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This file concerns the El Rukns, a Chicago street gang also known as the Blackstone Rangers and Black P-Stone Nation. The records describe the FBI's Chicago Division as the lead agency in an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force with Chicago police and ATF, investigating narcotics, racketeering, violence, and related organized crime activity. The file also describes the separate 1986 terrorism investigation after wiretaps indicated El Rukn contacts with Libya, including an undercover sale of inert LAW rockets and searches that recovered weapons. The released material includes teletypes, airtels, case information screens, background writeups, deleted-page sheets, and field communications from 1982 to 1993, including Minneapolis and St. Paul leads, DEA coordination, and a 1991 summary of indictments, cooperating defendants, and the seizure of the Chicago headquarters.

FBI file number: 245F-CG-147 | Documents span: 1982-1993 | Released in 5 parts
Names in this file: Claude Sims, Royal Ben
Subjects: street gangs, organized crime, narcotics, racketeering, terrorism, Chicago