AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY: — FBI: RECORD NUMBER: — 124-10251-10355 RECORD SERIES: CI AGENCY FILE NUMBER:  62-2758-173 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: | HOPKINS. EMILE. TO: TITLE: DATE: 12/08/1963 PAGES: 6 SUBJECT: SEE FBI 100-10461-2438 DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT ORIGINAL i NEW CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified REVIEW_DATE: 11/18/1996 STATUS Redact ~ “RESTRICTIONS: JEK Act 6 (4) COMMENTS: HW 53025 Docld:32190145 Page 1 Released under the John Kennedy Was5assination Records ollection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Nate). ases#: NW 53025 Date: 5-22-2017 CLASSIFICATION: UPDATE DATE: 02/14/2001
. Cover Sheet for Informant Report or a Material FD-306 (3-21-58) : , a 7 Received by SA EMIL E, HOPKINS Date received Received from (name or symbol number) 12/16/63 (cr 104-8 1X) YW) Method of delivery (check appropriate blocks) Cah in | person (Cl by telephone Cl by mail [7] orally Cc recording device CH written by Informant If orally furnished and reduced to writing by Agent: : Date of Report : Date , ate | = (12/8/63 TRY U Dictated_ a Oe — : : ‘ Date(s) of activity Transcribed — : . Authenticated : , ; ‘ by informant Gams %) ) Brief description of activity or’ material [Report of CI 104¢5, re Communist. Party’ meeting “ag File where original is located if not attached” held 12/8/63, at home - of GENNE._ KUHN; -6105 Front St. 2 WV heels; ing, Wes st Virg i nia. (Ge) 428 A= 4 Remarks: Utmost . care. should be. taken: that. any. information ‘taken: front . this report. is paraphrased to protect: informant, ; aince’ only seven individuals: attended the. mney) | py 7903 od sh 11 -. Cleveland (RM) .. 100-17257 (cP. org. yo ee Ne qa, TEL. 100-.. (ARNOLD Jounson) on .9.7A5- 72... benno nates 622 (Assassination of President KENNEDY) ALE TR oe acsirtEb ble. (JACK LEON RUBY, aka Sy “wens fictass | 105+ (LEE HARVY OSWALD) ane & ~ 65-721 |. (ANTHONY: ERCHMARER) | 100-17255 (Membership). 10016463 (Political Activities)” 100-17797. (Factionalism) 100=-23484 (Mass. Organiaations) 100-17947 © (Strategy. in Indast zy) 3.= Dallas MD 62-. (Assassination of President - KENHED 4heo - . (JACK LEON RUBY) 105-2 (LEE HARVEY OSWALD) .. 6 = New York (RM)” “ . 100- (CP Org..). . ; 62- (Assassination of- Pres. KEN DY) — Ghe © ~ (JACK ‘LEON RUBY) ; NY 105-2 (LEE HARVEY. OSWALD)” | 100-16021-CARNOLD' JOHNSON) fo | HW a BEH/ x, (57 6642 Bae SX CONE AENTIAL _
cl fans) | Informant 's report set forth below: (%/ yu) " Steubenvi lle, Ohio. December. 8, 1963 80] ON () "Om the above date a group from Steubenville, Met at 610 S, Front St. Wheeling). W. Va. the home of a Genne | (Crockard) Kuki. This: was: a: Communist Party Meeting... The persons who were in attendance who were recognized Were : Khu 1 = Floyd Wells: - A Carpenter and - treafurer of his » local Union from Steubenville. are U). 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.1.0. A. F. L. 84 (u) 3 = Randal Gorby: from the Wheeling Steel Corpa anda _ former shop stewart is a Mei u) of Local Union #1190 U.S.W.A. -€.1.0. A.¥F.L. (u) | 4 oo Araald Johnson: .A former state chairman of the — Communist Party of Ohio and who now is a sort¢of Spubli relations man for the Communist. party- working. out of New. York City, New York. He secures. speakers for any engagements such as colleges. and Campus : lectures G(U) § - Johm Fabrey a Miner from Smithfield... He is know - as the smiling Slovak. GX (U) ee 6 ~ Mrs. John Fabrey his. Wife - ce u) 7 = Genne (Crockard) Kuhn the. hostess. is a Long time. Cc. party worker former wife of Hugh - Crockard Now deceased and she since Married Emil Kuhn who now resides at her home. Genne has three children two to her first | husband and the other to the. latter. She. has..a son about. 19 yrs old who is being schooled and worked: over by the C. party. in New York. ‘WOu) Genne Kuhn Continued: The.C party wanted to take. her son’ ; ,. Gill Crockard out of her influence so he could be taught ve) ~3- Docla:32190145 Page 4 — CONEINEMTIAL
