Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: HQ
To: PH
Document date: 3/6/64
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

4/10/201

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10320-10108

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

100-409763-NR

Released under the John

F. Rennedy

assassination Records

Collection Act of

1992

(44 USC 2107 Note) .

Case#:NW 53130 Date:

06-01-2017

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: PH

TO: HQ

TITLE :

DATE :

'PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

03/06/1964

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MARK LANE

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 04/13/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

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FBI

16/64

T. insmit the following; in

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(Type in plain text or code)

Registered Mail

(Priority or Method of Mailing)

TO :

SROM:

DIRECTOR, FBI (100-3-104-37)

SAC, PHILADELPHIA (100-42492)

COMMUNIST PARTY, USA • COUNTERINIE LLIGENCE PROGRAM

INTERNAL SECURITY • C

(MEETING HALLS)

R4/2/97 756e suo/de

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ON 4/22.97.

ReBulet to New York 1/20/64 captioned as above.

The overwhelming majority of meetings of leftist

groups in Philadelphia are held at either:

1) Boslover Hall, 701 Pine Street or

2)

Philadelphia Ethical Society Hall, aka

Ethical Cultural Hall, 1906 South Ritten-

house square.

Officers of Boslover Hall Association are:

PPROPRIATE AGEN

AND FELD OFFICES

BSCROUTING

ADVISED

STIP (STOF

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President

DAVID S. LANDES

Secretary

HARRY BEICHMAN

Officers of the Philadelphia Ethical Society are:

KENNETH J.

SMITH, Leader

ROBERT C.

LOWRY,

President

MARK W. HUBER, Treasurer

REED KNOX,

Secretany

122-409763

FLORENCE WILLARD, OffA

SecretaryOr RECORDED

199 MAR 26 1964

Bureau (10003-104-37) (Enc

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100-39869

(PHILADEYPHIA ETHICAL SOCIETY)

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PH 100-42492

Two Yiddish speaking leftist organizations

at the YHA, 401 South Broad Street.

meet

These organizations

are comprised of elderly Jewish people whose relative

Importance is diminishing as members die and

are not replaced

by new recruits. In view of the liberal Jewish tradition

represented by an organization,

such as the YMHA, it is

questionable whether a counterintelligence offensive

directed at YMHA officials for the purpose of having

contracts for meeting rooms cancelled out would warrant

the time and effort involved.

As the Bureau is aware, Boslover Hall has been

the site utilized by the Philadelphia Social Science Forum

Committee (PSSFC) for meetings during the 1963-1964 Series.

In addition, a bazaar sponsored by

"The Advocates" (District

Press Committee, CPEPD) was held at Boslover Hall on 12/14,15/63.

on 3/20/64

Advocates"

is sponsoring a banquet to be held

at Boslover Hall. Both of these activities are for the pur-

pose of raising funds for the support of "The Worker."

As set forth in Philadelphia airtel and LHM cap-

tioned,

'BETTY GANNETT; IS - C,"

and dated 3/4/64, GANNETT

was scheduled to teach

a Marxist class on Political Economy

at Boslover Hall commencing 3/4/64 and ending 5/7/64. The

classes are to be held every other Wednesday. They are

under the nominal sponsorship of the PSSFC.

that BETTY GANNETT would not come to Philadelphia on 3/4/54

now tentatively scheduled to start the series on about

3/18/64, providing additional registrations are obtained.

PH 398-S on 3/5/64 advised SA JEREMIAH W. DOYLI

that on the evening of 3/4/64 he went to Boslover Hall t

attend the Political Economy class; however, the maintenance

man there said that the management

at Boslover Hall had

received a call that afternoon notifying them that the

(class on 3/4/64 would not be held.

When JAMES H. DOLSEN, Secretary, PSSFC and

member District Executive Committee, CPEPD, was successful

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in obtaining Boslover Hall for the 1963-1964 PSSFC Series,

he stated that perhaps this would end

the harassment

of the PSSFC as

they had been refused meeting places in

hotels and other halls located in a more accessible

of Philadelphia.

(PH 55-S, 9/63)

A review of the file concerning the PSSFC reflects

that this organization, which since its inception in 1958

has utilized CP leaders and prominent left orientated

speakers, has utilized the following meeting halls:

Adelphia Hotel

13ch and Chestnut Streets

1958 through 10/12/62

Benjamin Franklin Hotel

9th and Chestnut Streets

11/62 meeting

New Century Club

124 South 12th Street

1/63 through 3/63

Philadelphia Ethical Society Hall

1906 Rittenhouse Square

4/63 and 5/63

Boslover Hall

701 Pine Street

Utilized for 1963-1964 Series

The Ethical Culture Hall has been utilized by

a wide variety of leftist organizations over the years.

Among others, SANE, Women's International League for Peace

and Freedom, National Committee to Abolish the House Un-

American Activities Committee, Emergency Civil Liberties

Committee, Delaware Valley Committee for Democratic Rights,

etc., have met at Ethical Culture Hall.

"The Cuardian

on 3/11/64 a meeting under the

sponsorship of

"is to be held there. MARiLAlE, Attorney

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