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Letter to Director Rez GERALD L. K. SMITH August 4, 1942 INTERNAL SECURITY SEDITION « the purpose of his telephone call was to state for the record that the reporters were on a vicious mission against him. SMITH has complained about the appeal of the Civil Rights Federation through Attorney General BIDDLE for an in- vestigation of FATHER COUGHLIN and GERALD L. K. SMITH. SMITH has rT that the President of the Civil Rights Federation is Professor JOH)YSHEPARD of the University of Michigan who has been active in other commnistic front activities. SMITH says that the secretary of the Civil Rights Federation is JACKVRASKIN who ia a Communist formerly active in a sabotage strike at the Bohn Aluminum Company before the entry of the Uni States into the war. - On July 30, 1942, SMITH advised f Radi _- 7 n WIR, Detroit, Michigan, that SMITH had a conference w. bre ce white: other rubber experts of the Ford Motor Company who to. - a! ey are permitted, they can produce enough tires for all industrial a workers in Detroit by Christmas and every industrial worker in Michigan - within a year. Very truly yours, Ls : ‘OHN S. BUGAS hoe ‘ Special Agent in Charge A 2-126 b Tu .