AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE : COMMENTS : v9.1 HW 53130 Docld: 32303596 DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information FBI 124-10284-10108 HQ 100-30067-17, 18 Document Information FBI SAC, SF DIRECTOR, FBI 07/01/1944 § JOP, ADIMIN, INSTR PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 4 Redact 01/07/1998 INDEFINITE INC RPT Page 1 Date: 6/15/201 Released under the John Kennedy Wscgasgsination Records oOllection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). ase#:NW 53130 Date: HS5-31-2017
Pe FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION.  ©92 Purrers Nes ¢ ; Tits CASE CRIGINATED AT DATE WHEN PERIOD FOR, : 1 REPORT MADE BY : MADE cum i i | _-S.l mRNCTS.c0 ajo | 6/M4s15526,27 prion RICHARD BRACKELS BERG. | TLE ee | CHARACTER OF CASE oo — G | : | : | ¢ JOHN PITRE NW ! INTERNAL SECURITY ~ C SYNOPSIS OF FACTS: Subject resides at 67 Pleasant Street ,énd is still | employed as Liahaging Egitor of thé $Q{OPLE'S WORLD newspaper, S.P., Calif. He contisees to be active | in various C.P, activities, Piten , REFERENCE: Report of Special Agent LEG A. SCHON dated November | 5, 1943, at San Francisco, California DETAILS : The subject's name is carried on the’ Key Figure list of the Communist Party in the San Francisco Field Division. at SAN FPNCIGCO, CLLIFORNIA: through inquiry at the United States Post Office, it was as- still receiving his mail at 67 Pleasant Street, . pupde ct is still employed as tanaging Editor of st Party “est Coast Daily newspaper, pertained bnaet San Frano the PROPL sed this office in December, 1913, that while at bo New York, he was entertained by PAUL ROBE~ ¥ NOR ELTES, for Supervisor in the Fall of 1943. in December, 1943, PITTIAN had.been selected aay Secretary of the Communist Party, to speak vation on the .nniversary of the BLL of Rights, ubject had participated as a speaker ‘HW 53130 Docld:32303596 Page 2
| S539 ¢ Sen Franciseo File ;/100~1),65 . SOURCES OF INFORi TION: SOURCE SrMgnfidential Informant SE 9 - ee appears to be 2 typewritten’ rough draft of a letter addressed to subjectat the PSOFLA'S WORLD, pearing typowritten signeture "L200." oo, x SOURCE Bz ~fonfidential Informant SF #1175, who furnished what SQ letter which instructs that all Congressman who care working with the Congressional Committee to protect consumers should be dramatically exposed; also that suoject should assign some one on the staff of the PEOPLE'S” WORLD to be responsible for getting information on the Farm Consumers question. SOURCE B furnished this office with the Jonuary 1, 19L4 mem bership report of the Worth Beach Club, which ineluded subject's name as a mombor of that club. On lay 11, 1944, this Source furnished a typewritten list of naes under the heading Fraternal Delegates, which included subject's name and which is belicvéd to be a list of Fraternal Delegates who were ine vited to attend the Communist Party State Convention May 7, 19/4, in San Francisco. a SOURCE ‘B furnished one of the enlarged invitations to the ‘poecption in honor of JIGS FORD, reflecting that subject and his wife served as Patron end Patroness. “SOURCE B furnished a discarded Air inil envelope, post marked larch 9, 194h; addressed to ILLTAL: SCHISIDERIAN, 121 Haight Street, San Francisco, California, from JOHN PITT AN, Daily PEOPLE'S ORLD, 206 South Spring Street, Los Angeles, Colifornia. SOURCE Balso furnished a list of County Committee members for San Francisco County, which reflected treat subject wes a member of that Committee although it is not certain on what date the list was prepared. On - . KO yi \ SOURCE C: u onfidential Informant SF ;/613, who advised in Nov- ember, 1943, that subjéct we a member of the San Francisco County Committee of the Communist Party. , Vv “SOURCE D; \Wenfidential Informant SF i939” SOURCE E: NGonfidential Informant SP L050 \ SOURCE. FisConfidential Informant SF 13017 _ SOURCE Gi Qonfidential Informant SF i159 vs SOURCE HisyQonfidential Informant SF 980 \ po SO i - _ HW 53130 DBocld:32303596 Page 3