Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
Document date: 04/15/1947
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

Identification Form

Date:

5/26/201

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-90026-10065

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : CR 62-75147-40-26

Document Information

ORIGINATOR :

FBI

FROM:

TO:

TITLE :

DATE :

04/15/1947

PAGES: 3

SUBJECTS:

GENERAL CRIME CONDITIONS IN PORTLAND OREGON

HARRY HALL

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS:

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CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 01/09/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

CRIME SURVEY

v9.1

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Releasel under the

John F.

Kennet

SS DATE: 11414-2017

assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 114 45C 2107 Hote).

IV. General Crime Conditions in Portland, Oregon

A.: Organized Gangs

The "Syndicate" which is headed by AL WINTERS is again active in

Portland after having suspended operations for some six months.

At the first

of the year when all vices were "closed" in the City of Portland due to the

death of Captain TATUM in Portland bootleg joint, all vice operations were

suspended and in the past three months have opened up gradually.

CI 307 has advised that WINTIRS and the "Syndicate" have operated

the Esquire Room located in the Esquire Hotel spasmodically for the past four

or five months.

He states that the "Syndicate's" activities at the present

time are largely confined to book making and bookmaking on the horse races

and in taking the bets on football sheets. CI 307 further states that JIM

ELKINS, reported lieutenant in the "Syndicate" was almost dormant for some

three months after the first of the year but is gradually opening up his

böotlegging establishments. CI 307 advised that during the inactivity of the

gambling syndicate in Portland they concentrated theirefforts in establishing

said that he had recently been told that wINTeRs had decided to give up his

interests in Las Vegas and confine his activities to the Portland area.

Individual Racketeers and Mobsters

It is the consensus of all of the Confidential Informants and sources

of information used in this survey that a number of individuals in this category

are at a minimun in Portland at the present time, They state that when the

city was "closed" in January of 1947, most of these individual left town and

have not returned and probably will not return on a permanent basis until a new

Chief of Police is appointed and they

find out "which way the wind is blowing."

CI 338 states that among the negro population there is a very definite migration

from Portland to the Hanford-Richland, Washington area.

He states that many

of the bootleggers, pimps and gamblers are making plans to shifttheir operations

to this area due to the shift of the negro population to that area.

The following is a list of safe burglars, burglars and ex-convicts

who are known to have frequented and operated in Portland inlthe past ind are

expected to operate in Portland, in the future.

This list was assembled by

Detective Sgt: MYRON WARREN (of the Portland Police Department with the aid of

-Capt: VAYNE CURDANE of the Oregon State Police:

NAVES AND NUMBERS OF KNOWN: SAFE MEN:

ABRAMS, Tom ® Rabbi

Port. 5475

ALBERTS, Jackson

-Port. 19381

BANNISTER, Walter @Dutch

W.S.P. 15971

BONG, Orville

Port. 20962

BRAISE, Robert

Port, 12145

ADANS, Dewey

ARNSTON, James

BARKLEY, Silas

BUCKLEY,

George

BRADLEY,

Forrest

Port.

20990

Port. 11313

: Port®

22393

Porte

9367

Port. 5323

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