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ee od 4 ‘ ’ wie sovi cs The attorney General . May 20, 1918. Director, FH yO 2 | ALL WFORMAT ATION CONTAINED i LS ie} (Goren usran so sro or ns aR ELAS) - ° I desire to refer to your telephonic _UATEZz/e2 8 HY me toda DoF 363 regarding the captioned matter and to my memorandum to you dated May 18, 196. Pursuant to your request, I huve had discreet inquiries mide in the Wallace matter. The New York office of this Bureau has attempted to discreetly as- certain the identity of the shop in which the flyers were printed. It has been deterzined that the union stamp showing local Ne. 1, Union Shop Ne. 100 indicated : that the flyer could have been lithographed-in any one of the hundreds of shops : in New York City. In view of this fact, I do not feel that we can make any , additional discreet inquiries concerning this matter through established informants or otherwise without havin such inquiries brought to Mr. Wallace's attention. ° 4s will be noted in my previous memorandum, Miss Dorothy Thompson, “* } the eclumnist, has expressed a deep interest in the Wallace matter. Miss Thompson 3” | is of the definite opinion that Mr. Fallace had advance information from the ox, | Russian Embassy in Washington, D. C. or the Russian Consulate in New York City \. 2 concerning the Smith-Molotov conversations. She has pointed out that the first * release on these conversations came as 4 result of a CBS news broadcast at 6:55 Py NN on May 10, 19,8 and further details were carried on the 11:00PM news broadcast on < ‘all major radio stations. Miss Thompson atated that the flyers were distributed ~s at the political meeting in Madison Square Garden in New York City. ‘at approximately | ~~ 10:30 PX on May 11, 198. kiss Thompson stated that Mr. Wallace in-his speech ; ra YN that evenine stated that he had chanved the first paragraph-of this flyer after “<. / receiving information on tha Smitheifolotev conversations in Yoscow. Misa Thomp-\.. i son was of the opinion that it was a physical impossibility to make this changed A ‘and have the new flyers lithographed and distributed within the space of a little / wore than 2 hours. It would appear therefore, that Miss Thompson's belief that > Mr. Wallace had advance information regarding the Moscow release, is based pri- {> marily on hur conclusion that there was not sufficient tice for the preparation ' of this flyer. His} For your information, experts in the Mechanical Section of’ this: _- » SraredPare ef the opinion that the avYarage printing shop rould be able to set Upe this flyer, make the necessary plate and print twenty thousand copies within = three or four hours. It logically follows, therefore, that sufficient ‘tite pad elapsed for the purpose of making the chanves in the flyer even thouch aay — ; received this information throuch established news sources. ” in ame — E “ee RECORDED a ods Ley eS penntnEton a. Z A) é “ 3 * ey me iv’ . _ i —_ vie — ae | SAW EG, t a ery cg: The...