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rt “ from Highlander } xecutive Council] minutes , -. > (page 3) Jan 22823, 1951 Oe . have been asking neighbor about Regroes attending or visiting Highlander, Horton read a letter he wrote Senator Kefauver which sad dy in party "They (the F BI agents) have been particularly insistent in their questions about the attendance of Negroes at Highlander sessions and conferences. They wanted to know where people sleep and what gous on after the conferences are owr .. «I hops you can find tims to look into thie situation and do sonething to stop intind dation of our neighbors end the inference that the non-discrimination policy of the school, which is that of the CIO and AFL, is commmistie and inmral," cent activities of F BI agents who are . Horton continued that the agente are going around the commnity trying to stir um the peorle by asking loaded questions about the Negro students at Highlanders Maantine, Horton read a newspaper report that the assistant Director of the F BI made a speech at the New York Herelid Tribune forum in wid ch he said discrimination was incompatible with democracy. Hortm congratulated the F BI spokesman and reported a comment made to him by an F BI agent who said that a Highlander News releasé which condemns discrimination, would be considered communistic by « majority of southem people, The F BI Assistant Director answered that he had personally checked the matter and that both agents who talked with Horton, denied emphatically waking any euch statements Aawi pavan.iged dlacussion, it was moved by Lucy Randolph Macon that, because of previous misunderstendings in interviews with F BI agents, the Highlander - Director shall speak for the staff and shall ask that all questions posed by any ~- F BY agents be put in writing, and shal] make his replies in writing — provided