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M. A, Jones to Bisnop Memo RE: COMMITTEE FOR PUBLIC JUSTICE . The letter also concludes stating in all probability Mr. Lockard will extend a formal invitation to the current Justice Department an ureau to attend this co . COMMITTEE FOR PUBLIC JUSTICE: The 11-18-70 issue of 'The New York Times" reported the forming of captioned Committee to be financed by the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton, New Jersey. The Committee was to consist of prominent private citizens who were concerned that the Nation has entered what was called "a period of political repression. '' Former United States Attorney General Ramsey Clark made the announcement concerning the Committee and stated that the FBI had failed to maintain itself as a ''disenthralled seeker of truth'' and had become intolerant of diversity within its own ranks. Clark stated,"The FBI for reasons I find unfortunate became ideological sometime back and this put a scale over its eyes. "' The article further identified the members of the Committee as Roger W. Wilkins, an executive of the Ford Foundation; Blair Clark, journalist; Dr. Robert Coles, psychiatrist; Norman Dorsen, general counsel of the American Civil Liberties Union; Lillian Hellman, writer; Burke Marshall, former Assistant United States Attorney General; Robert B. Silvers, editor of the New York Review of Books; Telford Taylor of the Columbia University Law School; Jerome Wiesner, scientist; and Harold Willens, businessman and national cochairman of the Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace, It is noted that Willens' name is no longer carried on the letterhead of this Committee. Thumbnail sketches concerning these individuals are attached (exhibit 3). The April 28, 1971, edition of ''The Washington Post" contained another article concerning captioned Committee and reported that Burke Marshall . and Roger Wilkins, chairman of the Committee, acknowledged that the work of the Committee can be criticized as being stacked against the FBI because most of those involved are liberals and Democrats. The article continued by stating that according to Marshall the Committee would examine the FBI documents stolen 3 -8-71 from the FBI office at Media, Pennsylvania. Marshall indicated the Committee did not have possession of the stolen papers, Wilkins said a cross secfion of the "best brains and experience" would be sought to present reports. At Mr. Tolson's instructions, Inspector Bowers discussed the Committee For Public Justice and the proposed conference at Princeton with Congressman Richard Ichord (D-Mo. ), Chairman of the House Committee on -3- CONTINUED - OVER ~h