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[51]05/31/67
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[55]FROMER, DAVID R.
[57]FROMER, IRVING RHODES
[59]COMMUNIST PARTY ACTIVITIES
[61]AMERICAN-RUSSIAN INSTITUTE OF SAN FRANCISCO
[62]CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTIES
[63]FLYNN, ELIZABETH GURLEY
[65]NORTHERN CALIFORNIA COMMITTEE FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE
[66]FOREIGN BORN
[68]SAN FRANCISCO CITIZENS COMMITTEE TO PRESERVE AMERICAN
[69]FREEDOMS
[71]PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT
[73]UNCLASSIFIED
[75]3
[77]RELEASED WITH DELETIONS
[79]10/12/97
[81]COMPLETION OF REVIEW BY FBI
[83]COORDINATION WITH FBI HAS BEEN COMPLETED AND
[85]DETERMINED TO BE RELEASABLE, PER MEMO DTD 17 OCT 1997.
[88]I
[90]f 4.
[92]SSve Registrant
[93]DPOB: 21 July 1942, Chicago, Illinois 7129-6003 564-58-8137
[95]AGENT REPORT.
[97](FM 30-17)
[98]NAME OF SUBJECT OR TITLE OF INCIDENT
[100]FROMER, David Reed
[102]3. CONTROL SYMBOi OR FILE NUMBER
[104]T 2. DATE SUBMITED
[105]31 May 1967
[107]REPORT OF FINDINGS
[109](U) (LOCAL AGENCY-SUBJECT'S FATHER) On 23 May 1967, files of the San
[110]Francisco Office (SFO), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 450 Golda@m
[112]Gate Avenue, San Francisco, California, were examined regarding Irving Fromer
[114]for any information subsequent to 1 February 1962 by a representaiive of
[115]Source who furnished the following:
[118]tke representative furnished a copy of a report, SFO FBI, dated 27
[119]March 1962, Field Office File No: 100~33836, Title: Irving Rhodes Fromer,
[120]classified CONFIDENTIAL, which is attached as EXHIBIT ", This report
[121]contains information regarding Fromer's communist activities.
[123]Sd
[124]es The representative furnished a copy of a report, SFO FBI, dated 29
[125]March 1963, Fiald Office File No: 100-33836, Title: Irving Rhodes Fromer,
[126]classified @ONFIDENTIAL, which is attached as EXHIBIT tu. This report
[127]contains_information regarding Fromer's communist activities.
[129]ey The representative furnished a copy of a report, SFO FBI, dated 30
[130]March 1964, Fiald Office File No: 100-33836, Title: Irving Rhodes Fromer,
[131]classified CONFIDENTIAL, which is attached as EXHIBIT TH . This report
[132]contains information regarding Fromer's communist activities.
[136]oe The representative furnished a copy of a report, SFO FBI, dated 30
[137]March 1965, Field Office File No: 100-33836, Title: Irving Rhodes Fromer,
[138]classified CONFIDENTIAL, which is attached as EXHIBIT ~f- « This report -
[139]contains. information regarding Fromer's sommunist activities.
[141](oy The representative furnished a copy of a report, SFO FBI, dated Ww
[142]March 1966, Field Office File No: 100~33836, Title: Irving Rhodes Fromer,
[143]classified CONFIDENTIAL, which is attached as EXHIBIT “KL . This report
[144]contains information regarding Fromer's communist activities.
[146]OW
[148]{ The representative furnished a copy of a report, SFO FBI, dated 28
[149]March 1967, Field Office File No: 100-33836, Title: Irving Rhodes Fromer,
[150]classified CONFIDENTIAL, which is attached as EXHIBIT Y7I_. This report
[151]contains information regarding Fromer's communist activities.
[153]AGENT'S NOTEs Exhibits are attached to the original only of this report.
[157]FET peau 1p 0G, LEP
[158]oi ON ee 14-0. (TEM). é
[160]5. TYPED NAME AND ORGANIZATION OF SPECIAL AGENT: ee " ATURE: OF SPECIAL AGENT” ——
[161]. EUGENE J. POWER, 115th MI Group (I) ——— IE
[163]“FORM : ’ oy.s. 1962 OF 1 7,
[164]a D 1 APR 52 34 j REPLACES WD AGO FORM: 34}, 1 JUN 47, WHICH MAY BE USED. U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1962 OF —<setan_/
[165]J 2 OE A p
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[172]A.
[174]BAL IBIT COVER SHEED
[176]Exhibit Number a
[178]SUBJECT:
[180]File Number: .
[182]FROMER, David Reed
[184]DPOB: 21 July 1942, Chicago, Tllinois
[186]7129-6003 564-583-8137
[188]Preparing Unit: 115th MI Group’: { q )
[190]Agent Report Dated:
[192]Deseription: Report, SFO FBI dated 27 March 62 reSUBJECT'S father
[194]REVIEWES
[195]o SL C
[197]31 May 1967
[199]BY FEVIFK TASK FORCE.
[201]ths fia be a
[203]FULL
[204]PART |
[206]ICGGP-F Form, 2-25
[208](Rev 25 Mar 66) _
[210]sun 5H Se
[211]DECLAS pli te. (Te TEM, le
[213]ON.
[215]275
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[222]' EFD-204 (Rev. 3-3-59)
[224]oe ; . UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
[225]FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
[227]Copy to:
[229]Resot of SA FRANCIS T. DAVIS Office: SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA —
[232]Field Office File No.:
[234]Bureau File No.:
[236]San Praneiseo 100~-33836 100-365779
[238]Tile! TRVING RHODES FROMER
[240]Crarsciet: YNTERNAL SECURITY = C |
[242]Synopsis:
[244]Subject resides 881 Clayton Street, San Francisco, and is employed
[245]ag an architectural draftsman through American Institute of
[246]Architects, 47 Kearny Street, San Francisco. Subject reported to
[247]be member Lincoln Club, SFCCP and reported in attendance at
[248]SFCCPAP, CGCL and ARI meetings.
[250]en BY FRVFK TASK FORCE
[252]“REVIEWED PS” _
[253](ofigfar ek -
[256]ne 14 yeu ee
[258]AN Le Y-(4
[260]276
[264]This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and ‘
[265]its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.
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[269]SF_100~33836
[270]FID /rew
[272]DETAILS: I. BACKGROUND
[273]Residence
[275]fhe Subject resides at 881 Clayton Street, San
[276]Pranciaco.
[278]ir. E. A, PABLSEN
[279]879 Clayten Street
[280]San Francisco on
[281]3/15/62.
[283]The Subject is employed as an architectural draftenan
[284]for various architects and construction projects in the San
[285]Francisce area obtaining his employment through the placement
[286]service of the American Institute of Architects, 47 Kearny
[287]Street, San Francises..
[289]firs. ETHEL SMITH
[290]Executive Director,
[291]AIA, on 3/22/62
[293]COMMUNIST PARTY (CP) AND RELATED ACTIVITIES
[294]San Prancisce County Canmmmist rar SRCCP
[295]fhe Subject is a member of ¢he Linesln Club, SECGP,
[296]and although he has recently moved into the area which
[298]encompasses the membarn of the Sunset Club, SreCR, he has not
[299]as vee effected a transfer inte the Sunset Club.
[301]SP T-1 ~ 3/15/62
[303]American-Russian Institute of San Francisco (ART)
[305]The ART has been designated by the Attorney
[306]General of the United States pursuant to
[307]Execubive order 10450.
[309]The Subject attended the 30th Amniversary celebration
[310]of the ART, which was held at 150 Golden Gate Avenue, San
[311]Francisco, on November 19, 1961. ‘The purpose of thle meeting
[312]was also to celebrate the 44th anniversary of the Russian
[314]" 277 -B
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[319]BF 100-338636
[320]FTO /rew
[322]revelution and the 7 ith birthday of the Seorctary af the ANT.
[323]tee of the speakers at thin meet. told of inta trip te New
[324]Delhi and the Soviet Union. He the Soviet Uaton, Cuba,
[326]suppreasing righ freedon,
[327]religion and speech. Ye said that this was not true. these
[328]comtries éo not want soap box oriticiams but they respect the
[329]broader right of the majority and sometioes individual rights
[330]have $o give way to the rights of the majority.
[332]the guest apealer at this meting was DMITRY MURAYEY,
[333]who was introduced ag a Cultural Attache with the Soviet
[334]Bubassy. He presented the Secretary of the ART with a gold
[335]wateh ami read a prepared speach. He said Russia wante peace
[337]and felt that they hed te do some dvenatize their
[338]readiness to defend theuselves so the, resumed atomic testing.
[339]SP T+2 + 11/20/61
[341]The Subject attonded a reception sponsored by the
[342]ART and held af te Sheraten-Palace Hotel in San Francisce. on
[343]Jamary 20, 1962. This reception honored & group of visitors
[344]from the Soviet Qaion.
[346]HOLLAND ROBERTS, President of the ant, and 4, HL
[347]DOMRACHRV, @ member of the Board of the Institute of Soviet~
[348]Ayerioan Relations, fave speeches which stressed cultural
[349]exchange ani friendshin.
[351]SF P43 ~ 1/en/oe
[353]Citizens Committee for Constitutional Liberties (CCL)
[354]See Appendix Pase.
[355]The Subject attended a meeting sponsored by the CCCL
[356]meeting § monclague wan presented entitled “Are You wow Or linve
[357]You Ever Been A Hores Thiot » which waz a satire on the
[359]t.
[361]+ 278
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[367]SP 10033336
[368]PED /rew
[370]A siit was then presented to vepresent the petition.
[371]ef the coment at Pam ty peters the Supreme Court in reeam te
[372]he registration pravisions o @ McCarran Act. After the
[373]ait, MICKEY LINN was introduced as Chairman of the Northern
[374]Calg District oi’ the oP, who would present his views on
[375]the registration. LIMA read a statement in which he said that
[376]the CP in good conscience could not and would not wegistex
[377]becaure to do go would yiolate the law of self-incrinination.
[378]if the CP regiatered, they would admit to being spies,
[379]Saboteurs, and agents of a foreign peser.
[381]LIMA paid thet the cp is ijeading the Tight for
[382]freedom. If the present trend contimies, the Government can
[383]iater attack the Jaber unions and the National Association
[384]Yor the Advancement of Colored People (HAACP}. ‘The ruling
[385]party in the Government will be able to get any sroup they
[386]wish to register,
[388]SE PE - 12/AG/61
[390]Subject attended a meeting sponsoved by the ¢ccL
[391]beld at 150 Golden Gate Aveme, San Prancisce, om : 2h,
[392]1962. The Chairran of the meeting gave an opening statement
[393]of the purpose of the COCL and the purpose of the meeting.
[395]He mentioned that the Dill of Rights is under attacik and that
[396]the military forces are controlling the Government and the
[397]Brese and that civil rights are being repressed. He said that
[398]these things are of concern to the Comittee and they have
[399]asked GUS HALL to present his views of the current situation.
[401]_ HALL then spoke and said that he is presently on a
[402]iocture tour all over the country presenting the views of the
[403]CP. He mentioned that he had requests to speak at sehools all
[404]over the United States. lie said that the cP ts being prevented
[405]by law and by control of the press from expressing their views
[406]foal chal they onty want the wight of free speech which 1s deine
[408]em.
[410]HALL said that at ea recent Press conference he pas
[411]agked to give his position in the beth now and prior to
[412]dune 6, 1961. He told the press at that time that he could be
[413]veferred to as an authoritative spokesman for comnisn,
[415]HALL said that the people don't really lmow what
[416]the feCarran law means, When the law went into effect he was
[418]welds
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[425]Pia /frew
[427]supposes to register is
[428]umer possible sentence of 5OCO years in jail and $1,000,000
[429]fine. HALL went on to my that he went Jali under the
[430]Saith Act and that for thirty years the Government has tried
[431]to prove that the CF has been advoca the violent
[432]overthrow of the dovermuent and that all coommists are agente
[433]of & foreign power and are eeplonage agents etc. but has failed
[434]4 BG.
[436]evidence and cane i
[437]agents of a foreign power ant spies and saboteurs.
[439]HALL said that, according to the At General,
[441]tie mreeent Act is simply & registration statute iar to
[443]registrations of foreigners, votera, dealers in securities, etc.
[445]However, & xsecent decision of the Supreme Cat held that it
[447]is not. to be a card carrying member of the CP ar do
[449]an act which is genernliy attributed to commniste but it is
[450]necessary to have &@ etate of min’ and be in sympa
[452]with | of the objectives of commmisn: and you could be
[454]properuced outed under the taw.
[456]HALL said assuming he did register, he would have
[457]to meer euch officiel and mawber of hs Party and if be
[459]ant of 20 years
[460]prohibited from obtataing Veterans or Government housing,
[461]employment in the teaching profession, from making movies in
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[467]ry
[470]a Fo 83836
[472]Holiywood, or plays on Broadway under thin Act. He said
[473]thet commmists can't even work in Goverment atomic plants.
[475]HALL gatd that Califoria has more native wight-wing
[476]TLEREWINGETS Co Gite trees and it is the idea of certain
[477]-wingers te se organizations under one group.
[478]He said that 1s how Nexiem came about and they won't stop with
[479]the CP, HALL said that the reason the right-wing ie nating
[480]migh an onslaught is heaause a different social system
[481]is overtaking capitaliea and many of the older people find
[482]rH aitfieult to accent the new philosoptyy of life and they oppore
[486]SP T-2 ~ 1/25/62
[488]San Francisca Citizens Coumittes to Preserve American Freedane
[489]{srcorar) err tence tn uireneneteneneinnenesrerat
[490]See Appendix Page.
[492]The Subject attended a fund raising party sponsored
[493]by the SFCCPAF for PRANK VILKINSON held at 959 Ashbury Street,
[494]Gan Francisco, om february 17, 1962,
[496]UTLETHSON gave & speech in which he denounced the
[497]Government and the Supreme Court for the decisions they have
[498]handed down out the GP. He predicted that an trate
[499]populace would soon force the Supreme Court to change ites
[500]pormition on these issues.
[502]He spoke of his jail experiences and condemned the
[503]Govermment for segregating the staffs of the federal prigons.
[505]SF T4 ~ 2/20/52
[507]in an artitle tp the "San Francisco Examiner"
[508]newspaper’ of March 20, 1961, it was noted that WILKINSON was
[509]oonvac of contempt of Congress for refusing to state before
[510]the House Comeitter an Un-American Activities whether he had
[511]ever been a member of the CP. His sentence of one year in
[512]Jaii was upheld by the United States Supreme Court.
[514]“Beople's Norld" {Pa}
[516]The PY is @ west coast commmist newspaper
[517]published in San Francises.
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[522]SP 2060-33336
[523]PID /rew
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[527]The Subject attended a Py | through pert
[528]December 8 ~ 16, tek. DaZBar ugh the od
[530]wa ~T=
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[537]SF 100-33836
[538]FTD/rew
[540]CITIZENS COMMITTEE TO PRESERVE AMERICAN FREEDOMS
[542]A source advised on May 4, 1960, that the
[543]Citizens Committee to Preserve American Freedoms (CCPAF) was
[544]organized in Los Angeles, California, in January, 1952,
[545]for the announced purpose of supporting a number of
[546]indivicuals from the medical and legal professions who had
[547]been subpoenaed to appear before the House Committee on
[548]Un-American Activities.
[550]Since its establishment, the CCPAF, in extending
[551]its scope, has worked for the abolition of all Congressional,
[552]State, and iocal committees investigating subversive
[553]activities and in the latter part of 1954 became very active
[554]in opposition to State and Federal legislation directed
[555]at the Communist movement.
[557]FRANK WILKINSON, Executive Secretary of the
[558]CCPAF, is described by the source as the "brains and energy"
[559]behind the organization.
[561]Another source advised on September 17, 1952,
[563]that FRANK WILKINSON was a Communist Party member as of
[564]September, 1952.
[566]APPENDIX PAGE
[568]B=
[570]No
[571]Cx
[572]Cal
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[576]SF 100-33836
[577]FID /rew
[579]SAN FRANCISCO CITIZENS COMMITTEE
[580]TO PRESERVE AMERICAN FREEDOMS (SFCCPAF)
[582]A source advised on April 7, 1860, that a San
[583]Francisco affiliate of the Citizens Committee to Preserve
[584]American Freedoms (CCPAF) had been established at a meeting
[585]held in San Francisco on April 4, 1960. The source advised
[586]that the San Francisco affiliate, to be known as the San
[587]Francisee CCPAF, would carry cut in Northern California,
[588]the program of the CCPAF.
[590]Source advised on May 15, 1961, that the San
[591]Francisco CCPAF is active,
[593]APPDNEIX PAGE
[595]ee)
[596]Co
[597]ta
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[601]SF 100-33836
[602]FTDbew
[604]CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL
[605]LISERTIES (HORTHERN CALIFORNIA)
[607]A source advised on June 19, 1961, that MICKEY
[608]LIMA, Chairman, Northern California District, Communist
[609]Party (CP), reported on June 15, 1961, that the CP, USA,
[610]in response to the Supreme Court decision of June 5, 1961,
[611]relating to the Internal Security Act of 1950 (ISA-50) had
[612]decided to create a committee known as Citizens Committee
[613]for Constitutional Liberties (CCCL), 22 East 17th Street,
[614]New York City, and that a local committee would be
[615]organized for Northern California,
[617]This source advised on June 26, 1961, that a
[618]meeting was held on June 18, 1361, at the home of ROSCOE
[619]PROCTOR, member of the National Committee, CP, USA, for the
[620]purpose of formulating the CCCL for Northern California.
