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e COPY & SPECIMENS RETAINTD IN LAB FOR LAD ACTION @ wercnr Nl sss 4 Poa MO. © Moto ‘ UNITED STATES C "ERNMENT Memorandum _. 359683 TO : DIRECTOR, FBI pate: 2/10/61 FROM SB SAC, LOS ANGELES (9-2498) SUBJECT: UNKNOWN SUBJECT, aka ATTN: FBI LABORATORY Harry (Goren, ET AL; STEVE ALLEN - VICTIM EXTORTION In connection with the above captioned matter, the Los Angeles Police Department has suggested as a possible suspect LESLIE MACKENZIE ABERCR)MBIE because he k Proresses to be anti-Communist and is a chronic letterwriter. On 8/10/55, LESLIE M. ABERCROMBIE contacted the San Diego Office advising he was the organizer and chairman of the "Anti-Communist Association, Group Number 2", Los Angeles, California. He stated that he was born March 29, 1898, at Bridgeport, Connecticut, was 5’ 7" ‘tall, weighed 145 pounds, had gray hair, brown eyes, had an honorable discharge from World War I and II, and at that time was residing at the Warren Hotel, 108 F Street, San Diego, California. He stated that he was relief hotel clerk, that he had formerly been a baseball umpire, that he was receiving 72 per cent service-connected disability, that he had a small scar on the knuckle of left index finger, and that he had served s3ix months on a felony charge in Florida and stated he "got mixed up with a bunch of queers", ABERCROMBIE has at various times been in contact with the Los Angeles Office and there are enclosed herewith the following specimens of his handwriting: £ hve (1) Letter dated 11/9/54, addressed <) | 4s _. (2) Letter dated April 3, 1955, dressed ; - gz °° tof] ah le FB PY a5 (3) Letter dated October 15, 1959. 6 FEB 41961 @ eel, - Bureau (Enc. - 5)(REGISTERED) Sy G-3792F 2 - Los Angeles ¥ - 1600-47178) | ts