Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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SECRET# DOCUMENT TRANSFER AND CROSS REFERENCE|                                                 |                                 |               || ----------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------- | ------------- || SUBJECT OF DOCUMENT                             |                                 |               || Agnes Sneiley, was.                             |                                 |               || 2. RI FILE NO.                                  | DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION 201-404 |               || 3. CISPAICH OR SOURCE DOC. SYMBOL NO. DFB-16151 | 4. DATE 5 Mar 52                |               || 7. SOURCE CRYPTONYM                             | 8. DATE OF INFO.                | 9. EVALUATION || 5. ANALYST Jep                                  | 6. DATE PROCESSED 21 Nov. 63    |               ||                                                 | 10. DISSEMINATED IN             | 11. DATE      || CROSS-REFERRED TO THIS FILE                     | 13. TRANSFERRED TO RI FILE NO.  |               |14. PERTINENT INFORMATIONhAccording to coffidential informant T-17, of unkomwn reliability, Agnes smedley attempted to ovtain from the American Express Co. in Shanghai certain mail addressed to Harold R. Isaacs while Isaacs was avsent from the city. One of the return addresses on this mail was Smith and Isaacs, 344 East 149th Streed Bonnx, New York. Harold R. Isaacs, mention above, was identified by T 17 as an American Journalist of Communist sympathies who resised in Shanghai in the Early thirties.15. FILE THIS FORM IN FILE NO.![an arrow pointing right] 201-18446
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# SECRET(When Filled In)# DOCUMENT TRANSFER AND CROSS REFERENCESUBJECT OF DOCUMENTDOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION2. RI FILE NO.   201-4143. DISPATCH OR SOURCE DOC. SYMBOL NO.   DFB-161294. DATE   14 Feb. 525. SOURCE CRYPTONYM 8. DATE OF INFO. 9. EVALUATION10. DISSEMINATED IN 11. DATEAGNES SMEDLEY,5. ANALYST 6. DATE PROCESSEDJEP 3 Dec. 63DOCUMENT DISPOSITION12. CROSS REFERRED TO THIS FILE 13. TRANSFERRED TO    RI FILE NO.XXXX14. PERTINENT INFORMATIONSubject of the document is mentioned as having visited the residence of Harold R. *XXXXXX* Isaacs and C. *?R* Frank Glass, two notorious local Commmunits sympathisers.15. FILE THIS FORM IN FILE NO.![arrow]201-18446FORM 867 USE PREVIOUS EDITIONS. SECRET9-57 (17-481)
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FBI REPORTDATE: 31 JAN. 52CLASS: CONFIDENTIALSUBJ: TILLMAN, DURDINFBI FILE #: 105-15218 (BUREAU)
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SECRETDOCUMENT TRANSFER AND CROSS REFERENCESUBJECT OF DOCUMENTIDA FRANCES TREAT BERGERETDOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION2. RI FILE NO. 201-6137 62053. DISPATCH OR SOURCE DOC. SYMBOL NO. DF3-244114. DATE 12 Feb. 525. ANALYST JEP6. DATE PROCESSED 3 Dec. 6310. DISSEMINATED IN11. DATE.DOCUMENT DISPOSITION12. CROSS REFERRED TO THIS FILE13. TRANSFERRED TO RI FILE NO.PERTINENT INFORMATION14. Subject remembers meetint HAROLD R. ISAACS, an American Journalist, at a party at the home of Madame SUN YAT SEN.15. FILE THIS FORM IN FILE NO. 201-18446
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CONFIDENTIRESTRICTED.ROUTING AND RECORD SHEETFREEINSTRUCTIONS.--Officer designations should be used in the "TO" column. Under each comment a line should be drawn across sheet and each comment numbered to correspond with the number in the "TO" column. Each officer should initial (check mark insufficient) before further routing. This Record and Routing Sheet should be returned to Registry.FROM:| TO-         | ROOM NO. | DATE        | OFFICER'S INITIALS | COMMENTS || ----------- | -------- | ----------- | ------------------ | -------- || 1. etc      | 1603     | RECEIVED    | FORWARDED          |          || 2.          |          |             |                    |          || 3. JE/SO    |          |             |                    |          || 4. China    |          |             |                    |          || 5.          |          |             |                    |          || 6.          |          |             |                    |          || 7.          |          |             |                    |          || 8.          |          |             |                    |          || 9. STC/SIB  | 3        | MAR 10 1952 |                    |          || 10. STC/ICB |          |             |                    |          || 11.         |          |             |                    |          || 12.         |          |             |                    |          || 13.         |          |             |                    |          || 14.         |          |             |                    |          || 15. 2.1     |          |             |                    |          |CONSOLIDATION EFFECTEDBY51-9FREERESTRICTEDCONFIDENTIAL10-00012-1
