A JFK-MAFIA LINK INQUIRY? CIA PANEL MAY CALL SINATRA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000300510049-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 20, 2004
• Sequence Number: 49
• Publication Date: January 19, 1976
• Content Type: NSPR

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Associated Press
committee is expected to
consider calling Frank
Sinatra to testify about th"
relationship of President
John F. Kennedy, Judith
Campbell Exner and rpab-
ster Sam Giancana. /
"I think. the committee
Teets" to' consider calling
Sinatra as a witness, a
committee source said last
night. The panel is sched-
uled to meet tomorrow.
Mrs. Exner, who said in a
10-page book outline
released Wednesday by a
literary agent that she had
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an affair with Kennedy-in
the early 1960s, has said
Sinatra introduced her to
Kennedy and to Giancana
and John Rosseiii, another
underworld figure.
THE CIA enlisted Glan-
,cana and Rosselli in an ef- ,
)fort to kill Cuban Premier
Fidel Castro. The Senate'
panel uncovered Mrs.
Exner's relationship with
Kennedy in trying to deter-
mine whether Kennedy
knew about the assassina
Lion plot. It concluded he
did 'not learn of it through
her.
However, the-committee-
.source said yesterday, "I
don't, think the staff 'is
eager at this point to go
back and open that up
%again," regardless of
whether "Sinatra had any-
thing to offer in connection
with the question of wheth-
er Kennedy was connected
with the Castro plot-"'
"THEY DECIDED then
not to. call, him (Sinatra)
because it was doubtful he
could add anything," the .
source said but:. acknowl-
edged there has been pres.
sure, including some from
columnists, for the commit-
tee to question Sinatra.
Mrs. Exner's book outline
said: "There may have
been a reason beyond what
has yet come to light for
Sinatra's introduction of
Judith to Kennedy and then
to Giancana and it is inter-
esting to speculate on
whether he was attempting
to set up a connection."
THE LOS ANGELES
Times said today that con-
tinuation of Sinatra's
friendship with Kennedy
continued after apparent-.
warnings to the - former'
president that Sinatra as-
sociated with hoodlums, ad-
cording. to correspondence,
~
at the John F. Kennedy Li-.
brary ' in Waltham, Mass.,
and former Kennedy aides
Kenneth O'Donnell. and
Dave Powers. .:
In July 1972, Sinatra ap-
peared before the House
Select Committee on Crime
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