JFK Assassination System Date: 6/15/201 Identification Form eee rr nn‘ nt Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: — 124-90010-10154 RECORD SERIES: DL AGENCY FILENUMBER: — 100-9734-789 Ne eres Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: BROWN TO: DL TITLE: Peleased under the John Kennedy WSsassination Records Ollection Act of 1992 DATE: 05/06/1963 (44 Use 210% Note). PAGES: 2 ase#: NW 54463 Date: WO-12-2017 SUBJECTS : AMERICAN G.I. FORUM [Restricted] DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION : — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW: — 09/16/1997 OPENING-CRITERIA: = INDEFINITE COMMENTS : MEMO inn nn v9.1 oO 86 HW 54463 Docld:327323150 Page 1
OQ . oO cr OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 5010-10401 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT MEMORANDUM TO : SAC, DALLAS (134+1A-748A) . DATE: 5/6/63 FROM : SA W. HARLAN BROWN ALL INFORMATION oon NTAINED 7 \ , . ol : : HEREIN IS USCLAS SUBJECT : DL-6-S - | biel rw ebed SOS On, 425/63, DL-6-S, in person, furnished a TF written report to SA W. HARLAN BROWN, which report is dated 4/23/63, and has ‘been serialized as. _134-1A- 748 . . That report. revealed that. on 4/23/63, a regular meeting of the Dallas CP was held in BILL LOWERY's car in front of JOE -LANDIN's house. Those present. were. bill. -lowery, AUGUSTIN ESTRADA, and > ‘JOE. LANDIN. . According ‘to informant, JOE LANDIN reported. that. he had started working with the GI. ‘Form (the North Dallas GI | Forum) . ‘He also cited the brief picketing the NAACP did at a South Dallas drug store. | The NAACP, in this case, wanted the store to hire Negro personnel., LANDIN, according to. informant , ‘recalled that PASO's local chairman, J. O. GARCIA, had: made, derogatory | remarks. about. Latin-Americans ata PASO rally. In short, he had charged, publicly, that these people's social and economic plight was due to their apathy. .He had echoed the remarks.of a West. Dallas: leader who had. ‘pictured. Latins always with hands. outstretched, asking for handouts. Some of _ these remarks, LANDIN. added, / appeared in. the. press. He with- 34- 1A-748A Le 100-671-11 (Negro _ -100-671-19 (Security Measures) Qu TSbion) il - 1 - 1 - 100-7929 (B..Lowery) ‘1 - 100-695 (C. ‘Brannin) 1 - 100-7995 (A. Estrada) -1 -.100-8749 (J. Stanford) »-. 100-8001 (J.: Landin) 1 - 100-9848 .(F. Medrano) . - 100-9734. (G.I. Forum) 1 - San Antonio: (RM) | a \T - 100-5257. (NAACP). - 7 .., John Stanford, .- 1 - 157-8. (Racial-Dallas) | ‘IS-C, .SA #100-7222) 1, - 100-10695 (PASO) . . CS , cWHB:HM a : 7 - | 4) | | _ .. @ “9.23 f - - 76. 7 Pee ra ee | SEARCH 3: sania ad in 4 : 7 ; : ' | GWRIARIZE0 ‘ket (hes, dann | c MAY 6 1268 f ; - ee . HW 54463 Docld:32323150 Page 2
GaalO- SUS C6 DL 134-1A-748 held criticism of GARCIA's remarks because he realized the fallacy of them; that there was no one to replace GARCIA, and he (LANDIN) had often, since that rally, wondered if ' GARCIA was the right person to head PASO. LOWERY and - ESTRADA contended that GARCIA was the ‘logical ‘person for that ‘position since no one else could, at this time, replace him. _ JOE LANDIN -recalled the very fine work GARCIA had done. He . wondered if getting other PASO members to constructively ‘ eriticize J.°O. GARCIA. when: he made such derogatory remarks would do. the. trick.. ‘BILL LOWERY and ESTRADA urged him to do that.... JOE LANDIN ‘reported that at the. GI. Forum meeting the CONTRERAS brothers had. discussed Cuba with him | While the meeting. was an informal one, the. aiscussion had been ‘a good one.. The two brothers believed that the Cubans could provoke a third | World War; they were sure that they had. created an economic ‘problem in the U. S., competing with other minorities forjobs. It seemed they surmised, that all the rich Cubans came to the United States while. the. servants and ‘other: menial workers remained slaves in CASTRO's Cuba. Their mother, RICHARD CONTRERAS said, had told some Cubans that the. suffering they claimed to have undergone was really nothing, that she and her neighbors. had been herded off. like cattle and ‘shipped away from their homes. (CONTREARAS did © not say. where this, happened.) BILL LOWERY and ESTRADA . were glad that this discussion had taken. place even though | the = meeting. ‘had been an informal one. =. Informant determinéd that Congressman WILLIAM CLAYTON’ POWELL was discussed by BILL LOWERY, at which time LOWERY. said he ‘id not know what to believe about “POWELL, JOE LANDIN. said he believed the man was an opportunist ; a -bad represéntative for his people. He said he, at one time, had. attended. an Afro-Asian Conference and pictured America. as a haven for Negroes. ESTRADA recalled that POWELL had gone there to-undo the- good that PAUL ROBESON had done. ~ It was stated that WINSTON and DAVIES, two.CP members, had even tried to discourage him from making that trip. : - Informant had no additional information. Oo .“~ @ HW 54463 Docld:32323150 Page 3