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# CONFIDENTIAL## Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENTTO: Chief, St. ROAttn: AlillowFROM: Chief, Contact Division, (C)DATE: 7 February 1952SUBJECT: CE Information--Pro-Communist Sentiment of US Nationals in China1. Enclosed is a copy of an article prepared for publication in the Christian Science Monitor by a former editor of the Shanghai English-language newspaper. It has not yet been published and probably will not be published because of its length.[Figure: signature]ENCLOSURE (A) as listed above.[Figure: stamp indicating '1 COPY' and 'CONFIDENTIAL']
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PCE 43851.  A happy ending has been written in the case of Ferris Appelman, former Communist who is now secretary of the General Rose Memorial Hospital of Denver. He has been praised in Washington for "disclosing his Communist past", and his board of directors has voted confidence in him and continued him in his job.2.  No doubt all this is fitting and proper but it doesn't answer the question of why nobody in Denver seems to have known anything about Appelman's Red-tinged past, or why there was anything sensational about his revelation of it in Washington. While the police state is rightly anathema to American citizens, it seems remarkable that official records should not be in existence and reasonably accessable to people with reason to check up on such a point as past Communist service.3.  The point about Appelman is not that he did anything particularly reprehensible, but that what he did was quite in the open. According to the Washington testimony he served the Communist party, apparently without special concealment, in Russia, Germany and other points in Europe, going around the world between 1924 and 1938. He sought to relieve Fox and Grace Granich in the editorship of a Shanghai English-language Communist magazine, "The Voice of China", in 1937, he testified, but didn't get off his ship in Shanghai because of the hostilities there at the time.4.  This sheds something of a light on the supposedly fearless and ruthless Communist operations throughout the world. I was in Shanghai when fighting broke out there between Japan and China on Aug. 13, 1937, and can testify that we had three months of dingdong warfare before the campaign moved inland. During that period a good many people left for obvious reasons, but some came in, and it might be presumed that an accredited agent of international Comintern would at least have paused in nearby Kobe or Hongkong till things calmed down a little. Possibly the Communists are as subject to qualms about personal safety as anyone else--or more so.5.  About "The Voice of China" there could hardly be any illusion in the mind of anyone who had cared to pay the slightest attention to it. Each issue bore a virtual advertisement of its Communist allegiance on its front cover, to those familiar with methods of converting Chinese into English. The name "Voice of China" appeared in both English and Chinese, and in the Chinese a peculiar Soviet-originated system of Romanization was used so that what is ordinarily, by conventional Wade system, written "Chung Hua" for China was spelled "Chung Hua"-- an extraordinary effect frankly explaining the publication's ownership.6.  But what was more, Harold Isaacs, the editor who preceded the Granichs, had done considerably more than was conveyed by press dispatches from the Washington hearings of the House Un-American Activities Committee. These said he was "believed to have deviated from Communist policy" whereas in fact he challenged with the Chinese Communists and their Moscow patrons
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or until he decided to return to his own country and evan thor, thacomlex nature of American Imma on tide eneral subject make it hard totril what could be done aside from perhaje denyin; another passport to goalroad again.11. The important thing, as shown by a long list of casos pravoly    Investigated by congruasional committees, is to have the postwar Central    Intelligence Arency or some coparable group such as the Foleral Dureau of    Investigation keep track of the wealth of information available. Too much    wasto offart goes into the many duplications of impiiry.
