No, I said the Outfit has 40 made men, 120 soldiers, and several hundred associates. In Chicago, Soldiers and Associates are two different things in Chicago. The confusing difference is simply this one big point. In New York, soldiers are made guys. In Chicago, soldiers are not made guys. If you were to add up the made guys and soldiers in Chicago, then add the associates, the grand total would be very similar to one of the 3 smaller New York Families.
I think the confusion here is that "associate" means two different things. A Chicago soldier is the same as a New York associate. So what's an associate in Chicago? People who do business with the Outfit but don't work for it full-time like soldiers do. In Chicago soldiers include both Italians and non-Italians, the difference there is that the Italians at least have the potential to become "made men" while the non-Italians don't. In the FBI charts for Chicago where they call them "non-member associates" that means both soldiers and associates. I think they just wanted to be consistent for the rest of the country.
It seems to me though that certain guys like Jack Guzik, Murray Humphreys and Gus Alex were more than soldiers, they were more like crew bosses, people who were in administration. There's a recording of Humphreys giving John Rosselli an order and Rosselli didn't want to listen to him since he wasn't a made guy. If I recall, Accardo or Ricca backed up Hump and Rosselli had to do what he said.
