PERSONAL HISTORY STATEMENT - CARANCI, JOHN CHARLES

• Document Type: FOIA
• Keywords: PERSONNEL FILES
• Keywords: CARANCI JOHN CHARLES
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0001468262
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: June 22, 2015
• Document Release Date: December 31, 2008
• Case Number: F-2007-00327
• Publication Date: July 23, 1955

PERSONAL HISTORY STATEMENT - ( ndix I)
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APPROVED FOR
RELEASE^ DATE: d below are names of organizations identified by the Attorney General, under his respon
Nun uant to Executive order 10450, dated 2.9 April 1953, to list the names of each foreign or
10-NOv-2008i ~,estic o ganization, association, movement, group or combination of persons which he designates
as Totalitarian, Fascist, Communist, or subversive, or as having adopted or having shown a policy of
advocating or approving the commission of acts of force or violence to deny others their rights under
the Constitution of the United States, or as seeking to alter the form of government of the UnitedStates
by unconstitutional means.
Each applicant must review the following list of organizations for certification purposes, and
sign on the last page.
Communist Party, U.S.A., its subdivisions, subsidiaries
and affiliates
Communist Political Association, its subdivisions, sub-
sidiaries and affiliates, including:
Alabama People's Educational Association
Florida Press and Educational League
Oklahoma League for Political Education
People's Educational and Press Association of Texas
Virginia League for People's Education
Young Communist League
Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Abraham Lincoln School, Chicago, Illinois
Action Committee to Free Spain Now
American Association for Reconstruction in Yugoslavia,
Inc.
American Branch of the Federation of Greek Maritime
Unions
American Christian Nationalist Party
American Committee for European Workers' Relief
American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born
American Committee for the Settlement of Jews in
Birobidjan, Inc.
American Committee for Spanish Freedom
American Committee to Survey Labor Conditions in
Europe
American Committee for Yugoslav'Relief, inc.
American Council for a Democratic Greece, formerly
known as the Greek American Council; Greek Amer-
ican Committee for National Unity
American Council on Soviet Relations
American Croatian Congress
American Jewish Labor Council
American League Against War and Fascism
American League for Peace and Democracy
American Lithuanian Workers Literary Association (also
known as Arnerikos Lietuviu Darbininku Literaturos
Draugija)
American National Labor Party
American National Socialist League
American National Socialist Party
American Nationalist Party
American Patriots, Inc.
American Peace Crusade
American Peace Mobilization
American Poles for Peace
American Polidh Labor Council
American Polish League.
American Rescue Ship Mission (a project of
the United American Spanish Aid Committee)
American-Russian Fraternal Society
American Russian Institute, New York, also
known as the American Russian Institute
for Cultural Relations with the Soviet Union
American Russian Institute, Philadelphia
American Russian Institute of San Francisco
American Russian Institute of Southern Cali-
fornia, Los Angeles
American Slav Congress
American Women for Peace
American Youth Congress
American Youth for Democracy
Armenian Progressive League of America
Associated Klans of America
Association of Georgia Klans
Association of German Nationals (Reichsdeutsche
Vereinigung)
Association of Lithuanian Workers (also known
as Lietuviu Darbininku Susivienijimas)
Ausland-Organization der NSDAP, Overseas
Branch of Nazi Party
Baltimore Forum
Black Dragon Society
Boston School for Marxist Studies, Boston,
Massachusetts
Bridges-Robertson-Schmidt Defense Committee
Bulgarian American People's League of the
United States of America
California Emergency Defense Committee
California Labor School, Inc. 321 Divisadero
Street, San Francisco, California
Carpatho-Russian People's Society
Central Council of American Women of Croatian
Descent, also known as Central Council of
American Croatian Women, National Council
of Croatian Women
Central Japanese Association (Beikoku Chuo
Nipponjin Kai)
Central Japanese Association of Southern Cali-
fornia
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 Central Organization of the ta. cman -American
National Alliance (Deutsche -Amerikanische
Einheitsfront)
Cervantes Fraternal Society
China Welfare Appeal, Inc.
