JFK Assassination System Date: 6/4/2015 Identification Form - Agency Information Released under the John AGENCY: FBI Kennedy RECORD NUMBER: 124-90116-10111 Lssassination Records . oOllection Act of 1992 RECORD SERIES: DL (44 USC 2107 Note). ase#:NWU 53074 Date: AGENCY FILENUMBER: _ 105-2027-5 ns—30-z2017 4 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI ° FROM: DL TO: HQ - | TITLE: - DATE: 03/26/1965 ‘PAGES: 20 SUBJECTS : MINUTEMEN DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT. CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: 08/10/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : LHM eee v9.1 HW 53074 DBocld: 32334405 Page 1
Cc CONRENAL ‘UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT ‘OF JUSTICE D "FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION : allas, Texas In Reply, Please Refer to : March 26, 19 6 5 File No. : AMERICAN UNDERGROUND, also known as” MINUTEMEN a FORT WORTH, TEXAS mS | The following information was: “furnished on ‘November 19. aad 24, 1964, by. Dallas ‘Tel: y oe Dallas Tel advised that he ‘is: - presently a member of . ; a group referred to. as..the: "Minutemen" and "American Underground” _, oad has been. so since approximately 1962. Dallas T=1 advised that the organization is nationwide with approximately fifteen Gia to. thirty members in Tarrant County. Dallas T-1 stated that ' the name ‘of the organization as such has only. ‘been used twice im two years and that proper names are seldom, if ever, used “and that this makes it very difficult to determine identities Sof: members. Dallas T-1 advised that. the following are currently -members of the organization: mae Arthur Pollard, 2707. Berryhill Drive, ‘Fort Worth, ‘Texas — Otto (Duke) Koling and Shirley Bob Renshaw, 2341 gs Harris: Lane,’ Haltom City, Texas, who lives with . Koling. . Bill Seals, smployed at Montgomery Ward's and re- ee gently transferred to Montgomery Ward’ 8, Houston, Texast | Van Pollard, (3421 Hanger, Fort Worth, Texas __ DECLASS}FTED By <S/” | contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FRi and is leaned to your agency. It and its — contents are not to be distributed outside your . egency. /O§- 2022 5 |} WW 535074 Docld: 32334405 Page 2
C —— CONRGEWTI AMERICAN UNDERGROUND, also known, as MINUTEMEN FORT WORTH, TEXAS : .Closely associatéd with the organization and .perhaps a member is Richard W.. Dawson, who lives on Highway 121 on the outskirts of Fort: Worth and who has formerly lived in the neighborhood of 2820° Northwest 29th in the early 1950's. Dallas ToL advised that an attorney whom members of the. group have . been advised to contact if "they get into trouble", is W.. ‘Alfred - Windor, with offices im the Ellis. Building. im Fort Worth. Dallas T-1 advised he does not snow - whether or mot. Windor & -is a member of. the organization. . = Dallas T=1 advised the. pbthary. purpose of the organization is to fight against the present Federal control — -of national amd local Governments and to fight for "States! rights". The group is . ‘supposedly national in origin and selling out to the: communists and that the group is the last | fo Line of defense against this sellout. The group secondarily — Pee -is vacial in that it believes in white supremacy. Dallas T-1 _ . advised that the organization suffered a severe setback — “ ~ “. because of the assassination of President Kennedy but now is . a attempting a full-scale reorganization, The group recruits. oe basically from those who do not have criminal records. and is organized im such a: manner that no one is supposed to know. the names of ‘other members in the organization. This is to prevent effective infiltration by the Goyernment. Dallas T-1 advised that the group has no immediate: “plans for action, . but that several times loeeally-: this group” has determined to. ‘act.on their own and this. action has been curtailed because of orders relayed from. higher authority in the organization. These higher authorities are unknown to Dallas T-1, except ‘that a person by the name of Ray (last. name unknown) at the, ranch in the vicinity of Venus, Texas, appears to be in contact with the group's s organizational | leaders. Ray is ‘described as @ personal and clase friend of retired General Edwin Walker and about ome and one-half to two years ago was ‘apparently implicated | in some manner: in the burning of a ‘gewspaper im the _aréaof Midlothian, Texas. Ray is alsa. apparently a warehouse supervisor ip Dallas. Dallas T-1l also advised he. has been recently con=- tacted: by 2 man whom he does not know but who apparently lives in the Fort Worth area, and this unknown male advised Dallas Tot to disassociate himself from the. small EroUp - ‘he is. now cn NAL | HW 53074 Docld:32334405 Page 3 ;
CONEWENTIAL _ AMERICAN UNDERGROUND, also known as MINUTEMEN © | FORT WORTH, TEXAS attached to for the apparent | purpose of moving into a position of more prominence in the organization. Dallas T=-1 advised — that thé small group with which he hasbeen associated is. the lowest. level in the organization and. that their primary purpose - is to. do the "dirty work". , Dallas T-1 stated that the group is also prepared, in the event of a. Negro uprising in the Fort Worth area, ‘to take action against various Negro leaders including Dr. Flint, Dr. Fleming and Dr. Ransom, and a Fort Worth hoodlum named ‘Madison: Hogan, who is- apparently a Nation of Islam leader in the Fort Worth area. Dallas T1 advised-thatthe only overt action tenta- tively planned for the winter months is that the ‘effect of 7 a .30 caliber..rifle on power transformers in the area may be Foo tested. ‘Dallas T-1 further stated that the group: apparently or has. a contact with an individual in northeast: Texas who goes. Lond by the name of "South" and that this contact may.,be utilized — pou in the raiding of a northeast Texas armory. during ‘the winter months. The primary interest is obtaining mortars and mortar. ammunition and automatic weapons; therefore, Dallas T-1 believes that the armory would probably be of a tank. or infantry group. ee ae i ‘Dallas T=1 advised that the group locally is attempting to gain control of the Panther City Motorcycle Club for the purpose of gaining land apparently. owned by this . Glub, in the area of Lake Arlington, Texas, -and thereafter | selling this land. and using the monies» ‘therefrom for purchases . of. the group. Dallas T-1 advised that it has been. learned the group has organizations in Stephenville, San Angelo, Italy and - Brownwood,. Texas. Dallas T-1 further advised that Arthur, Pollard has in the past made trips to Alabama, Wyoming, Montana, California, and that the group has a contact with an individual by the name of Jim Scott in Kansas City. Dallas _ 21 advised that he has seen pamphlets from national Minutemen headquarters, but that these dealt primarily with the. fighting a of any National Firearms Act which would. involve licensing of private weapons. . 4 | AW 53074 Docld:32334405 Page 4