Sinatra 'wanted to help C.I.A.’

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34130, 17 April 1976, Page 15

Sinatra 'wanted to help C.I.A.’

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BOSTON, April 16.

Frank Sinatra, the singer, volunteered his services to the Central Intelligence Agency in a conversation with the C.I.A. director (Mr George Bush), the “Boston Globe” says.

"Sinatra said he was always flying around the world, and meeting with people like the Shah of Iran and the Royal Family of Great Britain,” Mr Bush’s bruiher, Mr ’onathan Bush, was quoted as saying by' 1 .e “Globe.” “He emphasised time and again that his services were available, a d that he wanted to do his part for his country.” In a telepho-° intervi v with Robert Lenzner, of the -.ewspaper’s New York bureau. M Jc (than Bush, a businessman, said the offer had be< n made at a meeting in his New Y k foartment last February. Yesterday, the “New York Times” reported that the [late U *d States Attorney-Gene-al, Robert F. Kennedy, had intervened to limit the investigation of links betwer- Sinatra and the Mafia. Several attempts had been made to pursue such an iniquity, but Kennedy had | blocked them all, the newspaper said.