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oma os iat ae a TM tee ee : ee ee er moan Bienen en a ot Bian a thet rene ae , oe ; a ; _~ JOHN EDGAR HOOVER " . or x cnpempen be a safes fe aay . ogee Pinwetom | OS ae Bide Se Baan RBS PT a Clemo. so ee Bisision of t nectigation —— [ Me, Bawa: ieee are US. Beminet fue Ie moa MELORANDUL FOR THE DIRECTOR ssn a 18 ee In th the complaint made b ee an FranciscoAPglice Department, regar his sO : obtain a photograph of” "peat i:sppmn ; Mr. Tolson has requested rye that you be advised regarding the “practice dm filing in the Single’ Fingerprint Section the records of well known angaters; as swell es At the ‘time the Single Fiicergeing ‘Section was created it was re decided that only the records of kidnapera and extortionists should be Laie” inserted therein. Just recently, the practice was adopted of placing in this Section the records of racketeers and gengeters which were _..:, brought to the attention of this Unit fram time to time, The Chicage = Office recently submitted a list of 157 so-called public enemies, the Detroit Office a list containing the names of different gangs including |= & the le Gang” and the St. Louis Office furnished e list of the momberg salsa _of the William{cobeck BADE + In addition, as information is recetved re wee tive to other notorious criminals these names are added to the file. No effort on the part of the Unit has been made to obtain through the Field * Offices a list of gangsters, end the writer has been reluctant to make such @* 2 a request, as up to the present the Equipment Section has not been able to” .. UE cere of the large number of requests for positive photostats of the | + ted i ~ records of kidnapers and extortionists which have been obtained through a check of the Technical filea and fram current records received in the Unt Thin week attention was called to the fact thet we had just e- yoces to 64 recoris to be pho t there rhs ey Bd Yoeady in t approxinetely 300 others. with his cure 7 N of su rent work hee been unable to prepare more than records each ;| week end arrangements were made to have one of the Unit's feehnical men. work at night with the photestating machine, in omer to take care of the... accumulated work, Prior to the completion of the daily check of the techni- op cal files being conducted by the reguler employees, which will be about oi three months, there will be a steady flow of records of kidnapera and ex- tortionists to be placed in the Single Fingerne file. However, if you ~~ desire, a form letter will be sent to each Pigld Office requesting that there be obtained from the principal police 4 artments the names of well... ? . know criminals whose Trecorde can be segregated in the Single Fingerpri nt se file. a orp es letter for this purpose is attache - In every case added to the Single singer! Ae eee ef TON = practice to obtain a photograph of the subject either fran our recoraé' ah ar rer ie Howe te a Se er Om ey ie ae TO