MHCHAOS DOCUMENT ON SIGMUND EISENSCHER (NL).
Originator: CIA
Document date: 11/16/1970
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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SUBJECT: (Optionol)

FROM:

Chief, CI/SO Richard Ober

TO: (Officer designation, room number, and

building)

DATE

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OFFICER'S

INITIALS

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B- 2219

DATE

1 6 NOV 1970

COMMENTS (Number each comment to show from whor

to whom.

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61/S0 laternal Use Unty

Ihis memo is not to be

disseminated outside CI/SO

without prior permission from

Chief, CI/SO.

Originated by: CI/SO (Jasper)

Based on lio de Jer 19d 18

Source: ADSAC/3 unilateral

Dissem

_to FBI (Mr. Wannall)

via CI/SO courier on 1 6 NOV 1970

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B-2219

1 6 NOV 1970

SUBJECT: Signund EISENSCHER (NL) /

1.

A sensitive source has reported that one

EISENCHER of the

Communist Party of the United States

of America (CPUSA) , his wife, and one Leon LNU were

vacationing in Sochi, U.S.S.R., during August-September

1970. (Comment: EISENCHER/is probably identical with

EISENSCHER) •" Leon LNU. is probably identical with Leon

LOVE (Bureau file number 101-5112).

2:

According to EISENSCHER the CPUSA has close to

14,000

members, the majority of whom are laborers.

Over 25 percent of the members are blacks who function

basically in the North American black movenent.

The

Party has recently organized a young Communist movement.

(Comment: This is probably the Young Workers Liberation

League.). The CPUSA participates heavily in the labor

movement. At a recent (unnamed) labor meeting of repre-

sentatives from various regions of the United States, the

CPUSA had direct influence in 26 of the 50 unions repre-

sented.

The magazine Labor Party plays an important role

in coordinating movements within the labor ranks. Despite

nunerous barriers (sic), the CPUSA is concentrating its

efforts in Chicago, Los

Angeles, and New York, as well as

other fegions of importance.

The CPUSA has recently

adopted a common strategy towards the peace movement.

(Comment: The indication here is that the Party did not

previously have a unified approach.)

3. EISENSCHER stated that criticisms of the Soviet

Union by the radical left Maoists, Fidelists, and Trot-

skyites cause problems, but they appear to have abated

somewhat.

There has been a warming in the relations

between

the CPUSA and the Comnunist Party of Cuba as

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NO FORCIEN DISNE/RO DISSOH, ABNO

result of CPUSA National Chairman Henry WINSTON's

trip

Comnunist Parties

with Fidel CASTRO and other Cuban leaders. M

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Leon LNU gave the following instructions

to one

individual for future contact in the United States, if

such contact should become necessary: In New York City,

the individual should telephone Leon at work (368-9913)

or at home (368-5955) and arrange for a meeting which

would take place behind a telephone booth on the street

at the New York Public Library. (Comment:" Our records

it. Nicholas Aenue, New london and 368- 9913

St. Nicholas Avenue, New York, New York,

is the phone number

of-the Benjamin Davis Bookshop

New York.)

2529 8th Avenu Please transei leply via CACTUS channel

Originated by: CI/SO Ken Jasper)jml

Based: on: CR10: de

Source: CADSAC/3?Ly8neir@ 419,

16. Oct 70 filed ADSAC/3 sens

Distribution:

Original

FBI (Mr.

Wannall) via CI/SO courier

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