The FBI was tipped off that the three Kennedy brothers, Marilyn Monroe and members of Frank Sinatra's Rat Pack held sex parties in John F. Kennedy's suite at The Carlyle hotel, according to confidential bureau files revealed yesterday.
An FBI report on the alleged orgies at the Upper East Side hotel was prompted by a July 1965 disclosure from a "reliable" Mafia informant that the mob wanted to use women supplied by "associates of Frank Sinatra" to embarrass the Kennedys in New York.
The women were to "be placed in compromising situations" with Robert and Ted Kennedy and their brother-in-law, actor Peter Lawford, the confidential memo said.
The mob wanted to smear Robert F. Kennedy because of his war on organized crime as US attorney general from 1961 to 1964, the informant said. But the FBI didn't investigate the claims, the bureau said.
The documents were among 2,352 pages of FBI files unveiled yesterday on Ted Kennedy, who died last August after a battle with cancer.
The bulk of the material detailed dozens of death threats made against Kennedy over two decades. But among the other disclosures:
* The file on the mob plot began with the informant's disclosures to the FBI's Milwaukee office. The FBI added an unsigned statement that said a multimillionaire Manhattan divorcée knew about the orgies.
"It was reported that Mrs. Jacqueline Hammond, age 40, has considerable information concerning sex parties," the statement said.
Among those who took part were John, Robert and Ted Kennedy, Monroe, Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr. and Lawford and his wife, Patricia Kennedy, it said.
