AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER: ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE : AY DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE: CLASSIFICATION : - RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW: OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : HQ JFK Assassination System Date: 6/19/201 Identification Form Agency Information Released under the John Kennedy Wss5assination Records FBI 124-90123-10032 ollection Act of 1992 (44 USc 2107 Note). asef#: NW 54462 Date: 1O-O5-2017 HQ 100-12262-9 Document Information FBI SA 01/07/1944 7 ETHEL M. MCCALEB RAIGORODSKY PAUL M. RAIGORODSKY PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 4, Redact 09/12/1998 INDEFINITE RPT v9.1 3 . . HW 54462 DBocld: 32335366 Page 1
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Form No. 1. THIS CASE ORIGINATED AT SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS SA FILE No. 100,329 REPORT MAD AT” DATE WHEN MADE PERIOD FOR 10/10 REPORT MADE BY oa . WHICH MADE m SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 1-7- 16311/3;29312/ ARTHUR J. NORSTROM CHARACTER OF CASE. _ Rite’Raf go ‘“RAIGORODSEY"""" | -s SECURITY. MATTER. : SYNOPSIS OF FACTS: ODSKY presently residing at Austin “Te: teaching English at The University of: yo She, apparently is taking an active part. in ‘the. affairs. of: ~s cost? the*Commnist Party there, inasmuch as she hag “<o\t>”" number of meetings at the city branch and was: in‘att gmk | at the State Committee Meeting at. Hougton, Texas:’.on’ or. December 12, 1943. Ber husband, PauLSkarcor ly believed to be with the Petro Houston, Texas. =Pe REFERENCE: Report of Special Agent JEROME , dated October 28, 19,3. DETAILS: The title of this case is being changed to add the additions.” al alias of RITA RAIGORODSKY for ETHEL M. McCALEB RAIGOR SKY and to include the name of her husband, PAUL MARK RAIGORODSKY as an additional subject. AT AUSTIN, TEXAS eer re Confidential Informant T-] reported that on October 5, 19,3, 4 RITA RAIGORODSKY, whose true name is ETHEL RAIGORODSKY,. was in attendance at a meeting of the Texas Committee to- Abolish the Poll Tex end came in company with MAC\ STRAUSS end Mrs. INABULL. At that time it was learned by' the". informant that Mrs. RAIGORODSKY was teaching English at The University of Texas and had offices in the Main ‘2 FORWARD ND SPECIAL A SENT | DO NOT WRITE IN THESE SPACES __ COPIES DESTROYED. 200 Ao (/¢ | [60-\/2 26 he F COPIES OF THIS Ri i ee as, — . PF ‘y 5 ~ Bureau ae ~N Soe aS 1 - ONI, San Antonio? “. 4 5 \ T<MNID, Dallas = ooF ee” { tt oe 2 ,, Houston a og ate eee 2 - ‘$éh Antonio —_
SA 100l%29 Building. She was likewise reported to ‘be driving a 1911 Packard sedan bearing Texas license 909-3706 STRAUSS mentioned to the informant at thet‘. time that Mrs. RAIGORODSKY was very rich and had contributed generously. to "= the party fund. She was thereafter placed on a membership committee. of © the Texas Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax, together with Dr. ALBERT MARTIN aa - Sl e . Se. ta, jousia and ANTHONY DEWITTYSGLOVER of The University of Texas branch of the Communist Party in Austin at the home of MAC STRAUSS, 01 West 33rd Street and was likewise present at a meeting when DA ARPENTER, State Secretary of the Communist Party, met with the city group in Austin, On’ the latter date she informed those present that she would attend the State Commi ttee meeting of the Party at Houston, Texas, with MAC STRAUSS, _ RAPHAELSWEINER, and Mrs. INA BULL on December 12, 1913, and agreed to drive those present to Houston in her automobile. q-2 further reported that at a meeting of the Communist Party at the home of MAC STRAUSS on December 8, 19143; Mrs. RAIGORODSKY reported on current political events in Texas and Spoke of her close knowledge of political affairs in Washington, inasmuch as. she and her husband had resided there for @ period of timé while her husband was with the Petroleum Administration She likewi ¢ mentioned at that meeting that she has been in correspondence f with MASON UTTE, known Negro Commnist in 4ustin. Informant T=1 reported that she was in attendance at a meeting of the