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Edna Griffin's FBI file, April 1948-October 1951

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Form No. 1 
THIS CASE ORIGINATED AT OMAHA, NEBRASKA OM 
FILE NO. 100-4095

REPORT MADE AT OMAHA, NEBRASKA 
DATE WHEN MADE 9-22-50
PERIOD FOR WHICH MADE 6-19;7-11,27;9-12,14-50 
REPORT MADE BY b7C FH

TITLE EDNA MAY GRIFFIN, aka, Mrs. Stanley Griffin, Edan May Williams

CHARACTER OF CASE INTERNAL SECURITY - C 

[handwritten]
4-1
9-11-1

SYNOPSIS OF FACTS: Subject elected State Vice Chairman of the Iowa Progressive Party. Subject active in securing signatures on peace petition to outlaw atomic bomb and " Let us Stay Out of Korea." 

-P- 

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED DATE 02-21-2006 BY AUC 60309 TAM/DCG/JW

DETAILS : AT DES MOINES IOWA

An article appearing in the " Des Moines Register" dated Monday June 19, 1950, indicated that EDNA GRIFFIN was the newly elected Party State Vice Chairman of the Iowa Progressive Party and would stump the State during the Summer of 1950 in behalf of TERRY LEE SIMS, Sioux City negro sentenced to forty years in prison on rape charge in January 1949. 


[handwritten]
Post D/R 10-26-50 EBR
Lts [?] Omaha 10 [?] EBR

b7C
[ ] Des Moines, Iowa, advised on July 11, 1950 that she was a speaker at a meeting at Grand View Danish College in Des Moines, Iowa around July 7, 1950. She declared that upon leaving the college she saw a negro woman and a white woman standing beside a folding card table taking signatures on a peace petition. She advised that this petition was captioned, " I Want Peace" "Let's Outlaw the Atomic Bomb," and " Let Us Stay Out of Korea."

APPROVED AND FORWARDED: J.L. Dalton SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE
DO NOT WRITE IN THESE SPACES 

[handwritten]
100-355489-2

[ink stamped]
SE10
RECORDED - 35
EX - 6

COPIES OF THIS REPORT 
5 Bureau (100-355489) 
3 Omaha

[ink stamped]
COPIES DESTROYED 1 NOV 7 1962

[handwritten]
lee + DR
10-26-50
EBR

[ink stamped]
COPY IN FILE 

[ink stamped]
SEP 25 1950 

[handwritten]
EBR

PROPERTY OF FBI - THIS CONFIDENTIAL REPORT ITS CONTENTS ARE LOANED TO YOU BY THE FBI AND ARE NOT TO BE DISTRIBUTED OUTSIDE OF THE AGENCY TO WHICH LOANED 

[ink stamped]
OCT 27 1950

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 16-59255-1

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Form No. 1 THIS CASE ORIGINATED AT OMAHA, NEBRASKA OM FILE NO. 100-4095 REPORT MADE AT OMAHA, NEBRASKA DATE WHEN MADE 9-22-50 PERIOD FOR WHICH MADE 6-19;7-11,27;9-12,14-50 REPORT MADE BY b7C FH TITLE EDNA MAY GRIFFIN, aka, Mrs. Stanley Griffin, Edan May Williams CHARACTER OF CASE INTERNAL SECURITY - C [handwritten] 4-1 9-11-1 SYNOPSIS OF FACTS: Subject elected State Vice Chairman of the Iowa Progressive Party. Subject active in securing signatures on peace petition to outlaw atomic bomb and " Let us Stay Out of Korea." -P- ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED DATE 02-21-2006 BY AUC 60309 TAM/DCG/JW DETAILS : AT DES MOINES IOWA An article appearing in the " Des Moines Register" dated Monday June 19, 1950, indicated that EDNA GRIFFIN was the newly elected Party State Vice Chairman of the Iowa Progressive Party and would stump the State during the Summer of 1950 in behalf of TERRY LEE SIMS, Sioux City negro sentenced to forty years in prison on rape charge in January 1949. [handwritten] Post D/R 10-26-50 EBR Lts [?] Omaha 10 [?] EBR b7C [ ] Des Moines, Iowa, advised on July 11, 1950 that she was a speaker at a meeting at Grand View Danish College in Des Moines, Iowa around July 7, 1950. She declared that upon leaving the college she saw a negro woman and a white woman standing beside a folding card table taking signatures on a peace petition. She advised that this petition was captioned, " I Want Peace" "Let's Outlaw the Atomic Bomb," and " Let Us Stay Out of Korea." APPROVED AND FORWARDED: J.L. Dalton SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE DO NOT WRITE IN THESE SPACES [handwritten] 100-355489-2 [ink stamped] SE10 RECORDED - 35 EX - 6 COPIES OF THIS REPORT 5 Bureau (100-355489) 3 Omaha [ink stamped] COPIES DESTROYED 1 NOV 7 1962 [handwritten] lee + DR 10-26-50 EBR [ink stamped] COPY IN FILE [ink stamped] SEP 25 1950 [handwritten] EBR PROPERTY OF FBI - THIS CONFIDENTIAL REPORT ITS CONTENTS ARE LOANED TO YOU BY THE FBI AND ARE NOT TO BE DISTRIBUTED OUTSIDE OF THE AGENCY TO WHICH LOANED [ink stamped] OCT 27 1950 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 16-59255-1