AGENCY: RECORD NUMBER: RECORD SERIES: AGENCY FILE NUMBER: ORIGINATOR: FBI HOPKINS. EMIL E. FROM: ~ TO: TITLE: AGENCY INFORMATION FBI 124-10077-10152 CV 44-265-51 DOCUMENT INFORMATION DATE: — 12/08/1963 PAGES: 6 SUBJECT: DOCUMENT_TYPE: SEE FBI 100-10461-2438 PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT - Released under the John Kennedy WSesasgsination Records ollection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note}. ase#: NW 53025 Date: 5-15-2017 ORIGINAL Unclassified NEW CLASSIFICATION: CLASSIFICATION: REVIEW DATE: 11/15/1996 STATUS Redact COMMENTS: RESTRICTIONS: JFK Act 6 (4) HW 53025 DBocld:32145775 Page 1 UPDATE DATE: 01/22/2001
"Covgr' Sheet for Informant Report or ) ; . , é jaiterial FD-306 (3-21.58) rm CONF MOENTIAL . Received by SA EMI | E. _HOPKINS Date received Received from (name or symbol number} 12/16/63 CI 104s f Method of delivery (check appropriate blocks) Clin person (—lby telephone | by mail (“J orally (J recording device Cz written by Informant = Y Date: of Report a . Date Kel ‘ : ET | . “12/8/63 : Dictated 1 : - a y Date(s) of activity . ; ; ' Transcribed — Y . : : i iL by Informant) | | - 12/8/63. Brief description of activity or’ material . | “ (Oy Report of cr 104e8 re Communist: Party meeting|} : . | ‘ge : KL) (Cy held 12/8/63, at_ home . of GENNE. KUHN, 6105 HF ile where original, is located if not attached \ | Remarks Utmost care. should be taken that any. information ‘taken. from this report is paraphrased to protect: informe "ad. only . seven individuals. attended the: meeting. i. / G@> Cleveland (RM). a ‘ (W 100=17257 (CP. Org. ». 100-.—. (ARNOLD . JOHNSON): ; B22 (Assassination of President. KENNEDY etal “ROBY, A 105- (LEE RARVY OSWALD) 65-721 © (ANTHONY. ERGHMARER) 100-17255 (Membership). . 100-1646 3 ‘(Political Avtivities) 100217797. (Factionalism) . —-100-23484 (Mass Organizations) ~ 100-17947 (Strategy in Industry) 3.¢ Dallas aD) ag (622. (Assassination of. President KENK Block Stamp 440 (JACK LEON RUBY) - (105- (LEE HARVEY r OSWALD) & 6 - New York (RM) 100- «(CP org.) ; Pe 62>. ‘(assassination o£. Pres. KENNE! — bho © ' (JACK ‘LEON RUBY). Oy 105= - (LEE HARVEY | OSWALD)‘. 100-16021 (ARNOLD JOHNSON)... -\/ HF oa BER/ dR Fr iia5775 Page 2° “CONF
| seesasa7 ¢  é Oe, CONFINENTIAL ‘Copies continued) . 100145835. (@, USA, ‘Public. ‘Appearances of ‘Party Leaders = a14) a 100-8571 (CP, ‘State of, West. virginia): 100-8572. _ (CP, ‘Ohio. Valley. Section) - 100-8664 - -(CP, Membership). 13- Pittsburgh (RM) | . ~ 100-".  62=. “1082. - (ARNOLD: JOHNSON). ': (Assassination of President KENNEDY) © oe (JACK LEON: RUBY) oo (LEE HARVEY OSWALD) . 100-8549 _(GENNE® KUHN): 1002... 100-" iy a 100- _ ‘\(Pactionalism)~ “(Political ‘Affairs) > (LEE M. JOHNSON) °- (Mass. Organizations) 100214821" (HUGH GTLMORE. ‘CROCKARD, Jr.) 2he ecaat : BEerealCSyCh Or jantaatiéa) 13428A 622275 ONE U eton “of President KENNEDY) 44-456 © (JACK. LEON: RUBY) - 105-2505 (LEE. HARVEY: OSWALD) 100-7964 | . (EP: Membership) -- 100-8227" (Political Activities) 100-8481. (Pactionalism) ~ 100212701  (Cominfil; “Mass: Organizations) - 100-8359 (Strategy in’ Industry) . 1100-12483 (CHARLES PALMER) 1060-12408. (RANDALL. GORBY) - 100-9142° (FLOYD: WELLS) 100-7006 .(GENNE: KUHN) © - 100212474 (JOHN FABRY) 100212475. (SHIRLEY. FABRY) 100-6386 © (FRED WALCHLI). 100-1910-. (ARNOLD . JOHNSON) . 100-1683 “(ANTHONY . KRCHMAREK). 157 195. (LEE M. JOHNSON) © 100-14096. (HUGH GILMORE: CROCKARD, IR. >. 100-8402 -. (Youth Matters) | 1342142 (ADOLPH PACIFICO). HW 53025 Dew 707 (Comte er ates) CONFIPANTIAL
