"Hidden" FPCC History

[Robert Howard]

from page 215 of Not in Your Lifetime

Anthony Summers

In November 1963 just four days before the Kennedy Assassination, a young American called John Glenn testified before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. His questioning revealed that he had joined the Fair Play for Cuba Committee in autumn 1962, that he had tried to visit Cuba, at first by traveling through Mexico and that he eventually succeeded. In summer of 1963, at the very time Oswald was becoming active in New Orleans, Glenn did reach Cuba. He outstayed his original visa and then tried to travel on to another citadel of the left, Algeria. The parallels with the Oswald case are numerous. Just as Oswald’s fare home had once been paid by the State Department, so Glenn’s was paid from Europe. Like Oswald, Glenn used a post-office box as a mailing address and subscribed to The Militant. Like Oswald, he had traveled to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, in his case supposedly as a guide for an American “travel agency”.

There is, at least, more information available now re the F.P.C.C. to gain a better conceptualization of the group, and how it fit’s into the assassination labyrinthe. The John Glenn bio page at maryferrell.org website states the following.

.....GLENN, JOHN ROBERT

Sources: HCUA Hearings: 10/16/63 & 11/18/63

Mary's

Comments: DOB: 7/26/29. POB: Evanston, Illinois. Wife: Marcia Haag Glenn. Member FPCC. Traveled to Cuba in July 1963 without passport. Studied Russian 5 years. Air Force Intelligence with Crypto Clearance and Top Secret Clearance. State Department paid his way back from Spain (??). Testified before HCUA on 11/18/63. Glenn and Lee Harvey Oswald purchased almost identical material (Internationale,etc.)from Pioneer Publishers, 116 University Place, New York, NY.

I wonder what Gerald Posner's response to these factoids would be, not that I really care.......

[Greg Parker]

Greg, I definitely agree with your point and suspect the FPCC was penetrated from the very

beginning - if not actively organized by intel connected individuals.

On the chart...my mistake...its not on the site; may have been just too darn big to display

correctly, I'll check. But here are some details:

Documents show that as far back as 60-61 the 111th MIG was compiling a list of

all persons going to or from Cuba...(special note was taken if they showed

any signs of associating with the FPCC). The other MIG's were very likely doing the

same thing. In early 61 David Phillips set up the first sting

against the FPCC using an individual that was connected to a newly forming

chapter. In May of 61 the FBI ran a leadership disruption campaign against

the FPCC, mailing conflicting material in an effort to stir up ill will and in

December of the same year they conducted a disinformation mailing program

against the membership.

Larry, is there any evidence that MI ever approached any individuals from such lists for use in any operations?

Who was Philips working under at the time of his sting (my first thought was Tracy Barnes, but on checking, he took over the DOD in '62)?

[Larry Hancock]

Greg, the FPCC incident occured when Phillips was assigned to WH/4/Propaganda for the Cuba

project; he was working in DC at that point before he relocated to Miami. From an organizational

stand point he was under Bissell but Bissell was leaving most of his operational chores to Barnes.

It also appears that Phillips worked in tandom with Hunt on certain propaganda tasks and in

exile leadership contacts...as you know he eventually took Hunt's place as lead political contact

prior to the BOP.

On your second question, there is no indication that MI contacted any of the people on the list -

they were really just into data collection. On the other hand they shared their lists with FBI and

CIA and there is one example I discuss in the book of an FBI operation that was going on in 1963

which used individuals with FPCC connections as penetration agents into Cuba. In

fact these folks were briefed by CIA and apparently managed some really solid intel work, even

taking photos for purported propaganda purposes which were really data collection for the CIA.

You will find this operation in the index, look for AM/SANTA. Interestingly Oswald would have been

an almost perfect fit for AM/SANTA.

-- Larry

Greg, I definitely agree with your point and suspect the FPCC was penetrated from the very

beginning - if not actively organized by intel connected individuals.

