“The detectives consistently came back with information that could not be verified,” he added.

Jeremiah McKenna, chief counsel of the state crime committee, said the new joint investigation “will not involve the police handling” of Operation Together or look into whether there was any attempt to suppress it.

However, the state committee has asked that the Police Department temporarily assign to it several of the detectives from Operation Together who criticized the closing of that opreation.

From interviews with detectives, police officials, and the examination of confidential police files, the background of Operation Together and the controversies that plagued the investigation have been pieced together.

In 1974, then Deputy Inspector John A. Colin ordered a routine review of the twox2010;yearx2010;old unsolved murder of a Manhattan discotheque owner, Shelley Bloom. Mr. Bloom had been found shot to death in his apartment on the night before he was to testify before a Federal grand jury investigating a South American cocainesmuggling network.

According to a confidential police report, the murder of Mr. Bloom may have been connected to the attempt by organized crime to control homosexual bars, to eight other unsolved homicides, to the procurement and prostitution of young boys and to narcotics trafficking.

The investigation linked the Bloom murder with a series of mysterious deaths from 1972 to 1974, including those of:

Edgar F. Luckenbach Jr., a shipping millionaire who was found dead in the apartment of a woman identified in police reports as an informant for the Central Intelligence Agency and the United States Drug Enforcement Agency and who had been previously arrested with Mr. Bloom on charges of intent to distribute cocaine.

Peter Detmold, a real‐estate, man and civic leader in the Turtle Bay section of Manhattan, who at the time of his murder had been opposing the operation of of a neighborhood bar frequented by homosexuals that police reports describe as being controlled by Mr. Bloom's circle of acquaintances in organized crime.