AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER:  124-10155-10359 RECORD SERIES: NY AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 44-974-257 ORIGINATOR: FROM: ~ TO: TITLE: DATE: PAGES: SUBJECT: DOCUMENT TYPE: ORIGINAL CLASSIFICATION: REVIEW_DATE: STATUS COMMENTS: > HW 54463 DBocld: 32164491 DOCUMENT INFORMATION FBI HOPKINS. EMIL E. Peleased under the John Kennedy . LSesassination Records 12/08/1963 , ollection Act of 1992 : (44 USC 2107 Note). 6 ase#: NU 54463 Date: wO-12-2017 SEE FBI 44-1639-3870A PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 11/15/1996 Redact RESTRICTIONS: JFK Act 6 (4) Page 1 NEW CLASSIFICATION: UPDATE DATE: 02/12/2001
LA —. . pe Ye . 38 4 a C) Coy” Sheet for Informant Report oF .< / - Motertal - FD-306 (3-21-58) “Date received ‘Received from (name or symbol number) , Recelved by - 12/16/63 CI 104«s Method of dollvery (check appropriate blocks) ‘ ~ 8h EMIL E.. HOPKINS ca in person | by telephone | by mail CJ erally Co recording device CR written by Informant If orally, furnished and reduced to writing by Agent: Date Date pt Report 12/8/63 Datets) of activity Dictated ——_—______—___-_- to Transcribed ~ 4, Authenticated by Informant “12/8/63 Brief description of activity or’ material Report of CI 104+S re Communist Party meeting . wee ine ee st Se File where .original is located if not attached” - “Utmost care should be taken that. any. information taken, from this report. is: paraphrased to protect informant, - since ponly | seven individuals: attended the. meeting. cee 12- - Cleveland: (RM)... 100-17257' (cP org. ». 100-. (ARNOLD. JOHNSON) . “G2-- (Assassination of President. KENNEDY) 44>. (JACK LEON ROSY, Aka.) 105=- | (LEE HARVY “OSWA you 65-721, (ANTHONY . KRCHM, 100217255" (Membership): 100-1646 3 (Political Activities) 100217797: (Factionalism) — 10023484 (Mass. Organisations) _ - 1100-17947 (strategy in iene yt 3-2 Dallas bean | 626. (Assassination. of PEOEESGTE"RENMEE) fae (JACK. LEON RUBY) SEARCHED nee tND oERIALIZED ,.-— FED _JAN 7 3 Ide | Bcgttieers we ~\ 105° (LEE. HARVEY - OSWALD) | 6 2 New. York (RM). 100- (CP ore.) - ar ; *  62e (Assassination of, Pree. KE shelf | (JACK LEON RUBY): 105= - (LEE HARVEY. oswat.n): 1400-16021 - CARNOLD TORREOH): BERGE @7) N HW 54463 Docld:32164491 Page ?
134-8 42557 —13= (Copies Continued) 100-145835. (ee, USA, Public. Appearances « of Party Leaders: = a), Pittsburgh. (RM) 10028571 .(CP,. State of. West: virginia). 100-8572 _ (CP, Ohio. ‘valley. Section) © 100-8664 (CP, Membership). - 100-2"... (ARNOLD: JOHNSON). - - 622. (Assassination. of. President KENNEDY) 44... (SACK LEON RUBY) 105-..-5- (LEE HARVEY - OSWALD). 10028549 (GENNE KUHN): an . 100-.., \(Factionaliem) - 100 _. (Pelitical Affairs). 157="- - (LEE M, JOHNSON) ©: rien - 100- » (Mass. Organizations) i — - : 100=14821 (HUGH GILMORE ‘CROCKARD, Jz.) 240 Cincinnati . 100-3500. (CP. Organieation) . (134284 © ‘. 6222758 (Assassination. ‘of President KENNEDY)" 44-456 | JACK: ‘LEON: RUBY) °° 105-2505" (LEE. HARVEY: Osan) 100- “7964. (CP: Membership) -: 100-8227" ‘(Political . Activities) | 100-8481° (Factionalism)” | 10012701 : (Cominfil; ‘Mass: organizations) 100-8359 (Strategy: in. Industry) 160- 12483" (CHARLES. PALMER) 100- 12408 (RANDALL, GORBY) 100-9142 ° “(FLOYD WELLS) .. 100-7006. | (GENNE. KUHN) (100212474 (JOHN FABRY) 100212475. (SHIRLEY. FABRY).- 100-6386 | (FRED WALCHLI) 1001910... (ARNOLD JOHNSON) | 100- 1083 - (ANTHONY KRCHMAREK) © 157.= 195. (LEE M. JOHNSON): 100 =14096. ‘(HUGH ‘GILMORE : CROCKARD, JR. - 100-8402 . (Youth Matters) 134142" _ ( ADOLPH. PACIFICO)... _ (Cominfit, “Labor: Paton HW 54463 Docld:32164491 Page 3