Chopin Cultural Center
Citizens Committee to Free Earl Browder
Citizens Committee for Harry Bridges
Citizens Committee of the Upper West Side (New York
City)
Citizens Emergency Defense Conference
Citizens Protective League
Civil Rights Congress .and its affiliated organizations,
including:
Civil Rights Congress for Texas
Veterans Against Discrimination of Civil Rights
Congress of New York
Columbians
Comite Coordinador Pro Republica Espanola
Committee to Aid the Fighting South
Committee for Constitutional and Political Freedom
Committee to Defend Marie Richardson
Committee for the Defense of the Pittsburgh Six
Committee for a Democratic Far Eastern Policy
Committee for Nationalist Action
Committee for the Negro in the Arts
Committee for Peace and Brotherhood Festival in
Philadelphia
Committee for the Protection of the Bill of Rights
Committee to Uphold the Bill of Rights
Committee for World Youth Friendship and Cultural
Exchange
Commonwealth College, Mena, Arkansas
Congress of American Revolutionary Writers
Congress of American Women
Connecticut Committee to Aid Victims of the Smith Act
Connecticut State Youth Conference
Council on African Affairs
Council of Greek Americans
Council for Jobs, Relief and Housing
Council for Pan-American Democracy
Croatian Benevolent Fraternity
Dai Nippon Butoku Kai (Military Virtue Society of Japan
or Military Art Society of Japan)
Daily Worker Press Club
Daniels Defense Committee
Dante Alighieri Society (between 1935 and 1940)
Dennis Defense Committee
Detroit Youth Assembly
Emergency Conference to Save Spanish Refugees (founding
body of the North American Spanish Aid
Committee)
Families of the Baltimore Smith Act Victims
Families of the Smith Act Victims
Federation of the Italian War Veterans in the U.S.A.,
Inc. (Associazione Nazionale,Combattenti Italiani,
Federazione degli Stati Uniti d'America)
Finnish-American Mutual Aid Society
Frederick Douglass Educational Center
Freedom Stare, Inc.
Friends of the New Germany (Freunde des
Neuen Deutschlands)
Friends of the Soviet Union
Garibaldi American Fraternal Society
George Washington Carver School, New York City
German-American Bund (Amerikadeutscher
Volksbund)
German-American Republican League
German-American Vocational League
(Deutsche-Amerikanische Berufsgemeinschaft)
Harlem Trade Union Council
Hawaii Civil Liberties Committee
Heimuska Kai, also known as Nokubei Heieki
Gimusha Kai, Zaibel Nikhonjin, Heiyaku
Gimusha Kai, and Zaibei Heimusha Kai
(Japanese Residing in American Conscripts
Association)
Hellenic -American Brotherhood
Hinode Kai (Imperial Japanese Reservists)
Hinomaru Kai (Rising Sun Flag Society - a
group of Japanese War Veterans)
Hokubei Zaigo Shoke Dan (North American
Reserve Officers Association)
Hollywood Writers Mobilization for Defense
Hungarian-American Council for Democracy
Hungarian Brotherhood
Independent Socialist League
Industrial Workers of the World
International Labor Defense
International Workers Order, its subdivisions,
subsidiaries and affiliates .
Japanese Association of America
Japanese Overseas Central Society (Kaigai Dobo
Chuo Kai)
Japanese Overseas Convention, Tokyo, Japan,
1940
Japanese Protective Association (Recruiting
Organization)
Jefferson School of Social Science, New York City
Jewish Culture Society
Jewish People's Committee
Jewish People's Fraternal Order
Jikyoku Iinkai (The Committee for the Crisis)
Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee
Joint Council of Progressive Italian-Americans,
Inc.
Joseph Weydemeyer School of Social Science,
St. Louis, Missouri
Kibei Seinen Kai (Association of U.S. Citizens
of Japanese Ancestry who have returned to
America after studying in Japan)
Knights of the White Camellia
Ku Klux Klan
Kyffhaeuser, also known as Kyffhaeuser League
(Kyffhaeuser Bund), Kyffhaeuser Fellowship
(Kyffhaeuser Kameradschaft)
Kyffhaeuser War Relief (Kyffhaeuser Kreighshilfswerk)
 Labor Council for Negro Rid,
Labor Research Association, Inc.
