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a nar of as) ; » ‘e - . APPENDIX (i Abbett Hovaru iciiman He 1. Ly NATIONAL EMERGENCY CIVIL LIBERTIES wf COMMITTEE, Formerly Knovn As Ams Emerzency Civil Liberties Committee * The "Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications", revised end nublished es of December 1, 1961, prepared and releascu by the Committee on Un-American 33 Activities, united States House of Representatives, _ Washington, D. C., contains the following concerning the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee: "Emergency Civil Liberties Committee i "L, 'The Emergency Civil Liberties Committee is an organization with headquarters in New York, whose avowed purpose is to abolish the House Committee on Un-American Activities eanrA AL anwenAt+ +he YOT x & & AU ULOVICULY File Pphe “ 7" The committee finds that the Emergency Civil Litcrties Committee, established . in 1951, although representing itself a &8 & non-Communist group, actually *.2 operates as a front for the Communist Party. a It has repeatedly assisted, by means of funds and legal aid, Communists involved in Smith Act violations and similar legal eee NYNNAAAA Ke Ana nf 4t¢0a nhiof antswities. — PEEVE’ VALIDY 1 WIS Vb DUO VLU BUA Vaee has been and still is the dissemination of voluminous Communist propaganda mei material, ! sy Ped . _ \PRANK WILKINSON was called as a witness when - he appeared in Atlanta as a representative .- ~~ : of the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee - to propagandize against the Committee on Un-American Activities and to protest a wee EEL B® ok We S424 ft vei Vasa Vs ali ww rewvewvv its heerings. In 1956 WILKINSCN was identified as a Communist Party member by @ former FBI undercover agent within the Party. summoned at that time to answer the allegation, his reply to all questions was, "I am answering no questions of this committee." Thic also became his stock reply to questions WOE ee -3- APSE AEST NS Te ae urement ao per Te ee . . .