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a on ; a yA NY 100-25857 oe ' wees + _ Claims, Albany, New York, of intention to sue the State for damages.* on QI con tidentiet rnformant Up advised that ROBESON had been very active in the re-election campaign of Communist Councilman BENJ DAVIS. The informant stated that ROBESON had appeared sas =a aee £0 Lee et me Lk he at many street meetings dtl NAD LOW during jhe month Gl UStoDper ana the fi firat | week in November and that ROBESON'S speefMes in general had dealt with the | Peekskill riots, discrimination against Negroes and the trial of the twelve Comiunist leaders. | GMM confidential Informant of known reliability, has furnished copies of letters and press releases sent out by the National Non-Partisan Committee to Defend the Rights of the Twelve Communist Party Leaders. These | letters and press releases are seaking to obtain the quashing of the in- dictments of the twelve top Communist leaders. PAUL ROBESON ig Ls jisted on the letterheads as being co-chairman of this committee. Confidential Informant Bi svices on Gan that the Communist Party has been attempting to secure quashing of the indictments against the Communist Party leaders and that the National Non-Partisan Comittee to Defend the Rights of the Twelve Communist Party Leaders is following the Communist Party's lead in this attempt. The New York "Daily Mirror", issue of December 18, 1949, reported that JOHN J. HUBER of New York, admittedly a former member of the Communist Party, testi fied before a Senate sub-committee investigating aliens. , a reflected that nm wt eworn at dt nd a In this article it a5 s6Cvea wi t HUBER, in hi WOOF GUAUGHSTIv, - had declared that "there is no doubt in my mind that in a war involving the United States and any foreign Communistically controlled country the Com- munist members in the armed forces in this country would actively become foreign agents utilizing every unscrupulous means available to sabotage = - defense of the United States.” It was further reflected in the above article that HUBER also "named hun dreds of persons who he said either were Coumuni st Party members rc Under "officials, Sponsors and Supporters of the joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee who are Members of the Connunist ‘Party’ HUBER listed PAUL ROBESON. . ; - PENDING - -l,-