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Federal Bureau of Investigation Rnited States Department of Justice ; Detroit, Michigan ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED , August 4, 1942 . HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED ay, a \ DATE__1!31$) _ BYSPe8sa_lom3_ Neh 204, 433 ERS OtE mee CONPIDE TITAS Director @ la ‘ederal Bureau of Investigation $Y Washington, D. C. Re: GERALD L. K. SMITH : INTERNAL SECURITY : ; - 8 SEDITION pEctas® i. , Ber ont ~ i { ear Sirs colt The following additional information has been received bw my i ; ron whose identity is known to the Bureau: % - ' ce “€ a SMITH has been contiming to contact bre i 6 @& a: the Ford Motor Company, and has been promised financial - a other assistance by in carrying on SMITH'S political. campaign for the United es Senate. SMITH and his wife have also con- Lf tinued to contact CHARLESWLINDBERGH, presently employed by the} Ford Motor Company. { btewir sé Lf On_ Ji 16, 1: lof Wichita, Kansas, a friend of arrive troit, Michigan, and b immediately SMITH for a conference atthe Statiér 19425% Hotel. ve notice of his po: tical campaign{}\* to visit toDetroit, Mich" \ y igan as been arranged for some e in 2 4S On July 19, 1942, SMITH was advised by RECORDBL be 3 for the Ford Motor Company, that he had been interviewed pre- © : e Detroit Field Office of the Fed estigation NDEZE> Hl concerning the activities of GERALD L. XK. sim, Gaal 2:2 SMITH , ed ; that the pressure for the investigation was coming from New York and the Federal Bureau of Investigation was c to igate the compldint which had been received about arr. ina d that he told the agent he could say nothing bad about @ promised that when he bre had been interviewed at some future time, he would promptly advise SMITH about the interview. SMITH coach as to what he could say to the Federal Bureau of Investigation Agent. He instructed him ti ght to say that when SMITH came to Detroit SMITH as’ ommend some good Communists investigators and © SMITH so that he could get information abou e sts. ie t all ake say in addition was that he got some money — CePY INF TL a pESTROYED 13 1964 be ere