Register of the Morris Childs papers
Location of Original Materials
1902 June 10 | Born Moishe Chilovsky, Kiev, Ukraine |
1911 | Arrived in the United States Ellis Island |
1921 | Joined the United Communist Party of America |
1929-1932 | Received training at the International Lenin School in Moscow |
1933-1938 | Functionary of the Communist Party, member of the Central Committee |
1936 | Ran for U.S. Congress in Illinois |
1946-1947 | Editor, Daily Worker |
1954-1982 | Cooperated with FBI agents in Operation SOLO |
1987 | Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for Intelligence |
1991 June 5 | Died |
Scope and Content of Collection
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Morris Childs File 1938-1989
Correspondence
General
Unidentified 1965-1989
Brezhnev, Leonid I. (draft) undated
Chicago Sun, 1945
Corrick, Donald W. 1947
Dennis, Eugene (Gene) 1945
Hall, Gus undated
Krumbein, Charles 1945
Lee, Davis C. 1945
Ryle, Joe
Interview transcript by FBI agents Charles Knox and James Millburn 1986 November
Tape nos. 3-6
Tape nos. 7-9 and 12
Tape nos. 13-14
Tape nos. 14 (side 3) and 17
Tape nos. 19-21
Memorandum 1965
Notebooks 1966 and 1969
Undated
1966 August-September
1969
Notes (holograph and typescript) 1962-1974
Meetings with the representatives of communist parties (Canada, Cuba, Cyprus, Portugal, Vietnam, Soviet Union) and analyses of the situation in Indonesia, Middle East, Soviet assistance to national liberation movements undated
Soviet-Chinese relations undated
Soviet-Chinese relations 1962-1965
Report by Gus Hall, 23rd Congress of the KPSS 1966 January-April
Trip with Gus Hall to the USSR, Bulgaria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and East Germany 1966 August-September
Trips to Mongolia, Romania, Czechoslovakia; the National Convention of the CPUSA 1966 October-December
Meetings with leaders of the communist parties of Venezuela, the Soviet Union, East Germany, Argentina, South Africa, Israel, Canada, and Syria 1967-1968
Meetings with leaders of the communist parties of North Vietnam and the Soviet Union 1971
Meetings with the KPSS leaders 1972 and 1974
Speeches and writings 1938-1945
"The Farmer Labor Party United Front USA," undated
"Philosophic Nihilism Serves Reaction," undated
Radio and other addresses 1938 August-October
Discussion speech at the Plenary Meeting of the National Committee of the CPUSA 1945
Memoirs, holograph and typescript undated
"Separate writing to last will and testament," typescript 1995
Biographical notes undated
Correspondence 1964
Photographs 1977, undated
Microfilm of Materials from the J. Edgar Hoover Foundation 1924-1988
Party meetings file 1945-1979
Folder 1. 16th National Convention 1957
Folder 2. 17th National Convention 1959
Folders 3-4. 18th National Convention 1966
Folder 5. 19th National Convention 1969
Folder 6. 20th National Convention 1972
Folder 7. 21st National Convention 1975
Folder 8. 22nd National Convention 1979
Folder 9. Meeting of 81 communist parties 1961
National Committee meetings
Folder 10. 1945 1945
Folder 11. 1956 1956
Folder 12. Central Executive Committee meeting 1970
Folder 13. Central Committee meetings 1972-1973
Folder 14. Miscellaneous records and publications 1956-1973
Folders 15-16. Political Committee meetings 1970-1977
Folder 17. Preparatory Committee meetings 1968-1971
Folder 18. National Youth Commission meeting 1946
Folder 19. Negro Commission meeting 1967
State parties file 1937-1966
Folder 20. California 1947-1966
Illinois
General
Folder 21. 1945-1959 1945-1959
Folder 22. 1960-1964 1960-1964
Folders 23-24. Chicago Workers School 1937-1950
Folder 25. Labor Committee 1946-1947
Folder 26. Legislative Bureau 1939
Folder 27. Kansas 1965
New York
Folder 28. 1947-1954 1947-1954
Folder 29. 1956-1966 1956-1966
Folder 30. Oregon undated
Folder 34. Financial records 1960-1961
Folders 36-41. Unsorted material
Folder 42. 1955 1955
Folder 43. 1959 1959
Folders 44-45. 1960s 1960
Folder 46. 1960-1961 1960-1961
Folders 47-48. 1965 1965
Folder 49. 1973-1974 1973-1974
Folder 50. Austria 1937
Folder 51. Burma 1961
Canada
Folder 52. 1950s-1960 1950-1960