r a) Gi | eens (RH) . CONFI iy TIAL Informant ' S$ report set: forth below: ow) (W) , Seeubenwities ohio YY December. 8, 1963 "On the above date a group from, Steubenville, Met at 610 8. Front St... Wheeling; Ws Wa. the home” of ‘a Genne - _ (Crockard) Kuhn. This was"a’ Communist. Party Meeting.” The person who. WERE in attendance who were: recognized | usze: (4) ([ ~  @ @ L = Floyd Wells; - A Carpenter and - treaburer of his’ » Local Union ‘Erom. Steubenville. _ 2 © CHARLES PALMER: - A steel worker .and. former. grievance |  Committeman from the Wheeling . ‘Steel Corpn. - and Member’: of Local Union. #1190. U. S. W.A.” ‘Cc. 1.0 A. F, Le a 3 = Randal Gorby:- “from the. Wheeling Steel coxpa’ ‘and.a- former shop stewart is a Member of Local. Union: #1190 U.S.WeA, C.1.0. - ALP obe 7 & = Arnold: Johnson: .. LA. former state. chairman of the™ _ Commmnist Party of Ohio and who now is a: ‘ sortgoE public - “relations man for.the Communist. party- working out Of. New York. City, New York. He secures speakers for.. | any engagements such as Colleges: and Campus lectures | 5 = John Fabrey a Miner: from Smithfield. . ' He-is know as the emi ling. Slovak. ' St - 6.- Mrs. John Fabrey his Wife cee Lene 7 = Genne (Crockard) Kuk the. hostess: ‘Ls.a- ‘Long, time.C. party worker former wife of Hugh» Crockard Now ‘deceased - and she since Mazried Emil Kuhn ‘who now “‘nesides at her home, Genne has three children two to her first. = = husband aid the other to. the. latter. -She-has a son. about. 19 yrs old who is being schooled and worked- over. by the C. party in. New York. s Genne. Kuhn Continued: The. c party wanted to take. her SON | Gall. Crockard out of. her influence so he- could be taught . 53025 Docld: 32145775 Page 4 . | 7 ° 7 - CONFIDXCTIAL | 4
* @ - 6 c sears QW . a ® yea | something: Constructive: this gait recently, afew yeats — , ,or- less: ‘ago..Mada. a: trip’ to" the: ‘Soviet’ Union: ‘etc. on<the:. . Youth Conference. “Know, as: the: tWorkd: Youth: Conference. He will: ‘probably: emerge’ from the: ‘New York ‘thing: asa” &) » full time’. organiser ‘in ‘some, special: tleld suck yas. "youth. 7 at the start of the: Mésting Genne brought out i} her brief case full ‘of clippitige : (Newspaper) ‘ete. she. , ‘algo had a lot of penciled notes which she was ~~, undoubtedly. going to. use. to. show’ what she was ‘doing and. ‘to. ‘give. others: hell for not cooperating with’ Be( @ Butt the | first discussion by. A. Johnson centered around the Late Pres. Kennedy. @ uw ' . Arnold: explained that since ‘Oswald was: Considered’ a” mo — Coummumiet then.a wave of hysteria: was ‘about to explode. ‘ _ against the’C. party of America but. by. the time the ve-actionaries were getting. started: it’ was | announced that it had. been - disclosed that it. seemed like: the . extreme. Bight had-been' active. . This was bors.out by the declaration. of" Russia. that it was not. the C. party that had. done it because ‘Kennedy.was a ‘friend of the. Working class but. the work of the. extreme pight.or almost a. fascist. act. . This: seemed to: scber- the masses that it. was the same caliber. of people: who. had “Oyu Stevenson only: Meeks: before. in Dallas, | Texas. Arnold. # Ju ‘was asked by.C.B.S. News about. this . Oswald as to a letter he had. written to. the party, he. told them he gets lets of letters of enquiry about the C. party and he proba ly answered it .as he. does. hundreds’ of others and even sent him literature if he requested: e it. They | (C.B.8.). wanted him to’go.on.the air with 4 fu statement. but he. stated to them. he: would have to dig. th letter out. andibaisuge befors he Made any. statement. ao - Randal. Gorby asked. Arnold Johnson if when he: got ‘back, to : “New York to look in the files 1£ he had a letter fro ‘Wu Pokas, formerly from Bellaire, Ohio, «and also am an | -immate of Cambridge’ Asylum: fora period. of ‘tims, * Gonty @ Wl) | «a he HW 53025. DocId:32145775 Page 5 . . | coneieNTIAL
