ACTIVITIES OF JULIAN MAYFIELD

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05363895
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: July 13, 2023
• Document Release Date: December 9, 2022
• Case Number: F-2021-01049
• Publication Date: June 23, 1967

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14 CENTRAL INTELL;IGENCE AGE
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505.
DATE: 08-17-2007
CLASSIFIED BY AUC 60324/BAY/STP/c1d
DECLASSIFY ON: 25X 3.3(1)
08-17-2032
Direetor
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Attention: Mr. S. J. Papdch
FROM: Deputy Director for Plans -W..
SUBJECT: Adtivities of Julian ayfield
1. The, infortatienrip par ra ha 2-5 was received
jUiian Hudebn MayfieIdi an Ameaban Negro
horn. .6 JUneT1928 in Greer, Sbuth. CarOline, who, has been the sUbject .
of previous 'correspondence, ,
� 2. Julian Mayfield, who recently arrived in London, said that he
had contacted the Czechoslovak Embassy there in an attempt to obtain
payment for the publication in Czechoslovakia of his novel, The Grand
Parade, He said that if he learned that the Czeehoslovta 31tvernmput,
did, in fact, owe him, money, he L10 his " companion" San rake, � .
daughter 0.�Professor St. ClaWbrake of Roosevelt_Ugiversi4_14_,
.Chigago,,vohld visit Czechoslovakia and probably return to New York
via a Yugoslav ship.
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c so that he wove a foot. ad outsid .of the' United States. Eventua 3. fad .. been living in Ibiza, Spain, since deavi
Ghana-
short].' efore the 1 e � and would like to purchase property.
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he hopes to settle so ewhe .. Africa, but he has no illusions about
the African revolution, noting that the Africans needed to be told
the I'harsh truths" about their inability to organize, to.resist.outside
forces and to govern themselves. 'Mayfield gave the impression of being
considerably leftist in political beliefs; he said that the' United States
was indeed the nutber one enemy of the world's people and that he wanted
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to become politically 'active when he retairsed. _to the United States.
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4. .14ayfield seemed disilluSioned4t, h Ghanit.and� the former N)s
regime and said that he had had no inflUtnce it bliena whilem4ivereiromi"
despite rumor,s to the contrary. The only American Negr9i;who had had
any influence vas Shirley Graham DuBoid, hilt' she had been bussetiol 130 1967
unaware of any -discontent :until. the day ofrithe Ghan�aian! 670up itself.
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,5. Mayfield hopes to obtain--a British publi en- h iher for boOk
on Ghana while' in London 'and predicts. that he will lose the friendships
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�� � of many 'Ghanaian �exiles vbenever the book is published.
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7. is request;e'd that no aCtiOn be taken on the, ip4sis Of this
information Vi.thoirt prior eoptdinatiOn with this Agency.:,
. Q8CI 316/0825-67
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