BUGSY SIEGEL FBI FILES

2,421 pages of files copied from FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C., and archived on CD-ROM, covering Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel. The FBI investigated the infamous gangster for racketeering, murder, and numerous other criminal activities. Siegel was murdered on June 19, 1947 in Los Angeles, California, at the mansion of actress Virginia Hill, his mistress. The FBI determined that Bugsy Siegel was responsible, either directly or indirectly, for at least thirty murders. Coverage of the files includes requests for, and information learned from taps on his phones, an attempt to induction Siegel into the Army in 1944 despite his age, transcript of conversations between Virginia Hill and Siegel, illegal activity surrounding the building of the Flamingo Hotel in Vegas, and transcripts of phone conversations between Siegel and Meyer Lansky

Files contain approximately 1,800 informational pages made up of memos written by FBI agents, informant accounts, miscellany, and newspaper articles.