[622]A second source advised on September 14, 1961, that
[623]the CCCL had opened an office at 942 Market Street, Room 401,
[624]San Francisco, California, and that some of the furniture for
[625]this office had come from the CP office on the same floor.
[627]A third source advised on September 25, 1961,
[628]that MICKEY LIMA (Supra) had indicated no further organizational
[629]efforts would be expended on the CCCL in Northern California
[630]until the local CP resolves its policy with regard to this
[631]committee.
[633]APPENDIX PAGE
[637]Pro
[638]CO
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[643]SF 100-33836
[644]FTD/rew
[646]CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CONSTITUTICNAL
[647]LIBERTIES
[649]A source advised on June 11, 1961, that a meeting
[650]of the National Executive Committee (NEC), Communist Party,
[651]USA (CFUSA), was held on June 10, 1961, at CP headquarters,
[652]23 West 26th Street, New York, Hew York. According to the
[653]source, the main topic of discussion at this meeting was
[654]the CP's plans in regard to combating the June 5, 1961
[655]decision of the United States Supreme Court, requiring the
[656]CP to register with the Attorney General of the United States
[657]as a communist-action organization pursuant to the provisions
[658]of the Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950 and the
[659]Court's decision of the same date upholding the April 21,
[660]1955, conviction of Junius Scales under the Smith Act
[661]provision covering membership in the CP. This source further
[662]advised that during this discussion a special CP defense
[663]committee was formed and it was decided that this committee
[664]would have an office, which would be managed by Miriam Fried-
[665]lander who, according to the source, is a member of the CPUSA
[666]National Committee,
[668]Another source advised on June 14, 1961, that at a
[669]meeting of the CPUSA National Board and invited guests held on
[670]that date at CP headquarters, New York City, it was announced
[671]that the CP defense committee would have an office at 22 East
[672]17th Street, New York, New York, under the name of the
[673]Citizens Committee for Constitutional Liberties (CCCL).
[675]A third source advised on July 20, 1961, that at a
[676]meeting of the CP defense committee held on that date at CP
[677]headquarters, New York City, the purpose and scope of the CCCL
[678]was discussed. It was stated that this committee has been set
[679]up to serve as a national coordinator and service center for
[680]every effort being made by whatever source to repeal the
[681]McCarran and Smith Acts. In addition, it has been set up to
[682]reverse the Supreme Court's decision of June 5, 1961, or secure
[683]an indefinite stay of any enforcement of the law by the Department
[684]of Justice.
[686]It is to engage in generating a popular defense move-
[687]ment to mobilize legal assistance of any organization or
[688]individual whose "democratic rights are infringed upon by
[689]these laws." This committee wants to encourage the creation of
[690]local organizations or groups to work in support of any one of
[691]the abeve-stated objectives. The committee will also serve as
[692]an exchange center of material and provide speakers for any
[693]local organization, ” 285
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[697]FD-328 (3-28-60)
[698]UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
[699]FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
[701]an Petiegs, Califarnia
[702]FERC By» 1902
[704]In Reply, Please Refer to
[705]File No. BS a
[707]Title TRVENG RHODES mRouER
[709]Character
[711]Reference Report’ of - Specten Agent ERANG
[712]loneG AG snore ot can brancisce, mos
[714]: All sources (except any listed below) used in referenced
[715]communication have furnished reliable information in the past..
[717]rayaee
[719]™ 287
[721]This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. [t is the property
[722]of the FBI and is loaned te your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside
[724]your agency.
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[728]EAUIBIT COVER SHEET
[730]iii,
[732]Exhibit Number: 2!’
[734]SUBJECT: PROMER, David Recd
[736]Save Registrant ;
[738]DPOB: 21 July 1942, Caieago, Ulinois
[739]File Number: - 712966003 564y-58-8137
[740]Preparing Unit: 115th MI Group { g )
[742]Agent Report Dated: $2 May 1967
[744]Deseription: Report, SFO FBI dated 29 March 63 re SUBJECT'S father
[746]REVIEWED BY FRVSFK TASK FORCE
[748]ai lade -
[750]we
[751]pecuassieicy 1» 506 L SLR MSE
[752]5N — ‘4- -%Q. (JE.
[753]ICGP-F Form 2-25 ™ 288
[755](Rev 25 Mar 64).
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[759]a ar
[761]FL 04 (Rev. 3-3-59)
[763]ff’ UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
[764]/ FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
[765]Copy to:
[766]Report of: SA FRANCIS T. DAVIS | Office: SAN FRANCISCO
[767]Date: 3/29/53 | . -
[768]Field Office File #: 1090-33836 | . oS Bureav File #: 3190«335779
[769]Title: XRVING HHODES FROMER —
[770]Character: -. | : -SPCURETY MATTER L C
[771]Synopsis: _ . Subject reaides 882 Slayton Street, sen Francisco,
[772]- and is employed as an architectural drafteman through
[773]Amertoan Institute of Architects, 47 Kearney Street,
[774]San Pranociaco, Subject reported to be a member of
[775]Lineoin Ciub, SFYCCP and in attendance at public
[776]meetings sponsored by “FCCP, NCCPPB, SFCCPAP, ARI,
[777]Pu, FPCC, and NG, .
[778]DETAILS:
[780]A. Residence
[782]The Subject resides 9% 561 Clayton Street, San
[784]| Prancisce, California.
[786]oH ({O-129 beAn. _
[788]REVIEWED BY FBI/JFK TASK FORCH,
[790]Si RELEASEIN ie |
[791]“| RELEASE IN PA
[792]a TgTAL DENIAL
[794]y
[795]ped.
[797]289
[799]. ‘
[800]This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to
[801]your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.
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[808]B. Buploynent:
[810]The Subject is employed as an Architectural Draftsman
[811]for various architects and construction projects in the
[812]San Francisco ares, obtaining employment through the Placement
[813]Service of the American Inatitute of Architects, 47 Kearney
[814]Street, San Franciscc,
[816](Mra. ETHEL SMITH,
[817]Executive Director,
[818]AIA, 3/15/65)
[820]It. COMMUNIST PARTY (CP) AND RELATED ACTIVITIES
[822]4. San Francisco County CP (SFCCP)
[824]of P-2, a self-admitted former member of the CP in
[825]the San Francisco area during the period frem 1952 to 2957,
[826]advised on November 5, 1952, that she knows IRVING FROMER
[827]and his wife as members of the CP in Gan Praneiseo during
[828]that period.
[829]~ At a meeting of the Sunset Club, SrccP, which was
[830]held at 1235 42nd Avenue, San Frantisco, on May 15, 1962, a
[831]discussion was held regarding IRVING PROMER and his wife.
[832]It was noted that the FROMERs had recently moved tic the area
[833]covered by the Sunset Club. HERB NUGENT, Chairman of the
[834]SFCCP and & member of the Sunset Club, remarked that the
[835]PROMERS are in the Lincoln Club, SPCCP, and that they are needed
[836]in the Lincela Club. He said, however, that the PROMERS do
[837]not contribute much ts Club life and this is one of the
[838]problems of the Lineoln Club. He said that the Lineeln Club
[839]had ofreed to meet at the FROMENS houge, and the PROMERs
[840]didn't even arrive to attend meetings held at their own home.
[841]NUGENT said that both of the FROMERS are active 4n cther
[842]masse organizations.
[844](SF T-3. 5/10/02)
[845]TRYING FROMER is a member of the Lineein Glub, SICCF.
[847]m(SF T-3, 3/1/63)
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[860]The Subject attended a May Day meeting held at 15¢
[861]Golden Gate Avenue, San ‘Prancisco, on May 1, 1962, sponsored
[862]by the San Sranciseo Free Speech Forum. The Free Speech Forwn
[863]was aot up by the SPCCP to held public meetings,
[865]WALTER STACK, a meniber of the SFOOP, was chairman
[866]of this meeting and spoke on the meeting of May Day 28 a labor
[867]no iday.
[869]ARCHIE BROWN, a member of the SFCCP, discussed his
[870]conviction under the Landum-Griffith Act, He said it is a test
[871]ease to see if the act ig constitutional. They noted that he
[872]Was olected to the Executive Roard of Local 10, International
[873]Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (ILWU), by members of
[874]the locak and it would make no difference if he mpesigned from
[875]the CP becauge the Landwa-Grirfith Act says a person must not
[876]have been a member in the past five years.
[878]BALPH IZARD, a memhex of the SFCCP, gave a speech
[879]on the subject of government and monopolies . He said the
[880]government should spend money on the unemployed, the sick, —
[881]and the ill~housed instead of spending money trying to dominate
[882]former colonial ceuntries trying te establish independence.
[884]ELIZABETH GURLEY FLYNN, Chairman, CP of the United
[885]States of America (CEUSA),; was the featured speaker. She
[886]gaid thet things were different today for Communists under
[887]indictment than when she was indicted under the Smith Act.
[888]She said at that time all doors were shut to them, bub now
[889]all doors are open, She said that @US HALL and BEN DAVIS,
[890]Commmist funcbionaries, have been speaking to students ali
[891]over the country. She said that the government Hocws (at
[892]that she ie the Chairman of the CPUSA but so far has not been
[893]able to prove that she is a member of the CP. She said that |
[894]the Stace Dopartment 1s teyine to take away her passport under
[895]the McCarran Aet.
[897]She also said that she had visited the Soviet Union
[898]aE a fraternal delegate to the Congress of the 0.8.5.2. and
[899]gave the Russians the creetings of the American peonle. She
[900]alee vistted some ef the Social Democracies and found no
[901]unemployment there.
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[911]_ She said that capitealiam cannos solve the problems of
[912]the people but the development of Socialism can.
[914](SP T-3, 5/11/52).
[915]Subject's attendance at this meeting wan verified.
[917](sF T-4, 5/2/i2
[918]BP P-5, 5/3/a2
[919]SP T-5, 5/5/52)
[921]The Subject attended 4 public meeting sponsored by
[922]the GP held at 150 Golden Gate Avenue on December 5, 1952.
[923]MICKEY LIMA, Chairman of the Northern District of Cailfornia
[924]cP, was Master of Ceremonies at this meeting. He said that
[925]he need not be introduced as everyone knew what his political
[926]views were. He introduced JOHN APT, Legal Council for the CP
[927]and Defense Attorney for CP members victimised by the MeCarran
[929]crmmittee.
[931]JOHN APT spoke of the complexities of the McCarran
[932]Act and how it had teen used befcre in an attempt tc convict
[933]MICKEY LIMA and others, and he told how the <overnment had
[934]reversed the conviction on LIMA and the others because they
[935]iacked evidence to prove thelr charges. Now, the government
[936]is toying to get these people to confess to something that they
[937]had failed to prove the first tchoe.
[939]APT stated that President TRUMAN vetocd the McCarran
[940]Act on the grounds that it yowld put the government in the roll
[941]cf a dictater.
[943]He also spoke of the concentstation camps scattered
[944]throughout the country and noted that anyone could be placed |
[945]in them if the government felt they were a danger te the
[946]national var crisis.
[948]He spoke of the flexibility of the McCarran Act,
[949]which he said could be used against any citizen for any given
[950]reason and et any given time.
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[960]ELIZABETH CURLEY PLYNN also spoke and said ahe felt
[961]Slighted bedause she was not indicted for failure to register
[962]along with GUS HALL and BEN DAVIS, however, che hed some
[963]satisfaction in that the government was trying to take her
[964]pagsport from her.
[966](SF 9-7, 12/5/62}
[968]B. Northern California Commitine fer the Protectiow of the
[969]| Foreign Born (NCCPP3), and Committee for Constitutional
[971]2 bibesties (cot) (See . Appendix Pages}
[973]The Subject attended a conference "sponsored by the
[974]NCCPRB and CCL heid at 739 Page Street, San Prancisce, on
[975]September (3, 1962. JEAN KRAMER, Chairman of the conference,
[976]opened the meeting by etating that its purpose uae to discuss
[977]the WALTER MCCARRAN Act and ¢he California “Little McCarran
[978]Act” (Proposition 24 on the California Ballot)
[980]KRAMER read a uritten speech which had been prepared
[981]by LLOYD Ho MURRAY Civil Liberties Attorney. who had planned
[982]to attend the meeting but was unable to make it. MO MURRAY‘s
[983]speech dealt with the Chinese Confession Program which wes
[984]set up te give Chinese who were illegally in the country
[985]protection if they eame forth aad told their real identity.
[986]The main gist of the speech was condemming the Tmrvieraticn
[987]Service because of their policy ef sending illemal
[988]intigrants bask to China,
[990]The “San Francisco Cail Bulletin” issue of _
[991]Movember 18, 1957, carried an article which stated that
[992]JEAN KRAMER had been ordered deported as an alien who
[993]belonged to the CP. The article stated that she came
[994]te the United States in 1933 and was a CP member from
[995]3933 to 194g.
[997]LUQYD MC MURRAY was an active member of the oP —
[998]in San Praneieca from 1946 te 195°.
[1000](SF T-8, 6/23/55
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[1011]LAURENT PRANTZ, introduced as an expert in
[1012]eonstitutional law and a writer and publisher, spoke on the
[1013]Walter McCarran Act and said that the security of the nation
[1014]is hampered by this act.
[1016]fhe “New York Gullid Lawyer”, volume 20, March and
[1017]April, 1962, a self-described publication of the National
[1018]Lawyers Guild, lists LAURENT PRANTZ as a member at large
[1019]of the National Executive Roard, ‘National Laywers Guild
[1020](NiG). (See Appendix Page for NIG).
[1022]HOSE CEERNWIN, introduced aga the Executive Director
[1023]of the Committees for the Protection of the Foreign Born from
[1024]Les Angeles, said that the committee is fighting the Waller
[1025]MeCarran Act and will not register as a communist front group.
[1027]Other speakers who spcke in favor of a yvepeal of
[1028]the MeCarran Aet ineluded ROSCOE FROCTOR, HERRERT PHILLIPS,
[1029]and PRANK WILKENSON.
[1031]WELKENSON also urged for the abolishment of the
[1032]House Committee on Un-American Activities and ihe defeat of
[1033]Proposition 24 on the California ballot. .
[1035]HERBERT PHILLIPS is Chairman of the Gch.
[1036](SP 7-4, 9/25/52)
[1038]ROSCOE PROCTOR attended meetings of the CPUSA
[1039]fetional and District Leaders held in New York City
[1040]June 22 to 24, 1962.
[1042](sf T-9, 6/29/62)
[1044]FRANK WILKENSGN, according to an article in the
[1045]"San Praneiseo Examiner’ of Mareh 20, 1961, was convicted
[1046]of contempt of congress and refusing to state before the
[1047]House Committee on Un-American Activities whether or not
[1048]he had ever been a member of the CP. His sentence of
[1049]ohne year in jell was upheld by the United States Supreme
[1050]Court,
[1052](SP T-S, 9/24/62, SF -10, 9/25/62
[1053]‘SF T4, Vee 2, SP T-5, 10/3/52, ,
[1054]8? f-11, 10/1/52)
[1056]-
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[1069]Cc. San Frenciseo Citizens Committee te Preserve American
[1070]Breedoms (SPCCPAR) (See Appendix Page)
[1072]Subject attended a meeting of the S¥CCPAF which
[1073]was held at 750 Sanches Street, October 6, 1962, Chairman of
[1074]this meeting was NORMAN LEONARD, and a discussion was neid
[1075]regarding the activities of varicus individuals and groups
[1076]who were fighting for the defeat of Propositicn 22 (proposed
[1077]anti CP registration) on the California ballot.
[1079](SF P-16, 10/11/62)
[1081]NORMAN LEONARD is a currently active member of
[1082]the NULG.
[1084](sP T-4, 3/22/52)
[1086]On November 16, 1952. Subject was present at a
[1087]party held at his residence, 821 Clayton Street, to
[1088]celebrate the defeat of Proposition 24.
[1090](3? T-12, 11/15/62)
[1091]QD, American Russian Institute (ART)
[1093]. The ARL of Sad Prancisco has been designated by
[1094]the Attorney General of the United States pursuant to
[1095]Executive Order 10450.
[1097]_ Subject attended a public meeting sponsored by the
[1098]i3 neld at the Pallace Hotel in San Francisco on November 30,
[1099]1992.
[1101]WINCENT HALLINAN was one of the speakers and he told
[1102]of hia recent trip te Europe, including Hungary. He gave
[1103]gome 6? the history and background and culture of Hungary and.
[1104]said there was no democratic government in Hungary until
[1105]garter the Wat.
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[1115]HALLINAN said that the Hungarian people had some
[1116]jegitimate complaints under {TALIN and the revolution in
[1117]195° was somewhat justified, but the Facists took over almost
[1118]immediately and they were responsible for the hangings and
[1119]other atrosities that occurred,
[1121](SP T-4, 12/5/52
[1122]SF 7-5, 12/3/52
[1123]SF T-13, 12/5/52)
[1125]VINCENT HALLINAN was candidate for president of the
[1126]United. States on the Independent Progressive Party ticket
[1127]4n 1952 (See Appendix Page}.
[1129]8. “People's World”
[1131]The PW is a west coast communist newspaper published
[1132]in San Francisco.
[1134]The Subject attended a dinner for the benefit of
[1135]the PH heid at 81 Clementina Street, March 15, 1952. at
[1136]this dinner the Business Manager cf the PW announced that those
[1137]present should sign petitions asking the President not to
[1138]enforce the McCarran Act. He also suggested a telegram be
[1139]sent to the President to protest the arrest of GUS HALL and
[1140]ZEN DAVIS under the McCarran Act.
