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“YUE emerge ¥ d FROM : & : } > ® : a - suByEcr: te U7: GEM:bla (4) we -; STANDARD Pome Wo, 06 Office Memon andum - 9:30 P. M, ‘11-26-59 _ Captioned program over » the American Broadc Television Network was monitored last night by , Special Agent _ The program concerned the abduction of a key witness in a Federal trial involving a mobster involved in illicit liquor traffic. Elliot Ness and his group of "untouchables" were responsible for locating the key witness. There was no mention made of the FBI. The average member of the public, however, could have easily given the impression that Ness and his men were FBI Agents - inasmuch as they were identified as "Federal" men and were not linked with any other particular Federal agency. UNITED Sin. DATE: Des | uw Froduct los “Aor Telesicsion eg won _ asting Compan a | GOVERNMENT November 27, 1959 ” Elliot Ness was depicted as using strong arm tactics in obtaining /RECOMME NDATION: None, | 1+ Mr, DeLoach For information. information from hoodlums; as harassing a hardened criminal aboard a train, taking his property and having the hoodlum turned over to local police on a trumped up charge. This program, narrated by Walter Winchell certainl was not a credit to any Federal agency on the mane of civil rights. A