Document 291 (124-10182-10418), an FBI internal memo dated 12/23/1963, discussed comments made at a Communist Party meeting in [[New York City]], during which it was stated that "the prime thing to do was to prove that he (Oswald) was not a Marxist. [Irving] Potash said 'The New Republic' has an investigatory trying to prove he (Oswald) 'was linked to the ultra-right ...'" Irving Potash was one of 11 communists who had been convicted under the Smith Act in 1949 and later left the United States to settle in a communist country but illegally returned and participated in this New York meeting with full knowledge of the FBI. | Document 291 (124-10182-10418), an FBI internal memo dated 12/23/1963, discussed comments made at a Communist Party meeting in [[New York City]], during which it was stated that "the prime thing to do was to prove that he (Oswald) was not a Marxist. [Irving] Potash said 'The New Republic' has an investigatory trying to prove he (Oswald) 'was linked to the ultra-right ...'" Irving Potash was one of 11 communists who had been convicted under the Smith Act in 1949 and later left the United States to settle in a communist country but illegally returned and participated in this New York meeting with full knowledge of the FBI. |