On the chart...my mistake...its not on the site; may have been just too darn big to display

correctly, I'll check. But here are some details:

Documents show that as far back as 60-61 the 111th MIG was compiling a list of

all persons going to or from Cuba...(special note was taken if they showed

any signs of associating with the FPCC). The other MIG's were very likely doing the

same thing. In early 61 David Phillips set up the first sting

against the FPCC using an individual that was connected to a newly forming

chapter. In May of 61 the FBI ran a leadership disruption campaign against

the FPCC, mailing conflicting material in an effort to stir up ill will and in

December of the same year they conducted a disinformation mailing program

against the membership.

Larry, is there any evidence that MI ever approached any individuals from such lists for use in any operations?

Who was Philips working under at the time of his sting (my first thought was Tracy Barnes, but on checking, he took over the DOD in '62)?

[Greg Parker]

Greg, the FPCC incident occured when Phillips was assigned to WH/4/Propaganda for the Cuba

project; he was working in DC at that point before he relocated to Miami. From an organizational

stand point he was under Bissell but Bissell was leaving most of his operational chores to Barnes.

It also appears that Phillips worked in tandom with Hunt on certain propaganda tasks and in

exile leadership contacts...as you know he eventually took Hunt's place as lead political contact

prior to the BOP.

On your second question, there is no indication that MI contacted any of the people on the list -

they were really just into data collection. On the other hand they shared their lists with FBI and

CIA and there is one example I discuss in the book of an FBI operation that was going on in 1963

which used individuals with FPCC connections as penetration agents into Cuba. In

fact these folks were briefed by CIA and apparently managed some really solid intel work, even

taking photos for purported propaganda purposes which were really data collection for the CIA.

You will find this operation in the index, look for AM/SANTA. Interestingly Oswald would have been

an almost perfect fit for AM/SANTA.

-- Larry

Larry, this is very enlightening. Your book is on my Christmas Wish list, but in the meantime, your patience in answering these questions is much appreciated.

Since MI started collating these lists in 1960, is it likely in your opinion, that individuals on them were used in similar fashion prior to 1963 - perhaps under some other operational code name?

[Larry Hancock]

Greg, in doing some checking it appears that AM/SANTA actually kicked off operationally as early as

December 1962, so I magine that somebody was looking at list's back in 1961.

And as far as I know, AM/SANTA was generally not known to us until last year - 2006; I really

have not seen any discussion of it in print outside my book. Which suggests that there could well be

other projects we don't know about. The same goes for Castro assassination projects; we picked

up knowledge of three more of them only in the last year or so.

-- bottom line, there is still a lot of Cuban secret war history coming into view. Larry

Greg, the FPCC incident occured when Phillips was assigned to WH/4/Propaganda for the Cuba

project; he was working in DC at that point before he relocated to Miami. From an organizational

stand point he was under Bissell but Bissell was leaving most of his operational chores to Barnes.

It also appears that Phillips worked in tandom with Hunt on certain propaganda tasks and in

exile leadership contacts...as you know he eventually took Hunt's place as lead political contact

prior to the BOP.

On your second question, there is no indication that MI contacted any of the people on the list -

they were really just into data collection. On the other hand they shared their lists with FBI and

CIA and there is one example I discuss in the book of an FBI operation that was going on in 1963

which used individuals with FPCC connections as penetration agents into Cuba. In

fact these folks were briefed by CIA and apparently managed some really solid intel work, even

taking photos for purported propaganda purposes which were really data collection for the CIA.

You will find this operation in the index, look for AM/SANTA. Interestingly Oswald would have been

an almost perfect fit for AM/SANTA.

-- Larry

Larry, this is very enlightening. Your book is on my Christmas Wish list, but in the meantime, your patience in answering these questions is much appreciated.

Since MI started collating these lists in 1960, is it likely in your opinion, that individuals on them were used in similar fashion prior to 1963 - perhaps under some other operational code name?

[John Dolva]

Cast of Characters: photographs - The Oxford Insurrection led by Barnett, Walker and Birdsong:

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA02/JFK/castfiles/cast1.html

"James Meredith: (1933-) African American applicant to the University of Mississippi.

