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“A. A. HOPKINS ‘Wwae*prépared and: confi den’ | copy is attached herewith. LOS ANGELES 10/3/24 "Some days ago I accepted an invitation from you, communicated” over the telephone, to address'a meeting of your Open Forum on Sunday, October 26th. . _"You will remember that you introduced yourself to me over the telephone as the Assistant Pastor of Dr. Dyer's Wilshire Boule. vard Congregational Church, and it may not have.been so stated, but I surely understood the fact to be that ‘the-Open Forum ‘which I was to address #as,the Open Forum of Dr.. Dyer's church. Upon that basis I was very happy to accept. "I now learn that the Open Forum you had in mind is an Open Forum sponsored by the ‘American Civil Liberties Union', an institution with whose plans, purposes and methods I have no sympathy et all. vets ‘ "Under the circumstances, therefore, I must withdraw the accept ance I made to speak atthe ‘time and place mentioned." Judge Bledsoe requested this office to furnish him with a confi-: Civil Liberties Union. Under instructions from Special Agent in Charge Wheeler, summary ni tted:toxthe: Judge, of: ae dential summary of the history, activities and personnel of the American| 7 eoveanmar FaaTae omnes 71160