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Edna Griffin's FBI file, December 1951-February 1955

1953-01-21 Omaha Field Office Report on Edna Griffin ""Save the Rosenbergs"" campaign Page 2

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Confidential Informant [blank box] of known reliability, made available a pamphlet entitled " The Cold-War Murder", the frame-up against ETHEL and JULIUS ROSENBERG by RICHARD O. BOYER, copyright 1952 by Civil Rights Congress, 23 West 26th Street, New York City, New York. 

This pamphlet was addressed to EDNA GRIFFIN, 1108 - 3rd Street, Des Moines, Iowa, and bore return address of GEORGE WILLOUGHBY, President, Des Moines Regional Office of American Friends Service Committee, 1116 East University, Des Moines, Iowa. 

On December 28, 1952, an article captioned " Why Death for Rosenbergs Is Opposed"  appeared on the editorial page of the Des Moines Sunday Register, a Des Moines, Iowa newspaper. This article was signed by EDNA GRIFFIN, 1108 - 3rd Street, Des Moines, Iowa. 

The article criticized the decision of the ROSENBERG case and claimed, along other things, that the case had been tried by the newspapers of the nation before it ever reached the court. 

The article also claimed that the government prosecution had admitted that its chief witness, DAVID GREENGLASS, perjured himself on the witness stand when he testified that he had no outside assistance in reproducing the sketch of the atomic secret together with 12 pages of formulae from memory.

The article also claimed that the admission of circumstantial evidence jeopardized the right to the benefit of the doubt. 

On December 30, 1952, Confidential Informant [blank box] of known reliability, advised that there was a young white lady distributing pamphlets in front of the Bookey Packing Company on December 30, 1952 in Des Moines, Iowa. Informant advised that these pamphlets consisted of a plea to save the ROSENBERGs and were signed by the Progressive Party in the State of Iowa on behalf of EDNA GRIFFIN and [blank box] [blank box] who, according to Confidential Informant [blank box] of known reliability, is a member of the Communist Party. 
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OM 100-4095 [CONFIDENTIAL x'd out] b2 b7D Confidential Informant [blank box] of known reliability, made available a pamphlet entitled " The Cold-War Murder", the frame-up against ETHEL and JULIUS ROSENBERG by RICHARD O. BOYER, copyright 1952 by Civil Rights Congress, 23 West 26th Street, New York City, New York. This pamphlet was addressed to EDNA GRIFFIN, 1108 - 3rd Street, Des Moines, Iowa, and bore return address of GEORGE WILLOUGHBY, President, Des Moines Regional Office of American Friends Service Committee, 1116 East University, Des Moines, Iowa. On December 28, 1952, an article captioned " Why Death for Rosenbergs Is Opposed" appeared on the editorial page of the Des Moines Sunday Register, a Des Moines, Iowa newspaper. This article was signed by EDNA GRIFFIN, 1108 - 3rd Street, Des Moines, Iowa. The article criticized the decision of the ROSENBERG case and claimed, along other things, that the case had been tried by the newspapers of the nation before it ever reached the court. The article also claimed that the government prosecution had admitted that its chief witness, DAVID GREENGLASS, perjured himself on the witness stand when he testified that he had no outside assistance in reproducing the sketch of the atomic secret together with 12 pages of formulae from memory. The article also claimed that the admission of circumstantial evidence jeopardized the right to the benefit of the doubt. On December 30, 1952, Confidential Informant [blank box] of known reliability, advised that there was a young white lady distributing pamphlets in front of the Bookey Packing Company on December 30, 1952 in Des Moines, Iowa. Informant advised that these pamphlets consisted of a plea to save the ROSENBERGs and were signed by the Progressive Party in the State of Iowa on behalf of EDNA GRIFFIN and [blank box] [blank box] who, according to Confidential Informant [blank box] of known reliability, is a member of the Communist Party. b2 b7C b7D -P*- [CONFIDENTIAL x'd out] -2-