FBI Memo One Inc Registered Post Office Box, FBI (Record, July 1953)
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Re San Diego letter to Bureau dated 5-21-53 captioned THE PUBLICATION "ONE".
Records of the Los Angeles Post Office Department reflect that Box 5716, Los Angeles, California, was on 11-5-52 taken out in the name of [redacted] who listed his address, both residence and business, as [redacted] and listed his business as insurance. [redacted] is the dividing street between Beverly Hills and Los Angeles. The greatest volume of mail which is received in this box is addressed to "One Incorporated" and "Magazine One".
On 6-4-53 SA [redacted] reviewed file No. 122012, Corporation Division, records of the County Clerk of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California, which reflected the following: One Incorporated, a non-profit corporation, was formed on 2-7-53. Its articles of incorporation reflect its primary purposes to be, "That the specific and primary purposes for which this corporation is formed are to publish and disseminate a magazine dealing primarily with homosexuality from the scientific, historical and critical point of view and to aid in the social integration and rehabilitation of the sexual variant." These articles further reflect that its general purposes, among others, are "to sponsor, supervise and conduct educational programs, lectures and concerts for the aid and benefit of all social and emotional variants and to promote among the general public an interest, knowledge and understanding of the problems of such persons... To promote the integration into society of such persons whose behavior varies from the current moral responsibility in all such persons." Its principal office is to be located in Los Angeles County.
Its first directors were listed as:
Martin Block [address info]
Dale Jennings [address info]
Tony Reyes [address info]
The aforementioned directors on 2-7-53 fixed their signatures to the Articles of Incorporation. The notary was
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DATE: 7-6-53
TO: DIRECTOR, FBI
FROM: SAC, LOS ANGELES (100-45888)
SUBJECT: ONE INCORPORATED
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