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SOMMISSION INTERNATIC. te C DE POLICE CRIMINELLE Paris, e Deod Jer 4, 1946 SECRETARIAT GENERAL - PARIS (8° 1 Rue des Soussaies ARIS) The Secretary Genaral af the ‘Inter- Tél. | ANJOU 89.34 0 89-38 si = OT national Criminal Police Commission, to the Chief of the ‘Wational criefine Police Office, Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States Départ- _ ment of Justice, e br .HOOVER’s attention is WASHINGTON 25 D:C_ (United States) =: drawn to this letter. — Aeanstarion OF ANNEXED During ita meeting ef November IS th inst. in : PARIS, the Exeoutive Cemmittee ef the I] .£.F.C. has deeided, ORIGINAL among cther thinge, to restore the library which formerly (ne £82 existed in the International Bureau at Vienna. wh ———S SS = aware that it is absolutely necensary ‘to. get a general — documentation ref erring to works about criminology, inter- National penal law, criminalistic and police properly eo Called, in order to enable, on the one hand, the officials of the General Secretary's Office of the I.C. P.C. to draw on the original authorities and to be kept well informed on the evciution of penal and theoretical police questions, and, on the other hand, to provide all useful documents for the Yoreign delegates, should the occasion arise durine the eeasions pr when they are making only a short stay in PARIS, - or elee in any other circumstances. TheExecutive Committee has taken into account , the recovery of the archives of the forper Bureau at Vienna, which are under investigation at the moment; but the exa- mination of these documents shows that they are far from being complete. I should in consequence be N avatlitie to you i? for pe oatonte me with any information available concerning the periodicals published in your Country as aleo the works ; whith are likely to be of great interest to the I.C.P.C. ‘spervices, as far as the above-mentioned matters are concer— hed . , ! f v4 In order that the expenses involved to set such a library on foot should not be too high, the Committee has contemplated the possibility of obtaining documents from the publishere concerned, by means of exchange, and of bartering the Internatio Criminal Police Review for these. a 1 : . ene ’ a +