[1142](sF T-8, 3/19/62)
[1144]The Subject attended @ Social affair for the benefit
[1145]of the PY which was held at 596 @nd Avenue, San Francisco, on
[1146]March 31, 1962,
[1148](SF T-5, 4/3/52)
[1150]This social affair was sponsored by the Teamsters Club,
[1151]SPCCP, for the benefit of the Fu.
[1153](sF T-14, 3/52)
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[1161]& meeting of the committee to organize a book
[1162]fatr. for the benefit of the Pw was held at G1 Clementina
[1163]Street, on May 3, 1962. A Business Manager of the Pw
[1164]announced that IRVING FROME had agreed to contact painters
[1165]of xwecognized ability to diaplay their work at this book fair.
[1167](sF t-5, 5/21/52)
[1169]The Subject attended an art bazaar sponsored by the
[1170]Pa. hela at G1 Clementina Street, San Francisca, on June 22,
[1171]2 .
[1173](SF T-15, 7/3/52)
[1175]The Subject attended a bazaar sponsored by the Pw
[1176]held at Wi offices at 81 Clementina Street, San Prancisco,
[1177]December 8 and 9, 1962.
[1179](SF T-5, 12/10/52)
[1180]F. Fair Play For Cuba Committee (FPCC)(See Appendix Page)
[1182]. Subject attended a meeting of the PPCC held at
[1183]O25 Polk Street, San Prancisco, on December 7, 1962,
[1185]MARJORIE MORRAY, wife of JOSEPH P. MORRAY, a Stanford
[1186]Professor, told of her experiences in Cuba in 1960 and 1961.
[1187]She said she was a superviaor tcr English teachers in Cuba,
[1188]and her husband was engaged in reseerch at the University of
[1189]Havana.
[1191]She said the United States State Department policy
[1192]on Cuba was bad as it prevented good relations between the
[1193]two countries. She asked for contributions to send medical
[1194]supplies to Cuba.
[1196]The “National Guardian {NG)(See Appendix Page),
[1198]issue of November 29, 1952, lists JOSEPH P. MORRAY ag a
[1199]Guardian correspondent who epent two years in Havana.
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[1209]WILLIAM WORTHY aisc spoke at this meeting, and he
[1210]described himself as a reperiter for an Afro-American newspaper
[1211]io Baltimore, Maryland. He said he was sentenced in
[1212]September, 1962, to three months in Federal prison for entering
[1213]the United States. without @ passport. He said he had lest
[1214]his paspport when he traveled to Red China several montha
[1215]previous,
[1217]WORTHY said that the SIA is involved in every
[1218]trouble spot in the world, particularly when Communism enters
[1219]the picture.
[1221]WORTHY branded the United States as an imperialistic
[1222]netion determined to undermine Latin American countries and
[1223]bleed them of their natural resources.
[1225]He said that Cuba is showing the world what
[1226]socialism can produce without the help of imperdalistic
[1227]countrigs. .
[1229](8? P-4, 12/19/52)
[1230]! SP P-12, 12/12/52)
[1232]G. ‘National Quardian” (NG)
[1234]Subject attended a meeting Sponsored by the NG which
[1236]was held at 625 Polk Street on November 15, 1952. ‘The purpose
[1237]of the meeting was to hear a report on Cuba by JOSEPH P. MORRAY
[1238]and SAUL LANDAU. .
[1240]LANDAU told of visiting universities throughout the
[1241]country and Speaking of recent events in Cuba, he said he found
[1242]hatred in the eyes of the students and felt at times as though
[1243]they wanted to lynch him. He said that many educators feel
[1244]that the right wing is setting control of the universities,
[1246]He also discussed life in Cuba as he observed it
[1247]during hie satay there.
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[1255]SAUL LANDAU is editor and publisher of Stuaiees on
[1256]the Left (See Appendix Page).
[1258](SP T-15, 1962)
[1260]SOSEPR P. MORRAY deseriped himself as a former
[1261]officer in Navel Intelligence, a lawyer and a former professor
[1262]in Havana. He said that when the revolution in Cuba was
[1263]started, the CP was against it and told CASTHO it was i11-
[1264]advised, 111-timed, however, CASTRO went ahead with the revolution
[1265]and when the Communist saw he was accepted ag the national
[1266]leader, they joined forces and accepted his leadership.
[1268]MORRAY said the first prepident after the revolution
[1269]wad @ conservative who demanded that CASTRO Kick cut the
[1270]Comauniste and close the Comminist papers. He also wanted
[1271]appropriate compensation to be paid for land and factories
[1272]which were nationalized. MORRAY said that CASTRO agreed only
[1273]to pay the value which had been declared for these properties
[1274]in their tax returns.
[1276]MORAY said that CASTHO is s Leninist and disagrees
[1278]somewhat with Communists, He said that the Cuban people are
[1279]proud of being socialists and that CASTRO is in Cuba to stay.
[1281]Hie said he was skeptical about Russian missiles being
[1282]4n Guba and decided that the Russians were trying te bulld a
[1283]nuclear wall between Russia and Cuba.
[1284](sp T-4, 11/23/52)
[1285]III. HISCRLLANEOUS
[1286]On October 27, 1992, the Subject was present at a
[1287]Gemonstration held in Civic Center Plaza, San Francisco,
[1288]Colifomia, to proteat the blockade of Cuba by the United
[1289]States Navy.
[1290](SP T-4, 16/29/32)
[1292]Subject was observed at this demonstration by
[1293]Special Agents of the FBI.
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[1305]At a meeting of the San Prancice County Committee of
[1306]she SPOGP, it was brought out that it was the duty of the Cr
[1307]members ta infiltrate church activities, and all Farty people
[1308]were urged to take part in the activities of the Petends
[1309]Services Committee. IRVING PROMER and His wife, KAY, are _
[1310]active pasticipants in the Priends Service Committee activities
[1311]and in a Unitarian Church group which participated in past
[1312]ilesues, This church group at one time had the sponaorship
[1314]f the Unitarian Church, but this sponsorship was later
[1315]withdrawn .
[1317]Yhe FROMERS are active in these setiyities as part
[1318]ef the miss work for the CP.
[1320](sp 9-3, 6/14/62)
[1322]wm ED
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[1328]COMMITTEE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTIES
[1329](CCL), aka. Citizens Committee for
[1330]Constitutional Liberties - San Francisco
[1332]A source advised on June 19, 1961, that MICKIE LIMA,
[1333]Chairman, Northern California District, Communist Party (CP),
[1334]reported on June 15, 1961, that the CP, USA, in response to the
[1335]Supreme Court decision of June 5, 1961, relating to the Internal
[1336]Security Act of 1950 had decided to create a committee known as
[1337]Citizens Committee for Constitutional Liberties (CCCL), 22 East
[1338]17th Street, New York City, and that a local cemmittee would be
[1339]organized for Northern California. ;
[1341]This source advised on June 26, 1961, that a meeting was
[1342]held on June 18, 1961, at the home of ROSCOE PROCTOR, member of
[1343]the National Committee, CP, USA, for the purpose of formulating
[1344]the CCCL for Northern California,
[1346]A second source advised on September 14, 1961, that the
[1347]CCCL had opened an office at 942 Market Street, Room 4ol,
[1348]San Francisco, California, and that some ef the furniture for
[1349]| this office had come from the CP office on the same floor.
[1351]One of these sources, in March, 1962, advised that CP
[1352]efficials in Northern California are active in supporting and
[1353]i, promoting the CCL and in disseminating its literature.
[1355]A third source, in April, 1962, advised that correspondence
[1356]|! and literature emanating from the CCL is aimed at the non-
[1357]enforcement and repeal of the Internal Security Act of 1950
[1358](McCarran Act). Some of the literature disseminated is
[1360]lp purchased from the CCCL, New York, New Yerk.
[1362]The two officers of the CCL in San Francisco are
[1363]Doctor HERBERT J, PHILLIPS, Chairman, and WALTER STACK,
[1364]| Treasurer,
[1365]Doctor PHILLIPS testified in open court in 1953 to CP
[1367]membership since 1935. WALTER STACK is a current CP member in
[1368]San Francisco,
[1370]; APPENDIX
[1372]ee a
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[1378]CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL
[1379]LIBERTIES (NEW YORK CITY
[1381]The Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications,
[1382]revised and published December 1, 1961, prepared and released
[1383]by the Committee on Un-American Activities, United States
[1384]House of Representatives, contains the following on Page 42
[1385]concerning "Citizens Committee for Constitutional Liberties
[1386](New York City)":
[1388]1, "On the basis of its investigations and hearings
[1389]to date, the committee concludes that the National Assembly
[1390]for Democratic Rights and a coordinating and organizing group
[1391]in support thereof, titled the ‘Citizens Committee for
[1392]Constitutional Liberties,' are Communist fronts, Created,
[1393]dominated, and controlled by members and officials of the
[1394]Communist Party, the National Assembly for Democratic Rights
[1395]and the Citizens Committee for Constitutional Liberties were
[1396]organized as propaganda devices for the conduct of 'mass
[1397]activity! in support of the avowed objectives of 'reversal or
[1398]nonapplication' of the Supreme Court decisions of June 5,
[1399]1961, which upheld the constitutionality of the registration and
[1400]disclosure provisions of the Internal Security Act of 1950
[1401]as applied to the Communist Party, and the Smith Act membership
[1402]clause making punishable active and purposive membership in
[1403]the Communist Party,"
[1405]"* * * The long-range objective of the Citizens
[1406]Committee for Constitutional Liberties is to serve as the
[1407]vehicle for concealed Communist participation in, and direction
[1408]of, propaganda and agitational activities aimed to nullify
[1409]the Internal Security and Smith Acts,"
[1411]"* * * Committee investigation disclosed that the
[1412]Citizens Committee for Constitutional Liberties was formed on
[1413]or about June 12, 1961 * * ¥,"
[1415](Committee on Un-American Activities, Report
[1417]and Hearings on Manipulation of Public Opinion
[1418]by Organizations Under Concealed Control of the
[1419]Communist Party (National Assembly for Democratic
[1420]Rights and Citizens Committee for Constitutional
[1421]Liberties), House Report 1282, Part 1, October 2
[1422]and 3, 1961, pp. 137, 143 and 144,)
[1424]APPENDIX
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[1432]FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA COMMITTEE, BAY AREA CHAPTER
[1433]also known as Bay Area Fair Play for Cuba
[1435]Committee {(BAFPCC)
[1437]The "New York Times" newspaper on November 20, 1960,
[1438]carried an article captioned "Pro-Castro Body Reports U.S.
[1439]Gain," which reported that the Fair Play for Cuba Committee
[1440](FPCC) had 5,000 paid-up members in the United States. The
[1441]article declared that the FPCC had headquarters at 799 Broadway,
[1442]New York City, New York, and had chapters in other cities, in-
[1443]cluding one in San Francisco.
[1445]A source advised in March, 1961, that the Bay Area
[1446]Chapter of the FPCC (BAFPCC) began to be formed in San Francisco
[1447]in November, 1960, under the direct guidance and leadership of
[1448]ASHER HARER, who the source identified as a member of the San
[1449]Francisco Branch of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and a
[1450]member of the National Committee of the SWP.
[1452]The SWP has been designated by the Attorney
[1453]General of the United States pursuant to
[1454]Executive Order 10450.
[1456]A source advised in May, 1962, that the BAFPCC is
[1457]currently active in the San Francisco area and includes members
[1458]in San Francisco and surrounding counties. He advised that the
[1459]BAFPCC has no headquarters but receives mail through Post
[1460]Office Box 2615, San Francisco 26, California, which is a box
[1461]maintained by ASHER HARER, He stated that the announced aims and
[1462]purposes of the BAFPCC are to "spread the truth about Cuba and
[1463]to prevent U.S. intervention in Cuba."
[1465]A source advised in March, 1962, that in the recent
[1467]elections of the BAFPCC, the SWP continued its influence by
[1468]having SWP members elected to the Executive Committee.
[1470]APPENDIX |
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[1476]FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA COMMITTEE (FPCC)
[1478]The April 6, 1960, edition of "The New York Times"
[1479]newspaper contains a full page advertisement captioned "What
[1481]Is Really Happening in Cuba," placed by the FPCC, This
[1482]advertisement announced the formation of the Fic in New York
[1483]City and declared the FPCC intended to promulgate "the truth
[1484]about revoluntionary Cuba" to neutralize the distorted American
[1485]press.
[1487]"The New York Times" edition of January 11, 1961,
[1488]reported that at a hearing conducted before the United States
[1489]Senate Internal Security Subcommittee on January 10, 1961, Dr.
[1490]CHARLES A. SANTOS-BUCH identified himself and ROBERT TABER as
[1491]organizers of the FPCC. He also testified he and TABER obtain-
[1492]ed funds from the Cuban Government which were applied toward the
[1493]cost of the aforementioned advertisement.
[1495]On October 3, 1960, a source advised that the
[1496]Socialist Workers Party (Swe) in New York had become active in
[1497]the FPCC, and that SWP members, in a FPCC election, had been
[1498]able to remove several Communist Party (CP) members who were
[1499]on the Executive Board of the FPCC and gain control of the
[1500]organization.
[1502]A second source advised that an announcement from
[1503]National Headquarters of the SWP was made on September 24, 1961
[1504]to the effect RICHARD GIBSON had fired the secretary in the FPCC
[1506]headquarters and was trying to break the SWP influence in the
[1507]FPCC,.
[1509]Column 2, page 8, of the February 22, 1962, edition
[1510]of "The New York Times" contains an article captioned "Castro
[1511]Backer Resigns" which announced that ROBERT TABER had resigned
[1512]as Executive Secretary of the FPCC and as President of the
[1513]Institute for the Improvement of Inter-American Relations, Inc.,
[1514]which had organized the FPCC in April, 1960.
[1516]On May 17, 1962, a third source advised that Nati onal
[1517]Headquarters of the FPCC is located in room 329 at 799 Broadway,
[1518]New York City, and that the FPCC is operating under the direction
[1519]of RICHARD GIBSON, Acting National Executive Secretary of the
[1520]FPCC.
[1522]The SWP and the CP, USA, have been designated by the
[1523]Attorney General ofesche United Ftates pursuant to Executive Order
[1524]10450,
[1526]APPENDIX
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[1532]1.
[1534]SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY - SAN
[1535]FRANCISCO DIV” STON
[1537]A source advised on August 1, 1960, that the San
[1538]Prancisco Branch of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) was formed
[1539]approximately in the early part of 1938 and the Oakland Branch
[1540]of the SWP was formed in the latter part of 1938.
[1542]A second source advised on October 26, 1959, that the
[1543]name of the Oakland Branch of the SWP was changed to the
[1544]Qakland-Berkeley Branch of the SWP,
[1546]A third source advised on April 9, 1962, that the
[1547]San Francisco Branch and the Oakland-Berkeley Branch of the SWP
[1548]follow the policies and directives of the National SWP with whom
[1549]they are affiliated.
[1551]_ The SWP has been designated by the Attorney General
[1552]of the United States pursuant to Executive Order 10456,
[1554]APPENDIX.
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[1562]le
[1564]INDEPENDENT PROGRESSIVE PARTY
[1566]The 1955 Report ef the California Committee on
[1567]Un-American Activities, page 46, stated, "The Independent
[1568]Progressive Party in California was quickly captured by
[1569]the communists, and by the time the Wallace for President
[1570]campaign had swung into high gear was being operated lock,
[1571]stock, and barrel by the Communist Party of California.
[1572]Time after time the committee in questioning witnesses
[1573]threughout the State discovered that the leaders of the
[1574]Communist Parties in various localities were identical
[1575]with the leaders of the Independent Progressive Party in
[1576]the same area. It is true, of course, that in the Inde-
[1577]pendent Progressive Party there were many sincere liberals
[1578]who, because ef dissatisfaction with the two major polit-
[1579]ical organizations registered as Independent Progressives
[1580]and continued their affiliation until the true contrel of
[1581]the I. P. P. became obvious. These people invariably re<
[1582]Bigned, many of them having given the benefit of their ex-
[1583]perience to various official agencies interested in the
[1584]exposure vf subversive activities."
[1586]APPENDIX PAGE
[1588]he
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[1596]rat
[1598]STUDIES ON THE LEFT (SOTL)
[1600]The "Wisconsin State Journal," a daily newspaper published at
[1601]Madison, Wisconsin, on November 26, 1959 announded that a new
[1602]scholarly magazine, "Studies on the Left," a historical review
[1603]dedicated to the leftist point of view, edited by present and
[1604]former graduate students at the University of Wisconsin (uw),
[1605]but having no connection with the UW itself, would begin
[1606]publication soon.
[1608]Records of the Wisconsin Secretary of State reflect SOTL was
[1609]incorporated under laws of Wisconsin July 16, 1959 as a non-
[1610]stock, uon-profit corporation with headquarters P.O. Box 2121,
[1611]Madison, Wisconsin. Three issues were published during the
[1612]period December, 1959 to November, 1960, The first issue
[1613]contained a policy statement of the editors stating SOTL was
[1614]primarily a magazine for national circulation designed to give
[1615]younger men with radical views a place to voice their opinions.
[1617]Publicly listed members of SOTL's Editorial Board SAUL LANDAU,
[1618]JOAN BROMBERG, STEPHEN SCHEINBERG, MARTIN J. SKLAR and JAMES
[1619]WEINSTEIN have been identified by sources previously as having
[1620]participated in the activities of the Labor Youth League (LYL);
[1621]while Editorial Board members DAVID EAKINS and MATTHEW CHAPPERON
[1622]have been identified as active members of the Communist Party
[1623](CP). Another source has identified LANDAU and EAKINS as
[1624]handling the finance and business affairs of SOTL.
