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Interpol has often been perceived as a somewhat unconventional international organization: a police agency that is something of a legal curiosity and an institution of universal interest that has somehow been difficult for many people to define or understand.
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Jean Népote, “International Crime, International Police Cooperation and Interpol,” Police Journal (Chichester, West Sussex, England) 21, no. 2 (April 1978): 129.
Ibid., 128.
Rizzocase materials in this chapter are summarized from various sources including: U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Indictment 73 CR: United States of America v. Tommaso Amato et al.; “Outline of Indictment,” United States v. Tommaso Amato et al.; People v. William Benjamin et al.,Statement of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York (released 12 July 1973). See also “Key Crime Syndicate Men among 25 Indicted Here,” New York Times,12 July 1973; letter from Paul Vitrano, N.Y. Police Department to Kenneth Giannoulis, Chief, US-NCB-Interpol, 12 July 1973; dispatch letter from Interpol-NCB-Tokyo to Interpol-Washington, 21 June 1973, on “scheme to distribute 600,000 counterfeit U.S. dollars in Japan”; and the report to Kenneth Giannoulis from U.S. Secret Service, 17 July 1973. See the interviews with Paul Vitrano and Bob Nicholson of the N.Y. Police Department, and Assistant U.S. Attorney William I. Aronwald; also “U.S. Inquiry in 1973 at Vatican Bank Is Disclosed,” New York Times,7 July 1982; also interviews with staff, US-NCB-Interpol, Washington, D.C.
Interpol Steps up Initiatives against International Fraud,“Taxes International (London) (January 1984): 4.51; ”Interpol: Fighting Crime on a Shoestring,“ CJ International (Winter 1985): 1; Michael Fooner Interpol: The Inside Story of the International Crime-Fighting Organization (Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1973); Trevor Meldal-Johnsen and Vaughn Young The Interpol Connection (New York: Dial Press, 1979).
U.S. Congress, Committee on Appropriations,Treasury Postal Service and General Government Appropriations Fiscal Year 197694th Cong. 1st sess., pt. 3, 24 April 1975 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1975), 2185–2201.
U.S. Congress, Committee on Appropriations,International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol)94th Cong., 1st sess., 6 May 1975 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1975), 25–35.
U.S. Congress,Treasury Postal Service24 April 1975, 2195–2196.
Letter from Rep. John E. Moss and Sen. Joseph M. Montoya to Elmer B. Staats, comptroller general of the United States, 5 February 1976.
U.S. Congress, House Subcommittee Hearings,Committee on the Judiciary Immigration Citizenship and International Law95th Cong., 1st sess., 30 March 1977, Joshua Eilberg, Chairman; publication delayed.
U.S. Congress, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Committee on Governmental Affairs, Crime and Secrecy: The Use of Offshore Banks and Companies, 99th Cong., 1st sess., 28 August 1985, S. Rep. 99–130 ( Washington: Government Printing Office, 1985 ), 139–140.
Interpol, aka ‘Straight-Laced Guys’,“New York Times5 October 1985.
Interview with Oliver B. Revell, Executive Assistant Director (Investigations), FBI, 14 April 1986.
Italy Hints a Warrant for Abbas-Arrest of 16 Suspects Authorized,“New York Times12 November 1985; also ”Italian Jury Gives Cruise-Ship Killer 30-Year Sentence-11 of 15 Accused in Hijacking of Achille Lauro Convicted,“ New York Times11 July 1986.
For discussion of police-to-police relations in prevention and control of terrorism, see “Relations with Foreign Police Agencies,” in U.S. Department of Justice, Disorders and Terrorism,Report of the Task Force on Disorders and Terrorism, National Advisory Committee on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals (Washington, D.C., 1976), 224226. Reference 1 on page 226 is to my discussion of relevant Interpol systems and precedents, in “The Vulnerable Society-Crisis in Technology, Terror and Victimization,” Police Chief,41 (February 1974): 26–27.
TVI Staff, “Interpol’s Response to Terrorism,” TVI Journal (Beverly Hills) 6, no. 1 (1985): 3.
President Ronald Reagan, in a speech to the American Bar Association, 8 July 1985.
TVI Interview: Commander Raymond Kendall, Secretary General, Interpol,“ TVI Journal (Beverly Hills) 6, no. 1 (1985): 8.
Plutarch’s Lives, tr. John Dryden ( New York: Modern Library Edition, 1967 ), 6.
Jean Népote, “Interpol: The Development of International Policing,” in Pioneers in Policing, ed. Philip John Stead (Montclair, N.J.: Patterson Smith, 1977 ), 281.
Ibid., 262.
Ibid., 283–288.
Kurt Schaefer, “Internationale Verbrechensbekämpfung,” in Handwörterbuch der Kriminologie,eds. Ester, Lingemann, Sieverts, and Schneider (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1979), Ergänzungsband, 47–80.
Ibid., 48.
Ibid., 58; see also U.S. Department of Justice, Interpol and Its Association with the FBI (unpublished internal report) (Washington, D.C., 1976 ).
Schaefer, Handwörterbuch,59.
Ibid., p. 57; also Stead, Pioneers in Policing,159–177.
Schaefer, Handwörterbuch, p. 58.
Ibid., 53.
Ibid., 59.
Stead, Pioneers in Policing,283.
Congrès de police judiciaire internationale,“ Journal de Monaco,5 May 1914.
Stead, Pioneers in Policing,284–286.
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Fooner, M. (1989). Search for an Identity. In: Interpol. Criminal Justice and Public Safety. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7039-8_2
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