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Summary

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

Related Pages

• FBI Activity On LGBTQIA Organizations (USA)
• Mattachine Society

Full Text

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (100-403320)

FROM: SAC, LOS ANGELES (100-45888)

SUBJECT: THE MATTACHINE SOCIETY, INC.

IS-C

00 - Los Angeles

Rebulet 7/31/56

Rebulet requested Los Angeles to furnish any current information concerning captioned organization or its publications, but that no active investigation be conducted.

Copies of this letter are being furnished to other offices for their information because chapters of the Society exist within their territories.

Set forth herein is a brief survey of the activities of the Society since the closing report of SA [redacted] dated 12/31/53 at Los Angeles. For the information of offices which have not received prior reports, some background on the Society is set forth. The sources of the information contained herein are, in most instances, publications of the Society or confidential sources who have furnished reliable information in the past. No report is being submitted because no security problem appears to exist.

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