F.B.I. Office Memorandum discussing the possibilities of Communist Party members in New Jersey's Jewish Chicken Farming Community--June 25, 1951. . Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T30C4XCH
DescriptionThis F.B.I. memo discusses the information given by an unnamed informant regarding possible Communist Party activity in the Farmingdale, Lakewood and Toms River areas of New Jersey. The memo describes the ways community organizations such as the Jewish Community Center of Toms River could possibly have been havens for "CP" affiliates and the possibility of ample farmland being used to physically hide people. The memo also includes a list of Monmouth and Ocean County residents and officials who were contacted and asked to act as informants.