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CONFIDENTIALSECURITY INFORMATIONDCE 4555Chief, St ff C, ConAttn: Miss Jane HinelowC/afe Contact Division, CO7 February 1952FS In formati -Pro-Communist Sentiment of US Nationals in China1. Enclosed is a copy of an article prepared for publication in the Christian Solence Monitor by a former editor of the Shanghai English-language newspaper. It has not yet been published and probably will not be published because of its length.B. W. ASHCRAFTENCLOSURES (A) as listed above.COPYCONFIDENTIAL
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# OFFICIAL DISPATCHVIA: AAPSPECIFY AIR OR SEA POUCHDISPATCH NO. LJN-CLASSIFICATIONTO: Chief of Mission, PID/VBODATE: 6 February 1952FROM: Chief, FB.SUBJECT: GENERAL: Counter-espionageSPECIFIC: Transmittal of OE Study on "The ROULENS Case"Attachments: (1) Subject OE Study (4 copies)The attached study entitled "The ROULENS Case", compiled by our OE office, is forwarded for your information and for retention in your OE files.Originator: John L. WitzlebenPERNHARD VON AMMONRELEASING OFFICERLLOYD GEORGEChief, FECOORDINATING OFFICERAUTHENTICATING OFFICERJohn ChrislawFE/B/SOCLASSIFICATION
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ZCG 1811, Shanghai Luncipal Files, filed 16-4-2-37ISAACS, Harold RobertBorn 13 Sept 1910, NYCNat'l AmericanDESCRIPTIONHeight 5'9"Build mediumHair black, wavy, brushed backEyes brownDOCUMENTATIONIn 30s was traveling on passport # 177026Arrived in China from Manila on 10 Dec 1930Upon arrival joined the editorial staff of the Shanghai Evening Post and MercuryWas a secretary of the HOULENS Defense Commitee and a member of the Society of Freinds of the USSROn 12 June 1931, ISAACS and his friend GLASS took a trip up the Yangtze. During this trip ISAACS wrote his fiancee, Viola ROBINSON, that he had decided to turn *Red* as a result of conversations with GLASS.The two returned to Shanghai in Aug 1931 and took up residence at # 128 Weihaiwei Road.ISAACS later started and became the editor and published of the "China Forum" which at first was job-printed but from Oct 1932 on was printed by the Level Publishing Co. IEC, # 33, Lane 478 Tiandong Road, Shanghai. ISAACS openedly stated he was manager of the printing co and owned 40% of its shares.On 7 Aug 1933; ISAACS and his wife Viola ROBINSON whom he had married in Sept 1932 left Shanghai for Japan on the SS Nagasaki Maru: On 16 Aug, they proceeded to Japan, returning to Shanghai on Aug 26th.In addition to his other activities, ISAACS was also employed with the Havas News Agency; he covered connection with this Agency around Dec 1933.In Dec 1933, ISAACS was in Poochow to gather 1st hand info re the newly formed People's Revolutionary Government of the Republic of China.In the spring of 1934, ISAACS and his wife left for Tientsin en route to Peking at which city he resided at # 2 Tung Fu Chia Tao, East City. Peking mailing address was % Mr. UHLMANN, Grand Hotel.
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On 3 January 1934, ISAACS visited Mr and Mrs. NOUNS while they were on a hunger strike in prison.On 14 January 1936, the parents of ISAACS, Mr and Mrs I.H., ISAACS arrived in Shanghai from Los Angeles. During their stay in Shanghai they resided at the Metropol Hotel Annex. On 20 February they left Shanghai for Port Said en route to Marseille on the SS Rawalpindi.On 4 April 1936, ISAACS under the pen name of Lo Sen had an article published in the New Militant, the organ of the NY District Worker's Party. The article was an attack on Stalin and was entitled "Stalinists ready to embrace Chian Kai Shek, Officer Chinese Red Army in return for resurrection of disasterous 1927 blood".At this same time, ISAACS was also lecturing on Japan, China, and the USSR and the War Crisis in the Far East:
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# GLASSShanghai Hani Police Piles, filed, 16-4-2-37, p 2In Shanghai GLASS made the acquaintance of one Damaree C.B333, American from Kansas City, born 1893. This was some time after April 1932.Name O.F. GLASS Cecil Prank OLÁSSBorn 25 March 1901, Birmingham, ông loadPassport British passport, A 96153, issued 5 Jan 1931 in Pretoria, South africaPol Affiliation Member of the CPOvert Profession JournalistBelieved to have left England in the early 1920s for South Africa where he resided at Johannesburg for many years.Arrived in Shangint from Darten May 1931On 12 June 1931 made a trip through up the Tango Yangteze with Harold 155 American Communist and writer-for-the editor of the China Forum: A letter written by ISACS to his fiancee, Hiss Viola ROBINSON, during this trip contained information that ISAACS had decided to turn "Red" as a result of his conversation with GLASIn Sep 1931, CLASS became a member of the AHULENS Defense Committee and two conths later was appointed Shanglint Representative of the Anglo asiatic folograph Agency(Angasta) a news agency with HQ in Hrbin, which position he held until 19335In Aug1933, lis was living in Room 510, 1276, North Ssochuen Road, Changhat
