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DIRECTOR 22/6/39 AL CAPONE L707 51D vox IY the opinion that there would be any sort of action taken either RALPH or AL CAPONE within the next four or five months. It appears fron their conver- sations that until such time as AL CAPONE is released from the hos- pital and attempts to take some active part in the organisation or in activities that perhaps will run counter or in opposition to the organization's activities, there will be no great danger in AL CAPONE'S suffering at the hands of the underworld. . of the above information was obtained from as a result of casual conversation tine was any interest manifested in AL CAPONE'S future. entered into the conversation nerely as a result of his desire to speculate as to the effect of the O'HARE killing on the underworld here in Chicago and also as to the possibility that the O'HARE killing was « remit of AL CAPONE'S release, While tnis is probably information that has previously been forwarded to the Bureau, informs that the killing of JAKE LINGLE, who was a reporter for the Chicago Tribure, was caused by the fact that LINGLE had "welched" on an agreement involving & $25,000 nent to LINCLE by the crowd here in Chicago. The reason for the payment apparently was the fact that LINGLE was writing a series of articles attempting to uncover the activities of the CAPONE cromi, etc., and it was the desire to open & new club in Chicago that prompted some of the CAPONE representatives to contact LINGLE and offer him 9$25,0004f he would “lay off" of the publicity in so far as the club ed. LINGLE agreed and accepted the $25,009 according <i then turned around and wrote an articis revealing the activities of the backers of this so-called gambling clube — It might here be stated SRD opinion of wrt is to the effect that NITTI at oe time was of the killer type but after AL CAPONE was sent up by the Government he was more or less