Subject: Freedom of Information Act Request: Alex Efthim FOIA request
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RD 78541 24-23574 |
| Submitted | Feb. 8, 2024 |
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From: Burkely Hermann
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records:
Records mentioning the late Alexander "Alex" Christopher Efthim. For background, he, born in St. Louis, Missouri in November 1916 to two Albanian immigrants, Christo E. Efthim and Olga Peppo. Otherwise known as Alex Efthim or Alex, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts at Washington University in 1938 and got a Masters in Public Law from Columbia University, Masters in Public Law in 1940. He served as a U.S. Army Air Force Captain during World War II from 1943 to 1946. He was later a union organizer in St. Louis, including in favor of the OPA (Office of Price Administration), critical of Rep. Walter C. Ploeser, while part of the American Veterans Committee, Fight Inflation Committee (his organization), Congress of Industrial Organizations, and other groups in the city. He married Helen Eileen Mills in 1950 in St. Louis. He later worked as a major organizer of Mobilization of Youth, an antipoverty group in New York in the 1960s, headed the Jimmerson Houses Committee for Cooperative Living in Brooklyn and served as a consultant for the Brownsville Community Council. Before this, he was education director of the International Association of Machinists Local 397 and Hotel Trades Council in New York. He became a professor at Wayne State University in 1968 and retired in 1985, publishing articles such as "We Care" in Kansas: The Non-Professionals Revolt" in The Nation in 1968 and "Serving the U.S. Work Force: A New Constituency For Schools of Social Work" in Journal of Education for Social Work in 1976. He was reportedly denied tenure at Wayne State University because of the high degree of "advocacy" in his teaching and field activity. He died on October 13, 1990. I'm hopeful that this brief biographical information will help with location of some records.
Please include "Alexander Christopher Efthim," "Alex C. Efthim," "Alex Efthim", "Alex" or any common abbreviations of his name in your search.
The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.
In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 20 business days, as the statute requires.
Sincerely,
Burkely Hermann
From: National Archives and Records Administration
Dear Mr. Hermann:
Thank you for submitting your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to
the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) via email to
foia@nara.gov. We received your request on February 8, 2024. Your request
states:
*Records mentioning the late Alexander "Alex" Christopher Efthim. For
background, he, born in St. Louis, Missouri in November 1916 to two
Albanian immigrants, Christo E. Efthim and Olga Peppo. Otherwise known as
Alex Efthim or Alex, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts at Washington
University in 1938 and got a Masters in Public Law from Columbia
University, Masters in Public Law in 1940. He served as a U.S. Army Air
Force Captain during World War II from 1943 to 1946. He was later a union
organizer in St. Louis, including in favor of the OPA (Office of Price
Administration), critical of Rep. Walter C. Ploeser, while part of the
American Veterans Committee, Fight Inflation Committee (his organization),
Congress of Industrial Organizations, and other groups in the city. He
married Helen Eileen Mills in 1950 in St. Louis. He later worked as a major
organizer of Mobilization of Youth, an antipoverty group in New York in the
1960s, headed the Jimmerson Houses Committee for Cooperative Living in
Brooklyn and served as a consultant for the Brownsville Community
Council... *
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From: <requests@muckrock.com>
Date: Thu, Feb 8, 2024 at 3:01 PM
Subject: Freedom of Information Act Request: Subject: Freedom of
Information Act Request: Alex Efthim FOIA request
To: <foia@nara.gov>
Nat'l Archives & Records Admin
FOIA Office
Room 3110
8601 Adelphi Road
College Park, MD 20740
February 8, 2024
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following
records:
Records mentioning the late Alexander "Alex" Christopher Efthim. For
background, he, born in St. Louis, Missouri in November 1916 to two
Albanian immigrants, Christo E. Efthim and Olga Peppo. Otherwise known as
Alex Efthim or Alex, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts at Washington
University in 1938 and got a Masters in Public Law from Columbia
University, Masters in Public Law in 1940. He served as a U.S. Army Air
Force Captain during World War II from 1943 to 1946. He was later a union
organizer in St. Louis, including in favor of the OPA (Office of Price
Administration), critical of Rep. Walter C. Ploeser, while part of the
American Veterans Committee, Fight Inflation Committee (his organization),
Congress of Industrial Organizations, and other groups in the city. He
married Helen Eileen Mills in 1950 in St. Louis. He later worked as a major
organizer of Mobilization of Youth, an antipoverty group in New York in the
1960s, headed the Jimmerson Houses Committee for Cooperative Living in
Brooklyn and served as a consultant for the Brownsville Community Council.
