Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, CG
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 3/4/63
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: 124-10199-10195

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

62-9-9-1205

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

SAC, CG

TO:

DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE: 03/04/1963

PAGES:

2

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 :

19.1

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination

Records Coltection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note).

DATE: 11-14-2017

'AL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

UNICATIONS SECTION

MAR 5 1963

TELETYPE

TolnonE

Belmonk

Mn. Mohr

Mr.

Mr. Callahan

Mr. Corrad

Me Loach

Mr. Evans.-

Mr. Gale.

Ma: Rosen.

Mr. Sullivan

Mr. Tavel

Mr. Trotter

Tele. Room_

Miss Holmes

Miss Gandy-

URGENT

3-4-53

10-55

PM

PEO

DIRECTOR, FBI

FROM

CHICAGO 92-350

CRIMINAL

INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM, CHICAGO DIVISION.

4.307

REMYTELE

**1.

YESTERDAY•

REGKILLING OF BENJAMIN F. LEWIS, ALDERMAN, CHICAGO TWENTY

FOURTH

RD.

CG SIX TWO EIGHT THREE DASH C, WHOSE BACKGROUND

IS STRONGLY LINKED WITH THE TWENTYFOURTH WARD, ADVISED TODAY

THAT THE POLITICAL UPHEAVEL IN THIS WARD HAS BEEN INCREASING IN

MAGNITUDE FOR THE PAST EIGHT MONTHS. ALDERMAN LEWIS HAD BEEN RUNNING

ROUGHSHOD OVER THE WISHES OF THOSE POLITICALLY POWERFUL • CO

INDIVIDUALS WHO CONTROLED THIS AREA WHEN IT WAS CAUCASIAN

SUCH AS PRESENT CIRCULT JUDGE ABRALKE

MAROVITZ REC- 72 62-9-915/205

DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEEMAN JAR EI

ARVEY "AND OTHERS

12 MAR

6 1963

OF SIMILAR STATURE, AND HAD BEEN DEMANDING THE POLITICAL

PATRONAGE FOR THE NEGROES IN HIS LEWIS MACHINE. THE INFORMÄNT.!

ü dali

ÄDVISED HE DID NOT HAVE ANY SPECIFIC INFORMATION AS TO WHETHER

OR NOTÜTHE MURDER, IN FACT, WAS COMMITTED FOR THIS REASON

2 21 1014d

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