JFK Assassination System Date: 6/15/201 Identification Form we ; . _ ° . : , Agency Information AGENCY: FBI Peleased under the John RECORD NUMBER : 124-90108-10019 . Kennedy ; Assassination Records RECORD SERIES: = DL olleetion Act of 1992 (44 U5¢ 2107 Note). AGENCY FILE NUMBER:  62-3035-16 ase#: NW 53025 Date: Ho-23-2017 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI } FROM: BROWN TO: DL TITLE: DATE: 08/08/1962 PAGES: 4 SUBJECTS : in 7 AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: 08/04/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : MEMO v9.1 3 HW 53025 Docld:32333677 Page 1
4 er rete “ Ve Sb66% SCO 8 E « © 's re oe ‘ a ‘6 ' \s mi e ofeye cn) A? £5 * . -e Fey OF 10 : UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. are MEMORANDUM 10 — TO : SAC, DALLAS (13414-6904) DATE: 9/8/62 FROM ¢ SA W.. HARLAN BROWN SUBJECT: BY ; On 8/1/62 SA W,. HARLAN BROWN received, in person, a handwritten report dated 8/1/62. from DL=6:S, This report. ‘has been serialized as 134-1A-690. A 4 Os) : Informant determined on. 8/1/62 that. on 7/29/62 there was a ‘CP State Committee meeting at the Hotel Dallas, Dallas, ch Texas, in Room 836, AUGUSTIN ESTRADA was chairman of the mee tang. ing: Besides AUGUSTIN ESTRADA, the. following were present at this meeting: a) (© Ww) of BILL: LOWERY JOE LANDIN ‘JOHN STANFORD THEO CASTILLO eye FRANK MEDINO Delegates from San Antonio were THEO CASTILLO and JOHN STANFORD,, The delegate from Houston, Texas ‘was FRANK’ _ MEDINO. yw (%)(W The agenda ay drawn as follows: (5 Ge No v8 ao -1A-690 ) . . (ay J - San Antonio“{1-cP,- USA, ORG., Fgic) (RM) y HN WILLIAM Site ae igpr00- 7232 xl ‘= Houston (% SA-ORG _15=C) (RM _. 7 : Anus RET aN IT =~§100-7995 (al, ESTRADA ! ») 100-7929 : (Be LOWERY) 00- 8001, en LANDIN 1 100-671-5 ~ (ORG) 100-671-8. (POL. ACTS) -100~671~25, (STRAEGY . IN. a INDUSTRY) 3035 | (ACLU). “YT = 100-671-21 (BBP) 1 = 100-5257 (NAACP) pppppe on WHB: jeg (15). _ AW 455025 Doclda: 32333877 Page 2?
Status of Negro in CP. (¢') ' Defense and cruel liberties _ , — - Report on social democracy and trade unions, Literature .- : Peace and gubernatorial elections. » ‘Good and welfare. ° ° o:-@ 2 o Ouk Whe 4 FRANK, an oil worker from Houston, wanted to know ‘the role of the Negro in the CP,» STANFORD informed the. committee that at the present there were no Negroes in the cP... There’. were some who read "Political Affairs” and. "The. Worker." On» -a recent, survey that he made. STANFORD said he found: out> that a good number of Negroes read "New Horizons," “Freedom Ways". and the’ "National Guardian." am STANFORD did: not Say . whether” ‘the © suivey was made in San Antonio or #n Houston, ‘There. had’ been other requests, he assumed them from other sources asking’ for an organizer from the national office. (Previous. to this, FRANK had stressed the need for an importation ‘from the’ national office. The imports job he added would be ‘to “yécruit Negroes for membership in the CP, ‘Someone was needéd who ~~ could deviate his or her time to that project. He could not do it, he didn’t have the time. In fact he'd: be suspicious if”. he lingered too long talking to.a Negro at his job,. FRANK said. he felt SMITH would meet with CP personnel if he was etly approached, FRANK admitted that SMITH was scared. )M ya Ne AUGUSTIN ESTRADA said he: could. spend. a week end — talking to some of the folks he knew. JOE LANDIN said he agreed with FRANK, someone was needed full time to do the. job, BILL. _ LOWERY and JOHN STANFORD figured the best thing to do was for them to do that job themselves. - STANFORD explained. that he . based the deductign on the fact. ‘that. there was no. contact. with. the national office, The last contact had been. made ‘a. year , ago. Lipo oo! Informant further determined. ‘that ‘FRANK told. JOHN STANFORD that he suspected a Negro of being a spy...’ The man” had. been asking questions about him and had just happened to be on the same train with "POLLY" when she passed by there _.. (sometime ago). This man has a railroad. card which entitles & Aim t to free rides. LEW HW 53025 Doclda: 32333877 Page 3
