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oo .§ . March 8, 1948 f Re : ; . . . . mee, mrgaeeel TG inh 5 OG: NTAINED To: The Commissioner ALL Inrver a “iED Bureau of Customs ists be Is Choe - eo Washington, D. G, D AT B From; John Edgar Hoover = > Director, FBI | “. vf Re: Loading of Tanks Aboard SS Motomar Sevilla nd at Brooklyn Pier; Neutrality Act The New York Office of this Bureau has informed that an article appearing on the front page of the “Daily Worker"’ in New York dated ba Roo * hece v March 1, 1948, carried the following headlines ‘France Ship Loading Tanks at Brooklyn Pier.*" This article, which was written by Art Shields, ‘‘Daily » Worker" reporter, stated that Shields and others observed some Army tanks marked “U.S, Army’ and ''U, S. Ord,” being hoisted aboard the S55 Motemar Sevilla, a Spanish ship which was scheduled to depart for Balboa on Thursday, March 4, 1948; Shields declared in his article that he observed thirty tanks on the dock awaiting shipment and there were another fifty or sixty tanks on three loading barges at the aft end of the ship, | RAL FAL BUFRAU OF INVESTIGATION DECARTAEKT OF RSTICE ‘ okadg ——— wicks ELE YS a 5 . | Rosen mese data for yo A rmation and possible fr +Egani , ; 9 1948 | | fers ee PM, | C- 47-Yol -2a63