Document text
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION/PRIVACY ACTS SECTION
COVER SHEET
SUBJECT: League of Women Voters
§1
i
.
2
i.i
4-x
,1
<
Sa
1
1
.1
.'1
,
E
4
4
i
I
11
Q@92592°®9292>~>6~-. vi,
1?
@911
'1»,_ .
Khan.¥¬»s-,_-.92
. »Dsscnsr.
co.~u=|os.~m.1u -
D ,U.N_CLA$ EF T9i nauucus y >
newU
U
A; havingTO: DIRECTOR, FBI 003;~ XFROM Y I BQSTON 291; 2! P! 92?929°®{¢_',' : , 5, " "' _
I / I // _ W I ~14 PARTY USA '-I QR 55 FCI R» CPUSA!; A g , 1° / I
o0=__§>»u1a:w YORK * % _ 1 -f
I
I This communication is classified "Secret" J.n_;L.ts_e-ma-1-ret-y--_
ns! v
Reference New York airtel to Bureau, February 25, 1983,
and Boston airtel to Bureau, September 4, 1984.
and
may
information in the past.
I . ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE
A. District and/or State Organization Headquarters:L Unless otherwise noted, all ion contained in this
communication may be attributed to Asset may be describedreliable information in t e past. Information
I v . I .4 1 ! , ____ '3 y, Y, _=92ate, csnszxrsal§m ma - attribu
c a acterized as having ;
A l. Name and Address of District:
- . ENGLAND DIST Y 550 Ma achuse v ue Cambrid e,
own ocally as t A NTER FOR MARXIST EDUCATION ss . e s
and i located on the second floor of a e o - .
{I
.A - rising; oo.3!
2 New York 2-, __ _ 1l-B 291; Aoston .5 7- . G 2 Nov 29 198
Approv d: Transmitted
g. Q? L _; _' ,__, / K$ --1 LI I I JO! Clasaifl G__ fa/ 1"
1 I
Per
Number! Time!. .:&§§*B¢v:@»2¢-ea! . . ' ev '~ I p -
' = I ~"* A - ~ PRECEDEN5 N» » ~ "$1 -_ j ' 1' ;';¢'<'_<'=*;,,<-;.;¢ y ,;_'- , , . . . . . . e V " l:|- lmm'e_dlete~ - ~"r.:lr>TO.P SECRET , -
ca F§c§{mild- j 1:1 Priority I
Airtel" E3 Rouiine
9-FE
HI
' SECRET 0
0
BS 229B-2
at large, thereby lessening its influence over the younger generation. -
lamented the passing of pizza and rollerskating parties put on by the CPUSAand its youth club, the YCL. 1:z:;
Note: Last year's B ston report on carried a special sectionon CPUSA support forb Basicallywhas been the subject of a
closed 157 investigation by the Boston Division and has traveled on several
occasions to Cuba. He has been a frequent attendee at CPUSA functions.
In November, 1984, it was learned that the HALL/DAVIS election
would be subject to an extended period of analysis which will go on at both
local and national levels. It was suggested that it might be better to focus
on international problems for a while and leave domestic issues alone. It
was also stated that it was necessary for the CP to plan its strategy for
the 1988 Presidential campaign now.
During J u the CPUSA NED published a draft report by
District Organizer hich sought to examine issues relating to
the l984 Presidentia e ection. Excerbs follow. Commenting on the campaignitself , - advised:
"In our communist electoral work, we have several concrete goals.
One, build the largest possible political rally around the appearance of
ANGELA DAVIS on October 13. This would include the mass outreach to build
the rally and assuring the best possible political content of the rally."
"Two, distribute ten thousand copies of the brochures by GUS"HALL."
"Three, run an abridged version of the above article in a number
of selected newspapers."nFour, maximize the impact of the ampaign as an open
communist instrument in the antiREAGAN movement. %4,,§5'
-ya--""""""""
"I believe that we can agree that we successfully completed three
of these tasks, and nearly completed the other. We distributed eight thousand
copies of the pamphlet. We placed an ad in the Bay State Banner, the Item,
the Brighton, Massachusetts, paper, and Cambridge, Massachusetts,_paper,
the Somerville, Massachusetts, paper, the Watertown, Massachusetts, paper,
and the main paper of Burlington, Vermont. Money was not raised in_a timely
fashion for these ads except in the case of the Roxbury-Dorchester and Somervill
clubs. And we did not even have the information for the Western Massachusettsselection until the last week of the campaign." k!:k:£
Speaking about the LAURA ROSS campaignadvised:
"Our communist congressional candidate, LAURA ROSS, completed her
campaign successfully, registered 15,668 voteseover 2§ times the vote in
8
SECRET
v
3
3
1
I
4
4
°/5
..i_.u-...._A
xl e SENET, ~ A 1
a . ,
BS 229B2
the last campaign. This was 8 percent of the vote for congress in the eighth
congressional district. Some of the vote is due, of course, to the tremendous
signature drive both for LAURA ROSS and for GUSS HALL and ANGELA DAVIS waged
in the eighth congressional district. Nearly 20,000 residents of the eighth
congressional district had signed for comunist candidates and many more
received communist election materials. LAURA's campaign itsel distributed
over 10,000 flyers, posted posters, and ran ads in nine communi ewspapers.
