JFK Assassination System Date: 4/14/201 Identification Form Agency Information Peleased under the John Kennedy WSssassination Records AGENCY: FBI © RECORD NUMBER: — 124-10330-10036 Ollection Act of 1992 RECORD SERIES: HQ (44 USC 2107 Note}. ase#:NWU 531350 Date: AGENCY FILENUMBER: 62-107261-317 be -o1-2017 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: PD . TO: HQ TITLE: DATE: 02/28/1964 ‘PAGES: 20 SUBJECTS : MINUTEMEN DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified ; RESTRICTIONS: 4 . CURRENT STATUS: —Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: 06/05/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : v9.1 12 | | i | | WW 53130) Docld:32313425 Page 1
SUSIE ane! _ FD-263 (Rev.5-1-39) FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION REPORTING’ OFFICE OFFICE OF ORIGIN . DATE INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD _PORTLAND_ KANSAS CITY 2/28/64 — 2/19. ~ 2/27/64 ITLE OF CASE : REPORT MADE BY ‘ : TYPED BY LEONARD. BE, FRANK - —  |oms CHARACTER OF CASE ‘ u 4 fe A cNUPEMEN" saa, epBACIATOR CONTA: INFORMATION CONCERNING (INTERNAL SECURITY) | ee ea agosRBDk REFERENCES: Report of SA ‘LEONARD E.. FRANK, 2/18/64, at ot Portland ;. Bureau airtel to Portland dated» 2/20/64 ; Portland airtel to. Bureau dated. (2/25/64. * ADMINISTRATIVE oo “PD ‘T.1 is PD 497-S who is a member of "wanutemen" and has number 9655 in: the organization. Reference. Bureau airtel to Portland: 1 2/20/6h4, ‘paragraph three, instructed Portland to include pertinent. information from the "Special Bulletin" and the 2/1/64 issue of "On Target" in a report. ‘Portland is not aware of all the facets.of the investi-. gation relating to the "Minutemen" but felt that all. of the material in "Special. Bulletin" and that in "On Target ;" excepting the Reuther Memorandum was.: pertinent to this: investi- gation and*could ‘not. be summarized without’ losing .some of. the meaning, — The - ‘Reuther ‘Memorandum itself was summarized ‘in. “an "SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE DO NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW CHyora21- 137 REC. 20 anal (ee-i07262) (am) <Kansas City (62- S197) (AM) 2-Portland (62-2511) ad » MAR 4 1964 ~GAR + DATE FWD, .-_...|/-.. 3 Sw i "PY ATA hed a pee eve i he arn ft = — — i - é { HW-53130 Docld:32313425 Page 2
PD:204 (Rev. 3-3-59) = © Fl rer etna ea or _ UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ~ “°°” FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION - Copy to: Report of: . LEONARD E. PRANK Office; Port land » Oregon Field Office File #: 62-2511 Bureau File #: 62-107261 Title MEN OTE MEN" Choracter: INFORMATION CONCERNING (INTERNAL SECURITY) Synopsis: Infermation from February, 1964, literature of "Minutemen" reported. "Special Bulletin" announces that the "Minutemen" organization is object of an intensive investiga- tion by FBI and other Federal agencies. Members told that in view of gradual take-over of Government by communists they must ort to secrecy in all "Minutemen" activities and deny member= . "On Target" 2/1/64, monthly "Minutemen" publication, te thet United States is rushing to a "socialist police and suggests that Christian Americans and conservatives v2 GO copy undemocratic communist methods if they hope vimate victory. “On Target" contains reprint of alleged “Reuther Memorandum" to ROBERT KENNEDY concerning size, bles, influence and menace of radical right in the United “On Target" relates "Facts" about Marxist background mnunist association of WALTER and VICTOR REUTHER., S 4 ay >A Oe yp & y a o fay ~p O ti ‘he ch p- “ aae PTE This document contatns neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned te your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency. \ AW 53130 DoclId: 32313425 Page 3
cy PD 62-2511 AT PORTLAND , OREGON On February 15, 1964, PD T-1 made available to the . Portland Office ‘of the FBI copies of two publications which - vhe had received that date through the mails from "Minutemen, : Post Office Box 68, Norborne, Missouri."..-Thesé publications | | | AW 53130 entitled "special Bulletin" and "On Target" are quoted below. a "SPECIAL BULLETIN (undated) “The Minutemen Organization is now the object of an intensive. investigation. Apparently, this is part of the announced plan of the ‘Warren ‘Commission! to.investigate: ‘possible: connections between ‘the radical right: and the - assassination of President Kennedy. ' "All real patriots will recognize that such an impli- - cation is without foundation. If Robert. Kennedy had. spent..as . ‘much time investigating the communist-socialist. movement as 4 : he did in worrying about. the pro-American ‘movement, then his _ brother would probably still be alive; 0 (Ue "This will not prevent the ‘conspiracy! (through the use of the controlled news media) from trying to give the impression that the right-wing is somehow to blame for Kennedy's . death. - “This is an extremely serious situation, | "Most of our members will already be familiar with. the facts that Earl Warren has voted to’ favor the communists . in almost every: case involving this nation's internal security that has come before the Supreme Court since he has: been a _ member of that body. -Most, too, will be aware that when Earl Warren first heard of Kennedy's death that. he immediately issued a statement blaming the assassination on ‘right-wing fanatics. ! In fact, this investigating committee was set up just three days . after the communist newspaper, The Worker, made a suggestion to that effect. The Worker also suggested that Earl Warren. be made the head of the committee exactly as-ocecurred, — "Nicholas Katzenbach who was in charge of the Federal gator for the Warren Commission. Marshals at Oxford, Mississippi has been named as chief investi- 2 DoclId: 32313425 Page 4