JFK Assassination System Date: 6/15/201 . Identification Form , Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: — 124-90010-10107 RECORD SERIES: DL AGENCY FILE NUMBER :  100-9734-743 ro s>>>wasa>sss ss II Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: BROWN TO: DL Released under the John Kennedy Wesassination Records ollection Act of 1992 TITLE : (44 USC 2107 Note}. ase#: Nl 54463 Date: WO-1i2-2017 DATE: 06/26/1961 PAGES: 2 SUBJECTS : AMERICAN G.1. FORUM [Restricted] DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION : — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: 09/16/1997 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : MEMO v9.1 63 HW 54463 Docld:32323103 Page 1
HW 54463 7 © © DL 134-1A-593A | NATALIS ROSS and to.DAVE FREED. He said he could not include JOE LAWRENCE and his wife because they were not interested in politics any more. They seemed too busy making money; they now run their own business. JOR LANDIN suggested that they do what. he ins tended to do, mail some of the literature to leading. Dallas figures. Such literature should be. distributed as muchas possible. He though they just had to get it imto the hands of the public. Specifienlly to. those wha. .belonged | to civic and political organizations. They already knew where liberals and ex-Party members stood, BYLL LOWERY and ESTRADA approved of the idea and suggested that a meeting be devoted to the mail= ing of literature to influential people. BILL LOWERY suggested PAULTA WEAVER of the Young Democrats and ESTRADA suggested |. the TA Re of IDA HORERO of the GI Forum and Rev. RHETT JAMES, Informant * S report further: reflected that BILL LOWERY , concerned about the fairly recent newspaper reports . on Texas communists, said he believed where the leak was = “that members of the State Committee had given out that infor- mation. That they sesned ‘to be the only ones who knew enough about’ the Party apparatus to give such inforsiation. — They (the newspapers) had named AUGUSTIN and had’ also “named” JORN ” : STARE ORD and had given his: post: ‘in the Party. He said” ‘nobody ‘else knew what STANFORD’ s° ‘position was. LOWERY: recalled how a. . ESTRADA. give some sort of., false . information. at. the the’ newspaper had. prematurely stated that Dallas had six members when there were only five. JOE LANDIN said. he under-. stood that BILL LOWERY had’ recruited MC KINNEY from Ft. Worth and. had asked him to meet with the Dalias group. . He said Ts nas that if that were the case, only AUGUSTIN ESTRADA, BILL LOWERY and, MC KINNEY knew about’ the sixth member. JOE LANDIN added that BILL’ LOWERY had recently told him how. mysterious MC KINNEY had. acted: one time when BILL LOWERY and AUGUSTIN were supposed to meet with him. BILL LOWERY said he had not recruited the sixth member as he had: been’ told. by the State Committee , therefore, the leak must be-in the State Committee.” BILL LOWERY suggested a trap to catch the informer by” having . ing =, ‘State Committee’ meeting.” ‘ESTRADA was” not ‘too “impressed: with the ides . According to informant, ‘BILL LOWERY. and. AUGUSTIN ESTRADA © plan to meet some night that week and finish a report on the Mexican-American question. LANDIN was asked by. AUGUSTIN to make &@ report on Cuba. . Informant. had no’ “additional anformation. a DoclId: 323273103 Page 3