Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Subject: MATTACHINE SOCIETY

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- T0 Director, FBI DATE May 21, 1953

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On hay ?9,1953, Confidential Informant of known
reliability who is a sex deviate contacted SA
Informant mane availablp a copy of a Publication entitled 

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Rev1ew of the Publication reflects it is published in Los
angeles, California. The mailing address is P. O. Box 5716, Los angeles.


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_Further rev1en of the Publication indicates written for
.Sex Deviatea.

The Bureau's attention 18 directed to Pages 9 and 10 of the
publication. The article is entitled "Are You Now or have you ever been 5
a Homosexual". The paragraph in question reads in part as follows? An
example sill help to 1llustrate this. In one of our host boast Jities, a
yeir or so ago, one of the airlines companies employed the FBI to do a
thorough investigation of the private lives of its employees. A large



mto face an investigator ind maragement one at a time, each employee as
asked point blank ?Is it true you're a homosexual?" when several refused to 1
answer without being given definite proof of accusation, the FBI investigatorF?i
Simply referred to the loyalty signed by the employee on his application form
and said, you re-affirm this oath?n ahen the victim it,
then he was snugly informed that he had waived his rights under the
constitution to refuse to answer cencerning his alleged 

suggested that evaluation of the entire article, a 
part of which is Quoted above indicates that the writer of the article _1
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The publication is enclosed for the Bureau?s information. A 

copy of this letter is designated for the Los Angeles Office for it's
information since the publication is apparently published within that
irision.

No investigation is being conducted by this office.
a?egistered Enclosure 
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WENTY FIVE CENTS \The front and back of the book ?Are you now
or have you ever been a homosexual? were

scanned in. There are 23 pages that were not
scanned in.

 inc post office box 5716 los ongeles 55. colif

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I want It year's subscrip?on . 
I won! copies of ?le out Issue 
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woof .coples of file an? issue. 
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twenty cents per copy, annual two dollars In the United States and Canada Three dollars an
all other counmes Publication Office Post Office Box 5716. LOS A?oeles 55. California
For Sealed, Furs! Class Add Forty Cents

YOUR CHECK IS AN INVESTMENT IN TRUTH.

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four letter to a: qf June 29, 1953, with
enclosure, rhich In: nailed to the Honorable 
E. reattac, has been refhrred to ny attention.

I want to take this opportunity to thank
you for bringing this matter to our attention, and
you may be sure that we sincerely appreciate your
interest in this regard.

Sincerely yours,

ALL INFORMATION CONTAIHEED Edgar Hoover
FEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED Why!

DATEMBY

 

 

 

NOTE: It 18 noted thud Iletter was
addressed to the Dzreetnr and maLTPd tn Congressman Keatzng.
There :3 no record ofl heatng brought

 

 

Publzcatton dtrec+lud to Hr. Hoover? 3 attenttop.
Dru?: record of the publicatzon ?One wh1ch

enclosed. Ne ?eroqatory Information
New ?ooks, the publleher of 
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T0 DIRECTOR, FBI DATE: 7-6-53
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3 ONE INCORPORATED ?T?e
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Re San Diego letter to Bureau dated 5?21-53 captioned
THE PUBLICATION 
Records of the Los Angeles Post Office Department
reflect that Box 5716, California, was on ll?5e52 7?
taken out in the name of who listed his 
both residence and business, asl
and listed his business as insurance. Iis

 

the dividing street between Beverly Hi and Los Angeles. The
greatest volume of mail which is received in this box is addressed
to "One Incorporated"and ?Magazine One".

 

On 6?4-53 SAI lreviewed file No. b?

22012, Corporation Division, records of the County Clerk of
8? cs Angeles County, Los Angeles, California, which reflected
the following: One Incorporated, a non-profit corporation, was
formed on 2?7-53. Its articles of incorporation reflect its
primary purposes to be, ?That the specific and primary purposes
for which this corporation is formed are to publish and dissem-
inate a magazine dealing primarilypwit homosexuality from the
scientific, historical and criticei?npp ?t of view and to aid
in the social integration and rehabilitation of the sexual
variant." These articles further reflect that its general
purposes, among others, are ?to sponsor, supervise and conduct
5! educational programs, lectures and concerts for the aid and
benefit of all social and emotional variants and to promote
. among the general public an interest, knowledge and understand-
?23 ing of the problems of such persons. To promote the integra-
e; tion into society of such persons whose behavior varies from
the current moral and social standards and to aid the development
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of social and moral responsibility in all such persons." Its
principal office is to be located in Los Angeles County.

Its first directors were listed as:

MART NIBLOCK, 1061% North st. Andrews, Los Angeles;
19933 Lemoyne Street, Los Angeles;
221 South Bunker Hill Avenue, Los Angeles.

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The aforementioned directors *1
signatures to the Articles of Incorporation. The notary was

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meeting which was held 12?17-52 at
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On 6-4-53 SE

 

reviewed the records of

 

the Retail Merchants Credit Association (RMCA), Los Angeles.

These records 
aforementioned

the Los Angeles Police

 

 

 

1O identifiable record with the

 

 

On 6-8?53 SE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

reviewed the records of

Angeles County

contain no record identifiable

On SA's: and
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Sher ff's Office, both of which
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4??ifles Committee for Protection of Foreign Born

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6-12w53, contained no record identifiable with

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present at an IPP meeti<g) on 8?12?48 at  I

Los Angeles, California

 

 

 

 

The "Dail? People' World, a West Coast Communist
newspaper, on 8 13 8, page 1, reflected that one DALE JENNINGS,
a male of the Echo Park IPP Club, participated in a demonstra?
tion against high prices on in Los Angeles, California.

 

 

 

 

 

 

ladvised SAI I2ml-ll0 (l 0-24855-
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given on ?30-49 by the Los ,Angeles 59th AD of the 
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of the Roth an TPP party which was to be held on la30~49 at
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The files of the Los Angeles Police Department ard Los
Annalee ounty Sheriff? 3 Office, which were reviewed?
were

 

 

 

 

 

6- 9- 53, contained no identifiable record of

aforementione??__2he_?ilea_g? the RMCA whi
reviewed 6?12?53 by r_contained no record which

was identifiable with

advised 50
2, Vol. 6, pg. v11 R1 

Congress in October 1950 maintained the n%f% of one

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The files of the RMCA, which were reviewed by SE
-12?53, contained no record identifiable with
aforementioned. The files of the Los Angeles Police

Department and the ty Sheriff's Office, which
were reviewed by SE 642*53, contained no record

identifiable withl  aforementioned<la9

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I is an SI
subject 01 this aiv1s1on, Bufile loo-544652
Unless advised to the contrary by the Bureau, no 
further action is being taken in this division. 

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sac, San Francisco August 6, 1953

RECORDED - 3c ?it-actor, rs: (mo-403329) 

m: ?405m room: nos, aka
INTERNAL .. 

in node to tho rapprt of Sp-oial b?c
Agont dotod July 14, 1958, at San Francisco.
A run as of rtforanocd roport only five copils
of some more furnished tho Bureau and only two copies
war: furnished the Lao Angelao Office, office of origin
in this coco. The Son Q?fiol also failed to
includo the dcoipnotod ofyioo file number for this cool.

 

Paragraph on: on page six of upooiol Agant

oaotso in part ?oopioo of this report are
not being dooignsted for military intolligcnoo ogcnoilc

in atom of the lack of identifying information for tho

two military parsonntl oonoaraod in this report.? Despitu
the absence of such idontifying information,tha

San Franoiadl Q?fioo is instructed to furnish copies of
roforcnold report to the appropriott military councils.

the Loo Angelou foioc is requested to furnioh
tho Eurlou, in the near futuro, report savoring the
activities to data of ?ottoohioo Foundation.

YELLOW ONLY:

One Photostat of referenced report 13 bezng
prepared in order that the necessary dissemination can
be made at the Bureau to Include the Untted States Coast

Guard.

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Mattaehino tion, an organization of homosexuals, reported to have been
formed in Los Angeles, California and to have spread to other What Coast cities.
The leader of the foundation in the San Francisco Bay Area region reported to
bel Ipresently a professor at the University of California,
Berkeley, California,but who in 1950 was reported to not have been employed by
the University of California for refusal to sign the loyalty oath. Names of
individualb attend' ttachine Foundation in San Francisco Bay Area set forth


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This inv tion was predicated upon receipt of information received
from San Maniac of unknown reliability but who was in a position to
know, that the San rancisco Bay Area Section of the Mattaohine Foundation, an
organization of homosexuals, was headed by a former professor at the University
of California, Berkeley, California. This professor was reported to have been
dropped from the University of California faculty for refusal to sign the 
loyalty oath. 7/44

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San Francisco California, a ch: of the; tar: Foundation


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organization of homosexuals. that this organization originated

in the Los Angeles, California Area and in addition to the chapter being b2
formed in San Francisco there alcead? was in existence two chapters in 
jerkelcy and one in Oakland. SF declared at the leader of the chapter k3?3
in the San Francisco Bay Area region was a professor who Jelc
had been dropped from the pay roll at the 1 er31 of California? Berkeley, 
California, for refusal to sign a loyalty oath. 

ancisc of known reliability, advised on July 7 1953 that 
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a professor at the University of Calitgrnia, Berkeley,

California, refused to sign his contract in Se tember, 1950 (exact reason for jb7D
refusal unknown) but on September 1, 1952, act at the University
of California was renewed until June 30, 19 3. preSent status is ib?C
unknown.

SF said that the Mattachine Foundation was having weekly meetings b2
in San Francisco and usually would be apiroximately thirty to thirty-six 
homosexuals in attendance. advised that to his knowledge nothing i3fD

subversive was discussed and very little was accomplished because the home-
sexuals became too involved in discussing their own problems of adjustment
to the world about them.

that on the evening of may 195 cisco
Branch of the Nattanhinn met at an apartment on around 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the corner from At this matting thirzyatwo homosexuals were .
in attendance, 'hree of whom were Lesbians. SF said that present at this E?7b
L/?m sting was a uniformed Coast Guardsman from Government Island Alana b;x,
alifornia and a Marine Corps Korean veteran (civilian clothesi. SF was
able to provide a description of the chairman of this meeting as fol' 5:
Name: I I
Born: unite tes 
Age: About
Hair:
Height:
Eyes:
Education: i
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Residence:
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On June 6, 1953, SF prOVided the writer from do of the
following individuals who belongs to the San Francisco Chapter of the 
Nattachine Foundation:

 

 

 

 

 





Oaklan 

 

 

 

 

Coast Guard friend 01 from Government Island,
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University of California 

 

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SF also provided the writer with a copy of pertinent portions of 332
the constitu?ion of the Mattaohine Society which is set forth as follows: 337?

 

 

 

 

PREAMBLE

 

"we the members of the MATTAGHIRE SOCIETY in full awareness of our
social obligation as members of the human community hold it necessary that
a highly ethical homosexual culture be integrated in society; and, whereas,
the present laws of many lands are discriminatory and limit the best
expression of the culture; and, whereas we are resolved that those people shall
find equality; and, whereas we desire to Spread knowledge of the aims and
aspirations of this through mutual education of its membership and
of soc1ety, we, therefore, hereby resolve.

ARTICLE I
Section I:

"The Society shall be comprised of persons who are duly initiated
members of a chartered chapter.

Section 

"Mbmbers shall be admitted regardless of race, color or creed.
No provision shall be made to destroy the anonymity of any member without
?rn?ssion.

RESOLLTIGN

"Whereas this organization is neither political nor sectarian and
whereas we believe that our group can only achieve the social integration
which it takes within the framework of a free society; and, whereas we find it
eageoially significant that the most brutal and restrictive laws against
homosexuals occur in those countries like Russia, where freedom of the
individual is most severely limited; and whereas those who attack the basic
freedom of the individual in this country, both of the extreme right and the
extreme left,have been the most bitter enemies of the homosexuals we, therefore,
resolve to pledge ourselves to fight racial, religious and sexual discrimination
within and outside the organisation."

