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COPIES DESTROVET _ tgs LSuNOVY 12 1964, \ Federal Bureau of Investigation United States Department of Justice kee ee cee é bees i re . wot lee cm ene 8 eee antes om tan he a Read, wathted Aten : ™ t c « LEN, . ‘&, at Na .| gx BUY * . Yd curred * a i ’ Suite 1729 - 111 Sutter Street IN REPLY, PLEASE REFER TO San Francisco, California FILE No. March 20, 196 CONF, TIAL Director, FBI . S Qo Re: EDMUND G. BROWN, aka Pat Brown District Attorney — San Francisco - Dear Sir: Quoted herewith are a letter from the}Omicron_! Epsiion Fraternity-of the University of San Francisco dated wary 10, 196, to BROWN requesting an explanation as to why he permitted his name to be listed as a sponsor for a banquet honoring the American Youth for Democracy held at the St. Francis Hotel here November 10, 195, and his reply: "Jamary 10, 19h6 "Nr, Edmund G. Brown 60 Magellan Avemme San Francisco, California Dear Mr. Brown: "In a newspaper dispatch datelined New York, Jamary 8, 1946, Mr. J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, publicly stated that theAmerican Youth for Democracy is the successor of the Young Commmnist League. ~ "The same United States Government Official, who above all others should be in a position to speak with authority, stigmatizes American Communism as holding '....a godless, truthless philosophy of life. They are against the America our forefathers fought and died for; they are against the established freedoms of America...There is a distinction between respecting our ally Russia and respecting those within our country who would destroy all that we believe in.' MWe note that you were listed as a Sponsor for the Banquet honoring the American Youth for Democracy held on Saturday, November 10, 195, at the St. Francis Hotel. ee SE 49” wendy eg - z : Biss ad