H-HOAC New webpage for Lazar CPUSA FBI FOIA documents

Discussion published by John Haynes on Saturday, March 8, 2014

Hi everyone:

FYI: My existing CPUSA webpage on google-sites has been re-created on a new webpage here: https://sites.google.com/site/xrt013/cpusa1

I needed to move my webpage due to space limitations on my original google-site. I now have 100MB to devote almost entirely to CPUSA-related matters which should accommodate new material for a considerable period of time.

In addition, sometime this summer, I will be sending DVD's containing numerous FBI files to Internet Archive and Democracy US websites so that they can upload them -- including, for example, sections 25-45 and 61-69 of Phil Bart's New York field file. Altogether, that will be 14,177 pages of his file online which will be available for researchers.

The files which I sent to these websites in June 2013 are available online here:

INTERNET ARCHIVE: https://archive.org/details/lazarfoia

DEMOCRACY US: http://www.buildingdemocracy.us/archive/dox/

Also, a complete set of all my DVD's is currently available at UC-Berkeley (and they will receive a new set this summer) http://crws.berkeley.edu/fbi-foia-archive

As of today, the following FOIA requests of mine are still being processed by the FBI:

FBI EMPLOYEE FILES STILL BEING PROCESSED: William Guy Banister, Special Agent in Charge, Chicago Cartha D. DeLoach, Assistant Director, Crime Records Division Thomas Joseph Dodd, Special Agent 1933-1934; and U.S. Senator 1953-1971; (HQ 67-29017) Milton Ellerin, Special Agent, then Director of Fact-Finding at Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith Wesley G. Grapp, Special Agent in Charge, FBI Los Angeles field office, 1964-1972 James N. Juliana, Special Agent NYC and then Investigator for Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s Subcommittee on Investigations John R. Norpel Jr., Special Agent, then Research Director, U.S. Senate Internal Security Subcommittee

FBI EMPLOYEE FILES STILL BEING PROCESSED: William Guy Banister, Special Agent in Charge, Chicago 1954

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Cartha D. DeLoach, Assistant Director, Crime Records Division Thomas Joseph Dodd, Special Agent 1933-1934; and U.S. Senator 1953-1971; HQ 67-29017) Milton Ellerin, Special Agent, then Director of Fact-Finding at Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith Wesley G. Grapp, Special Agent in Charge, FBI Los Angeles field office, 1964-1972 James N. Juliana, Special Agent NYC and then Investigator for Joseph McCarthy’s Subcommittee on Investigations John R. Norpel Jr., Special Agent, then Research Director, U.S. Senate Internal Security Subcommittee

