AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY: FBI _ RECORD NUMBER: — 124-10231-10316 RECORD SERIES: BU AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 105-4467-84 ORIGINATOR: FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: PAGES: SUBJECT: DOCUMENT_TYPE: | ORIGINAL CLASSIFICATION: REVIEW_DATE: STATUS COMMENTS: Released under the John . Kennedy LSesasgsination Records oOllection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). ase#: NW 53025 Date: 5-15-2017 DOCUMENT INFORMATION FBI WILSON. BIRL SAC 03/09/1964 5 WORKERS WORLD PARTY, ACT PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 11/25/1996 Redact RESTRICTIONS: JFK Act 6 (4) HW 53025 DBocld:321380106 Page 1 NEW CLASSIFICATION: UPDATE DATE: = 02/14/2001
HW 53025 apemrrn Ovee--!1 £3 FT bE tt bot & § t tf tot United States Government. ° : MEM ORANDU I Mo : Date: TO “sac (100- 16691) FROM ©: SA BIRD WILSON SUBJECT: . WORKERS. WORLD. PARTY Foe 13 - WW: Source” . Reliability MAR9 . 1964 Bu 248-S Has furnished reliable ' ianformation in the past Conceal Material Date of Activity Date of Report Date Received Agent Receiving Location. ~ MILTON NEIDENBERG) _. ROSEMARY NEIDENBERG) ED MERRILL) | JEANETTE MERRILL) ERNIE WEISSMAN) 100-15154 (MARY ANN HARDSON) 100-16384 (HELEN RICHARDSON) 100-9714 eee BAINES 100-7803. (JIM CONNER - 100-10814 (LEON ROTHMAN) : 100-18023 (BOB STERLING 100-11950 (NAACP) - 100-4379-71 AAT nTON) 105-4467 (LEE HARVEY OSWALD) - 134-25A : 100-10837 100-10281 100-11222 100-14168 100-11359 DoclId:327180106 Page 2? Yes _ Oral report reduced to writing. and authenticated 2/17/64 | — 1/31/64. 2/5/64 : 2/5/64 . SA BIRL ‘WILSON 134-250-661 ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN JS CLASSIZ TED, 0 dige& HEREIN J tzay a ; SIL, AB 3 LOE -N Ab P- £4 'Searched, Indexe y eee eed. . Patek" MARS 1964 ; FBI-BUFFALO ! t ! ! a ESTE moe
23) 10310 BU 100-16691 HW 53025 . “BU. 248-8 furnished the following: 7 ky - "February 5, 1964 on ‘Jantaity 31, 1964, a Buffalo . Branch Workers: Worid .Party | (BBWWP ) meeting _.was.held at headquarters; 831 Main Street, “Buffalo,: N.Y... Ernie. Weissman was Chairman _of the. meeting... No Reéording Secretary or ‘Financial ‘Secretary, was: neainated, and there Was no financial. report | ar re ee “zéanette Merrill. ‘spoke regarding -_ the most ‘recent, coup dietat in Viet Nam. “ She said. that. the’ United ‘States. engineered the removal: of: Major: General Duong: Van Minh as leader of the country because he was not using enough military strength against the enemy. Merrill said that with a new leader in power. ‘the United States has hopes. of ... .. increasing military ‘aétion in Viet Nam and ~ to eventually: set. -Up: the new military. leader as a dictator. ‘She said that the United. States will probably: gend a lot cf American soldiers into Viet Nam. She further said’ that Viet.Nam military authorities and: the . United States. are fighting people in Viet . ; Nam who are not Chinese or North Viet- Namese © soldiers as. claimed but are citizens of... Viet Nain who; do’ not agree with present a 7 Lh policy of the Viet Nam government. Seman "Ed Merrill spoke regarding a “i pegent picket demonstration at Chicago, Illinois; which he-and. Bob Sterling participated | cin; .which.was sponsored by the Buffalo Branch, . National . Association for the Advancement of Colored,Poeple (NAACP). Merrill said that the pickets: drove to’ Chicago in six cars to picket Walter Reuther, who spoke before a conference of the United Automobile Workers Skilled Trades’ Group. He said ‘the purpose of the. demonstration was to protest discrimination DoclId:327180106 Page 3