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M. A. Jone: to™ IF + RE: COMAIUWNIST INKiL.1 ATION OF THE NATIONAL FARM WORKERS ASSOCIATION stated he is quite concerned about this Association being | given a grant by the Office of Economic Opportunity particularly where there is indication : that the named individuals have subversive connections. He asked if we could check on | the National Farm Workers Association, which he said was only recently organized; the ! California Migrant Ministry; and the above-named individuals and iurnish him any infor~ { mation which would be of assistance in deciding what, if any, action he should nt 4 a this matter. We have enjoyed a limited but cordial relationship with INFORMATION IN BUFILES: Bufiles contain no record identifiable with the National Farm Workers Association, the California Migrant Ministry, Marcello Tamsi, Ben Gines and Delores Huerta. No phctograph of Huerta was found in any issue of "'The Worker" received in the Bureau since the first of August, 1965. 9-19-65 from’ asking if we can identify Cesar 2Chavez. a Mexican male, 33 tc 88 years of age, who was an applicant for Peace Corps Director in 1962 and is Director of the National Farm Workers Association in Delano. The communication also indicate Chavez had applied to estaplish a Fasm Workers Associstion credit union: that he is associated with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee: the California Church Council; and the AFL-CIO farm labor strike in Delano. His address was listed as i22: Delano ll an office at 102 Albany and a telephone listed to him at 630 Belmont, ail The ™ information identifiable with Chavez is a communication date? ~ . Delano. was acvised by radiogram dated 9-20-65 that Chavez possibly icentical i with FBI number 2968-~533-D, born $-i2-26 in ivexico; fingerprinted 1945 ana 1959 by Immigration and Naturalization at El Paso, Texas, for immigration violations; aepartea ito Mexico 10~1-52 in lieu of deportation. (32~-2972-15857, requested the Attorney General for an ng cOimmunists or subvers affiliations on the part of Chavez. A similar request was made in the same letter on David Ward Havens described as a white American male, born 12-17-35, residing a ane, Visalia, California. This letter was re 2 chec centiiapic data on Chavez or Havens. 100-7254-3596 an aie