The Sinatra Files (59 page)
Authors: Tom Kuntz
On May 29, 1980,
Bell of Pennsylvania, was recontacted and he advised that his efforts to locate and retrieve any record of May 17 and/or May 20, 1980, calls met with negative results. Also, to date no record has been printed out of any Reading-area calls to the 800 number. He agreed to continue this watch through June 1, 1980.
On May 31, 1980, Resorts International announced the cancellation of SINATRA’s appearances that weekend, due to the performer’s case of laryngitis.
On June 2, 1980,Bell of Pennsylvania, advised that there continued to be no record of any Reading-area calls to the 800 number.
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL REPORTS:
1. Psycholinguistical Analysis of M. S. MIRON, dated May 28, 1980.
2. Report of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Laboratory, Document Section, dated July 9, 1980.
3. Report of FBI Identification Division, Latent Fingerprint Section, dated July 25, 1980.
Alas, it was all for naught
.
PROSECUTIVE STATUS:
On August 14, 1980, the facts of this matter were presented to Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) THOMAS MC KAY, III, Camden, New Jersey, who concurred that all logical investigation had been pursued in an effort to identify the originator of the threat. AUSA MC KAY also noted that there were no indications of any followup to this threat nor have any similar threats been received. Based on these reasons he declined any prosecutive consideration in this matter.
Several people helped the editors in gathering material for this book that was not included in the batch of documents released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1998. The editors express their gratitude.
Beth Crowley, a dogged news assistant in the Washington bureau of
The Wall Street Journal
, tracked down key electronic surveillance transcripts at the National Archives.
Sam Rushay and Pat Anderson, archivists for the National Archives’ Nixon Project, helped locate noteworthy documents from that collection. Linda Kloss of the FBI’s Freedom of Information Act Office knows where all the best documents are buried and found some of the most important Kennedy-related memos involving Sinatra that weren’t included in the FBI’s 1998 release. Jim Lesar of the Assassination Archives and Records Center supplied some documents related to Judith Campbell.
Numerous books proved quite helpful in putting these documents in context and were consulted liberally by the editors. These included
His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra
by Kitty Kelley;
Frank Sinatra: An American Legend
and
Frank Sinatra: My Father
, both by Nancy Sinatra;
All the Way: A Biography of Frank Sinatra
by Michael Freedland;
Sons and Brothers: The Days of Jack and Bobby Kennedy
by Richard D. Mahoney;
The Dark Side of Camelot
by Seymour Hersh;
J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets
by Curt Gentry;
Hoover’s FBI: The Inside Story of Hoover’s Trusted Lieutenant
by Cartha D. “Deke” DeLoach;
Roemer: Man Against the Mob
by William F. Roemer, Jr.; and
The Mafia Encyclopedia
(second edition) by Carl Sifakis.
The editors also would like to thank our agent, Flip Brophy of Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc., for believing in this project from the start.
In addition, Tom Kuntz wishes to thank our brother Danny Kuntz and his wife, Rita, for their hospitality during this book’s final stages.
T
OM
K
UNTZ
is an editor for
The New York Times
Week in Review section, where he writes and edits “Word for Word,” a column of verbatim excerpts on a variety of topics. Before joining the
Times
in 1988, he worked for
Newsday, The Hartford Courant
, and
The Miami Herald
.
His brother
PHIL KUNTZ
has been a staff reporter in
The Wall Street Journal’s
Washington bureau since 1994. Previously, he worked for
Congressional Quarterly
and
The Miami Herald
.
Copyright © 2000 by Tom Kuntz and Phil Kuntz
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kuntz, Tom.
The Sinatra files: the secret FBI dossier / Tom Kuntz and Phil Kuntz.
1. Sinatra, Frank, 1915–1998—Archives. 2. United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation—Archives. 3. Singers—United States—Archives. I. Kuntz, Phil. II. Title.
ML420.S565 K86 2000 782.42164′092—dc21 99-086875
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