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March 29, 1960 The Los Angeles Cffice, by letter dated 3/22/60, advised that a criminal informant indicated that the editors of Confidential. Magazine |nave .had a reporter in the Los Angeles area during the past few days for the purpose of checking into a rumor regarding an alleged indiscreet saxty recently held at Palm Springs in which participants were said to be Senator John Kennedy, his brother-in-law Peter Lawford, the actor, and Frank Sinatra, The informant said that the last time Senator Kennedy | was in California for a visit he stayed in Sinatra's home in Palm Springs. He advised that Sinatra and Lawford are the ov™ners of Puccini's — Restaurant in Beverly Hills, California. The informant also advised that Confidential Magazine was j attempting to obtain private investigators to verify or disprove the rumors }concerning the party. The Los Angeles Office has no verification or other information concerning this matter. The informant, however, is in a position to know of investigative activities conducted by Confidential Magazine. By Airtel dated 3/23/60, the New Orleans Officé advised that Orleans and who is a possible criminal informant of that office, furnished the following information: oOo = GR“ is¢< that GA are erry Wald, Hollywood motion picture producer, and Phillip Frank Ké'stel, New Orleans top hoodlum. He said that gay ED << a met a number of well known hoodlums such as eieyer afisky, a gambler operating in Miami and Havana, and Joe Fisthetti, wh believes is the dominant figure in the racketeering element in the Miami area. GD <0 that as a result of his numerous contacts with these individuals he has met socially a number of their associates whose identities are not known to him and whom he has not sought to identify. w s¢+ 65K! m5 mm: he has overheard a number of conversations between these individuals concerning their activities. Within the past week he returned from the Miami area and while there he learned from JOS