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a ee ee FN-350 (Rev. 7-16-63) cf {Meunt 3 oT ~ McCarthyie Report 1958 Bulletin editorial said of the Hen Friends Service Committee: “It can get in with its ministrations where many other organizations cannot pene- trate hecause it is well known to have no political objectives. - .. It is one organ- ization nobody wants to investigate—it operates in a goldfish bowl... ." Now somebody has “investigated” the AFSC, if it can be called that. The Senate Internal Security Subcommittee his put out a 64-pace repor: dealing with Crmmunists and propaganda. One un- dbcumented paragraph in it makes out thet thea Ameriran Eviande Carica On BISe FHT SAIL AMGLE £2 14.661IUSD wl FILS COms- mittee is “a transmission belt for the Communist apparatus.” The Paragraph says the AFSC “shel- ters halt the pacifist groups.” Lest there be any doubdi, ine AFSC is a pacifist or- ganization. It has been devoted to the cause of peace since its founding. It de- nies “sheltering” any organization. But what does the charge mean, anyway? There's nn explanation + One Marion Miller, a former FBI un- Gercover acert in the Communist Party, 4s quated es havi ine tectified thet “ muck got the. Propaganda literature of the Peace pte ames ae od a: - Organization, . Clipping in Space Below) Sm ee ee a ee a ee ee Committee was written within and dis- tributed by this AFSC, well known as a transmission belt for the Communist ap- paratus:’” Miss Miller’s testimony is well known to the AFSC. She related that Commu- nists used AFSC literature in the early 3950s because of the respectability of the AFSC and its separation from the Com- munists. The AFSC brough: ail its major publications of that time to her and asked her to identify the one or ones that had been so used and she could not, says C- lin Bell, AFSC executive secretary. The service committee believes .it possible that some Communist-connect- ed group could have used its literature. It- doesn’t know one way or the other. Neither, aprarentiv, does the Senate sub- committee, or it would have said so. Ev- en if this couid be proved, however, what would it tell us about the AFSC? It would simply prove that Communists use other people's pacifist literature. Innuendo-laden charzes of the sort found in the subcommittee report deé- serve the most meticulous documenta- tion. None is supplied. The result is the MeCarthuit ~ Rerreee ro emasaving af horerable ayie an on edt sigs wa pert: sti “src ie eed. Td p.16="The Evening —Bulletin" Phila.,Pae Edition, 4 star Author @ditorial Editor: 3M.B.DICKINSON Title: ‘Character: or Classification: Submitting Office: tt Being investigated - Se alia ve ype