LAURA's positions appeared in election supplement prepared by th A U ,_,<RA di saer ." //// ' OF WOMEN V02§§§ and interviews with LAU appeare n many new p p ga"'____
Regarding other congressional districts,-advised:
"We need to run communist candidate for congressional office in
1986. Running outside the context of the Presidential campaign, the congressional
campaign will find it more dffficult to generate a high vote than we did
in this campaign, unless we can successfully couple congressional campaign
with a mass political movement as we did in this campaign."
"Our most recent experience in the 1984 election points out a problem
we have not successfully solved regarding our style of work. We must work
to develop our communist campaigns and we must work to develop our party'swork with mass united front activities."
Regarding the plans for 1985,-asserted:
"The club plans of work are presented to club conferences which
should be scheduled for January and February, 1985. The District Committee
at its next meeting will approve and circulate to the clubs a draft plan
of work on the work of the District. This should be useful in helping the
clubs, commissions, and committees in developing their plans of work."
"The upcoming municipal elections will feature strongly in our
work in 1985. Boston, Somerville, Cambridge, New Bedford, Fall River, and
Springfield, we must have a party approach to these elections, including
a communist candidate for the city council in Boston municipal elections.
We must have concrete plans in addition to support the candidates of AfroAmerican,
Puerto Rican, women, peace, and trade union candidates."
"The defense of the trade union movement must be an important feature
in our work. We must develop plans to assist contract fights in GE and for- _
work to develop the trade union left in 1985." _ '
"The activity of an ongoing and outgoing peace movement must be
an important feature of our 1985 plan of work. We must take the initiative
for a new round of community speakouts on peace and economic justice and
IImake certain that referendums and other activities are initiated. if
r 3. ""Th? |h:,,__$&§ii£2W°*.. yl f !.. - -- _ to be held in"*'4lL.;
Moscow from y t rough -ugust 3 must -e an important feature of work.
_ 9
192rvm |"Q:! Q -_ , t £..__>_,._- 4+. 92 _-________.__-_._,.
e .a; . ~ *1,». »-rs-_:~- v// Iu. auo x . _,,-..t; 1 |- t ~ _ - -'19292"92__""'f'Y' f . - 1- ; " .-, t. -- _ 2 *QunusNP .7 x.}iQ~~~ ' »
» <11¢;d?r¢iZ'zn ' '
I'._ /_ I .- / - _.
. --~ F
>_- _ "I .~ 1 T0 , _FBI __»5 !...',a;_, .;_;92 »} DATE; 9 /13 ,,.~|_92 I _ .' =__ ' K5
, PHILADELPHIA 5-38895!_!q{§~e.- it., 3 1 lEj92'2_'e§;El»3:" I < _ . ".4 , "
_%;;,_ V ¬H_susyzcr/92 / z 92 .
V p - ng and Protest egi s »~"- ,§ s Demonstration, Independence Hallj;,W' ," _mi q 921fj'3 Philadelghia, Pa., 10/1Q/§7 C, '1 / / / >" ~c "yo? -SSA, 19¢ _l ';_ ~ "r a
o 1 SEP-l;TI'Qi1_q"i_l9_QN_;gIMCY_'_'----7 S / . // "92@;92 -<<>o= In it , Q l
...__;~ / , ' .~ //// :;~592= A Enclosed for the information o,te,Bnfeau are ;92;I
J two copies of a list of names and organizations copiled Ii .
by the Civil Disobedience Unit, Philadelphia Police
." Department, Philadelphia, Pa.L fromlvarious items of
-L literature obtained from the §hilaQglpniamgntl,P§§§§g. ~ >- * Union Of§ice, 1515 South Street: Philadelphia, Pa., by '6TfiEE¥s er the Civil Disobedience Unit, early in April l968,jafter they secured admission to the premises through the
l rental agent, thereafter the Philadelphia Anti Draft Union "
had vacated the premises, " i, it'~.. ~
F I;, }// enclosed list was furnished by Lieutenant __, Civil Disobedience Unit, Fniladelphia . .
olice Department, Philadelphia, Pa., on 8/27/Q8. "L5
p ' Philadelphia is merely furnishing the enclosed ';;;
¬ to the Bureau for information and indexing purposes, and /-'¥92»M3' in view of the lapse of time between the securing.of this ~ Q
:92*q~material by the Civil Disobedience Unit and the furnishing . é;jtnereor to the FBI, Philade1phia_is making no further j ;»;dissemination thereof UACB.~ Philadelphia has made appropriate ;=indexing of this list within$_ ts division. {g/,
~ s C C QSURET . C 1.19292b Q-Bu1~ea1.15-5 7051!! En°- 2! " " - ' Q. I; " -
6
2-Phil d 1 hi ; 1 "' -- ' ~"r@. M8-a 1%~ ' 1"25-38:95 ' g" 1-25 -38580 / Q29 = 17 sap 24 19s_s
E - ' _ 4Q; ;;- §1! A
92 " , < ' ~
I
" ~ 5 . ,l*" T1 U .S . .5/wingx Bond: Reg:zlm"l_;";on fife. Prgyra/1 Xnzlimzs P/an 4 » '/
, 1 . .
-_' " ~' .' - ~; 1 92»- -
.._
-.
UE OF WOI/[EN VOTERS ' }92L0n..F11&n$L_1?119J @911 ' - Q '
2102»-South St.-__ '92
PhiladelphiaV,M_Pa. ' H Q4.1
I I ,» '.-_' V " 4
~- ="' . - _' ' . I V , . I O
4 > I
I
92
g ,
Qmé, '
i .
. I. 0
I
b
an
-
- II