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CHILDS, MORRIS

Sources:

The FBI & Martin Luther King, Jr, Garrow (35-40, 86, 239-40); Chicago Sun Times, 5/27/82, p. 36; ABC Hoover Documentary; Bearing the Cross, David J. Garrow, published by Morrow in 1986 (biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.); New York Times, Friday, March 31, 1995, p. A-13

Mary's
Comments:

Joined Communist Party in 1920's. Editor Daily Worker. Recruited by FBI between 1951 and 1954. Code-named "Solo". J. Edgar Hoover sent him to Cuba. His brother Jack Childs died Aug. 12, 1980, in Hampton Bay, NY. Morris' whereabouts unknown. Morris is deceased by 3/31/95.

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