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de ec ae AR ane Tne tl eke Rae Ve TR RT Cet gg aa aa Rae dake at ee a camer ee ar Se te a a ate Letter to Director Re: GERALD L. E. SMITH August 4, 1942 , INTERNAL SECURITY SEDITION <« the purpose of his telephone call was to atate for the record that the reporters were on a Vicious mission against him. SMITH has complained about the appeal of the Civil Rights Federation through Attorney General BIDDLE for an in- vestigation of FATHER COJGHLIN and GERALD L. K. SMITH. SMITH has lained that the President of the Civil Rights Federation is Professor JOHMYSHEPARD of the University of Michigan who has been active in other commnistic front activities. SMITH saya that the secretary of the Civil Rights Federation ie JACKVRASKIN who ia a Communist formerly active in a sabotage strike at the Bohn Aluminum Company before the entry of the United States into the war. On July 30, 1942, SMITH advised f Radi wii: Detroit, Michigan, that SMITH had a conference with b? a: and other rubber experts of the Ford Motor Company who to. a ey are permitted, they can produce enough tires for all industrial — workers in Detroit by Christmas and every industrial worker in Michigan -- within a vear. Very truly yours, Lhe : OHN S. BUGAS —— ; Special Agent in Charge A 2-126 . head +