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Letter to Director WALLACE, in his speech that evening, stated that he changed the first paragraph of this flyer after receiving information on’ the BEDELL SMITH - MOLOTOV conversations in Moscow. Miss THOMPSON believes that it is a physical impossibility to make this change and have new flyers © lithographed and distributed within the space of a little more than 24 hours. She seid that the flyer was prepared from a plate and in order ‘for WALLACE to make a change in this flyer, it would have been necessary ‘to destroy the first plate and prepare a new one. In view of this, Miss THOMPSON is of the definite opinion that “" ENRY WALLACE had advance information from the Russian Embassy in Washington or the Russian Consulate in New York City concerning the SMITH - MOLOTOV - conversations. Se , Miss THOMPSON also advised that she has spent the past week in- vestigating to determine whether WALLACE actually had advance information of these conversations but has been able to reach no definite conclusion on this matter. In this comeptjen, she has attgmpted to learn, throvgh her syndicate and through TITAS of New Leader", when the flyer yas-lithographed. She advised that she was not successful as the “Mnal gemated Lithographers of ners ce Local #1, Union Shop #100, cover'’s e entire New Tork gree and her sources have not been able to localize the place where the“fiyers were produced. She furnished this flyer to this office, thinking that we might desire to investigate to determine whether this advance information was actually in the possession of HENRY WALLACE - before it was released for public consumption. The flyer distributed at the HENRY WALLACE meeting and furnished by Miss THOMPSON is being sent to the’ Bureau with this letter. It is noted that the flyer bears a stamp, on the lower right hand corner, of local #1, New York Amalgamated Lithographers of America. ‘The stamp also carried what appears to be the word “union = 100%. The word before 100 is not clear but it does not appear to be the word "shop", It is noted further that the files of this office do not reflect that this union is Communist dominated. A pretext call, wherein the caller was not Adentified, to the Printers Union, Local 100, on the basis of attempting to secure additional copies of the flyer, resulted in advice from the union that it was not possible to ascertain in what shop the flyers had been lithographed; that they could have been lithographed in any one of the - hundreds of shops in New York City. It would appear that Miss THOMPSON's "hunch" thet WALLACE had advance information regarding Moscow's release on the BEDELL SMITH — MOLOTOV