 

 

 

 

 

SF advised that the members of the Mattachine Seeiety felt that b2
the FBI would eventually investigate them; theref anned to make
the public aware of their organization by for the 1373
"San Fnancisco Examiner? to mention their organizat' in his column. bgf?
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San Franciscol:l of unhhof? reliability but in a position
to know, provided substantially the same infonnation as SF on May 29, 1953,
v?h reapect above-mentioned organisation. In addition to the above,

however, SF was able to state that the Mattachinc Foundation had been in

existence for a long while in Los Angeles, California. He stated that there

was a movement afoot in Los Angeles to break away from the Mattach' a

Foundation and establish the Nattachine Society. According to the be

break away was being occasioned by the feeling that there were 
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of the group (names unknown) snapected of being pro?Communist. SF stated
that the organization was definitely not subversive and that the a: the
organization was to educate legislatorsand educators with respect to home-
sexuality in order that homosexuals would not be discriminated against and by
allowing homosexuals to better adjust themselves to society.

 

 
  
  

On May 28, 1953, SF. provided the writer with 1pril, 1953, issue
of a magasine entitl 'qu" which is published by Post h?
Office Box 5716, Los Angeles, a ornia." This issue I?ost'exeulsively . 
devoted to an article entitled "Are Yen Now Or Have You Ever Been a Homosexual?? b7L3
An Analysis of Today's Most Versatile word: 'Loyalty?" Pertinent portions

of the article are set forth as follows:

 

is at this point that the principle and policy of the
Fattechine Foundation enters the picture. It is true that the Foundation
chooses to consider itself strictly nonupartisan and nonapolitical in its
objective and in its operations and Mattachine Foundation



deliberately put itself squarely in opposition to a dominant section of the
status quo and elects to become a victim of the myriad implications and
derivative of that opposition.

"To visualize the depth and scope of this opposition clearly, we
must recall the victims of the Un-American Activities Committee's purge of the
State Department in the late summer and fall of l9h9, . a purge which spread
to the Agriculture Department, the Departments of the Interior, of Labor, and
of Commerce, in 1950, 1951 and 1952. In the first big juicy blast to hit the
headlines, it was disclosed that 96 perverts had been purged from the Dtate
Department. What was hidden on back pages and in subsequent minor releases,
was the indictment and the far-reaching policies and administrative decisions
emanating from that indictment. The indictment was horrifying in its
complete lack of justification other than fantasy and hysteria. It stated
bluntly that homosexuals typified by either their personal inclinations and/or
their associations, must be considered as basic security risks and thereby
unemployable by the government or by any enterprise either public or private
who might be dealing with the government, because their personal livas and/or
associations laid them wide open to blackmail by a foreign power.

one of our west Coast cities, a year or so ago, one of the
airlines companies employed the FBI to do a thorough investigation of the
private lives of its employees. A large percentage of the office staff were
suspected of being homosexual. Called in to face an investigator and management
one at a time, each employee was asked point blank, 'Is it true that you're a
homosexual?I When several refused to answer without being given definite
proof of accusation, the FBI investigator simply referred to the loyalty signed
by the employee on his application form and said, 'Will you re?affirm this
oath?? When the victim re-affirmed it, then he was snugly informed that he
had waived his rights under the Constitution to refuse to answer concerning
his alleged homosexuality. All thOSe found to be homosexual were summarily
fired as basic security risks under the State Department 

taking such a stand as a body, and by simultaneously
re-affirming its bacic prin01ple of aligning itself with, and participating
in, no partisan political action whatsoever at any time, the Foundation is
declaring that it hereby reserves the right to advance suggestions, to
criticize, and to evaluate at any and at all times the status quo between
the begrudging community magority and the contending coalition of the homo-
sexual minority with its summer soldierv of 

ENCLOSURE: To the Bureau the April, 1953 edition Of "One."

- RUG 

ADMENISTRATIVE RAGE

Couies of this report are not being designated for military
inteliigence in view of the lack of identifying information for the
two military personnel concerned in this report. and in view of the loose
connection on the part of the Mattachine Foundation and Comism.

The Los Angeles Office is being designated as office of origin in
this case because the Mattachine Foundation is reported to have originated
in Los Angelea.

The character of this report is deSignated as Internal Security - 

because the allegations against the Mattachine Foundation were that the b2
foundation might be Communist dominated or controlled. It is felt, however, 
that the Mattachine Foundation is not a Communist organization. 

 

Because of the nature of the info 197::
Wanted that San Francisco
San Francisco, California, no interviewed again.



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5:11 Is San Francisco,
Catii'orn?ia, who ore Drovided the information contained b2
in one report to SA in May, June and July, 1953 

SF Isl I University of California,
Berkeley, California emetion contained 
in this report to SA on July 7, 1953omia, 1550 prov: ded mat on

?ned in this report to 3A3 and I
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of 
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Criminal Division Aug~st 19, 1055

Director?, PLI

aka . 
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Maris?LLamm?one OOyy? of the report of
Special Agent dated JILL: 14, 1953, at
Jun Fhunciaoo, relating to the antivities 0f the
caytioned organization.

You may desire to review the above regort in
detail in connection with Exacut {09 Order 10450.

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MATTACHINE FOUNDATION,

CHARACTER OF CASE

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?"05??ch u??fficials of the Seattle Police Department and
of the University of Washington advise that they
. have no information that the captioned organization

5b is in existence or active in the Seattle, Wasningtor
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Detectiveel andl  all of the Morale
Relation De ai ea le Police Department, advised that no organiza?
tion known as the Mattachine Foundation or Mattaohine Society has

ever come to their attention. They further advised that a check of
the Morale Relation Detail files reflected that no information has

ever been furnished them about such an organization.
University

*asning on, a Mattaohine
Foundation or Mattachine Society is active in the Seattle, Washington

area. 
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REFERENCE: Report of SA

 

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O?ice Nlemowmwm . UNITED STATE.) GOVERNMENT

c" TO DIRECTOR, FBI (loo?403320) DATE. 9/9/53
Enos: SAC, LOS ANGELES (loo-#5888)
sumac-r FOUNDATION, 
aka Th? Mattachine Society;

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Rerep 34 Idated 9/9/53 on the above-captioned b?C
subJect, six copies 0 are enc osed herewith.

Perusal of the April 1953 issue of the publication "one" reflects
the following in the article "Are Yen New or Have You Ever Been a
Homosexual?", which is quoted extensively commencing on page 27 of refrep:

 

"An example will help to illustrate this. In one of
our West Coast cities, a year or so ago, one of the airlines
companies employed the FBI to do a thorough investigation of the
private lives of its employees. A large percentage of the office 
staff were suspected of being homosexual. Called in to face an
investigator and management one at a time, each employee was asked
point blank, '15 it true that you're a homosexual?? When several
refused to answer without being given definite proof of accusation,
the FBI investigator simply referred to the loyalty oath signed by
the employee on his application form and said, 'Will you re-affirm
this oath?? When the victim re-affirmed it, then he was smugly
informed that he had waived his rights under the Constitution to
refuse to answer concerning his alleged homosexuality. All those
found to be homosexual were summarily fired as basic security risks

t?3?i under the State Department indictment. Several who denied being

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themselves homosexuals were subsequently fired because they asso-
ciated with homosexuals. All in all, it is estimated that nearly
75% of the most competent technicians of this company's office

were fired and Of course blacklisted simply because they had

allowed themselves to be tricked into relinquishing their tradi-
tional protections as American Citizens. We must remind ouselves
that constitutional guarantees, like civil rights, are not divisible.
If they are not good for some, then they are of no value to anyone.

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Obviously, no airlines or other company has employed the FBI in
any manner whatsoever. This office has no knowledge of any circumstances

or incident which could possibly be related.

In view of the character of the publication, no action is being
taken in this matter unless specifically instructed by the Bureau.

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THE MATTACHINE FOUNDATION, INC.
Aka The Mattachine Society; 
ONE, INC. Ki.? 
SYNOPSIS OF FACTS- o1 {sir-?L 35"" 
The Mattachine Foundation, Inch? aka The Mattaci?he'vsociety,
was incorporated with its main office in Los Angeles, California, 
in April, 1953, as a non-profit corporation whose primary
purpose was to conduct research in the field of homosexuality,

to publish and disseminate results of such research, and to
aid the so. and rehabilitation of sexual

variants. an attorney interested in the organiza-

tion of the Foundation, has been reported to be a member of

the Communist Party. The applicant for the resent Post

Office box used by the Foundation is mime has

been reported to be a past member of ommun Party.

The Foundation or Society has caused to be formed an

organization called ?One, Inc.? for the purpose of publishing

a magazine called "One" which magazine reflects that it is by:

devoted to the problems of homosexuals and particularly to 

discussions concerning the civil rights of homosexuals based

on allegations of entrapment and persecution by police depart-

ments and unfair treatment by the government and variOus

government investigative committees such as the McCarran Committee

. .i and House Committee on {In-American Activities in causing
homosexuals to be discharged from government employment. 
Of those active in 5W Inc. and in the AIZ in 
publishing of "One", lie said to have Wig/s- 
been a Communist, a subscriber to the Daily Peeples World anti? 

?u (A West Coast Communist newspaper), and to have been active 

*Mn the Independent Progressive Party which has been characterized

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two attorneya,l land; both of

whom have been said to be members 0 the Communist arty.
Investigation reveals an organization affiliated with.The
Mattachine Foundation, Inc. called "CitizemCommittee to

Outlaw tra ment? which issued literature citing an arrest 
an example or police entrapment. or 
those ac ve he affairs of the Mattachine Foundation

and in the publishing of "One" or who have attended meetings,
0 cc de as homosexuale'

 

 

 

 

 

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PRELIMINARY STATEMENT

The information set forth herein pertains to The
Mattachine Foundation, Inc., also known as The Mattachine
Society, and the magazine "One" which is published by One,
Inc. The two are being treated in separate sections of
this report.

All sources indicated by?T symbols are of known
reliability unless otherwise indicated.

PART I - THE MATTACHINE FOUNDATION. INC.

The records of the Los Angeles County Clark's Office,
Division of Corporations, 307 South Hill Street, Los Angeles,
California, reflect that Articles of Incorporation for The
Mattachine Foundation were filed with the Secretary of State
of the State of California on April 27, 1953. Pertinent
portions of such Articles of Incorporation are as follows:

"Primary Purposes:

 

"The specific and primary purposes for which
this corporation is formed are to sponsor, super~
vise and conduct scientific research in the field
of homosexuality; to publish and disseminate
the results of such research; and to aid in the
social integration and rehabilitation of the sexual
vari ant a

"General Purposes:

"To sponsor, supervise and conduct medical,
social, pathological, and therapeutic
research of every kind and description pertaining
to socio-sexual behavior and to publish and dis-
seminate the results of such research.

"To sponsor, supervise and conduct educational
programs for the aid and benefit of all social and

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emotional variants and to promote among the general
public an interest, knowledge and understanding
of the problems of such persons.

"To premote the integration into society of
such persons whose behavior varies from current
moral and social standards and to aid the development
of social and moral responsibility in all such
persons."

The corporation was established as a non-profit
corporation under the laws of the State of California with
its principal office stated to be in the County of Los

Angeles.

The first directors named in the Articles of In-
corporation were listed as?

Mrs. D. 1206 Warren Street, San
Fernando, California

lhlo?warren Street, San Fernando,
California

Mrs. 3132 Oak Crest Drive, Los Angeles
28, California

The Articles of Incorporation state that the rights
and duties of members of the corporation shall be established
by the byulaws which shall be adopted by the directors of
such corporation. The Articles of Incorporation were filed
June 7, 1952, by the aforementioned first directors. The
signatures of ROMAYNE cox and Mrs. D. J. were
witnessed on June 7, 1952, by SAM S. MARRONE, Notary Public.
The signature of Mrs. HENRY HAY'was witnessed June 10, 1952,
by LOUIS F. BANCHER, Notary Public.

