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Dark, high-contrast scan of an F.B.I. Teletype form, scan 1 of Part 03 of the Moran file; the heading is legible but the message text is not
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FBI Vault, George (Bugs) Moran, Part 03 (Final): teletype, routing slips and newspaper clippings, 1950s

The last part of the FBI's Moran file: a largely illegible teletype, Bureau routing slips, and clipped newspaper articles from the 1950s. The clippings are not quoted or reproduced here.

Date
1951/1956
Kind
case-file
Source
FBI Records: The Vault
Retrieved
2026-10-12
Rights
A record of the Federal Bureau of Investigation released under FOIA through the Vault. The Bureau's own pages are works of the United States government, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The newspaper clippings filed in this part are post-1930 newspaper text and are not reproduced. The stored image is the part's first scan, an FBI teletype.

Part 03, marked “Final,” of the FBI Vault’s Moran file, fifteen scanned pages. The first scan, shown above, is an F.B.I. Teletype form. Its heading is legible, but the message text is lost in the dark scan. The Vault OCR of the other pages yields Bureau routing slips with the names of officials (Tolson, Ladd, Nichols, Boardman, Mohr) and the mastheads and date stamps of clipped newspaper items from Dayton, Cincinnati and Washington papers. The OCR shows stamps reading 1951, 1954 (“JUL 30 1954”) and 1956; the date range above is taken from those stamps.

Scan 6 was read on the image for this archive. It is a newspaper column, not a Bureau document, reporting a court appearance in Dayton, Ohio. Because the clippings in this part are newspaper text published after 1930, this archive does not quote them, summarize their reporting as fact, or store their images. A reader can view them at the Vault.

No Bureau memorandum or report in this part was read in full. What the Bureau did in the 1950s, and why the clippings were filed, is not stated in the pages read.

itemFBI Vault, George (Bugs) Moran, Part 01: Bureau of Investigation memorandum of July 19, 1932The first part of the FBI's Moran file. Its legible core is a two-page memorandum reporting that on June 12, 1932 two men approached agents near Antioch, Illinois, one of them drawing a gun, and that agents later identified the two from Chicago police photographs as George "Bugs" Moran and a second man whose name is redacted.itemFBI Vault, George (Bugs) Moran, Part 02: memorandum for the Attorney General, January 8, 1946A two-page memorandum over J. Edgar Hoover's name telling the Attorney General that a resident of Owensboro, Kentucky named as the leader of a group of bank burglars had been "definitely identified as George "Bugs" Moran," and asking authority for a technical surveillance of his residence.