[1626]The Communist Party, USA, and the Labor Youth League have been
[1627]designated by the Attorney General of the United States pursuant
[1628]to Executive Order 10450,
[1630]APPENDIX PAGE
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[1636]NORTHERN CALIFORNIA COMMITTEE
[1637]FOR PROTECTION OF FOREIGN BORN
[1639]: The "Daily People's World," now known as the "People's
[1640]World," a West Coast Communist newspaper, of November 2, 1950,
[1641]page 10, columns 1 and 2, contained an article entitled,
[1642]"Northern California Committee for Foreign Born Planned." This
[1643]article stated that plans for the organization of a Northern
[1644]California Committee for Protection of Foreign Born would be
[1645]made at a meeting on November 6, 1950, at 150 Golden Gate
[1646]Avenue, San Francisco, California.
[1648]A source advised on April 25, 1962, that the Northern
[1649]California Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, although
[1650]an independent organization, carries out a program of activity
[1651]in Northern California which coincides with the aims of the
[1652]American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born (ACPFB),
[1654]The source further advised that the Northern California
[1655]Committee for Protection of Foreign Born continues to be active
[1656]in defending the foreign born in deportation proceedings and in
[1657]securing support for the repeal of the Walter-McCarran Law.
[1659]The ACPFB has been designated by the Attorney General
[1660]of the United States pursuant to Executive Order 10450.
[1662]APPENDIX
[1664]‘ 20
[1666]Bs A
[1667]368
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[1671]"NATIONAL GUARDIAN"
[1673]The Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications,
[1674]revised and published December 1, 1961, prepared and released
[1675]by the Committee on Un-American Activities, United States
[1676]House of Representatives, contains the following on Page 193
[1677]concerning "National Guardian":
[1679]1. “established by the American Labor Party in 1947
[1680]as a 'progressive' weekly * * *. Although it denies having
[1681]any affiliation with the Communist Party, it has manifested
[1682]itself from the beginning as a virtual official propaganda arm
[1683]of Soviet Russia."
[1685](Committee on Un-American Activities, Report,
[1686]Trial by Treason: The National Committee to
[1688]Secure Justice for the Rosenbergs and Morton
[1689]Sobell, August 25, 1956, p. 12.
[1691]APPENDIX
[1693]509
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[1697]Li Ste sagag
[1701]NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD
[1702]SAN FRANCISCO CHAPTER
[1704]A source advised on April 19, 1962, that the
[1705]San Francisco Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, which is
[1706]affiliated with the National Lawyers Guild and follows its
[1707]policies and directives, was organized in the Summer of 1937,
[1708]and is currently active in San Francisco, California,
[1710]APPENDIX
[1712]NW 88613 Docld:34528578 Page 38
[1714]BP 100-4336
[1715]erofir
[1717]NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD
[1719]The Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications,
[1720]revised and published December 1, 1961, prepared and released
[1721]by the Committee on Un-American Activities, United States
[1722]House of Representatives, contains the following on Page 121
[1723]concerning "National Lawyers Guild":
[1725]1. Cited as a Communist front.
[1726](Special Committee on Un-American Activities,
[1728]House Report 1311 on the CIO Political Action
[1729]Committee, March 29, 1944, p. 149.)
[1731]2. Cited as a Communist front which "is the foremost
[1732]legal bulwark of the Communist Party, its front organizations,
[1733]and controlled unions" and which "since its inception has
[1734]never failed to rally to the legal defense of the Communist
[1735]Party and individual members thereof, including known
[1736]espionage agents."
[1738](Committee on Un-American Activities, House
[1740]Report 3123 on the National Lawyers Guild,
[1741]September 21, 1950, originally rel ated
[1742]September 17, 1950.)
[1744]3. "To defend the cases of Communist lawbreakers,
[1745]fronts have been devised making special appeals in behalf
[1746]of civil liberties and reaching out far beyond the confines
[1747]of the Communist Party itself. Among these organizations
[1748]are the * * * National Lawyers Guild. When the Communist
[1749]Party itself is under fire these offer a bulwark of protection."
[1751](Internal Security Subcommittee of the Senate
[1753]Judiciary Committee, Handbook for Americans, S.
[1754]Doc. 117, April 23, 1956, p. 91.)
[1756]APPENDIX
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[1760]SAN FRANCISCO CITIZENS COMMITTEE
[1761]TO PRESERVE AMERICAN FREEDOMS (SFCCPAF)
[1763]A source advised on April 7, 1960, that a San Fran-
[1764]cisco affiliate of the Citizens Committee to Preserve American
[1765]Freedoms (CCPAF) had been established at a meeting held in
[1766]San Francisco on April 4, 1960. The source advised that the
[1767]San Francisco affiliate, to be known as the San Francisco CCPAF,
[1768]would carry out in Northern California, the program of the CCPAF,
[1770]Source advised on April 17, 1962, that the San Fran-
[1771]cisco CCPAF is active.
[1773]APPENDIX
[1775]NW 60613 Docid:34520578 Page 40
[1777]BY 100-3355 a
[1778]roar - |
[1780]i.
[1781]CITIZENS COMMITTEE TO PRESERVE AMERICAN FREEDOMS
[1783]The Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications,
[1784]revised and published December 1, 1961, prepared and released
[1785]by the Committee on Un-American Activities, United States
[1786]House of Representatives, contains the following on Page 43
[1787]concerning "Citizens Committee to Preserve American Freedoms":
[1789]1. "The (Communist), party's front operations in the
[1790]Southern California District today are * * * confined to four
[1791]major organizations," which include the Citizens Committee to
[1792]Preserve Anerican Freedoms.
[1794]"The Citizens Committee to Preserve American Freedoms
[1795]* * * specializes in propaganda aimed at abolishing the Committee
[1796]on Un-American Activities and discrediting the Federal Bureau of
[1797]Investigation. Created in Los Angeles in 1952, the front
[1798]organization is run by Frank Wilkinson, an identified Communist
[1799]who recently resumed the full-time, paid post of executive
[1800]secretary after approximately a year's leave of absence to assist
[1801]in a similar campaign by another front in New York City, the
[1802]Emergency Civil Liberties Committee.
[1804]"When the Committee on Un-American Activities held
[1805]hearings in Los Angeles September 2-5, 1958, to inquire into
[1806]the nature of the party's recent reorganization in California,
[1807]the Citizens Committee to Preserve American Freedoms sponsored
[1808]a series of public meetings to protest the hearings and the
[1809]very existence of the committee. Communists subpenaed as wit-
[1810]nesses were guests of honor.
[1812]"At this time, leaders of the party's Southern
[1813]California District were mobilizing Communists in the area for
[1814]participation in an intensified campaign to abolish this
[1815]committee of Congress. How the Citizens Committee to Preserve
[1816]American Freedoms served the party in this effort was revealed
[1817]by (Communist Party) District Chairman Dorothy Healey in a
[1818]report to the party's Southern California District Council on
[1819]September 21, 1958. Mrs. Healey declared that the party preferra
[1820]public protest meetings to be held by the Citizens Committee to
[1821]Preserve American Freedoms rather than under party auspices tecase
[1822]Communists could attend without danger of being exposed as
[1823]members of the party. She also noted that Communists scheduled
[1824]as congressional committee witnesses could not appear beforehand
[1825]at openly Communist rallies without creating the impression
[1826]that the party was conspiring with witnesses to withhold informa-
[1827]tion from the committee."
[1829](Committee on Un-American Activities, House Report
[1830]259 on the Southern California District of the
[1831]Communist Party, April 3, 1959, pp. 7 and 8.)
[1833]4
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[1841](«> +°D-323 (Rev. 11-29-61) . . a ‘
[1843]* Wo! . mot f aod
[1845]oe , ‘ag * . , . .
[1847]UNITED STATES. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE a
[1848]FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
[1850]San Pranciocs, California
[1851]March 29, 2953
[1853]_ In Reply, Please Refer to
[1854]File No.
[1856]Character . GESURITY MATTER -¢
[1858]; ' Reference heport ef Special Agent FRANCIS
[1859]—_ ; ?, DAVIS, dated and captioned as
[1860]ahove, at San Franeiaco
[1862]All sources (except any listed below) whose identities
[1863]are concealed in: referenced communication have furnished reliable.
[1864]information in the past.
[1866]“ 3t4
[1868]This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property
[1869]_of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside
[1870]your agency, .
[1872]_ NW 88613 Docid:34528578 Page 42
[1874]EAUIBIT COVER SHEET
[1876]2?
[1880]Exhibit Number :JX-
[1881]SUBJECT: PoRER, Dovid Dent
[1882]Siwe Regist
[1883]DOR: 2h July "982, Chicago, Tlinois
[1884]File Number? 72206003 $64n5049137
[1885]Freparing Unit: 115th MI Group { g )
[1886]Agent Report Dated: 92% Fey 1967
[1887]Deseription: Report, SFO FBI dated 30 Map 64 re SUBJECT'S father
[1889]REVIEWED Ry FRE TASK FORCE
[1891]or Mlepa jd ——
[1893]Li:
[1895]on CONTAINED
[1896]aie FBI INE ont ore LD KSB
[1897]wey abs
[1898]DAT Ce
[1899]Classification
[1900]ICGP-F Form 2-25 “ 315
[1902](Rev 25 Mar 66)
[1904]NW 60613 Docid:34520578 Page 43
[1906]4
[1908]FD-204 (Rev. -3-50)
[1910]UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
[1911]FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
[1913]Copy to:
[1915]Report of: . SA FRANCIS T, DAVIS Offic: SAN FRANCISCC
[1916]Date: March 30, 1964 OC
[1918]Field Office FileNo: 1O00=33836 ; Bureau FileNo: 100+365779
[1920]‘Title: XRVING RHODES PROMER
[1922]Character: SECURITY SAPTER Pad rol
[1924]Synopsis:
[1925]Subjeot resides at 881 Clayton Street, : San Francises, and
[1926]48 employed as un arahitectucal draftanan through the a
[1927]American Inatitute of Architects, 47 Kearny Street, Jan
[1928]Franeiseo. Subject attended CP sponsored May Day meeting
[1929]and ARI affairs. He taught class on Marxiem and Art at
[1930]Sen Pranoises 555, He attended PW bazaar, National Guardian
[1931]affair and film sponsored by SFCCFAF. Attended mass meeting
[1932]in San Francisec sponsored by cURT and took part in peace
[1933]Walk tn San Francisco. Also attended meetings sponsored
[1934]by the Continuations Comittee of World Congress on deneval —
[1936]Disarmament and Feace,
[1937]== ECLA sip BY ya aa
[1938]ae ON 4G 4 pease
[1940]ZX. BACKGROUND
[1942]DETATLS1
[1944]{ A. Residence
[1946]The subject resides at $62 Clayton, Street, Jan
[1947]¥rancises, Californte.
[1949]REVIEWED BY FE “JFK TASK FORCE | -« GHARLES TERSHEY, 217
[1951]on folie hind | Frederick street - 3/4/64
[1952]Y RELCASE IN FULL
[1953]Cl RELEASE IN PART
[1954]© TOTAL DENIAL
[1956]wes ification 3 I 6
[1958]This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBT of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and
[1959]its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.
[1961]NW 88613 Docld:34528578 Page 44
[1963]Py /esl
[1965]saab ject continues tc be employed aa ar
[1966]architestural draftsman in the San Franeiseo ared.,
[1967]obtaining employment through the placement service of
[1968]the Amerioar, Institute of Architects, 47 Kearny Sbreet
[1971]Bes. EPHEL otDPi,
[1972]Executive Direotar,
[1973]AIA - 3/20/64
[1975]A, Conmminitiut Farty
[1977]The wubject attended « hay Day meeting sponsored
[1978]by the san Prencisco Free Speech Forum held at 156 Golden
[1979]Gate Averue,. Gan Francisco, on May 4, 1963. MARGRIT FIrTrear
[1980]acted a6 chairman of the mecting ard noted that she Aad
[1981]aelebrated May Day last year in Moscow, She said che
[1982]regarded this 4 privilege anc honcr and anid that May i
[1983]dn Moscow was celebrated in a spirit. of good wilt and
[1984]fraternity and should be celebrated in a like manner in
[1985]this countyy. che @aid thet some day averyone would live
[1986]under Boclaltem and there would be no pore war and everyone
[1987]would be friemdis and brothers.
[1989]ARCHIE BROWN, introduced as a well know labor
[1990]ieader and progressive, Ave 2 speech eritical of the
[1991]eity administration in San Francisea, and ciaimed that the
[1992]ius clearence program drove under-privylioged people from
[1993]One Slum area infa marginal acea which then becanse slums.
[1995]CARL BLOICE and severei others then put ou an
[1996]entertainment skit prios to the introduction of HYHAN LUKE
[1997]as a featured speaker. IKE was introduced as an historian
[1998]and econamiet and a Tatt-Hartiey vietin.
[2000]an 317
[2002]NW 88613 Docld:34528578 Page 45
[2005]SH 2000-33835
[2006]PTD /msl
[2008]had a planned economy and traded with Soviet nations,
[2009]most of the iils of unsapleyoent cowld be cured. He also
[2010]Spoles 0: ation ie eaten’ ects and union
[2011]busting legislation. He aaid the government 1a applying
[2012]antitrust provisions to unions and there is a vicious —
[2013]prosecution of labor leaders. He said these acts are the
[2014]products of the cold war and reaction.
[2016]A resolution ta the yresident aad the Attorney
[2017]General wau pasead €t this meeting which requested the
[2018]government take action against the Birmingham Police Depart-
[2019]ment for police brutality. At the suggestion of IRVING
[2020]FROMER, had a condemnation of the government for past
[2021]inactivity the resolution. _
[2023]The San Prancisoo Free Speech Forwn is
[2024]& net uned by the Gan Francisco County
[2025]Comamist rarty (GFCCP) to present CP
[2026]affaixe which would not be identified
[2027]publialy with the Cr.
[2029]SF He = 5/7/52
[2030]SARGRER. PITTMAN 10 2 member of the SFCCY,
[2032]SF T-6 ~ 5/63
[2033]ARCHIE BROWN in a oxmiber of the SFCCP,
[2034]S¥F T-5 ~ 5/63
[2036]* 418
[2038]NW 88613 Docld:34528578 Page 46
[2041]SF 10033636
[2042]FTD/uel
[2044]CARL BLOICE 18 a weasber of the SFOCE.
[2046]GF T7 - 5/63
[2047]AYeAN LOMER hes been iisted as the
[2048]editor of "Political Arfaixre”, #
[2050]Beit-desceribed theuretical organ of
[2051]the Cf, USA, sinee Jay, 1963.
[2053]Amex ivan i
[2055]The ART has been aceignated by
[2056]Attorney deneral of the United Staten
[2057]parsvent to Executive Order 20456,
[2059]The Jb ject attended 2 reception sponsored by the
[2060]ARX held on April 26, 1963, at the Sheraton Palace Hotel
[2061]in San Francipet, in honor we VICTOR ARNAUROPE Fae invie
[2063]mene: of the Department of Art at stanford Delversity
[2064]Since i917, and it was noted that he wast isa for 4
[2065]year of painting exhibitions and euitarel work the
[2066]Doviet Union. & these listed a6 giving greetings and
[2067]recognition of his work was IRVING FROMER, artist
[2069]ehairman <~f the draghie Arte Workshop.
[2071]The program at the vcecaphion consisted of
[2072]entertainment ineluding songs by one of FROMER's sons,
[2073]and 4 by shi: BOOU,
[2075]SP P-L ~ HA0/53
[2076]VICTCH ARNAUTORP i4 2 menber of the
[2077]wan Pranclace County Commmist Party.
[2078]SPTM§ + Of/55
[2079], 5
[2082]NW 88613 Docid:34528578 Page 47
[2085]SF 2909-33038
[2086]PED (aed
[2088]oF the Cf in
[2089]of Gaisrormva,
[2091]SF T-1L - 9 /2i/o3
[2093]She Gup ject attends: ai'faiy sponsored by tie
[2095]ARI held at the Jheraton Palace detel on November 24,
[2096]1963. Thia aftair celebrated: the 30th anniversary of the
[2097]well, ae the recont signing at ‘the Best Ban Preaty.
[2098]HOLLAND ROBERTS, President of the ARI, seted as olmiresir.
[2099]of the meeting and commented on the assassination of
[2100]President X2RNBDY, which he stated was a deliberate pian
[2101]of the extreme right forces, those forces apposed tc
[2102]pence. He Introduced the sounselors of the USSR Embassy
[2104]An Washington, 0.¢., who amveyed the sondolenses of tna
[2105]soviet Anbassadar and members of the Embassy to the
[2106]audience on the death of President KENNEDY.
[2108]The main speaker ci the evening, JOHN BCHARD
[2109]GAMSON, a@aid that he had spent the past two years in
[2110]the Seviet Trion, where he wrote a book and participated
[2111]in the making of myles, He made a2 comparison be
[2112]the more decadence of United States youth and the healthy
[2113]spirit of Soviet youth. He alas tried to convey the
[2114]impression that ene late President KOQUNEDY had beer siain
[2115]by forges apposed to peace,
[2117]dais WOOD is a menper
[2118]the # Horthern Diatrics -
[2120]SE W-9 = 11/99/63
[2122]JU HOWARD LAWSON jie a member of the
[2123]oF in the Bos Angelce, California area.
[2125]SF P15 ~ 12/8/63
[2127]SO LLAND RORERTS ig a member of the CF
[2128]an Fele Alto, Galifornia. .
[2130]OF W100 « dn 1953
[2132]NW 88613 Docld:34528578 Page 48
[2135]a
[2137]The e¥ is a west const Commmtiat news-
[2138]paper published in San Franciaec.