' THA , Ma TAL GI = ~BA- STU) Cont oe something Constructive. This Gill recently, a few years -or less ago Made a trip to the Soviet Union etc on ‘the Youth Conference Know as the ‘World ‘Youth Conference. He will probably emerge from the New York thing as a~ full time organizer in some special: field such’: as. -youth. K{u) At the start of the Meet ing Genne- brought out her brief case full of clippings (Newspaper) etc she | also had a lot of penciled notes which she was undoubtedly going to use to show what she was ‘doing - and. to give others: shell for not co-operating with her. & wu): But the first discussion b . Johnson centered around . the late Pres. Kennedy. %) u) 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 reeactionaries were getting started it was announced that it had been disclosed that it seemed like the extreme eight 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 or 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 Dallas, | Texas. ce u\ Arnold stated he was asked by C.B.S. News about this Oswald as to a letter he had written to the party, he told them he gets Legs of letters of enquiry about the C. 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 go on the air with 4 statement but he stated to them he would have to dig the letter out and=be sure before he Made any statement. | ' Randal Gorby asked Arnold Johnson if when he got back. to New York-to look in the files if he had a letter from a Wm Pokas, formerly from Bellaire, Ohio, and also an ea immate of Cambridge Asylum for a period of time» Gorby Wi u) eo he ve sa005 DocId: 32190145 aye 5 CONFIDENTIAL
ct [154-8-557 ]KU) 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’ by~ the . 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. Kenmedy. Everyone readily agreed. (Y u) Arnold Johnson further stated that no real Marxist Could do such a thing. There is not Much doubt that since the Soviet Union had expelled him by not giving him a Citizenship im 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, RK u) She finally got her Chance to mice (Uy She stated that about the time of the Civil Rights March on Washington a few days before she had béeen working with CORE and NAACP the reporter from the Wheeling paper Intelligencer had Called and wanted to talk about her. She gave’ him answers om the phone and finally hung upon 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 expo@lsion from thé N.A.A.C.P., but since 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 | £ramed. 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. u) . HW 53025 Docld:32190145 Page 6
ee . ‘ a 4 the y : an 4 . ci Gators KU) "palmer stated that it was. News to. him as’ the only. thing whe’ 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 whem 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. &u) (u) ‘Lunch was. furnished by each and everyone. with the exception of A Johnson and. he put away plenty. AG) Johnsen: stated that he had been down this way about one - week ago and had Cont acted some of his old friends ,by phone, one in particular was Adolph Pacifico’ he = 9° wanted to talk to him om a so called applachiar Coal project which has been going on. for some time” Adolph wanted to” — meet with him if he could find time later - Was unable. to ‘see him at this time. Everyone present asked. co When he was: coming’ -back but he would not state exactly, only he would notify “the Next time he could make it. ce u) (ae Literature . No_ Collections 136 (u) u) During the time Genne Kuhn was belly aching about not getting help from the Valley group it was pointed out by A Johnson that some years back. ‘when the Wheeling group was a part of W. Virginia group that. difficulties existed + and now with the Wheeling group in with Ohio Valley. the. trouble. still exist’s, 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 none (uy wishes.but she got U : “mo answer on the phone" (K) \ PEN iP HW 53025 DoclId:32190145 Page 7