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2 FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION pie 2. 361: f -! ? Form No.1 _ - t THis CAse OmsGinaTEeD AT NEV YOrR CITY FILE wo. 1O0-16818 Jas H . REPORT MADs aT GATE WHEN MADE PERIOD FOR " : WHICH MaDE * _ -BoOsToH 4-1-47 3-12,13-47 F Ue - 4 4 TT CHANACTER OF CABE a Chenged: PROGRESSIVE CITIZEis Of AMERICA INTERNAL SECURITY - ¢ 4 _—-- — ~—- Le is sYNopsisor Facts: Activities of the Massachusetts Chapter ICCASP in the ne . latter p-rt of 1946, set forth. The latter organization's “fy efforts to eid EAXLOV -SHAPLEY, a National officer of tke 4 ICCASP iu his eifficulties with RANKIiI COMMITTEE reflect contacts with persons in high places in Washington, New York, onl Boston, os well as contacts with Commnists., Boston informant reports of merger of ICCAGP and NCPAC reflecting Communist infiltration of PCA nztionally. herger o.1 Mess. otrte organizetions reported, officers . end Lfinencial conditions described together with oy-lews ‘and progrem, Froorem does not conflict with thet of UP. Known st te eubdivisions of PCA enumerated. CP 7 _ officials ap -oint POs as e front organization vhich ‘fy, will bring into being a third political party in 1948. ro he Addition: 1 activities of Mass. PCA described, ” wae nae fe, ~P- REFLHE. SES: Report of Special Agent Mase., detect October 22, 1946, | Eenort of Speciel sqcnt at Hew York Citr, d. ted 21-47, WAIL: The title in tue instant case has been chrenced fron ri apie. INDLELNDES? CITIZENS COHMITTER OF ARTS, SCILICES bh AWD PRUE} ocICHS", kmown as ICCASP, to the “PROGRESSIVE :" CIVIZENS CF AMERICA", yopularly Imovm as PCA. ‘his actjon follows 2 merger nationally of the ICCASP with +t the’MATICUAL CITIZINS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE in t \ > Yew York City, ae reflected in the referenced New York Bens eed re ecrer | ”~~*S*C(ONOT WRITE THESE SPACES ALCOR Dia . COPIES OF THIS REPoaT (5)- Bureau (encls) - 2 = New York (100~78527) ; 1- sa incon Field (inf) ee all 3 - Boston *: 7 \ o. & sovmecaset smeries Vi ‘ Sse am wy ee whee ew ne pes ls ~oo oe . moo, oe @ nye : a en — eet 2 te gerne 2 an . . * re a ame (eee thes . aatinettt OP a \ ~ aoe “ oe eo 7 Be ae Si etree epee ee pot Rw apo Na *