Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, CG
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 08/22/1961
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

6/12/201

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-10205-10055

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 92-3182-297

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

SAC, CG

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE:

PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

08/22/1961

2

[Restricted]

DOCUMENT TYPE :

CLASSIFICATION:

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS:

4

CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW:

04/22/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS: INC FBI RESP

v9.1

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Code

8-24-61

TELETYPE

URGENT

EX, = A0z;

TO:

SAC, CHICAGO REC 13

FROM:

DIRECTOR, FBI

12-3182-247

GUS ALEX, AKA. DASH AR, REURTEL EIGHT TWENTY-TWO

SIXTY-ONE. BUREAU AUTHORITY GRANTED FOR PRELIMINARY

SURVEY FOR COVERAGE ON INDIVIDUAL. IN EVENT SURVEY

RESUL

FAVORABLE, SUBMIT FD ONE FOUR TWO WITH APPRO-

PRIATE

DETAILS TO SUPPORT RECOMMENDATION.

NOTE:

Gus Alex, one of the 40 subjects of crash investigation

looking toward early Federal prosecution, is at the present time

in the northern Wisconsin, Minneapolis area on a fishing trip.

Chicago has obtained access to the apartment adjoining Alex's

apartment and has requested authority for survey to determine the

feasibility of confidential coverage.

AAS: dlb

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117.

34 72516

(r}

AP DEbL OL TRELICE

6K,

APPROVED BY AN

TYPED BY

Tolson

Belmont

Mohr -

Callahan

Conrad -

De Loach

Evans

Malone

Rosen -

Sullivan

Tavel

Trotter Py

Tele:

Room St

Ingram

Gandy .

AUG2 4 1961

2:24P JDS

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MAIL ROOM

TELETYPE UNIT

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4-41 (R2925-2-61)

DECODED COPY

Radio

ex Teletype

Tolson -

Belmont

Mohr -..?

Callahan

Conrad.

DeLoach

Evans.

Malone

Rosen.

Sullivan

Tavel

Trotter

Tele. Room

Ingram -

Gandy.

DEFERRED

8-22-61

3:26 PM CLM

TO

DI RECTOR

FROM

SAC, CHICAGO

231132

GUS ALEX, AKA, AR. DAILY SUMMARY. FRANK LA CROIX, PCI, ADVISED

THAT HE NOTED

ALEX AT HIS RESIDENCE APARTMENT ON AUGUST

20, LAST.

PCI FURTHER ADVISED THAT HE HAD NOTED THAT THE CAR USUALLY DRIVEN

BY NATHAN BUTCH LADON WAS PARKED IN ITS USUAL PLACE SINCE THE

MORNING OF AUGUST 21, LAST.

IT IS TO BE NOTED THAT ALEX AND LADON

LEFT: CHICAGO BY PLANE ON MORNING OF AUGUST 21, LAST, AS REPORTED

YESTERDAY. i, JOHN A. LEITH, POl, RESIDING IN APARTMENT 100, 1150 NORTH

LAKE SHORE. DRIVE, FURNISHED A KEY TO CONTACTING AGENT TO HIS

APARTMENT AND STATED THAT HIS APARTMENT COULD BE USED BY AGENTS OF

THES

OFFICÈ ANY TIME IN HIS ABSENCE. AS PREVIOUSLY REPORTO,

LE+THES? APARTMENT ADJOINS THAT OF SUBJECT. BUREAU AUTHORITY IS

REQUESTED TO CONDUCT A PRELIMINARY SURVEY IN AN ATTEMPT TO

ESTABLISH CONFIDENTIAL COVERAGE OF SUBJECT'S APARTMENT. ARMED

AND DANGEROUS WITH SUICIDAL TENDENCIES.

RECEIVED:

10:40 PM TELETYPE

10:43 PM CODING UNIT

846-38 72-2182-11

IS AUG 28 1961

92107.

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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