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On 12/4/44, a Bureau Agent attended a conference at the Wor Crimes Commission regarding possible adoption of the Bureau's ftling system by that organization. It appeared that the above group Commission) had visited the Office of Strategic Services on 12/1/44 and the Bureau Agent learned that Colonel Melvin Purvis had vtsited the OSS, and in all probabiltty Purvis was the instigator of the utait, but at no time did any official of the Commission mention that Purvis was along. sen Bureau Agent noted that Colonel Purvts was always kept :-— : busy on some other matter whenever the Agent engaged in a conference or meeting with officials at the War Crimes Commission. While at the OSS, John Langam of OSS took a punch card and punched on tt Colonel Purvis' name and typed on it the information: "Colonel Melvin Purvis, the former G-man who shot John Dillinger." Langam told Purvis he might like to keep the cards as souvenir's and with that Purvuts laughed as though he enjoyed the sttuatton and placed the fifteen punch cardsin hig pocket. 62-76878-6 (16) A news item capttoned "Famous Former G-Man Is Major In Washington" was clipped from the "Carolina Sheriff and Police Review", 1945. The article stated that Melvin Purvts was a major in the Provost Marshal General's office in Washington. It also stated that Purvis had declined numerous offers to play a leading role in a movte depicting John Dillinger's bloody crime career. 62-66461-A "Carolina Sheriff and Police Review”, 1945 (17) On 1/31/45, during the morning news broadcast at 7:30 over radto atation WTOP, the news announcer menttoned the War Crimes Divutaton tn the War Department. He stated that Colonel Melvin Purvts was connected with the work. 62-76878-12 (18)- wert om,