[2140]Ghe inh ject attended a / bagaar sponsored by the
[2142]wi held December 0 ~ 8, 1965, at 81 Glenentina ctrest,
[2143]dan Pranciseo, California. |
[2144]SF T+3 « 12/26/53
[2146]vB. oan Pranscines School of .@eial Golenees (SFG5u)
[2148]fhe £2321, 1963, bwiletin of the GFSS5 listed
[2150]. ERVING FROMER as an inatruetor in a
[2152]clase on Karxton
[2153]and Art held on Monday evenings from 0:45 POM. to 30: 35 FE.
[2154]at 345 Franklin Streat, San Francisco, starting on
[2155]Getober 14, 1963.
[2157]oF M9 - 10/10/63
[2159]om Geteber 14, 19635, FROHER conducted a alace
[2160]on Marcie: and Art and recomended the class read a bowl
[2161]on axt and social life by PLEKOVO?Y whom he deseribed az
[2163]a theoretical writer of Marxist coclaitem. He aise recom
[2164]mended other iiterature by Sovlet weiters.
[2166]SP T-12 + 2h 3/53
[2168]cab dock ¢onducted clause on Marxism and Art ©
[2169]Gatober a1 "1963, at which he discussed objestive and
[2171]subjective srt. He also discussed WALT WHITMAN as a painter.
[2173]Re remarked that the Amemtean Art Hoard fe composed of
[2174]reactionaries like ROCKEPELLAN and CARNEGIE.
[2176]SF Ti =~ 10/28/63
[2178]321
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[2183]_——.
[2185]OF 100-735 35
[2188]Sub ject sonduated & class of! Marxiem and Art
[2189]on. Ostober a 1963, at which claus he showed still
[2190]oot eray of verlows art works upon which he commented
[2194]aF T-2 ~ 10/30/83
[2196]' Gt Hovenbex £0, 1963, 4 neebing of teachers and
[2197]ejass Teprenentatives of the SFS55 was held at 33 8 franklin
[2198]Street, san Franciaco, to diacuas the program of the
[2199]school and plans for the future, The Subject was mot
[2200]present at this meeting; however, his art clase wag
[2201]Widely dieoussed and 1t was stated that there wore only
[2202]four atadenta left in the advanced class. it was decided
[2203]that the course Would be dropped In the next Semen ter:
[2204]because of tie low attendanse and the fact that tha
[2205]zourge had nothing te de with Barsdme.
[2207]OP B-2 11/21/63
[2209]On December 19, 1953, THRAGNCE HALLINAN,
[2210]Direstor of the SPSSS, announced that the school had
[2211]ceased oiagues until the and of Jamuary, and remarked
[2212]that LAVIN FROMER’s art claas would be senceted duc
[2213]to lack of attendance.
[2215]OF T-13  ~ 12/20/53
[2218]Avenue, San Francisco, om Hereh 23, 1963, The Subjecttz
[2219]aon, JOHN PROG, WAS among . +hone Wie provided the
[2220]antertainnent.
[2222]OF Tah ~ 3/26/53
[2224]F, Sam Praioleco Citizens Caomittee te Preserve
[2225]— Senedcan Freedom (SFCCPAY) {see appendix) _
[2227]Ameri Preedome (SFCCPAH) {See
[2229]The wabject attended a film showing sponsored by
[2230]the SPCCFAF held at the Hall of Flowers, Golden date Park,
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[2239]GF 190033855
[2241]fan Franeisss,; of April 12, i903. The film was captioned
[2243]"CL Ua-Anevicans’ and depieted scenes from the San Pranaiseo
[2245]Picts heid in. the City Hall during an appearance cf the
[2246]flouse Comulttes on Un-Amerioa: Activities (HCUA).
[2248]Ab thie affair, FRANS VILEINSON spoke on resent
[2249]biils whisn were introduced into Uongress attempting to
[2250]Go away with the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
[2251]ie said the firat bills were worked on by o1 six people
[2252]ang at present they have a working forse of 36 Corgress~
[2253]men who are ubtempting to abciish the HCOA.
[2255]SP RD ~ 4/28/63
[2256]SF Tei» 4/22/63
[2258]ome Appendix on OFSCKAP for sharacteri-
[2259]sation of PRANK UTLETIGEN,.
[2261]@. Gontinuations Committee cf the World Congress on
[2263]General Uleurmament and :eace (CCHCGDE)
[2265]wAbject attended 2 uesting sponsored by CCWCODP held
[2266]at JLWU auditorium, 400 Hortl foint itreet, Gan Franeiaes, on
[2267]May 7, 2963. The featured speaker was former Brigadier
[2268]General I BH, HESTER, who agid that after fierld War ii,
[2269]the Unitec Ltrates of America refused to negotiate with the
[2270]other four ble powers on the disposition of Berlin. He
[2271]Baid now the big issue in the world is Berlin, and he said
[2272]At should be declared a free sity under the United tations
[2273]with a treaty auerantesing the right to come and go throwsh
[2274]Germany. HESTEG said that he was in East Gexreany the pre-
[2275]vious year and the East German's are willing to make
[2277]_ soneeasions for the unification of a11 Geymans, HESTSK also
[2279]said thet if the United States would teke the trouble t.
[2280]vaderstand Ching, they would find that there ia nothing
[2281]wrong With that nation. He said that China should be =
[2282]member of the United Nations and the United Statea should
[2283]trade witu nina.
[2285]Sr pe ~ 5/5/53
[2286]oF T13 - Benge
[2288]rae)
[2290]323
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[2295]GE 100-3230
[2296]PED/sal
[2298]whe Jume 3, 1962, lasue of the "New Yoru:
[2299]Pines” contained ar advertigement re-
[2300]Vouling that the Zorlid Feace Council
[2301]Hponsored the World Congvess on General
[2302]tisareament and Peace beid in Moscow,
[2304]‘he Pune 15, 1663, isaue of the bulletin
[2305]of the World Pence Sauncil reperted that
[2306]the Gonbinvations Committee of the wean:
[2307]tweed been founded by f.i, delegates to the
[2309]3962 Congress in Honudew,
[2310]Git appendix for ehuxnacterization of
[2312]Weria Peace Congress.
[2313]i, Commiites Sc Uphold the iight to Travel (curr)
[2314]LLee 2 mdiz)
[2316]nae
[2318]AG & meeting of the Gteering Comittee of CUNT held
[2319]in can Francigec, on August 22, 1963, the list of apensors of
[2320]CURT was anncuneed and Included among the names of gponaors
[2321]Was TRVIRG Fick
[2323]GF 14 ~ B/14/53
[2325]Gm eptember 21, 1965, the Subject attended 2
[2326]demonstration held at the Civic Center Plaza in Jan Pran~
[2327]eieco, Bonering students who had recently returned fram
[2328]Cuba. The dexonetration was sponsored by CURT and several
[2329]students spoke pretesting the government's curtailment of
[2330]the right te travel to Cuba. one of the students apcoke and
[2331]Said the goverment should send troeps te Birmingham instead
[2332]of trying to prevent people from going to Cuba. He also
[2333]noted that the sapitelistic press had lied about Cuba, and
[2334]the conditions ware different hen had deen neported.
[2336]SFT. = 9/23/53
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[2341]SP 100-33856
[2343]‘se “ub ject was obecved at the above meeting
[2344]_ by special Reonta of the FRI.
[2346]ye sub sent. took pect dn & peace walk heid iH
[2347]Apri 13, 1963, from the Civie Center Plaza to Golden
[2348]te Park, tan Preanctaco,. -
[2349]# mB BAIG/S3
[2353]325
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[2360]“sy
[2362]“COMMITTEE TO UPHOLD THE RIGHT TO TRAVEL
[2364]A source advised on August 1, 1963, and October 4,
[2365]1963, that at a meeting sponsored by Progressive Labor and neld
[2366]on July 31, 1963, at Stiles Hall, Berkeley, California, it was
[2367]decided that a committee be formed in behalf of the San
[2368]Francisco Bay Area students who had traveled to Cuba in June,
[2369]- 19863, in defiance of the ban by the United States Department of
[2371]State on travel to Cuba. The name decided upon was the Committee.
[2373]to Uphold the Right to Travel (CURT).
[2375]The same source and a second source advised that
[2377]- CURT, a non-membership organization, has as its principal
[2379]and main purpose the directing of publicity toward the thought
[2380]. of freedom to travel. in the event of the prosecution of the
[2381]Students who traveled to Cuba, CURT will become a committee to.
[2382]aid in their defense.
[2384]The first source advised that of the twelve officers
[2385]elected, five are currently members of the Socialist Workers
[2386]Party and one was a member of the Socialist Workers Party until
[2387]July, 1963. The current members are:
[2389]SUE MATTINGLY, Recording Secretary
[2390]BRIAN SHANNON, Steering Committee
[2391]HAROLD VERB, Educational Director
[2392]TOM SANDERS, Steering Committee
[2393]RICHARD AOKI, Steering Committee
[2395]. The former member of the Socialist Workers Party is
[2396]JAMES PETRAS of the Student Committee.
[2398]‘APFENDIX PAGE
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[2402]leaflets and invitations were distributed in San Francisco,
[2404][he
[2406]BAY APEA PROGRESSIVE LABOR, eka
[2407]"Progressive Labor" ”
[2409]A source advised on December 12, 1962, that in the
[2410]latter part of 1962 a group of former members of the San
[2411]Francisco County Communist Party (SFCCP), who had split from
[2412]the SFCCP during 1860 over a factionalist dispute, had erouped
[2413]tegether to support and further the aims of "Progressive - Labor"
[2414]and reportedly had allied themselves with the Progressive Labor
[2416]Party, which reportedly has been organized nationally.
[2418]The masthead in the September, 1963, issue of "Progressive
[2419]Labor," Volume II, No. 9, reflects "Progressive Labor" is
[2420]published monthly by the Progressive Labor Co., G.P.0. Box 808,
[2421]Brooklyn 1, N.Y....San Francisco address listed....P.0. Box 843,
[2422]San Francisco 1, California....West Coast Editor: LEE COE.
[2424]A second source advised on February 28, 1963, that
[2425]California, by the above-mentioned group during February, 1963,
[2426]under the name Bay Area Progressive Labor (BAPL), P.O. Box 843
[2427]San Francisco, California, along with the name of LEE COE .as one
[2428]of two signatures appearing thereon.
[2430]A third source advised on November 1, 1963,
[2431]that LEE COE is active in BAPL activities in
[2433]the San Francisco Bay area and appears to be to
[2434]one of its leaders.
[2436]APPENDIX
[2438]“397
[2440]12
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[2444]Lo
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[2450]PROGPESSIVE LABOR PARTY;
[2451]PPOGRESSIVE LABOR MOVEMENT;
[2452]"PROGRESSIVE LABOR"
[2454]A source acvisec on July 2, 1962, that Progressive Labor
[2455]groups held a conference in New York City on July 1, 1962, where
[2456]MILTON ROSEM acted as chairman. He read a statement at this con-
[2457]ference setting forth their intention to form a new Marxist-
[2458]Leninist Party in the United States. ROSEN stated that a more
[2459]formal organization was necessary, one which would provide a
[2460]frarework for all who wanted to join in a united effort to build
[2461]an American vanguard. The functions of this new organization
[2462]are to consolidate all existins forces around Progressive Labor
[2463]and organize additional forces; expand and improve political
[2464]activities; win additional forces to an outlook of Marxism-
[2465]Leninism and increase the open advocacy cf socialism; develop a
[2466]significant Marxist-Leninist program for the new party; and
[2467]organize a collective organization of leaders and members.
[2469]"The worker," an east coast communist
[2470]newspaper, issue of January 7, 1962,
[2472]page 10, column 3, reported the expulsion
[2473]of MILTON FOSEN, former labor secretary
[2474]of the New York State Communist Party,
[2475]from the Communist Party, USA.
[2477]A second and third source advised in February, 1963,
[2478]that this new Marxist-Leninist Party had not yet been organized on
[2479]a formal basis but that Progressive Labor groups had been formed
[2480]in several localities in line with proposals of MILTON ROSEN. The
[2481]sources advised as of February, 1963, that the leaders of this
[2482]group were referring to it as the Progressive Labor Movement.
[2484]The "Amsterdam News," a daily New York City newspaper,
[2485]dated July 27, 1963, vage 22, set forth that the "Progressive
[2486]Labor Party is a new political formation based on Progressive
[2487]Labor Movement, a Socialist organization with groups in all parts
[2488]of the United States. The organization publishes a monthly
[2489]Magazine called Progressive Labor."
[2491]The July-August, 1963, issue of "Progressive Labor" set
[2492]forth that it is published monthly by Progressive Labor Company,
[2493]G.P.0. Box 808, Brooklyn 1, Mew York.
[2495]“ 528
[2497]13
[2502]SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY
[2503]SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION
[2505]A source advised on August 1, 1960, that the San
[2506]Francisco Branch of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) was
[2507]formed approximately in the early part of 1938 and the Oakland
[2508]Branch of the SWP was formed in the latter part of 1938.
[2510]A second source advised on October 26, 1959, that the
[2511]name of the Oakland Branch of the SWP was changed to the
[2512]Oakland-Berkeley Branch of the S!¥/P.
[2514]A third source advised on April 30, 1963, that the
[2515]San Francisco Branch and the Oakland-Berkeley Branch of the
[2516]SWP follow the policies and directives of the National SWP with
[2517]which they are affiliated.
[2519]The SWP has been designated by the
[2521]Attorney General of the United States
[2522]pursuant to Executive Order 10450.
[2524]APPENDIX
[2526]Al
[2528]29
[2532]14
[2534]Se --
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[2541]UNATIONAL GUARDIAN"
[2543]The Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications,
[2544]revised and published December 1, 1961, prepared and released
[2545]by the Committee cn Un-American Activities, United States
[2547]' House of Representatives, contains the following on Page 193
[2548]concerning "National Guardian:"
[2550]1. "established by the American Labor Party in 1947
[2551]as a ‘progressive’! weekly***, Although it denies having any - :
[2552]affiliation with the Communist Party, it has manifested itself
[2553]from the beginning as a virtual official propaganda arm of
[2554]Soviet Russia."
[2556](Committee on Un-American Activities, Report,
[2557]Trial by Treason: The National Committee to
[2558]Secure Justice for the Rosenbergs. and Morton
[2559]Sobell, August 25, 1956, p. 12.)
[2561]APPENDIX
[2563]as
[2565]big ; 44
[2567]Cal
[2568]2.
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[2573][re
[2575]TSC SCHOOL OF SOCTAL 8° E
[2576]siseo School cf Social Science,
[2577]iscc Merxist Study Croun,
[2579]isce Scheol cf Marxism-Leninisn,
[2580]isco School of Farxisey.
[2582]& source advised on February 6, 1962, that the first
[2583]class on the San Francisco Marxist Study Group (SFMS¢), was
[2584]held on February 5, 1962, at 345 Franklin Street, San Francisco,
[2585]California, and that the instructor of this class stated thet
[2586]the mein purpose of the SFNSE was to train young people for
[2587]leadershin of the teonle in the event the U. S. wakes up to the
[2588]advantages of communism. ,
[2590]A second source advisec on February 6, 1964, that the
[2592]San Francisco School of Social Sciences (SFSSS), which has been
[2593]known 48 "San Francisco School of Social Science," "San ~
[2594]Francisco pxist Study Group," "San Francisee School of
[2595]Marxienm-Leninism,” and the "San Francisco School of Marxism,"
[2596]concluded s Fall 1963 series of classes cn December 19, 1963,
[2597]and would commencing 2 nev series of classes in the near future
[2599]second source furnished the Fall 1963 Bulletin of
[2600]the SFSSS on “eteber 17, 1963, _unich reflected that TERENCF
[2601]HALLTNAN was Director, and KARGL BURMETT, Secretary, of the SFSSS
[2602]The source advised that HALLTHAY controls the policy under which
[2603]the SFSSS is run end consults an advisory board of class
[2604]representatives only as to sugsestions fer future courses and
[2605]opinions as to current ones.
[2607])
[2609]A third source advised on October 17, 1963, that
[2610]\LLINGH! was in sttendance at 4 meeting of the Communist
[2611]poste, ftorthern District of California, Youth Commission held
[2612]Qctchar 14, 1963, at 100 Broderick Street, San Francisco.
[2614]@ third source advised in December, 1963, that KAROL
[2615]in attendance at a joint meeting of the San Francisco
[2617]rty Youth Club and the Serkeley, California, Off-Campus
[2618]rty Youth Club held in San Francisco in December, 1963.
[2620]T
[2621]BURKETT was
[2622]Communist Pe
[2623]Communist Pa
[2625]NW 88613 Docld:34528578 Page 59
[2627]Ihe
[2629]CITIZENS COMMITTEE TO PRESERVE AMERICAN FREEDOMS
[2630]HR EE EY REV AMERICAN FREEDOMS
[2632]The Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications,
[2633]revised and published December 1, 1961, prepared and released
[2634]by the Committee. on Un-American Activities, United States
[2635]House of Representatives, contains the following on Page 43
[2636]concerning ‘Citizens Committee to Preserve American Freedoms":
[2638]- "The (Communist) party's front operations in the
[2639]Southern California District today are * * * confined to feur
[2640]majer organizations," which include the Citizens Committee to
[2641]Preserve American Freedoms.