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FCS 1811; Shanghai Muniopal Files, file: 16-6-2-37ROBINSON, Viola@ ERST H/R: ISAACSBorn 10 July 1910, NYCNat'l AmericanDescriptionHeight 5'5"Build slimComplx fairDocumentationIn 1932 holder of US passport # 382046 issued NYC 14 May 1931.HistoryIn 1931 known to have visited GermanyKnown Communist and follower of Lucy STONEArrived in Shanghai on 23 Aug 193214 Sept 1932 married Harold Robert ISAACS. She had been engaged to ISAACS for some years before her arrival in China, and it has been stated that the letters between the two indicated that Communist sympathies on the part of both and of ISAACS' intention of joining the CPAfter her arrival in China was employed at the Dah Chung Middle School; Shanghai as a teacher.She lived in the Embankment Building Bldg, North Soochow RoadOn 7 August 1933, the ISAACS left Shanghai for Japan and on 16 Aug 1933 proceeded to Dairen, returning to Shanghai by rail on 26 August 1933.In Nov 1933; info was received to the effect that Miss ROBINSON was a teacher at the Comparative Law School, Shanghai/
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# Harold Robert ISAACS with aliasesLO Sad (pennane used in China)Harold Robert ISAACS was born in New York City on 13 September 1910 of American parente. Pas father has been reported as decidedly of the commercial typo."LAACS has been described as intelligent, critical, dervous and nervously organized.Little is known concerning the activities of ISAACS prior to his arrival in China fron Manila on 10 December 1930; however, who visited ISACS.date in Shanghai, is reported to have embarrassed his son in the presence of friends by "kidding the latter about trying to make money on real estate while in Los Angoles before going to China.The actual dato when Cecil Frank GLASS and Harold ISAACS is not known, but it must have bean shortly after the arrival of GLASS in Shanghai in May 1931, for in June 1931, ISAACS and GLASS made a trip up the Yangtsse togetherIt has been stated that ISAACS became interested in Comuniam with specific relation to China, but lotters written by LanACS to kia fiancee, Viola ROBINSON,cheted to of his trip with GLASS, robored-sosetesoIT has toetsBastadt hat ISAACS became interosted in Cocusing specific relation to Chinas it has also bean stated that lettore betiseen ISAACS and his fiance, Viola ROBINSON, which were written daring the Tangtsze trip indicated.Con mmunist syapathies on the part of both; and one of the letters contained the information that ISAACS had decided to tura Rode'as a result of his conversations with GLASS As you are amare, ISAAC and CLASS returned to Shanghai in August 1931 and took up residence at 128 Weihaiwei Read. In September 1991) both men are reported to have Decane morbers of the FOLLES Defense Cormities, ISACS baing the Secretary.
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ISAACS is also reported to have been a member of the Society of Friends of the USSR.Upon his arrival in China, ISAACS joined the editorial staff of the Shanghai Evening Post and the Mercury. ISAACS was also employed with the Havas News Agency, which connection he is reported to have severed around December 1933.ISAACS also started and later became editor and published of the "China Forum." It is believed to have been a monthly English language paper issued at first as a commercial job from the Mercury Press. From October 1932 on it was printed by the Level Publishing Company Inc., 33; Lane 478, Kiandong Road.. ISAACS is reported to have openly stated that he was manager of the printing company, owing 40% of the shares.It has been stated that those who knew ISAACS in Shanghai found no reason to think he was a "pay off" man for American Communists, and that during the first part of his stay in China, he was not a follower of Trotsky. However, he is reported to have finally become convinced that the tactics of the Chinese Communists were wrong and that Trotsky was right in criticising them, and the Soviet Government under Stalin. He therefore wrote an article entitled," I Break with Stalin to Stalinists," in which among other things; he is reported to have stated that the expense of publishing the magazine had been financed by the Chinese Communists. He is then reported to have discontinued the magazine and to have sold the printing equipment, the sum being realised from the sale not being turned back to the Chinese Communists but to have been given to the Trotsky cause.ISAACS had been engaged for several years to Viola ROBINSON who arrived in Shanghai on 28 August 1932. On 14 September 1932, she and ISAACS were married and took up residence in the Embankment Building on North Soochow Road, Prior to the fall of 1933; Irene MEYMEYER or REIMER she a subject in the SOMGE Case is reported to have lived in the Embankment Building with one Reneo DITZL. Bold AUDOUARD and his wife who have been reported as Soviet sympathizers and were who were known to have
