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NY 1000-90892 T-1, who has admitted his Communist Party (CP) membership from about 1948 to 1951 in the Manhattan- Brooklyn, New York, area, advised on October 4, 1956, that HOWARD ZINN was a CP member about 1950-1951 and is os = believed to be a mémber currently due to_ the past Imowledge = i ee \y .° «the source had of him. “Informant advised he could not . + Bubstantiste “current membership on the part of ZINN. T-1 ° @ISo made available a photograph of ZINN taken in about ae eon showed hikinstructing a class in Basic Marxism at the Twelfth AssemDIy-Drstrret; CP Headquarters, Brooklyn,-New York. ~~ ; _ ; Evidence of CP § athies The records of the New York City Police De ewed by SA AUGUST J. MICEK and SE b6 on November 9, 1949, revealed that b7c OWARD ZINN, 369 Vernon Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, . Kings County, witnessed a CP Independent Nominating Petition, pages 1564 and 1565, for BENJAMIN J. DAVIS for the office of City Councilman, Twenty-first Senatorial District, Borough of Manhattan, for the November, 1949 elections in the City of New York, Mr, THOMAS E. WAGGAMAN, Marshal of the Supreme Court of the United States, made available around October 1950 correspondence addressed to the Supreme Court urging that the Court review the case of "The Trial of the Eleven.” One ‘of these pieces of correspondence was a letter post marked August 18, 1950 and dated August 15, 1950, which was addressed to the United States Supreme Court, Washington, D.C. The letter stated,"I respectfully urge you to fulfil the traditional rule of the Court as the watchdog of the Bill of Rights, by revoking the Court of Appeals decision of the 11 Communist Leaders, "Free speech is the cornerstone of a free America and it cannot be preserved unless the Smith Act is declared unconstitutional. "Howard Zinn™ -4-