[2643]"The Citizens Committee to Preserve American Freedoms
[2644]* * * specializes in propaganda aimed at abolishing the Committee
[2645]on Un-American Activities and discrediting the Federal Bureau of
[2646]Investigation. Created in Los Angeles in 1952, the front
[2647]organization is run by Frank Wilkinson, an identified Communist
[2648]who recently resumed the full-time, paid post of executive
[2649]secretary after approximately a year's leave of absence to assist
[2650]in a similar campaign by another front in New Yerk City, the
[2651]Emergency Civil Liberties Committee.
[2653]"When the Committee on Un-American Activities held
[2654]hearings in Los Angeles September 2-5, 1958, te inquire into the
[2655]nature of the party's recent reorganization in California,
[2656]the Citizens Cemmittee te Preserve American Freedems sponsored
[2657]@ series of public meetings to protest the hearings and the very
[2658]existence of the committee. Communists subpoenaed as witnesses
[2659]were guests of honor,
[2661]"At this time, leaders of the party's Southern California
[2663]District were mobilizing Communists in the area for participation
[2664]in an intensified campaign to abolish this committee of Congress.
[2665]How the Citizens Committee te Preserve American Freedoms served the
[2666]party in this effort was revealed by (Communist Party) District
[2667]Chairman Dorothy Healey in a report to the party's Seuthern Californi:
[2668]District Council en September 21, 1958. Mrs. HEALEY declared that th:
[2669]party preferred public protest meetings to be held by the Citizens
[2670]Committee to Preserve American Freedoms rather than under party
[2671]auspices because Communists could attend without danger of being
[2672]exposed as members of the party. She also noted that Communists
[2673]scheduled as congressional committee witnesses could not appear
[2674]beforehand at openly Communist rallies without creating the im-
[2676]- pression that the party was conspiring with witnesses to withhold
[2677]information frem the committee,"
[2679](Committee on Un-American Activities, -
[2680]House Report 259 on the Southern
[2681]California District of the Communist
[2682]Party, April 3, 1959, pp. 7 and 8.)
[2684]APPENDIX
[2685]18
[2687]CA
[2689]PQ
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[2693]© 8 OO
[2695]SAN FRANCISCO CITIZENS COMMITTEE
[2697]TO PRESERVE AMERICAN FREEDOMS (SFCCPAF)
[2699]A source advised on April 7, 1960, that a San Francisco
[2700]affiliate of the Citizens Committee to Preserve American
[2701]_ Freedoms (CCPAF) had been established at a meeting held in
[2702]San Francisco on April 4, 1960, The source advised that the
[2703]San Francisco affiliate, to be known as the San Francisco CCPAF,
[2704]would carry out in Norther California, the program of the CCPAF.
[2706]A second source advised on May 9», 1963, that the San
[2707]Francisco CCPAF is active,
[2709]t
[2711]APPENDIX
[2713]“a7 333
[2715]NW 88613 Docld:34528578 Page 61
[2717]= - or ee
[2718]‘ ( : 5 -
[2722]e gs 1 ‘ *
[2724]WORLD : mm. IL
[2726]ERE ttn: ety sso Si. Aan
[2727]The "Guide to Subversive ‘Organizations and Publi-
[2728]cations" issued December 1, 1961, by the Committee on un-American .
[2729]Activities, U.S. House of Representatives, page 179, contains
[2730]the following citation regarding the World Peace Council:
[2732][he
[2734]Cited as having been formed at the conclusion of the
[2735]Second World Peace Congress in Warsaw and which was heralded
[2736]by the Moscow radio as 'the expression of the determination
[2737]of the peoples to take into their own hands the struggle for
[2738]peace,
[2740](Committee on Un-American Activities, House Report
[2742]378 « on the Communist. ' Peace’ Offensive, April 25, 1951,
[2743]originally released April 1, 1951, p. 38)
[2745]APPENDIX PAGE
[2747]NW 88613 Docld:34528578 Page 62
[2749]Ped ds,
[2751]FD-323 (Rev. 11-29-61) .
[2752]. “ a Nas
[2756]UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
[2757]FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
[2759]In Reply, Please Referto San Franciasc, California
[2760]File No. SP 100+338 3% Merch 3, 1964
[2762]Title IRVING RHODES FROMER
[2764]Character SECURITY MASTER ~ €
[2766]Reference Report of SA FRANCIS T. DAVIS,
[2767]7 dated Merch 30, 1964, at can
[2768]Pranolacs.
[2770]All sources (except any listed below) whose identities
[2771]are concealed in referenced communication have furnished reliable
[2773]information in the past. .. :
[2775]SF 100-33836
[2776]FID/ms1
[2777]“ 335
[2778]This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions ofthe FBI. It is the property
[2779]of the FBI and ts loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside
[2781]your agency.
[2783]_ NW 88613 Docid:34528578 Page 63
[2786]EXHIBIT COVER SHEET
[2788]Exhibit: Number: S~
[2790]SUBIBOR: GREER, Dovid Bod | | |
[2791]i) an ; ;
[2792]Stee Rigiotiant . | | |
[2794]Bits 2 Gly 2062, Gioage, Tddnete
[2796]File Number? -qyswutaha -  gthegieRg)
[2797]Freparing Unit: 115th, MI Group - { 2 ).
[2798]Agent Report Dated: $2 Sey 2967
[2800]Deseription: Report, SFO FBI dated 30 Mar 65 re SUBJECTS father
[2804]ROVIEVYED RY FLIER TASK FORCE
[2806]a AL
[2808]gi
[2810]acy 21 ay sipfese
[2813]' Classification |
[2814]IGGP-F Form 2-25 336
[2815](Rev 25 Mar 66)
[2817]NW 88613 Docld:34528578 Page 64
[2819]#D-204 (Rev. 3-3-5 9) ae. aes
[2820]UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
[2821]FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
[2823]Copy to: ~
[2824]Report of: SA FRANCIS 7. DAVIS once, ‘San Francisco,
[2825]Dote: 3/39/65 . California
[2826]Field Office File #: ° 10033836 : Bureau File #: , 100°365779
[2827]Titles JRVING RHODES PROMER
[2828]ORMATION CONTAINED
[2829]| - | Aue fe wt Classi Lbfusk
[2830]Bae het
[2832]a oe oe 4.2) Sri)
[2834]Chorocter SECURITY MATTER = ¢_ eer rn
[2838]Synopsis: Sf
[2840]Subject resides at 881 Clayton St,, San Francisco, and ts
[2841]employed as an architectural drefteman through the American
[2842]institute of Architects, 47 Kaarny St., San cisco. The
[2843]Subject attended public meetings sponsored by the
[2845]San Prancisco Free Speech Forum itt National Guardian”
[2846](NG), Amevican-Ruseian Institute ( Ru), DuBois Club, and
[2847]Committee to End ave 8, Intesventdenn an Vietnam. He also
[2848]attended CP and "People's World” (PW) sponsored social af-
[2849]fairs. Subject was arrested during racial demonstration
[2850]at Sheraton-Palace Hotel, San Francisco, on 3/1/65, He was
[2851]also observed in a picket line at a.meeting of the Citizens
[2853]Councils of America, OREWEMED BY PEudEX TASK FORCE
[2854]] ; mee Je uefa ils deh. OO
[2855]DETAILS: V e
[2857]A, Residence 4 S) t
[2859]The Subject resides at 881 Clayton Street,
[2860]San Francisco, and is employed as an architectural drafts
[2861]man through the American Institute of Architects, 47 Kearny
[2862]Street, San Francisco.
[2864]..... are CH'RLES TERSHEY, 217 Frederick
[2866]i... __ Street, San Francisco, 3/23/65
[2867]This document contains nelther recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to
[2868]your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.
[2870]NW 88613 Docld:34528578 Page 65
[2872]SP 1200-33836
[2873]FID/eva
[2874]II. COMMUNIST PARTY (CP) AND RELATED ACTIVITIES
[2875]A, Communist Activities
[2876]The Subject attended a May Day meeting held at
[2878]1560 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, which was sponsored
[2879]by the San Franctees Pree Speech Forum.on May 2, 1964,
[2881]The San Francisco Free Speech Forum is
[2882]& mame used by the CP of San Francisco
[2883]to held public meetings.
[2885]STEVE MURDOCK, editor of the “PW" reviewsd the
[2886]activities of the “Pu for the past year and pointed out.
[2887]that the "Pw" offered its readers news from the view-
[2888]point of the working class and Negro people and really had -
[2889]something to offer and this had enabled it to survive.
[2891]ROSCOE PROCTOR alse spoke om the problems of
[2892]the Negro people in the capitalistic society and noted
[2893]that only soci&item offered the Negro any chance of solving
[2894]his problems. PROCTOR said that the President'a "War
[2895]Against Poverty” was simply a political scheme to attract
[2896]votes.
[2898]The featured speaker was ROBERT THOMPSON, a men~
[2899]ber of the CP Committee, who discussed the split between
[2900]the Soviet Union and China and said that it would sson be
[2901]healed over, THOMPSCN told the audience that they should
[2902]support the Democratic Administration while at the same
[2903]time put pressure on the Democratic Party to end defacts
[2904]segregation in schools throughout the country, THOMPSON
[2905]noted that public school systems would have to be integra -
[2906]ted in order to survive.
[2908]SP Tal, 5/7/64, SP T-2, 5/4/64,
[2909]cp as, CAYEN, sp tos, Ones
[2911]The tpt is a West Comet communist news-
[2912]paper published in tan Prancisco,
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[2922]' ROSCOE PROCTOR attended a meeting of
[2923]the CP, USA, national and dtiatrict
[2924]leaders, held in New York City on
[2925]June 22 - oh, 1962,
[2927]SF T-4, 6/29/62
[2929]Gn June 27, 1964, the Subject attended a social
[2930]affair aponsored by the Maritinic Ciub, San Francises CP,
[2931]at 1027 Brussels Street, San Francises. Proceeds of this
[2932]social affair went for the bencfit of the "Pw".
[2934]SP T-5, 7/2/64
[2936]On September 25, 1964, the Subject attended a
[2937]publie meeting sponsored by, the Sen Praneisco FSF held |
[2938]at 150 Golden Gate Averme, San Prancises, The purpose of
[2939]this meeting was to hear HENRY WINSTON, a member of the.
[2940]CP National Committee, speak.
[2942]WINSTON tdentified himself as a communist and
[2943]told of his imprisonment by the Federal Government. He
[2944]said that becauce the government would not treat him for
[2945]his iliness, he became blind. -He said the reason for the
[2946]govermment's refueal to treat. ham WAS because he was @ --
[2947]Negro and a communist.
[2949]WINSTON pointed out that the Republican Party
[2950]must be defeated even though he did not completely approve
[2951]of President JOHNSON and the Democratic Party, WINSTON
[2952]alas discusse@ the civil rights movement and said that the
[2953]Negro must get his rights before everything in this
[2954]country would be ©11 right.
[2956]SP T-2, 9/20/64, SF 7-5, 10/2/64,
[2957]SP T-6, ala 28/64 1 397/
[2959]B, "People's Yor1a" (PW) ple.
[2960]On April 12, 1064, the Subfect attended a din~
[2962]ner held for the benefit of the "Pw" st 1581 Masonic
[2963]Street, San Pranoisco,.
[2965]SF T-5, 4/13/64
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[2971]PTD/evs
[2973]c. “Nationai Guardian” (NG _
[2975]A charsketerization of the NG is contained
[2976]in the appendix paged.
[2978]on February &, 1964, the Subjeet attended a
[2979]public meeting sponsored by the NG held at 625 Polk
[2980]Street, Son Prameiseo, The featured speaker at this
[2981]meeting was MARK LANE, an attorney for the mother of
[2982]LEE HARVEY OSWALD,
[2984], LANE. discussed the background of the assassi-
[2985]nation of President KENNEPY and stressed the fact that
[2986]Dallas was & vevy reactionary city and for that reason
[2987]it ie easy to understand why Palias had been selected as
[2988]the place for the President to be assassinated. LANE
[2989]diseussed beiefiy the background of LEE HARVEY OSWALD
[2990]and noted that he was a Grifter without any ties who hed
[2991]spent some time in the Soviet Union. LANE tried to es-
[2992]‘tablish a link between OSWALD ami the FBI and indicated
[2993]that OSWALD was the victim of a frameup. He said he had
[2994]a reputation of being an unsteble character and a past
[2995]association with left-wing groups. LANE said that in
[2996]epite of this he did not believe that OSWALD was the
[2997]actual assassin of the President,
[2999]SP Pa, 2/18/64
[3000]D. W.E.B. Duois Club of San Francisco
[3002]A chavacterization of the ¥.E.B, DuBois
[3003]Club of San Franecises is contained in
[3004]the appendix.
[3006]On August 20, 1964, Subject attended a meeting
[3007]sponsored by the W.E.B. DuBsie Club held at 1007 McAllister
[3008]Street, San Francisco. The mecting was a panel discussion
[3009]on the question of world peace. One of the speakers took
[3010]the viewpoint of the Chinese Marxist and said he believed
[3011]in revolution because this was the only way of eliminating
[3012]capitalist enterprises and capitalist economy. He cited
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[3020]PTD/evs
[3022]such areas ao Cuba, Vietnam, the Soviet Union and Chine.
[3023]He said that alk of these countries are socialist camps
[3024]of one form or another and a1] are working for peace,
[3026]AL RICHMOND, the editor of the "PW", took the
[3027]position that peaceful co-existence was 2 possi le way
[3028]to make some progress for peace without changing the
[3029]economy of the country.
[3031]One af the other panei members spoke in support
[3032]of peace but not in favor of any kind of violence. He
[3033]pointed out that the left wingers comprising the CF, the
[3034]Trotskyite Party, and the Progressive Labor Party looked
[3035]toward revolution as an alternative for peace; however,
[3036]he did not think that peace would ever be won by revolu-
[3037]tion. _
[3039]SP T-1, 6/31/64, SF T-3, 8/27/64
[3040]SP 2-6, B7e7e4 e /
[3042]On Setober 16, 1964, the Subject attended a
[3043]panel discussion sponsored by the DuBois Club held at
[3044]625 Polk Street, San Francises, The three panel members
[3045]were DOROTHY HEACEY, Chairman of the Southern California
[3046]GP, VINCENT HALLZNAN, a San Francisco attorney, and JOHN
[3047]BURTON, a California State Assemblyman.
[3049]The Subjeet of the digeussion was on the forth-
[3050]coming election and what part progressive forces should
[3051]‘wlay in the election. ce
[3053]VINCENT HALLINAN task a strong pro-Democratic
[3054]Party attitude and pointed out that he, himself, had cam«-
[3055]paigned on a national ticket for a minority party and the
[3056]result had been disastrous. He said they had wasted their
[3057]time and money and energy and polled so few votes that he
[3058]did not xeétetve even one electoral vote, He stressed the
[3059]fact that the Republican forees represented a step toward
[3060]fascism and that at all costs, &11 decent people and ail
[3061]good left-wing people must vote the Democratic siate.
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[3068]FTD/evs
[3070]DOROTHY HEALEY generally agreed with HALLINAN
[3071]but pointed out the Communist Party's specific obligation
[3072]to the working class to provide good leadership. She
[3073]said the CP had anly one chance of acting as a vanguard
[3074]of the working class and that was to be right in its sup<
[3075]port of political candidates. HEALEY also said the people
[3076]should support the Supreme Court and particularly the Court's
[3077]recent decision to reapportion state legislature.
[3079]JOHN BURTON said this was the first election in
[3080]which he felt free to accept support from the left openiy
[3081]and he attributed this to a determination on the part of
[3082]the genergi public to defeat BARRY GOLDWATER. He praised
[3083]the DuBois Club for supporting him and he thanked the per-
[3084]sons on the left ineluding the Socialist Workers Party,
[3085]the CP and others for their support.
[3087]SF T~1, 10/20/64
[3089]VINCENT HALLINAN was sandddate for President
[3090]of the United States on the Independent
[3091]Progressive Party (IPP) tacket in 1952. The
[3092]IPP was formed in California in 1948 and
[3093]ceased to exist in 1954) when it failed t>
[3094]Set sufficient votes to remain on the
[3095]California Ballot.
[3097]A characterization of the IPP appears in the
[3098]Appendix,
[3100]E. American-Russian Institute of San Prancisco (ART)
[3102]The ARI has been designated by the Attorney
[3103]General of the United States pursuant to
[3104]Exeautive Order 10459,
[3106]On November 20, 1964, the Subject attended a
[3108]public meeting sponsored by the ARI held at the Jack
[3109]Tar Hotel, San Francisco.
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[3119]HOLLAND ROBERTS, President of the ARI, spoke
[3120]about the great work being done by the USSR and the
[3121]Soviet bloe for peace. ROBERTS gaid he always if in-
[3122]Spired when he vieits these countries and hears of their
[3123]achievements to bring about peace and he is always dis=
[3124]appointed on returning to the United States to find the
[3125]war mongers holding the upper hand and keeping the people
[3126]obsessed with the idea that they have to stay prepared
[3127]for war againgt the communists, ROBERTS said the United
[3128]States was constantly on the side of the landlords and
[3129]money lenders of email countries throughout the world
[3130]such as South Vietnam. He said these people only aspire
[3131]justice for themselves and an opportunity to live in
[3132]peace and comfort. However, they are ground down ruth-
[3133]lessiy by native oppressors with the help of American
[3134]troops an@ American support.
[3136]CARL BLOICE, a reporter for the "PW", also
[3137]told of a recent trip he made to Eastern Europe. He
[3138]said he found the East Germans contecrated to the task
[3139]of being a sscialist nation and cooperating fully with
[3140]the Soviet Union. BLOICE said that East Cermans now
[3141]elaim thet America has succeeded to the position once
[3142]held by fascist Germany of being the most reactionary
[3143]and most militant country on carth, BLOICE said that
[3144]communist nations now were in @ nesition to defeat any
[3145]non-communist countries in the event of military attack
[3146]but he said this was the poorest way he could think of
[3147]to bring about communism and he would prefer to see non-
[3148]communist nations become conmumist through the means of
[3149]logic.