The Retail Mere a tion has no
identifiable record on

 

 

The Los Angeles Police Department and the L03 b:c
A Office have no identifiable recOrd



 

 



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The Retail Mercha?fs_?zedit_Asa?ciation has no
identifiable information b7C

The Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles
Co tv Sheriff's Office have no identifiable criminal record
on

 

 

 

 

The Retail Merchant tion has no
identifiable information on

The Los Angeles Police Department and the Los b7c

Office have no criminal record
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advised pecial Agent 
August 1 53. that the main purpose of The MaEEacEJne

Foundation seemed to for the protection of and welfare
of homosexuals. The foundation has operated by organizing
discussion groups and has indicated it intends to conduct
classes and open discussions for both homosexuals and b2
heterosexuals on what they term as unjust persecutions by

a corrupt police department.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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tb advised tha? an interested person upon making WC

inquiry Mattachine Foundation, Inc. concerning its
program was sent a questionnaire as follows:

MATTACHINE FOUNDATION, INC.

"Interest Questionnaire:

"Please check the items below in uhich you, as an

individual or member of an organization, would be

interested.

Being on our mailing list

Attending or participating in discussion
groups

Participating in research projects



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Re-writing or editing materials for future
publication which have been gathered by dis-
cussion groups and conferences

Participating in campaigns for civil and
social rights

 

Participating in other projects or activities
(please list)

 

Forming your own committee among your friends
or contacts to work under the sponsorship of
the Foundation

Please indicate the purpose for which you
would like to organize such a committee

 

 

"If you have friends or contacts to whom you would
like the Foundation to send this preliminary letter,
please give names and addresses below. Please
inform any friends whose names you list of the
existence of the Foundation and of your request

that information be mailed to them.(Use reverse

side for additional names if necessary.)

 

 

"Please sign your own name and that of your organiza-
tion, list your address, and mail this sheet to
the Mettachine Foundation, address on letterhead."

Ion Fare 16, 1953, advised Special Agent

I that an organization known as The Mattachine
oun a on was rcu sting a questionnaire among the candidates by
for Mayor, city council, and board of supervisors, for the 

 

purposes of soliciting their ideas and opinions concerning b?D
the treatment of homosexuals by the police department and
9? police courts. This questionnaire, according to 
was accompanied by a letter on the letterhead of the

-a achine Foundation, Inc., Post Office Box 2833, Terminal
Annex, Los Angeles, California, which purported to explain
the purposes and policy of the foundation.

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The letter and questionnaire are as follows:

MATTACHINE FOUNDATION, INC.
P.0. Box 2833, Terminal Annex
L03 M89133, 0311f-

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
CANDIDATES FOR mama, CITY COUNCIL AND
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

"The Mactachine Foundation is a nonmpartisan service
council devoted to the social objective of inte-
grating with the purposes and requirements of the
community the enormous potential of valuable civic
contributiveness and concern of such ill?understood
social minorities as the homosexuals. If only a
conservative percentage of Dr. Alfred Kinsey's
testimony before the 1951 California State Legis-
lature's Interim Committee is conceded, there are

at least 150,000 such persons in the Los Angeles
area alone. Though the Foundation's policy strictly
limits the Council's position to that of non-
partisan editorship on any issue, it welcomes any
Opportunity to disseminate as many variant and/or
opposing partisan opinions as can be engendered.

It is fully confident that the wider the forum on
any controversy, the more constructive the Community's
resolution on that issue.

"There is a growing body of evidence to indicate

that the Los Angeles Police are assigned to deliberate
practices, with regard to the Homosexual Minority,
which in Federal, State, and municipal Courts, other
than those of the Los Angeles Area, are considered
explicitly unlawful. Quota assignments, decoys
detaikad specifically to entrap, invasions of privacy
by fraudulent means, searches-seisures-and arrests
without due process of law, arraignments handled

in coersive and unconstitutional procedures, --

even though they are harassments aimed at a Minority
who can be counted on to hide these civil infractions
at all costs, - such illegalities can?be characterized
as corrosive factors not only in police administra?
tion, but as factors conducive to further corrup-
tions within the general administration as well.



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"In the best public interests of the Connmmity at (kiwi/AL;
large, as well as in the best interests of the
150,000 Homosexuals pertinently concerned, The
Mattachine Foundation invites your expression on

these matters. As a candidate for a public office
whose duties include responsibility for the further

growth of the Community's social health, what are
your opinions on the following issues: -

Do you favor the continuance of the quota
assignments currently issued to members of
the Vice Squad Detail?

No Yes
(Give reason)

Do you favor the continuance of the practice
of planting decoys for the purposes of entrap-
ment?

No Yes
(Give reason)

Do you favor the confiscation of address books
and telephone memos in such cases?
No Yes
(Give reason)

Do you favor arrests of this nature without
issuance of duly certified warrants?
No Yes

(Give reason)

Do you favor Police Court Arraignments wherein,
in disregard of the procedures detailed in the
California State Law, persons are commanded
to plead to charges which are neither read,
nor prepared by the City Attorney's office,
nor attested to by representatives of the
Community?

No Yes

(Give reason)

If elected, what policies might you be expected

to propose in regard to these matters?


 

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If you are unfamiliar with any of the items gnw_
indicated above, upon being elected what CUM :anAU
might you be expected to do in these matters?

"The Foundation wishes to assure you that any
opinions which you present will be published
exactly as they were queried above and as you
answered them.

"Thanking you in advance for your consideration
of these issues, we are

"Yours very truly,

"The Mattachine Foundation. Inc."

 

advised that aforementioned post office b2
box 2833, Terminal Annex 03 An eles Ialifornia, was sub- b7C

scribed to by

 

 

 

 

 

 

On March 12, 1953. there appeared in the Los Angeles
Mirror, a newspaper of general circulation, in the column of
PAUL V. COATES, an account of the circulation by the Mattachine
Foundation, Inc. of the aforementioned questionnaire to the
candiates for councilman, etc.. followed by an account of
effort to identify the principals in the organiza-
tion as follows:

"The letter lists a Miss Romayne Cox as
secretaryatreasurer of Mattachine, Inc. It gives
the Foundation's address as P.O. Box 2833, Terminal
Annex.

"This postal box is registered to Mrs. Henry
Hay, an elderly lady, who is a director of the

group I

spoke with her yesterday.

"'We started three years ago,? she told me.
IThen we incorporated. Now we?re building groups

in every community. There are many thousands of
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?But it's an odd thing. I checked the State
Division of Corporations and the County Clark's
offices. There is no record or a Mattachine Corpora-
tion.

"Mrs. HAY seemed particularly vague when I
asked where I might locate Miss COX. She hung up
promising to have another member call me.

"He did, a few moments laters But he also was
unable to tell me where Miss COX could be reached.

"That's odd, too. The Mattachine Foundation
survives by donations from interested parties.
This elusive lady is the treasurer.

"If I belonged to that club, I'd worry.

learned that the articles of incorporation
were drawn up by an attorney named FRED M. SNIDER,
who was an unfriendly witness at the Uh-Amerioan
Activities Committee hearings. SNIDER is the legal
adviser for Mattachine, Inc.

"The organization's unusual name was derived
from the Societe de Matsachines, a troupe of jesters
in medieval France, who fought for civil refonms.

BE ANYTHING

"This modern, American version could be many
things. Perhaps it's Just another weird outcropping
of election time. Or, it might be a group of res?
ponsible citizens, seriously concerned with a tragic
social problem.

"Then again, it could be a device for gathering
a strong bloc of votes. That's not as fantastic
as it sounds.

"Mattaohine's figures of 150,000 to 200,000
homosexuals in our area were no idle guess. They
were taken from the Kinsey Report and the findings
of the State Interim Committee on Sex Deviation.

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?Homosexuals have been found to be bad security
risks in our State Department. They're a scorned

part of the community.

"It's not inconceivable that they might band
together for their own protection. Eventually they
might swing tremendous political power.

wellutrained subversive could move in and
forge that power into a dangerous political weapon.

"To damn this organization, before its aims
and directions are more clearly established, would
be vicious and irresponsible.

"Maybe the people who founded it are sincere.
It will be interesting to see." It

pig August 17. 1953,gadvised original

spplioat for Post Office ox 833, Termina Annex, Los

Angeles, California, could not be located. Consequently,
the original subscriber andthe references listed by such

subscriber could not be verified. 

advised that on July 27, 195 I
had instructed that Post Office Box 2833 a closed and that
all mail addressed to this box should be forwarded to Post
Office Box 1925. Main Office, Los Angeles, California.

#1
@i Iadvised SE cial Agent in July,
9 [?ag-the newly elected

I he
co Northwest Section (later
ywood Section) of the LOW: Co
1 that his wifeJ Iwas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

of the Lincoln 

MARBURG YERKES, a Los Angeles attorney, testified
before the House Committee on Uh-American Activities in
Washington, D.C.. on January an, 1952, that FRED M. SNIDER
was still a member of the Lawyers Branch of the LAOCP in
19h8 or 19h9.

 

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1 The April, 1953. issue of ?One" on Pages 10, 11.
and 12, in an article captioned "Are You Now or Have You
Ever Been a Homosexual?" comments concerning the relationship
of the Mattachine Foundation with Mr. SNIDER. This article
will be quoted in detail in the section of the report per-
taining to "One, Inc."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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In addition to the instructions by relating
to the forwarding'of mail to Post Office Box 1925. Main
Station, Los Angeles, the June issue of ?One", 1953, contains
the following statement:

"The Mattaohine Society. For information on forming
and conducting discussion groups or organizing Chapters
in your city, write, Secretary, P. 0. Box 1925. Los
Angeles 53, California." a.

gadvised on August 17, 1953s th the
for Box 2 . Main Station, Los Angeles, was
He gave his occupation as a machine operator emp 
the American Can Company, eles,
caLifgrnia, and his residence as Los b7C
Angeles 39, Californiaused for ?The Mattachine Society."
References given the application were:
as so orily
Los Angeles, who
ganjs?antnr11v I
angeles, California, who did not answer

The Retail Merchan??_gz?dit_Aseociation contains no
record identifiable with

The Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles
Gountv Rherif 's Office maintained no identifiable record on

 

 

 

 

 

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that
registers ugus ca 

 

 

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advise lop
Q, that res a

Los Angeles, Fglifgjnia._in_: and the had

previously resided at Fransisco, b2
Californgf. in l9?1ranc sco 

ty, New York, from l9hb to 

mark City, New York, in 1914.: a an
Los Angeles, California, in l9u5.

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I further advised that on April 19. walk
0

was employed by the American Can Company,
Angeles, California, as a machine operator having previously
been employed as follows:

 

 

was a machine Operator,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fruhsuf Erailer Company, San Francisco, California,
in 19 1

California Department of Industrial Relations,
California State Compensation Fund, and Western
Nugrain Company in 1950

a.
mfurther advised th t? .- - Loe Angelou
Communie

itical Association ca on May
31. lens. b2

 

 

 

 

h?ld l9ub Communist Party, USA, card b?C

 

 

 

issued by the Communist Party, New York State January
2.1mm. 

I held 19h? Communist Party card
issued by ommun at Party, New York State (date 
not known).

held l9hB Communist Party membership
car ssue Decanter 8, l9h8, in New York, New

York.
b2
on April 22, 195g] dentified! . as ,7
:d known in the ommunist Par ween 

;ew York and San Francisco and further iden ed hop
as a "homosexual expelled from the Party for

 

 

 

 

 

   
  
 

 

 

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Records of the Regi?traz of 29:32: the Lea
County reflect that
Angels 3, C_gLif_Cgrnia, a clef-1c,
registered to vote August 2 19 2, indicating
a ended to affiliate with the Republican Party. b7c
The registrar?s records reflect that prior registrations 
on April h, 1952, April 20, l9h6, January 22, and
August 13, 19kb, registration because of age,

 

 

 

 

all reflected that indicated his intention to affiliate
with the Republican arty.

