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AT 100-5643 “RE ROBERT FRANKLIN WILLIAMS - A , ROBERT FRANKLI AWILLIAMS, former President of | the National Association for the Advancement of Colored / People, Monroe, North Carolina, and Editor of "The / Crusader," was indicted om August 28, 1961, by the State Grand Jury at Momroe, North Carolina, om a kidnaping charge, which grew out of racial umrest in Monroe, Investigation by local police deter- mined he had fled the state. U. S. Attorney, Charlotte, North Carolina, authorized on Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution and a2 warrant was issued August 28, 1961, with $10,000 bond recommended. &T T-3 stated om October 6, 1961, that WILLIAMS Was currently in Havana, Cuba. CONRAD LYNN, New York City attorney, om October 10, 1961, advised that the Cuban Government helped WILLIAMS to flee to Cuba and that WILLIAMS had told LYNN telephonically that he was attached to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Cuba. AT T~4 advised on February 6, 1962, that he had seen & letter from the Student Peace Union, 6029 University Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. The letter stated that students from all over the United States would converge on Washington, D.-C. February 16 and 17, 1962 to demonstrate in front of the White House for the ending of all nuclear testing and termination of the Civil Defemse Program, AT T=-4 said that the spomsors for this group locally were HOWARD ZINN and STAUGHTON LYND, who are history professors at Spelman College, |. RE STAUGHTONY LYND AT T-5 advised im. December, 1953 that he heard that STAUGHTON LYND had been a Communist Party member_ while at Harvard University. AT T-5 doubted that LYND had been a Communist Party MENDEL , but was of the belief that he had been active in the John Reed Society and American Youth for Democracy at Harvard, ey, fe teed a Cais _#? aire cee ee anette see —— oGa