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FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
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PRIVACY ACTS
SUBJECT STEVE ALLEN
FILE NUMBER 100-HO-431812
SECTION NUMBER 1
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
DERAL BUREAU
FOIPAOF INVESTIGATIO.
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On 9/15/59| El var,4/ Atlanta, 9a., made avafble copy of a le er fromY Bill SOBRLL addresse u band, an inmateat that institution. mu availablethis letter for review n v ew o numerous names
mentioned therein which nay be of assistance in
security investigations being conducted by thisBureau. It is noted this letter is dated 9/ll/59,and was apparently written from Ins Angeles,
California. The contents of this letter contain
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"Ie got a pry exciting letter from New York sayingthat S!'W' 11-I-II had ordered 100 copies of our reprint
containing the statement by Dr. PAUL LIHIAI entitledHORN! BOBXLL, Symbol of the Christian's concern forJustice. I had called hie secretary that very
_ morning in an effort to arrange an appointment _ .because we knew of his previous interest, and I'm to »
call him back Ionday when STIYI AIJJI will be in town."
I1 Iand her two sons were permitted ~_o go home in Georgia. the above statement; refers to '
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and her two eona convicted of murderingae enan alily in Georgia who were sentenced to
death in the electric chair, and which sentence wae latercommuted to lite in priaon. mey led on 8/28459by Georgia State authoritiee. 'Ihe were the In Ject
or varioue protect larchee originating in subversive circlee
in Iew York Oity. leveral yearn ego. -
Ire. SQBILL indicated ahe would be leaving Ins Angelou
for Phoenix on the 17th of September, 1959, and will be
back in Ina Angelea on the 20th because it is a lot
eaaier to travel tron Loo Angelou to New York, than from
Phoenix to low York.
ERIE! IOIRLL mentions having an appointment with ones
iw 9/12/59-
On 9/15/59 | var Atlantaalso made available copy of letter dated §7l 59 from EILII
SQEILL addreeeed to her hueband. The contents oi this
letter are eet forth verbatim hereinafter:
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"U own dearest IGRTY, '
"Yesterday wee a long deg in San Diego and
we did maaw thingl. I met with a group or ninietere
and they are going to invite all of the clergyman in
ea to Join with them. I also had dinner with the
who cent their warmest regards and were wonderfully
up able. It wae a real pleaeure to eee them again.
In the evening we had a party and I wan really konked
by the time the day wae over. 'l'hie morning we worked on
a N interview, and then I took the plane back to L. A.
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or e big luncheon meeting which was Just fine.
wonenthere92d1ohedcutmhe.iryee.rsegowhen
end etter the meeting we went to e friend's
gave lee a very nice haircut.
"I got your lest two letters m
whenehepickedleup, andlwesveryeadto aro ellof the not good thixgs which you ere experiencing, my
love. 1': sorry you are so gr92@y, not for me, but
because it melee: you feel not good in yourself. It urea
too bed you did not get too Iuoh enJoyn92ent out or your
tennis netches. .
"I'm writing this now es we are driving beck
out to the beach to pe e end deliver e. borrowedstetion wegon moh ;Q:|mM for the lovingbeck. Good morning, qr ove, e now 10:20 end tor the
tine in e long while, I slept late this morning.
le stlylng with e friend who has 2 boys, and a pool,
so he's tine.
ii-; "I've been re-reading your lest lettere thisnoming I'll elone in e very pleseent home, end egein I'mdisturbed by your resh end your teeth problems. I hope, ee
I said before, that all will be well, and I'm glad you tellme that there is not too ranch oeuee for worry.
"So, tinelly, etter ell these years, you havethe MIACILII book. It should be absorbing to teokle the
100 problems presented. 131 erreid that I won't have e
chemo to reed the Proms book for quite e while, but I'll
leave it i.n mind.
"I do think I operate eonewhet along the linesoi conservetion of phychio energy, end it my be that youhave struck up on e chord which expleins some of the
differences in sttitude we have hed tron time to time.
more have been inetencee where you have suggested to no
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more clarity, and I have felt lutficiently anare of the
paychio drains to no avail! inherent, so that I have notwanted more clarity.
