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eo- > "vesterday ordered a probe into the political pressures sought on benclf of CALENTE. He said the committee wlll ida a mesting Monday or Tues Say to question all those invcived in the case. ‘ederal "On Thursday a veteran/narcotics agent told the watchdcg zommittee GALENTE is known in underworld eireles as the killer of CARLO TRESCA, anti-Fascist publishey of a New York Italian- -language newspaper. Mr. TRESCA was slain in 1943." ‘fn 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 volunteering to do this. "I know 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 IE can give my side. "As T 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 case.