John F. Kennedy: (1917-1963) President of the United States, 1961-1963.

Robert F. Kennedy: (1925-1968) Attorney General of the United States and John F. Kennedy’s brother.

Burke Marshall: (1922- ) Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice (1961-1964); key figure in determining policy and decisions in the Meredith case.

Nicholas Katzenbach: ( 1922- ) Deputy Attorney General from 1961-1962, in charge of the Department of Justice’s operation at the University of Mississippi.

Edwin Guthman: (1919- ) Director of Public Information, Department of Justice from 1961 to 1964). Worked closely with Katzenbach in Mississippi coordinating events leading to Meredith’s registration at Ole Miss.

John Doar: (1921- ) Justice Department lawyer who worked within the Civil Rights Division and who accompanied James Meredith during his attempts to register.

Thurgood Marshall: (1908-1993) From 1940-1961, Marshall served as legal director of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). In 1961 President Kennedy appointed Marshall to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

James McShane: (1909-68) Chief U.S. Marshall, Department of Justice (1962-1968) who accompanied Meredith during attempts to register at the University of Mississippi.

Ross Barnett: Governor of Mississippi.

Paul Johnson: Lieutenant governor of Mississippi who on September 26,1962 blocked Doar and McShane as Meredith attempted to register at Ole Miss.

Joe Patterson: Attorney General of Mississippi.

Thomas Watkins: Close friend and advisor to Governor Barnett

Robert Ellis: Registrar, University of Mississippi.

Colonel T.B. Birdsong: Head of the Mississippi Highway Patrol"

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER LIBRARY ABILENE, KANSAS

First Army State List - Mississippi VC - Brig gen T.B. Birdsong

German POWs in North America - http://uboat.net/men/pow/recreation.htm

"...Although the performances were directed for the camp population at large, German officers and American camp administrators were always preferential guests, and the occasional visits by representatives of the War Department, Swiss Legation, YMCA, or International Red Cross were heralded by impressive evenings. In addition to skits and plays, the POWs were quick to organize choral groups, and a prisoner Music Committee in each camp went about recruit-ing talented musicians from among the inmates to form a camp orchestra. Instruments ranging from violins to drum outfits were purchased out of profits from the prisoner-run camp canteen or received as gifts from the War Prisoners' Aid Committee of the YMCA. A representative list of the musical performances, submitted in a report by Colonel T. B. Birdsong, Command-ing Officer of POW Camp Shelby, Mississippi, as of August 31, 1944, was as follows:..."

other items of interest connecting FPCC and oficials in the military:

http://www.mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/contents...29|1|1|1|15678|

http://www.mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/contents...31|1|1|1|15697|

http://www.mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/contents...0|16|1|1|1|411|

http://www.mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/contents...30|2|1|1|15686|

http://www.mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/contents...|4|1|1|1|43201|

http://www.mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/contents...|6|1|1|1|43218|

http://www.mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/contents...|7|1|1|1|43223|

http://www.djournal.com/pages/archive.asp?ID=195663

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA02/JFK/daysfr.html

Edited June 4, 2007 by John Dolva

[Robert Howard]

Cast of Characters: photographs - The Oxford Insurrection led by Barnett, Walker and Birdsong:

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA02/JFK/castfiles/cast1.html

"James Meredith: (1933-) African American applicant to the University of Mississippi.

John F. Kennedy: (1917-1963) President of the United States, 1961-1963.

Robert F. Kennedy: (1925-1968) Attorney General of the United States and John F. Kennedy’s brother.

Burke Marshall: (1922- ) Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice (1961-1964); key figure in determining policy and decisions in the Meredith case.

Nicholas Katzenbach: ( 1922- ) Deputy Attorney General from 1961-1962, in charge of the Department of Justice’s operation at the University of Mississippi.

Edwin Guthman: (1919- ) Director of Public Information, Department of Justice from 1961 to 1964). Worked closely with Katzenbach in Mississippi coordinating events leading to Meredith’s registration at Ole Miss.