OTHER FILES STILL BEING PROCESSED

· Alleged Communists in State Department (Sen. Joseph McCarthy accusations; HQ 121-23278) · American Bar Association (HQ 94-1-369; years 1950-1956) · American Civil Liberties Union (HQ 61-190, years 1950-1952, 1956-1957) · American Veterans Against Communism (John S. Arvidson, HQ and Los Angeles) · Anti-Communist Activities (HQ 62-106364) · Atlanta Temple Bombing (October 1958; HQ 62-105023) · Hale Boggs (Louisiana Congressman) · Bridgeman, Michigan CPUSA Convention of 8/22/22 (HQ and Detroit) · Jerry Milton Brooks (intelligence and security officer for Robert DePugh’s right-wing paramilitary group, Minutemen) Dallas, Denver, HQ, Kansas City, New Orleans, New York City, Seattle, Springfield and St. Louis. · Julia C. Brown (FBI informant, HQ file 100-382107) · Bureau of Special Services—New York Police Department (HQ and NYC) · Rev. Daniel L. Carey (Executive VP of Dallas TX Citizens Council) · Francis P. Carr (Executive Director, U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (of Committee on Government Operations – Sen. Joseph McCarthy) · Church Committee on Intelligence Gathering Activities (HQ 62-116395) · Citizens Council of Greenville South Carolina (HQ, Charlotte 157-179; Columbia 157-491) · Louis E. Cochran (FBI Special Agent 1935-1977; author 1966 book, FBI Man: Personal History) · Counterattack: The Newsletter of Facts on Communism (published by American Business Consultants, Inc. of New York) [HQ 100-350512; NYC 62-9189] · CPUSA – Cominfil Mass Organizations ( HQ 100-3-106; 1958-1962) · CPUSA – Factionalism (HQ 100-3-88; 1958-1962) · CPUSA – General Activities (HQ 61-7559; 1946, 1958, 1962) · CPUSA – General Activities (NYC 100-4931; 1949-1951, 1958-1962) · CPUSA – Members (HQ 100-3-68; 1946, 1950-1952, 1958-1968 · CPUSA – Members (NYC 100-80638; 1947-1949, 1952-1956) · CPUSA – Organization (Chicago 100-18953; 1958-1968) · CPUSA – Public Appearances By National Committee Members (NYC 100-145872; all years) · CPUSA – TOPLEV (Top Level Functionaries; HQ 100-3-99; 1946, 1954, 1958-1968) · Miriam DeHaas (Employee of Loyalty Review Board who resigned 11/3/52 due to her unauthorized leaks of reports to Sen. Joseph McCarthy and Alfred Kohlberg) · Dr. Stanley L. Drennan (National States Rights Party member) · Laurence Duggan (State Department official thought to be Soviet spy; HQ 100-236194)

Citation: John Haynes. New webpage for Lazar CPUSA FBI FOIA documents. H-HOAC. 03-08-2014. https://networks.h-net.org/node/6077/discussions/14225/new-webpage-lazar-cpusa-fbi-foia-documents Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 2 H-HOAC

· Fair Play For Cuba Committee—Chicago chapter (John Rossen, Angus Sumner, Harry J Dean) and New York chapter · Fairfax Citizens Council (pro-segregation group in Virginia; HQ 105-44495, Richmond 105-576) · FBI Current Intelligence Analysis (FBI publication, 1966, 1968, 1972) · FBI Domestic Intelligence Division main file (HQ 67-149000; years 1950-1975). This is separate file from sub-file 67-149000-1 which contained Inspection Reports of the DID. · FBI Extremist Informant Index · FBI files – previous requesters list (30 HQ and field files on various subjects) · FBI files transferred to NARA in following classification numbers: 62, 94, 100, 105, 134, 157, 170 · FBI HQ file 66-18975 (on journalists) · FBI “The Investigator” magazine (years 1950, 1957, 1963-1965, 1972) · FBI monographs (Analysis of Successful Communist Informant Interviews, Communist Front Movement in the United States, Development of Racial Informants, Fund For the Republic Inc., History of the Communist Manifesto of Marx and Engels, State of the Domestic White Nationalist Extremist Movement in the United States) · FBI SAC Letters (various issues 1953, 1969, 1970 re: security and racial informant policies) · FBI SAC Letters, HQ file 66-04, for years 1950-1951, 1954-1957, 1959-1962) · FBI Security Informant Program (HQ 66-2542 and HQ 66-2542-3 and NYC 134-139) · FBI Security Informant Program (New York field letters 1963-1967 captioned “Development of Live Informants In Communist Party”] · FBI Summary of Extremist Activities (HQ 157-19537) · Rev. James W. Fifield Jr. (First Congregational Church of Los Angeles; Freedom Clubs, Inc.) · Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge (HQ 62-90412) · Friends of Democratic Cuba · Guy Louis Galbadon (Drive Against Communism; JBS member allegedly involved in assassination plot against JFK along with Maj. General Edwin A. Walker) HQ and field office files · William Potter Gale (Committee of the States; Ministry of Christ Church, California Rangers, Church of Jesus Christ Christian – HQ, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, San Diego, San Francisco) · Ruth Lois Gordienko (FBI informant; JBS member) · Great Books Foundation (Chicago and HQ) · David E. Gumaer (HQ 62-113743) · Amis Guthridge (Little Rock AR segregationist leader and Arkansas Free Enterprise Assn, Capital Citizens Association, White America, Inc., White Citizens Council of Arkansas) · Guy Banister and Associates, Inc. (private detective agency; HQ, New Orleans) · Kilsoo Kenneth Haan (HQ, Honolulu, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington field) · Loran Eugene Hall (anti-Castro activist alleged to be involved with JFK murder plot) · Gerald Patrick Hemming Jr. (anti-Castro activist who founded International Penetration Forces aka Interpen) · House Committee on Un-American Activities (HQ and Los Angeles, 1951-1953, 1958-1964) · J. Edgar Hoover Library · (HQ 62-104401, FBI HQ main file = 12,000+ pages; Little Rock 100-3396) · Alfred Kohlberg (HQ 97-2660, NYC, WFO – including American Policy Association, HQ 62-86137) · William M. Kunstler (Marxist lawyer, co-founder Center For Constitutional Rights)

