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7% et . 7 # « 7 ‘a ay , - +, . United States Department of dustice Federal Bureau of Investigation New York 7, New York IN REPLY, PLEASE REFER TO May 19, 1948 SPECIAL NSTLIVERY Director, FBI Att: Assistant Director D. I. Ladd Ateseeee TON can ee RF: MISS DOROT. we AOE PUBLIC RELATY ig RIES b i . a0 ee! é ee -o . i Sirs ie | east e 5s Dear Sir: BATES/4/e3_BY..sP ( . ; ROES 03 On May 18, 1948, at 11:35 am, iss DOROTHY THOMPSON, politica journalist, of 237 East 48 Street, New York City, telephoned the New York ~ office and asked for SAC Edward Scheidt. In his absence, she spoke to ASAC A. H. Belmont, Vy i é oo She advised that she had a matter of “major political importance" . Q to discuss with him which she desired to discuss telephonically. Miss ““ . THOMPSON said that this morning's newspapers carried a reply f from Ma¥sh&le =z STALIN to the open letter of HENRY WALLACE dated last week. A.side from the “s undesirability of having WALLACE conduct negotiations with another country through such a letter, Miss THOMPSON advised that she had a "hunch" that WAILACE had been in touch with Moscow prior to the issuance of his open ~— to STALIN. She based this on the following: On Tuesday, May 11, 1948, HENRY WALLACE held a political meeting +. in Madison Square Garden in New York City, According to Miss THOMPSON, “~~ the publication of the contents of + ADELL SMITH — MOLOTOV conversations, which had teken place May 4, 1948 in Moscow, — reached “this country on the he Associated Fress wire a little after 8:30 pm on May 10, 1948. According — to Miss THOMPSON, there was a one sentence report of the notes of these - , conversations on the 8:55 pm CBS news broadcast on May 10, 1948, and 4 se further details on the 11:00 pm news broadcasts on all the major radio fe o ow, ° stati ONS. It was also published in the’ morning newspapers,.on Leay ats 198. fe 3 Ye Oe At the WALLACE meeting referred to above, a flyer entitled K Sein Open letter _to.Premier Stalin" was distributed. Miss THOMPSON, who oe . attended the meeting, said that this flyer was distributed at approximately Mi i 10:30 pm on May 11, 1948 by ushers at the meeting. Miss THOMPSON also ' * ‘advised that at the time these flyers were distributed, the ink was perfectly dry. She said that the flyer was lithographed y the Amal.gameted Lithographers of America, Local al, Ynion Shop Oe 51 rae Z LUE // 3 A ct - ED ANB: OTC ok gyetas 4 ee , 3 har 27 148, I