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STANDARD FORM NO. 64
Office Memorandum — UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO: MR. NEASE DATE: 1-16-58
FROM: W. G. EAMES
SUBJECT: TOP HOODLUM PROGRAM
ANTI-RACKETEERING
[Handwritten: STEFANO MAGADDINO; repeated annotation]
Reference is made to Bureau letter to New York dated November 27, 1957.
Referenced letter furnished all field offices with instructions concerning administration of the Top Hoodlum Program. All offices were instructed to forward photographs of top hoodlums to the New York office. Since that time, the New York office has been forwarding copies of photographs of top hoodlums.
The purpose of this memorandum is to channelize photographs of top hoodlums submitted by the New York office into the individual case files. The photographs will be detached from the New York airtel and filed in the individual case files under cover of a copy of this memorandum without indexing.
RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that approval be granted for preparation of 250 copies of this memorandum to be used in filing photographs of top hoodlums.
NFS:pl
(250)
[Stamps, signatures, handwritten file number 92-2924-6, and routing marks visible but not fully transcribed.]
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