Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: DL
To: BROWN
Document date: 8/8/62
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

6/15/201

AGENCY:

RECORD NUMBER :

RECORD SERIES :

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

FBI

124-90108-10019

DL

62-3035-16

Released under the John

f. Kennedy

Assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

$44 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#:N 53025 Date:

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

BROWN

TO:

DL

TITLE:

DATE: 08/08/1962

PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW :

08/04/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS: MEMO

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SPL

Declassifu

OF 10

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Confidential

MEMORANDUM

TO

: SAC, DALLAS ((134-IA-690A)

-(BA

• DATE:

4/8/62

FROM

SA W. HARLAN BROWN

(UL) CLASSE& BXT. BY 6383 URFle

REASON-FCIM TI

SUBJECT:

DATE OF REVIEW

2=82

Appeat # 9-0172 per Prente

release

On 8/1/82 SAW. HARLAN BROWN received, in person,

handwritten report dated

8/1/62 from DI6-S.

This report

has been serialized as 134-1-690. & (lU)

Informant determined on 8/1/62 that on 7/29/62 there

was a CP State Committee meeting at the Hotel Dallas,

Texas, in Room 836.

Dallas,

AUGUSTIN ESTRADA was chairman of the meetang

ing:

Besides

AUGUSTIN ESTRADA, the following were present at

this meeting:

100(4)

JOE LANDIN

(4)(u)

BILL LOWERY

JOHN

STANFORD

FRANK MEDINO

Delegates from San Antonio were THEO CASTILLO and

JOHN STANFORD

MEDINO. & (%)(u)

The delegate

from Houston,

Texas, was FRANK

The

agenda

ag drawn as follows: (65 4)4)

• San Antonio 1-CP - USA

ORG.,

is_c), (RM)

](U)

1

1

=1005799

(EP, USA-ORG

- 100-7995 (A.

ESTRADA)

100-7929

(B.

LOWERY)

100-8749

(J.

62-3035 (ACLU)

100671-21

(D&P)

100-5257 (NAACP)

1

1

1

WHB: jeg

(15)

BRENDA (N)

1100-8001 (J. LANDIN

100-671-11 (NEGRO QUESTION

100-671-5 (ORG)

100-671-8

(POL. ACTS)

100-671-25

(STRATEGY IN

INDUSTRY)

SEARCHED 0.

SENILIND.

AUG 8 1962

Classified b

Exempt from

AFPRUPRIATE AGENCIES

Date of Declass.

AND FIMIDTICE

413108

ADVISED BYR

VING

SLIP

licatio

685

Category 2

sion Indefinite

Confident

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134-11-69047 EXCLU)

1.

2.

Status of Negro in CP

Defense and cruel liberties

3

Report on social democracy and trade unions

4..

Interature

5..

Peace and gubernatorial elections

6.

Good

and welfare

FRANK, an oil worker from Houston, wanted to know

the

role

of the Negro in the CP. STANFORD informed the committee

that at the present there were no Negroes in the CP.

were some who read "Political Affairs" and "The Worker."

a recent, survey that he made STANFORD said

22235

There

he found out that

good number of Negroes read "New Horizons,

" "Freedom Ways"

STANFORD did not say whether the

subvey was made in San Antonio or in Houston.

There had been

other requests, he assumed them from other sources asking for

an organizer from the

national office.

(Previous to this,

FRANK had stressed the need for an importation from the

national office.,

The imports job he added would be to recruit

Negroes for membership in the CP.

Someone was needed who

could deviate his or her time to

that project.

He could

not do

he didn't have the time.

In fact he'dibe suspicious if

he lingered too long talking to a Negro at his job. FRANK said

he felt SMITH would meet with CP

personnel if he was

correctly

approached. FRANK admitted that SMITH was

scared.)

AUGUSTIN ESTRADA said he could spend a week end

talking to some of the folks he knew.

JOE LANDIN said he agreed

with FRANK,

someone was needed full time to do the job. BIll

LOWERY and JOHN STANFORD figured the best thing to do was for

them to do that job themselves..

STANFORD explained that he

based the deductign on the fact that there was no contact with

the national office. The last contact had been made a year

280. 406)(4)

Informant further determined that FRANK told JOHN

STANFORD

that he suspected a Negro of being a spy. The man

had been asking questions about him and had just happened to

be on the same train with

"POLLY" when she passed by there

(sometime ago.

This man has a railroad card which entitles

hit

him to free rides. K(%)U)

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ID.

A-690A

BILL LOWERY made a report on the PENN JONES case.

there would be

(students who, as a captive audience in a Midlothian school,

heard

conservative speak and hadnot been given a chance to

hear a liberal.

The form of action to be taken,

he added,

would be up to PENN. JONES.

The Birchers, he concluded, were

taking over the PlAs. (4) (u)

JOE LANDIN reported that he had joined the local

and had

learned that on Monday the union was to file a sut

suit in court in favor of REEDER, a teacher who was fined for

lending his support to sit in demonstrations

LANDIN also

reported on PASO and the NAACP, LANDIN explained that in 1954

and 1961 local

labor people had not been wise in selecting

Individuals to lead Latin-Americans.

The ir present selectee

in spite of an "Uncle Tommish" name and some chauvenistic

characteristics, had turned out to be a good working liberal,

no

less.

The CP, he suggested, should work closer with him.

The NAACP, JOE explained, had only 281 members and for awhile

It seemed that the NAACP youth council's sefior advisor had

become an opportunist after being financially rewarded for

after being f.

campaigning for WILL WILSON, She (J. E. CRAFT) had started

to make an independent organization out

of the youth council

to be more active in politics..

The advisor had also started a

precinct Club.

It seems that

the NAACP's national convention

had done a lot of good because she pledged to work harder than

ever and she was doing just that.

Соли)

Informant further determined that JOHN STANFORD

the people were no longer

afraid. He had invited 40 persons to see a movie on the

Russia, 29 adults had attended paying a dollar for

admission. THEO added that a Negro head of the Young Democrats

had been impeached by Anglos for not being active.

" While

the

impeachment proceedings were illegal, and whether he had been

impeached or not, all this indicated they wanted action.

STANFORD added that while people were not afraid they would not

mate neond be not

speak out.

There was the case of Prof. KOENINGER,

, the McCarren

Act - no one complained.

It was up to them to show the people

that the persecution of the Texas Party was tied in with the

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persecution of

all organizations, While the Birchers were

talked about they were really free to influence.

they were

resporisible for the changes in text

books which they changed

at will.

The firing. of. KOENINGER was due to Birchers influence

JOHN STANFORD discussed

the

recent AFL-CIO State

convention A this convention the Department

of Public Safety

had planted agents.

HANK BRAUN had vogorously protested

allegations by high officials that labor was being infiltrated

by communists.

The

agents at the

state convention marked a

dangerous trend in the DPS for the convention was an open

meeting.

BILL LOWERY and JOHN STANFORD agreed that Negroes

were desenting liberal and labor camps because they will not

recognize Negro rights.

242(4)

Informant determined the next meeting will be in

San Antonio on 11/4/62.

The delegates

Greyhound Bus Station

at

wild meet at the

8:00 A.M.

«(U)

Informant

had no additional information. "

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