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ELIZABETH CATLETT MORA

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIONC

FLEPOBTING OFFICE

MEXICO, D.

TITLE OF CASE

OFFICE OF ORIGIN

BUREAU

DATE/10/64

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REPORT MADE BY

NATHAN I. FERRIS

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CHARACTER OF CASE

ELIZABETH CATLETT MORA, aka

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ADD. DISSEMINATION.

Subject and husband,

FRANCISCO MORA, contInue to residel

at Calle del Pino #273, Apt. 15, Mexico, D. F.

as instructor in San Carlos

Subject continues

art school.

Certificate of loss of

American citizenship issued in view of

subject's naturalization

as Mexican citizen.

Subject reportedly member of POM and of so-

called Leadership Branch. #Continues making collections for PCM, H

obtaining money from ACGM, claiming to collect 2000 to 3000 pesos

($160 to $240 U.S.) per month for PCM. Subject continues to main-

- tain contact with ACGM and visitors from U. S. who contact ACGM. A

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Continues to maintain interest re matters in U.S.: in showing

"The Sobell Story"

, vice-president of League for Defense of

Negroes, collecting money for telegrams to U. S. supporting March

- on washington, in U. S. racial matters involving movement headed

- by MALCOLM X,

and reportedly with husband operated mail drop

for exchange of mail between correspondents in china, cuba,

Also continues interest in cuban matters and served on

Disaster Committee to raise funds for cuba after hurricane.

subject pro-chinese in sino-soviet split and temporarily suspen

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CONEHIENTIN.

by the subject which was raffled and won

a friend of

COLEMAN'S in Detroit.

It appeared that the statue had been

involved in a railroad accident and had been shipped back to

Mexico by mistake.

COLEMAN wanted KARZNAN to pick it up and

return 1t to Detroit and furnished KARZNAN. the name of CHARLES

SMALL for assistance.

The source was unable to further iden-

tify KARZNAN but indicated that he had been involved in a

recent "big demonstration" which SMAIL described as the

"biggest thing that hit the U. S. by far"

(the source was

unable to further identify that demonstration). It was

CROCKETT of Detroit (Bufile 100-367743) and BARTYLAN DER

also indicated that swaLI and kARzNAN both knew dOnes MEs

SCHELLING (Bufile 100-367251) who had been in the Abraham

Lincoln, Brigade In Spain with KARZNAN. SMALI described

ELIZABETH MORA as an American who married a Mexican and

"one of the few completely integrated into Mexican life dU)

(on July 18, 1963, MEX-18 and MEX-19 advised that

ELIZABETH MORA had stated that some tourists had arrived from.

Detroit and had visited her house the day before. MORA

stated that they had said her statue, which was

raffled, was

people from Detroit, Michigan.

sains to delIver the statue to Detroit. go

contacte on Aust 5, 1803, 0200-272 (3 at 12 200-7546)

a MALic indicated he would be seeing ELIZABETH MORA the follow-

Wing Thursday. SMALL reguested MALIZ to give the subject a

California, and she had contacted SMALL only because she was

looking for the subject. On August 14, 1963, Mrs. BRINTON

contacted BERTHE SMALL and stated she had been in touch with

the subject and her husband, FRANCISCO MORA, and commented

that the MORAs had been very good to her,

they had iresued me to sover are time shit

on october 3, 1963, SICTWENCER (Buffle 100-21415)

contacted CHARLES SMALI regarding his efforts to get in

touch with the subject. SMALL suggested he contact the

subject at San Carlos Art Academy

as october 6, 1953 ds aubior inacted agents la

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especially people who are working in the Negro movement.

She

said that she had thought of someone in SNCC but did not have

the name or address.

SMALL asked if she meant she wanted to

send material to SNCC and she stated

she did not, but that

she desired some names and addresses fron SMAII for the Academy MEl(U

MORA stated that the Congress was to be a large

world-wide affair and that the President of Mexico would

open it. MORA stated that if SMALI knew of any "progressive"

nent cultural figures that he thought would be good at such a

Congress, she would like to have their names and addresses.

she claimed that she was also making up a list and that any

list SMALL might provide could overlap but that she wanted to

have a very good list.

She added that persons attending the

Congress would have to pay their own transportation but that

their hotel and all expenses would be paid for during the

duration of the Congress.

