Bugsy Siegel FBI Files

Bugsy Siegel FBI Files 

2,968 pages of FBI files covering Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel. Files contain approximately 2,300 discernable informational pages made up of memos written by FBI agents, informant accounts, transcripts of tapped phone conversations miscellany, and newspaper articles.

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 in the files include requests for, and information learned from taps on his phones, an attempt to induct Siegel into the Army in 1944 despite his age, transcript of conversations between Virginia Hill and Siegel, coverage of illegal activity surrounding the building of the Flamingo Hotel in Vegas, and transcripts of phone conversations between Siegel and Meyer Lansky.