Originator: FBI
From: ABRANDT, GUSTAV S.
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 05/28/1954
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Date:

6/15/201

Agency Information

AGENCY:

RECORD NUMBER :

RECORD SERIES :

AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

FBI

124-10283-10280

HQ

100-30067-60

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FROM:

TO :

TITLE:

FBI

ABRANDT, GUSTAV S.

DIRECTOR, FBI

DATE: 05/28/1954

PAGES:

17

SUBJECTS :

JOP, PERSONAL HISTORY, BKG, EMP, RES, TRA, AFFIL, CP,

ASSOC

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Secret

RESTRICTIONS: 1B; IC; 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 02/02/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS: RPT, TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE 2

v9.1

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Form No. 1

THIS CASE ORIGINATED AT

REPORT MADE AT

NEW YORK

TITLE

JOHN PITTMAN

CONFIDENTIAL

'SEChtY

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

NEW YORK

DATE WHEN

MADE

PERIOD FOR WHICH MADE

MAY 28 1954

10/22; 12/99

20,23/53: 1/25

29;

2/11; 5/8

19/54

REPORT MADE BY

GUSTAV S. ABRANDT

CHARACTER OF CASE

INTERNAL SECURITY - C

jtb

ES DESTROYED

PITTMAN continues residence at 60 West l0Qst Street, NYC

and employment as Foreign Editor of the "Daily Worker" and

"Worker".

meeting with CP leaders.

Reported as in ascendancy in CP and as

DENNIS,

Connections with Smith Act subjects

In "Daily Worker"

WINSTON and CAMPBELL indicated. PITTMAN's articles

deny North Korean atrocities, praise

USSR and attack US position at Inter-American Conference,

3/53 Caracas, Venezuela as "Fascist blueprint for South

America". He continues as Instructor at Jefferson School

of Social Science and as speaker before local Freedom

of the Press Committees.

PITTMAN visited countries in

Soviet orbit in 1946 without having to so request Allied

Control Commission.

AIS INFORMACION CONTATAR

F25TN IS UNCISSSIFIED BYOU

RHESE SEOTE DIRESHIST

-P=

Classified by

Declassity on: OADAA

DETAILS:

All informants utilized in this report

are of known reliability unless

designated.

otherwise

AGENCY

REQ. REC'D

DATE FORW.

HOW FORW.

BY

4 - 11

101097

CLASSIFIED BY S168-SLD/mde

DECLASSIFY ON: 25X

JFK

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FORWARDED:

SPECIAL AGENT

IN CHARGE

DO NOT WRITE IN THESE SPACES

101.

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RECOI

COPIES OF THIS REPORT

Bureau (100-30067)01

- New

York (100-8835

154

7. 274

PROPERTY OF FBI--THIS

AGENCY TO WHICH LOANED.

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JUN. 1

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TAL REPORT AND ITS CONTENTS ARE LOANED TO YOU BY THE FBI AND ARÈ NOT TO BE DISTRIBUTED OUTS

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NY 100-88368

INFORMANTS

Identity

of Source

1-1

NY 384-5

T-2

Passport

JIfice, US

State Dept.:

Wash., D.C

ECRET

ADMINISTRATIVE PAGE

Date of Activity

And/or Description

Agent to

of Information

Date

Received

whom

Furnished

DOCUMENTATION OF "MORNING FREIHEIT."

File No.

where

Located

Birth Data

12/9/53

SAS Of

WFO

WE 100-2907

12/9/53

12/9/53

12/9/53

SAS of

WEO

SAS of

WFO

SAS Of

WFO

WE 100-2907

WF 100-2907

WE 100-2907

10/23/53

SA KENNETH ATL 100-45

W. WHITrAKER

32

PAULA FOX

Passport

Bulgarian Travel

T- 3

I. TAYLOR

Asst. Registrar

Morehouse College

Atlanta, Ga.

I-4

(NY 779-5

Education

Employment

Birth of child

CP ascendancy

DW Anniversary

Dennis

correspondent

5/19/54

10/22/53

1/22/53

1/25,29/54

8/6/51

T-5

warden W.

H. HIATT

US Penitentiary

Atlanta, Ga.

T-6

NY 786-5*7

SAC,

Atlanta

AT 100-45

32

EDNA WINSTON

-15-

11/20/53

SEGREI

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SECRET

NY 100-88368

INFORMANTS (CONTINUED)

Date of Activity

Identity

of Source

And/or Description

of Information

II'-7

CG 5824-51

CLARK &

Date

Received

2/11/50

STAROBIN

Chicago DW conference10/1/53

T - 8

WH 550-5*

Credentials

8/22/51

T-9

(UssR Consul)(s)

(NY 554-S*J(5)

12/23/53

LEAD

NEW YORK

Agent to

whom

Furnished

SAS Of

Chicago

Office

SA CARL

FREYMAN

(orally)

File No.

where

Located

CG 100-

88368-284

CG 134-56

At New York, New York

Will continue to follow the activities

of the

subject

through confidential informants and

establishedar'

sources.

REFERENCE:

Report of SA THORNION M. WOOD, 10/16/53,

at NY.

.....

SECRET

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