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FBI file: silas-newton, Silas M Newton Part 04

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 18 pages · text by GLM-OCR

This FBI Freedom of Information release is part of the Bureau's file on Silas M. Newton. It holds 1941 reports from the Kansas City and Los Angeles field offices in an espionage case that began in New York City. Agents looked at Newton's oil businesses, including the Kansas Western Pipeline Company and the Newton Development Company, along with his bank accounts in McCracken and Wichita, his hotel residences and his marital status. Informants described him as an oil promoter and a loyal American. The case was left pending with undeveloped leads.

  • p. 4 …spends considerable time at the Knickerbocker Hotel and Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles or Hollywood, California…
  • p. 14 …NENTON, living in an unknown hotel in Los Angeles had to apply for a permit and…
  • p. 17 …The records of the Los Angeles Retail Merchants Credit Association were checked with regard to SILAS…

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## FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

THIS CASE ORIGINATED AT NEW YORK CITY

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