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individuals, as one who offered advice and suggestions to he _Anericon Youth Congress. Many unspecific complaints have been received that she is a Communist or Communist sympathizer. She is al : ; riendly with individuals reported to _be pro-Communis have withheld the ged to be COMMUNISES » Upon receipt of a loyaity form from the Civil Service Commission, the a i 4 rney General on February 10, 1949,in a detajjed memorandum, At this time the Attorney General was requested to advise if'a full field investigation should be-conducted concerning Frances Perkins, or if he did not desire such an investigations to advise if a summary of this information should be furnished to the Civil Service Commtssion on the back of the loyalty form, To this the Attorney General replied Myo investigation warranted, While I see no occasion to puto _summary_on-the—backof the form you should use your customary techniques," . Frances erkins! rm was returned to the Civil Service Commission on February 21, 1949, stamped "No Disloyol Data FBI Files, : information received subse quent to February, 1949, reflects that_@ pamphlet issued by the Institute for American Democracy, 360 Lerington Avenue, New York City, entitled "Community Projects" indicated that the Institute had retained Madam Frances Perkins to write a weekly release to the labor the United States and that nearly 1,000 labor ~ papers received this material at that time. An informant of known reliability advised that although the Institute for American Democracy had numerous non-Communists on its governing body, it also had some outstanding "left-wingers ond pro-__ Communists” anong its leaders. This Bureau_has conducted no eo ™ mag th 2 inpestigat concernin erican Democracy. This_infornation and the information previously furnished the Attorney General has been incorporated in the attached memorandum to the White House. ~n ‘ogres NPGS PE CP sec EOE ch rE