Labor Youth League
League of American Writers
Lictor Society (Italian Black Shirts)
Macedonian -American People's League
Mario Morgantini Circle
Maritime Labor Committee to Defend Al Lannon
Massachusetts Minute Women for Peace
Maurice Braverman Defense Committee
Michigan Civil Rights Federation
Michigan School of Social Science
Nanka Teikoku Gunyudan (Imperial Military Friends
Group or Southern. California War Veterans)
National Association of Mexican Americans (also
known as Asociacion Nacional Mexico-Americana)
National Blue Star Mothers of America (not to be
confused with the Blue Star Mothers of America
organized in February 1942)
National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners
National Committee for Freedom of the Press
National Committee to Win the Peace
National Conference on American Policy in China and
the Far East (a Conference called by the Committee
for a Democratic Far Eastern Policy)
National Council of Americans of Croatian Descent
National Council of American-Soviet Friendship
National Federation for Constitutional Liberties
National Labor Conference for Peace
National Negro Congress
National Negro Labor Council
Nationalist Action League
Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico
Nature Friends of America (since 1935)
Negro Labor Victory. Committee
New Committee for Publications
Nichibei Kogyo Kaisha (The Great Fujii Theatre)
North American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy
North American Spanish Aid Committee
North Philadelphia Forum
Northwest Japanese Association
Ohio School of Social Sciences
Oklahoma Committee to Defend Political Prisoners
Original Southern Klans, Incorporated
Pacific Northwest Labor School, Seattle Washington
Palo Alto Peace Club
Partido del Pueblo of Panama (operating in the Canal
Zone)
Peace Information Center
Peace Movement of Ethiopia
People's Drama, Inc.
People's Educational Association (Incorporated under
name Los Angeles Educational Association, Inc.)
also known as People's Educational Center,
People's University, People's School
People's Institute of Applied Religion
People's Radio Foundation, Inc.
Philadelphia Labor Committee for Negro Rights
Philadelphia _4h5ol of Social Science and Art
Photo League (New York City)
Political Prisoners' Welfare Committee
Polonia Society of the IWO
Progressive German-Americans,, also known as
Progressive German-Americans of Chicago
Proletarian Party of America
Protestant War Veterans of the United States,
Inc.
Provisional Committee of Citizens for Peace,
Southwest Area
Puertorriquenos Unidos (Puerto Ricans United)
Revolutionary Workers League
Romanian-American Fraternal Society
Russian American Society, Inc.
Sakura Kai (Patriotic Society, or Cherry
Association - composed of veterans of
Russo-Japanese War)
Samuel Adams School, Boston, Massachusetts
Santa Barbara Peace Forum
Schappes Defense Committee
Schneiderman -Darcy Defense Committee
School of Jewish Studies, New York City
Seattle Labor School, Seattle, Washington
Serbian-American Fraternal Society
Serbian Vidovdan Council
Shinto Temples
Silver Shirt Legion of America
Slavic Council of Southern California
Slovak Workers Society
Slovenian -American National Council
Socialist Workers Party, including American
Committee for European Workers' Relief
Socialist Youth League
Sokoku Kai (Fatherland Society)
Southern Negro Youth Congress
Suiko Sha (Reserve Officers Association, Los
Angeles)
Tom Paine School of Social Science, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
Tom Paine School of Westchester, New York
Tri-State Negro Trade Union Council
Ukrainian-American Fraternal Union
Union of American Croatians
Union of New York Veterans
United American Spanish Aid Committee
United Committee of Jewish Societies and
Landsmanschaft Federations, also known
as Coordination Committee of Jewish Lands-
manschaften and Fraternal Organizations
United Committee of South Slavic Americans
United Harlem Tenants and Consumers Organiza-
tion
United May Day Committee
United Negro and Allied Veterans of
America
 Veterans of the Abraham )ln Brigade
Voice of Freedom Committee
Walt Whitman School of Social Science, Newark,, New
Jersey
Washington Bookshop Association
Washington Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights
Washington Committee for Democratic Action
Washington Commonwealth Federation
W ashingt, Tension Union
Wisconsin Conference on Social Legislation
Workers Alliance (since April 1936)
Workers Party, including Socialist Youth League
Yiddisher Kulture Farband
Yugoslav-American Cooperative Home, Inc.
Yugoslav Seamen's Club, Inc,
I certify that I have read the names of the above listed organizations, and that I am not, nor
have I been, a member of, contributed to, knowingly received literature from, or attended meetings
of any organization listed above, except as indicated and explained below:
(Dates of Membership)
Remarks: (Set forth all pertinent information concerning the nature and extent of your activities in
any organization listed above, including titles or any positions or offices held by you. Include also
similar information known to you concerning affiliations of your spouse with any listed organization.)