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TO - tMre Le. Ve Boardman ‘FROM 'Mre Ae He - am z ) t * UNITED STAre... ERNMENT //)'"° DATR: December cco = Boardman Nichols SUBJECT? AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNICN Rosen - Winterrowd ~ INFORMATION CONCERWING (INTERNAL SECURITY) Baumgardner tellomen Bufile 61-190 Sutthoff Gandy , Kleinkauf PURPOSE: | | To consider the question whether the American Civil ES Liberties Union (ACLU) on a national level should be documented © GAG $n various types of Bureau investigative reports. BACKGROUND: waters Fae ee ‘ ' The ACLU has not been investigated by the Bureau. -pelationships have been maintained between the Bureau and various officials of the ACLUe The ACLU does not concern itself with the | question of guilt or innocence of a person but maintains its policy ' Gs to defend the civil liberties of an individual regardless of {| political party, organization, denomination, race or nationality to which a person belongs. While some of its activities such as that /* \pelating to the Smith Act and other so-called "repressive" legislatio’ i |etve aid and comfort to the Communists, tbe ACLU cannot be classed aa | |e subversive organization. The 1949 report of the California Com- mittee on Un-Americen Activities (CCUA), page 270, states "american Civil Liberties Union: le Gited as heavily infiltrated with Com- 7 munists and fellow-travelers and frequently following the Communist { — - jine and defending Gommunists, particularly in its Los Angeles Unite | Ne ; (California Committee on Un-American Activities, Report, 1948, poe 1O6I12." Nig , ee Vins Approval was granted by memorandum C. H. Stanley to fo f |. a. Rosen 2/9/55, captioned "Security of Government Employees, i Documentation of the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Civil | 2.. Liberties Union" for Bulet dated 2/9/55 to be transmitted to the | } 4 |. three California offices authorizing them to utilize above citation / x) O«by including certain statements of modification immediately at the : “4 peginning and end of it, only in documenting;.the Los Angeles Chapter - of the ACLU (1.0-0-1129}). This documentation was later amended anc. ‘approved by memorardum Ceo He Stanley to Ae-Rosen and letter to the “ vs California offices both dated 6/30/55 under the, same caption (1y0=f-t al” p Pages 3-. of Newark report dated 12/1/55, captioned "Nc Teachers Defense Committee, Internal Security - c" (100--4.1929 7b ; suspected Communist front group, refers to the documentation gf fo ACLU as set forth in the 1948 report of the CCUA. While this, A. cin nnerbdles . Of 1740 _-- Vie 1 $FD een wee LA We wy f L Lo | ory 9g JHK :mab ye i HOR AL CRO S fh 2G 97 JAN 17 1985 (8 ft sent (ACTOR | 47, i