JFK Assassination System Date: 6/15/201 Identification Form ~ Agency Information . AGENCY: — FBI RECORD NUMBER: — 124-90010-10113 RECORD SERIES: DL AGENCY FILE NUMBER: — 100-9734-749 Document Information ORIGINATOR: — FBI FROM: KUYKENDALL TO: DL TITLE: Peleased under the John Kennedy DATE: 08/17/1961 Lssassination Records PAGES: 4 Ollection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). SUBJECTS : ase#: NW 54463 Date: AMERICAN G.I. FORUM BGai2=201" [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 eee v9.1 64 HW 54463 Docld:32323109 Page 1 ,
| “BAC, DALLAS (2S4ea6607A) B/E /OR- Sh RDWEN D. KUYKENDALL Se : a a oe ae : ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED. . get ; . HEREIN iS UNCLASSIFL outed oo | owt $4 Epa sti Semlese on GP1.6/6% Bh epyEn >. guye CENDALE, received a typows . wt dated 7736/6. ftom Di yo Ge « z ‘This  Ropere mats beon sertaltad c 1d4e1A~607.. Co oo Informant detoraine a on 7/16/62 Shat JOR LANDIN attended & meeting he be SSDRANG, the others Leena were prebest — were, PE MEDRANG 4 Jim STRIPLING, IDA BORSNO, LAWRENCE HOCUBERG, . BANE WAVER, Bo Os GARCEA and MARY LEE CASTRO. "ehe moot ing. was beld for the purpoGe of making plans te organize the Latin Anorican king people. fhe people present. ronlices there was an usgent need. £ the Latiyeammee ‘dean poeple to be more politically conscious, Labor people Sepeciaily vealige the lack of Aaterest posited of these peeplo bave in. inber uniens, ia fact, their. experiences ‘have ben that these poople, in the mmjority, are agaiast the unions. They - admitted that thole lack of opportunity, braiawaghing had created - in them this attitude, All.o2 thom, especially STRIPLING and MAYER _ are willing to do whatever iS coguired, starting fron whatever level | to help these 42,6030 people help theaseives hed @ botter education. — (Reeestly SFRIPLING ‘tried: te unionize ‘the Baber Rotel and failed.) | . BAYER, HOCGHBERG and STRIPLING asked 3s De: GARCIA questions. “about the UatineAmeriean people. And he answered then as well as he could, GARCIA, whe never Javed in the Latin-American community , doesn’t 3 ish aad re sot know much about the Latin= | Asoxican . mainity, He ‘admitted later that pe had made a mistake eR. the past and that gas when hé thought that he could bo more succeste ful 3£ he isolated hinselZ. fron the Mexican-American commnt ty. _ GARCIA eaid that he would sun for State Peproscntative. a Leber people. like 6790 MULL BAR, OSCAR mnUEY, SIRIPLING . and ava, have. pledged the m support to Hime | . | 100- F734. , 9 “AUGL TIO! _ FBI — DALLAS - . HW 54463 Docld:32323109 Page 2?
