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DEC LASSI FP ICAT. 4 GW AUTHORITY DeRT Oo PRG. | TO DELLASS DATE Msg — \ dag - CAT LON ULE : rs 1; UNITED’ Slaino GUVERNMENT . °7 | CoMeAKR | re Fall of 1942 Caress! wife, 2 y : st & Party, U.S. A.) Party, ; baer any Of Ooh ea cap ‘; Y ) by bd TER af t s J g -if t fp we oe ° p red ky gt . Vy % G _ E( Se 3 THE DIRECTOR DATE: August 24, D. M. Ladd . Gessities by. ur. "racy yon DADE 1b-€3 ee It.is felt that the following will be interest. QAI3BL3 ie Muntord to you. Tele. Room__ Mr. Nease Miss Beahm Miss Gandy. In March, 4943, the Buffalo Office Advised that while interviewing Lt. Dana| Merriman on another r matter he advi: advised. d that from October. to.Novem! r, 1942, he > WAS ar 5 an n Intelligence 0 Officer in the United States Army at Fort Ontario, | New York. He stated. ang during this time he had bee ‘assigned to a case > involving Irving/caress,% who had i been | reported as ing a member. of “the Communist Party, (U.S.A. Merriman | stated that following . ifeerese ‘by Vice. President: Wallace in the Edith/Caress, had addressed a letter to Caress at t Fort Ontario. in which, letter one ne of US. and will make himself he stated: “Vice President Wallace is known when the time comes but his name isn't on the records because of his” high position." ““Merpéman stated that: Caress" wife ec that time resided in Brooklyn,” “New York “A 7 The: New York Office was immediately instructed to ascertain whether Edith Caress or Irving Caress were members of the Communist Party, U.S.Ae, and, if so, what position they held. This investigation was -instigated to ascertain the possible significance of the statement by Edith Caress. Considerable investigation since that time has been conducted both in New York City and Miami, . Florida, in an effort to locate Rdith Caress. It was finally ascertai resided in Miami and-during the time she was there she engaged in such h activity as as to make persons associated with her. feel that she was. ~Communistically i inclined. She was later identified — in ‘New York ‘ork City. (investi; ion, by the New York Office of recent ,Gate has ; reflected - _that Mrs. Irvin ‘Caress is a member of the send-23rd Assembly District, _Kings, County - New. York. Communist. Party. Confidential Informants state that at one time in 1942 she was offered a Position as secretary to. Mother Bloor, whg was \ that time a | national functionary of the Communist NH) (a) Investigation has also reflected that Irving Ca formerly Do Seerstary of the > Communist L Party in ‘the _22nd-24nd_ Assembly. Disiriet, tings County. a In his Selective | Service « 2 questionnaire he listed his employer as the _ Communist a os “Regarding “his occupational experience he remarked that he had been General Manager, ef, the Nholesale Book, In¢., which is welt to have been closely oo allied with the, 2, Cpaaniist ‘Party and its propaganda machi On 9. Het ey) * the Uni nited States swt x fi ice eee of G-2. gor a F Nernol Sebo! “ees nat _Irving Caress is a member has Pesnage ied he Se f “4 7s My