◆ SpookStack

Declassified Document Archive & Reader
Log In Register
Reader Ad Slot
Reader Ad Slot placeholder
If you would like to support SpookStack without paying out of pocket, please consider allowing advertising cookies. It helps cover hosting costs and keeps the archive free to browse. You can change this choice at any time.

Frank Sinatra — Part 17

55 pages · May 09, 2026 · Document date: Jul 18, 1960 · Broad topic: Public Figures · Topic: Frank Sinatra · 54 pages OCR'd
← Back to feed
a LA. 62-4867 On 11/5/54, a raid was made on an apartment located at the intersection of Waring Avenue and Kilkea Drive in Hollywood, California. The raiders apparently broke into the wrong apartment being confused by separate entrances to three apartmenta in the same building, and hurriedly made their exit. It developed that this raid was made by private detectives BARNEY RUDISKY and FHILIP IRWIN, accompanied by FRANK SINATRA, JOE Di MAGGIO, HENRY SANICOLA and PATSY D'AMORE, ‘The group apparentviy were fearching for MARTLYN MONROE, then the wire of DI MAGGI2, the former New York Yankee baseball player. Migs MONROE was about to cbtain a divorce from her husband at the time and apparentiy was in the apartment house but in ancrcher apartment at the time oi the raid. This inezaent, known ae the “wrong door" raid, received a great deal of inquiry by the Log Angeles County Grand Jury. A State Senate Committee investigated private investigators in March, 1957, and held hearinegin Loe Angeles. FRANID SYNATR. claimed he did not even appear on the scene at the above described raid aithough he was identiriea by cvhers in the area es having been present. DY MAGGIO successrully evaded 2 subpoena, thug did not testify, although he gave an allidavit to support the story of SINATRA, . FRANK SINATRA and PETHR LAWFORD are reported to be the owners of Puccini's Restaurant in Beverly Hills, Califomia, LAWFORD is the brother-in-law of Presidential candidate JOHN F. KENNEDY. In the epring of 1960, FRANK SINATRA announced he had hired ALBERT MALTZ to write the screen play for a motion picture SINATRA planned to produce. MALTZ was one of the group of writers in the motion picture industry whe received considerable publicity in 1947, and thie group became known by the newspaper term “Hollywood Ten". ‘The group included 10 motion picture pergonalities who were subsequently called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in Washington, D.C., in the fall of 1947. As a resuit of these hearings, the 10 individuals were cited and subsequently convicted for contempt of Congress and served prison sentences, Informants have advised that all 10 were or had been members of the Communist Party in Holipiood,. 5.
OCR quality for this page
Community corrections
First editor: none yet Last editor: none yet
No user corrections yet.
Comments
Document-wide discussion. Follow the Community Standards.
No comments on this document yet.
Bottom Reader Ad Slot
Bottom Reader Ad Slot placeholder
If you would like to support SpookStack without paying out of pocket, please consider allowing advertising cookies. It helps cover hosting costs and keeps the archive free to browse. You can change this choice at any time.

Continue Exploring

Use the strongest next step for this document: continue reading, jump to the topic hub, or move into the matching agency collection.
Continue Reading at Page 33
Jump straight to page 33 of 55.
Reader
Frank Sinatra — Part 27
Stay inside Frank Sinatra with another closely related document.
Topic
FBI Documents & FOIA Archive
Open the FBI agency landing page for stronger archive context.
FBI
Frank Sinatra Topic Hub
See the topic overview, related documents, and linked subtopics.
Hub

Agency Collection

This document also belongs in the FBI Documents & FOIA Archive landing page, which is the stronger starting point for agency-level browsing and for searches focused on FBI records.
FBI Documents & FOIA Archive
Open the agency landing page for introduction text, topic links, and more FBI documents.
FBI

Explore This Archive Cluster

This document belongs to the Public Figures archive hub and the more specific Frank Sinatra topic page. Use these hub pages when you want the broader collection context, linked subtopics, and more documents around the same archive thread.
letter federal bureau
Related subtopics
Paul Robeson Sr
31 documents · 2704 known pages
Subtopic
Albert Einstein
15 documents · 1474 known pages
Subtopic
Elvis Presley
14 documents · 825 known pages
Subtopic
Aristotle Onassis
13 documents · 644 known pages
Subtopic
Anna Nicole Smith
12 documents · 294 known pages
Subtopic
Hanns Eisler
11 documents · 597 known pages
Subtopic