John Doar: (1921- ) Justice Department lawyer who worked within the Civil Rights Division and who accompanied James Meredith during his attempts to register.

Thurgood Marshall: (1908-1993) From 1940-1961, Marshall served as legal director of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). In 1961 President Kennedy appointed Marshall to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

James McShane: (1909-68) Chief U.S. Marshall, Department of Justice (1962-1968) who accompanied Meredith during attempts to register at the University of Mississippi.

Ross Barnett: Governor of Mississippi.

Paul Johnson: Lieutenant governor of Mississippi who on September 26,1962 blocked Doar and McShane as Meredith attempted to register at Ole Miss.

Joe Patterson: Attorney General of Mississippi.

Thomas Watkins: Close friend and advisor to Governor Barnett

Robert Ellis: Registrar, University of Mississippi.

Colonel T.B. Birdsong: Head of the Mississippi Highway Patrol"

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER LIBRARY ABILENE, KANSAS

First Army State List - Mississippi VC - Brig gen T.B. Birdsong

German POWs in North America - http://uboat.net/men/pow/recreation.htm

"...Although the performances were directed for the camp population at large, German officers and American camp administrators were always preferential guests, and the occasional visits by representatives of the War Department, Swiss Legation, YMCA, or International Red Cross were heralded by impressive evenings. In addition to skits and plays, the POWs were quick to organize choral groups, and a prisoner Music Committee in each camp went about recruit-ing talented musicians from among the inmates to form a camp orchestra. Instruments ranging from violins to drum outfits were purchased out of profits from the prisoner-run camp canteen or received as gifts from the War Prisoners' Aid Committee of the YMCA. A representative list of the musical performances, submitted in a report by Colonel T. B. Birdsong, Command-ing Officer of POW Camp Shelby, Mississippi, as of August 31, 1944, was as follows:..."

other items of interest connecting FPCC and oficials in the military:

http://www.mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/contents...29|1|1|1|15678|

http://www.mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/contents...31|1|1|1|15697|

http://www.mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/contents...0|16|1|1|1|411|

http://www.mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/contents...30|2|1|1|15686|

http://www.mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/contents...|4|1|1|1|43201|

http://www.mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/contents...|6|1|1|1|43218|

http://www.mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/contents...|7|1|1|1|43223|

http://www.djournal.com/pages/archive.asp?ID=195663

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA02/JFK/daysfr.html

As a ersatz Happy Thanksgiving, trying to give something special "it has come to my attention" that the 1963

House Un-American Activities Committee hearings on the FPCC, in which the last one took place five days before the JFK assassination, November 18, 1963

are available online.......

http://www.archive.org/stream/violationsofstat04unit/violationsofstat04unit_djvu.txt

http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/united-states-congress-house-committee-on-un-am/annual-report-for-the-year--volume-1963-tin/page-12-annual-report-for-the-year--volume-1963-tin.shtml

http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/united-states-congress-house-committee-on-un-am.shtml

the middle url is the best one from what I can tell, the first one has some jumbled text. Although I have not read ALL of the 22 pages....This document is big, and I have a profound sense of disappointment that this document doesent seem to be either at historymatters.com or maryferrell.org.

Not that that is anyone's fault....But after reading it assuming such, you might ask yourself how much more

the learning curve would have been accelerated regarding what we know about the assassination had this document been common knowledge instead of having to order it through the Government Printing Office. I want to personally thank Harry Dean, because I wouldn't even know such a document even existed if he hadn't mentioned it on another FPCC thread....

I will say that there are several threads on the Forum, this document relates to IMO....

A Photographic Mystery....see references to "KLM Airlines flights" in above document....

And threads involving the Luce family, and cryptologist John B Hurt...It would also be wise to remember John B Hurt, in light of the fact that North Carolina and Chapel Hill are featured quite prominently. It also might be wise

to bump the thread on the FPCC where the article which lists the original founding members of the FPCC

are listed. Taber and Gibson are pretty important...lol.

