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Melvin Purvis — Part 1

103 pages · May 10, 2026 · Document date: Jul 22, 1934 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Melvin Purvis · 102 pages OCR'd
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Fs -._* “EF te + ty Gm r a pie - or x 2 re Lp) a) TR ig tat ye ot, . at : ‘y wt eo. wie}. YN ed Vidrniad rg ie Ps pic b1D rvuig made avatl dated 12/1€/40, Stated ne nga important information ¢ on &/12/38 and the kidnapping and mur Denver, Colorado on 3/5/32. etved from which BF we = ae ot oe coca om ie WEvecue Crouch @recan and Mrs. Eimer Gray of a a o ?-3331-1X (10) Aan avert TO ft 7 ERS reek Wid al General Gullion said there was no longer any need for the FBI except in a minor capacity, working under army supervision or tn labor districts in the interior of th as the Navy and the Army were going to take over the coasts. further told Vanderbtit that Melvin Purvis would soon emerge as head man in the War Department in charge of all investigation and that Purvis wanted no part of any man who has worked for’ you. ° +a ww ah 8 Fire wre w uw lton m that yi? 62-33783-25¢2 (15)- A memorandum dated 3/11/42 stated that Captain Melvin Purvis was a member of the group centered around Major General Allen ©. Gullton; Provost Marshal General of the U.S. Army. This group contemplated a Militar, dictatorship in the US and whose abjective was "to put the Jews in their place” and to remove the "left-wing friends of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt" from public affatra. (No source stated). 100-94 623-4 (24) - A Bureau memo dated 7/20/42 stated that on that date, Al Goldstein, the WY representative of the "St.Louis Poat Dispatch", in a conversation with the Director, told the Director that there was a rumor that he (the Director) was backing Purvis in the Provost Marshal General's Office. The Director, of course, dented this. (No further erplanatton). 100-94623-9 (46).
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