Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: NO
To: HEARN
Document date: 7/8/65
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

6/4/2015

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-90116-10070

RECORD SERIES: NO

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 62-3395-175

Released under the John F

Kennedy Assassination

Records Collection Act of

1992 144 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#:NW 53074 Date:

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: HEARN

TO: NO

TITLE:

• PAGES:

PAOES: 07/08/1965

SUBJECTS :

MINUTEMEN

DOCUMENT TYPE:

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS:

CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 08/10/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS:

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FROM

SUBJECT:

OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10

400-10-4

MAY 1892 EDITION

GSA GEN. REG.NO. II

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

: SAC (62-3395)

DATE: July 8, 1965

Jean B. Hearn, Clerk

MMINUTEMEN

Information concerning

(Internal Security).

A national organization headed by ROBERT DEPUGH, Norborne, Missouri.

The following is a summary of the pertinent details found in the

New Orleans Office files under captioned organization.

All references listed under the above organization containing data

identical or possibly identical with subject organization have been

included herein.

62-3395#

61-87 (12/39) • Is file entitled, "THE SILVER SHIRT LEGION OF AMERICA,

INC• WILLIAM DUDLEY PELLEY, ETAL, IS-® SEDITION."

01-81-2 page 446. Is a copy of SUBVERSIVE ORGANIZATIONS IN THE UNITEL

STATES, block stamped 12/4/1939. Page #46 of in-

stant serial reflects in part the following information:

MINUTEMEN OF 1936

"This organization held a meeting at the Hollenden Hotel in Cleve-

Land, Ohio, under the sponsorship of Miss SUSAN STERLING, of the Associa-

tion of leagues, who resided at 16211 Detroit Avenue, Lakewood, Ohio.

DI. DORAN, of Cleveland, is very active in the German-American Bund and

also in the instant group. He maintains an office with MARTIN KESSLER,

German-Anerican Bund leader in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. DORAN was also

associated with PELLEY'g Silver Shirts. This organization is extremely

anti-Semitic.

61-87-1 pase #55, further reflects in part the following information:

SILVER SHIRTS OF AMERICA

"ThIS WAS & WILLIAM DUDGEY PELLEY organization of Asheville, North

Carolina, which allegedly operated in San Francisco and, together with the

German-American Bund, spread under-cover anti-Semitic dissension in the re-

tall department store strike in San Francisco."

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN IS, UNCLASSIFIED

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"MINUTEMEN" (continued) (62-3395) •

Harlingen area since 1957 and he had no idea where ROGERS could be found,

OGERs worked for MMODERs in 1954 and part of 1955 dusting crops in thi

republic of Nicaragua. MEDDERS described ROGERS as being unstable, untrust

orthy, nervous to the point of having seizures, that he was alcoholic and wa

too rough on the Company's equipment.

EDDERS said that in Nicaragua pilot

ere allowed to carry side arms and that ROGERS went armed with a pistol.

wahis was deported from Nicaragua for taking some shots with his pistol at

personnel around a local airport.

"MEDDERS stated that he had formerly known a duster pilot named B. OLSEN

no it the general physical description of SHAND's source. MEDDERS said that

OLSEN was even more unstable than ROGERS and had worked in the Harlingen area

for several years. MEDDERS stated that OLSEN was in an advanced state of

alcoholism, that he lived around Wichita Falls,

Texas, and that about six months

ago he heard that OLSEN was working in Oklahoma."

105-1057 (Bufile 100-71801) • Is file entitled, "ORIGINAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU

KLUX KLAN, RM."

105-1057-1025A. Is FD-306 Cover sheet for Informant report, which reflects that

received 12/19/63, received SyNO 1223-C (RAC), received by

SA DONALD R. BELMONT, original of which 1s filed in Sub A Section, 137-760,

brief de cription of activity or material: "ROYAL V. YOUNG, SR., Imperial

Dragon, OKKKK, to attending meeting night of 12/19/63 in Miss., possibly Gloster,;

Mi. with isident member tet To See te 12/1963,

of Minute Men, also to be present."

Shreveport, Louisiana, "reflects the following information:

"ROYAL V. YOUNG, SR., Imperial Dragon, Original Knights of the Ku Klux

Klan (OKKKK), is leaving at 10AM today, December 19, 1963, to attend a meeting

in Mississippi to be held tonight. Location of the meeting is not definite, but

YOUNG mentioned the name Gloster, Mississippi. YOUNG is to travel to Monroe, La.,

and then to Vidalia, La. in his. Cadillac. He may pick up JACK FULLER in Monroe.

In Vidalia, La., he is to be picked upby a private airplane which he claims will

be flown by the chief deputy of the Mississippi State Police, accompanied by a

sheriff of one of the Mississippi counties, and they will be flown to the area

of the meeting place in Mississippi.

"YOUNG indicated this meeting is to be with persons in Mississippi who

pulled out of YOUNG's organization last week, and he will try to bring them back

into the organization. YOUNG also indicated he would try to get rid of DOUGLAS

SYRO, a leader of the rebellious group in Mississippi, and then place a mar

Lamed SAMPSON is in charge. YOUNG also said the Mississippi people are unhapp

with J. D. SWENSON and do not want him to come over there anymore. One reason

given for this is that SWENSON has not obtained their klan robes for them yet,

although he has already collected their money.

"YOUNG also stated that a man named HAWKINS who is reported to be

secretary-treasurer of the Minute Men of the United States, and who lives some

there in Mississippi, is supposed to be present at this meeting.'

105-1057-1019. Copy of instant serial follows.

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"MINUTEMEN"

TO

DATONAL COITON

. PORM NO. 10

3010-106

GhA GEN. FIG.

NO. 27

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

(continued) (62-3395)g page H6.

SAC

(105-1057)

DATE:

12/19/63

FROM

SUBJECT:

SA JACKIE L. ACKLIN

OKKKK

RM

Or. 9/19/63, NO 1223(c) (RAC), telephonically

advised as follows:

He said ROYAL YOUNG is leaving Shreveport, La. at

10:00

JACK FULLER.

a.m., going to Monroe, La. for the purpose of

seeing

From Monroe,

he is going to Vidalia, La. and

is"to be, at the Vidalia Airport by 4:00 p.m., where a

private

plane from Mississippi is to meet him. The head deputy of

the NHSP and a high sheriff from some Miss. county are

supposed to meet him and fly back to the State of Mississippi

for the purpose of conducting a meeting tonight.

They are to have a meeting with HAWKINS tonight

for the purpose of

trying to get a group that left YOUNG's

membership back and for the purpose of trying to get HAWKINS'

group,

"The Minute Men"

", to come in with them. The meeting

is also

-held for the purpose of trying to get BYRD:

perhaps it might be in Gloster, Mississippi,

but he could

not be sure.

He advised that he did not know about the type

of plane picking YOUNG up or the names of the Deputy police-

man or the high sheriff that is supposed to meet him.

He

stated that the meeting could be held in Clarke County, Miss.

He said that YOUNG is supposed to return to Shreveport, La.

tomorrow morning and is of the opinion he will drive his own

car to Vidalia, La.

A check of the New Orleans files on ROYAL YOUNG

indicates YOUNG's car is 1963 Cadillaç..

light tan, 4-dr.

sedan, bearing La. license 390-845:

YOUNG also has a white

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