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FD-36 (Rev, $-22-64) FBI Date: 10/16/69 Transmit the following in (Type in plaintext or code} Via AIRTEL AIRMAIL I ~ (Priority) f a a Lows, l- no. prpeeron 5 | m ; TO: DIRECTOR, FBI ; ( ui ATTENTION: FBI LABORATORY .? ,f . FROM: SAC, LAS’ VEGAS*,(9-New) (P) 691021149 he JN SUBJECT: ye bic FRANKCSINATRA —- VICTIM | K - EXTORTION a Cf ‘ OO: LAS VEGAS , / 1%. - 3 a Th & ‘> On 10/15/69, LARRY BORK, Chief of Security, Flamingo _ Hotel ikhd Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, furnished thirteen letters = received at that hotei addressed to the hotel and to FRANK o SINATR&®, Readable postmarks on these letters reveal that they a were mailed at Joliet, Illinois, between the dates of October 11, AS 1969, gad October 14, 1969. Three of the letters contain a er { postma which is not readable. All of the mail received with so ( the= contained in envelopes of Ne the Ge Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois. e first of the letters w was postmarked October 11, 1969, and the only letter known to so bic have been postmarked that date, contains = message on the back S of a-paperback book cover of "Sinatra and His Rat Pack" by = RICHARD GEHMAN. The letter continues on ath d =<. ze the Illinois Security Company and is signed ra This letter in effect demands that FRANK SIN purchasa eleven Lio miliion dollars in unmounted diamonds for two million dollars We before Christmas of 1969, or the writer wiki kill SINATRA, with the alternative being that SINATRA donate two million doliars to | i the Vatican in Rome, Italy. ‘S>. 7 Kee. ae" hate Ln if (@ - Bureau ap. . j 7 3s 2 . vei carer! } fa lyf (1 - Package) (AMSD-Regist® _- Chicago (Enc. 13) - Tae Varac .:- le a Ce hal nd —| J . * - . a Ve rf o™ SF to | 9 Ay Approved: Sent Pat if . Special Agent in Charge q - S