Folder 53. 1951-1965 1951-1965
Folder 54. Ceylon 1960
Folder 55. Chile 1958-1965
Czechoslovakia
Folder 56. 1962 1962
Folder 57. 1968-1971 1968-1971
Folder 58. Dominican Republic 1965
Folder 59. Ecuador circa 1962
Folder 60. Finland 1939
France
Folder 61. 1936-1961 1936-1961
Folder 62. 1976 1976
Folder 63. German Democratic Republic 1974
Folder 64. Ghana 1965
Folder 65. Guatemala 1954
Folder 66. Guyana 1960s
Folder 67. Hong Kong 1966
Folder 68. Iraq 1959
Folder 69. Israel 1946-1966
Folder 70. Italy 1976
Folder 71. Mexico 1944-1959
Folder 72. North Vietnam 1969
Folder 73. Philippines 1971
Folder 74. Poland 1973
Folder 75. Puerto Rico 1976
Folder 76. Romania 1976
Folder 77. South Vietnam and Laos 1971
Folder 78. Spain 1936
Folder 79. Venezuela 1966
Folders 80-81. Miscellaneous unsorted material
Folder 82. Albertson case 1956
Folder 83. American Institute for Marxist Studies 1965-1977
Folder 84. Blair, Fred and Mary 1950-1964
Folder 85. Browder, Earl 1938-1946
Folder 86. Burlak, Anne 1958
Folder 87. Central Intelligence Agency 1964
Folder 88. Childs, Eva 1960-1961
Folders 89-91. Childs, Morris 1944-1968
Folder 92. China 1962-1966
Folder 93. Citizens Committee for Constitutional Rights 1961-1966
Folder 94. Civil Rights Congress of Illinois 1955
Folder 95. Control Commission 1958-1961
Folder 96. Davis, Angela 1971
Folder 97. Dennis, Eugene 1945-1961
Folders 98-99. Dennis, Peggy 1960s-1975
Folder 100. Development of the working class undated
Folder 101. Educational materials 1960-1965
Folders 102-103. Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley 1959-1964
Folder 104-105. Foreign ministers conference 1957
Folder 106. Foster, William Z. 1947
Folder 107. Gates, John undated
Folder 108. German Democratic Republic undated
Folder 109. Goddard College 1972
Folder 110. Goldway, Inc. 1966
Folder 111. Green, Gil 1945
Folder 112. Gromyko, Andrei undated
Folders 113-117. Hall, Gus 1964-1979
Folder 118. International Publishers 1963
Folder 119. Johnson, Beatrice undated
Folder 120. Kling, Jack 1961-1964
Folder 121. Kling, Susan 1968-1969
Folder 122. Krchmarek, Anthony 1957
Folder 123. Ku Klux Klan 1965
Folder 124. Kushner, Sam undated
Folder 125. Lannon, Albert and Elva 1963
Folders 126-127. Lightfoot, Claude 1946-1966
Folder 128. Lincoln Brigade 1937-1952
Folder 129. Lumer, Hyman 1961
Folder 130. McCarran Internal Security Act 1965-1966
Folder 131. Maysonet, Jorge W. 1960
Folder 132. Midwest Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born undated
Folder 133. Miller, Versta 1979
Folder 134. Modern Book Store 1966
Folder 135. Moore, James undated
Folder 136. Muslims 1964-1965
Folder 137. National Committee to Combat Nazism 1962-1966
Folder 138. National Executive Committee 1968
Folder 139. New Century Publishers 1946-1954
Folder 140. Newspaper clippings 1960-1961
Folder 141. Nixon, Richard 1971
Folder 142. Peace and Socialism in Europe undated
Folder 143. Ponomarev, B. N. 1977
Folder 144. Preparatory Committee 1968
Folder 145. Print shop undated
Folder 146. Privacy laws 1977
Folder 147. Progressive Labor Party undated
Folder 148. "Reo Able Cox," undated
Folder 149. Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel 1952-1963
Folder 150. Shevliagin, D. 1957-1958
Folder 151. Shoulders, John 1964
Folder 152. Socialist report undated
Folder 153. Students for a Democratic Society (S.D.S.) 1966
Folder 154. Suslov, Mikhail 1977
Folder 155. Teachers of the World 1956
Folder 156. Thompson, Robert 1947-1965
Folder 157. Thompson, Robert Glen 1965
Folder 158. Veterans for Peace in Vietnam 1965-1966
Folder 159. Weinstone, William undated
Folder 160. West, James undated
Folder 161. Williamson, John 1937-1958
Folder 162. Winston, Henry 1963
Folder 163. Winters, Carl and Helen 1963
Folder 164. Women's International Democratic Federation 1964
Folder 165. Young Workers Liberation League 1979
Folder 166. 20th Party Congress 1956
Folders 167-170. 21st Party Congress 1959
Folder 171. 22nd Party Congress 1961
Folders 172-175. 23rd Party Congress 1966
Folders 176-177. 24th Party Congress 1971
Folder 178. 25th Party Congress 1976
Soviet publications file 1937-1988
