Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: PX
To: HQ
Document date: 06/30/1965
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

4/14/201

AGENCY:

RECORD NUMBER :

RECORD SERIES:

AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

FBI

124-10330-10021

HQ

62-107261-1145

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

TO :

PX

HQ

TITLE :

DATE:

"PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

06/30/1965

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MINUTEMEN

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 05/27/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

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.. FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

EPORTING OFFICE

PHOENIX

OFFICE OF ORIGIN

KANSAS CITY

ILE OF CASE

DATE

6/30/65

REPORT MADE BY

SA JOHN F. SHEIK

CHARACTER OF CASE

INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD

3/24/65 - 6/23/65

TYPED BY

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"MINUTEMEN"

ALL INFRAMATION CONTAINES

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UNCLASSIFIFE

INFORMATION CONCERNING

(INTERNAL SECURITY)

REFERENCE

Report of, SA JOHN F. SHEIK dated 3/19/65 at Phoenix.

Phoenix letter to Bureau dated 3/20/65, forwarding to Bureau

eight copies of IHM incorporating information regarding

"Minutemen",

RUC

ADMINISTRATIVE

The Tueson PD, Pima County SO, and the OSI Office

at Davis Monthan AFB have been advised of information in this

case.

INFORMANTS

Identity of Source

File Where Located

PX T-1 is PSI IAN MICHAEL

STEVENS

Inquiry re

Subject Organiza

AN OPENHAGENT

tion 6/23/65

IN CHARGE

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PROVED

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Phoenix (RM)

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INTC, Ft. Huachuca, Ariz.

(RM)

Secret Service, Phoenix

(RM)

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Alcohol & Tobacco Tax Unit, Phoenix (RM)

Kansas City (62-7797) (RM)

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FJD-201 (Rev. 9-23-88)

Copy to:

Report of:

Date:

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

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G2, Presidio of San Francisco (RM)

- OSI, Kirtland AFB, NOM. (RM)

• ONI, Phoenix (RM)

INTC, Ft. Huachuca, Arizona (RM)

Secret Service, Phoenix (RM)

1 • Alcohol & Tobacco Tax

Unit, Phoenix (RM)

SA JOHN F. SHEIK

6/30/65

Office: PHOENIX

File Number: PX 105-1226

Bufile #:

62-107261

Title:

"'MINUTEMEN"

At try

0.29.92 9803PDD CL

Character:

Synopsis:

INFORMATION CONCERNING

(INTERNAL SECURITY)

Information was

received

from

an additional source

that DEL MYERS waS &

leader of the "Minutemen" in

Tueson,

Arizona,

in 1962-63, but that MYERS was

dropped by ROBERT B. DE PUGH, National Commander of

the

"Minutemen", due

to instability.

rueson,

Arizona

newspapers in dune, 1965, news stories, claim a

"Minutemen" cell active in tucson ares

and training

with firearms in Cochise County area.

Lt. WILLIAM

GILKINSON, head of the Tucson PD Intelligence Unit,

and quoted in the newspapers as the source of the

reports, advised 6/23/65 that he was misquoted in

the newspapers and that he has no knowledge of any

current activity of the

"Minutemen" in the Tucson

or Cochise County areas. DEL MYERS on

: 3/27/65

volunteered information to the Phoenix Office of the

FBI regarding alleged communist activities in the

Tucson area and he

stated at that time he was a member

of the "Minutemen" in 1962, but was not a member at

the present time.

MYERS indicated that a number had

been assigned to

him by the "Minutemen" but he could

not recall. MYERS further

related that the "Minutemen"

organization is non-existent in Tucson at the present

time.

Other investigation also indicates subject

organization no longer in existence or known to be

operating in Arizona.

RUC

This document contains neither recommendation::: conclusions of any kind. It is the property of the FBl, and is a loan to your agency,

it and/or its intouis are not to be distributed outside your agency.

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DETAILS:

AT TUCSON, ARIZONA

On March 24, 1965, ROBERTMC CARTHY, 6020 North

21st Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona, a self-admitted member of

a the

e Minutemen", 1962-64, and Arizona State Coordinator

of the "Minutemen"

1963-64, advised that he had been given

the name of DEL MYERS as the man to contact in Arizona

with regard to the "Minutemen". MC CARTHY advised that

DEL MYERS had the number of 13056 in the "Minutemen" organ-

ization. MC CARTHY had corresponded with DEL MYERS at

Tucson, Arizona, in November of 1962 up until early 1963

when due to differences between them, he no longer heard

Ofrom MYERS. MC CARTHY was subsequently advised by ROBERT

DE PUGH, NOXbOrne Mi

Missouri, in September, 1963, that

MYERS had been dropped due to instability and that he was

becoming active in the American Veterans Against Communism.

MC CARTHY

was of the opinion that the break of

DEL MYERS with the "Minutemen" was a real sincere one and

no doubt was due to the difference in personalities between

MYERS and DE PUTH.

on March 27, 1965, DEL MYERS appeared in the

rucson Resident Arency and turned over material whieh he

stated related to communist sympathizers and supporters in

the Tucson,

Arizona area. He made available a copy of the

Congressional Record of August 20, 1964, which set forth

a telegram to Senator WAYNE MORSE, which telegram supported

cessation of the Viet Nam War and which was signed by approx-

imately 60 Tucson, Arizona persons.

MYERS also made availa~

ble an alleged report of the organizational meeting of the

Tucson Chapter of CORE of April 10, 1964, at which meeting

MYERS claimed he had a source of his in attendance. MYERS

also made available for study 3 x 5 cards on which

information concerning Tucson individuals described by MYERS

as communist sympathizers.

During the foregoing contact, MYERS orally admitted

that he was a member of

the "Minutemen" in 1962 but had dropped

become interested in the American Veterans Against Com

munist, a California organization, and that he was not a mem-

the "Minutemen" at the present time.

He further admitted

that he had a number assigned

to him but that he could not

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