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fic Memorandum ¢ UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT ‘TO: Mr. Tolson 8 LNFORET ON CONTE as FROM: L. B. Nichols TERS URS! Hr). co, meet SUBJECT: fof ele Be ASAC Belmoxt, telephaned at 1:05 pem. this Gfternoon “stating that Dorothy. Nompson, the columnist, phoned the New wre von York Office at 11:35 asking for SAC Scheidt who was not avai Lab] &y tim tem — Belmont returned Miss Thompson's call at 11:45 offering to be - Mie Re Lnee——— of service. Miss Thompson stated she had a.matter of major a political tmportance that dealt with Henry@Wallace *s open letter. ff Stalin and that she felt that Wallace must 6@~t1 touch with Moscow and’ more particularly must have been in touch with Moscow prior to his publication of the open letter. Miss Thompson’ s line of reasoning is based on Wallace's public meeting on Tuesday, May llth, at Madison Square Garden at 8:00 p.em. which was broadcast by NBC and CBS. She stated that at about 10:30 p.m. the night of the meeting Wallace had ushers distribute 20,000 flyers in the audience which flyers contained Wallace's open letter to Stalin. The flyer also contained references to the Moscow story broken earlier that morning, May llth, concerning the conferences between Bedell Smith and Molotov. She states that the ink was dry on the flyers and that it would be impossible, she under- stands, to lithograph 20,000 flyers on the same day the Bedell Smith- Molotov conference was broken tn the press and therefore Wallace must 2 | have had information in advance on the breaking of the Molotouv-Smith, - conference and it follows that Wallace must have been in touch with ~ Moscow. . Miss Thompson stated she tried to trace the flyer and to ascertain where tt was made up, but all she could learn was that it was handled by Shop 100. This, of course, is the Union Lithographic Shop covering all of. New York City. Miss Thompson thought the FBI should have the flyer and in the event we checked into the matter she wanted to know what our answer might be. Belmont stated he ducked answering by saying “dd this was all very interesting and he made no commitment to her as to whether we would or would not investigate. An Agent is picking up a copy of the flyer inasmuch as the New York Office does not have readily avatlable a copy.of the flyer which was distributed at the Wallace meeting on May llth. Miss Thompson stated she wgs also going to talk to Bob Lovett at the State Department about this “$ituation. Belmont was advised ' our expertence here at the Bureau tn lithographing was that it took a minimum of # hour to a marimum of 45.minutes to develop a negative inthe ~ lithographing process and that thereafter one machine could handle fy , approximately 4500 copies an hour; therefore, it would be quite easy\for a large lithographing. concern using 4g number of people and several machines _ to put out 20:53000 li thographed copies: of a flyer in a very short time. Belmont stated that in the event Miss Thompsgn made any fananer inquiries - he would relay this information to her as.t& aa ay; ed | ma lithographing standpoint of having 20 Seopies bf “yee tthin a period of one day.. Belmont also st® that} the pA York ee definite qy ts not going ° mane any check to 2agotle pu whom Wallace's an? mere UP» av SB; = sgh by gy ye v4