Cheers

[Robert Howard]

As a ersatz Happy Thanksgiving, trying to give something special "it has come to my attention" that the 1963

House Un-American Activities Committee hearings on the FPCC, in which the last one took place five days before the JFK assassination, November 18, 1963

are available online.......

http://www.archive.org/stream/violationsofstat04unit/violationsofstat04unit_djvu.txt

http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/united-states-congress-house-committee-on-un-am/annual-report-for-the-year--volume-1963-tin/page-12-annual-report-for-the-year--volume-1963-tin.shtml

http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/united-states-congress-house-committee-on-un-am.shtml

the middle url is the best one from what I can tell, the first one has some jumbled text. Although I have not read ALL of the 22 pages....This document is big, and I have a profound sense of disappointment that this document doesent seem to be either at historymatters.com or maryferrell.org.

Not that that is anyone's fault....But after reading it assuming such, you might ask yourself how much more

the learning curve would have been accelerated regarding what we know about the assassination had this document been common knowledge instead of having to order it through the Government Printing Office. I want to personally thank Harry Dean, because I wouldn't even know such a document even existed if he hadn't mentioned it on another FPCC thread....

I will say that there are several threads on the Forum, this document relates to IMO....

A Photographic Mystery....see references to "KLM Airlines flights" in above document....

And threads involving the Luce family, and cryptologist John B Hurt...It would also be wise to remember John B Hurt, in light of the fact that North Carolina and Chapel Hill are featured quite prominently. It also might be wise

to bump the thread on the FPCC where the article which lists the original founding members of the FPCC

are listed. Taber and Gibson are pretty important...lol.

Cheers

[Harry J.Dean]

Cast of Characters: photographs - The Oxford Insurrection led by Barnett, Walker and Birdsong:

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA02/JFK/castfiles/cast1.html

"James Meredith: (1933-) African American applicant to the University of Mississippi.

John F. Kennedy: (1917-1963) President of the United States, 1961-1963.

Robert F. Kennedy: (1925-1968) Attorney General of the United States and John F. Kennedy’s brother.

Burke Marshall: (1922- ) Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice (1961-1964); key figure in determining policy and decisions in the Meredith case.

Nicholas Katzenbach: ( 1922- ) Deputy Attorney General from 1961-1962, in charge of the Department of Justice’s operation at the University of Mississippi.

Edwin Guthman: (1919- ) Director of Public Information, Department of Justice from 1961 to 1964). Worked closely with Katzenbach in Mississippi coordinating events leading to Meredith’s registration at Ole Miss.

John Doar: (1921- ) Justice Department lawyer who worked within the Civil Rights Division and who accompanied James Meredith during his attempts to register.

Thurgood Marshall: (1908-1993) From 1940-1961, Marshall served as legal director of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). In 1961 President Kennedy appointed Marshall to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

James McShane: (1909-68) Chief U.S. Marshall, Department of Justice (1962-1968) who accompanied Meredith during attempts to register at the University of Mississippi.

Ross Barnett: Governor of Mississippi.

Paul Johnson: Lieutenant governor of Mississippi who on September 26,1962 blocked Doar and McShane as Meredith attempted to register at Ole Miss.

Joe Patterson: Attorney General of Mississippi.

Thomas Watkins: Close friend and advisor to Governor Barnett

Robert Ellis: Registrar, University of Mississippi.