[3151]SP T-1, 11/30/64
[3153]FP, Ad Hse Committee To End U. 5. Intervention
[3154]in Vietnam
[3156]A charecterization of the Ad Hoc Committee Te
[3157]End U. S. Intervention In Vietnam is con-
[3158]tained in the Appendix hereto.
[3162]NW 88613 Docld:34528578 Page 71
[3167]SF 100-33836.
[3170]On May 9, 1964, the Subject attended a meeting
[3171]sponsored by the Ad Hoc Committee to End U. 8, Interven-
[3172]tion In Vietnam held at the Hall of Flowers in Golden
[3173]Gate Park, San Franciseo, The chairman of the meeting who
[3174]steted he was from Vietnam claimed that the war in Vietnam
[3175]started with the French Goverrmment supporting an attack by
[3176]South Vietnam against North Vietnam. He said the American
[3177]military has taken over from the French in supplying arus
[3178]and ammunition to the South Vietnamese. He urged the
[3179]United States ts pull out of South Vietnam and let the
[3180]country be unified. .
[3182]The f4lm was show entitled, "The War In Vietnam"
[3183]made by the National Liberation Front of the South
[3185]. Vietnamese. Among other things, the film showed American
[3187]helicopters being shot down and picket demonstrations in
[3188]North Vietmam protesting American intervention.
[3190]SP T-3, 5/12/64
[3191]III, MISCELLANEOUS |
[3193]On March 1, 1964, the Subject was one of 123
[3194]persons arrested picketing the Sheraton-Palace Hotel in
[3195]San Praneises for alleged discriminatory practices. The
[3196]123 picketa who were arrested were charged with contempt
[3197]of court, These charges were dismissed on April 3, 1964,
[3198]by Municipal Judge JOSEPH G. KENNEDY because the restraining
[3199]order which they were accused of violating was faulty.
[3201]*San Praneisco Chronicle”
[3202]newspaper, 3/3 and 4/4/64,
[3203]and San Franciseo Police
[3204]~ Pepartment Record of Arrest
[3205]: Nunber 1901586.
[3207]On the evening of Octeber 28, 1964, the Citizens
[3208]Counci Bb of America held a meeting at the Masonic Auditorium
[3209]in San Prancises which was picketed by numerous individuals
[3210]on the sidewalk and entrance way to the auditorium, Among
[3211]those observed in the picket line was the Subject.
[3213]Observation by Spectal Agents
[3214]of the FBI.
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[3220]["
[3224]The Cuide to Subversive Orcanizations and Publications,
[3225]revised anc published December 1, 1951, vrepared and released
[3226]by the Cormittee on Un-American Activities, United States
[3227]House of Peprasentatives, contains the following on Page 193
[3228]concerning "National Cuardian:"
[3230]a "astablished by the American Leber Party in
[3231]1947 as a 'progressive' weekly***, /lthough it denies having any
[3233]affiliation with the Communist Party, it has manifested itself
[3234]from the beginnings as a virtual official propaganda arn. of
[3235]Soviet “ussia."
[3237](Cormittes on Un-Arerican ‘ctivities, Report,
[3238]Trial by Treason: The Maticnal Cormittee to
[3239]Secure Justice for the Rosenbergs and Morton
[3240]Sobell, August 25, 1956, np. 12.)
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[3244]W.LE.B. DU BOIS CLUB OF SAN FRANCISCO,
[3245]aka Du8o0is Youth Group, San Francisco
[3246]DuBois Club, San Francisco DuBois
[3248]Youth Group, Student-Labor Alliance
[3250]A source advised that on January 31, 1963, the W.E,B.
[3251]DuBois Club of San Francisco held its first general meeting
[3252]at California Hall, Polk and Turk Streets, San Francisco,
[3253]California, at which time the aims of the club were put forth
[3254]as follows by TERENCE "KAYO" HALLINAN:
[3256](1) Alleviate the Negro problem in the United States.
[3258](2) Promote peaceful co-existence between the United
[3259]States and Russia.
[3261](3) Promote and encourage Marxist doctrines and to
[3262]bring about a socialistic government in the
[3263]United States.
[3265]A second source advised in March 1963 that the DuBois
[3266]Club was both conceived and originated by TERENCE HALLINAN.
[3268]A third source has advised that TERENCE HALLINAN
[3269]attended a Communist Party Youth Commission
[3270]meeting in San Francisco in October 1963.
[3272]Commencing in March 1963, the DuBois Club published
[3273]a newsletter entitled "San Francisco News and World eport."
[3274]In its first issue a "Proposed Statement of Principles" was set
[3275]forth in which the club's aforementioned aims were elaborated
[3276]upon. In the same issue the lead editorial in part described the
[3277]San Francisco DuBois Club as "...a group of young people who
[3278]are convinced that Socidism is the only answer to the many problems
[3279]of our time and so find philosophical rapport with the life -nd
[3280]thought of Dr. DU BOIS, nevertheless, we are weighed with humility
[3281]in comparing our goals and ambitions with the genius of his life
[3282]and work. As a source of inspiration, the figure of W.E.B. DU BOIS
[3283]is unequaled in Américan history, but as a standard and example,
[3284]we seem miserably lost in his shadow. We can only resolve that
[3285]we do his name no dishonor, and whatever we may accomplish should
[3286]be recognized as a supplement to his life work."
[3288]The November 25, 1961, issve of the
[3289]"People's World,” a West Coast communist
[3291]newspaper published in San Francisco,
[3292]contains an article on page 12 reflecting
[3294]WAPPEMDIX 446
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[3302]that W.E.B. DU BOIS joined the Communist
[3303]Party after applying for admission on
[3304]October 1, 1961.
[3306]In May 1963, the first source informed that the
[3307]"San Francisco News and World Report," although written and
[3308]edited by members of the club, was run off on a mimeograph
[3309]machine located in the offices of the "People's World;" however,
[3310]in March 1964, this source advised that the newsletter was no
[3311]longer mimeographed by the "People's World" because of the
[3312]unreliability of the machine and, in addition, the name was
[3313]changed to "The Insurgent" upon recommendation of one of the
[3314]ciub officers who felt the new name sounded more militant.
[3316]The first source has also stated that commencing in
[3317]May 1963, the DuBois Club had no permanent headquarters and
[3318]used to hold its meetings at 307 Page Street, Apartment 3,
[3319]San Francisco, California. In March 1964, this source advised
[3321]that the club is currently active as a membership organization
[3322]and has its headquarters at 1007 Mc*llister Street, San Francisco,
[3324]“ 347
[3325]APPENDIX
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[3331][he
[3333]INDEPENDENT PROGPESSIVE PARTY
[3335]The 1955 Peport of the California Committee on
[3336]Un-American Activities, Page 46, stated, "The Independent
[3337]Progressive Party in California was quickly captured by the
[3338]cormunists, and by the time the Nallace for President campaign
[3339]had swung into hich gear was being operated lock, stock, and
[3340]barrel by the Communist Party of California. Time after time
[3341]the committee in questioning witnesses throughout the State
[3342]discoverec that the leaders of the Communist Parties in various
[3343]localities were identical with the leaders of the Independent
[3344]Prosressive Party in the sare area, It is true, of course,
[3345]that in the Indevendent Progressive Party there were many
[3346]Sincere liberals who, because of dissatisfaction with the two
[3347]major political organizations registered as Incependent
[3348]Prosressives and continued their affiliation until the true
[3349]control of the I.P.P. became obvious. These people invariably
[3350]resigned, many of them having given the benefit of their
[3351]experience to various official agencies interested in the
[3352]exposure of subversive activities."
[3354]APPENDIX
[3356]a 548
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[3362], ‘ . . ; :
[3363]C. Ce
[3364]Sob ae _ ‘ ' Qe
[3366]COMMITTEE TO END U. S. FOREIGN INTERVENTION, aka
[3367]Committee to End .U. S. Foreign Aggressicn,
[3368]Committee to End American Intervention in
[3369]Viet-Nem (Ad Hoc),
[3371]Committee to End United States Intervention
[3373]in Viet-Nam (Ad Hoc),
[3375]Committee to End United States Imperialism
[3377]This Committee was organized as the Committee to End
[3378]American Intervention in Viet-Nam (Ad Hoc), March 29, 1964, in
[3379]San Francisco, California, at the instigation of and by members
[3380]ef the W.E.B. DuBcis Club of San Francisco, a Marxist youth group,
[3381]which has promoted the organization's activities among the various
[3382]groups in the San Francisco erea interested in peace and disarma-
[3383]ment, Its announced aims have included American withdrawal from
[3384]Viet-Nam, self-determinaticn for the South Viet-Namese people and
[3385]adherence of the United States to the 1954 Geneva Convention,
[3386]Demonstrations along with the distribution of and exhibition of
[3387]propaganda comprise its program. A flyer advertising a forum of
[3388]September 15, 1964, in San Francisco on "World Wide Movements--
[3389]for Freedom" referred to "Cuba - Harlem - Congo - Viet Nam" and
[3390]listed the Committee to End U. S. Foreign Intervention as sponsor.
[3391]Cne of the two sources which provided the information on the
[3392]Committee's crganization has advised that it is the same committee.
[3393]According to this source, on October 9, 1964, this Committee's
[3394]proper name is "Committee to End U. S. Foreign Aggression," but it
[3395]is a loose-knit organization and exactness of title or name is of
[3396]little concern to the officials and members, The other source
[3397]advised on June 28, 1964, that an Executive Committee of five
[3398]members was elected in June, 1964, but no new officers were other-
[3399]wise elected.
[3401]Another source advised on September 17, 1964, that the
[3402]original officers were JOHN W, THOMAS, Chairman; BEVERLY D.
[3403]RADCLIFFE, Treasurer, and MARGARET DRIGGS, Secretary. The
[3404]signature of two of these are still required for checks written.
[3406]One source mentioned above currently advises that no
[3407]headquarters is maintained by the Committee; meetings are infrequent
[3409]and poorly attended, ranging from eight to twenty members. The last
[3410]reported membership total was approximately twenty in June, 1964,
[3412]APPENDIX
[3413]349
[3414]4
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[3422]JOHN THOMAS attended meetings of the DuBois
[3423]Club of San Francisco on May 10 and 31, 1964,
[3425]When interviewed by Special Agents of the FBI
[3426]on October 1, 1964, THOMAS indicated he was
[3427]not a member of the W.E.B. DuBois Club and
[3428]would not join any group until he found one
[3429]that really helped the Negro people.
[3431]BEVERLY RADCLIFFE in April, 1964, was a member
[3432]of the DuBois Club of San Francisco.
[3434]MARGARET DRIGGS, when interviewed by Special
[3435]Agents of the FRI on January ?5, 1955, said
[3436]that her activities in the Communist Party (CP)
[3437]began in the middle 1930s during the depression
[3438]in Tacoma, Washington. She and her husband
[3439]moved to Seattle, Washington, and were members
[3440]there of the CP and the Communist Political
[3441]Associaticn (CPA). As a result of open criticism
[3442]of Party functionaries on her part and on the
[3443]part of her husband, she and her husband were
[3444]expelled from the CP in 1946 with the provisc
[3445]that after six months they would reinstate.
[3447]She said that they did not seek reinstatement.
[3449]The CPA has been designated by the Attorney General
[3450]of the United States pursuant to Executive
[3451]Order 10450,
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[3459]a
[3461]FD-323 (Rev. 11-29-61)
[3463]UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
[3464]FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
[3466]San Franeises, California
[3468]In Reply, Please Refer to
[3470]File No. Barch 36, 1965
[3471]Title IRVING RHODES FROMER
[3472]Character SECURITY. MATTER .- 6
[3473]Reference Report of SA FRANCIS ,.. DAVZS
[3475]dated and captisned as above,
[3477]All sources (except any listed below) whose identities
[3478]are concealed in referenced communication have furnished reliable
[3479]‘information in the past.
[3483]wi 35}, 9 -- -
[3484]This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI, It is the property
[3486]of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside
[3487]your agency,
[3489]NW 88613 Docld:34528578 Page 73
[3491]~ eT
[3493]EANTBIT COVER SHEET
[3495]Exhibit Number: XI
[3497]' SUBJECT:
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[3500]aegietre =, ayeance
[3501]fy JL Gly 19he, tease, Telleote
[3503]File Number: . PEPE hee SboALI?
[3504]Preparing Unit: 445th MI Group: { y )
[3506]Agent Report Dated: 2 iy Leb? |
[3508]Deseription: Report,SFO FBI dated 14 Mar 66 re SUBJECT'S father
[3510]ALL FEL ici ~i10% CONTAINED
[3512]HEREIN IS LASSIFIED .
[3514]W614 ory BOOKS LD MS
[3515]STFU
[3517]Classification
[3519]“352
[3521]ICGP-F Form 2~25
[3522](Rev 25 Mar 66),
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[3528]* as
[3529]FD-204 (Rev. 3-3-59) os
[3530]° a Mog
[3532]UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
[3533]FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
[3537]Copy to: . 2 = Secret Service, Son Francisco (Cisesa 3) (8x)
[3538]Report of: LEO A. SCHON ; Office: San Fyanciaco,
[3539]Date: 3/14/66 California
[3540]Field Office File #:§ 30033836 Ws +?" Bureau File # 1008365770 -
[3541]Title: : IRVING RHODES FROMER Rw EWED RY FOU LEK Ty LOK FORCE
[3542]- ae T {pf leno. iy
[3544]. . 2 SSc tN PULL,
[3546]Character: SECURITY MATTER ~ ¢ + a et pagT 7
[3548]relies t
[3550]we BPR
[3552]Synopsis:
[3554]Subject still resides 852 Clayton Strest, San Francieco, and
[3555]is employed as an architect-drafteman through the American
[3556]Institute of Architects, 254 Sutter Street, San Francisco.
[3557]No information has been received reflecting that Subject
[3559]has been active in the CP during the past year. Eubject
[3560]wae present at Way Day meeting of the CP held in May, 1965,
[3561]and ho hus supported activities of the Sac Francisco CCDAP
[3562]and omen For Peace and he has participated in a number of
[3563]demoustrations sponsored by the VDC yand acted as chairman .
[3564]of a meoting of the Haight-Ashbury VAC
[3566]Pa “Co vecussii By - beg SW/SEL
[3567]pmns: Ww ALY 146 (Tela re
[3568]t.. DACKGROUND
[3570]Residence and Exuplo: ynent
[3572]Subject stili resides at 681 Slayton Street, San
[3573]Frencisco, and is employed as an architect-drafteman through
[3574]the American Institute of Architects, 25¢ Sutter Street,
[3576]San Francisco. wl 353
[3578]This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to
[3579]your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency. .
[3581]NW 88613 Docld:34528578 Page 81
[3583]BP 1600-38836.
[3585]LAS/sea
[3586]YX. COMMUNIST PARTY (ep)
[3587]AND RELATED ACTSVEITIES
[3588]. Communist Party
[3590]When contacted in March, 1966, confidential
[3591]informants who are conversant with various phasee of
[3592]asetivities of the CP in the area of San Prancisce in which
[3593]Subject. resides were unabie te furnish any information
[3594]reflecting that Subject has been active an the €® during
[3595]the page year,
[3597]Subject, however, was “in attoniazce at the aunual
[3598]May Day meeting sponsored by the San Francisco Free Speech
[3599]Forum beld 2¢ 156 Golden | Gate Ayenue, San Francises, on
[3600]May 1, 1865.
[3602]The San Francisco Free Speech Forui is
[3603]'@ name used by the San Francisco County
[3604]CP te sponsor public mestings.
[3606]The principal speaker at thie necting was GUS -
[3607]HALL, General Secretary of the CP,USA. HAI, aceused the -
[3608]adeinistration of President JONSON of being dangerous and
[3609]trigger happy, stating that our foreign nolicy is a cold-
[3610]blooded war machine which would turn back history. HALL
[3611]eteted that Marines bad been sent to the Deminican Republic
[3612]on the pretext of protecting American Lives. He alluded to
[3613]the U. &. fareign policy as being imperialistic and said
[3614]that the Sresident is not receiving full support for his
[3615]invasion of other counties and the U. 8. will. never be
[3616]guccedsfnk in these undertakings.,.
[3618]SF @-2, 5/4/68
[3619]SPF T-3, 5/4/65
[3620]SP TA, 5/3/65
[3622]B, San Francisco Citizens Committee
[3623]£0 Preserve American Freedoms (SPCCDAR) _
[3625]The SECCPAP is chérecterized in the.
[3626]appendiz hereto.
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[3630]ad
[3632]SF 100-23836
[3633]LAS/sea
[3635]d
[3637]Suhjsct attended a public meeting Sponsored by
[3638]the SPCCPAF which was hold at the First Unitarian Church,
[3639]Pranklin and Geary Streets, San Prancisce, on Hay 7, 1B65.
[3641]&F 15, 5/13/65
[3643]€. Yemen For Peace
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[3649]oo,
[3651]SFi0-0-33836 oo a
[3653]x
[3655]“WOMEN FOR PEACE, aka
[3657]The "Berkeley Daily Gazette," a daily newspaper of
[3659]general circulation published in Berkeley, California,
[3661]contained an article in the November 19, 1965,
[3662]evening edition reflecting that in November, ig6l,
[3663]when concern mounted over radioactive faliout
[3665]from nuclear testing, a group of women in ©
[3666]Washington, D. C. started Women Strike for Peace,
[3667]- The idea spreed rapidly throughout the country
[3668]and now embraces 90C groups, including Women For
[3669]Peace grouns in the San Francisco Bay area.
