Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, CG
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 03/21/1963
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:

4/24/201

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10199-10211

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

62-9-9-1225

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: SAC, CG

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE :

DATE :

03/21/1963

PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

CIP, MURDERED, LEWIS, BENJAMIN F.

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 11/19/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

v9.1

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

DATE: 11-14-2017

4-11 (Rev. 10-16-62)

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DEFERRED 3-21-63

3-20 PM JLS

TO DIRECTOR

FROM SAC CHICAGO, 211825

CRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM, CHICAGO DIVISION.

RÈ KILLING OF BENJAMIN F. LEWIS, ALDERMAN, CHICAGO,;

24TH WARD.

CONCERNING A CHARRED MALE TORSO BURNED BEYONDE

RECOGNITION IN STICKNEY, ILLINOIS INCINERATOR DISCOVERED

jABOUT ONE WEEK AGO,. CG

6461-0 ADVISED LAST NIGHT THIS:.

PERSON BELIEVED IDENTICAL TO JOHN ROBINSON, A NEGRO

TAVERN OWNER, 3300 BLOCK WEST ROOSEVELT, CHICAGO, WHO

WAS CONNECTED WITH BENJAMIN LEWIS IN A REAL ESTATE

DEAL. AGCORDING TO INFORMANT, ROBINSON REPORTEDLY WAS

DEBT ON JUICE LOANS.

INFORMANT, WHO HAS BEEN LONG ACQUAINTED WITH GAMBLING

AND

24TH WARD ACTIVITIES, STATED LEWIS ALSO INDEBTED TO

"JISROE OPERATORS FROM CICERO, " WHICH INFORMANT BELIEVES

WAS REASON FOR SLAYING. INFORMANT CLAIMS THAT A SERGEANT

CEROS LEVY, CHICAGO POLICE OFFICER, FILLMORE. DISTRICT,

REPORTEDLY HAS INTIMATE KNOWLEDGE CONCERNING ACTIVITIES

OF*LE IS AND POSSIBLY MOTIVE FOR SLAYING. LEVY ALLEGED

TO CONTBOL VARIOUS GAMBLING ACTIVITIES FOR CRIMINAL

GROUP AND IS A PROTECTOR OF THIS GROUP INTERESTS IN THE

2LLTH WARD.

NOTED THAT SERGEANT LEVY REPORTED BY CG 6512-C-TE

HAS STRONG HOODLUM TIES WITH THE SAM AND CHUCK ENGLISH

ORGANIZATION.

ABOVE INFORMATION BEING FURNISHED TO

ROSWELL SPENCER, CHIEF INVESTIGATOR, STATES ATTORNEY'S

OFFICE, WHO IS PRESENTLY INVESTIGATING MATTER 0 2 9. 9-1265

RECEIVED:

4:32 PM

REC-10

PEC

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* MAR 25 1963

LER:

55 MAR MAR2

EX-116

If the intelligence contained in the above message is to be disseminated outside the Bureau, it is suggested that it be suitably

paraphrased in order to protect the Bureau's cryptographic systems.

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