cr 134-8A-557 Informant ' 8 report set forth below:. "Steubenville, Ohio. December. 8, 1963 "On | the above date a group from . Steubenville, Met at 610.S.. Front’ St .: Wheeling,:: W. Va. the” ‘home “of ‘a Genne © -(Crockard) Kuhn. This was a Communist. Party Meeting. {he persons. who. were in. attendance who were recognized - Ware: . - Le ‘Floyd Wells: - A Carpenter. and» treasurer of his’ » local Union Erom: Steubenville. 2 - CHARLES PALMER: - A steel worker and former. _grievance ?  Committeman from the Wheeling Steel Corpn.- and. Member’ of Local Union. #1190, U.S.W.A. C. I. 0. AF. Le 3 - Randal Gorby: from the Wheeling Steel Corpa ‘and.a” former shop stewart is a Member of Local. Union: #1190 U. S.W. A.  €.I.0. “Ae F.L. 4.= Araold Johnson: - A. former: state chairman of the Communist. Party ‘of Ohio and who now is a sort¢o: ' geLations man for.the Communist. party- ‘working. ou New York City, New York. He secures speakers for .. _ any engagements. such as Colleges. and ‘Campus lectures. abLic | 5 = John Fabrey a Miner from Smithfield. He- is know . as. the emiling Slovak. 6 - Mrs. John Pabrey his. Wife - os so 7 - Genne (crockard) Kuhn the. hostess: is a. ‘long time C. party worker former wife of: Hugh Crockard Now ‘deceased and she since Married Emil Kuhn who now ‘yesides at her. home. Genne has three children two to her first. husband: and the other to: the. latter. She-has.a son ‘about 19 y¥S Old who is being schooled and ‘worked: over by the Cc. party in New York. ‘. Genne. Kuhn Continued; The. party wanted to take her son: ‘Gill Crockard out of her influence so he could be taught — 2 3-6 HW 54463 Docld:32164491 Page 4
4 {) oo™ : G: 14-84-8557. «t something. constructive... this ea14 escent ty, ‘a: Be: Wyeate. , 08° less ago.Made a: trip: to the. Soviet Union ete onthe: “Youth Conference. ‘Kmow. a8: the: ‘World ‘Youth’ Confarence,' | ™ He will probably emerge: from: the New’ York thing:as*a- fall time’ organiser ‘in ‘some. ‘special’ field suchyas: ‘youth, ' - At the start of. the: Meeting Genne brought . out” J her brief case full of clippiiigs . (Newspaper) etc. she . _ ‘algo'had a lot of penciled notes which: she was . undoubtedly. going to. use. to show what she was doing © and: to. ‘give. others: hell for not ‘co-operating. with ‘Bers. _.. But. the first. discussion by. A. Johnson centered. around” . the ‘late Pres. Kennedy. | | a a "  . Arnold: explained that since Oswald was: considered: a” Communist then a wave of hysteria was: about. to: “explode | against the C. party of America but) by. the: time the - ‘pecactionaries. were getting started it was. announced | that it had. been disclosed that it. seemed like the . extreme. Bight had. been’ active. This was. bore out © by the declaration: of Russia that it was not the ‘C. party that had. done. it ‘because ‘Kennedy. was: a_ friend of. the, Working class but. the work of the: extreme. right .er almost a. fascist act. This. seemed: to sober. the masses: that it. was: the’ same caliber. of people: who. had insulted. ‘Stevenson only: Weeks: before. in Datlas,. Texas. : Arnold. stated he was asked by.¢.B.S. News about. this Oswald as to a ‘letter: he had written to the party, he told them he gets logs of letters:of enquiry about. the | ¢. party and he probably answered: it as he does ‘hundreds’ of others and even sent him literature if he requested ‘it. ‘They (C.B.S.) wanted him to goon: the: air with 4— ‘statement, but be, stated to them he would have: to dig’ th letter: out. andibeaure before he Made any statement. ie - Randal. Gorby asked. Arnold Johnson if when he got back. to". ah New York to look in the files if he had a letter frou a Wm Pokas, formerly from Bellaire, Ohio, and. also ati inmate of Cambridge. Asylem fora period. of time»: corty - . _e 4 - HW 54463 Docld:32164491 Page 5