MORA cited as example of persons

she had in mind were one MARGARET (LNU) who has a small museum

in New York and Chicago and works with the southside community

Art Center (apparently in Chicago) and was very active in the

National Negro Art Movement, and LINUS

but that PAULING had just recently been in Mexico USMALI

stated that he was thinking of a youth group such as the

his son,

ABBOLASNALL (Bufile 100-441277), which he

said was composed

or "very good kids" and that they were

active. SMALL promised

to assist MORA in this matterfu)

The above endo the infarmation reveived from fernell

and MEX-19kanc

section of this report rather than in the dissemination

information has been reported in separate cases for dissemi-

nation without mentioning the subject as the sourcef

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In May and June, 1963,

the source advised that,

according to MORA, the communist revolution in Mexico 1s no

longer a wild dream. She claimed that the PCM had concocted

a feasible plan calling for taking over in Mexico within ten

years.

She claimed that the revolution would necessitate

bloodshed and that trained soldiers would be necessary.

She

stated that leaders, both Mexican and foreign, had been

trained to set up small units similar to the ones operating

in Venezuela and many of their skirmishes never reached the

newspapers.

She also stated that the PCM, within the previous

year, nad operatea a school in Mexico to train leaders for

that revolution.

She stated that when the revolution comes,

It will need outside help which has been promised from Cuba

although Cuba will not necessarily be the country of origin.

She implied that financial support would come from the

Russians or, more probably, the chinese. The PCM will have

a support function providing assistance and an underground,

as well as food, shelter, and men when possible.

She claimed

the PCM could provide cover temporarily and finally furnish

provisional local government in areas which are taken over.

It was expected that fighting men would be recruited from among

the controlled PCM farmers' organizations fA

On September 17, 1963, MEX-18 advised that the subject

introduced the source to an individual, subsequently identified

as GURGUEN MAKSABEDIAN who is now a member of the Federal

District Committee

MORA claimed to the subject

that MAKSABEDIAN was a member of her branch which was described

as the leadership branch of the PCM although admittedly that was

a descriptive title and not the name of the branch. MAKSABEDIAN

subsequently outlined to the informant his concept of how the PCM

could take over Mexico through exploitation of the discontented

middle class, and when the informant discussed this matter with

MORA, MORA stated she was aware of the plan and it was already

being Implemented which was why FRANCISCO MORA wanted to quit

the PCM since FRANCISCO MORA did not consider such a program

to be a genuine communist revolution. According to MORA, the

so-called Leadership Branch was composed of leaders in various

fields and she qualified because of her position as a department

head at the University of Mexico San Carlos Campus and her

husband was in the Branch "on a pass"

, Indicating that it was (lu)

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mainly because of her position that he was accepted.

MORA

further advised that FRANCISCO MORA had lost the fight within

the so-called leadership branch against the concept outline

by MAKSABEDIAN and that after ten

"screaming" branch meetings, .

the branch, except for herself and FRANCISCO MORA; voted

unanimously with MAKSABEDIAN C(U)

On August 8, 1963, MEX-18 and MEX-19 advised that on

un th on the man at thai that Bia ves

for the PCM and that people were coming and

going from her residence and therefore she did not want any

persons who were not politically trustworthy around her

on October 8, 1963, the informants advised that on

october 6, 1963, MORA borrowed 500 pesos ($40 U.S.) from

the informants to make up a deficit from the funds she had

collected from the imprisoned railroad workers' families.

MORA stated she had expended the money for something else

and would have to turn the total sum in the next day. MORA

stated

she had money in a savings account in an unidentified

pank but it would not be possibre to withdraw this money

without

a delay of eight days.(U)

On February 24, 1964, the informants advised that

on that date ELIZABETH MORA stated that FRANCISCO MORA was

extremely nervous over trying to have clandestine meetings in

their residence while her mother and the children's friends

were sitting around.

According to the source, the subject's

mother is a conservative,

Negro woman who is not aware of

her daughter's political activities u)

CHINESE AND CUBAN MATTERS AU)

On March 15, 1963, the source advised that ELIZABETH

and FRANCISCO MORA had claimed that they had missed their PCM

• branch meeting on March 7, 1963.

ELIZABETH MORA claimed that

FRANCISCO MORA did not want to attend that meeting as he did

not want to listen to or participate in a debate which was

scheduled regarding an editorial in the

"Daily Worker"

denouncing MAO TSE TUNG. The MORAs clained that they had been (k)

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had objected to the use of that box because it would not hold

the large volume of mail from China and that therefore they

box had been discontinued but that FRANCISCO, MORA would obtaln

a box for handling the mail in the future u)

SOBELL FILM

1963,

the source advised that on July

21, 1963, ANNE ALLEN VEEROPOL, the guardian of the children of

executed atom

spies,

JULIUS and ETHEL ROSENBURG, had been at

imprisoned atom spy by MORTON SOBELl. MEX-19 was to do the

script and ASA ZATZ was to handle the

translation.

ELIZABETH

MORA was to furnish the actors and a "left wing director" for

dubbing the Spanish language version.

