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C STATES DEPA' TMENT OF Jy" "E FEDERAL BUREAU UF investicatrn In Reply, Please Refer to San Anton:.:, Texas File Ne Aagust 29, 1967 ACTIVITIES CONCERNING FARM WORKERS' STRIKE IN RIO GRANDE CITY, TEXAS MISCELLANEOUS - INFORMATION CONCERNING The August 27, 1967, edition of the Valley Morning Star, Sa daily newspaper "publisned at Harlingen, Texas, Carries an article on page one captioned, "Farm Union Official Who Accused Texas Rangers Held in Marijuana Case", which article states that Magdaleno Dimas, an official of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), was being held in jail in Torreon, Mexico, on a charge of possession of marijuana. The article states Dimas and another member of the UFWOC, Oracio Carrillo, of Corpus Christi, Texas, were ar- rested in a hotel room at Torreon, Mexico, the night of August 23, 1967, with 26 small packets of marijuana in their possession, Gilbert Padilla, Vice President of the UFWOC at Pie Grande City, Texas, according to the article, had stated that Union will probably consider Dimas’ arrest a personal ratter unless he was arrested illegally or the drugs were planted. This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It 1s the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency: it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency. -1t-