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U.S. CrimeFig* hi GrowsWASHINGTON (AP) - Aliy. Gen. Nicholas Katzenbach says the. government light against organized crime faltered for several • months but has re-gained its momentum • and should yield impressive results soon.Hr, regards the effort against crime of all kinds as his most important task in. the Department of Justice.He is convinced that the com-milment of J. Edgar Hoover and the Federal Bureau of Fn-rience some sort of letup. But it's picked up now, and we’re gelling someplace. I don’t see how you can say there’s been any deterioration in the effort.*1 Kalzenhacli said the pace of prosecutions has been maintained in the Hew York City area. He predicted impressive results in the fight against Chicago's deep-rooted crime syndicate.CHICAGO RESULTS We're already getting some results in Chicago/’ he said,5fx.:-:13#vestigatlon in combating the! that’s highly encouraging.organized underv/orld is beyond question/’He feels that the most serious threat posed by recent disclosures of unauthorized wiretapping is that it could kill the morale of Internal Revenue Service agents, who have been responsible for CO per cent of organized crime prosecutions.Kalzenbach, attorney general since February but head of the ’department since the* resignation of Robert F. Kennedy last ul' September, discussed the crime picture in an interview with Flie Associated Press.TRANSITIONAL PERIODSitting in ' on the interviewYou’ve got Sam Giancana in jail, and I think you can look for a steady stream of new cases in the next IS months/*During the winter transition, lie recalled, F met with all of our organized crime people to see that the momentum wasn’t lost. J talked to President Johnson, at. length dr? the subject, and be gave me carte blanche to push the program, even while I was only acting attorney gener-Ir.He added: “We’ve alwaysboasted about the increase in the number of racketeering Indictments and convictions since 19GQ — something like 1,200 per* ^ r- i 7r lccnt. Well, now these Figureswere Ass t. AUy. Gen. Fred M. wj|, l£nd Jfl ]evd off_ But nQ(Vinson Jr., chief of the department's criminal division, and William G. Hundley, head of that division’s organized crimeand racketeering section. “There was some slowdown in the pace of organized crime work for about six months beginning last September/’ Katzenbach said. r,It was a period of transition.because our effort has deteriorated. The cases left arc the hardest and will take more time.U.S., CongoSign. Food PactLEOPOLDVILLE, the Congo Agents were wondering whether CAP) — The United States and I had the same status and out- the Congo have signed a $12.1-look as Bobby Kennedy, whether Sheldon Cohen over at IRS would be the same as Mortimer Caplin, whether Jne Fowler would take the same line at Treasury as Douglas Dillion.My crime experts told me it would be impossible not to expe-millionAgriculturalcommodities sales agreement underthe American Food for peace program. The Congo will pay for the food in Congolese francs, S5 per cent of which will be reinvested in Congolese development.
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San Antonio Light
San Antonio, Texas, US
Wed, Jul 21, 1965
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