FBI Memo Seattle Police and University of Washington Find No Mattachine, FBI (Record, August 1953)

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Officials of the Seattle Police Department and of the University of Washington advise that they have no information that the captioned organization is in existence or active in the Seattle, Washington area.

Details: At Seattle, Washington

[redacted] and Detectives [redacted] and [redacted] all of the Morals Relation Detail, Seattle Police Department, advised that no organization known as the Mattachine Foundation or Mattachine Society has ever come to their attention. They further advised that a check of the Morals Relation Detail files reflected that no information has ever been furnished them about such an organization.

[redacted] University of Washington, and [redacted] University of Washington, advised they know or no information that a Mattachine Foundation or Mattachine Society is active in the Seattle, Washington area.

Header Information

Report made at: Seattle, Wash.

Period for which made: 8/3, 10, 11/53

Title: Mattachine Foundation, aka Mattachine Society

Character of case: Internal Security - C