Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: BROWN
To: DL
Document date: 5/6/63
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

6/15/201

AGENCY :

FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-90010-10154

RECORD SERIES:

DL

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 100-9734-789

Document Information

ORIGINATOR :

FROM:

TO:

TITLE :

FBI

BROWN

DL

Released under the John

DATE :

PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

05/06/1963

2

Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel.

Cased:NM 54403 Date:

10-12-2017

DOCUMENT TYPE :

CLASSIFICATION :

RESTRICTIONS :

CURRENT STATUS :

DATE OF LAST REVIEW :

AMERICAN G.I. FORUM

[Restricted]

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Unclassified

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09/16/1997

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OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10

5010-10401

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

MEMORANDUM

TO

: SAC, DALLAS (134-]A-748A)

DATE: 5/6/63

FROM

: SA W. HARLAN BROWN

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

EREIN IS UNCLASSIFE

SUBJECT : DL-6-S

ATE 2-15-47BY 5608 SLD/KSK

On, 4/25/63, DL-6-S, in person, furnished a

(JFK)

type-

written report ta SAW. HARLAN BROWN, which report is dated

4/23/63, and has been serialized as

134-1A-748.

That report revealed that on 4/23/63, a regular

meeting of the Dallas CP was held in BILL LOWERY's car in

front of JOE LANDIN'S

house.

Those present were bill. lowery,

AUGUSTIN ESTRADA, and JOE LANDIN.

According

to informant, JOE LANDIN reported that he

had started working with the GI Form (the North Dallas GI

Forum). He also cited the brief picketing the NAACP did at a

South Dallas drug store. The NAACP, in this case, wanted the

store to hire Negro personnel.: LANDIN, 'according to informant,

recalled that PASO's local chairman, J. 0. GARCIA, had made

derogatory remarks about Latin-Americans at a PASO rally. In

short, he had charged, publicly, that these people's social

and economic plight was due to their apathy. He had echoed

the remarks. of a West Dallas leader who had pictured Latins

always with

hands. outstretched, asking for handouts. Some of

these remarks, LANDIN added, appeared in the press. He with-

1 - 134-1A-748A

1 - 100-671-11 (Negro

- 100-671-19 (Security Measures)

Question

1

- 100-7929 (B. Lowery)

•1 - 100-695 (C. Brannin)

1 - 100-7995 (A. Estrada)

1 - 100-8749 (J. Stanford)

7.

100-8001 (J. Landin)

1

100-9848 (F

Medrano)

100-9734 (G.I: Forum)

-

San Antonio (RM)

- 100-5257 (NAACP)

1

(John Stanford,

- 157-8 (Racial-Dallas)

IS-C, SA #100-7222)

1 - 100-10695 (PASO)

÷ WHB: HM

({4)

100-9.734-789

MAY 6 1963

781 - DALL 10

Kels

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DL 134-1A-748

held criticism of GARCIA's remarks because he realized the

fallacy of them; that there was no one to replace GARCIA,

and he (LANDLY) had often, since that call OWERY and

wondered if

GARCIA was the right person to head PASO.

ESTRADA contended that GARCIA was the logical person for that

position since no one else could, at this time, replace him.

JOE

LANDIN recalled the very fine work GARCIA had done.

wondered if getting other PASO members to constructively

criticize J. O. GARCIA when he made such derogatory

would do the trick. BILL LOWERY and ESTRADA urged him to do

that JOE LANDIN reported that at the GI Forum meeting the

CONTRERAS brothers had discussed Cuba with him

While the

meeting was an informal one, the discussion had been a good

The two brothers believed that the Cubans could provoke

a third World War; they were sure that they had created an

economic problem in the U. S, competing with other

minorities forjobs. It seemed

they surmised, that

all the

rich

Cubans came to the United States while the servants

and other menial workers remained 'slaves in CASTRO's Cuba.

Their mother, RICHARD CONTRERAS said, had told some Cubans

that the suffering they claimed to have undergone was really

nothing, that she and her neighbors had been herded off like

cattle and shipped away from their homes.

(CONTREARAS did

not say where this happened.)

BILL LOWERY and ESTRADA

were glad that this discussion had taken place even though

the meeting®

had been an informal one.

Informant determined that Congressman WILLIAM

CLAYTON POWELL was discussed by BILL LOWERY, at which time

LOWERY said he did

not know what to believe about POWELL:

JOE LANDIN said he believed the man was an opportunist, a

bad representative for his people. He said he, at one time,

had attended an Afro-Asian Conference and pictured America.

as a taee to do the good that PAUL ROBESON had done.

ESTRADA recalled that POWELL had

It was stated that WINSTON and DAVIES, two CP members, had

even

tried to discourage him from making that trip

Informant had no additional information.

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