Colonel T.B. Birdsong: Head of the Mississippi Highway Patrol"

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER LIBRARY ABILENE, KANSAS

First Army State List - Mississippi VC - Brig gen T.B. Birdsong

German POWs in North America - http://uboat.net/men/pow/recreation.htm

"...Although the performances were directed for the camp population at large, German officers and American camp administrators were always preferential guests, and the occasional visits by representatives of the War Department, Swiss Legation, YMCA, or International Red Cross were heralded by impressive evenings. In addition to skits and plays, the POWs were quick to organize choral groups, and a prisoner Music Committee in each camp went about recruit-ing talented musicians from among the inmates to form a camp orchestra. Instruments ranging from violins to drum outfits were purchased out of profits from the prisoner-run camp canteen or received as gifts from the War Prisoners' Aid Committee of the YMCA. A representative list of the musical performances, submitted in a report by Colonel T. B. Birdsong, Command-ing Officer of POW Camp Shelby, Mississippi, as of August 31, 1944, was as follows:..."

other items of interest connecting FPCC and oficials in the military:

http://www.mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/contents...29|1|1|1|15678|

http://www.mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/contents...31|1|1|1|15697|

http://www.mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/contents...0|16|1|1|1|411|

http://www.mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/contents...30|2|1|1|15686|

http://www.mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/contents...|4|1|1|1|43201|

http://www.mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/contents...|6|1|1|1|43218|

http://www.mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/contents...|7|1|1|1|43223|

http://www.djournal.com/pages/archive.asp?ID=195663

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA02/JFK/daysfr.html

As a ersatz Happy Thanksgiving, trying to give something special "it has come to my attention" that the 1963

House Un-American Activities Committee hearings on the FPCC, in which the last one took place five days before the JFK assassination, November 18, 1963

are available online.......

http://www.archive.org/stream/violationsofstat04unit/violationsofstat04unit_djvu.txt

http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/united-states-congress-house-committee-on-un-am/annual-report-for-the-year--volume-1963-tin/page-12-annual-report-for-the-year--volume-1963-tin.shtml

http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/united-states-congress-house-committee-on-un-am.shtml

the middle url is the best one from what I can tell, the first one has some jumbled text. Although I have not read ALL of the 22 pages....This document is big, and I have a profound sense of disappointment that this document doesent seem to be either at historymatters.com or maryferrell.org.

Not that that is anyone's fault....But after reading it assuming such, you might ask yourself how much more

the learning curve would have been accelerated regarding what we know about the assassination had this document been common knowledge instead of having to order it through the Government Printing Office. I want to personally thank Harry Dean, because I wouldn't even know such a document even existed if he hadn't mentioned it on another FPCC thread....

I will say that there are several threads on the Forum, this document relates to IMO....

A Photographic Mystery....see references to "KLM Airlines flights" in above document....

And threads involving the Luce family, and cryptologist John B Hurt...It would also be wise to remember John B Hurt, in light of the fact that North Carolina and Chapel Hill are featured quite prominently. It also might be wise

to bump the thread on the FPCC where the article which lists the original founding members of the FPCC

are listed. Taber and Gibson are pretty important...lol.

Cheers

Hi, Robert

I am naturally interested in what document do you refer to? Your mention here

of Taber & Gibson importance bring to mind that is mid to late 1960 Chicago as

Richard Criely, John Rosen {founders of Chicago FPCC} and I were holding a meeting

there, Taber and Gibson showed up, Rosen, Criely, Taber & Gibson then went into a

private executive session. Yes Taber & Gibson were/are pretty important subjects.

[John Dolva]

Generally the FPCC and the Civil Rights struggle are discussed separately:

1960 - March 17: "Eisenhower (secretly) approves CIA training of Cuban exiles to overthrow the new revolutionary regime. As U.S. hostility to Cuba rises, U.S. liberals and radicals form the Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC) in early 1960. Starting with a small handful of members the group grows to 7,000 members in 25 chapters and 40 student groups. FPCC helped coordinate Fidel's visit to New York in fall 1960 (see below) and led protests against the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. It sponsored trips to Cuba, and one in July 1960 included Amiri Baraka (then LeRoi Jones), Robert F. Williams and Harold Cruse. The group declined afterwards and went out of existence in 1963. (Che; Goines chron says Eisenhower's approval was February 17; CrossRoads No. 46; Kelley; and for details on FPCC see Van Gosse's book Where the Boys Are: Cuba, Cold War America and the Making of a New Left)"

