AGENCY INFORMATION -- AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: — 124-10156-10007 RECORD _ SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILE. NUMBER:  105-82555-1ST NR 5537 ORIGINATOR: FROM: TO: TITLE: ’ DATE: PAGES: "SUBJECT: DOCUMENT TYPE: ORIGINAL CLASSIFICATION: REVIEW_DATE: STATUS COMMENTS: HW 53025 DBocld:32164536 Released under the John . Eennedy hKesassination Records Oollection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). ase#:NWU 53025 Date: m5-25-2017 DOCUMENT INFORMATION FBI SAC, PD DIRECTOR, FBI 02/09/1967 2 LHO, POST-RP, POLIT AND SUBV ACT, CP PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Confidential 08/01/1996 Redact RESTRICTIONS: JFK Act 6 (4) © Page 1 NEW CLASSIFICATION: UPDATE DATE: (2/12/2001
| yoo Date: 2/9/67 | .Transmit the following in Vig _ATRTED __ AIRMAIL - REGISTERED ; ' ; ' (Priority) | jf? TO 7: ‘DIRECTOR, FBI FROM .: © SAC, PORTLAND (89-21) SUBJECT: ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN, EETZGE: ALD. KE NNEDY,~ ~— The following is being submitted as a matter of \ information for the Bureau. involved in the information \, GEORGE MEN ZERS. U “\ [pH 61-8 advised on 7/5/66 that GEORGE : DU . 4 MEVERS was elected to the National 95 sie Committee of the Communist Party (CP), ae by | USA, at its 18th National Conventign Class! on: ‘held in New York City, 6/22-26/66. K peclassily ° (wr 1258-s]said on 1/16/67 that cnorce | | MEYERS récently was elected chairman of the Labor Commission of the national / i: CP organization. v6 rgd -By report received 2/8/67, “PD 506~S, who has 7 ‘provided reliable information in the past, advised that © GEORGE MEVERS was present at a meeting of the Coos Bay -~ ‘North Bend Club of the CP in the Coos Bay area on Saturday night, 2/4/67. Also present was RALPH NELSON, Oregon CP . State chairman. In the course of this meeting, MEYERS stated that every CP officer in New York had received a. letter from OS SWALD requesting membership in the CP, but from a report oxOSWALD from Moscow, it wag known that OSWALD was an employee” OF) the FBI. MEYERS’ suggested that | Lee HA RUG’ Of Me) De . fay - ‘Bureau u CAMMY CR , werent y) ae Portland be "NOT 1 RECORDED 199 FEB 25 51967 Per — Exemot. from ategory = 9% Hips f0 ¢ Decjass fication: Indefinate HW 53025 Docld:32164536 Page 2 ORTON  ET a , Fa re “ames oo Boy I
+ ne * Noy A eee “ C, ce : | : ! pp 89-21 the book "White Wash" be purchased and read by every CP member in'order that the members might know the role and methods used by informants within the cP. | u On 2/9/67, informant was contacted\concerning the - above information. Informant said that MEYERS’ comments -arose during a discussion at the club meeting concerning a 4 former club member who had been suspected of being an FBI , informant. MEYERS told the club members not to feel too badiy; that he had paid CP dues for a number of years to. one man, only to learn that this man was in the employ of the FBI. It was during- these comments that MEYERS made his statement relative to OSWALD. PD 506-5 said that he did not elaborate or provide additional comment of any kind, and that this pvas ail the information available concerning the matter (A) . 3 Note SBhould be taken of the fact that there were Dd Vocadea five persons present at the above CP meeting, including Set spac TEVERS “NELSON and informant. Y..- | HW 53025 Docld:32164536 Page 3