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eS cmert Diane anne Mie ee im Italy and that the hotel bill is her responsibility. 5 a Be s re ¥ eo ldwater' knew her story and had been avfully nice to he “She said she had been warned by telephone, some weeks before President Kennedy's assassination, that he was going to be shot. Ghe informed the FBI, she said. She said also she had been threatened on the phone by the sane wice, and shortly thereafter while traveling on a train between Slew York and Washington someone shot at her, just missing her head, while the train was iu motion. Again she informed the FBI. Then her husband was threatened by the sane voice, and when he was in the hospital seriously i111 from a heart eperation, someone gained entry to his room and tied a rubber tube arcund bis neck, he managed to remove the tube from his meck just in time. “Zhe and her husband organized the Cherry Blosson Opera Company (see our welfare file on this) and brought a . sumber of young American women to Italy in 1959 to train them and put on operatic performances under that organization. The venture failed (I've been told that Br. Stillone and Hr. Maurice Rosenblatt, both American citizens resident in Rone, were among the persons who helped finance it and lost their investments). Gue of the singers who had signed & contract with then, Mrs. Nina Matchkaloff, and their former maid who is an Italian national, denounced then to the Police because of their debts to these two persons. For that reason Miss Volpe and Mrs. Hanill were apprehended. “Mrs. Hamill was told by the Police in my office - that she would not be detained at the Questura any longer Dut it would be necessary to bold all of their passports for a few days. The Police made this statement after Mr. and Mrs. Hanill had asked whether they would be released if they paid their debts to the two people who had lodged complaint against them. During the conversation they said they oved their hotel a considerable amount but they were gping to pay it. Mrs. Rosensveig said she was financing the group's stay Be Bele "rg. Matchkaloff came to see me that afternoon. — She explained that the opera venture in 1959 had ruined her financially, Mamill had pot fulfilled the contract, and he had practically ruined her voice with his particular type of =f. of