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This file concerns a 1946 extortion threat against John Torrio, the former Chicago organized-crime figure associated with Al Capone. The FBI's New York office investigated an anonymous letter demanding $10,000 under threat of death, followed by telephone calls arranging a payoff. Released records include New York field memoranda and telegrams, reports of surveillance at the Sheepshead Bay Theatre, and FBI Laboratory examinations of the letter and envelope. The laboratory found no usable latent fingerprints and could not match the handwriting materials to the Anonymous Letter File; five men observed around the planned payoff were interviewed and released.

FBI file number: 9-14533-1 | Documents span: 1946 | Released in 1 part
Names in this file: John Torrio, Al Capone, Louis Romano
Subjects: extortion, anonymous letter, organized crime, FBI laboratory, surveillance