Party, at the home of STRAUSS on December 22, 19143, and that she had been request- ed at that time to write to Representative WORLEY of the House of Representa-= tives about the Green-Lucas Bill. During that meeting she talked of her experiences in Vermany and Vienna, where she had traveled in 1923, The records of The University of Texas reflect that ETHEL McCALEB RAIGOROD= SKY was born February 9, 1903 in New Orleans, Louisiana, and entered The University of Texas on February 12, 192. At that time she resided at 117 North Cerrande, Los Angeles, Californie, and was the daughter of W. F. McCALEB, banker. She obtained a BA degree from Western Reserve University in 1922 end an MA degree from The University of Texas in 1929. She now ‘resides at 4403 Barrow Avenue,. Austin, Texas, and is a tutor in the . English Department. She receives her mail through P. 0. Box 1819, University Station, : , ; ~ The records likewise indicaté that PAUL MARK RAIGORODSKY, her husband, obtained a BS degree in civil engineering from The University of Texas . in 192. He was born August 25, 1898, in Praskovow, Russia, and had previously attended the University of Prague in Czechslovakia from 1919- 1920 and the University of Kiev, Russia, 1918-1919. He is of the Greek Orthodox religion and his father, name not shown, was_a physician. The ee os ea on On November 29, 1943, T=2 reported she was present at a meeting of the city | HW 54462 Docld:32335366 Page 3
f SA 100-1,329 files of the San Antonio office reflect previous investigation on PAUL | ro RAIGORODSKY, Petroleum Engineering Company, Tulsa, Oklahoma. That file " ne reflects that he appeared in the United States on May 20, 1920, end entered - ° the Use S. Army on January 5, 1921, and was granted citizenship by militery - petition on April 28, 1921, ene Confidential Informant $3 of the Washington Field Division revealed that RAIGORODSKY emigrated to the United States in 1920 and has since resided. -in_ Los Angeles, Tulsa, and Kerrville, Texas, and by occupation was a con-— sulting engineer. He apparently was engaged in the export of gasoline absorption plants to the Antorg Trading Corporation and was working under the trade name of the Petroleum Engineering Company of Tulsa, Oklahoma, RAIGORODSKY is described as: Age. 45 Hei ght OY be 3/yn Eyes © Blue, . - . Complexion - Ruddy . Hair ; . Dark brown ‘. Files of the Ex-students' Association of The University of Texas reveal ‘that RAIGORODSKY resided. in Fullerton, California, from 1926 to 1927, and in 1928 was connected: with the Engineering Research and Equipment Company - of Dallas, Texas. In 1929 he was shown to be vice-president ‘and general . manager of the Petroleum. Engineering Company of tulsa, Oklahoma, and the Glen Rose Petroleun Company at Tulsa. He later built a country home at Kerrville, Texas, and was employed with the Natural Gas and Gasoline Section of the Office of the Petroleun Coordinator, Department of the Interior, Washington, D. C. According to JOHN M. McCURDY, Secretary of the Ex-Students' Association, RAIGORODSKY is presently residing et Houston - Texas, and is one of & committee of scientists assisting Dr. EB. P. SCHOCH of the Physics Department of The University of Texas, who is presently conducting a confidential experiment to use acetylene gas as.a basis for > 1 synthetic rubber. Mr. McCURDY advised that MORTON H. MARR and RAIGORODSKY, . both oil operators at Houston, have voluntarily investigated’ Dr. SCHOCH' s project end are presently assisting him on the experiment. The chairman of this committee is Dr. A. M. McAFEE, Research Chemist for the Gulf Petroleum. fT Company. In this connection the files of the San “ntonio office reflect 3 . “ | HW 54462 Docld:32335366 Page 4
| ° ad 3° tre we Ds * 7 | a ' { SA 100-1329 SOURCES OF INFORMATION CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANT Tel is SA hil, whose identity is known to the Bureau... 2 CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANT T-2: Conversations overheard by Special Agent’ wee, Boe ARTHUR J. NORSTROM at the home of MAC STRAUSS on November 23 and December 8, oe 1935. | a ) va t. P- te 6 | ° | _ ; (HW 54462 Docld:32335366 Page 5