JFK Assassination System ". Date: 2/23/201 Identification Form , Agency Information _ , co i . AGENCY: SSCIA RECORD NUMBER: © 157-10003-10494 RECORD SERIES: AIRTEL AGENCY FILE NUMBER : Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: SAC, NEW ORLEANS TO: DIRECTOR, FBI TITLE: | LEEHARVEY OSWALD, INTERNAL SECURITY - RUSSIA - CUBA DATE: 09/24/1963 PAGES: = 7 SUBJECTS: : _ FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA COMMITTEE ' INTERNAL SECURITY - RUSSIA - CUBA ’ OSWALD, LEE HARVEY: DOCUMENT TYPE: - PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION : : Unclassified © RESTRICTIONS : : CURRENT STATUS: , Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: — 04/21/1994. OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : Docld: 32201883 ‘Page 1
| ~ i . | FBI e | oe ‘yest atdioA'g on 163 ee | I @ Transmit the following in Tixpe epi — in — | ; Vi AIRTEL AIRMAIL id ee (Priority or Method of Matling) —— COPD TTT Sm mn em eee boot, TO: ° | DIRECTOR, FBI (105-82555) ‘ - a | sai JFK TASK FORGE Ae eRon: SAC, NEW ORLEANS (100-16601) REVIEWED BY FBINFK SUBJECT: LEE HARVEY-OSWAID on 12 3/9 IS-R-CUBA (1 RELEASE IN FULL JXC RELEASE IN PART - / L Re Bureau letter, 8/21/63. C1 TOTAL DENIAL > fag Enclosed are nine copies of letterhead memorandum concerning captioned matter. o~ CON FIDENTIM So Ukles _«» Confidential Informant NO T-1 is identified as Sot. SEEMING vino was contacted on 9/9/63 by SA WARREN C. DEERUEYS..° .; The sources mentioned in the characterizati n of the "Fair - | Play For Cuba Committee” are identified as ih pins (¢) 7 Investigation of OSWALD is continuing, and a report _ Containing the results’thereof will be furnished to the Buread | together with the recommendation of the New Orleans Office ; by concerning further action concerning OSWALD, S- = N ‘. a4. v Sa (3) - Bureau (Enc: 9) by rout ee ae o - New e y routing slip . _* @ > New Orleans Daten 2c lim DY on El MRK/ev ag = mo, be ries 4 os py) RARE ed } ; pb AHERN SHIN 4 ;, tie *,t Sy A . ac ~ - ah fit SEP 27 1953 & —. Sent M Per - Special Agent in Charge, on. gt! 8 hob B l DoclTd: 32201583 Page 2
UN: fED STATES DEPARTMENT OF ,USTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION New Orleans, Louisiana fe ee Rede September 24, 1963 File No, id , “oe eriy . a we TL PORMAL CS = CONTAINED | On August 9, 1963, Lt. William Gaillot, First O/ICL ° District, New Orleans, Louisiana Police Department, advised that the following persons had been arrested on Canal Street between Baronne and Carondelet Streetz on that date and charced witn disturbins the peace: Lee H, Oswald, Carlos Jose\Bringuier, ne eae lias anda ese re aN c Lt. Gaillot said that Oswald, who claimed to-be a member of the "Fair Play For Cuba Committee’, was passing “out literature and became involved in an argument with taree Cuban refugees, namely Brincsuier, Hernandez and Mariano, ,wno were affiliated with tne Cuban Student Directorate, The following material was being disseminated by Oswald: a yellow leaflet captioned, "Hands Off Cuba", an application to join tne "Fair Play For Cuba Committee! ® ° and a pamphlet entitled, "The Crime Against Cuba" by ~ Corliss Lamont. , The records ‘of the New Orleans Police Depart- ment under Arrest Number 112-723 were examined on August 27, 1963. These records showed that Oswald was arrested on August 9, 1663, by Lt. William Gaillot and Patrolmen F, Hayward and F. Wilson of the First District. He was charged with disturbing the peace by creating a scene’, The records showed that Oswald claimed to be a member of the "Fair Play For Cuba Committee" and was Passing out circulars in the 700 block of Canal Street and became involved in.an argument with three Cuban immigrants, Joseph Lesslie, Office of the Clerk of Court, Municipal Court, 501 North Rampart Street, advised on August 28, 1963, that Oswald apveared before Second Municipal Court Judge Edwin A. Babylon on August 12, 1963, and entered a plea of Guilty to tne charge of disturbing REre the peace by creatins a scene and Was sentenced to pay a L. fine of $10.00 or serve ten days in jail. Oswald elected “to pay the fine. Mr, Lesslie advised that the three DEpeySang arrested with Oswald were discharged, Docld: 32201883 Page 3
. _ @ - LEE HARVEY OSWALD £ Confidential Informant NO T-1 who is familiar with Cuban activities in the New Orleans area advised on September 9, 1963, that Oswald was unknown to the informant, Frank Bartes, 1608 Mason Smith Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana, who is a delegate to the Cuban Revolutionary Council in New Orleans, advised on September 10, 1963, that Oswald was unknown to him. This document contains neither re- commenacations nor conclusions of the FLE lt is the Droperty of the FBI and is foanad to your 2eonew it and RS Contonts era not tg De distributs a - ed outside your agency, Og 1 197 ey Docld: 322018583 Page 4
