he ta in cut-throat competition, Pireae C pf oT, s Oa. The article relates that Onassia nak fei ThITCted by the United States for conspiracy to defraud the United States Government. He is alleged to have violated the "Ship Sales Act” by the gimmick of setting up dummy corporations tn the United States, the officers of which were Americans but the corporations were fiaanced by aliens such as Onassie. According to the author, the Onassia whaling fleet on tte present expedition could be the whaling expedition to end Gll such journtes. While there ta an international agreement setting limits to the stze of the catch a whaling party could make, the minimum length of the whales to be taken and how much of the product could be utilized, Onassis learned that Panama tended to be laz in enforcing the regulations. Therefore, he regitetered his whaling ships under the Fanamantan flag. It should be noted that recently Peru seized sir of the Onasste whaling vessels for violating the laws concerning whaling, and the November 30, 1954, tesue of the "Washington Star" contained an iten that Onassis had been fined three million dollars and was given five days to pay in order to obtain the release of his setged vessels. REVIEW OF BUFILES: For your information, Arietotle Socrates Onassie was born September 21, 1900, at Salonika, Greece, and ts reportedly an Argentine citizen, In 1943 and 44 the Bureau conducted a security type investigation of Onassis based on allegations that during World War II he had expressed sentiments intmical to the interests of the United States. (100-125834-2, 6) -2-