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Re
Lee Angelea, California:

erchants Credit Aesoci 
one resides at
Los ang ifornia, an a
edeB??d'E?'th?'g

tats of Califoniia Employment Office, 525
South Flower, Los Angeles, as of April an, 1953, as an
"interviewer." The Retail Merchants Credit Asia-4.31011

 

 

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records reflect further that in January, 19b23. was
employed by the Vega Aircraft Plant at Burbank, a fornia,
and that he had formerly been a teacher at california,
and Midland, California, also that he had been employed by

the Grossmont High School Diego, California. Additional
information pertaining to will be set forth in the section
of this report dealing wi ne, Inc,"

Activities of The Mattaohine Foundation Inc.?b'

3, 1953, thagighe following
letter a was addresse to a person
making inq ry a acnine Foundation, Inc.: b2

"Thank you for your letter of I We are b7;
sorry to have been so long in answer ng but the

volume of the correspondence during the past month
has been more than we could 

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"There are many things you could do to assist
in our work. After you read our literature, we suggest
that you write us again and we will have the approPriate
peeple contact you.

"very cordially yours,
MATTACHINE FOUNDATION, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

"/sA I bye
The Los Angelas Police Department and the Lee Angeles
Coun' ontain no criminal record identifiable hic
with

 

 

 

ya
I M13. 1953. th 1: 6 following
letter da was addresse a person
appearing on the mailing list of the Mattachine Foundation,
Inc.:

?On! between six o'clock
and sigh co mam ers and friends of the

Mattachine Society are meeting in mass at the Red
Cross Blood Center, 1130 South Vermont, to donate
blood in the name of the Mattachine Society.

 

 

"with this blood bank program in effect, the
Mattachine Society will certainly be recognized as
an organization that realizes its social obligations

 

and serves its fellow b2
"If you want more information concerning the b7D
program, please feel free to call me at roanect
tween 8:30 a.m. - #:30 p.m. or at b7C

 

 

 

 

Iafter 81X O'Clock 

"In the name of the Mattachine Society - in
the name of humanity, please join us at the blood
bank on Friday, August 7, 1953. between six o'clock
and eighto o'clock p.m.

?Sincerely,

 

 

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Lt.? arms}

The return address on this letter was The Pacific
Athletic Company, 1221 South Wall Street, Los Angeles, California,
which letterhead reflects that Prospect 2155 is the telephone

number of this firm.

 




that

 

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reported that]

the phone at this number. 

 

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 also answers

The Los Angeles County Clerk's Office, Division of
Fictitious Names, 307 South Hill Street, reports that file
No. 126-1314. is maintained on the Pacific Athletic Company 137$
which filed an affidavit on January 17, 19M, stating that
it would conduct a business at 1221 South Bell. Street a_nd

that this firm would consist of
T-o 3, California, and
Los Angeles 35. Cal??orma.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ned

The Retail 
mama 
es nge es, a mini-1311a. b?<3

The Los Angeles Police Department and the Les
?advised tha?t following letter dated
was received by a person making inquiry of 
Mattachine Society. The letter was on the letterhead of the 13d;

 

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Mattachine Foundation Inc., and bore the return address of

I ILos Angeles 53. .nli?onniahnmminnu?
signed in an unidenti able signature as b7C
Los Angelas Area Council, for the Mattaohine Society." A

portion of the letter reads:

 

 

"Your interest in discussion groups sponsored
by the Mattachine Society has been referred to 

"As there are several different types of groups
in this area, we prefer to have a personal interview
with a prospective participant to determine his
specific interest, aims, and tastes."

The hatter asks the addressee to furnish more informa-
tion concerning his interests and stated that that data
furnished by him would be restricted to one or two people
who would set up a meeting with him.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ls1zrr'1r Los Angelea Police Department, Hollyh

wood Div 1 at he

had ar~ested one years

of age, by occupation, who b7C
a? Los Angeles, California.

 

 

 

Istated thaq was arrested as a sexual
deviate and at the time arrest stated have attended

 

numerous meetings of the Mattaohine Society and they were
always talking about entrapment but this is a good, clean
arrest. 

ye

(X9 advised peoial Agent on

August 1 1 53: that on August 

blood at the Red Cross Blood Bank, 1130 South Vermont Avenue,

Los Angeles, California, whose contribution was credited to

the Mattachine Society. Th this group's b2
blood donation were made by Pacific Athletic 
Club, 121 South Hill Street, ge 
her contact telephones as Prospect 2155 and

anAt athe time the arrangements
0 only as wao was
describedd as for the a so no Society, it
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was represented that the society ha?
133: Since lugust 7' 1953' b7C
an have drawn blo rem co an

and charged such witodrawals to the account of the Mattachine
SOCi?tyo

 

 

 

 

Tire Central Telephone D2. octo:y reflects that is?
Hollywood 5-9132 is listed to ROBERT Ea 629 SD'th?gyrh-
Manhattan Plec=, which is the addressireported by fo 

 

 

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who was listed as a reference in the appli-
ca on or Poss Office Box 1925.

 

 

 

The T.O [gel 3 One

   

 

 

 

      

 

 

 

 

 

 

as-

was t: :0 ?ofo i, 3 greed
with violation oi Section 6&7-5 of the Penal Code (Vagrancy
- Lewd). He was fined $100.00, sentenced to 90 days, which b?C
was suspended, and was placed on one year probatign1 The
police records reflect that he was born and 
an interviewer by occupation residing at Hf

His booking number was LAPD No. FBI No.

 

 

 

 

 

 

lk'eib advised pecial Agent Ion
August 1 953, th an crganizat on nown as 0 tizens b2

Committee to Outlaw ntrapment? was fermed in Los An 
in the Spring of 1953. This comittee, according to 3073
was affiliated with the Mattachine Foun ation, Inc., an was b70

organized to work in cooperation with the foundation, the
main purpose of the committee being the protection of and
the welfare of homosexuals.

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PART II - one, INC. CONHKEEWIAL

The County Clerk's Office, Division of Corpora-
tions, 30? South Hill Street, Los Angeles, California, main-
tains a record in File No. 122012 of the incorporation of
One, Inc. This file reflects that Articles of Incorporation
were filad June 1, 1953, and its primary purpose is stated
to be to publish and disseminate a magazine dealing primarily
with homosexuality from the scientific, historical, and critical
point of View, ant to aid in the social integration and the
rehabilitation of the sexual variant.

The general purpose of "One, Inc." is stated to be
to publish and disseminate magazines, brochures, leaflets,
books, and papers concerned with medical, social,patholOgical,
and therapeutic research of every kind and des-
cription pertaining to socio-sexual behavior; to sponsor,
supervise, and conduct educational programs, lectures, and
concerts for the aid and benefit of all social and emotional
variants and to promote among the general public an interest,
knowledge, and understanding of the problems of such persons,
etc.

One, Inca was descrioed as a non~profit corporation
whose principal office was in Los Angeles county. The names
and addresses of the persons to act as first directors of
the corporation are as follows:

1061% North St. Andrews, Los Angehas,

California

TONYHREYES, 221 South Bunker Hill Avenue, Los Angeles,
California.

DALWNINGS, 1933 Lemoyne Street, Los Angels 3,
California

The Articles of Incorporation were notified by
FREE) No SNIDER, (Supra).

The Retail Merchants tains

a report dated July 3, 1953, on
-single, who resides at I Wig:
Iro- .uc s- ifornia, an omer we a

or ywood, California and be ore at

New'Yor. y. E:;:f;jwas said of the Studio
Book Store, Inc., orth Wilcox Avenue, Hollywood,

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California, and to have previously been employed by the
Hollywood Book Store, a firm now out of business.

The gab 5 Police Department
reflect that was arrested march h, 1953,
and charged a on 0 Section 7h2A of the Vehicle
Code which was dismissed in inision 29 of the cipal as
Court on Mar"h 6- 1941- 
8. in 1953:

reflects :hat! _]resided at  
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that he was born 12 
and that he is of Idescent. 
 listed his occupation as a salesman forrtn?_5?udig__1
00k 6 iollywood Boulevard. He is

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The records "er of

the

a sal ornm nl I b7?
registered January 26, 195 rem Precinct 17l eating 
that he intended to affiliate with the Democratic Party.

These records further reflect that in prior registrations

?uauet 5, 1952, Februarv 7, 19523 and September 23,

1 . . . 

advised eoial Agent b?
?951, thagfthe name of I 
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Los Angeles California, appears in the records b7D

 

ommittee for Protection of Foreign Born. It is noted 
that the rs records pertaining to the regis- bib

tration ofi on Febru 2, reflects an
address for him as 

The Committee for Protection of Foreign Born has been

designated by the Attorney General of the united States pur-
suant to Executive Order thSO.

The Retail Merchant 
no identifiable record on b?c
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The Los Ange leg Eolicee De artment nt a 0rd
r2?_iha_srrsai_sf (1950),

Los Angeles Police Depart-
mentlo  on June 18, 1935,1for a violation of Section
6&7. enal Code (vagrancy - Lewd). He was fined

$100, sentenced to ten days which was suspended, and placed

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

on one record reflects that
resided at and has resided in the State
of California and the County ofT 19 years,
having been born in the State of listed his

 

 

 

occupation as a pottery worker and said he was employed at
the Hollywood Ceramic Company.

registered with the Los Angeles Police
Departmen as a registration reveals
em 1 wlf-brother. we
who resid Hoggton.
Texas. listed sisL 
Pasadena, Californiareported August 13, 1953, tha?fin the Spring

 

 

 

 

of 1953 there was distribvted literature the "Citizens b2

Committee to Outlaw Entrapment" whioh? cribed as being b7?
affiliated with the Nattafhine OLnda' on no ?biEh litera- 
ture described a recent arrest of one to be b7C

 

 

an example of police persecution and unIawT?I entrapment of
a citizen.

Th ales Police Dep
reflect the agel lin 1952.
Los Ange as

Police Department No. was arrested March 21. 1952, big
for violation of Section 5 of the Pe ode (Vagrancy -

end The arrest re ort reveals that was born in

and has resided in Los 
County for 13 years. He is employed by the California Market
Sketch Press, 232% South Hill Street.

Ha
ladvised to trial on July 23. b2
1952, in sion 26 of an pa curt before Judge HUNT and k7?
NJ

after deliberating for two days the jury failed to a res -
I p?

standing eleven to one for his triall 
was represented by Attorney of Long Beac 
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at
ther that contact was subseluentl

made wit secretary, who advised that
was not the a LG Mattachine Foundation out had
only defended indiv?dually. Hia_aeoratazz__1
further stated that  lhad invited

meetings a so ine Foundatnon but thatl I

had declined. b2

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and occu ied i dd 
ltol
the sister of] according to
dagae

further advised that the California Market Sketch
Company, 233 South Hill Street, os Angeles, is an organization

engaged in ing service and is
managed by 

9'00 of unknown reliab a quaintance of
dvise' Agent in February,
a tha?inhilej see emp cje 3 Chamber of

Commerce a Fillmore, California, CO produce a play in the

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

interest of the Chamber of Commerce informant had noticed b5
a t' . b?D
b7?

 

The records of the Los
Angeles County reflect that registered b7
to vote April 16, 19h8, indicating his intention to affiliate
with the Independent Progressive Party.

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I ?advised Special Agentl on
March 21, that the Independent Progressive Party in Los
Angeles County was under the complete control of the Communist
Party. However, membership in the Independent Progressive
Party does not of itself 1 dicate Communist Party membership b2
of any particular member. 
a;

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the vicinity of a meeting ofL_

Los Angeles Count Communist Party (LACCP) being held
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Wand

that fies Angeles,

was a subscriber to the Daily Peoples World, a West

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Coast 

Communist newspaper as of April 25, 1950, and September 6, b7?

1951.