Folders 179-180. 1959 1959
Folder 181. 1964-1966 1964-1966
Folder 182. 1968-1969 1968-1969
Folder 183. 1975-1980 1975-1980
Pravda
Folder 184. 1961-1975 1961-1975
Folder 185. 1977 1977-1977
Folder 186. Miscellaneous publications 1937-1977
Folder 187. Miscellaneous articles from the Soviet press 1960-1988
Folder 188. Miscellaneous concert and conference programs from the Soviet Union 1960-1972
Folder 189. Articles about Jews in the Soviet Union and elsewhere 1958-1966
Folder 190. Serial issues from Panama and the German Democratic Republic 1974-1975
Folder 191. Bibliography of works largely relating to the history of the Soviet Union undated
Hungary file 1962-1977
8th Congress of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party 1962
Folders 192-194. Reports, resolutions, and speeches
Folder 195. Serial issues
Folder 200. Memorandum and miscellaneous publications 1968-1977
Photographs 1940s-1970s
Folder 201. 10 prints depicting Earl Browder, Gus Hall, and other American communists undated
Folder 202. 25 prints depicting Gus Hall, Morris Childs, Leonid Brezhnev, and others in Hungary, Poland, and the Soviet Union undated
Folder 203. 5 prints depicting Gus Hall and others 1977
Folder 204. 24 prints depicting Henry Winston, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Nikita Khrushchev, and others circa 1960s
Folder 205. 28 prints depicting Gus Hall, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and Henry Winston meeting with Leonid Brezhnev and other Communist leaders, taken during visits to the Soviet Union, Poland, and the German Democratic Republic circa 1960s-1970s
Folder 206. 28 miscellaneous prints, largely depicting American Communist leaders undated
Folder 208. 1 album containing 41 prints and 21 negatives depicting Gus Hall, Morris Childs, and others on a trip to Bulgaria circa 1970s
Folder 209. 1 album containing 76 prints depicting Gus Hall during visits to the Soviet Union circa 1970s
Correspondence, notes, and reports
Folders 211-214. Unsorted
Folder 215. 1959-1961 1959-1961
Folder 216. 1960-1961 1960-1961
Folder 217. 1961-1962 1961-1962
Folder 218. 1963 1963
Folder 219. 1963-1971 1963-1971
Folder 220. 1964 1964
Folder 221. 1964-1965 1964-1965
Folder 222. 1965 1965
Folder 223. 1965-1967 1965-1967
Folder 224. 1966 1966
Folder 225. 1971 1971
Folder 226. 1972 1972
Folder 227. 1973 1973
Folder 228. 1974 1974
Folder 229. 1975 1975
Folder 230. 1976-1977 1976-1977
Folder 231. 1977 1977
Folder 232. 1978 1978
Notes taken by Morris Childs relating to his foreign travels
Folder 233. 1972 1972
Folder 234. 1972-1974 1972-1974
Folders 235-236. Unsorted notebooks undated
Folder 243. Discussion outline concerning decisions of the 7th World Congress of the Communist International 1935
Folders 244-246. Undated 1924-1988
Folder 247. 1960s 1960
Folder 248. 1961-1965 1961-1965
Folder 249. 1968 1968
Folder 250. 1970-1971 1970-1971
Folder 251. 1974 1974
Covert operations materials circa 1968
Folder 252. Catalog of listening devices
Folder 253. Notes and lists
Folder 254. Photographs of documents
Folder 255. Reports and translations from the Soviet press 1968-1976
Folder 257. Clippings, correspondence, mailing addresses, minutes, and notes 1969-1970
Folder 258. Campaign material, reports, resolutions, speeches, and survey 1966-1968
Folder 259. Bulletin, note, serial issue, and tickets 1967
Folder 260. Correspondence and printed matter relating to the firm Russian Language Specialties 1963
Folder 261. Souvenir book commemorating the 75th birthday of Ella Reeve Bloor 1937
Folder 262. Press releases from Panorama, the foreign press service of the German Democratic Republic 1966-1967
Folder 263. Brochures and newsletters relating to Africa 1935-1960
Folders 264-265. Ad Hoc Bulletin 1963-1971
Folder 266. A
Folder 267. B-C
Folders 268-269. D
Folders 270-271. F
Folder 272. I-L
Folders 273-274. M
Folder 275. N
Folders 276-278. P
Folder 279. R-U
Folders 280-281. W
Folder 282. Y
Folder 283. 1920s-1930s 1920-1939
Folders 284-285. 1940s 1940-1949
Folders 286-287. 1950s 1950-1959
Folders 288-290. 1960s 1960-1969
Folders 291-294. 1970s 1970-1979