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FEDERAL. BUREAU .OF. INVESTIGATION Form No.1 THIS CASE ORIGINATED AT NW YORK ny PME N°65-14920 hd/chf REPORT MADE AT pare wen PERIOD FOR WHICH MADE REPORT MADE BY ‘ NEW YORK 3 [2p . 3/5-16/49 ROBERT F. X. O'KEERE Lf ey! Saw CHARACTER OF CASE JAY DAVID WHITTAKER CHAMBERS, WAS, ETAL, PERJURY ESPIONsGE — R INTERNAL SECURITY - R SYNOPSIS OF FACTS: DAVID LESSER, former CP member. stated photos of . ALGER and PRISCILLS HISS resembled persons who ~- attended WORKERS SCHOOL of CP, 1932-33. However, no positive verification obtained from LESSER or other sources, ESRL BRODER has no knowledge of HISS' CP membershir or underground activity. BROWDER evidenced uncooperative attitude and decried campaign against CF and Soviet Union. No gasoline credit account for ALGER HISS loceted at NY oil companies, Additional efforts made to en BORIS BYKOV through BENJAMIN: GITLOW, irs. WALTE KRIVITSKY i Former associates. of ABRAHA Vif GEORGE SILVERILN never suspected his CP affilia-— tions or alleged underground activities. SILVER- MN released from NY employment because of disclosures before HCUA, Back.round and activities in CP apparatus of JOHN T. HERRMANN set forth. - bID . ~P- REFERENCE : Bureau file 74-1333, * Report of Sf Robert F. X, O'Keefe, 3/10/49, at New York, APPROVED AND ‘ SPECIAL AGENT . DO NOT WRITE IN THESE SPACES FORWARDED: __ IN CHARGE x7 ; . 95-lAE LIT S88-)- “Bureau =Boston i ét lthomas J,“Honezan'), Ee Uicago (Into) |, SAhkG, NYC. iNew Haven (Info) el - PHILADS Peal 2-Baltimore T$Philadelphia (Info) MAR 2-4 1949 2-Los Angeles -Richmond (Info) ert WY 2-Mi ami 1-San Francisco (info FAW VO At SS 2-Washington Field 6-New York 103205