Hynes, William

Approx. 25 items: several pieces of correspondence and information sheets (on onionskin paper) containing "Confidential" material with a confusing array of claims related to Hynes, that is was a communist, an anti-communist, a loyal American, a subversive, while also serving on the Los Angeles Police Department ; LAT clips of news stories on his activities of the 1930s and 1940s, including the allegation, in Ken (mag), 6/22/1939, that "Hynes, acting Captain of the Los Angeles Police, was supplying confidential information to Italian agents..." Included is LAT obit , "W.F. Hynes, noted foe of Reds, dies" (age 55), 5/18/1952. Also a copy of a letter from Philip Connelly of Los Angeles Industrial Union Council to Mayor Fletcher Bowron on the subject of Hynes' alleged contacts with the Axis Powers, and 3-pp. dossier for Hynes headed "Confidential," no address given and signed simply "J."