Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: NO
To: HQ
Document date: 05/22/1963
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote).

DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Date:

6/9/2015

Agency Information

AGENCY:

FBI,

RECORD NUMBER :

124-90023-10014

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

100-439965-10

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: NO

TO: HQ

TITLE :

DATE:

'PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

05/22/1963

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NEW ORLEANS COUNCIL FOR PEACEFUL ALTERNATIVES

DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS:

4

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 11/24/1997

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note).

DATE: 11-14-2017

toy. 12-13-561

COMFFBX

Date:

5/22/63

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ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

TO

: DIRECTOR, FBI (100-439965)

HEREIN IS UNS

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FROM

: SAC, NEW ORLEANS (100-16869) (P)

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SUBJECT:

-NEW ORLEANS COUNCIL FOR PEACEFUL ALTERNATIVES

INFORMATION CONCERNING

(INTERNAL SECURITY), RM

00: NO

Classified by

Declassity on

11-16-83

ReBulet to NO, 3/15/63, requesting New

Orleans to

recommend whether a Cominfil investigation should be conducted,

and New Orleans letter and letterhead memorandum to the Bureau,

dated 5/2/63, setting forth recent activities of this organiza-

tion.

New Orleans letterhead memorandum to the Bureau, dated

5/2/63, listed the members of the organization. On Page 12

was set forth information regardingLdr. MARK ALLEN BELSEY,

who was a member of the Labor Youth League (LYL) in Ohio,

1950-56,

and that his father,

In 1951,

il)

SILVIE HOPKINS,

who was a member of the American Youth for

the Chairman,,

as a law partner of BENJAMIN SMITH,

National Lawyers Guild,

member of the Board of Directors

of the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF), and a

sympathizer of Communist Cuba and CASTRO.

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The membership also contains a number of individuals

that have been

freedom rides.

espe da the south la intertaitor meabere due

No information has been received to date to the

effect that the Communist Party sponsored the organization

or is endeavoring to obtain control or direction of it. LNO

886-S, who is acting district organizer of the CP, has no

knowledge of this urganization 15(4)

Since referenced New Orleans letter and letterhead

memorandum to the Bureau, dated 5/2/63, the New. Orleans

Council for Peaceful Alternatives (NOCPA) gathered at Audubon

Park, on 5/5/63, for the purpose of parading from Audubon

Park

to Jackson

Avenue along St. Charles Avenue.

When it

was pointed out to the Chairman

by the NOPD that their permit

to parade was for 5/3/63, when none of their members appeared,

the group disbanded.

Present at the time at Audubon Park

were a number of "right wing or conservative group" persons

who were going to parade in opposition

to the NOCPA. No

incidents happened at this time.

The NOCPA obtained a permit to parade on 5/19/63

from Pine Street to Jackson Avenue on St. Charles Avenue.

They so paraded. The group consisted of about 40 persons

counting children and drew little attention. A group of

opposition persons tried to parade, but were denied the

privilege since they had no permit.

This group then drove

a few blocks ahead of the parade, got out and stood on a

corner with their signs and an American Flag until the NOCPA

group passed. This procedure was repeated to the end of the

parade.

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