Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, CG
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 4/3/61
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

## Page 1

Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note).

DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK Assassination System

Date:

6/12/201

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

RECORD SERIES :

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

FBI

124-10199-10129

HQ

92-3182-176

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM: SAC, CG

TO :

DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE:

04/03/1961

PAGES:

2

SUBJECTS :

GAL, ASSOC, ACT, MISUR

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS :

4

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW:

03/04/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

v9.1

DocId: 32288353

Page 1

142

---

## Page 2

Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote).

DATE: 11-14-2017

PAGE TWO

IN ON HIS BUSINESS• SANDY SMITH, VETERAN CRIME REPORTER, CHICAGO

TRIBUNE, STATED THAT BEN STEIN IS FRONT FOR CHICAGO HOODLUMS AND

IS A CLOSE FRIEND OF JOHN HOWE, FORMER CAPTAIN OF CHICAGO POLICE

DEPARTMENT AND THAT HE IS ALSO FRIENDLY WITH CHICAGO HOODLUMS.

SMITH COULD NOT IDENTIFY THE HOODLUM NOR DID HE KNOW IF STEIN WAS

ACQUAINTED WITH ALEX• INFORMATION PREVIOUSLY RECEIVED FROM CG SIX

FOUR FOUR THREE DASH C DISCLOSED THAT ALEX IS ALLEGED TO HAVE INTEREST

IN NATIONAL MAINTENANCE CORPORATION AND THAT STEIN IS A FRONT FOR

HIM IN THIS CORPORATION. CG SIX FOUR FIVE ZERO DASH C ASTERISK

ADVISED THAT HE OBSERVED ALEX IN BUTCH LADON-S CAR ON MORNING OF

MARCH THIRTY ONE, LASI, AND LET ALEX OUT OF THE CAR AT MERCY HOSPITAL

WHERE ALEX ENTERED AND SPENT ABOUT FIFTEEN MINUTES. CG. SIX FOUR

FIVE ZERO DASH C ASTERISK FURTHER ADVISED THAT LADON ALSO TOOK

ALEX TO WESLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL SAME MORNING WHERE ALEX SPENT ABOUT

FORTY FIVE MINUTES. HE FURTHER STATED THAT LATER THE SAME MORNING

LADON DROPPED ALEX OFF IN THE LOOP AREA, CHICAGO. SUICIDAL TENDENCIES.

END AND ACK PLS.

11-15 PM OK FBI WA HFI

TU DISC

rain so.-*

t6 3 1.501.01

DocId: 32288353 Page 2

---