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x ’ — abhi POGAR HOOVER DINECTOR ee _ Federal Bureau of knvestigation =, Cm . eV Wnited States Department of Justice Pisa 4 Washington, D. €. om December 13, 1941 >. omen | Mr. Bugas called from Detroit and advised that, pursuant to my additional instructions, he had been able to step onen arrange an interview with Mr. Henry-Ford. Henry Ford stated that. _ he asked Colonel Charles A.“Lindberg to come out to Detroit — and to visit him at the plant because he wanted to talk to Lindberg about Lindberg's attitude toward the Jews. Henry Ford told Bugas that he had heard a speech which Lindberg had made several nights before, and Ford did not like some of the things which Lindberg had said about the Jews. Accordingly, he asked Lindberg to come out and see him 80 that he could give some views on that score. Lindberg was out there about four weeks ago, and - while Ford did not know the ezact date, he stated he would check sor his files and advise Bugas. =. ww Henry Ford stated that Lindberg had stayed overnight and that the conversations were principally about Jewish matters. Henry Ford does not recall any conversations on the part of Lindberg with regard to Lindberg's obtaining or securing information from the War | Department. Specifically esked, Henry Ford stated that he did not recall Lindberg fs talking woikeatatenes any information from any Army officer or making any otWer statement with respect to the drmy or armed forces. Ford etated that, in addition to not recalling ony such statements, he does not believe that any such statements were mode. wou : Rte While Lindberg was in Detroit, he and Henry Ford were tn Harry ‘Bennett's office for several hours. During this period Bennett — together several times and ford was iz and out Lin 2 RECORDED CSMIF99 -U3: Bugas accordingly contacted Bennett again,-and Bennett "" clains that, in thinking over the matter and trying to,pecall appre of the details of it, he has been unable to recall Lindberg’s "~~ mentioning the name of the man he contacted in Washington fre- f quently, but stated that Lindberg told him that, becapse of some apprehension over contacting his regular source of igformation within: the Wor Department, he had frequently on recent oceQsions been seetag a Mayor Mitggs, who ts an aide to General Arnold. Bennett could not of the office.