1961 - May 4 : "First "freedom riders" (sponsored by CORE) leave Washington, D.C. in two buses; on May 14 a white mob in Anniston, Alabama burns one of the buses and beats up the riders on both. The riders are beaten again when they regroup and reach Birmingham the next day. CORE leaders discontinue the freedom ride, but SNCC activists continue with further efforts, on May 20 riders including John Lewis are beaten in Montgomery. On May 21 1,000 Blacks gathered in Martin Luther King's First Baptist Church are besieged by a white mob and it takes federal marshals and national guardsmen to protect those inside. The Kennedy administration tries to get the protesters to stop and "cool off"; its reluctance to protect demonstrators or press for civil rights at home while proclaiming democratic freedoms abroad has a major radicalizing impact on SNCC and others. A Freedom Riders Coordinating Committee is formed by representatives of SNCC, CORE and SCLC and in the following months hundreds ride and are arrested. The Interstate Commerce Commission rules segregation in bus and train terminals is illegal on September 22. (Carson; Gitlin)"

The "Hidden History of the Fair Play for Cuba committee"

1961 - June : The Southern Intellingence Network is established, and one of the first on their agenda is infiltrating and disrupting the Fair Play for Cuba comittee, having established that the FPCC was also a sponsor of the Freedom Riders.

Rockwells Nazis organises the Reverse Riders, where they organise to exile blacks north to States where the Freedom Riders come from, and to where their suppport come from such as Boston, JFK's home state.

IOW the FPCC was well within the sight of the Segregationists as early as mid 1961. IOW the FPCC was recognised as something more than a Cuba support group. For the Segregationists, discrediting the FPCC was high on the agenda early on, not becase of theor support for Cuba but because of their support for de-segregation.

After the assassination this had been accomplished.

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/etd/d/2006/berre...erreys29254.pdf

"Peniel E. Joseph argues that this is partially the result of popular and historical narratives constructing the civil rights era as the 'King years.' Positioning King and an ideology of nonviolence at the core of this narrative "has rendered invisible whole narratives of civil rights history."20 Specifically, Joseph notes that scholars have erased the black radical tradition from the record and they have removed the U.S. movement from the context of international political struggles.21 As a result, the radicalism and internationalist perspective seems to emerge on the scene suddenly in the mid-1960s with groups such as the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. However, as Joseph demonstrates, black radicalism and internationalism were already part of the early 1960s movement through individuals such as Robert F. Williams, Julian Mayfield, and Dan Watts and with organizations such as the Fair Play for Cuba Committee and the Revolutionary Action Movement."

a mystery wrapped in a riddle in an enigma.

The Cuba Centric assassination theories hide or ignores significant aspects of the Civil Rights struggle.

http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=18430&view=findpost&p=239257

[John Dolva]

Generally the FPCC and the Civil Rights struggle are discussed separately:

1960 - March 17: "Eisenhower (secretly) approves CIA training of Cuban exiles to overthrow the new revolutionary regime. As U.S. hostility to Cuba rises, U.S. liberals and radicals form the Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC) in early 1960. Starting with a small handful of members the group grows to 7,000 members in 25 chapters and 40 student groups. FPCC helped coordinate Fidel's visit to New York in fall 1960 (see below) and led protests against the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. It sponsored trips to Cuba, and one in July 1960 included Amiri Baraka (then LeRoi Jones), Robert F. Williams and Harold Cruse. The group declined afterwards and went out of existence in 1963. (Che; Goines chron says Eisenhower's approval was February 17; CrossRoads No. 46; Kelley; and for details on FPCC see Van Gosse's book Where the Boys Are: Cuba, Cold War America and the Making of a New Left)"

