Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 3373 Registered: 01-2005
| Posted on Monday, July 07, 2008 - 10:52 pm: | |
http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/ purpgang.htm In adobe format. Interesting reading. Lots of names blacked out, though. |
Lefty2 Member Username: Lefty2
Post Number: 1492 Registered: 07-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, July 08, 2008 - 12:53 am: | |
The Jewish mafia got wiped out by the Italian mafia later. But Al Capone didn't F with the Purple Gang at that time. The Jewish mafia killed a lot of people back then. No big news. The Motor City Mafia book kind of glossed over a lot of stuff. I wonder whose names he was trying to hide and why. |
Reddog289 Member Username: Reddog289
Post Number: 442 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, July 08, 2008 - 12:56 am: | |
Great post Ray, have to bookmark that one. thanks |
Irish_mafia Member Username: Irish_mafia
Post Number: 1349 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, July 08, 2008 - 8:26 am: | |
I believe that my grandmother was originally engaged to a banker that was killed by the purple gang. I later went to school with member's of his family (the bankers) but didn't know the connection until later on. |
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 3375 Registered: 01-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, July 08, 2008 - 12:19 pm: | |
There's one section where Hoover requests a report in 1945 on gang activity in various cities of the US. The SAIC in Los Angeles describes "problems" in Las Vegas. Hoover pencils in at the bottom of the report, "Watch situation carefully or Las Vegas will inevitably become a criminal mecca." Bugsy would be shocked, shocked, to hear of that. |
56packman Member Username: 56packman
Post Number: 2336 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, July 08, 2008 - 12:37 pm: | |
Hoover was (among other things) a stickler for neatness in paperwork, once he returned a report to an underling with the words "watch the borders" penciled in his handwriting. All available agents were sent to guard the US borders. He meant "keep all typing within the margins" |
Lefty2 Member Username: Lefty2
Post Number: 1493 Registered: 07-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, July 08, 2008 - 12:46 pm: | |
My buddy's dad was a cop in LA, on the secret squad division back in the sixties. He had Mickey Cohen's house bugged when it was being built. Got a lot of good info I was told. He also said the LA cops took and burned the photos taken of Robert Kennedy, from the guy who took them, when he was shot in the Ambassador hotel, but thats a different story. |