According to the infor

*CZECHOSLOVAKIAN EMBASSY CONTACTS,

4)

on April 23, 1964, the source advised that on April

18, 1964, ELIZABETH and FRANCISCO MORA arrived in the infor

mant's home to attend a party, coming directly from the

Czechoslovakian Embassy, and that FRANCISCO MORA brought with

him a bottle of Czechoslovakian vodka.

FRANCISCO MORA waS

Intoxicated. During the party, he repeatedly demanded state-

ments from ACGM associates present to support the Chinese

position in the Sino-Soviet split and he also urged full

support for the Negro Nationalists in the United States.

Informants received the impression that ELIZABETH MORA intended

to advise them of an important matter which had come up in the

Czechoslovakian Embassy during their visit but she was upset by'

her husband's inebriated condition and did not tell her story

to the informants u

NEGRO QUESTION

On February 24, 1964, the informants advised that on

that date ELIZABETH MORA had stated that the "big thrill" of

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Progressive Labor Group is a catchall for the Negro Nationalists

who are now leaving the CPUSA. She also stated there were

more Negro Nationalists In SNCC and CORE than in the NAACP/(U)

On April 22, 1964, informants advised that ELIZABETH

MORA had told them that FRANCISCO MORA had just made an arrange-

ment to rent an isolated hacienda near the City of Pachuca for

the use of a group of important visiting Negroes from the United

States who are expected to arrive in Mexico about the weekend of

She did not further identify the visitors nor

May 8, Y the purpose of their visit but invited the informants

to join the group at the hacienda after the visitors arrived.

On May 12, 1964, however, the informants advised that the pro-

posed weekend in the hacienda did not materialize. ELIZABETH

MORA had dropped the question, and the informants

received the

Impression that either visitors did not arrive as scheduled

or, if they did, objected to the presence of two white persons

the ranch so

that the invitation was dropped although

on both April 26 and 29, 1964, MORA had again confirmed the

invitation. au)

on May 15, 1964, the Informants advised that on

the previous two days ELIZABETH MORA stated that she had

received a letter from ROBERT WILLIAMS in Cuba which she

"said

proposed far more violent and emphatic procedures against

white people than had previously been offered by anyone else.

She said she was astounded that he would assume her support in

this matter as he knows her to be a member of the Mexican

Communist Party, implying that such membership would preclude

her from approving such violent means. MORA also claimed that

Negro woman, AUDREY Or AUDIE MORE Or AUDREY Or AUDIE MOORE

(phonetic) in Los Angeles, who was formerly a communist, 1s

now carried on the mast head of WILLIAMS' publication "The

Crusader"

as an editor of some type.

MORA indicated she was

disgusted with WILLIAMS.

MORA read to MEX-18 portions of one

Of WILLIAMS' letters which stated that guns must be obtained

and aimed at white men from the windows of homes. The infor-

mant observed that this is the type of statement

made nightly

by WILLIAMS on his radio broadcast, but MORA stated she does

not listen to his programs since their radio does not receive

Cuban stations (Aus

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MEX-18 advised ELIZABETH MORA of the statements made

regarding her by GERTRUDE SOLTKER, but MORA stated she was not

concerned over any misunderstanding of her situation at the

Czechoslovakian Embassy or with any friends she wanted to have.

To prove her point, she stated that she and FRANCISCO MORA

had been guests of the Czechoslovakians twice that week.

MORA

claimed that one of those meetings was a dinner attended by the

Czechoslovakian Ambassador; the Ghana Ambassador; with two

other Ghana Embassy officers; and two American Negroes whom

MORA claimed were important members of MALCOLM X's staff.

She

claimed that during the dinner MALCOLM X and Black Nationalism

were toasted frequently and there were two toasts for China

and several for the Czechoslovakians but none for either Russia

or KHRUSHCHEV. Subsequently, that evening MORA went to the

Ghana Embassy to act as translator for a member of the

Czechoslovakian Embassy who went there but could not under-

stand the version of English spoken by the Ghana diplomats.

The meeting at the Chana Embassy was not attended by the

alleged representatives of MALCOLM X. Informants were unable

to ascertain the complete purpose of

those meetings but MORA

stated that MALCOLM X was going to tour Africa and particularly

wanted to go to Ghana.

MORA advised the informants that the

meeting at the Czechoslovakian Embassy was not the meeting she

had previously stated would be held with the important Negro

visitors from the United States, but that it was part of the

same thing.

SOURCES:

Identity of Source

T-I 1s MEX-16

T-215

MEX-18 and MEX-19

T- 3

1s MEX-4 and MEX-86

T-4 15 MEX-118

T-5 1s

MEX-234 and

MEX-235

Location

134-7A

134-10A

134-40A

134-325A

134-771A

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