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This file concerns FBI investigations of Michael George Thevis, an Atlanta businessman associated with Global Industries and related companies. The records span an earlier Interstate Transportation of Obscene Matter case involving Peachtree National Distributing and Sundial Distributors, including a 1972 civil challenge to the FBI seizure of 27 cartons of books and magazines. Later 1977 records concern a proposed RICO prosecution alleging murders of competitors, arson, assaults, and threats against government witnesses. They include FBI correspondence with Justice Department officials, material on a possible bribery allegation, and a request to record a meeting between Thevis and witness Roger Dean Underhill at the Springfield federal medical facility because of reported threats to Underhill.

FBI file number: 183-679 | Documents span: 1972-1977 | Released in 2 parts
Names in this file: Michael George Thevis, Roger Dean Underhill, Marguerite Schott, Daniel B. Bartlett, William H. Webster
Subjects: organized crime, RICO, obscenity prosecutions, witness safety, FBI surveillance, civil litigation