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    "ocrText": "Letter to Honorable Dillon Anderson\nSpecial Assistant to the President\nExecutive office Building\nArlene Ward, mentioned above, has been in contact\nwith Harding, who has stated he will accept assistance from\nany source. As a result, the Communist party gave Harding\n$100 on October 7, 1955, for the purpose of publishing\nleaflets to advertise the meeting of October 9, 1955. The\nCommunist party was to be active in mobilizing people to\nmake the meeting a success and was to organize transportation\ncommittees for delegations going to Washington, D. C. This\nmeeting of October 9, 1955, was not instigated by the Communist\nparty and the Communist Party does not control the Afro-\nAmerican Congress of Christian Organizations; however, the\nCommunist Party will attempt to influence this organization.\nHarding planned to leave Chicago, Illinois, on or\nabout October 10, 1955, for a trip to New York, New York;\nPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania; Detroit, Michigan; and other\ncities in the North and the South. In these cities Harding\nwas to contact people in his organization to obtain donations\nand prepare delegations for the trip to Washington, D. C.\nHarding desired from the Communist Party the names\nof people whom he could contact, but in the event the Communist\nParty gives Harding any names such will be limited to\nindividuals in trade-unions and the National Negro Labor\nCouncil.\nDuring the afore=mentioned trip, Harding planned to\ncontact the underground forces of his organization which have\nheadquarters in Mississippi and reportedly are armed.\nTillman, ward and Jim Durkin, a member of the\nIllinois-Indiane - District Board of the Communist Party, have\nstated that Negro people in Chicago, Detroit and other cities\nare purchasing small firearms and sending them by various\nmeans to relatives in the South. Possibly these firearms are\nbeing sent to persons residing in states adjacent to Mississippi\nand are then being smuggled into Mississippi.\non\nUNCLASSIFIED"
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