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wo ? rem i Sa toll . cae df La te Zé SE 100-1820. DETAILS: RI SEATTLE, WASHINGTON This report is being submitted to reflect the recent activities in connection with visits of the subject PAUL ROBESON to the State of Washington during Jenuary, February and May, 1952. ROBESON'S EXIT TO CANADA PRUVENTED Confidential Informant Seattle of known reliability, advised ‘1D on January 31, 1952 that the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service on that date at Blaine, Washington, had served PAUL ROBESON -with a notice forbidding his departure from the United States,’ Informant "~~ also stated that ROBESON, at the time of interception at the internation— al boundary at Blaine, : occupied an American owned automobile and was accompanied by one JONMLGRAY who stated he was an unemployed welder from Chicago. ‘\ Informant said the U. 8. Inmigration and Naturalizatjfion Service on the same date at Blaine, Washington, intercepted VINC NEN, attorney who represented HARRY BRIDGES in the trial which resulted in his conviction for perjury based upon his sworn testimony that he had not been affiliated with the Communist Party. HALLINEN was a passenger on the train and he also was served with a notice forbidding him to depart from the United States. According to the informant, both ROBESON and HALLINEN allegedly were en route to Vancouver, B. C., where they were to appear before a convention of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union, The Bellinghgm Herald, a newspaper published at Bellingham, Washington, in its ifsue for January 31, 1952, reported that PAUL ROBESON and VINCENT WILLI i INEN had attempted to enter Canads to fulfil speaking engagements at the convention of the B.C, members of the Mine, Nill and Smelter Workers Independent Union, and that both of these individuals were turned back by officials of the U. S, Immigration and Naturalization Service by authority of a 1918 statute and Presidential Proclamation of November 14, 1941. The news item quoted JOHN P, BOYD, District Director of the U. 5S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Seattle, Washington, as stating that these legsl instruments impowered his office to prevent the departure of either a citizen or an alien, ON tee AE RE OS De meet Age go Ck cure MAE RAC tem Run mae ote