Before this, he was education director of the International Association of
Machinists Local 397 and Hotel Trades Council in New York. He became a
professor at Wayne State University in 1968 and retired in 1985, publishing
articles such as "We Care" in Kansas: The Non-Professionals Revolt" in The
Nation in 1968 and "Serving the U.S. Work Force: A New Constituency For
Schools of Social Work" in Journal of Education for Social Work in 1976. He
was reportedly denied tenure at Wayne State University because of the high
degree of "advocacy" in his teaching and field activity. He died on October
13, 1990. I'm hopeful that this brief biographical information will help
with location of some records.
Please include "Alexander Christopher Efthim," "Alex C. Efthim," "Alex
Efthim", "Alex" or any common abbreviations of his name in your search.
The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and
this request is not being made for commercial purposes.
In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform
me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer
the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or
CD-ROM if not.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I
look forward to receiving your response to this request within 20 business
days, as the statute requires.
Sincerely,
Burkely Hermann
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From: National Archives and Records Administration
Dear Burkely Hermann,
This is in reply to your Freedom of Information Act request, dated February
8, 2024 for Alexander "Alex" Christopher Efthim. Your request was received
in this office on February 13, 2024 and assigned the case number 24-23574.
Your request has also been referred to the National Personnel Records
Center for a search for his Official Military Personnel File and to our
Special Access and FOIA office for a search of our FBI records. They will
provide separate responses.
We searched the Department of Justice Criminal Division Internal Security
Index, 1930 - 1979 <https://catalog.archives.gov/id/729763> (Entry A1 1011)
in Record Group 60: General Records of the Department of Justice and
located a Department of Justice case file related to Alex Efthim in the
following series:
Record Group 60
Security Classified Class 146-1 (Communism) Litigation Case Files, 1940–1976
<https://catalog.archives.gov/id/22476066>
Entry UD-WW 4238
Box 388
File 146-1-51-3218
These records are classified and need to be reviewed for categories of
information exempted from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA). We are transferring your request to our Special Access and FOIA
staff for further action. The Special Access and FOIA staff will be in
contact about the status of your request.
We do not consider this a denial of your FOIA request. However, if you are
not satisfied with our action on this request, your options for appeal and
dispute resolution are outlined in the attachment. If you have any
questions, you may reach us at archives2reference@nara.gov.
This completes the processing of your request.
Sincerely,
David Castillo
Archives Specialist
Textual Reference Archives II Branch (RR2RR)
National Archives at College Park, MD
From: National Archives and Records Administration
Dear Burkely Hermann:
I am writing in response to your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request
of February 8th, 2024 for records in the custody of the National Archives
and Records Administration related to Alexander Christopher Efthim. Your
request was received in this office on February 20, 2024 and assigned FOIA
tracking number RD 78541.
You requested access to the Department of Justice (Record Group 60) file
number 146-1-51-3218 on Alexander Efthim, which was referred to by NARA's
Textual Reference division. My initial assessment is that Alexander
Chistopher Efthim is the subject of the records. The file was created
between May 1951 and June 1955 and consists of an estimated 40 pages.
Additionally, we conducted a search of all available indexes of records of
the FBI (Record Group 65) transferred to the National Archives. I
identified FBI file number 100-HQ-373735 on Alexander Christopher Efthim,
compiled as part of a Domestic Security investigation, created between
October 1950 and September 1974 and consisting of an estimated 100 pages.
These records require review for information protected from release under
the FOIA: https://www.archives.gov/foia/foia-guide#determine.
Your request does not exceed 700 pages, so it is assigned to our first-tier
processing queue. Taking into consideration our existing backlog, we
estimate it will take 39 months to complete processing.
Because the results of your FOIA search request comprise two separate
record groups, I was instructed to split them into two separate requests.
The FBI Index Search relating to Alexander Efthim was assigned FOIA
tracking number RD 78720. Please note that though they are assigned
different tracking numbers they will be processed together at the same
time.
Once we notify you that processing is complete, you may either visit our
College Park, MD facility to view the files at no cost, or order a
reproduction. Our current fee for reproductions is 80 cents per page, so we
estimate the total cost will be $112.00.
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Liaison for assistance:
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FOIA Requester Service Center: 301-837-3190
FOIA Public Liaison: Rebecca Calcagno
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301-837-3190
If you have other questions regarding your request, please contact me
directly.
Sincerely,
Marcus Bacher
Archivist
Special Access and FOIA Program (RF)
National Archives and Records Administration
8601 Adelphi Road, Room 5510
College Park, MD 20740-6001
marcus.bacher@nara.gov
(301) 837-9215
www.archives.gov/research/foia/
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