JFK Assassination System Date: 6/15/201 Identification Form : Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: — 124-90010-10117 RECORD SERIES: = DL AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 100-9734-753 eee Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: BROWN TO: DL Released under the John TITLE: . . Eennedy Wesassination Records ollection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). DATE: 09/15/1961 ase#:NW 54463 Date: PAGES: 2 HO-1z-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 OS v9.1 65 HW 54463 Docld: 3232731135 Page 1
a ' GARCIA to delete the criticism of WADE. PASO, he said, did not - work like that. GARCIA also urged the group to vote on the letter . . Officers would be glad to. sign At. "planned because it was rumored that JIMMY TRUJILLO (former Chairman -. MAPA organization, was | going, sto cali a meeting that Sunday to. Se ctebeneenteenes vse oe ssi ' . ae | a | Die6-8 . 4 | Sa es ie On 9/11/61, DL=-6-S, in person, furnished a handwritten ‘report to SA W... HARLAN BROWN, which report is dated 9/3/61, and has been serialized as 134-1A-617. SAC, DALLAS (134-1A-617A) srasyex | ‘Saw. ana BROWN That report reflected that a “meeting was held at the corted-Punee ts Home, which. meeting was the result of the work MARY LEE CASTRO, J. ©. GARCIA, FRANE MEDRANO and JOE LANDIN : have done in trying to organize the Latins. GILBERT GARCIA, ' American GI Forum State Chairman, was present. He is also an officer of PASO (Political Association of Spanish Speaking .Organizations) . me The group present formed a lecal chapter of PASO. The temporary elected officers for. this group are. J. ©. GARCIA, ‘Chairman, JOE LANDIN,. Vice-Chairman, LARRY ROCKBERG, an attorney, Secretary, and BUDDY KEYES, Treasurer. HOCKBERG is ‘with the Young Democrats. , Informant’s report further reflected 3. ©, GARCIA, who. will rum for State Representative in 1962, had. a letter already written (supposedly written. by the PASO group) urging President KENNEDY to appoint SARAH T. HUGHES as a Federal Judge. The letter criticized the consideration of HENRY WADE for that same. position. §. GILBERT GARCIA said the letter. was very well written, but asked (after discussing it) and after it is corrected he and other The report ‘gurther reflected that . this meet ing was of the VIVA KENNEDY CLUB in Dallas and Chairman of a local ghost . e 1 = 134-1A-G17A . 1 = 100-671<-8 (Pol. Avtavities) 1 =~ 100-8001 (J. Landin) = 100-9848 (F. Mestrano) = ale natal iG. I. Yorum) ° "| SERIALIZED SEO 1 5.1961° ‘ 4 " “FBI — DALLAS : - HW 54463 Docld: 323273113 Page 2?
“DL 134-1A-617A Lr - form a ghost PASO, TRUJILLO allegedly started MAPA in Dallas, ‘possesses a charter to prove it,. but no membership. GARCIA assure: the group that they would be duly recognized. JOE LANDIN suggested _ that GILBERT GARCIA speak at the coming 9/16/61 fiesta;.that his HW 54463 speech should be informative with facts and figures concerning the economic, social and political plight of the Latin Americans. LANDIN also suggested that after GARCIA’s speech, applications for. joining PASO should be distributed, and that he would be willing | to help with that if permitted. MARY LEE CASTRO and JOE LANDIN asked 3. QO. GARCIA to arrange it with AL CORTEN, President of the Federation of Mexican and Latin American. organizations, sponsors. of the 16th ¢ of September fiesta. — GARCIA remarked that he would.. Informant had no additional Anfornation. DoclId: 323273113 Page 3