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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 3

OM 100-4095 

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA 

[blank box] whose identity and reliability is known to the Bureau, by written report, furnished the following information concerning the subject. The written report was furnished to the writer on December 30, 1952. 
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Informant indicated that he had had several conversations with [blank box] a member of the Communist Party in Des Moines, Iowa, during the latter part of September and October, 1952, the exact dates of which he cannot remember. During his first visit with [blank box] around September 18, 1952, [blank box] discussed the conduct of EDNA GRIFFIN and advised that when EDNA called at the United Packinghouse Workers - CIO Office to talk with [blank box] the office girls had been instructed to tell her that he was out. 

[blank box] indicated that he does not approve of the conduct of EDNA GRIFFIN and stated that she created a great deal of difficult feeling within the Union and that it had effected his work in the packinghouse because he was afraid they would find out that he knew EDNA intimately. 
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During the meeting at [blank box] [blank box] when EDNA GRIFFIN and OTTO ANSTROM[is this to be left out?] and the Informant were there, OTTO ANSTROM stated that the United Packinghouse Workers - CIO were the only ones that had the money to defray the cost of the [blank box] case. 

[blank box] advised them that [blank box] had been by his home and talked about the [blank box] case and was going to try to get the Union to do something about it. Subject appeared skeptical about it and thought there were certain people using the [blank box] case for political football in a fight among themselves. OTTO also took a " wait and see" attitude according to the Informant. b2 b7C b7D

OTTO also made a wager with the Informant as to how many votes the Progressive Party would get in the forth coming elections. OTTO thought that the Progressive Party would hold approximately one million votes. 

OTTO stated the people were becoming angry in the major political parties and were putting up a sham fight and it was their job to make the people fight back. He also told Informant the next time he saw [blank box] to ask him about a job. 
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OM 100-4095 ADMINISTRATIVE DATA [blank box] whose identity and reliability is known to the Bureau, by written report, furnished the following information concerning the subject. The written report was furnished to the writer on December 30, 1952. b2 b7D Informant indicated that he had had several conversations with [blank box] a member of the Communist Party in Des Moines, Iowa, during the latter part of September and October, 1952, the exact dates of which he cannot remember. During his first visit with [blank box] around September 18, 1952, [blank box] discussed the conduct of EDNA GRIFFIN and advised that when EDNA called at the United Packinghouse Workers - CIO Office to talk with [blank box] the office girls had been instructed to tell her that he was out. [blank box] indicated that he does not approve of the conduct of EDNA GRIFFIN and stated that she created a great deal of difficult feeling within the Union and that it had effected his work in the packinghouse because he was afraid they would find out that he knew EDNA intimately. b7C During the meeting at [blank box] [blank box] when EDNA GRIFFIN and OTTO ANSTROM[is this to be left out?] and the Informant were there, OTTO ANSTROM stated that the United Packinghouse Workers - CIO were the only ones that had the money to defray the cost of the [blank box] case. [blank box] advised them that [blank box] had been by his home and talked about the [blank box] case and was going to try to get the Union to do something about it. Subject appeared skeptical about it and thought there were certain people using the [blank box] case for political football in a fight among themselves. OTTO also took a " wait and see" attitude according to the Informant. b2 b7C b7D OTTO also made a wager with the Informant as to how many votes the Progressive Party would get in the forth coming elections. OTTO thought that the Progressive Party would hold approximately one million votes. OTTO stated the people were becoming angry in the major political parties and were putting up a sham fight and it was their job to make the people fight back. He also told Informant the next time he saw [blank box] to ask him about a job. b7C -3-