The translator Boris Tarasoff had a history of working with FDD: http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=443036
"Bill Hyde had been active in the cooperative movement and therefore was aware of the attempts of the Communists to infililtrate the cooperative movement": Memo of SA Delbert L. Lee, 9/20/56, p. 7. Commission Document 503 - FBI Lee Report of 20 Sep 1956 re: Hoke
There is a 1955 memo where William Avery Hyde was in town visiting the Hokes: Memo of SA Carl Graham, 12/16/63, FBI - Ruth and Michael Paine Files/NARA Record Number: 124-10130-10258 http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=145594&relPageId=4
Although Dr. Jenkins' name is redacted in the FBI memo, the notes of an HSCA staffer reveal his name: Notes of Surell Brady, CIA File Review, 6/30/78, HSCA Segregated CIA Collection (staff notes)/NARA Record Number: 180-10143-10196. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=38211&relPageId=15
Hoke has been described as "a very brilliant person who is not very stable but who is very creative.": Commission Document 505 - FBI McAvoy Report of 24 Sep 1956 re: Hoke, p. 6.
The focus of the meeting was about Paul and Violet Orr, Communist party members in the San Francisco Bay Area: Memo from Taylor Bielefeldt to Bruce Solie, 12/21/55, HSCA Segregated CIA Collection, Box 43/NARA Record Number: 104-10120-10459.
Paul had just been harshly interrogated by HUAC earlier that year: Testimony of Paul Orr to HUAC, 6/27/55. click here
Also see Mike Thoele, 2/19/91, Eugene Register-Guard, "This Gentle Rebel Defies Stereotypes". click here
In previous years, Violet had been part of the visible Party leadership: Memo from Wilbert H. Kehe to Director, FBI, 12/13/46, FBI - HSCA Subject Files, O - P/FBI - HSCA Subject File: John Pittman/NARA Record Number: 124-10284-10121. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=133844&relPageId=11
A wiretap revealed that former CP member Dorothy Wilson allegedly claimed that Ruth Paine's mother Carol Hyde admitted to being a communist: Commission Document 505 - FBI McAvoy Report of 24 Sep 1956 re: Hoke, p. 8.
Ruth's sister Sylvia admitted a year later that Dorothy Wilson worked at the publishing company run by her mother-in-law Helen Hoke Watts: Memo from William Branigan to William C. Sullivan, 12/12/63, pp. 4-5, FBI - Ruth and Michael Paine Files/NARA Record Number: 124-10137-10099. click here http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=145770&relPageId=6
Dorothy Wilson married Lou Seligson, and was thereafter known as Dorothy Seligson.
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