Originator: FBI
From: SAC, CG
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 02/14/1961
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

6/12/201

AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-10199-10062

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 92-3182-112

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: SAC, CG

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE: 02/14/1961

PAGES:

3

SUBJECTS :

GAL, ASSOC, GAMBLING, ILLEGAL INCOME

DOCUMENT TYPE :

CLASSIFICATION:

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS :

4; 11(a)

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW :

03/03/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

• COMMENTS :

Released under the John F. Kennedy

Assassination Records Collection Act ol

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FD-36 (Rev. 12-13-56)

FBI

Date:

2/14/61

Transmit the following in

(Type in plain text or code)

Via

AIRTEL

(Priority or Method of Mailing)

TO

FROM

: DIRECTOR, FBI (92-3182)

:

SAC

CHICAGO (92-373)

SUBJECT:

GUS

AR

ALEX,

aka

wedey

RES. 13

Re Bureau airtel 2/1/61 instructing that the Chicago

Office immediately institute a review of information in

Chicago files pertaining to ALEX to determine whether there

is any possibility of a prosecution in the immediate future.

(1) ALEX is not presently the subject of a sub-

stantive case. No local, state or federal process is currently

outstanding against him.

(2) . A review of all information available to this

office has established only one possibility wherein ALEX

may be vulnerable to wize prosecution within the investi-

gative jurisdiction of the Bureau. In this regard it is

believed that considerable investigation is necessary to

develop this possibility but that if this information can be

obtained, Alys may be successfully prosecuted. It is noted

LEIBELING has advised that ALEX is an owner of

the National Vaintenance Corporation in Chicago. PCI stated

that ALEX does not appear as an owner on any of the records

of the company and that one BEN STEIN is used by ALEX as a

front in the operation of this company. PCI stated that this

company furnishes maintenance help to several large accounts

in Chicago such as the Merchandise Mart and McCormick Place,

- Bureau

Chicago

WER: JAV

(4)^

91-3182-113

FEB 16 1961

196 %

Approved:

REC- 73

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Sent

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Per

Special Agent in Charge

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CG 92-373

Chicago's large exposition hall. PCI stated that this company

recruits its help among the derelicts on Skid Row in Chicago

and that although it receives $17 or $18 per day for each

employee, only $6.50 is given to the employee.

PCI advised

that the company has an arrangement with TOM BURKE, an official

of the Janitors Union in Chicago, whereby BURKE receives

$2,000 per month from the company in return for assistance

keeping the employees of the company ununionized and in

obtaining business accounts for the company.

This gives the

company

the obvious advantage of not having

to pay union

wages

or funds into the union welfare fund for each employee.

It

is expected that additional investigation regarding this

situation is necessary in order

to establish some connection

with interstate commerce and to develop information concerning

the hidden ownership of ALEX in this company, but it is believed

that it is

a situation which merits further investigation in

line with the objectives set out in referenged Bureau airtel.

information that ALEX is the owner of the S. D. Kaplan Garage

Corporation at 60 East Randolph, using KAPLAN as a front in

this operation and that ALEX also is a owner of two large

Chicago hotels, the Eastgate and the St. Clair, although his

name does not appear on records of these hotels. It is

believed that if this information can be proved, that ALEX is

susceptible to prosecution for an evasion of income taxes.

JFK Law 11(a)

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ids: 18592-3182112

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