@take__ the Iurt Inch better than I dobeoeuee he e nuoh teeter in movement and can ride thewaves. Alec he has no objections to getting doggedaround in the eandy rater in a prone position, don't
oere tor it. Be hae been taking pioturee and he did havee chance to talk to our photographer friend in 8. I.
"I eee when I reed your words about aw writingfrequency, I nieunderetood you and I felt you were reallycalling me to teak, but you are doing nothing of the eort.I gueee I etill carry over from the time when the onieeionor a letter wae noet traumatic. I ehail be more relaxed andknow that you have muohineh maturity in this direction.
"Yea, :aae with his lifeto our big dinner 8. P. which in not exactly the lameae having had dinner with hia. he I told you before, Idon't feel I will be able to lake the trip to Iexico atthis tine, and I have another idea about it which nay
work out better.
"I got the govt'e brochure on the parole board'scomposition and rules and it ie noet interesting. have
you ever; had acoeee or do you know the almost unlimiteddieeretion which applies? ly echednle here in prettyfull no that I don't know hoe Iuch time I'll be able to
ge t together in the next couple of daye.'villat the beaches, but we'll eee. I Juet talked too nae Just returned from I:-xico and '
etey there tor a while.
"lost iwortant of all and everything, be well,zw love, and hold no very close, end know that I love theewith all n heart. Your EILII, all time.
"RISK SQRLL"
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b7C KB? don not desire hie identity be made known.
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HCUA!, hel twofold purptaez ! remove sobell from Alcatraz in 7?/£18 -
he wee treneferi-ed ta Atlanta Penitentiary! and 1 obtain either hie
raleeee, reduction or aentence or new trial. I05-ms haa had
0. ebteinimz eupport from prominent pereone and epnerently tm-on-h thee program
erterta or] lelioited fi-on Steve Allen, 1"-.- -per-aonaiity, a proniae ta e tge Sahel} caqee in the future, Lfia 92IV .'.
R¢1eti¢ne with lllen haw. in the paet been oorditl. Uireotox- Y!thanked nira fur nentioning "Naetere or Deceit" an .--ia program and on ,
2/25/59 the Director eleritied an an-aneoue inpreeeien Allen
from -ertein preee 2-eporte that be wee being inveatigeted by
Burilea railed to dieolaee en; other identirieble rate:-encee
7 Ab C Allen in the poet bee "edito1-ieliaed" on hie ehou,had gOttenQ
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"d-g~edera" throughout the count which i nctl uh t . . ry, e e y at cap icnedox-gen ieeticn uenta. It would be neat fedvantegeoue to cheek Allen bunghie netiunvide aueience in e need to tnie unwanted pz-opagende. To ae '
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Lee Av elee srrme ma in the pqat nae been e headline grabberand sq:-geader. Lil I
To approach Allen hineelz my poeeibly reault in enbevrneement
to the Pu:-eeu. Therefore, an an alterlfsetive it in believed that ccntact
ehoulc be nae by Hr. Denoeeh with a editable official or the Retienel
B?-'-Idqlliilg Company UPC! to acquaint-his with the recte concerning
, Allen'e eppex-ant eupport at the sobell cause ror whatever action ms
eaeu tit to underteke. Threugn tnia action the Bu.-eau will not he
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Memorandum irom Hr. Baamgandner to Mr. Belmont - -'-If -22-5relates to the fact that Helen lobell, Horton 8ohel.l'l wile, has elicited from Steve Mid, _;TV personality on NBC, a promise to assist the obell cause on his program. Further
Allen presumably gave Helen Sobell permission to publicize his interest in the case.
The Director stated it would be all right to alert appropriate
NBC oiiicials. ,__ . ..._. _. ., 1
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argued, seven petitims to the United ates &tpreme Court were made and two §applications were made to the President oi the United States for executive clemency. .
&1ba_equently, additional court action has been had and such eminent jurists as .-Juches Medina and mplete agreement with the prior proceedings 5'
re 8ohells cane aaid he ceeid handle the miter and would check1o a manner ve comp . ~ é mt it in anal would lea the rs: out a 1: ¢ an /Z_g'Z/
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United States District Court, seven appeals to the Circuit Court of Appeals were ?
