RICHARD WRIGHT

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00732617
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• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: October 29, 2020
• Case Number: F-2018-00905
• Publication Date: July 20, 1951

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TELLIGENCE AC-.
WASHINGTON 25,0. C.
TO: The Director
Federal Bureau of I
Attention: lAr. C. b.
FROM: W. G. Wyman
Assistant ec r
SUBJECT: Richard WRIGHT
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1. Richard WRIGHT, the American Negro writer who is now living
in Faris, spoke at a conference of thek,eClub de l'Observateurn on
27 April 1951. Enclosed is a report of the conference and a transla�
tion of an article by WRIGHT which appeared in the 3 7..ay 1951 issue of
L'Observateur, a Neutralist -weekly, edited by ClaudelOURDET.
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V 2. Daniel Eugene EdmonUEBIN, who spoke at the conference also,
was born in Paris on 19 May 1904. He came to the United States in
1946 to study American labor unions and he is reported to have taken
part in Communist activities in this country. In 1937 he was a leader
LAri of the French Communist Party and in 1940 he was reported to be a member
JF
of an anarchist group. His last application for a U. S. visa was refused.
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