Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, CG
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 03/24/1961
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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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: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10199-10114

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

92-3182-162

Document Information

ORIGINATOR :

FROM:

TO:

TITLE:

FBI

SAC, CG

DIRECTOR, FBI

DATE: 03/24/1961

PAGES:

3

SUBJECTS :

GAL, FINANCES, ASSOC, ACT

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION :

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS :

4

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW:

03/03/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

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

DATE: 11-14-2017

EDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

CORMUNICATIONS SECTION

MAR 25/901

TELETYPE

not under

Mr. Tolson

Mr. Parsons

Mr.

Mr.

Mohr

Belmont

Mr. Callahan

Mr.

Conrad

Mr.

DeLgack

Mr.

Evan

Mr. Malone

Mr. Rosen

Mr. Tavel

Mr. Trotter.

Mr. W.C.Sullivan

Tele. Room_

Mr. Ingram

Miss Gandy.

URGENT

3-24-61

10-48 PM CST

EAH

TO DIRECTOR; FBI 192-31821

FROM SAC, CHICAGO 192-3731

3P

/GUS ALEX, AKAO, AR.

DAILY SUMMARY,

IN CONNECTION WITH THE

NATIONAL

MAINTENANCE CORPORATION

IN WHICH CORPORATION ALEX IS ALLEGED TO HAVE

AN INTEREST, CE SIX FOUR FOUR THREE DASH C STATED THAT BENSTEIN

PRESIDENT, IS A FRONT FOR THIS ORGANIZATION FOR THE QUOTE OUTFIT UNQUOTE •

HE STATED THAT ABOUT A YEAR AGO BEN STEIN HID OUT IN THE BASEMENT OF

HIS HOME BECAUSE THE OUTFIT WAS GOING TO KILL STEIN. HE STATED THAT

THE OUTFIT SOMEHOW OBTAINED INFORMATION FROM ANOTHER CASUAL LABOR

COMPANY AND THAT THROUGH THE OPERATION OF THIS CASUAL LABOR COMPANY

AND THE PROFIT DERIVED FROM IT, THE OUTFIT WAS ABLE TO DETERMINE

IHAT STEIN-S PROFIT FROM CASUAL LABOR WAS GREATLY IN EXCESS TO THAT

WHICH HE WAS REPORTING TO THE OUTFIT. HE SAID THE OUTFIT THEN ASKED

STEIN FOR

AN EXPLANATION AND AN ACCOUNTING OF THE PROFITS. HE SAID

THIS WAS THE REASON THAT STEIN HID OUT.

HE STA

STATED STEIN WENT TO JOSEP

2 I/

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INFLUENCE HE WAS ABLE TO STRAIGHTEN OUT THE MATTER AND AS A RESULT

OF GLIMCO-S INFLUENCE, STEIN HAS BECOME BIGGER AND MORE POWERFUL THAN

HE WAS FORMERLY. CG SIX FOUR EQUR

THREE DASH C STATED THAT HE SPECI-

FICALLY KNOWS THAT LOUIS ARGERS ATEU

LIEUTENANT OF ALEX, PERSONALLY HOLDS

A FORTY THOUSAND DOLLAR NOTE FROM STEIN, WHICH STEIN USED IN THE

FORMATION OF THE NATIONAL MAINTENANCE CORPORATION. HE STATED THIS NOTE

WAS OBTAINED ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO AND ARGER PRESENTLY USES THIS NOTE AS

A TAX DODGE. HE SAID THAT THE FORTY THOUSAND DOLLAR NOTE IS MAINTAINED

IN A BOX IN ARGER-S HOME ON THE NORTH SIDE OF CHICAGO. IN CONNECTION

WITH THE NOTE USED AS A TAX DODGE BY ARGER, HE STATED THAT ARGER HAD

FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS IN CASH WHICH WAS NOT REPORTED TO THE INTERNAL

REVENUE SERVICE. HE STATED THAT THIS MONEY WAS DERIVED FROM PROFITS

IN THE OPERATION OF STRIP JOINTS AND PLACES OF ILL REPUTE IN THE FIRST

WARD OF CHICAGO. HE STATED ARGER LOANED THE FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS

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