[3671]These groups support programs to achieve goals
[3672]such as:
[3674](1) Continued disarmament negotiations,
[3675](2) A strong and flexible United Nations.
[3677](2) Planning now at state and national levels
[3678]for conversion to peace-tiie economy and
[3679]positive efforts to ease world tengions.
[3681]The women act as individuals and as a group, with
[3682]specific actions suggested by individuals and
[3683]groups from all over the world, Decision to
[3684]participate jointly en any given suggestion: is
[3685]democratly arrived at by members of the
[3686]Coordinating Committee. Effective cooneration
[3687]with other peace grouvs is encouraged. Monthly
[3688]Coordinating Committee meetings and general
[3689]meetings, as warranied, are open to all and
[3690]announced in mailings to members. There are no
[3691]dues or membership forms nor conditions for
[3692]membership,
[3694]To stir an awareness of the need for peace,
[3696]Women For Peace encourage public education in
[3697]peace objectives at local schools and sponsor
[3698]peace-oriented demonstrations and public meetings,
[3699]newspaper ads, billboards, and candidates for
[3700]public office. On the national level the group
[3701]attempts to influence government officials by
[3702]letters and conferences.
[3704](N
[3705]go
[3706]On
[3708]NW 88613 Docld:34528578 Page 34
[3713]BP. 1000-53836
[3714]LAB/e G08,
[3716]A pablic nedting Sponsored by venion For Peace
[3717]at which Subject was in attendance was held at California
[3718]Ball, G25 Polk Street, San Francisco, on August i, 1965.
[3720]| SY T-6, 3/4/65
[3721]D, Vietnan Day Comittee
[3723]: “ 557
[3725]NW 88613 Docld:34528578 Page 85
[3728]SFiQO0-33836 , ~
[3730]VIETNAM DAY COMMITTEE (VDC)
[3732]A booklet published by the VDC centained the
[3733]Following policy statement of the VDC adopted
[3734]by the general membership, June, 1965:
[3736]The Vietnam Day Committee is a group of students,
[3737]faculty and other members of the Bay area
[3738]community opposed to American intervention in
[3739]“Vietnam, the Dominican Republic and wherever
[3740]else it may occur, Revolutionary struggles
[3742]for self-determination are sweeping the world
[3743]today. American suppression of these move-
[3744]ments, we believe, is immoral and a threat to
[3745]the peace of the world. The Vietnam Day
[3746]Committee is organizing non-violent direct
[3747]actions, teach-ins, door-to-door organizing
[3749]and other educational activities to oppose
[3750]American intervention, We believe that the
[3751]struggle for self-determination in other
[3752]countries is related to the struggle for
[3753]democracy in America-~a democracy in which the
[3754]people have the facts and the power to make
[3755]decisicns for themselves. The struggles in
[3756]America against racism, poverty, and bureau-
[3757]eratic conformity are part of the same move-~
[3758]ment as the struggle against American militarism.
[3759]We must build a New America and join with those
[3760]people in Asia, Africa and Latin America building
[3761]a New World,
[3763]358
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[3768]S¥ 100-3836
[3769]LAS/sea -
[3771]4
[3773]Subject | was observed participating in a picket
[3774]line of the VBC engaged in picketing General MAXWELL TA
[3775]at the Fairmont Hotel, San Yrancisco,. on August 25, 1965.
[3777]Shservation by
[3778]Special Agente of
[3779]FBI on 2/25/65
[3781]Subject war in attendance at a rally sponeored by
[3782]the VBC protesting U. ©. intervantion in Vietnam which wes
[3783]held at Civic Center Plaza, San Prancises, on October 17, 1965.
[3785]Ohservation by
[3786]Special Agent of
[3787]FBI on 16/17/65
[3789]He was algo obecerved present at another demonstratios
[3790]of the VEC held in protest of U. S. policy in Vietnam at
[3791]he¥renery Park, Cakland, Califorzia, on November 20, 1965.
[3793]Observation by
[3794]Special Agent of
[3795]FEE on 11/20/65
[3797]Bubject ected ee chairman of the Haight-Ashbury
[3798]Vietaan Comittee meeting which was held at 22 Parnessus
[3799]Street, San Francisco, on December 1, 1965. Subject did
[3800]most of the talking at this meeting and explained how the
[3801]wer in Vietnom started. Mo claimed that the U. S. had
[3802]offered the French the atomic bomb to use against the
[3803]Vietnamese during the french-Vietnamese Yar, PFROMER
[3804]streaned that if the war bad not ended in six months it
[3805]would lead to Borid War III and involvement ef China and
[3806]the U. S. Be said that it is up to individuais te bring
[3807]pressure on the government to etop the war in Vietnar,
[3809]SP T-1, 42/2/65
[3810]The Yaight-Ashbury Vietnam Committee
[3811]has headquarters at Number G, Rivels
[3812]Street, San Franciece, and is self _
[3813]deseribed as a asighborhodd organization
[3815]with the purpese ef opposing U. 8.
[3816]involyenent in Vietnam.
[3818]; 7
[3819]= 359
[3821]NW 88613 Docld:34528578 Page 87
[3824]aF 100-33a36
[3827]On December 3, 1965, Subject took part in ‘another
[3828]danonstration sponsored by the VDC which was held in protest.
[3829]of U, S&S. intervention in Vietnam by picketing the Fairmont
[3830]Hotel, San Franeisco, when Vice President HUMPEREY was
[3831]registered there on thet dey as a guest.
[3833]Observation hy
[3834]Sveetal Agent of
[3835]FRI on 12/3/65
[3837]Bubject attended 2 public necting held under. the
[3838]sponsorship of the Haight-Ashbury Vietnam Committee at
[3839]Nourse Hall, Franklin aad. Bayes Streets, San Francisco, on
[3840]danvary 14, 1266. |
[3842]S¥ T+5,. 1/20/66.
[3844]IRVING FROMER participated it: dererétrations
[3845]gponsered by the Haight-Ashbury Vietnam Comittee protesting
[3846]the war in Vietnam held in Union Square and in front of -
[3847]the Federal Building, beth. San. Francisco, on February §;,
[3849]Observation by |
[3850]Gpecial Agent of
[3851]¥BI on. 2/5/66
[3853]360
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[3858]SAN FRANCISCO CITIZENS COMMITTEE
[3859]TO PRESERVE AMERICAN FREEDOMS
[3861]A source advised on April 7, 1960, that a San Francisco
[3862]affiliate of the Citizens Committee to Preserve American Freedoms
[3863](CCPAF) had been established at a meeting held in San Francisco
[3864]on April 4, 1960. The source advised that the San Francisco
[3865]affiliate, to be known as the San Francisco CCPAF, would carry
[3866]out in Northern California the program of the CCPAF,
[3868]A second source advised on April 27, 1965, that the
[3869]san Francisco CCPAF is active.
[3871]561
[3873]APPENDIX
[3875]9
[3877]NW 60613 Docid:34520578 Page 39
[3879]i -
[3880]CITIZENS COMMITTEE TO PRESERVE AMERICAN FREEDOMS
[3882]The Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications,
[3883]revised and published December 1, 1961, prepared and reieased
[3884]by the Committee on Un-American Activities, United States
[3885]House of Representatives, contains the following on Page 43
[3886]concerning "Citizens Committee to Preserve American Freedoms":
[3888]1. "The (Communist) party's front operations in the
[3889]Southern California District today are **% confined to four
[3890]major organizations, "which include the Citizens Committee to
[3892]Preserve American Freedoms.
[3894]"The Citizens Committee to Preserve American Freedoms
[3895]* * * specializes in propaganda aimed at abclishing the Committee
[3896]on Un-American Activities and discrediting the Federal Bureau of
[3897]Investigation. Created in Los Angeles in 1952, the front
[3898]organization is run by Frank Wilkinson, an identified Communist
[3899]who recently resumed the full-time paid post of executive
[3900]Secretary after approximately a year's leave of absence to assist
[3901]in similar campaign by another front in New York City, the
[3902]Emergency Civil Liberties Committee.
[3904]"When the Committee on Un-American Activities held
[3905]hearings in Los Angeles September 2-5, 1958, to inquire into the
[3906]nature of the party's recent reorganization in California,
[3907]the Citizens Committee to Preserve American Freedoms sponsored
[3908]a series of public meetings to protest the hearings and the very
[3909]existence of the committee. Communists subpoenaed as witnesses
[3910]were guests of honor.
[3912]"At this time, leaders of the party's Southern California
[3913]District were mobilizing Communists in the area for participation
[3914]in an intensified campaign to abolish this committee of Congress.
[3915]How the Citizens Committee to Preserve American Freedoms served the
[3916]Party in this effort was revealed by (Communist Party) District
[3917]Chairman Dorothy Healey in a report to the Party's Southern
[3918]California Distriet Council on September 21, 1958. Mrs. HEALEY dau
[3919]clared that the party preferred public protest meetings to be held by
[3920]the Citizens Committee to Preserve American Freedoms rather than
[3921]under party auspices because Communists could attend without danger
[3922]of being exposed as members of the party. She also noted that
[3923]Communists scheduled as congressional committee witnesses could not |
[3924]appear beforehand at openly Communist rallies without creating the #
[3925]impression that the party was conspiring with witnesses to withhold
[3926]information from the committee."
[3927]=) Ze
[3929](Committee Sn Un-American Activities,
[3931]House Report 259 on the Southern California
[3933]District of the Communist Party, April 3,
[3935]1959, pp 7 and 8.)
[3937]10*
[3939]NW 60613 Docid:34520578 Page 90
[3941]FD-323 (Rev. 11-29-61)
[3943]UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
[3944]FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
[3946]In Reply, Please Refer to fan Francisco, California
[3947]mene March 14, 19656
[3948]SF 100-33936 - a ane
[3950]Title IRVING RHODES FROMER _
[3952]Character BECURITY HATTER ~ C
[3954]Reference “peport of SA LEO A, SCHON.
[3955]dated and captioned an
[3956]above at San Prancizco,
[3957]California
[3959]All sources (except any listed below) whose identities
[3960]are concealed in referenced communication have furnished reliable
[3962]information in the past.
[3964]SF 100-33836
[3965]LAS/sea
[3966](9)
[3968]363.
[3970]This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI, It is the property
[3971]of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside
[3973]your agency.
[3975]NW 88613 Docld:34528578 Page 91
[3977]‘ Vice ~ , . PX
[3979]EXHIBIT COVER SHEET
[3981]Exhibit Number: At .
[3982]SUBJECT: FROMER, David Reed .
[3984]SSve Registrant “
[3985]DPOB: 21 July 1942, Chicago Illinois
[3987]File Number: | 7129-6003 564-58=8137
[3988]Preparing Unit: 115th Mr Group» { I)
[3989]Agent Report Dated: 31 May 1967
[3991]Desoription:  Report,SFO FBI dated 28 March 67 re SUBJECT'S father
[3993]Classification
[3995]| 364
[3996]ICGP-F Form 2-25
[3997](Rev 25 Mar 66).
[3999]NW 88613 Docld:34528578 Page 92
[4002]- ~N
[4003]FD-204 (Rev. 3-3-59) en -
[4005]: a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
[4006]Copy to: ko Secret Servica, San Pranciseo
[4007](Ciasa 3)(Registered Mail)
[4009]Report of: a OSEPH ; Te. QUIGLEY Office: Sart Francisco
[4013]Field Office File #: 00839836 Bureau File ¢: LOG#368779
[4015]Title: IRVING RHODES FROMER
[4021]Synopsis:
[4023]Subject vesides 13 Rhonda Way, Mill Valley, California, _
[4025]and eapleyed as.an architect for Herteka and Knowles, 32 Fremont,
[4026]San Francisco, California. During 1966, Subjeat attended
[4028]two "People's World” functions, one Free Speech Forum and
[4030]one "National Guardian" funetion,
[4032]wo OC «
[4033]PF CLAse ep
[4034]TT RE 5
[4036]: 4 | |
[4037]NOT | |
[4039]365
[4041]|
[4042]on
[4044]This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to
[4045]your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.
[4047]NW 88613 Docld:34528578 Page 33
[4049]Be
[4051]SF 100-33836
[4054]I, BACKGROUND
[4056]As Residence
[4058]In October 19966, Subject reportedly had moved from
[4059]his residence on Clayton Street in San Prancises te
[4060]Mill Valley, California.
[4062]SP Tel
[4065]On March 15, 1967, Subject's current residence
[4066]at 13 Rhonda Way, Mill Valley, California, was verified through
[4067]the use of a suitable pretext interview with an attendant
[4068]at a Shell Service Station, Reed and Miller Avenues,
[4069]Mill Valley, California. This pretext interview was conducted
[4070]by a Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
[4072]EELS. ment
[4074]“Recerds of the San Francisco Retail Credit
[4075]Association reviewed by Special Employee GERALD E. ROSS
[4076]on March 21, 1966, reflect Subject employed as an architect
[4077]for Hertzka and Knowles, 32 Fremont, San Francisco, California.
[4079]On March 22, 1966, through the use of a suitable
[4080]pretext telephone call te the office of Hertzka and Knowles,
[4081]at the abeve address by a Special Agent of the Pederal
[4082]Bureau of Investigation, it was determined thet Subjeat is
[4083]eurrently employed here as an architect.
[4085]II. EVIDENCE OF SYMPATHY
[4086]FOR THE COMMUNIST PARTY (CP)
[4088]On Pebruary 19, 1966, the "People’s Werld®
[4089]sponsored a 28th anniversary celebration at the Del Webb
[4090]Tewnehouse, Eighth and Market Street, San Franeises,
[4091]Californie. There were approximately 869 persens present.
[4092]The main speaker was HERBERT APTHEKER, Subject was
[4093]among those present.
[4095]SF Ta?
[4096]on 2/25/66
[4098]366
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[4106]SF 1066933236
[4107]STQs4L
[4109]SF TH3
[4110]on. 2/24/66
[4112]SP Tay
[4113]on 2/19/66
[4115]"People’s Yori" is a Wast Coast
[4116]Communist weekly newspaper published
[4117]in San Francisco,
[4119]HERBERT APTHEKER is a member of the
[4120]Hational Committee CPUSA,
[4122]SPF T.5§
[4123]on 1/17/66
[4125]On September 25, 1966, there was a reception
[4126]held for MIKE GOLD, who was leaving his job as a colunist
[4127]for the "People's World". The reception was held at the
[4128]®Sun Reporter® Building, 1366 Turk Street, San Prancisecs,
[4129]California. Subject was among the approximately 65 persone
[4130]present.
[4132]SP Ta3
[4133]on 9/29/66
[4135]In Geteober 1966, Subject took out a year's
[4136]subseription to the "People’s World". He gave his
[4137]address at that time as 15 Rhonda Yay, Mill Valley,
[4138]California.
[4140]SF T-6
[4141]on 10/27/66
[4143]On April 30, 1956, a May Day meeting was held at
[4144]the International Lengshoremen's Workers Union, Santa Haria
[4145]Hall in San Feanciseo, under the sponsorship ef the
[4146]San Franeisee Free Speech Forum. Subject was among
[4147]approximately 89 persons present at this seeting.
[4149]” 367
[4152]SF 10600-33836 a
[4153]dTQ241
[4155]The name San Francisco Free Speech
[4156]Forum is the name utilized by the
[4157]San Francisco County Comsunist Party
[4158]te sponsor its public meetings.
[4160]SP F=7.
[4161]on 16/2/64
[4163]Subject was among approximately 200 persons present
[4164]at a "National Guardian" festival held November 20, 1966,
[4166]at the Peace Center, 55 Celton Street, San Francisco,
[4167]California.
[4169]SP T+2
[4170]on 11/25/66
[4172]For characterization of the
[4173]“Hational Guardian” sea appendix,
[4175]NW 88613 Docld:34528578 Page 96
[4178]"NATIONAL GUARDIAN"
[4180]The Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications,
[4181]revised “and published December 1, 1961, prepared and released
[4182]by the*Commnittee on Un-American Activities, United States
[4183]House of Representatives, contains the following on Page 193
[4184]concerning "National Guardian:"
[4186]1, "established by the American Labor Party in  ,
[4187]1947 as a ‘progressive!’ weekly***. Althcugh it denies having
[4188]any affiliation with the Comnaunist Party, it has manifested
[4189]itself from the beginning as a virtual official propaganda arm
[4190]or Soviet Rursia." . .
[4192](Conmmitive on Un-American Activities, Report,
[4193]Trial bv Treason: The National Committee to
[4194]Secure Justice for the Rosenbergs and Morton
[4195]Sobell, August 25, 1955, p. 12.)
[4197]q“1onneEEn
[4199]APPENDIX
[4201]569
[4203]2
[4205]5
[4207]NW 68613 Docld:34528578 Page 97
[4209]|
[4211]a : oo, o~
[4212]: -FD-329 (Rev. 11-29-61) oo! ~
[4215]UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
[4216]FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
[4218]San Francisco, California
[4220]In Reply, Please Refer to
[4222]Bie Now Maveh 28, 1967
[4224]Title -“-ERVING RHODES PROMER
[4226]Character SECURITY MATTER ~ ¢
[4228]Reference Report of SA JOSEPH T, QUIGLEY,
[4229]dated and captioned ag above,
[4230]et San Prancisco.
[4232]All sources (except any listed below) whose identities
[4233]are concealed in referenced communication have furnished reliable
[4234]information in the past.
[4236]37 .
[4238]This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property
[4240]of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside
[4241]your agency. .
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