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* sranpane FORM No, 64 : » QO . rt ~ Office Memorandum ¢ UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT tas TO: Mr. Ladd eta YF Y DATE: Dacember 22, 1950. FROM ; Mre can me susynens AIGHT AH! FOLK SCHOOL i meee MYLE” JORTON, DIREC , ry) f Nese TTERNAL SECURITY ~ C ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED men eee DE Se aS a at ele ee, wala (Me de da ae ae ee Bureau file # 61-7511 DATE jad jet. BY. Spe aTAIO —— Purpose: oH To recon:end that the attached letter be approved for transmittal to Myles Horton, Director of the Highlander Folk School. This letter is in resly to a letter wich Horton directed to Assistant Director H. H. Clegg at the Bureau. Under date of December 10, 1950, Horton wrote the attached letter to Assistant Director He H. Clegg. He attached a statement of ‘purpose, program, and policy of the Highlander Folk School which was ‘approved by the Executive Council on April 3, 1950, and a press release of the school dated November 20, 1950. In his letter Horton indicated that a Special Agent of the Bureau had commented that the news release would be considered Communistic by a majority of Southern people. He contrasted the alleged statement of the Agent with the recent position taken by Assistant Director Clegg at the "New York Herald Tribune" ' Forum. . On December 21, 1950, the Knoxville Office was telephonically contacted and advised of the alleged statement made by a Special Agent of the Knoxville Office. Under the same date the Knoxville Office replied by the attached teletype that Myles Horton had been contacted on December 7,.1950, by Special Agents QDR anc | quan» in connection with the William Walter Remington perjury casee Eoth Agents have stated emphatically that Horton did not show them the news release referred to in Horton's letter to Assistant Director Clegg and no statement was made by either Agent that would even renotely approach Horton's allegations. For your information the Highlander Folk School is the subject of an eight section Bureau investigation. This school was a4 founded in Monteagle, Tennessee and a charter of incorporation, under ~ the Code of Tennesses ; was taken out on July 31, 1934. The school at_ its inception Was suppor rted b oy mem ers _of the So Sectalist , losure a. od Fy pre ¢. oN sebines halle ji IEG. 4 Jr .19 1951 A 7S o” be L Dy, HEREIN 1S UNCLASSIFIED “ rete For Ly