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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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65-87 NEWARK FIELD DIVISION WASHINGTON FIELD DIVISION ## DENVER FIELD DIVISION At DENVER, COLORADO, will make appropriate inquiry through the Hotel Brown Palace for information as to the identity and general reputation of SILLS M. NEWTON, whom Subject attempted to contact telephonically on January 17, 1940. (Set out in report of Special Agent dated July 19, 1940 at New York City.) NEW YORK FIELD DIVISION
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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.