vee. wee ge ee mn et a ne oe remanent ence er ee ee => (tN i: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT. OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Seattle, Washington — va CS In Reply, Please Refer to an . ZY f= File No. 2 \, March 11, 1971 we tl on SECRET ~ <a * ). \ ; OE re} | | i. : _ 7 : } aw ’ BAN - . SS a \ oe RE: 21st Anniversary Celebration Ae oo of the People's Republic of China, : - Vancouver, B. C. -October 3, 1970 During December, 1970, a confidential source abroad - advised that several residents of Seattle, Washington, were(‘in attendance at the 21st Anniversary Celebration of the founding of the People s Republic of China, hich was held in Vancouver, B. C., Canada, on October 3, 1970w« Included among these individuals were the following: oe — / HAROLD MILLET | VINCE PRICE -. BILL CHEW | _’ CHARLIE SWEET | exw ) FOTO ge {pier GAR PEERWESLEY ugye ne -_ Reeerertaenonnen ET 8 USA: LH pL EP af? \ : 4 OSA - UW ASHERTOAY QBATTEE (66 Photographs of unknown individuals also in attendance and believed to have been from the United States were also furnished by the confidential source abroad. A check with sources in a position to furnish information regarding the Chinese activities in and around the Seattle, Washington, .area has failed to identify any of the individuals depicted in these ~ photographs. GROUP I. 7 SECRET Excluded from automatic — rOz downgrading an DBD declassification oT J) br Hilt: HW 50529 DBocld: 32397572 Page 2?
HW 50529 RE: 21st Anniversary Celebration SECRET of the People's Republic of China- During August, 1966, information was received from a confidential source abroad indicating that SWETT claimed connection with the Progressive Labor Party (PLP) in Seattle, Washington. a . re oe Sots The PLP’ was - Founded in 1962 by individuals expelled from the Communist Party, USA, for following the Chinese communist line. Its objective is the establishment of a militant working-class movement based on Marxism-. Leninism and MAO Tse-tung thought. BILL CHEW eee os = WILLIAM JAMES. CHEW, according to ‘public source infor- mation at Seattle, Washington, is currently unemployed and divorced and resides in Bellevue, Washington. Files of the Seattle Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation contain no derogatory: : information concerning ~ this individual. caucx M. _CHIW. © . Public. Source information at Seattle reveals CHIN Yung- ark resides at 4609 South Angeline Street, Seattle, and is employed-as.a-photographer with The Boeing Company. ‘He possesses a Secret- Clearance granted by The Boeing Company on November 8, 1957. . Ci > ne ae eae tee le. ees . mee The. -files of the Seattle Federal Bureau of Investi- gation contain. no derogatory information regarding either ; CHIN or his wife> LILLY CHIN, also known as CHU Biek-yu. me ie ee ee - ne = ree te ne ee RITA PHIPPS Current public source: ‘directories for the City of Seattle reveal. that RONALD and RITA PHIPPS reside at 6349 N..E. Radford Drive,” Seattle,: Washington. He is employed as a teacher in the Seattle Public Schools. During. July,. 1970, information was received from a confidential’ source abroad to the effect that PHIPPS' name was-.contained in a notebook kept by SUSAN HEILIGMAN FRANK. FRANK was identified asa member of the Communist Party as ~3- | SECRET Doclda: 32397572 Page 3
RE: 21st Anniversary Celebration . . - SECRET of the People's Republic of China late as 1961 and as of 1963, she was suspected by a high ranking official of the Communist Party, USA, to be an agent for the Peking Red Chinese Regime. FRANK has reportedly written articles which appeared in the official publication of the PLP under the pseudonym of LISA ARMAND. SECRET HW 50529 DBocld: 32397572 Page 4