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

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JEK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTRICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD_NUMBER: 124-10141-10023

RECORD SERIES: CI

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 44-456-138

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

Assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#:NW 53025 Date:

05-23-2017

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

TO:

TITLE:

HOPKINS. EMIL E.

DATE:

12/08/1963

PAGES: 6

SUBJECT: SEE FBI 44-1639-3870A

DOCUMENT TYPE:

ORIGINAL

CLASSIFICATION:

PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Unclassified

REVIEW DATE:

STATUS

11/15/1996

Redact

NEW

CLASSIFICATION:

UPDATE DATE:

02/09/2001

RESTRICTIONS:

JFK Act 6 (4)

COMMENTS:

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Cover 'Shee; for Informant Report or

Material

FD-306 (3-21-58)

Date received

Received from (name or symbol number)

Received by

12/16/63

CI 104°S

Method of delivery (check appropriate blocks)

Li in person

by telephone

Uby mail Morally

J recording device

SA EMIL E. HOPKINS

Al written by Informant,

If orally furnished and reduced to wilting by Agent:

Date

Date of Report

Dictated

12/8/63

Datels) of activity

Transcribed

Authenticated

by Informant

12/8/63

Brief description of activity of material

Report of CI 104-5 re Communist Party meeting

held 12/8/63, at home of GENNE KUHN, 6105

File where original is located if not attached

Front St., Wheeling, West Virginia.

Remarks:

134-8A-557

Utmost care should be taken that any information taken fron

this report is paraphrased to protect informt, since only

seven individuals attended the meeting.

11 - Cleveland (RM)

100-17257

(CP. Org.)

100-

(ARNOLD JOHNSON)

62-

(Assassination of President KENNEDY)

(JACK LEON

RUBY, Aka.)

105 -

(LEE HARVY OSWALD)

65-721

(ANTHONY KRCEMAREK)

100-17255

(Membership.

100-16463

(Political Activities)

120

jor

100-17797

(Factionalism)

100-23484

(Mass Organisations)

100-17947 (Strategy in

Industry)

•3: - Dallas (RM)

62-

(Assassination of President KENNOY)

440

(JACK LEON RUBY)

Block Stamp

105-

(LEE HARVEY OSWALD)

6

• New York

(RM)

44-456-138

100-

(CP Org.)

SEARCHED

62-

(Assassination of Pres. KENNEDY)

-INDEXED

(JACK LEON RUBY)

105-

JAN 2 1964

(LEE HARVEY OSWALD):

100-16021

(ARNOLD JOHNSON)

FaL mini

BRITI

EEH/17 (57) 8144-456

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134-8A-557

(Copies Continued)

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

13- Pittsburgh (RM)

100-8571

(CP, State of, West Virginia)

100-8572

(CP, Ohio Valley Section)

100-8664

(CP, Membership)

100-

(ARNOLD JOHNSON)

62-

(Assassination of President KENNEDY)

(JACK LEON RUBY)

105-

(LEE HARVEY OSWALD)

100-8549

(GENNE. KUHN)

100-

100-

(Factionalism)

(Political Affairs)

157-

(LEE M. JOHNSON) :

100-

(Mass Organizations)

100-14821 (HUGH GILMORE CROCKARD, JI.)

240

Cincinnati

100-3500 (CP Organization)

134-8A

62-2758 (Assassination of President KENNEDY)

440456 (JACK LEON RUBY)

105-2505 (LEE HARVEY OSWALD)

100-7964

(CP Membership)

100-8227

(Political Activities)

100 8481

(Factionalism)

100-12701 (Cominfil, Mass Organizations)

100-12408

(RANDAL. 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)

134-142

(ADOLPH PACIFICO)

100-12707

(Cominfil, Labor Unions)

2.=

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CI 134-8A-557

Informant's report set forth below:

"Steubenville, Ohio.

December 8, 1963

"On the above date a group from Staubenville, Mat at

610 S. Front St Wheeling,

W. Va, the home of a Genne

(Crockard) Kuhn. This was a Commnist Party Meeting.

The persons who were in attendance who were recognized

Were:

1 • Floyd Wells:

• A Carpenter and treasurer of his

local Union from Steubenville.

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

Committenan from the wheeling Steel Corpn. and Member

of Local Union #1190 U.S.W.A.

C. 1.0. A.Foli.

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

former shop stewart is

a Member of Local Union #1190

U.S.W.A. C.I.0.

A.E.t.

4 • Arnold 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 engagements such as Colleges and Campus lectures

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

as the smiling Slovak.

6 - Mrs. John Fabrey his wife

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

hone

Gene has

three children two to her first.

husband and the other to the latter. She has a son

about. 19 yrs old who is being schooled and worked

over by the c. party in

New York.

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

Gill Crockard out of her influence so he could be taught

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CI 134-8A-557

something Constructive. This Gill recently, a few years

or less ago Made a trip to the Soviet Union

ete on the

Youth Conference Know as the 'World Youth Conference.'

He wind probably emerge from the New York thing as a

full time organiser in some special field such as youth.

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.

But the first discussion by A. Johnson centered around

the late Pres. Kennedy.

Arnold explained that since Oswald was Considered a

Comnist then a wave of hysteria was about to explode

agalnst 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

extrene

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 Dallas,

Texas.

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 Iiterature If he requested

it.

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

want him:

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 if when he got back to

New York to look in the files it he had a letter from d

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

Immate of Cambridge Asylum for a period of time, Gorby

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CI 1348A-557

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 me stated that the fact that the Murder of B1l1

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.

Arnold Johnson further stated that no real Marist

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 Fascism. Genne

Meanwhile was Chomping at the bit trying to get her

story told about the N.A.A.C.P. and CORE.

she finally got her Chance

to unload.

She 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 answers on the

phone and finally hung up on him.

fron 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 from

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 Core group was indicted for robbing a

bus

driver in Steubenville,

Ohio.

Gemne had got in

touch with R. Gorby as she

thought: Johnson was being

framed.

Gorby found out and told her at this Meeting

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

The best thing to de stated Gorby was to give him

help but do not put core and the

NAACP out on a limb

by doing it..

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CI 134-8A-557

"Paler 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 quiek.

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

successiu.

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

steubewville delegation had to work that Nite.

Lanch was furnished by each and everyone with the

exception of A Johnson and he put away plenty.

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 hin on a so called Applachian Coal project

which has

been going on for some time Adolph wanted to

neet with him if he could find time later

Was unable to

see hin at this time.

Everyone

present asked. A. Johnson When he was coming

back but he would not state exactly only he would notify

the Newt time ho could make it.

No. Alterature

No Collections

During the time Gene Kuhn was belly aching about not

getting help fron the Valley group It was polnted out

back when the wheeling group

was a part of l. virginia group that aifficulties existed

and now with

the weeling group

In with Ohio valley the

trouble still

exists.

has

He also pointed out that distance

• Lot

to

do with It too.

Genne

stated that Fred

Walchli was

supposed to show up with the Beer. She

was urged

to

call hin against her wishes but she got

answer on the phone"

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