Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
To: HOPKINS, EMIL E.
Document date: 12/8/63
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY: FBI.

RECORD_NUMBER: 124-10244-10093

RECORD_SERIES: CI

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 105-2505-61

Released under the John

• Kennedy

Assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

$44 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#:NW 53025 Date:

05-18-2017

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

TO:

TITLE:

HOPKINS. EMIL E.

DATE: 12/08/1963

PAGES: 6

SUBJECT: SEE FBI 100-10461-2438

DOCUMENT TYPE:

ORIGINAL

CLASSIFICATION:

PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Unclassified

REVIEW DATE:

STATUS

11/18/1996

Redact

NEW

CLASSIFICATION:

UPDATE DATE:

02/14/2001

RESTRICTIONS:

JFK Act 6 (4)

COMMENTS:

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Cover Sheet for Informant Report or

Material

FD-306 (3-21-58)

CONFIX AILAL

Date received

Received from (name or symbol number)

Received by

12/16/63

Method of delivery (check appropriate blocks)

Cal in person

_Jby telephone

by mail

-orally

recording device.

It orally furnlahed and reduced to writing by Agent:

Date

SA EMIL E. HOPKINS

I written by Informant

Dictated

to

Transcribed

Authenticated

by informant

Date of Report

ALL INFORMATION CONTA REbel of activsty

(12/8/63 (R)(u)

HEREIN IS

WECLASSIFIED

EXCEPT

LNE SHOW

OTHERWISE

Brief description of activity or'material

Report of CI 104-S re Communist Party meeting

held 12/8/63, at home of GENNE KUHN;

6105

File where original is located It not attached

Front SE., WheeLing, Was Virginia (& (U)

Remarks:

(134-84-557 14)U

utmost care should be taken that any information taken from

this report is paraphrased to protect informant

since only

seven individuals attended the meeting. (U

11 - Cleveland (RM)

100-17257 (CP Org.)

DECLASSIF

ĐD BY 4X030

100-

(ARNOLD JOHNSON)

oN 5125/93

62=

AUFK

(Assassination of President KENNEDY)

66lfo

105-

(LACK HARDY KIRALD

Aka.)

65-721

(ANTHONY KRCHMAREK)

100-17255

(Membership)

La Cines 1,

9-91

1.92

100-16463

(Political Activities) Classined

100-17797

(Factionalism)

9303 RDS/NS2

100-23484 (Mass Organisations)

Destassity on

100-17947 (Strategy in Industry)

3 • Dallas (RM)

62-

440

(Assassination of President KENNDY)

(JACK LEON RUBY)

Block Stamp

105-

(LEE HARVEY OSWALD)

6 - New York (RM)

105-2505-41

100-

(CP Org. )

SEARCHED.

- INDEXED

62-

(Assassination of Pres. KENNEDY)

440

(JACK LEON RUBY)

105-

JAN 2 1964

MITI

100-16021

(ARNOLD JOHNSON:

I SMEY/156cf5732106383, Base 2•2505

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CONFATAL

14 53025

100•145835 (CP, USA, Public Appearances of Party Leaders • 414)

13- Pittsburgh (RM)

100-8571

(CP,

100-8572

State of West Virginia)

(CP, Ohio Valley Section)

100-8664

100₽

Membership)

(ARNOLD JOHNSON)

62-

(Assassination of President KENNEDY)

440

(JACK LEON: RUBY).:

105-

100-8549

(LEE HARVEY OSWALD)

(GENNE: KUHN)

100-

(Factionalism)

100-

(Political Affairs):

157-

100-

(LEE M. JOHNSON)

(Mass Organizations)

100014821

(HUGH GILMORE CROCKARD, Jr.)

240

Cincinnati

100-3500

Organization)

13408A1 fU

Assassination of President KENNEDY

44-456 (JACK LEON RUBY)

105-2505 (LEE HARVEY OSWALD)

100-7964 (CP Membership)

100-8227 (Political Activities)

100-8481 (Factionalism

100-12701 (Cominfil, Mass Organizations)

100-8359 (Strategy in Industry)

100-12483 (CHARLES PALMER)

100-12408 (RANDALI GORBY)

100-9142

(FLOYD WELLS)

100-7006

(GENNE: KUHN)

100÷12474

(JOHN FABRY)

100-12475

(SHIRLEY FABRY)

100-6386

(FRED WALCHLI)

100-1910-

(ARNOLD JOHNSON)

100-1083

(ANTHONY KRCHMAREK)

157-195

(LEE M. JOHNSON)

100-14096

(HUGH GILMORE CROCKARD, JR.)

100-8402

(Youth Matters)

1340142

(ADOLPH PACIFICO):

100-12707 (Cominfit,' Labor Unions):

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A MAL

CI

Informant'& report set forth below: (U)

December 8, 1963_

"On the above date a group from Steubenville, Met at

610 S. Front St. Wheeling, W. Va. the home of a Genne

(Crockard) Kuhn.

This was a Communist Party Meeting:

The persons who were in attendance who were recognized

weze: (4) (U)

I " Floyd Wells:

• A Carpenter and treasurer of his

local Union from Steubenville.

(P) (U)

2 • CHARLES PALMER: • A steel worker and former grievance

Committenan from the wheeling Steel Corpn, and Member

of mocta Union 71190 U.S.W.A. C.I.O. A.P.Z. (P)(K)

3• Randal Gorby: from the Wheeling Steel Corpa and a

former shop stewart 1s a Member of Local Union #1190

U.S.W.A. C.I.O..: A.F.Io

4. Armold Johnson:

A former state chairman of the

Comunist Party of Ohio and who now'is a sort of public

relations man for the Communist party working out of

New. York City, New York.

