AGENCY: RECORD NUMBER: RECORD_ SERIES: AGENCY FILE NUMBER: ORIGINATOR: FBI HOPKINS. EMIL E. FROM: TO: TITLE: AGENCY INFORMATION . Peleased under the John FBI Kennedy : WSsassination Records 124-10254-10187 ollection Act of 1992 NY (44 USC 2107 Note}. ase#: NW 53025 Date: 5-22-2017 105-3843 1-328 DOCUMENT INFORMATION DATE: — 12/08/1963 PAGES: 6 SUBJECT: DOCUMENT_TYPE: SEE FBI 100-10461-2438 PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT ORIGINAL Unclassified NEW CLASSIFICATION: CLASSIFICATION: REVIEW DATE: 11/18/1996 UPDATE DATE: 02/14/2001 STATUS Redact RESTRICTIONS: JFK Act 6 (4) COMMENTS: HW 53025 DBocld: 32190753 Page 1
rN fa . aie a ao _” ; - “Ay wo Cover Sheet for Informant Report § 4 ~~‘ Material FD-306 (3-21-58) . Received 1 by ‘Sk EMT E. HOPKINS Date received 12/16/63 Received from (name or symbol number) CI 1042s . Method of delivery (check appropriate blocks) . we . Calin person Clby telephone Colby mail: Co orally Ty recording device Cz written by Informant Date’ jof Report 12/8/63 Date(s) of activity : lf orally furnished and reduced to writing by Agent: Date Dictated —_—_________-._____ to Transcribed — Authenticated by Informant "12/8/63 Brief description of activity or’ material Report of cI 104+5 re Communist Patty: meeting Ate Hite File where original is located if not attached” held | 12/8/63, ‘at: home - of GENNE_ KUHN: :: 6105_ Remarks: vemost care. should be taken: that any. information ‘taken. from this report. is paraphrased to protect: inforg Es = ‘since. only . - Seven individuals attended the. meeting. ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED te - Cleveland (RM) | HEREIN Is | LASSIEIED , , 100-17257' (cP Org.) - pane Ladl/td oy KOZEDD ck 100-... (ARNOLD. JOHNSON). a \O2-- (Assassination of President. KENNEDY) : tos (JACK LEON: ‘RORY, Aka SZ of } SEARCHED ... INDEXED ——! SERIALIZED -- ERED JAN L284 —. 65-721- (ANTHONY. ERCHMARER) 100-17255° (Membership). 100-1646 3 ‘(Political’ Activities) « 100217797 . (Factionalism).. = 1000-23484 (Mass. Organizations) - al 100217947 (Strategy in Industyyy" 3.2 Dallas a) (625 | (Assassination of President bho CAC. LEON RUBY) © 105° (LEE HARVEY OSWALD) .. Co New. York “(RM)” 100-. (CP org. >. , , 7 (assassination: ‘of: Pres. KEN Aé- (JACK LEON RUBY): V'105~ - (LEE HARVEY OSWALD)" 100-16021 ARNOLD’ JOHNSON) HW saoa FEW), Bios Page 2
*" 134=84-557 » (Copies Continued) » 100-145835. (CP, USA, Public Appearances of Party Leaders ‘= way 13= Pittsburgh - (RM) 100-8571 .(CP,. State of, West: virginia) . 100-8572 (CP, Ohio. Valley. Section) 100-8664. “(CP Membership): 100°... (ARNOLD, JOHNSON): :  62=. (Assassination of. Proatdent KENNEDY) Aho. ue GIACK’ LEON: RUBY). 105-., a “ (LEE HARVEY. OSWALD). 100-8549 © -(GENNE:’ ‘KUHN)~’ ‘ “ 100-.:. \(Factionalism):. - 100-° | * @olitical Affairs) : 1S7=° (LEE M,” JOHNSON) 100-2. (Mass. Orgariizations). - 10014822! (HUGH GILMORE. GROCKARD, Jr.) 242 Cincinnats . 1002 3500. “(CP Organization): 134284" 6222758. (Assassination. of President KENNEDY)" - 4Ge456 | (JACK. LEON: RUBY) ©: me 105-2505" (LEE HARVEY. OSWALD) 100-7964. (CP Membership) -- 100-8227" (Political Activities) 100-8481 (Fact ionalism) 100212701 (Cominfil ;° ‘Mass: Organizations) - 100-8359 (Strategy: in.’ Industry) . 160= 12483 ° * (CHARLES. PALMER) ‘ 100-12408. (RANDALL. SOREY) 10029142" - (FLOYD! WELLS) .. 10027006. . (GENNE: RUEN) * 100212474 (JOHN: FABRY),“: 1060-12475. (SHIRLEY. FABRY) ~ 100« 6386 (FRED WALCHLI) 100-1910. (ARNGLD JOHNSON) | . 160+1083 (ANTHONY KRCHMAREK) 157. 195. “(LEE M.: JOHNSON)” 100=14096. ‘(HUGH GILMORE CROCKARD, oR. R.). 10-8408 “(Youth Matters) | 1342142), (ADOLPH, PACIFICO). j - (Comints1, ‘Labor. Daten
CI . 134-84-557 a Informant '¢ report | set forth | below: “ "gteubenville, 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) Kuh. PRis* was” a: Communist. Party Meeting.” The pergons. who were in. attendance who . were: recognized Were g 1 - Floyd Wells; - A Carpenter and » treaburer of his) : local Union. from: ‘Steubenville. 2 © CHARLES PALMER: ° A steel worker and. former. r grievance | . Committeman from the Wheeling Steel Corpn. ‘and Member’. of Local Union. #1190 U. S.W.A. (C.I. 0. A. F. 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. €.1.0. AS F. Le. 4 - Arnold Johnson: -.A. former state. chairman of. the: Communist Party BE ‘Ohio and who now is a sort¢of public VF relations man for.the Communist. party: working out 6£:. New York City, New ‘York. He secures. speakers for: te ; any engagements such as colleges: and Campus lecturés . | 5 .