FBI Letter Picketing Of The State Department, FBI (Record, August 1965)

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Credit

Credit to Douglas M. Charles, FBI historian and author of "Hoover's War on Gays: Exposing the FBI's Sex Deviates Program".

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WASHINGTON, D.C.20535

AUGUST 26, 1965

PICKETING OF THE STATE DEPARTMENT BUILDING, ("DIPLOMATIC") ENTRANCE ON AUGUST 28, 1965 BY THE MATTACHINE SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON

A source who has furnished reliable information in the past, on August 26, 1965, provided a news release from The Mattachine Society of Washington.

The news release which is attached states that "on Saturday, August 28, 1965, from 2 p.m. 4 p.m. a group of homosexuals and supporters of their cause will picket the State Department building at its main ("Diplomatic" entrance, on C Street at 22nd, N.W., in Washington D.C., to protest State Department policies in regard to the employment of homosexual American citizens."

On August 26, 1965, the following persons were notified of the above information by an SA of the FBI:

Captain [redacted]

Special Investigation Squad

Metropolitan Police Department

[redacted] Protective Research

Secret Service, White House

[redacted] [address information]

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