The records of the Los Angeles County Clerk of Court
File No. D310357,x~eflect a complaint filed on April 29,

lth, for divorce based on cruelty filed by WILLIAM

DALE

plaintiff, against 

This file reflects that JENNINGS was represented by
J. ALLEN FRANKEL.

advised the New York Division in 19149
communioa

attorney

ab
that a

had been addressed to Judge HAROLD MEDIN of b2

the United States District Court for the Southern District
of New York protesting the proceedings in the trial of the bin

12 Communist Party leaders ')ennis Case
Identic communications were signed by

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Angeles, dated August 3, l9h93l
a dated August 19, lane; and 
Augu 18 1914-9 0

1b'09 advised Spe a1 Agent I
19:0 that the name 0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

et b2

Los Angeles 26, California, telephone b7n

number] lwas maintained by the Hollywood Arts,
Sciences, ro ess ons Council (ASPC). b7C

 

 

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dvised eoial Agentl
February 1951, thaELzhe Hollywoo was 
California Chapter of National Council of Arts,
and Professions and was the most important Communist

on

outhern
Sciences, b2
controlled

organization in the Hollywood professional field and that its 

policies parallel those of the Communist Party on most important e,
issues. However, membership in the Hollywood ASPC of itself - 

does not connote membership in or sympathy with the
Party.

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the Spring of 1950 that ?La.n_a.t.t.cmn.m.n Long 132
Beach, California, was a member of the 
macaw); m:

advised cial A entl lin 1375:
Decem r, 19 0, the.  had been a member
of the LACCP since a on

reported to Special Agentl I
on Aug s: 13, 1953, that a reliable sourcel 
had ascertained the printing plates for the printing
of the booklet ?One' were made by the Triad 1220 b?

  

 

Souif? Maple Avenue, Los Angeles, Califcr i tated 2. b7?
13 l? 1
state or nalu. 3070,

cc klet "One? was brought to the Triad Compmy
by the California Market Sketch Press, 232

Sou reet. The negatives and prints are made at the
Triad Company and then are returned to the California Market

Sketch Press for printing and distribution.

 

 

 

The records of the Lee Angeles Comty Clerk's Office,
Department of refleci that the Triad Company,
1220 South Maple Avenue, L: Angeles filed a certificate to
operate under a fictitious name on September 25, 19145.
This certificate showed that the Triad Company would be operated
by MORT WARS. 514-91 Coliseum, Los Angeles, California,
MARIO HNSTONE, 672 South Lafayette Park Place, Les Angeles,
Califgmia, and R. OMARPER, 3211 Vest 7bth Street, Los

Angeles. California .

Records of the County Clerk reflect that a notice of
dissolution of the partnership by the withdrawal of artners
M. WMEARS and R. 0. HARER was filed April 30, 19 2.

 

 

 

On October?17observed 1270
working as an employee at the Californ 9. er a ress,

232 South H111 Street, Los Angeles, California.



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The April issue of "One" reflects that the address
of this publication is Box 5716, Los Angeles 55, California.

as
Ire orte August 1953, to Special Agent

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I hat the spplicat 5716, Metro-
politan st da bv who gave his b2
address as an stated that

he was in the insurance business. No res? b?c

iven References on the application were

I IPasadena, California who failed
to answer;  ton Angeles,
California; andl Los

Angeles, California (see supra). i

The Retail 1 dit Association maintains o?
no record concerning {r

The Los An ele 0 ice epart nt maintains?en?

a re record on a in 1952, b7{
I who was arrested

September 259 1951, and charged with violation of Section
6147.5 of the Penal Code (Vegrancy - Lewd}. He was fined
$100.00, sentence was suspended, and he was placed on one
year probation.

 

 

 



 

The arrest report reflects that at the time of a
arrest 1? "c on January 11+, 1951,
I rresided and was employed as
a sa esman by CHRIS S. WARING nsurance Agency in
Hills, galiforniag ?e stated that he was born at&

arrest for a traffic violation March 20,
that he was employed by the Hoffman Sales
Corp ora on. 

 

 _0n_1n arrest for a traffic violation on October 26,
1951, stated that he was a librarian at the University
of Southern California.

 

 

On an arrest for a traffic violation on May 23,

1952,;stated that he was employed by the Hoffman
Telev on ,orporation in the Public Relations Department.

0n the arrest for Vagrancy - 951,
 : stated that in case of emergency
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father as I I
California.

Records 
County reflect that

registered to vote AuguS? rom Precinct 9&1, a
librarian by occupation,

 

Editorial Board of "One"

The April, 1953. issue of "One" on the title page
reflects the editorial anf managerial boexd of "One? to be
as follows:

Editorial Board

MARTIN BLOCK (see supra)

DALE JENNINGS supra)

lawman (It is noted that all other issues
of ?One? acquired so far the spelling is
SLATER, see supra)

Contributing Editor, DONALD 
The Los Angeles Police Department and the
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office contain no
criminal record identifiable with DONALD WEBSTER
CORY.

Business Manager, WILLIAMBBEMBERT
The Los Angeles Police Department and the Loe
Angeles County Sheriff's Office have no informa-
tion identifiable LAMBERT.

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can" 
Circulation Manager, GUNOUSSEAU. 
The Los Angeles Police Department and the

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office maintain 
no record identifiable withl 

The title page reflects that the April issue of
?One? is Volume One, Number Four, and that this publication
is published for 25? per cepy, the annual subscrip-
tion price is $2.00 in the United States and Canada and $3.00
in all other countries. For sealed first class mailing,
h0? is added. The publication office is listed as Post
Office Box 5716, Los Angeles 55, California.

Content of "One?

A few of the articles in the available issues
of "One" are commented on below:

The April, 1953. issue contains on Page 3 an article
entitled "To Be Accused Is to Be Guilty,? which is an account
by an unidentified woman who claims employment by a private
relief organization in Germany and wno had previously had
treatment for a homosexual problem. She charged
that she had been exluded from Germany and sent home by the
private relief organization on a threat by the State Depart-
ment to advise the military authorities in West Germany of
her record.

On Page 5 of the april, 1953: issue, there appears
an article entitled ?Are You Now or Have You Ever Been a
Homosexual?" It is as follows:

FOR AMENDMENTS TO THE MATTACHINE
FOUNDATION BY-LAWS: concerning public statements
and attitudes on partisan issues, and concerning
security responsibilities of Foundation members
to their supporters in the Community at large.

"One of the Foundation's recent mail inquiries
said, in part, Iif you can prove that you are 100%
pro-American, and 100% anti~Communist, please send
me, Here precisely is the horn of our
dilemma. As Harry Bridges, whose perjury conviction

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appeal was recently accepted for review by the Supreme
Court, said in regard to his accusers, 'How do you
prove that you are not what you are not?? How, indeed;
How do I prove my good faith to someone who wants to
believe me a fraud? How do you prove you're a God-
fearing soul to a group who declare that you consort
with the devil? It was exactly that impossibility of
disproving intangible accusations, in the fact of 'a
priori! dictums, decisions made prior to a hearing or
trial, which our American forefathers to outlaw
once and for all . . . the hated inquisition's pattern
of assuming a man guilty until he proved himself innocent.
Our forefathers reversed the principle, by the Fifth
Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, thus
initiating the principle that a man was innocent until
proven guilty by others beyond the shadow of a doubt.

"In? we can PROVE we are 100% anti-Comatmist . . 
What does this mean? If we are to believe the divergent
editorial generalities of such papers as the Los Angeles
Mirror, whose feature writer PAUL COATES is himself the
source of the current slurs against our Missions and Pur-
poses, - what would we find? We would find that if a
person were a believer in low-cost pualic housing, -
if a person ever signed a petition to end in
the South or to end restrictive covenants in California,
- if a person had attended Wallace-for-President rallies
in l9u8, - if a person objected to anti-Semitic outbreaks
or if he had written a letter to congress urging the
free State of Israel in 19h8, - if a person were one of
the 80,000,000 warm supporters of Mr. ROOSEVELT's war-
time international agreements, - if a person had been
anti-Nazi or anti-Franco in 1939, - we would be informed
by this or that feature writer of the press that all such
persons previously described were either Communist-led
or Communist-dominated by association. In the absence
of a clear analytical definition of a Communist, -
in the absence of any clear definition between acts and
attitudes of Progressives, Liberals, and Humanitarians,
as distinguished from Communists, - we would be forced
to conclude that, in brief, anyone not 100% anti-humani-
tarian, and 100% pro the present political status?quo
(whatever it might happen to be), is Communist by inspira-
tion or by application. To be 100% pro?American then,
one is required to be not only 100% anti-New Deal but
also 100% anti-homosexual.

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"It is at this point that the principle and policy
of the Mattachine Foundation enters the picture. It is
true that the Foundation chooses to consider itself
structly non-partisan and non-political in its objective
and in its operations and activities. But the Founda-
tion is simultaneously committed to the Opinion that
the continued health and welfare of the Community generally
is integrally contained in the shape of a new scientific
understanding, a new appreciation free from taboos and
baseless distortions, for the considerable Homosexual
Minority. The Foundation is sincerely convinced that the
American Community, through its age?old self-educational
tradition of the townuhall debate, will move forward to
a welcome integration of that Minority once the vehicle
for debate has been made and carried out. The Founda-
tion conceives of its function as the instrument to help
deve10p and disseminate the channels of that debate.

But in the very raising of the need for such debate, The
Mattachine Foundation deliberately put itself squarely
in opposition to a dominant section of the status quo,
and elects to become a victim of the myriad implications
and slanders derivative of that oppOSitiono

"To visualize the depth and scape of this opposition
clearly, we must recall the victims of the Un-American
Activities Committee's purge of the State Department
in the late summer and fall of 19h9, - a purge which
spread to the Agriculture Department, the Departments of
the Interior, of Labor, and of Commerce, in 1950, '51,
?52. In the first big guicy blast to hit the headlines,
it was disclosed that 9 perverts had been purged from
the State Department. What was hidden on back pages
and in subsequent minor releases, was the indictment
and the far-reaching policies and administrative decisions
emanating from that indictment. The indictment was
horrifying in its complete lack of justification other
than fantasy and hysteria. It stated bluntly that home-
sexuals, typified by either their personal inclinations
and/or their associations, must be considered as basic
security risks and thereby unemployable by the Govern-
ment, or by any enterprise either public or private who
might be dealing with the Government, because their
personal lives and/or associations laid them wide open
to blackmail by a foreign power.

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"It is notable that not one single political or
pressure group among the liberals, let alone the left
wings lifted either voice or finger to protest the
monstrous social and civil injustice and sweeping slander
of this dictum. The complete hostility with which the
Minority was surrounded by this indictment was a clear
barometer of the outright antipathy unitedly maintained by
every color of political opinion. It is significant to not
that no alarm was raised then or since and no
purge directed, at married heterosexuals with a weak-
ness for bulging busts, blonds secretaries, or National
Hop-week Queens. It is equally interesting to note that
homosexual spies are not even plausible enough for the
comic-book intellect, altho new Mata Haris hatch from
capsules in each new issue.

"Of the original 96 purged, not all were themselves
homosexual. The Indictment specified not only home-
sexuals but also persons who might number homosexuals
among their acquaintances. One might comment that if
the Armed Services estimation of 13% is at all accurate,
how many persons from EISENHDWER down know more than 8
people, number at least one homosexual amongst their
acquaintances? During this purge, new procedures were
advanced, tested, modified . . . and incorporated into
the McCarran Act a year later and thus made legal culture
of the land. Such procedures were . . . that the accused
must prove himself innocent of charges anonymously pre-
ferred, and of charges whose details and particulars need
not be specified. Put yourself in a purgee's position.
Someone, whose name is being "protected" from you has
described an activity of yours, the details of which
you.may not inquire. All you have to do is to prove
you couldn't have done the "unspecified?thing because
you aren't that kind of a person. Thus you are not,
disproving something done but something that you are or
are not. You must disprove a status, not an act. It
cannot be over-emphasized that the accusatory methods
employed currently against persons being guinea pigs
anonymously charged as being homosexual or at least
pro-homosexual. All the accused had to do was to prove,
to people who were not inclined to believe him, that
he wasn't what he wasn't, or that he wasn't what his
associates weren't. In the absence of clear cut definitions,
in the absence of knowing his accuser, in the absence
of knowing even the details upon which the accusation

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is based, a person has as little chance of proving
innocence of something some unknown person said was
pro-Communist or that someone said was pro-homosexual

. . . as Joan of Arc had in proving her innocence before
the Inquisition.

