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M. A, Jones to DeLoach Re: COMMUNIST INFILTRATION OF THE NATIONAL FARM WORKERS ASSOCIATION activities, ae...: if we might check to see if there is any information concerning Richards which we could furnish to him. . ee. :: reported that a young woman named Wendy “Goepel recently had come to the Delano area and become active in the farm workers” strike. He said this woman majored in sociology at Stanford University and formerly worked for the California Department of Public Health. He said until quite recently she was a consultant in the California Governor's Office on the Vista Program (anti- poverty program) and reportedly helped draw up the application which resulted in the $267, 887 gra ional Farm Workers Association by the Office of Economic i Opportunity. requested a check on Miss Goepel also, Information in Bufiles: Goepel apparently is identical with Wendy Pangburn Goepel (Bufile who reportedly was considering attending the 8th World Youth Festival in Helsinki, Finland, in 1962 along with other Stanford University students, There is no indication that she did attend, ichards was identified in public testimony before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA) on June 18, 1957, by Dr, Jack Patten as a member of the Communist Political Association, county committee, in 1944. Richards was subpoenaed before the HCUA on June 20, 1957, at San Francisco and invoked the 5th amendment when asked about his Party affiliations, Richards' wife was identified in public testimony during HCUA hearings on July 20, 1957, as a Communist Party member from 1943 to 1951 by Dorothy Jeffers. RECOMMENDATIONS: That we confidentially vrict SND concerning the / foregoing information on Richards and Goepel, tos a io a! phe (2) That the encloged irtel be sent to Los Angeles. ae te