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boon in close contact with E EKICCH when the latter was in China also lived in this building in the sarly 1930s An Apartment 509.After her arrival in China, Viola ROBINSON ISAACS was caplayed at the Deh. Cung Kids School, and by lovesuber 1933 wma reported as a teacher at the Comparative Leem School in Shanghai.On 7 August 1983, the ISAACS loft Stangial for Japan, and on 16 August 1933 December pascooted to Dairen, Foturuing to Shanghai by rail on 26 August 1933. In Hovede 1933 as left hanging for for Fooches Foochow to gather first hand inforartion on the nonly fomed People'a Hovclutionery-Government of the Republic of China.In Ja uary 1924, ISAACS is reported to have visited Mrs, and Mra: NOULENS while thoy were on a hunger strike in prison in the spring of 1934, ISAACS and his wife left for Pointain en route to Peking at which city, thay resided at 2 Tiung Fu Cata Tao, kost City: Rie mailing address was of one Me URINANH, Grand Hotel, PekingAs has been set out heretofore, ISAACS is reported to have turned against the Stalinist Government of the USSR, becoming a Trotaçito: During this period he wrote the "Trageάν of the Chinese Revolution," allegedly as a single gestura af Interpretation and protest to show how, in his opinion, both the Kuomintang and the Consunists had gone wrong in China. Also in Appil 1936, under the pen pero of Lo son, ISAACS had an article published in the "New Militant; the arger of the HY District Worker's Partys, The artisle da reportedly an attack on Stalin and wa entitled," Stalintora ready to abrace Chiang Kai Shok.: Officer Chinese Red Prey in Boturn for ressurection of disasterous 1027 bioe;"
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It has been stated by friends of ISAAS even during the height of his Trot-*shrist career, he never accepted money from any group; that he was open and aboveboard; and that he never engaged in any conspiracies to overthrow established govern-ment. They are also reported to have stated that IACS was attracted to Communismby Bhabeer idealism.It has been further reported that immediately after Pearl Harbor, ISAACS brokewith the Trotskyite group as he had broken with the Communists, and began writingpropaganda for the United States Government.Sometimes in the late 1930s, ISAACS returned to the United States.-By-the-fallUntil the fall of France, he was employed by the Havas News Agency. In October 1943,of 1943, he was working for Newsweek Magazine in Washington, D.C. His address at thattime was Friendship Heights, Newport Ave., 4938.By late 1944, or early 1945, ISAACS was in Chungking as a representative ofNewsweek. During this period, he had a great deal of trouble about censorship, andreportedly was denied permission to visit Communist areas. It has been stated thatactually he was merely unfortunate in that he applied just after the government hadrestored its ban on journalistic travel in that direction. At the time he had wasdenied permission, Teddy WHITE of Time had just been allowed to go, and ISAACS feltthat he was being discriminated against. It has been stated that WHITE, upon his returngave such a good account of administration in the Red areas that this, added to othersimilar experiences, solidified the government's determination no to let any moreAmerican newspapers go up and become Communist converts. In March 1945; ISAACSwas reported as about to leave Chungking permanently.The following descriptions of Harold and Viola ISAACS are set out for you.
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Harold ISAACSBorn: 10 July 1910, NYCNat'l: AmericanHeight: 5'9"Build: mediumHair: black, wavy, brushed backEyes: brownPassports in early 1930s: US Passport # 177026Viola R. ISAACS13 Sept., 1910, NYCAmerican5'5"slimfairUS passport # 382046, Issued NYC 14 May 1931In addition to Agnes SMEDLEY and Frank GLASS, ISAACS is known to have been in contact with the following while in China:Filias DURDIN: For a time during his stay in China, ISAACS is reported to have lived with DURDIN, then correspondent of the NY Times and once at one time, managing editor of 3 China Press.John K. MURRAY, Shanghai representative of the Pacific News Agency in Vancouver; MURRAY is also known to have been in contact with E.E. KISCH, Agnes SMEDLEY, Irene USRTOYER or WEIDEMETER and one W. ROVER during his stay in China.![Stamp indicating AUG 14 1937]
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ISAACSPUBLICATIONSBrote an article entitled "I Break with the Stalinists" which allegedly among other things, that the expenses of publishing a magasine which he was priting wit had been borned by ties Chinese Communiste:At one time, ISAACS published a monthly English Language magasine, Troued first aba comersial joy(eic from the Horoury Press and later printed from a small printing outfit purchased by ISAACS. It has been stated that after publishing the article "I Break with the Staliniste, ISAACS discontinued the magazine and sold its printing oquipment It has been stated that the small sum realised from the sale was not turned back to the Chinese Commiste but was turned over to the Trotsky Cause."