He secures speakers for

any engagsente euch a Colleges and campus lectures (4XU)

5. John Fabrey a Miner from Smithfield. He is know

as the antling Slovak. (&/(U)

6. - Mrs. John Fabrey his Wife (4)U)

7 • Gene (Crockard) Kuhn the hostess is a long time C.

party worker former wife of Hugh Crockard Now deceased

and

she since Married Emil Kuhn who now resides at her

home.

Gene has three children two to her first

husband and the

other to the latter. She has a son

about. 19 gre old who is being schooled and worked

over by the

C. party in New

gork. (CU)

Genne Kuhn Continued: The C party wanted to take her son

Gill Crockard out of her influence

o he could be taught (4)

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CI

134-84-557 (4TU)

CONTIYNTIAL

something Constructive. This Gill recently, a few years

or less ago Made a trip to the Soviet Union

etc on the

Youth Conference know as the 'World Youth Conference.'

He will probably emerge from the New York thing as a

11 time orgenter in sous spectal field auch as youth. (SU)

At the start of the Meeting Genne brought out

her brief case full of clippings. (Newspaper) ete

she

also had a lot of penciled notes which she was

undoubtedly going to use to show what she was doing

and to give others hell for not co-operating with her. (g)U)

But the first discussion by A. Johnson centered around

the late Pres. Kennedy. (4)(U)

Arnold explained that since Oswald was Considered a

Communist then a wave of hysteria was about to explode

against the C. party of America but by the time the

reactionaries were getting started it was announced

that it had been disclosed that it seemed like the

extreme

right had been active. This was bore out

by the declaration of Russia that It was not the

C. party that had done it because Kennedy was a

friend of the working class but the work of the extreme

right or almost a fascist act. This seemed to sober

the masses that it was the same caliber of people who

had insulted Stevenson only weeks before in Dalbas,

Texas.

+)U)

Arnold

stated he was asked by C.B.S. News about this

Oswald as to a letter he had written

to the party, he

told them he gets lots of letters of

enquiry about the

C. party and he probably answered it as he does hundreds

of others and even sent him literature if he requested

It. They (C.B.S.) wanted him to go on the air with a

statement but he

stated to them he would have to dig the

letter out and be

sure before he Made any statement.

Randal Gorby asked Arnold Johnson it when he got back to

New York to l00k in the files it

he had a letter fron

Wn Pokas, formerly from Bellaire, Ohio, and also an

inmate of Cambridge Asylum for a period of time, Gorby

04.

CENTLAI

(91u)

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ECAFIENTIAL

asked Johnson to compare the

letter of Pokey's with

Oswald's to see if they didn't have a lot in Common.

Palmer stated that

he thought the statement by the

Methodist Minister Covered the situation very good

when he stated that the fact that the Murder of Bill

Moore, M Edgar Evers and others in the south going

by without punishment had set the stage for the

Assassination of Pres. Kennedy. Everyone readily

agreed. (g)(U)

Arnold Johnson further stated that no real Marxist

Could do such a thing. There is not Much doubt that

since the soviet Union had expelled him by not

giving him a Citizenship in the Soviet Union because

they thought him to be an Agent of Fascisi. Genne

Meanwhile was Chomping at the bit trying to get her

story told about the N.A.A.C.P. and CORE. @)(U)

she finally got her chance to unload (k)U)

stated that about the time of the Civil Rights

March on Washington a

few days before she had been

working with CORE and NAACP the reporter from the

Wheeling paper Intelligencer had Called and wanted

to talk about her. She gave

him answets on the

phone and finally hung up on him.

from the time

this phone conversation was completed she had been

quoted in the newspaper and exposed as a Communist

party Member,

which brought about her expolsion fron

the N.A.A.C.P., but since has been restored to

Membership.

Then lately a Man: (Negro) by name of Johnson

head of

the local cort group was indicted for robbing a

bus driver in Steubenville,

Ohio. Genne had got in

touch with R. Gorby as she thought Johnson was being

franed. Gorby found out and told her at this Meeting

that he had did the robbing and was Not being framed.

The best thing to do stated Gorby was to give him

help but do not put CORE and the NAACP out on a 1imb

by doing it.

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"Palmer stated that it was News to him as the only thing

he. Knew about it was the articles In the paper and the

first one looked as if Genne had stayed on the phone

too long should have hung up quick.

He also stated that

In 1948 when he had this trouble everyone Knew about

it and then he got more help and was successful in

defeating

the reactionaries.

You have to always work

together on these Matters If you will be successful.

The hour was drawing Near ten o'clock P.M, and the

Stauber 111a delegation had to work that kita. (4)(V)

Lunch was furnished by each and everyone with the

exception of A Johneon and he put away plenty. (AU)

Johnson stated that he had been down this way about one

week ago and had Contacted some of his old friends by

phone,

one in particular was Adolph Pacifico he

wanted to talk to

him on a so called Applachian Coal project

which has been going on for some time Adolph wanted to

meet with him if he could find time later Was unable to

see him at this time.

41(u)

Everyone present asked.

A.. Johnson When he was coming

only he would notify

Next time he could make it

No Literature

No Collections

+ 914)

During the time Genne Kuhn was belly

aching about not

getting help from the Valley group it was pointed out

by A Johnson that some years back when the wheeling group

was a part of w. Virginia group that difficulties existed

and now with the wheeling group in with ohio valley the

trouble still exists. He also pointed out that distance

has a lot to do with it too. Genne stated that Fred

Walehli was supposed to show up with the Beer. She

was urged to call him against her wishes but she got

no answer on the phone"

9)W

TRAM

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