Just after leaving the Treasury
Department’s Chicago Narcotics Bureau
in 1957 my brother, George E. Payne, came back to Washington, D.C. where he later joined the U.S.
State Department. My grandfather, once
an official of the Alcohol Tax Unit of the U.S. Treasury, was able to offer him
assistance. Mr.
George W. Cunningham would become my brother’s mentor in his duties back
in D.C. Harry
J. Anslinger had been my grandfather’s boss years before.
Kefauver Committee
Final Report
Aug. 31, 1951
From the
website The
American Mafia
U.S. Senate Special Committee
to Investigate Organized Crime
in Interstate Commerce
The committee
likewise would be remiss in the extreme if it failed to acknowledge gratefully
the very valuable and continuing assistance and advice given by Mr. J. Edgar
Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and his assistant, Mr.
Louis B. Nichols, and by Mr. Harry J. Anslinger, Commissioner of Narcotics of
the Treasury Department, and his deputy, Mr. George W. Cunningham.
From the United Nations
Treaty Collection
UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA
and
FEDERAL
REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
Exchange
of notes constituting an arrangement replacing
the
Arrangement of 24 December 1927 and 14 February 1928
between the Governments of these two
countries,
relating to the exchange of information for
the
control of illicit traffic in narcotic drugs.
Washington, 17 January and 24 August 1955 and 7 March
1956
The
Government of the United States of America agrees to the new arrangement as
proposed in the above-mentioned note of January 17, 1955 and as interpreted in
the foregoing paragraphs and further agrees that such arrangement shall replace
the arrangement regarding the direct exchange of information between the
services in charge of control of the traffic in narcotic drugs, which was
concluded by exchange of notes at Berlin on December 24, 1927 and February 14,
1928.
The
Officers of the United States Department of the Treasury who, on behalf of the
Government of the United States, are in charge of co-operation with the Bundeskriminalamt
in this matter are :
Harry J. Anslinger,
Commissioner of Narcotics,
Department of the Treasury,
Washington, D. C.
and
George W. Cunningham,
Deputy Commissioner of Narcotics,
Department of the Treasury,
Washington, D. C.
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Hand
written draft of a letter from Joseph Phillips to George W. Cunningham. My grandfather died in 1959 and was
suffering from the effects of Malaria that he had caught while serving in the
Philippine Islands during 1898-1899.
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Letter
back from George E. Payne to grandfather Joseph Phillips
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