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Demonstrations Starting September CONF I Dy... TAL . 29, 1968, Prote-ting the House , Un-American Ac ities Committee (HUAC) Hearingss 72 Washington, . ey D.C. on the Chicago Disturbances Internal Security - Miscgdbans7ys f 1. NATIONAL EMERGENCY CIVIL LIBEDTIES COMITTES, Formerly Known Aw» Emergency Civil Liberties Committee Tne “Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications", revised and published as of December 1, . 1961, prepared and released by the Committee on Un-American e = Activities, United States House of Representatives, Washington, D. C., contains the following concerning the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee: "Emergency Civil Liberties Committee "), 'The Emergency Civil Liberties Committee is an organization with headquarters in New York, whose avowed purpose is to abolish the a House Committee on Un-American Activities “ ; and discredit the FBI. * * * Nee The committee finds that the Emergency __ Civil Liberties Committee, established A in 1951, although representing itself — | &&8 & non-Communist group, actually operates as a front for the Communist Party. It has repeatedly assisted, by means of _ funds and legal aid, Communists involved a in Smith Act violations and similar legal proceedings. Cne of its chtef activities has been and still is the dissemination of voluminous Communist propaganda material. ' ‘FRANK WILKINSON was called as a witness when 7 he appeared in Atlanta as a representative of the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee to propazancize against the Committee on Un-American Activities and to protest its hearings. In 1956 WILKINSON was identified as a Communist Party member by ‘a former FBI undercover agent within the \ Party. Summoned at that time to answer bo the allegation, his reply to a11 questions was, | "I am answering no questions of this committee.’ Thie also became his stock reply to questions - «? -10- / CONF NTIAL | | PACT DTA ESET ES OTA .