DL AE orn - informant further éotermined they discussed the ganientioas in the Latin-American community, tr. STRUPLING thought that JIMMY TRUJILLO tn Vest Dallas beaded ozo evoup, while A GONZALEZ headed another in sorth Dallas, IDA Sonmro . and Jou 3 EN explained to tho exeup that getuaily there was not an orgnadzagion of Latin-Americans., TRUJILLO and “GONZALEZ had no following whatsoever, in gact, they bad gotten thede positions ' because some of the people in tho prescht meeting had definitely helped then te attain theme - hh SBIR added that. both of them had no. hraal education aad thoy cob spoak neither Spanish or English They feally did act present a problem, Both of thes had beha ; tne such way that the people that. ‘ney ‘Bnew, nO honger: sespected . Ole  - STRIPLING stated that: thas gaotlatated mattern, whach - mena that ‘thoy did not need ne one to bring Sheae eo | arene together a since, ‘they aid not exis a GARCEA {Proposed thet the: group ‘plan or a dioner. aad dance im hones of Sonator SEER Be GONZALEZ, The Sonator, he _ . added, was an & hole for $5,000 < he Rad spont way too muck in | the senaterial vace. They could. help him wath some funds and having hin 08 4 syonker at the dinnet and dance would eet many of othe ~~ . people together and the effert to organize then wad be made thens: . PRANK MEPRANE was named to got the dance aad and ia ty charge Of Selling the tickets, aABY LER CASTRO and | 4 se . Qe 2m charge ef preparing the food, Jag z LANDER .46- ia chavo ef the publicity, while Round VaLEABANA, WATE MAYER, LARRY HOCtBE ~~  Wahe bead Sbe finance comma EESOs tngormant doterninea that. STRIPLING had this te pay, oo about cuba, He pointed out that while CASTRO was loaniag toward coumiaism new, 1% wae met true that his revelution was: communist. Anopired, the truth was that our goverment had control of the - Cuban economy and the Cubans wore etavving, Uo added that the .. - American people had been so. ‘brainwashed that they bolaeved that - . CASTRO wae aii to. Bl mo and wove for the invasion ef Cuba. gOS | 8826 that he noted that the CIA. and the State Department wera. - epiticized not because they belped ‘to paan the. davatdon «= byt because “ the dnyasien failed! fe realised that sponking out. Like thie -tas- uapogulny and bio attitude was ace of keeping quite.ina discuseiag unpopalar subjects. He told then how be had 1st a@ £viend because = _ be had written a poem honoring CASTRO whon CASTRO was popular, Tho | . friend was GILBERT GARCIA, State Chaizeman of the Ferum, fle added that Forum founder, De. HECTOR GARCIA, bad written in the Forum’: a  wowepapeY that the Mexienn-Amexdcan people etdod by whatever KENNEDY did an ‘the Cuban situations | fe ene seemed to care that ‘Shey x? HW 54463 Docld:32323109 Page 3
nn  9as supported by ident and ‘alco aa the anvaston of Cuba. SPREPLING said it "ne © ehame bot. at was best to remain silent — en ungopelar subjects. HANS eaid Dallas wes a Bellioh hole to tive in,. leo, CASTRO asked b4u to explnin, Ho said that you could aot go to a restaurant with a coleved person, saby people were underpaid and the shacks that soue.of the LatineAnurdesns Live in WERE not at for pigs te Lave ane ia the atate where: be cane frome fhe inner and dance » akfadr for the Senator wild be. tee “the taste of Auguat. GARCZA is waiting fer the Senator to congirn icment to be here in A . After the om iematioa,4 . received ‘the: publicity and tie ticketeselling will eters. . after the wore 146d to in the De? ; plane. ines , eta, ED. iy EAGT LES, PRANE and JOR discussed J, 0; GARCIA. They eousit a@ that while GARCEA was net all they would like far. bin te BO, and in spite of bis. past mistakes Plus the fact that he by igbor amd ceeded te be hanest,. with good lataat hams y . “they: would gupport bin an every way they colds. . - Enformant kad no addétdonnd information. on Saturday morning 7/16/61, JOB LANDEH distributed the | fotioviag notices te the Sunday meeting. He Left soise we the } NE at barber chops, stores and a gas etation: — : Your “ave invited to attend & comminkty not bing at my heme a. BEdG euglas ae a Behe *Bheve will go @ Gicousaion of dizgovont subjects, Yor Sustance, we ean Giscuss the eiaughter Swateb* faiivead crossing at Gondo and Barry ay ($818 coreseing bas ¢ eG short a tines, "We ‘ean discuss saipherunt(. higher education one 7 oo the unjust woo ef tre Blectwie Chair » er apy — _ other problea or subject you would. dike to being up. “Phe tane - indead in bere when. wo. ehould got together to discuss our commen problems = porbaps erganize to better oubselves, our neighbors © GUS Com munity - : Mad our city, a . oof ‘So como on along, being a. fetong, and | gota’ tn the an | discussion ‘oF dust Aisten, ar 1 HW 54463 DoclId: 323273109 Page 4
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