Cr HW 53025 oe & wean (Yu) | ; CONFIDENTIAL asked Johnson to compare the letter of Pokey's with: Qswald's-to see if they didn't have a lot: in Common. Palwer stated that he thought the statement by the Methodist Minister Covered the situation very good when he stated that the fact that the Murder of Bill Moore, M Edgar Evers and others in the. south going by without punishment had set the stage for the © Assassination of Pres. Kennedy. Everyone readily agreed, UL Arnold Johnson further stated that no real Marxist | . Could do such a thing. There is not Much doubt that since the Soviet Umion had expelled him by not giving him a Citizenship im the Soviet Union because . they thought him to be am Agent of Pascism. Genne Meanwhile was Chomping at the bit trying to get her story told about the N.A.A.C.P, and CORE, (Ly) She finally got her Chance to umtoad.(d (IC She stated that about the time of the Civil Right s March on Washington a few days before she had béeen working with CORE and NAACP the reporter from the Wheeling paper Intelligencer had Called and wanted to talk about her. She gave him answers. on the phone and finally humg up on him. from the time - this phone conversation was completed She had been. quoted in the newspaper and exposed as a Communist party Member, which brought: about her. exp@lsion from the W.A.A.C.P., but simce has been restored to. Membership, Then lately a Mam. (Negro) by name of Johnson head of the local CORE group was indicted for robbing a bus driver in Steubenville, Ohio.. Genne had got in touch with R. Gorby as she thought Johnson was being framed, Gorby found out and told her at this Meeting that he had did the robbing and was Not being framed. the best thing to do stated Gorby was to give him help but do not put:CORE.and the. NAACP out. om a Limb by doing it. G (Ww o 5 = CONT Docld:32145775 Page 6
Gt HW 53025 134-8A=557 (QW CONFIDENTIAL "palmer stated that it was News to him as. the only. thing he Knew about it Was the articles in the paper, and | the. first one looked as 1f-Genne had stayed, on the’ phone ~~ too long should have hung up’quick: He also stated that in 1948 when he hed this trouble everyone Knew about it and then he got more help and was suecessful.in: defeating the reactionaries; You have to @lways.work together on these Matters if you: will be guccessful. The hour was drawing Near ten o'clock P.M, amd the’ Steubenville delegation had to work that, Nite. |X Luuch was. furnished by each and everyone. with: the - exception of A Johnson and he put away pate (Y  Johmson stated that. he had been down this way about one week ago and had Contacted some of his old friends ,by | Cw phone, one im particular was Adolph. Pacifico he — wanted to talk to him on a so called Applachian Coal project | which has been going on for some time’: “Adolph” wanted to” meet with him if he could find time later - Was wnable to sce him at this time. ) ) Evéryone present asked A. Johnson When he was* coming: back but he would not state exactl vai he. would notify the Nest time he could make it. No Literature | No Collections GRRE SRL AD Ow ' Tweing the time Gemne Kuhn was belly aching about not getting help from the Valley group it was poimted out by A Johnson that some years back when the Wheeling group was a part of W. Virginia group that difficulties existed -., and now with the Wheeling. group in with Ohio Valley. the trouble. still exists, He also pofimted out that. distance has a lot to do with it too. Genne stated that Pred — Walchli was supposed to show up with the Beer. She a was weged to call him against her wishes but she got no answer on the phone" (¢)(W) e 6s “cone Docld:32145775 Page 7 y