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and asked himl _ _ _ I _ land what Allen replied.Allen told] lam Mrs. Sobell ma been in to see Wehim Allen!, had asked for support but that he did not promise her anything. Allen' said further that he will not support her, will not mention her on his program b7Dand does not intend to have anything to do with this matter whatsoever. Furthermore,- , Allen told the newspaperman he does not appreciate her going around saying he
has promised to help her or even talked to her.
| therefore, considers the matter resolvedsince the have a e inite commitment rom Allen not to support Sobeli in any way.dwas most grateful for Wick calling this matter to his attention and he
said he wanted the Director to know is most appreciative
_ He said Allen is very difficult to control but he is satisiiec .*-..;e.i is
I incensed over reports he is getting from newspaper and radio peop;e '.r.af. Mrs. Sobell
is trying to get him into the act.
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By MIKE NEWBERRY
THE Y0-U.92'G MAN with the
starry-eyed eyeglasses on thecover cttliis ok is not theSkeesiz f a aroma you know.He is 'tev _ [5 no;..... s M-.i.
ows, his wife, says it well whenshe comments that he is reallyeight other men: "A published
writer of earthy prose and poetry.
a deep thinker, a comedian, apianist, a composer, a crusader,
a motion picture star, and a ten-der father. She is too modest,however. He is as well a religIous
man, a philoso_nher, a serious ci-tizen, and a decent human being.
And so this is the autobiogra-
phy of at least a dozen men. Itis as thoughtful and thought-
Iilled as you would expect such
a one man symposium to be.
From this you might get theimpression that I am a SteveAlien fan. I cannot tell ii lie. Iam.
However, having read the half-haked dozen of theatrical auto-
biographfes with their oi-satzMhlll, ghost written and ghostr'dden confessions, and "As ToldTo" I - Have-Sinned-Fo1'~Profit
hysteria. if I were not a fan ofMr. Allen's his book would make
me one. For Mr. Allen is an hon-est man.
In television, as we ha92e learn.ed, an honest man is rare. But
even rarer is an honest man whowrites well..
Of a'rather warlike ti-Ibe" ofSouth_ Side Chicago Irish, as hetells it, Steve Allen's youth waskin to Studs Lonegan's'.
His father was a vaudevillian.His mother a one-night stand
comedienne. His boyhood wentfrom boarding school to worse,boyish Pranks that his TV per-aonality has not outgrown!, run.ning away from home whathome?!, and all the rest; witha bit of I-luck Finn-ism thrown
in for good measure.
Years later when he became adisc jockey breakfng more rec-or than l played" and a wrest.ling mmentatar, his boyish ir.1-eve nco -and tough-witted up--bnng g bliRil{lI¬d his orose.
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upon him, it began then, un-
cognised, in his turbulent youth.
; it does with us ail.
1-he Steve Allen who is co-
iairman of the ol_1¥?'°°d Sam
Nuclear Committ and who sin-
cerely combats the c sea of mieery with the causes'of democra~
cy, saying: I am a do-gooderiThe cynica be damned! was not
born immaculately in a TV tube.He is a man born of the boy his
autobiography belittles.' '
Christianity and Communsmaie the two words that occur
must often in this book.
Sometimes in just opposition,
sometimes in comparison, oftenin opposition, though not super-cially so. Mr. Allen throughout
his book seeks to find the true
value of each. It is a tortiioua
search and one which gives -him
no easy peace, nor one for which
he offers a sloganized solution.
There are some who will say he
092¬1-l¬8t'i928S his grasp, he is ill-equipped for his task. That maybe. Yet, in a time when the pug-
dy little fingers of~s1iccessful
men so often greedy seek no more
than petty self-satisfaction it is
encouraging to see a man whose
courage defies the limitations ofthe easy touch and does aspire
to the great ideas" of ninnltind.
=_ Of his knowledge of commun-
ism, let -me just soy, that thoughyr. Allen defiantly says he is aubsci-iber to The Worker", one
doubts that he has gone deeper
than its thin pages of the fat
volumes of Marx. Had he done
so, he would not attribute to
¢ommun'sts the ideas of anti-fommonists, as he does.
Let the reader not think how-
ever that this is a solemn or sell-
righteous book. 4
Here are hilarious taleirand
inside insights of TV inanfties
to delight even an Ed Sullivan
fan. Many is the -time I found
myself laughing aloud as I read,
something I seldom do.