"The purge fever against homosexuals, and against
those who might have personal or social associations with
homosexuals, spread from the state Department to every
department of Government. at this point, even the lowly
mail carrier is required an oath to be anti-homosexual.

In 1951, the State of Califrrnia hastened to slap a
registration law on its booms which was tighter than its
model . . . the earlier designated Los Angeles Municipal
Registration Law. In 1951 and 1952, National Registration
bills were introduced into Congressional hoppers which

were to include not only those persons previously registered
in cities and states, but also those names heretofore

lying unexposed in Armed Services Files, and those names
suspected but officially documented by chaplains and
personnel officers of the Armed Services. In 1952, the State
of California required by law that teachers declare
themselves anti-homosexual and allowed municipalities,

such as Los Angekas, the mechanics thereby anonymous
information could be passed against individuals in the
employ of the Board of Education. Regardless of the

pious opinions expressed in some professional circles,

the laws passed and court practises prevailing, testifies
that the social and civil position of the homosexual
minority worsens with each succeeding month.

"In stating that persons, guilty of being thought
pro-homosexual, through their own inclinations or through
their associations, - in stating that such persons
were not employable by any agency of government or by any
enterprise doing business with government, the indictment
was aiming forward to a new period of partial or total
mobilization wherein even homeafront needs, let alone
war-front needs, would be channelled through government
contract. 100% mobilizations to meet new emergencies
were expressed all too clearly by legions of congressional
candidates in the 1952 electioneering. In such a period,
then, all homosexuals must needs either perjure themselves.
. . .and thus, under the law, deliberately constitute them-
selves as un?American and subversive . . . or declare them-
selves under oath - and starve.


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I?For those of you who may feel this reasoning is as
fantastic as the indictment, please be informed that the
railroad companies, the air-craft companies, and the
air-line transportation companies have fired highly
competent employees on at least four separate occasions
in the last two years PRECISELY ON THE PROVISIONS OF
THE ABOVE MENTIONED POLICY, and have conducted their
investigations on the anonymous pattern.method. How
does a liberal prove against unspecified charges anony~
mously preferred that he is and always has been anti-
Commnnist both by inclinatizn are by association? How
does a person prove against unspecified charges, perhaps
venomous spite-whispers, anonymously'preferred, that he
is now and always has been anti-homosexual both by
inclination and by association? As our Puritan fore-
fathers discovered through centuries of the Inquisition
and the menarchial star chambers, one cannot prove innocence
to circumstances which are of social rather than of
personal contrivanceo One can only stand his ground in
the vigor of his personal integrity, and take refuge
in the sanctuary of the Constitutions Fifth Amendment.

?Just what is the refuge, and the implications made,
by the invocation of the 5th Amendment? The Fifth Amend-
ment is that section of the Constitution which protects
a person from being forced to testify against himself,
and which protects a wife from being forced to testify
against her husband and vice versa. The Fifth Amednment
recognizes and gives sanctuary to the inviolable right
of every citizen to hold unto his own counsel areas of
personal belief and opinion which need not be disclosed
to anyone without the voluntary choice of the person
himself. To such minority movements as the Jeffersonian
cg osition of 1796-1800, the Abolitionist opposition of
1 -1860, the Populist opposition of 1884992, the refuge
of the Fifth Amendment has been the steady bulwark of
all Minorities against and the scurrilous
character murders of the press.

"But refuge within the protective custody of the
Fifth Amegnment has its limitations, too. A person
may invoke its protection only so long as he refutes
any and all attempts to scrutinize his social freedom
of personal conscience. For example, should a person
be asked what he believes, or what political groups he

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belongs to, and the person answers these questions
either affirmatively, negatively, or otherwise . .
. . he undoubtedly waives his right under the Fifth
Amendment to refuse to answer when asked if he is a
homosexual. If a person, with the best intentions
in the world, agreed to sign a ?loyalty oath,?1

and then at a future date was forced to submit to

a question as to whether or not he/she were a
homosexual, he, to all intents and purposes, could
not expect to retain refuge under the Fifth
rmendment.

"In regard to these limitations as super-
imposed against our National Administration's pursua-
sion concerning homosexuals, plus a refresher on the
apathy laced with hysteria of the general public in its
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perhaps it begins to come clear that any group, which

sets itself up as a vehicle by the articulate homosexual
minority can at least be heard . . . in effect sets itself
up in oppgition to a majority opinion held equally by

the right wing, the liberals, and the left. The Founda-
tion has known from the beginning that it could expect
support only from those non-prejudiced people who could
recognize the enormouse potential of the minority even

in the face of the social struggle that would be required.
It should be stated here that the Left was the first
political grouping to deny any social potential to the
Minority by going on public record with the opinion

that the perverts (note the term) were socially degenerate
and to be avoided as one avoids the scum of the earth.

The Foundation idea was conceived only with the Right,

in the substance of the State Department actions, followed
suit some ten years later.

"It is in this vein that we must review the questions
and issues concerning Mr. SNIDER's relationship with the
Foundation. The Foun dation met and learned to know
Mr. SNIDER as an honest fighting lawyer who had handled
with great sympathy, and acute social understanding, a nun!
ber of cases of attempted entrapment. The Foundation
also learned that Ur. SNIDER had carried through a number
of fighter cases for the several minority groups who also
suffer under the burden of false arrests and police
provocations. Mr. SNIDBR devoted an enormous amount of
time and advice to the set-up and the protections of
the Foundation structure. One can hardly say that he
exercised undue subversion in recommending that the
Foundation render itself unable to participate in any
type of political or partisan activity whatsoever and,
further, that the Foundation in its by-laWS render itself
unable to be used bv any group or individual for any
political or partisan issue whatsoever.

?It is true that Mr. SNIDER refused to answer the
Un-American Activities Committee under his immunities
guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment. As a leader in the
court fights for the simple civil rights of the Mexican-
American and Negro people as versus unwarranted police
suppression in this city, it was inevitable that he would
have been submitted to the question. His waiver of
principle of oath could have been to letray, then, now

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and in future, his sacred role of counsellor and confidante,
similar with lawyers to the sacred immunity of sanctity
traditionally accorded to the confidences of ministers and
in recent veers to doctors and How would
you feel about placing your trust in a lawyer who had
spilled his guts concerning himself, his friends, and

his clients? Could you talk to a or to a
minister who had had so little respect for his role as

a community consellor as to jeopardize his right to

hold privately?his own opinions? This was the problem faced
by Mr. SNIDER. Should he destroy by one word his value

as a confidante and counsellor to those who had trusted

him in the past, and these who needed to continue to do

so?

IIWhatever the press innuendos may be at this invoca-
tion, all that Mr. SNIDBR has done is to re-assert his
pride and his faith in that most precious of American
contributions to humanity: a man's right to the privacy
of his own social conscience. He has simply requested
ins right to be considered innocent until proven guilty
beyond all possibility of a doubt, even as Mr. SHIBLEY
last summer requested that DALE JENFINGS, as a homosexual,
be so considered innocent of permanent lewdness bv the Jury
until unmistakablv proven otherwise. Our American princi-
ple specifically prohibits that any person attempt to be
the keeper or the judge of his neighbors conscience.

By the same token, each person has the right to criticize,
to resist, and to condemn, a neighbor's social conscience
when the content of that conscience intrudes aggressively
upon his own. But the Un-American activity to be restrained
and guarded against is the intrustion, not the quality

or the substance of the content.

?The Foundation, in a modest way, constitutes itself
a guardian of the homosexual minority's right to keep its
own counsel and social conscience. To do this, the
Foundation must deliberately Oppose the present status
quo policy of our National Administration concerning
homosexuals, as contained in the unrefuted indictment.
In order to guarantee that it will be able to do this,
the Foundation must keep itself clear as a body to be
able to invoke the safeguards of the lat, 5th, 9th, and
10th amendments. Each person connected with the Founda-
tion, therefore, is required to have the personal valor and
the social integrity to be able to refute the scrutiny

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of any and all public groups, should it become necessary,
even as has Mr. SNIDER. The rest of the Foundation
Council may not approve for themselves the content of
Hr. ENIDER's conscience. It might be equally assumed
that Mr. FNIDER, in agreement with the community majority,
does not approve as a pattern for himself the content

of the average homosexual?s social conscience. But,

to apply a quotation long identified with the core of
the American ideal, so long as Mr. SNIDER defends with
his life the homosexual?s rirht to keep inviolate his
own social conscience, then equally so long must the
Foundation constitute itseif an equal respecter of Mr.
SNIDER's rights.

l?In taking such a stand as a body, and by simul-
taneously re-affirming its basic principle of aligning
itself with, and participating in, no partisan political
action whatsoever at any time, the Foundation is declaring
that it herebv reserves the right to advance suggestions,
to criticize, and to evaluate at any and at all times
the status quo between the beorudging community majority
and the contending coalition of the houosexual minority
with its summer soldiery of sympathiaers. The Founda-
tion is acutely aware that such a declared role invalidates
it completely as a fountain?head of leadership, But,
in truth, it must be recorded that the Foundation never
conceived of its contribution as more than that of a
modest fountain?head of inspiration and encouragement,
and perhaps that of a mirror to reflect and reveal the
and weaknesses of the community social conscience
responding to such ideas. 0n the dav when the present
coalition of homosexuals and well-wishers assumes the
self-assured dignity of a National Representative Congress,
similar in scope and direction to those currently flour-
ishing in Europe, the Foundation will have outlived its
usefulness and will automatically fold its tents. But
until that day of cpen and acceptable convention, the
Foundation feels that its inviolable position must be
maintained.

WEBSTER CORY, in his now famous book, made
the point that in America the beginnings and develop-
ments of homosexual congresses would be most difficult.
Few sane and substantial people are willing to make
of themselves. Yet open leaders of beginning

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and unpopular causes have been martyred traditionally
in the American experience. The Mattachine Foundation
members acutely realized this somber fact at least two
years before No CORY's volUme appeared in print. They
fully appreciated the need of most homosexuals, prominent
or obscure, to remain anonymous as to their personal
inclinations, if they were to exist socially, economically,
and politically. The Foundation's by?laws Specifically
state that homosexuals, working with the Foundation pri-
marily as homosexuals rather than as professional and/or
community advisers of some prominence, may remain
anonymous. This by-law was purposely phrased to grant
the fullest protections to those members of the minority
who might have the courage and the selflessness to work
for the fulfillment of the Foundation Idea. The Founda-
tion is fully aware that most of the European Groups, now
enjoying some prominence and supported by people of
weight in their respective communities, suffered through
at least five years of enforced anonymity, press scurrility,
rarlianentary slander, and police persecution, before
they were able to reveal themselves through their
leadership. The support of the professionally prominent
came only after the groups were able to appear in strength,
and rat the conditions for their building were far more
ideal than those currenily enjoyed in the United States
today. In light of the times rentioned above, and in
light of the European experience just referred to, the
Foundation has no intention, at the moment, of making
pilloried targets out of its most devoted and self-sac-
rificing members. There are other meobers of the Founda-
tion however who may soon feel that the Foundation
principle is worthy enough of their open support. The
presence of their names as community erdorsers of the
Foundation will mean that the Minority has presented
enough evidence of good faith and social dignity to
warrant community recornition. But even as the anonymous
homosexual desires that the community only Judge him
on the basis of what he does as a social entity, rather
than criticize him for what, in some people's prejudiced
eyes, he is, so the Foundation desires that its friends
and acquaintances judge it by what it does . . . rather
than gossip and speculation upon the personaltastes
of the persons who compose it. The Foundation will wel-
come the endorsements and sponsorships of the community.
But the Foundation will continue to manitain its guardian-
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of its personal Pride and social dignitv with, or Cd I
without, such support.

