Thella W. Brock papers. 1943-2004.

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Thella W. Brock papers. 1943-2004.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/731205087

This collection contains Thella W. Brock's scrapbooks documenting her activity as an undercover involvment with the Communist Party, USA and her activities in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s as an FBI informant. Additional collection materials document current political activites as well as the publication of her book, "Operation Housewife." Additional material includes family correspondence while Thella and her second husband were serving a mission, and after, as well as an extensive collection of Family newsletters. Anti-Vietnam War literature is included.

4 boxes (2 linear ft.)

Harold B. Lee Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8101766

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Communist Party of the United States of America

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The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), a Marxist-Leninist party aligned with the Soviet Union, was founded in 1919 in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution by the left wing members of the Socialist Party USA. These split into two groups, with each holding founding conventions in Chicago in September 1919: one which established the Communist Labor Party, and a second which established the Communist Party of America. In a 1920 Joint Unity Convention, a minority faction of t...

Brock, Thella W. (Thella Wilson)

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Thella Wilson Brock (1921-) was a Brigham Yong University student who later became did undercover FBI work with her husband. Thella Wilson was born on May 8, 1921, in Tridell, Utah, to Seth and Alta Morrill Wilson. Thella was the middle of nine children, including a younger sister who died of pneumonia at one-month old. In 1929, the Wilson family moved to Roosevelt, Utah, thirty miles away. While in high school, Thella saved money from her first job, a weekly babysitting...

United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation

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The FBI established this classification when it assumed responsibility for ascertaining the protection capabilities and weaknesses of defense plants. Each plant survey was a separate case file, with the survey, supplemental surveys, and all communications dealing with a plant insofar as plant protection was concerned, filed together. On June 1, 1941, and January 5, 1942, the Navy and Army, respectively, assumed responsibility for surveying defense plants in which they had interests. Thereafter, ...