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Frank Sinatra — Part 24
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100-19333~-2029,
Cont:
100-24345B-7
100-70451-1
&7c- Agent:
£7pP = Informant:
Date Furnished: 10/
Original Evidence
Teletype to Director, FBI, from SAC, Los Angeles,
dated 12/6/63, captioned as follows:
“CPUSA, NEGRO QUESTION,
COMMUNIST INFLUENCE IN RACIAL
MATTERS, IS-C"
"King arrived on Delta Flight 829 in Ontario, Calif.
about 8 PM 12/6/63. King proceeded to Santa Monica
Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California, where he
arrived 10:20 PM PST, and attended Stars for Freedom
Program. Performers in program included FRANK SINATRA,
Dean Martin and Count Basie.
Date of Activity: 12/6/63
Date Furnished: 12/6/63 and 12/7/63
b7c Agent: SA
bz Informant: =
E£7P Original: _ Prob. Oral
News Article(xerox copy)taken from the "West''
magazine, Los Angeles, California, Page 10, dated
9/3/67. ,
"The heading on this news article reads as follows:
“THE HOLLYWOOD 10 PLUS TWENTY"
“Albert Maltz, writing films, short stories, novels,
and a play all the while pseudonymously in Mexico,
subsequently took on the holy Kennedys and the un-
holy Hearsts. When in the election heat of 1960,
JFK's pal FRANK SINATRA, donning his producer's cap,
announced that he had hired Maltz to seript William
Bradford Huie's anti-military novel, The Execution
of Private Slovik, the heavens rumbled from Hollywood
to D. C. So pilloried was FRANK by the Hearst press
that within days he released (some say under pressuré
from Papa Joe Kennedy)a curious, oblique statement
saying he would 'lLike to comment on the attacks
in certain quarters on Sen. John F. Kennedy(for whom
FRANK was campaigning vigorously). This type of
partisan politics is hitting below the belt.
"But that was not the end of it. Three weeks later,
Maltz, who was in Europe researching a novel, read
in the newspaper that he had been fired altogether.
He has neither seen or heard from SINATRA since. ”
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