Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote). | DATE: 11-14-2017 JFK Assassination System Date: 5/27/201 Identification Form Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER : 124-90080-1 0063 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER: CR 123-4636-8 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: NY TO: HQ TITLE: DATE: 05/02/1950 PAGES: 16 SUBJECTS : . HAROLD ISAACS NGUYEN DUC THANH DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Secret RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS: —Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: — 07/07/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : RPT v9.1 Docld: 32328845 Page 1 12
Released under’ the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 19927 (44 USC 2107 Hote). DATE: \ 11-14-2017 \ = 7 wo, NY 123-3143 ADMINISTRATIVE PAGE \ The records of the Credit Bureau of Greater NewYork were checked by SE RALPH G. MURDY. ss HAROLD ISAACS, raserences of the applicant, is subject of pending case entitled "HAROLD ROBERPATSAACS, was. INTERNAL SECURITY -R," Bureau file 100-286243. | : The following information concerning HAROLD FSAACS was taken from a Bureau letter to Albany dated April’25, 1945, marked personal and confidential ‘ and entitled "AGNES SMEDLEY, INTERNAL SECURITY -~ R." The letter was designated as being strictly con idential information’ “and not for cissenination to other government agencies. (The letter stated that ‘the following i ation was received by the Bureau from highly secretive British sources. JE) TSAACS first came to the notice of the 3 BRitish sources in 1927 when he was a free lance journalist in Shanghai. He - fgunded an agency known as the Far East Press Correspondents which was Communist 4 in in tone and failed as a business. He next founded the "China Forum."/<) During 1931, HAROLD “was known to be staying at one of the cover addresses used by HILAIR CULENS,, a Comintern agent, at 66 Hart Road, Shanghai. During this year, Say CS was in close association with oneFRANK , GLASS and was in correspondence with WALTER DURANTS., Bolshaya Ordruka 53, Moscow. Ss). In January, 1932 oa ‘solicited support for his paper, the "China Forum" from R. PAIL UT, the well~known East Indian who is a national officer of the Ca tof Great Britain. On September 14, 1932, FSAACS meee ted in China ‘Miss VIOLA ROBENSON, who is probably identical with NOLA ROBINSO Psye was writing to him from Dresden, Germany , in the preceeding year. In August, 1933, information was received that ISAACS and his wife were engaged in preparations for the Anti-War Congress to be held in the Far East and left Shanghai August 7, 1933, for Japan to "select" the Japanese delegates to this congress. This congress, however, was a pronounced failure / ) (AaYeale § | Doclda: 32325846 Page 2
i I oa me \ NY 123-3143 ADMINISTRATIVE PAGE (Continued) its only results in China being the Chinese Section of the Anti-War League, the president of which was Madame SUN YAT-SEN and the secretary, HAROLD TSAACS In April, 1934, ISAACS and his wife left Shanghai for Peking. At this time, ISAACS had recéived instructions from Méscow to leave China No reason for these instructions could be ascertained at the time,but after ISAACS had gone to Peking, it was learned that in May, 1934, ISAACS had written a letter to the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party announcing his break with the Chinese Stalinists and announcing that had become a Trotskyist and had suspended his paper ' and return to the United States. the "China Forum." Docld: 32328845 Page 3 m™ YY gevbn beg! fination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote}. G)
JRereased tinder the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote}. DATE: -11-14-2017 a if . nn NY 123-313 as follows: i eT RSE Docld: 32328845 Page 4 i t ‘os ~K CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANTS The Confidential Informants mentioned in the report of SA JOHN P. FOLEY, New York, dated April 28,.1950, are identified T-3 ph T=5 “Mail cover on ISADORE NEEDLEMAN h3 West 93rd Street Former Confidential Informant ND 382. New York City NYT 500 FELIX MORROW contacted on September le, 19149 by SA R.E. BRENNAN. — FERDINAND VOGEL, office at 2), Madison Avenue, New York, New York; residence at 137 West 72nd Street, New York, New York. VOGEL is PHAM DUY AM'S employer who has asked that his identity be kept confidential. Confidential Informant A. . |