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NY 65-16659 - un Cicer, CP ed a a ,, 4dnto the Communist Party’by PAUL CROSBY, and PAUL CROSEY ‘told ne ‘that he phe ne Ae 3 -é+- had recruited PARKS into the Party ‘andthat PARKS had done excellent wark’™ Pe in gathering inside information from the Government, and referred to PARKS as aman who had entree to the White House and the confidence of the Fresi- nt ana «af Hne DANCE Tit m BU GT Ol 5DGe Dwr © 8S . "PARKS himself told me that he had, from about the fall of va i932 until the summer of. 1933, if I recall the dates correctly, en business". x, 7". manager of the magazing/"Babies—Just Babies," edited by ELEAN WELT, I Gigs _ ‘> and that through"his contacts with the President and Mrs./ ROOSEVELT, and “et a 3 ee aa ‘with other people high in Government circles, he had been able to provide. are the Party with considerable information. WWran To wae ctorin nt Telsarna which halancead ta (TTR ‘RT PELAGiL a ee add w oF at hell ww ok eon Ke wea b ed PRL FERS ER le er ag, L. PARKS, located just off Port Royal, South Carolina, in the fall of 1937 or very early in 1938, PARKS told me that ELEANOR ROOSEVELT was coming to .. . “ ; the South and that he thought it would be an excellent idea to have her come. *-"''- down to his hotel and spend several days and to arrange for me to have pera 3 conversations with her on political Government matters with a view both to vor obtain general information for the Party from these conversations and‘also”™--)i% + possibly of being able to influence her to follow the Party line on current matters. He wired Mrs. ROOSEVELT and showed me a telegram from her, signed by ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, statine that shea rerretted very much her inability ta A I td eel Oe ee wwe OF sess see ee ee i=) baal tal “ accept this invitation, that she would very much like to visit with him, but that her time schedule made it physically Ampossible. _ “WIn November, 1938, I became acquainted with Reverend MALCOLM * COTTON’ DOBBS, who served on the Steering Committee’of the Southarn conterenie Jong for Human Welfare and who again served on the Commnist Partyts Steering - nee aa Comittee at Chattanooga, Tennessee, in the winter of 1940. I was present at many top-level, closed meetings with Reverend MALCOLM COTTON DOBBS in the vericd hetween 1938 and 19h0, and mv hart recollection is I saw him Bee er See ves VY 8 Se ee several times after early 1910, before I left Tennessee in the spring of 1941. "In conversations with me, MALCOL“ COTTQ? DOBBS told me that he had free access to the White House and that the President and Mrs. ROOSEVELT did not suspect him of being a Communist, and the fact that he was a minister was a valuable asset in preventing suspicion. He stated that he had obtained considerable information from people in the high Government circles whom he had met or contacted on visits to the White Houses -. ‘, fob: Fi bal - ag ye ete "HOWARDLEE , a young attorney, was a close friend of Reverend HALCOLA COTTON DOBBS and was an important undercover national leader of the Young Communist League in the mid! anc late 1930!8¢ HOWARD’ LEE poe to * - + ~ < OE ee ee ie : + "e € vow -— 3 -~ * soe oo * oa Poe ae