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This Federal Bureau of Investigation FOIPA release, Part 05 of the Silas M. Newton file, collects early 1940s field reports and a letter from Director John Edgar Hoover urging completion of delinquent leads by February 25, 1941. Agents in Denver, New York, Los Angeles and Kansas City examined Newton's reputation, hotel stays, telephone charges and bank dealings. The file quotes a criminal record listing arrests for conspiracy, false stock statements and grand larceny, and notes his oil company roles. Thirty-one pages were withheld.
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Contained in the file was a letter from the Citizens State Bank, McCracken, Kansas which stated that business relationships with NENTON had been very satisfactory and that he was well able to care for his financial undertakings. stated that NENTON was well known as a guest of the hotel as he had been making the Hollywood Kniokerbooker his headquarters when in Los Angeles for the past five or six years, that very little was known of his associates or his business connections aside from the fact that he frequently referred to the petroleum industry and indicated that he was well versed in the industry. Further stated that NENTON, while in Los Angeles, plays golf continuously and that the reference on the credit card, A review of NEWTON'S account during the time of his stay reflected numerous long distance telephone calls. These were made from the hotel switchboard and an effort was made to obtain the hotel telephone tickets showing these calls, however, advised that the hotel did not retain them after the guests' bills were paid and therefore they were not available. For the information of the file the following record of telephone calls as taken from NEWTON'S account is being set out: Date Charge December 23,1940 $2.20 December 29,1940 4.60 January 5,1941 3.60 2.20 7.40 January 14,1941 13.50 January 19,1941 1.75 3.60 January 21,1941 7.50 8.00 3.60
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FOIA release, from the fbi-vault collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 16 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.