"And it will steadfastly refuse to horse-trade any
of these basic securities of the homosexual minority
to curry favor with a possible supporter regardless of
the golden Opportunities which seem to be offered. It
would be pleasant if the social and legal recommendations
of the Foundation could be found impeccable both to the
tastes of the most conservative community as well as to
the best interests of the homosexual minority. But
since there must be a choice betneen the two impeccabili?bs,
then the securities and protections of the homosexual
minorities must come first.?

On Page 1h of the April, 1953. issue begins a review

of bills affecting sexual deviates which are pending before
or which have been passed by the most recent session of the

California legislature.

On Page 17 appears a statement of the position of

the Mattachine Foundation in respect to the then current Los
Angeles Municipal elections {note questionnaire sent to
candidates sea out in part ore.) W?is statement reads as

follows:

the

?The Mattachine Foundation requests that the following
be made clear. at no trme on the elections for mayor of
Los Angeles has a candidate for that office been invited
to speak at any Foundation function, nor has any candidate
for never been endorsed bv the Foundation. In a campaign
Where hollow promises have been shouted loudly, the earnest
voter can hardly take stock in those which are whispered
behind the hand. The Foundation endorses neither of the
gentlemen in question for the plain reason that neither
has taken a public stand on the issues brought up by that
organization in its recent questionnaire to political
contestants. Their silence is not golden."

On Page 18 appears an article captioned l?And Make
Mighty Tremblez" a portion of which is as follows:

"This is the Land of Contradiction. In a nation

where the individual is assumed to be of basic importance,
that same individual has a conviction that he or she is

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helpless. We see injustice and fight our anger with the
familiar cry, ?That can I do about it: I'm nobody. What
can one person do?! we end up sitting back and waiting
to be delivered, often defying deliverance with 'healthy'
suspicion. It is true that unity is the answer to social
ills, yet there is one thing the individual can do and
seldom does, one thing that brings ulcers to the power-
ful and nervous breakdowns to the mighty. It is simple:
constant protest.

"In the Los Angeles Mirror 7 April 1953. EDITH 
in her column 'Hollywood' made the following remark:
from eastern TV, dramatic roknsfor males
are mined mostly by swishee.? It is almost certain
that this wholly unnecessary invective drew no protest -
except one letter which is yet to be published. But
it was read. Had even a half dozen letters descended
upon the Mirror, there would have been notice, worry and
discussion. Even swishes buy papers and publishers know
thi?o

"The 'helpless' individual can write, he can phone,
he can make himself heard. He can do this anonymously,
with an assumed name, or he can use his real name with the

request it not be published. But, contrary to a general
conception, the name is not of greatest importance. It
is the fact that he took trouble to write. Editors love
to deride crackpots yet they respect them. A person who
speaks is potentially a person who acts. Policies are
formed by pressure; those heard most clearly in greatest
volumn are listened to."

In the May, 1953, issue of ?One" on Page 5 appears
an article entitled "You Are a Public Enemy,? which is as
follows:

"On April 8th 1953 the Mattachine Foundation Board
unanimously approved a statement setting forth their
opinions and consequent resolves concerning the Federal
Administration's policy towards homosexuals either directly
in the employ of the government, or indirectly involved
with the interests of National Security as employees of
agencies and ante rises doing business with government.

On April 27th, 19 3, to quote a United Press dispatch
in the Los Angeles Times, ?President EIEENHOWER today

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set up a tough, new loyalty-security program designed to
rid the government of homosexuals, alcoholics and
"blabbermouths", as well as emplovees deemed subversive and
diSlOY?lo'

"It is significant to note that U.P. did not say
'homosexuels deemed subversive and disloya1.* It stated
simply and bluntly, as well as by its choice of sequence,
that this TOUGH new prosram was aimed specifically at
homosexuals and super-patriots as well as just plain
patriots. The dispatch went on to say that the new order
was made public at white Eouse after Atty. General BROWNELI
discussed it with Senator McCarthy (R), His., and other
members of Congress who have been interested especially
in government loyalty.

?In addition to association with subversive groups
and other disloyal activities, the standards (to determine
whether or not the Victim is a loyalty or a security
risk) include:

Any behavior, activities or associations which tend
to show that the individual is not reliable or trust-
worthy;

Any deliberate misrepresentations, falsificatidne,
or ommissions of material facts;

Any criminal, infamous, dishonest, immoral, or notor-
iously disgraceful conduct, habitaal use of intoxi-
cants to excess, drug addiction, or sexual perver-
sion;

Any adjudication of insanity or treatment for serious
mental or neurological disorder without satisfactory
evidence of sure;

any facts which furnish reason to believe the indivi-
dual may be subjected to coercion, influence, or
pressure which may cause him to act contrary to the
best interests of the national security.

"The dispatch concluded with this sentence, 'The

President ordered the head of each government agency
to use those standards in setting up security programs

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for his department.! Packed into these innocuous words

is the promise of many hundreds of sleepless nights for

the white-collar and professional employees of civil
service. In case the casual reader has dismissed the items
in this dispatch with, 'Oh, well, homosexuals were mentioned
only in Point Three. That was to be expected,I please

note that the United Press did not entitle this new pro-
gram, superseding the Truman Security Policy of l9h7, as
tough tor nothing.

?To labor under the illusion that the new Istandards'
of Loyalty?Security Jrogran are little more
than a business?as-usual continuation of Tru.en's Security
Policy, infamous as that was in its relationship to
homosexuals, is to be 1horouphly misled. These standards
are not measures to be out into operation only upon the
hiring of new employees. These standards are retroactive,
and, further, are to be maintained on a twenty-four-hour-
a-day basis? Item 1 clearly shows that the information
to be measured by these standards does not come from
cirection examination but is information gained in the
new standard pattern of unspecified charges anonymously
preferred.

you couple Item 2 with i and 5, you can easily
see that any employee who is acquainted with a homosexual,
is himself a security risk unless he volunteers his suspicions
in daily reccification of his own 'omission of material
facts.I As the Foundation Board pointed out in its state~
ment, since a fairly conservative estimate of the per?
centage of homosexuals might be 13 percent (one out of
eight), how many National Security employees know
at least one homosexual in every eight of their acquaintances?

these days of bureaucratic retrenchment and pay-
roll trimming, it may be difficult for many employees,
both in government and in enterprises doing business with
government, to refrain from *rectifying omissions of
facts' to guarantee personal success in the scramble
and competition to keep jobs. And it is conceivable that
the malice behind malingering gossip and rumor-mongering
may not be judged by Senators et ux as evidence
that the malingerer himself is guilty under Items 1 and
h, although under sane and sober requirements of the
normal community he certainly would be.

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"In short, every item in the new standards can be
used to hound and harry not only every homosexual in
government and in basic industry, but all his friends,
acquaintances, and associates, be they homosexual, homo-
sexually inclined, bi?sexual, or heterosexual. Further,
every name breathed as fact or as rumor, whether they
be National Security employees or not, goes into the
National Security files for crossnreferencing to Armed
Services Files and the local records of the Communities
in which they live, towards another day of total mobiliza-
tion, or a National Registration jot, whichever is first.

?For the homosexual, to be loyal is not enough.
The homosexual is required to be 100% anti-homosexual
as well. He must agree, by taking a loyalty oath, to
subvert the Constitution of the United States (which
is not his to subvert) and testify against himself.
Then, as a homosexual, he must testify against his own
decency and integrity thereby making possible acts of
aggression against every person he has ever known. Then,
having destroyed himself as a.person not only to the
community but to his own conscience, he is to be tossed
aside as a basic security risk by one or all of the five
standards of the Security Program.

"The homosexual's life is no longer a private matter
to himself. It has become political by Presidential
order. If the homosexual, despite this Presidential
statement, which is policy BUT NOT Lam, believes that to
maintain his personal life and morality is in keeping
with his integrity as a devoted American then he must be-
come himself another volunteer guardian of the inviola~
bility of the Constitution's Fifth Amendment in the full
understanding that Civil Privilege must be the property
of everyone.



On Page 12 of the May, 1953. issue appears an article
by GEORGE captioned ?To Be Accused is To Be
Guilty,? which is an account of the entrapment by the police
of a former Lieutenant in the Free Polish Army for an alleged
homosexual act.

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It is noted that on Page 3 of the May issue appears
an article captioned "Where Are You Going?? which in its conu
text reflects that it is written b?C
The fact that
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The June, 1953. issue of ?One? on Page 2 through 12
contains a critical analysis of articles concerning homo-
sexuality which have appeared in the following magazines:
?Why,? "Coronet,? "Strength and Health,? "American Mercury,"
?People Today," "Confidential,""Sir," and ?Bars.? The general
conclusion is drawn that such articles are not honest or
objective.

Page 13 contains a critical article by DAVID L.
FREEMAN (supra) of the West German magazine "Der
Veg Zu Und Tolerant? (The Fat to Friendship
and Tolerance) which is described as one of the homosexual
publications of Europe.

The July, 1953. issue of ?One" on Page 12 and 13
reprints what appears to be a complete editorial from the
Saturday Evening Post of May 2, 1953. concerning a decision
by Justice IILLIAN o. on freedom of the press.

This article is headed by the headline "Afraid to Subscribe
to One? Read This Editorial.? The editorial is set forth
below:

"In an important Gupreme Court Opinion a few weeks
ago, Justice FILLIAM O. DOUGLAS sturck a blow for liberty
wnich has been too little noticed. One reason for the
apparent blackout of 'liberal' comment on this decision
is probably the fact that A. RUMELY, the man who
won this important battle for freedom of the press,
represents the so-called 'Right.? Had he been a communist
or a member of some bizarre religious sect, we should
have heard a great deal more about his case.

?It will be recalled that Doctor RUMELY, as secretary
for the Committee for Constitutional Government, was
ordered bv a congressional committee investigating lobbying
to turn over to the committee a list of all purchasers of
books which the committee had been selling to its members

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Doctor outfit was attempting to influence
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"In the course or his appearance on June 6, 1950,
before the committee, of which the late Congressman
FRANK BUCHANAN was chairman, Doctor RUMBLE said that he was
willing to produce the names of all contributors and
the records of all loans and other transactions. But
he added, 'I'm not going to produce the names of peeple
who bought books because under the Bill of Rights that
is beyond the power of your committee to investigate.'

"The House cited Doctor Rumely for contempt of
Congress, and his case dragged along through the Federal
courts until it reached the Supreme Court, where the
right of Doctor RUMELY and all other Americans to publish
and circulate books without supplying the names of the
buyers to public authority was unanimously sustained.

?Concurring with Justice FRANKFURTER's majority opinion,
Justice DOUGLAS wrote:

?'We have here a publisher who through books and
pamphlets seeks to reach the minds and hearts of the
American people . . . Like the publishers of newspapers,
magazines, or books, this publisher bids for the minds
of men in the marketplace of ideas . . . . The command
that ?Congress shall make no law . . . abricging the free-
dom of speech or of the press? has behind it a long
history. It expresses the confidence that the safety of
society depends on the tolerance of Government for hostile
as well as friendlv criticism, that in a community where
men's minds are free, there must be room for the unortho~
dox as well as the orthodox views.?

?It would be difficult to find two sets of ideas
more hostile to each other than those of Justice DOUGLAS
and the Committee for Constitutional Government. The
justice's opinion does honor to his integrity and his
abilitv to interpret American doctrine without regard for
his taste in ideologies. Coming to the central issue of
whether the publication and distribution of books can
be penalized under a statute to control lobbwing, Justice
DOUGLAS wrote: 'Once the Government can demand of a

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publisher the names of the purchasers of his publications,
the free press as we know it disappears. Then the specter
of a Government agent will look over the shoulder of
everyone who reads.?

