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“y “Makeg Sense to, “But Lean ye hat The. memorandum was sentiprobably fan ned, he said. through Deputy Attorney Gen-“You-have to remember this eral Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, was in 1962 when we were just wht wrote:on it in Jonghandgetting into the organized- thatthe in estigation ': “makescrime fight. The F.B.L.was just sense tome 0 ee. coming around to the idea that “The. rhemorandam was then there ' was a Mafia, forwarded to the Attorney Gen- “We had limited resources in eral’s office. It was stampedthe Organized Crime Section, “Received” on May 19 and wasand_ oi weren't. going , to. ue initialed by Mr, Kennedy him- th i: ON. a. fide ey self. fon ifn ch” Ten inte ace fe TSOR Pia On June 14, Mr, Siiberling was called by Herbert me ti vs art re Miller, the Assistant . Attornay = of General in charge of the Crim: - In Saif inal Division, and ‘told that sJey, who ‘had just succeoed . broad tax investigation couldMr. Silberling, sent a memo- not be initiated against Mt.randum to Attorney Genera! Sinatra and that only specificKennedy suggesting a broad in- items could be checked, accord-estigation of Mr. Sinatra’s ties ing ta former Justice Officials. to 15 Mafia leaders, but no ac- Mr. ‘Silberling, who is noWtion was taken on it, according practicing Jaw here, said thatt Federal officials. he had: only a faint recollection. Mr. Hundley said that he of the y memorandum, which waScould not remember the mem- written 14 years ago, but hesrandum but if it had his name said that the path it followed n it and he. initiated it, the through department channels was the one he used as chief Keane y of the Organized Crime Section. Because of conflicts with Mr. Miller, he said, he would usu- ally ‘communicate with the At- torney,-f eh h. Mr. Katze i eibnicea tthe Attorn ray Gen ak woul ner- 1% tn Shin “dire or ally -réply to-ghin. dir ect through Mr. “Katzetibach™ be- cause Mr. Ketinedy knew of his problem’ with’ Mr.‘ Miller. (The conflict led to Mr. Silberling’s departure from the Justice Department.) Documents show, however, that In the case of the proposed Sinatra investigation, Attorney General Kennedy did ‘not follow the usual pattern and reply di- rectly to Mr. Silberling (or through Mr. Katzenbach, but answered through Mr. Miller, and the proposed investigation was rejected. Mr. Miller said 1n a telephone interview that he did not recall the WHAtter“at all. _ ad been sent to Mr