r ) 7 APPENDIX , FAIR PLAY FOR CUPA COMMITTEE The April 6, 1650, edition of "The New York Times" newspaper contained a full-page advertisement captioned "What Is Really Happening In Cuba," placed by the Pair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC). This advertisement announced the formation of the FPCC in New York City and declared the FPCC intended to pro- mulgate "the truth about revolutionary Cuba" to neutralize the distorted American press, "The New York Times" edition of January ll, 1961, reported that at a hearing conducted before the United States Senate Internal Security Subcommittee on January 19, 1961, Dr. Charles A. Santos-Buch identified. himself and Robert Taber as organizers of the FPCC., He also testified he and Taber cbtained funds from the Cuban Government which were applied toward the cost of tifé afore-mentioned advertisement, ¢ On May 16, 1563, a source advised that during the first two years of the FPCC's existence there was a - Btruggle between Communist Party (CP) and Socialist ® . Workers Party (SiiP) elements to exert their power within the FPCC and thereby influence FPCC policy. However, Guring the past year this source observed there has been a successful effort by-FPCC leadership to minimize the role of these and other organizations in the FPCC so that today their influence is negligible, On May 20, 1963, a second source advised that the National Headquarters of the FPCC is located in Room 329 at 799 Broadway, New York City. According to this source, the position of National Office Director was created in the Fall of 1962 and was filled by Vincent "Ted" Lee, who now formulates FPCC policy. This source observed Lee has followed @ course of entertaining and accepting the cooperation of many other organizations including the CP and the SWP when he has felt it would be to his personal benefit as well as the FPCC's., How- ever, Lee has indicated to tnis source he has no intention of permitting FPCC policy to be determined by any other organization. Lee feels the *PCC should aavocete resumption of diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States “ty, and support the right of Cubans to manage their revolution Without interference from other nations, but not support the Cuban reVolution per se... 8 EC 1975 The CP and the SP have been designated pursuant to Executive Order 10450, iu APPENDIX 3 Docld: 322701883 Page 5
APPENDIX s CORLISS LAMONT On September 28, 1953, Louis F, Budenz testified before the United States Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee that Earl Browder, as head of the Communist Party (CP) in the United States, had referred to Corliss Lamont as one of the "four prides" of the CP because Corliss Lamont was ready to cooperate with any Communist front or any Communist cause, Browder made this veference at a National Committee meeting of the CP in the early 1940's. Budenz also recalled that Lamont was a member of the CP when he, Budenz, was a member, "Rights", self-identified as a publication of the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee (ECLC) April « May, 1962 issue, reveals Corliss Lamont is V$ce-Chairman of the ECLC, bed coal APPENDIX ved 1 1975 | 4 vol Docld: 32201883 Page 6
APPENDIX & " EMERGENCY CIVIL LIBERTIES COMMITTEE The "Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications," reviseg and published as of December ], 1961, prepared and released by the Committee on Un- American Activities, United States House of Represent- atives, Washington, D.C., contains the following con- cerning the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee: "Emergency Civil Liberties Committee "1. 'The Emergency Civil Liberties Committee ; is an organization with headauarters in Similar legal Proceedings, One of its . chief. activities has been and Still is the dtssemination of voluminous Communist Propaganda material,! ' FRANK WILKINSON was called as a Witness when he appeared in Atlanta as a represente- ® involved in Smith Act Violations and Committee on Un-American Activities ana to protest its hearings, In 1956 WILKI:SON Was identified a8 a Communist Party member by a former fBI undercover agent within the “party. Summoned at that time to answer the allegation, his reply to @ll questions was, "I am answering no questions of this committee." This @lso became his Stock By . reply to questions when he appeared during 5 . the Atlanta hearings, * * WILKINSON has on. Since been convicted of contempt of Congress —_ and sentenced to one year in jail,: LeC 1 lors . APPENDIX Docld: 32201883 Page 7?
, APPENDIX EMERGENCY CIVIL LIBERTIES COMMITTEE CONT'D) TE SS UITTTEE (CONT'D . Docld: 322018383 Page 6& ‘Disputing the non=-Communist claim of the organization, the committee finds that a number of other individuals connected with the ECLC also have been identified under oath as Communists, % & & {Committee on Un-American Activities, Annual Report for 1958, House Report 187, March 9, 1959, Pp. 34 and 35.) 'To defend the cases of Communist Law~ ~ breakers, fronts have been devised making special apodeals in behalf of Civil liberties and reaching out fap beyond the confines of the Comminist Sanizations Liberties Party itself, Among these or are the * * « Emergency Civil , Committee,. When the Communist itself is under fire these fron & bulwark of protection,! (Internal Security Subcommittee cf the Senate Judiciary Committee, Handbook for Americans, §, Doc. 117, Aprii 23, 1956, P. 91,)" This documont contains neither re- COMMeEndatises nor’ Conclusions of the FOE f: i- abil Prorerty of the FBI G94 is boost an VSUr Ag2ncy: it and WS CoRti35 ="2 Nt to be distribut. €d outside your agency, APPENDIX 6*
FD-323 (Rev.. 11-29-61) UauTED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION New Qrieans, Louisiana — September 24, 1963 In Reply, Please Refer to File No. £ Title LEE HARVEY OSWALD Character INTERNAL SECURITY - R - CUBA Reference Letternead memorandum dated’ 9/24/63 at New Orleans a . * All sources (except any listed below) whose identities are concealed in referenced communication have furnished reliable information in the past. rm 2 a 6 F B | This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI, [tts the property J MT of the BI and ia loaned to your a : e Gency; it and tis content F 2 nts are not to ba distributed Outside r Docld: 322018583 Page 9