?It seems to us that the Supreme Court's verdict
in the RUMELY case belongs with those important decisians
by the court which in critical times put America more
firmly on the right course, the course in line with her
historic traditions."

On Page 1h appears an article signed by one 
captioned "The Answer to Homosexuality" a port on
of which is as follows:

"The Mattachine Foundation is a non-partisan service
council devoted to the social objectives of integrating
with the purposes and requirements of our community
the enormous potential of valuable civic contributivenees
and concern of such ill-understood social minorities as
the homosexuals.

?Vith adjustment - and not ?cure' - as the key word
in the group, much has already been accomplished to 'in-
tegrate this huge minority into socially-acceptable and
socially-contributive channels.?

?The Mattachine Movement shows a direct parallel
with Alcoholics Anonymous; it was established to facilitate
the integration of maladjusted, futile. rejected individuals
into society. To this end, a program of group therapy
was begun. It is especially here - in the technique
of group therapy - that the similarity is seen. The
Mattachine Movement is considerably unique in other
aspects. It has no religious slant and demands no
abstention from any sexual activities, but rather stresses
adjustment and self-understanding and urealization towards
a more useful and dignified place in society.

?Legal action is one of the immediate goals of the
Mattachine. In addition to helping the individual deviant,
there is a pressing need to remove prejudice - especially
when it takes the form of persecution such as 'quota
assignments, decoys detailed specifically to entrap,
invasions of privacy by fraudulent means, searches-
seizures-and-arrests without due process of law . . 
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who can be counted on to hide these civil infractions
at all costs.?

?Study and research are $.30 being carried on by
the hattachine Movement, and with experts in the field
as well as participation of discussion group members,
they are making considerable progress.

?Equally important to research is publication and
promulgation of information. The first major step in
this direction came from one of the Mattachine discussion
groups. It was there that a publication was born.
The magazine, ONE, is printed with a constructive and
socially-minded approach to sex deviation - with the
emphasis on homosexuality. The various articles which
appear attempt to stimulate thinking, present facts, and
help to improve flagrant wrongs - both social and
personal.

?The fledgling Mattachine Movement has not been
without opposition and attack. Because of its socially
constructive ends it has been accused of Communist
affiliation. Equally as groundless, fears are being
entertained that because homosexuals themselves are involved
the final goal is therei>re to 2convert new members'
to homosexualitV.

"Despite these ephemeral misgivings, it is apparent
that the Mattechine Movement is well on its way toward
success in its attempt to solve the homosexual problem
by the combination of personal, group, and social means.

?Judging from the tremendous success of similar
principles used in Alcoholics Anonymous and the growth
of the Wattachine Movement this far, great advancement
and improvement in the field of homosexuality seem to be
in the near future."

The inside back cover of the July, 1953. issue is a
reproduction of a portion of a story published in the Los Angebs
Herald Express July 2, 1953. captioned ?State Department Fires
531 Perverts, Security Risks."

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A review of the April, May, June, and July issues
of ?One? reflects that many of the articles appearing in
"One" are signed by initials or signed by names that are
obviously fictitious.

In addition to the authors or articles mentioned
above, the Julv, 1953, issue on Page 21 reprints an extract
from.the book by MARGARET FFAD, "Coming of Age in Samoa?
under the title I?ir'here Do You Get That Way?"

The Daily Worker, Test Coast Communist newspaper,
issue of December 16, lane, Dr. MARGARETNEEAD of
the Lmerican Museum of Natural history was a Visitor and
Speaker at the ?Conference for Young 1'omen? held December
1h, 19h0, at the Riverside Plaza Hotel, 253 test 73rd Street,
New York City.

fmadnsee the New York Division in December, 19m,
that he on erence for Young homen? was for the purpose

of inning together voung women who were officials and
members of alleged Communist front organizations. Members be?
of both the Communist Party and the Young Communist League 
and officers of these organizations were present at the

cenference and exerted strong infgueoce in the discussion.

The Young Communist League has been designated by
the Attorney General of the united States pursuant to Executive
Order louse.

Advertisers

All issues available reflect an advertisement
concerning paintings and murals in black light and the
readers are requested to direct inquiries to 
Care of Black Light Corporation of Los Angeles, SMDB Santa
Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles h, Calii?nnia.

Records of the Los Angeles County Clerk?s Office,
Division of Corporations, reflect that the Black Light
Co oration of Los Angeles was incorporated September 17,
19 for the purpose of engaging in the business of buying,
selling, and dealing in ultra violet and black light lamps
and products and accessories. The first board of directors
was named as GEORGE 1122 North Central Avenue,
Glendale, California, DONNA same address, CLARA
2016 North Gramercy Place, Hollywood, Celifornti,

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BYRON R. BENTLEY, same address, and NINA BNIDEOUT, 121,8
Formosa Street, Los Angeles, California.
catatonia

The April, 1953, issue c:nta:nes an advertisement
i?Ceramics, Original Creations by REYES, Los 
MIchigan 1897.? also in the April issue appears an adver-
tisement for the"Rendeovous Club, the Bar With the Real Con-
tinental Atmosphere, Long Beach, California, 5907 East
Second, Phone by BAY and JOHNNY.

Also in the April issue is an advertisement for a
song stylist to organize a combo with the request to write
to the box number for ?One.?

The June issue contains the usual advertisement
by TONY (supra) and also an advertisement reading
"Apartments, Flats, and Houses, reasonable rates for those
who are seeking better accomodationsv Elm City Renting
Service, 153 Court Street, Room 310, New Haven, Connecticut.

The July issue, 1953, in addition to the Black Light
Corporation advertisement, there appears an advertisement
for the ?Zaida's Music Shop,? 309 North Ogden Drive, Los
Angeles, California.

ENCLOSURW TO THE BUREAU:
1. Photostatic copies of May and June, 1953: b2

E;y. ?One" which have been furnished L,
2. rig cepy of the July, 1953, issue of

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nor 8 1950. The efforts of the committee at this meeting
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NEW HAVEN OFFICE

At New Haven, Connecticut: Will identify the operators
of the Elm City Renting Service, 153 Court street, Room 310,
New haven, Connecticut, who inserted an advertisement in
the June, 1953, issue of "One."

Nil the criminal, credit, and subversive ms
records of of this renting service. 

 

LOS ANGELES OFFICE
At Los Anaeles, California: Will ascertain the sub-

versive and criminal records of adstional peeple who gave
blood on August 7, 1953, and had such contribution cre?ted

Wklattachine Society when such names are obtained 132
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INFORMANTS: ?ih 5:1

b2 Ito SAI IAugust 13,
19 3.

137 
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Los Angeles, California, to SAI I

on March 16, 1953.
b2 Offio as . Los Angolan. California,
to on August 17, 1953.
1.32 to lin July, 19116, original
b7D oca on 100-23 - Page .
b? Regional Offi et chment, United Ltatos 
Army, to SAI iAugust 19, 1953- 
to Houston, Texas, agent April 22, b?D
IocaEIon 100-30028u11.


to SE 
on August 24, 1953. 

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Angelos, ?alifomia, to 
August 19, 1953.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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to SAI lJuly 27, 1951.
b7o BBS-1. Page uni.
I ICalif-
ornia, to IFebruarv, 1950, location
100-323u5'9n

 

 

 

 

 

SA waist 21,

SA ISeptember 2h, 19h8,
oca on 100-2 516-30.
I to SAI [San Francisco
0 ice) location SF 61-3-1B3.
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ADMINISTRATIVE PAGE (ContQ 
INFORMANTS: wont.) 
to New York Division in l9h9.
I to SAI INOvomber 29, 1950,
location Volume 1h. Page 130k.
to SAI IDocomber, 1950,
location l00-6330-ooa b7?
by Rivowside Plaza Hotel, b7g
New York City, to the New York Division, location
1971:] 100-28163-53: Page 5. ca It.
I to SA IDecember 15, 1950.
*110?40
Ito the Los Angeles Division
September 3, 1mm, location 100-04277.
I I Ito SAI IDecember, 1950,
oca on 00-19709.
I Ito SAI IDecomber 22, 1952,
location
REFERENCE:

Bureau 13 new 52:30 August 6, 1953. 
Report of SA July 1h, 1953: at San bit
Fwoncisco, California, captioned FOUNDA-


Los Angeles letter to Bureau dated July 6, 1953,
captioned "One, Inc."

 

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SECURITY I TIUN - NFID TIAL
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PERIOD won wmon mo: manua? 
"meme, comm. 103633"? 9-17,13,21; 10?1, .. aob
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TITLE

A CHARACTER OF CASE
CHINE FOUNDATION, INC., INTERNAL SECURI
The ttaohine Society;

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Elm Cit Rentin Service New Haven, Conn. determined to be 132

 

 

 

 

 

 

        
 

 

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oribesl  as a known ho No information of sub?
--reive nature pertinent toI developed in investigationacmcv??l 0 f5? 
11.5: SE REE. 
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0 i. It was determined that the Elm City Renting Service, 153 Court
Street, E2 om 3.10, New Haven, Conn., was no longer open for bus

iness, altmugh the office door still bore the name of the service.

 

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I I New Haven Bond and Mortgage
Germany, 153 Court St? New Haven, Conn., whose firm occupies
an Jffioe adjacent to that of the Elm City Renting Service,
advised that the Renting Service had suspended
approxmately September 1, 1953. According tn

the Renting Serv:.ce ted of New
ven, whoml idescri as ng very effemina
5? Jbut would not ela orate.

   
 


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6,3 I advised thatl
1 the New Haven Bond and Mortg; scribed
aas on several occasions, met
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counter-TISWW 7ft #9 
OCT 8 1953

6 Bureau (loo-403320) (BEG. MAIL) 

Los Angeles (100-45888) (REG. NEIL)
2- New Haven (100?11383)

COPY IN FILE

. i i? dential report and its contents are aned derm?mimmw?r 

ff ?outrun: orricl 10?60637-1-

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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exceptionally effeminate in manner, but could furnish
no additional information. ki?C

It is noted that norl nrnvide 

ai?rinformation of a subversive pertinent to

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

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It is noted thatl r, advised the New Haven if??
Oi'f ace earlier in - of New Haven, who is 
?lentical with the escr ed above, was a known homo? 

 

 

sexual frequenting a omosexua colony in the Hartford, Conn. area.
Howevel, this infommant could rovide no information of a subversive
nature pertinent to 
The files of the New Haven, Conn. Credit Rating Bureau contained no
Service, but did indicate that

New Haven, Conn., who is identical b7?3

with the mentioned above, had a credit rating that
was "not an re sa isfactory.?

 

 

the New Haven, nt indicated that
then residil New Haven, Conn.,
who as 1iene-*al with the mentioned above, was arrested

 

 

 

3 occasions and the details as they appear on Arrest Record
I are set out below:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DATE OF ARREST ABRESTIEG OFFICERS DISPOSITION

Reckless Driving 11-5-50 AND $21.00 fine

to private ll?5w50 AND $6.00 fine ?x

property bit:

h*each of Peace 3~26~51 nisi, 7-1?51
(discharged)

in connection with the Breach of Peace ar hove, it was determined

from the arresting officers' reports th under sue-

picilts Circumstances ixlanhapartmenerut I?New??lven, with

 

the gas gets turned on at 4:50 A.M. Therefore, he was taxen into
custody and the Breach of Peace charge lodged since the circumstances
indicated he was attempting suicide or misconduct of some sort.

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SECURITY INFORMATION - 00W 6/ 3

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The arrest record that '5 described above set out the following
description for I .3135? ,y if

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AGE:

HEIGHT 
COMP IEXIOH:
EYES 

HAIR:
OCCUPATION:

 

 

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There is no further information in the possession of the New Haven
Oi ?i can nertinent to criminal or subversive activities on the part
of

 

 

 

 

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