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a EMERGENCY CIVIL LIBERTIES COMMITTER The "Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publicetions”, revised and published es of Decenber 1, 1961, by the Committee on Un- © American Activities, U. S. House of Representatives, documents the > Emergency Civil Liberties Committee as follows: "To defend the cases of Communist lawbreakers, fronts have bee devised making special appeals in behelf of civil liberties ana reaching out far beyond the confines of the Communist Party itself. Among these organizetions are the * * + Energency Civil Liberties Comuittee. When t Communist Party itself is under fire, these fronts offer a bulwark of protection." (Internal Security Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Handbook for Americans, ~ S. Doc. 117, April 23, 1956, pe 91) A source advised December 21, 1957 and January 6, 1958 that LEONARD BOUDIN, constitutional lawyer and legal counsel for Emergency Ci Liberties Committee, made a speech December 20, 1957, accepting the Phil delphia Associates as a group to work with the national organization. T eccurred at a Bill of Rights Day celebration sponsored by the Philadelph Associates, Bnergency Civil Liberties Committee, at the Adelphia Hotel, Philadelphia. ; A second source zc-ised on Mev 23, 1962, that the Philadelphia Associates have not bee: 2o:_ve in the piv two years, have no current active membership anc .: no. maintain a-needquarters in Philadelphia. *% ‘