Originator: FBI
From: SANDSTROM, WALTER H.
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 01/10/1958
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

6/12/201

AGENCY:

RECORD NUMBER :

FBI

124-10201-10006

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

92-3182-7

Document Information

ORIGINATOR :

FROM:

TO:

TITLE:

FBI

SANDSTROM, WALTER H.

DIRECTOR, FBI

DATE:

01/10/1958

PAGES:

29

SUBJECTS :

GAL, BKG INVEST

DOCUMENT TYPE :

CLASSIFICATION:

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS:

4

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW : -

01/14/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS:

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

REPORTING OFFICE

CHICAGO

TITLE OF CASE

OFFICE OF ORIGIN

CHICAGO

GUS

ALEX,

Gust Alex,

wast

Gussie

Alex

"The Musele"

"Bananas"

• "Shotgun",

DATE

1-10-58

INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD 12/1,3,6-20,23

27,30, 31/57; 1/2/58

REPORT MADE BY

WALTER H. SANDSTROM

TYPED BY

jmg

CHARACTER OF CASE

ANTI-RACKETEERING

SYNOPSIS:

GUS ALEX, FBI #4244200, reportedly residing 9355 South Spaulding

Avenue, Evergreen Park in 1956. DOB reflected as.4/1/14.

However,

his mother filed certifiod birth certificate reflecting his DOB

as 4/1/16 in Chicago.

Education 8 years grade school and 2 years

high school. FBI Identification record reflects only one arrest,

that in 1944.

Chicago PD records negative. PD and court records

reportedly destroyed by court order.

Subject admittedly has been

arrested numerous times but never convicted. Subject frequently

questioned regarding killings in Chicago, suspected to have been

of gang origin, and reportedly represented by syndicate lawyers

who Immediately

obtained writ to effect his release.

Associates

reportedly are top echelon members of old Capone Chicago Crime

syndicate.

Subjeot reportedly taking over duties of one such

member, JAKE GUZIK, now deceased, as a syndicate gambling leader.

Subject described as a syndicato man involved in operations of

teamsters', taxi drivers' and bartenders' unions.

He reportedly

owns a building at Clark and Polk Streets, Chicago, and one at

1074 West Polk Street.

Ho is reported as a former

owner of a

gambling establishment at 2136 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago,...

former part-owner of one at 7466 West Irving Park, Chicago.

SUBJECT SHOULD BE CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS DUE TO HIS

DANGEROUS PROPENSITIES.

SPECIAL AGENT

APPROVED

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Cincinnati

- Cleveland

- Los Angeles

- Miami

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•Chicago (92-373)

17 JAN 78 10=:

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PROPERTY OF FBI.- This report is loaned to you by the FBI, and neither it nor its contents are to be distributed outside the agency to which loaned.

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INFORMANTS

Information from the files of Immigration and

Naturalization Service furnished to Invest1-

gative Clerk FRANCIS G. KAHL on December 16x 1957

by INS Investigator JOHN. J. BURKE.

CG: 5733-0

CG 5951-0

MrS. FLORENGE NEARY, IllInois Bell Telephone

Company

Police reporter, SANDY SMITH, of the chicago

Tribune, so designated because of his position.

Mr. JIMMY HARAKAS, so designated by personal

request.

REVIEWED BY #JFK TASK FORCE

Former CG 5973-0

ON 6-8-95 dab/TH

PCI ROBERT THEODORE MARTINO

AT RELEASE IN FULL

Former CG 5809-0

I RELEASE IN PART

TOTAL DENIAL

Former PCI DOMINIC ABATA

JOHN PHILLIP CURRAN, Chief Petty Officer,

United States Navy Induction Center, Chicago, in 1944.

LEADS

THE C INC INNATI DIVISION

AT COLUMBUS, OHIO

Will Identify subscribers to CT. 3-5932 and

determine if possible what rolationship persons of thisinumber

might have to the subject or to his brother GEORGE or

his mother, CHRISTINA, who are also noported as rentding at -e

this

REVIEWED BY

WUFK TASK FORCE

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ON

10/16/95 Dab/TH

RELEASE IN FULL

RELEASE IN PART

TOTAL DENIAL

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