- John Fabrey a Miner from Smithfield... He- is ‘know -: as the emiling Slovak. . 6° Mrs. John ‘Fabrey his: Wife © 7 - Genne (Crockard) Kubin the hostess: is a. ‘long time.C.. party worker former wife of: Hugh Crockard. Now deceased - and she since. Married Emil Kuhn who: now. ‘pesides. at her home. Genme has three. children two to her - first.. husband aid the otheri to. the. latter. She.has.a son. about. 19 yES old who ‘is being schooled and. worked» over by the C. party. in. New York. | Genne. Kuhn Continued; The.C party wanted to take her son: Gill. Crockard out of her- influence so he ‘could be taught ~ -3- HW 53025 Docld:32190753° Page 4 Bo a
a 134-8A-557 a4 “ . | something constructive: this e414 recently, ‘a: gewy yeats , , or less ago Made a trip to the. Soviet ° ‘Union: ‘ete on “the: . Youth Conference ‘Know, as: the’. ‘World: ‘Youth: Conference, ' Hé will ‘probably emerge’ from the ‘New York. thing: as*a~ -. full time: organizer ‘in ‘sone. ‘special: field suckyas. ‘youth, At the. start of. the: Méet ing Genne: brought. out | _her brief case full of clipbiiigs : (Newspaper) ‘ete. she | ; ‘also had a lot of penciled notes. which: she was . undoubtedly. going to. use. to. show what she was doing ~ 4 “and, to. give. others: hell for not co-operating. with’ her. - But the. first. discussion by. A. Johnson centered around the late Pres. Kennedy. . . Armold: 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 - ‘yecactLonaries. were getting. ‘started: it was announced. that it had been:disclosed that it. seemed like: the - extreme. fight 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. wasa 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. | 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 lo "3 Of letters.of enquiry about. the C. party and he prébably answered it as he. does. hundreds of others and even sent him literature if he requested fe ‘it. They: (C.B. Ss. ) wanted him: to: go. On: the: air with 4 ete letter out. andsbé eure before he Made any. statement. ‘ | Randal. Gorby asked. Arnold Johnson if when he: got back.t to * | New York to look in the files if he ‘had a letter fro . Wm Pokas, formerly from Bellaire, Ohio, “and. also afi’. inmate, of Cambridge | Asylum: for. a period. of. ‘time, “Goxby -4-« HW 53025 Docld:32190753 Page 5.
CL 134=-8A-557 asked Johnson to compare the letter of Pokey's with: Oswald's to see if they didn't have a lotin 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. Kennedy. Everyone weadily agreed. | ‘ Arnold Johnson further stated that. no real Marxist Could do sych a 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 Right's March on Washington a few days before she had béen 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 up on him. from the time» this phone conversation was completed She had been. quoted in the newspaper and exposed as a Communist patty Member, which brought about her expolsion from thé. N.A.A.C.P., but since has been restored to i 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. . a . 2 5 « HW 53025 DBocld:32190753 Page 6 1
vi HW 53025 '- week ago and had Contacted some of his old friends by - getting help from-the Valley group it was pointed out _ by A Johnson that some years back when the Wheeling group Docld:32190753 Page 7 Cl 134-B4-557 "palmer stated that it was. ‘News to. him as. 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 amd then he got more help and was successful:in- defeating the reactionaries: You have to-elways.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 worl that Nite. Lunch. wae. furnished, by. each and everyone. with the exception of A Johnson and he put away plenty. - Johnson stated that he had been down this way about one phome, one in particular was Adolph Pacifico he ~ wanted to talk to him om a so called Applachian Coal project which hag been going on for some time: “Bdorph: wanted to” — meet 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 ths Next time he could make it. Wo Literature No Collections During the time Genne Kuhn was. belly aching about not was a part of W. Virginia group that difficulties existed and now with the Wheeling group in with Ohio Valley. the trouble still exists. He also pofimted out that .distance hes 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 no answer on the phone" .