Me ee _ AW 433025 ad taking over the PTAs, yr) ACLU ‘and had learned that on Monday the. union was to file a Suit in court in favor of REEDER, a teacher who was fined for lending. his support.to sit-in demonstrations... LANDIN. also reported PASO and. the NAACP, . LANDIN explained. that in: 1954. * and 1961 local labor people. had not been wise in selecting | ever and she was doing just. that... uy (students vhe. as a captive ‘audiencé. in a Midlothian school, heard a conservative speak and. hadnot been given'a chance to hear a liberal) The form of -actiffn to:be taken, he added, -s' would be up to: ‘PENN: ‘JONES, (ny Bi chers, he’ concluded, were W) | JOE LANDIN reported that he had joined the. local individuals to lead Lat in=Americans . “Their present. selectee - in spite of an "Uncle Tommish" name and some. chauvenistic’ — characteristics, ' had turned o€t to bea good working. liberal, no less, The CP, he suggested, should work closer with him,” The NAACP, JOE explained, had only 281. members and for awhile it seemed that the NAACP youth council's seffiior advisor had become an opportunist after being financially rewarded for campaigning for: WILL WILSON, She. (J. oE, .CRAFT) had‘ ‘started to make an independent organization. out of the youth. council . to be more active in politics. The advisor had.also started a precinct Club. It seems that the NAACP’s national convention had done a lot of good because she von d:to: work harder. than > Informant further determined. that. JOHN: STANFORD noted that ‘times were. changing ,~ ‘the’ ‘people were. “no “longer ‘ afraid... He had invited 40° persons. to. see a “movie. ‘on the Soviet: Riigsia, 29 adults had attended “paying - a. dollar. ‘for: admission, THEO added that a- “Negro head. ‘of. ‘the. ‘Young ‘Democrats had béen impeached by- Anglos. for. not’ ‘being active. While the impeachment - proceedings .were illegal, and. whether . che had- been impeached or -not,..all this. indicated . they. wanted. action. ~ . STANFORD added that. while people were not: ‘afraid. they. would not spéak out. \ There was’ the case Of. Prof. KOEN INGER, ‘the= “McCarren. Act = no.one complained. It. was ‘up. “to. ‘them. ‘to ‘show ‘the’ ‘people. that the persecution of, the Texas | Party was ‘tied in with the - Doclda: 32333877 Page 4
2 HW 53025 2 Ch cmgppay persecution ‘of. all organiza Tous ,. ‘While. the. Birchers - ‘were. talked about. they were really free. to influence. They. were. respousible for the ‘changes in text. ‘books: which they: changed at will, The firing. of, KOEN INGER was due. to Birchers = JOHN. STANFORD discussed the. recent. AFL-CIO. state’. ae convention. At this convention the. Department of" Public. Safety. had planted agents. HANK BRAUN had. vagorously- “protested — allegations by high officials that labor was being. infiltrated. by. communists. Thé agents at the state convention. ‘marked, dangérous trend in the DPS for..the. convention. was 'an..op Le meeting. BILL LOWERY and JOHN: STANFORD agreéd. that Negroes were desenting liberal PAG la " camps because. they will not: recognize Negro rights. Informant determined” ‘the ‘next “meeting. will bé ain: San Antonio on 11/4/62, The Sage at the fc Greyhound Bus Station at 8: 00 A.M Informant had no additional information. fn Pee \» Doclda: 32333877 Page 5