But then too I fazind th hu-
Jnor had; thoughtful tone. What
is coniedyl began to ask my-self! <
Comedy is not humorous, SteveAllen $1 Knowing comedy ashe does Qys it is not humor-
ous at all. It is cruel, it is in»
suiting, tt is sad, it is ti-ag'c:
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Comedy is abs. - '§!'UY"_1l§
writes. What else are fokee
about! They're about fat. people,
stingy people, dumbbells, small.
hotel rooms, drunks, sexual prob-
lems, high prices, war. . . " .
"There may not be laughter
in hell, but there couldn't possi-
bly be laughter in heaven," SteveAllen says. ' '
Like, Charlie Chaplin before
him, like_Mark Twain before him,
like Jonathan Swift before him,
like Boccaccio before him, all of
them men ridiculed as clowns;
the satirist, unlikethe clown,
knows that laughter is the balm
we soothe our wounds with. I1
the lineage seems too 2"IlI92|i°!9
for a Steve Allen and I imagfne
he would be the rst to protest
his innocence of it! I beli-Y9 it
is a true one. For he is a true
believer.
I-ie is a true believer in hu-
manity. Though he calls his be-
lief Chi-istiunity. his philosophy
is that of a seeker. If this 55 8°
then the name-tag is unimpor-tant.
Humanity is hezleviled with too
many 'cs" and i.~'ms" and Bl
the Soviet poet Tvardoi-sky wise-
ly noted at a recent Wi'iters'
Conference, in the arts, a name-
tag doesn't, of its-elf, help winch.
Not that they don't exist. Tlief
just don't-nssiet. In this ssh
Steve Allen may yeti if he ho»
not yet, enter the heritage of the
'great satirists. Who can ~p1'Pd'Ci-7
Who knows?
Schooled in the kleigli.ght-
blinded world of TV he has learn-
ed to see through the picture
tube into the real world. He is
nowfi-ee to prove how_ 1-ong -or right - his tale is.
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against capital punishment and has participated in demonstrations
on this topic. Because oi his activities in connection with these
two ismes, he has been s controversial iigure. According to FBI
iiles, Allen has also been ailiated with and contributed to the
"Los Angeles Sobell Committee" which is an atiiliate oi the
National Committee to Secure Justice for Morton Sobell in the
Rosenberg Case which has been cited by the House Committee on
Un-American Activities.
In June, 1965, Allen was listed as a sponsor of a
tribute to Congressional liberals who were being honored at adinner in Beverly Hills, California, on August 13, 1965, ior their
opposition to the present Administration's policy on Vietnam.
94-52095!
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Number 258 904 B which appears to be identical with captioned
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The files d the FBI reveal that Mr. Steve Allen,
who you advised resides at 16185 "Road, _i;ne_ino,_ Caljiprnia,
has been the subject of limifeilséciifity-type investigations conducted
by this Bureau.
In December, 1959, Steve Allen was one cl a number
oi sponsors tor a banquet given for Norman Thonms, head oi the
Socialist Party of the United States.
Since 1959 Allen has been connected with the National
Committee for &ne Nuclear Policy SANE! and affiliated groups
seeking a complete cessation oi United States nuclear experiments.
He has repeatedly spoken out against capital punishment. Allen did
considerable work for the "Los Angeies Sobell Committee, " an
ailiate of the National Committee to Secure Justice for Morton Sobell
in the Rosenberg Case, which has been cited by the House Committee
on internal Security.
By application dated June 12, 1968, at Los Angeles,Allen tiled for and was subsequently issued a United States pass-
port, D375217, aiter writing the Department oi State in January to
express his desire to visit mainland China. Allen is not known to
have made the trip as planned.
In 1965 Allen was listed as a sponsor of a tribute to
Cmgressional liberals who were being honored at a dinner in Beverly
Hills, Caliiornia, on August 13, 1965, ior their opposition to theAdministration's policy on Viemm.
IAttached is a copy of an rs: Identication Record,
Number 258 904 B, concerning Allen whose full name is Stephen
Valentine Patrick William Allen. _,_ ,.L, 1
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Occupations Actor, musician, author, composer,
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State Teachers College
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» Pertinent information regarding STEVE ALLEN, the
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