SCHEERCASE RAMPARTS REPRESENTATIVES IN LONDON: DANIEL SCHECHTER AND

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06779553
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• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
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• Case Number: F-2020-00126
• Publication Date: March 20, 1968

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46 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGIN le,
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505 e ALL FBI INFORMATION CONTAINED
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1. Reference is made to our memorandum CSCI-316/001136/67, irlb3
dated 10 March 1967, entitled SCHEERCASE in which we advised Efib
that we are conducting further research concerning known con- (b)(3)
tacts and associates of Robert SCHEER, Managing Editor of (b)(7)(e)
Ramparts magazine.
2. This Agency is in receipt of information that411111!
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SCHECHTER_are working as a research team in London for Ramparts.
4111111110a and SCHECHTER have reportedly been in contact with fhe
Communist Party of Great Britain in connection with their
research work. We have also been informed that an article on
Daniel SCHECHTER's activity in London for Ramparts was pub-
lished in a recent issue of "Parliamentary Profile," a
publication produced by Andrew ROTH, an American living in
London.
3. In addition
in our memorandum
Subject: "Ramparts Magazine Representatives in London,
England," we have learned that in January 1968 SCHECHTER gave
as a temporary address 8 Roslin Hill, London N.W. 3, which is
the%address of STOPIT Committee. In November 1966 he was
residing at the home of Peter and Jean COUrgYW, an
C3 American Fulbright scholarship couple, 19 College Cross
London, N.W. 1.
4. Williai 0 DO'
(wa. Wolf GORDANOWITZ), born 26 Fe ruary 08, Taff67-761-Mt,
and Helen GORDON (nee APPELMAN), born 12 December 1912,
C1iic457-1111riiiis. ereport received from you dated 28
b r 1967 transmits passport information on
to travel to England for six months
to the information on SCHECHTER contained
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S. The latest information reflected in our files on Helen
and William GORDON is dated 30 September 1965 from your Bureau
and relates to the issuance of a passport to William GORDON on
121 April 1965 for travel to Israel on a "group study tour."
He was then employed as program director of the Jewish Community
Center, Portland, Oregon. In previous reports from your Bureau,
Helen and William GORDON were identified as Communist Party
members as early as 1940 in Chicago. They were subsequently in
Van Nuys, California in 1947, Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1948-
1949, and Denver, Colorado in 1949-1953.e4 y)
6. William and Helen GORDON have a son Larry GPRD.ON, born
1946. (b)(1)
report irom your Boston ottace, tale iUU-.5547Z, Bureau tale
-439048, dated 30 November 1966 indicates that one Larry
GORDON of 10 Brookford Street, Dorchester, Massachusetts, is
the editor of "Dirt and Flowers," a publication of Students
for a Democratic Society, and possibly a member of the Youth
Club, Communist Party of Eastern Pennsylvania and Delaware.
A report from your Charlotte, North Carolina office dated
12 December 1967, captioned "Anti-Draft Activity December 4-8,
1967" (no file number shown) gives information on an article
in "The Daily Tarheel," a student publication at the University
of North Carolina. The article lists the name of Larry R.
GORDON, a teaching assistant at the University, among signatures
to a protest letter supporting students refusing military
service
7. Our files contain a report from your Bureau dated 26
October 1955, Subject: Association for Regional Planning and
Development, with enclosure dated 10 December 1951, Subject:
Moryis .Ekimp SARNSBY, Membership, Regional Wage Stabilization
Board, Appointee. The investigative report concerned alleged
contacts of GARNSBY with Communist personalities. GARNSBY had
been associated with the University of Colorado from 1937 to
September 1951. The report mentions one Helen GORDON who was
then living in Colorado, and in 1947 was elected organization
secretary of the Pacoima Branch of the Los Angeles Communist
Party. It is noted that Helen and William GORDON resided at
13266 Branford Street, Pacoima, California in 1947, and from
1949 to 1953 were in Denver, Colorado. The report further
states that Masyin sampagR, an active Communist Party member,
was one of the persons directing the activities of the Progres-
sive Party. at Boulder, Colorado. Marvin SCHACHTER was then a
student at the University of Colorado, at Boulder4 .0j
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9. Andrew ROTH has been associated with "Parliamentary
Profile," LonafirEngland since 1957. The most recent infor-
mation from your Bureau is dated 11 February 1965 which
reports that ROTH had contacts with an identified Soviet
intelligence agent, Beatrix HAMMARLING, a British citizen.
Andrew ROTH was born 23 April 1919, Bronx, New York. He
worked as a research assistant to Philip Joseph JAFFEE, of
"Amerasia" magazine. He served in the U.S. Navy to 1945, when
he resigned because of his arrest in connection with the
"Amerasia" case. From approximately 1947, he was a free-lance
journalist and author, and traveled extensively throughout the
Far East and Middle East. His writings were considered
generally pro-Communist. He was in Indo-China in the late
1940's and wrote on the Viet Minh organization in which he
reportedly highly praised Ho Chi Minh. He managed to get into
Peiping, China in 1949.
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