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

1955-02-18 Special Agent in Charge, Omaha Field Office, to Director, FBI advising that Edna Griffin be kept in the Security Index Page 2

OM 100-4095

Subject has been active in matters pertaining to race discrimination that have occurred in the State of Iowa during the past several years, all of which have been approached by subject along Communist Party lines. 

She was instrumental in bringing a law suit against the Katz Drug Store, Des Moines, Iowa. in 1948 for the drug store refusing to serve Negros. This law suit was won by subject. She was instrumental in the case involving [ ] a Negro arrested by the Sioux City, Iowa, Police Department, allegedly for operating a house of prostitution, but according to subject it was because of race discrimination. 
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In 19544 subject endeavored to make a national incident out of the refusal of a dance hall in Des Moines, Iowa, to admit Negros along with white trade. 

Subject has been in correspondence with the San Cristobal Valley Ranch, San Cristobal, New Mexico, which ranch was reported to be a resort for the use of members of the Communist Party. 

Subject was elected a Vice-Chairman of the Progressive Party of Iowa in 1950, and took a very prominent part in the Progressive Party activities in Iowa in 1952. Subject met CHARLOTTE BASS, Vice Presidential Candidate of the National Progressive Party at the airport in Des Moines, Iowa on July 19, 1952. She was accompanied to the airport by [ ]  reliably described as a concealed Communist Party member, and [ ] Subject has been described by an informant of unknown reliability as " An intense Communist Party member". b7C

Subject has been reported as having stated that " The Rosenberg Case is a manifestation of the growing American anti-Semetic campaign."

On December 28, 1952, subject wrote an article for the Des Moines Sunday Register a Des Moines, Iowa, Newspaper, captioned " Why death for the Rosenbergs is opposed". The tenor of this article criticized the decision of the ROSENBERG case, stating that the matter had been tried by the newspapers of the nation, and that the Government's chief witness had purjured himself in testifying that he had no outside assistance in reproducing the sketch for the atomic secret, as well as the admission of circumstantial evidence which jeopardized the right to the benefit of the doubt.

Subject has been reliably reported to be still the Chairman of the Communist Party in the Des Moines, Iowa,area. 

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OM 100-4095 Subject has been active in matters pertaining to race discrimination that have occurred in the State of Iowa during the past several years, all of which have been approached by subject along Communist Party lines. She was instrumental in bringing a law suit against the Katz Drug Store, Des Moines, Iowa. in 1948 for the drug store refusing to serve Negros. This law suit was won by subject. She was instrumental in the case involving [ ] a Negro arrested by the Sioux City, Iowa, Police Department, allegedly for operating a house of prostitution, but according to subject it was because of race discrimination. b7C In 19544 subject endeavored to make a national incident out of the refusal of a dance hall in Des Moines, Iowa, to admit Negros along with white trade. Subject has been in correspondence with the San Cristobal Valley Ranch, San Cristobal, New Mexico, which ranch was reported to be a resort for the use of members of the Communist Party. Subject was elected a Vice-Chairman of the Progressive Party of Iowa in 1950, and took a very prominent part in the Progressive Party activities in Iowa in 1952. Subject met CHARLOTTE BASS, Vice Presidential Candidate of the National Progressive Party at the airport in Des Moines, Iowa on July 19, 1952. She was accompanied to the airport by [ ] reliably described as a concealed Communist Party member, and [ ] Subject has been described by an informant of unknown reliability as " An intense Communist Party member". b7C Subject has been reported as having stated that " The Rosenberg Case is a manifestation of the growing American anti-Semetic campaign." On December 28, 1952, subject wrote an article for the Des Moines Sunday Register a Des Moines, Iowa, Newspaper, captioned " Why death for the Rosenbergs is opposed". The tenor of this article criticized the decision of the ROSENBERG case, stating that the matter had been tried by the newspapers of the nation, and that the Government's chief witness had purjured himself in testifying that he had no outside assistance in reproducing the sketch for the atomic secret, as well as the admission of circumstantial evidence which jeopardized the right to the benefit of the doubt. Subject has been reliably reported to be still the Chairman of the Communist Party in the Des Moines, Iowa,area. -2-