1961 - May 4 : "First "freedom riders" (sponsored by CORE) leave Washington, D.C. in two buses; on May 14 a white mob in Anniston, Alabama burns one of the buses and beats up the riders on both. The riders are beaten again when they regroup and reach Birmingham the next day. CORE leaders discontinue the freedom ride, but SNCC activists continue with further efforts, on May 20 riders including John Lewis are beaten in Montgomery. On May 21 1,000 Blacks gathered in Martin Luther King's First Baptist Church are besieged by a white mob and it takes federal marshals and national guardsmen to protect those inside. The Kennedy administration tries to get the protesters to stop and "cool off"; its reluctance to protect demonstrators or press for civil rights at home while proclaiming democratic freedoms abroad has a major radicalizing impact on SNCC and others. A Freedom Riders Coordinating Committee is formed by representatives of SNCC, CORE and SCLC and in the following months hundreds ride and are arrested. The Interstate Commerce Commission rules segregation in bus and train terminals is illegal on September 22. (Carson; Gitlin)"

The "Hidden History of the Fair Play for Cuba committee"

1961 - June : The Southern Intellingence Network is established, and one of the first on their agenda is infiltrating and disrupting the Fair Play for Cuba comittee, having established that the FPCC was also a sponsor of the Freedom Riders.

Rockwells Nazis organises the Reverse Riders, where they organise to exile blacks north to States where the Freedom Riders come from, and to where their suppport come from such as Boston, JFK's home state.

IOW the FPCC was well within the sight of the Segregationists as early as mid 1961. IOW the FPCC was recognised as something more than a Cuba support group. For the Segregationists, discrediting the FPCC was high on the agenda early on, not becase of theor support for Cuba but because of their support for de-segregation.

After the assassination this had been accomplished.

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/etd/d/2006/berre...erreys29254.pdf

"Peniel E. Joseph argues that this is partially the result of popular and historical narratives constructing the civil rights era as the 'King years.' Positioning King and an ideology of nonviolence at the core of this narrative "has rendered invisible whole narratives of civil rights history."20 Specifically, Joseph notes that scholars have erased the black radical tradition from the record and they have removed the U.S. movement from the context of international political struggles.21 As a result, the radicalism and internationalist perspective seems to emerge on the scene suddenly in the mid-1960s with groups such as the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. However, as Joseph demonstrates, black radicalism and internationalism were already part of the early 1960s movement through individuals such as Robert F. Williams, Julian Mayfield, and Dan Watts and with organizations such as the Fair Play for Cuba Committee and the Revolutionary Action Movement."

a mystery wrapped in a riddle in an enigma.

The Cuba Centric assassination theories hide or ignores significant aspects of the Civil Rights struggle.

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[John Dolva]

[Robert Howard]

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[22 pages]

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES

HOUSE OE REPRESENTATIVES

EIGHTY-EIGHTH CONGKESS

FIRST SESSION

OCTOBER 16 AND NOVEMBER 18, 1963

INCLUDING INDEX

Printed for the use of the

Committee on Un-American Activities

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

JAN 8 1964

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

98-765 O WASHINGTON : 1963

COMMITTEE ON UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES

United) States House of REPRESENTATIVES

EDWIN E. WILLIS, Louisiana, Chairman

WILLIAM M. TUCK, Virginia AUGUST E. JOHANSEN, Michigan

JOE R. POOL, Texas DONALD C. BRUCE, Indiana

RICHARD H. ICHORD, Missouri HENRY C. SCHADEBERG. Wisconsin

GEORGE F. SENNER, Je., Arizona JOHN M. ASHBROOK, Ohio

Francis J. McNamara, Director

Frank S. Tavenner, Jr., General Counsel

Alfred M. Nittle, Counsel

CONTENTS

Synopsis 811

October 16, 1963 : Testimony of

Arnold Indenbaum 830

June Anita Gard 836

Peter Gumpert -___ 838

Durane U. Sherman 842

Nicholas Bateson 847

June Anita Gard (resumed) 857

Afternoon session :

Brunhilde Linke 858

Edward R. O'Neill 860

David Perham 865

Harold J. E. Gesell 867

Arnold Indenbaum (resumed) 871

November 18, 1963 : Testimony of

Harold Glenn Wilkes 886

John Robert Glenn__ 898

Afternoon session :

John R. Glenn (resumed) 914

Marcia Haag Glenn 921

Index