~ a CL 134-84-557 HW 54463 t asked Johnson to compare the letter of Pokey's with: Oswald's to-.see if they didn't have a lot-in Common, Palmer ‘stated that he thought the statement bythe Methodist Minister Covered the situation very good when he stated that the fact that the Murder of Bill Moore, M Edgar Evers and others in the. south. going by without punishment had set the stage for the — ' Assassination of Pres. Kennedy. Everyone readily agreed, Arnold Johnson further stated that no real Marxist. Gould do sych 4 thing. There is not Much doubt that since the Soviet Union had expelled him by. not | giving him a Citizenship in the Soviet: Union because | they thought him to be an Agent of Fascism.  Genne Meanwhile was Chomping at the bit trying to get her ‘story told about the N.A.A.C.P. and CORE. She finally got her Chance to unload. She stated that about the time of the Civil Rights March on Washington a few days before she had beén working with CORE and NAACP the reporter from the Wheeling paper Intelligencer had Called and wanted to talk about her. She gave him answers on the phone and finally hung up on him. from the time | this phone conversation was completed She had been. quoted in the newspaper and exposed as a Communist party Member, which brought: about her expolsion from thé-N.A.A.C.P., but simce has been restored to Membership. Then lately a Man. (Negro) by name of Johnson — head of the local CORE group. was indicted for robbing a — bus driver in Steubenville, Ohio. Genne ‘had got in. — touch with. R. Gorby as she thought Johnson was being framed, Gorby found out and told her at. this Meeting that he had did the robbing and was Not being framed. ‘The best thing to do stated Gorby was to give him help but do not put'CORE and the NAACP out. on a. limb by doing it. . 2 5 « DoclId: 37164491 Page 6
} cl ol HW 54463 co a, \ / Fe 34-84-3557, "palmer stated that it was. News to ‘him ag, the only. thing he Knew about it Was the articles in the paper and. the. first one looked as if-Genne had stayed on the phone - too long should have hung up- quick: «. He also stated that in 1948 when he had this trouble everyone Knew about it and then he got more: help and-was successful in defeating the reactionaries; You have to always: work together on these Matters if you will be guccessful. The hour was drawing Near ten o'clock P.M. and the’ Steubenville delegation: had to work that. Nite. . Lumet was furnished by each and everyons. with. the exception of A Johnson and he put. away plenty. . Johnson stated that he had been down this way about one _ week ago and had Contacted some of his old friends by | phone, one in particular was Adolph. Pacifico he wanted to talk to him on a. so called applachian- Coal project which has. been going on for some time’ ‘Adolph wanted to — meét with him if he could find time later Was unable to see him at this time. Everyone present asked A. Johnson When. he was: coming back but he would not state exactly only. he would notify the Next time he could make it. \ No Literature  — Ne. Collections — getting help from the Valley group it was pointed out | was a part of W. Virginia group that difficulties existed During the time Genme Kuhn was, belly aching about not by A Johnson that some. years back when’ thé Wheeling grou and now with the Wheeling group in with Ohio Valley. the - trouble still exists, He also pointed out that. distance has. a lot to do with it too. Genne stated that Fred Walchli was supposed to show up with the Beer. © She was urged to call him against her wishes but she got “mo answer on the phone" DoclId: 37164491 Page 7?