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il Pee read = accept the “invitation, so that fell through. ; te NY 65-16659 _ ‘were ‘except one, around 1935, when the President was quoted as expressing re site og alarm over Communist power in France and expressing fear that it would: tacit beet impossible for the French Government to ever outlaw the Communist Party ** because of its power. In that report the President was quoted, correctly or incorrectly, as having said that he would not make the same mistake that the French Government had made. By 1938 much of the reports dealt with efforts to ascertain whether the President really believed that the Soviet Union had abandoned its plans for world conquest and whether he was being ‘- . fooled by the pretended agrarian nature of the Chinese Communist movement;- ‘and ' . most of the reports that I recall were to the affirmative. . The informants, | “ _Aneluding GILBERT L. PARKS, HOWARD LEE, MALCOLM COTTON DOBBS and JOSEPH Be? Pa"! GELDERS, at that point all expressed the opinion which was transmitted to ; the Communist Party that the President had fallen for the ni srepresentation of the Chinese Communists and had been fooled into believing that the Soviet Union no longer intended to conquer the world and establish Communism in the United Sates and throughout the world by revolution at a future oprortme nt previously described an effort of GILBERT L. PARKS: ‘to’ ‘get ELEANOR ROOSEVELT to come to Port Noyal, S..C., and spend several days. during. - i, a c) 6 ta ne on a “ts 1 ‘gis oe Los . fe which I would have had an opportunity to talk with her and through her com ~ ; versation to form an evaluation of the probable views of the President on international matters then important to the Soviet Union. At the same time, I would have had an opportunity, if this plan had gone through, of being able to propagandize or seek to propagandize the First Lady in the interest of the current line of the Soviet Union and the American Communist Party, which, ' of course, is only a subsidiary to Moscow. PARKS showed me a tele gran signed fh. _ by ELEANOR ROOSEVELT expressing regret that her time: did not perast ‘her, to,” tee ta tIn 190, in a hotel room in Chattanooga, Tenn., during the time that the Southern Congress for Hunan Welfare was at the Chattanooga City Auditorium, both MALCOLM COTTON DOBBS and HOWARD LEE spoke to me of the information that they had gathered from visits to the White House and that they had given the Communist Party and to J. PETERS. They both spoke of this information as being valuable information to the Party and the Soviet Government. Both stated that they were not suspected by the President and Mrs. ROOSEVELT, and MALCOLM COTTON DOBBS particularly emphasized the fact that he was not suspected. He referred to his religious status as helping him avoid any conceivable suspicion. My best recollection is that he was an ordained minister of the Congregational Church, although it is conceivable that he may only have been a minister student; but it is my best recollection that he had been ordained | as a minister, at least, that is what he told me, as J recall. oa 2 10 « 2478 an as tur