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· League of Women Voters (HQ 100-412579; Detroit, Los Angeles, New York City) · Myers G. Lowman (Circuit Riders, Inc – Cincinnati OH) – HQ and 11 field offices) · Warren Magnuson (U.S. Senator, Washington) · Mike Mansfield (U.S. Senator, Montana; Senate Majority Leader 1961-1977) · Andrew Bruce McAllister (Chicago, HQ, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Phoenix; Pro-American Information Bureau) · McCarran Committee aka Senate Internal Security Subcommittee (HQ 62-88217) · George S. McGovern (U.S. Senator) · Minutemen = 1960’s right-wing paramilitary group founded by Robert B. DePugh (Dallas 105-1280, Kansas City 62-7797, Los Angeles 62-5101) · Dennis Patrick Mower (HQ, Los Angeles, San Diego, Seattle) – Minutemen figure in California · Deavours Nix (Director, Klan Bureau of Investigation) · Elliott N. Paulsen (JBS) · Herbert A. Philbrick (FBI informant; I Led Three Lives – Boston, HQ, New York City, WFO) · Howard Jay Phillips (Boston, HQ, NYC, WFO; founder, US Taxpayers Party and Conservative Caucus) · Francis Gary Powers (U-2 pilot shot down over Soviet Union in 1960) · Henry Regnery (owner, conservative book publishing company) · Radio Free Cuba · Ramparts magazine (HQ, San Francisco) · Archibald E. Roberts (Miami 157-1032) · Herbert Romerstein (former researcher/investigator for House Committee on Un-American Activities) · Richard B. Russell (1933-1971 U.S. Senator, GA; Chairman Armed Services Committee) · Gerald L.K. Smith (Christian Nationalist Crusade; HQ 62-43818; 1949-1980) · Julien Goode Sourwine aka J.G. Sourwine (Chief Counsel, US Senate Internal Security Subcommittee) · William C. Sullivan, FBI Assistant Director, 10/19/61 speech “Communism and Religion in the U.S.”) · Rev. Wesley Albert Swift (Anglo-Saxon Christian Congregation; Christian Knights of the Invisible Empire; HQ and field office files) · U.S. State Department Bureau of Consular and Security Affairs, HQ 62-39749, years 1950-1954) · Edwin Anderson Walker (Maj. General US Army; JBS member; Los Angeles 62-5164, New York City 157-1124) · Robert C. Weaver (first Secretary, Department of Health, Education Welfare) · Paul M. Weyrich (Denver, HQ, Milwaukee, NYC, WFO; Committee For The Survival of a Free Congress and Free Congress Foundation) · Milton R. Young (U.S. Senator, North Dakota 1945-1980)

Ernie Lazar

Citation: John Haynes. New webpage for Lazar CPUSA FBI FOIA documents. H-HOAC. 03-08-2014. https://networks.h-net.org/node/6077/discussions/14225/new-webpage-lazar-cpusa-fbi-foia-documents Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 4