Show Fear of Detection from the FBI Law Enforcement GANGSTERS and who operate with seeming disdain for constituted all share a common weakness the morbid fear of and successful THESE LEADERS OF THE representing the brains and motivating force of cloak themselves with respectability and circulate in all spheres of our none is immune to the subconscious dread of one day having to face the bar of LAW ENFORCEMENT IS exploiting this By the exchange of valuable criminal intelligence the FBI and other and local agencies are successfully penetrating the innermost sanctums of the criminal This plus the new laws passed by the Congress aimed at racketeers and is creating an uneasy stir among professional vice HAS SHOWN THAT there is no substitute for on-the-spot dissemination of vital Information on the working This exchange of criminal intelligence is made among duly authorized law enforcement agencies whose experienced officers understand its nature and are aware of its They make prompt and proper application of It To my this is a far more logical and practical system than the theoretical national clearinghouse for criminal Yet our profession is constantly beset by those who maintain there is a in the exchange of They contend it can only be overcome by this catalytic Such a contention is without merit and does not deal in CRIME PREVENTION REQUIRES and spontaneous There Is no margin for procrastination or administrative red In a like dissemination of intelligence must be it is exchanged promptly by agencies and there is no delay in its reaching the proper authorities DAILY THROUGHOUT THE numerous investigations are closed and violators convicted as a direct result of this nationwide DURING A RECENT period this Bureau disseminated to various agencies over items of criminal Based on this the agencies effected some arrests during the same period and recovered property valued at more than THE BITTER AND GREEDY struggle in the underworld for controlling power over vice and corruption is a scourge in many But it is a challenge that is being forcefully As an the FBI has been channeling Information to one metropolitan police department relating to organized gangs which are a menace in that As a a number of arrests have been In another a tip to local authorities made possible the arrest of a powerful out-of-town numbers racket operator who was surveying the area with designs on spreading his illegal business to that SUCH GRAPHIC EXAMPLES indicate the effectiveness of this cooperation and are the rule rather than the of is a dominating and each participating agency benefits from this workable plan The FBI Is deeply indebted to police authorities and officers across the country who repeatedly pass on pertinent data relating to its The fund of information on criminal activities is swelling daily and the FBI stands ready to place on ever-mounting volume of such information into the hands of law LN THE FINAL THE awesome of organized crime is not Law enforcement is doing Its job With the full support of an aroused the rulers of the lawless hordes can be routed and our society rid of their The battle is joined We have taken up the gauntlet flung down by organized Let us unite in a devastating assault to annihilate this mortal John Edgar Director |