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M. A. Jone: fo ™F 4 RE: COMMUNIST INFiLA = ATION OF THE NATIONAL FARM WORKERS ASSOCIATION ee :::: he is quite concerned about this Association being | given a grant by the ice of Economic Opportunity particularly where there is indication that the named individuals have subversive connections. He asked if we could check on the National Farm Workers Association, which he said was only recently organized; the ! California Migrant Ministry; and the above-named individuals and furnish him any infor~ | mation which ‘would be of assistance in deciding what, if any, action he should take ‘concerning this matter. We have enjoyed a limited but cordial relationship with : 4 A ae ee INFORMATION IN BUFILES: Bufiles contain no record identifiable with the National Farm Workers Association, the California Migrant Ministry, Marcello Tamsi, Ben Gines and Delores Huerta. No phetograph of Huerta was found in any issue of "The Worker" received in the Bureau since the first of August, 1965. The only information identifiable with Chavez is a communication date’ ~ 9-19-65 (rom RE eine if we can identify Cesar Chavez, a Mexican male, #3 tc 38 years of age, who was an applicant for Peace Corps Director in 1962 and is Director of the National Farm Workers Association in Delano. The communication also indicate Chavez had applied to estapusn a Faim Workers Association credit union: that ne is associated with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee: the California Church Council; and the AFL-CIO farm labor strike in Delano. Bis address was listed as 122: Kensineton, with an office at 162 Albany and a telephone listed to him at 630 Belmont, ail Vas acvised by radiogram dated 9-29-65 that Chavez possibly icentical i with FBI number 29$-533-D, born $-i2-26 in Wexico; fingerprinted 1945 ana 1059 by -Immigration and Naturalization at Kl Paso, Texas, for immigration violations; cepartec ito Mexico 10~1~-59 in lieu of deportation. (33-2972-15837) : By letter of 6-3-6 Cia requested the Attorney General for any information indicating ccinmunists cr subvers affiliations on the part of Chavez. A similar request was made in the same letter on David Ward Havens described as a white American male, born 12-17-35, residing at ‘ . 3706 Robin Lane. Visalia, California. This letter was re t aia on Chavez or Havens. -7254-3996 an