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‘ Abbott H. Hortmd.- 4) Ds, — APPENDIX NATICNAL EMERGENCY CIVIL LIBERTIES COMMITTEE, Formerly Known As Emergency Civil Liberties Committee The "Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications", revised and published as of December 1, 1961, prepared and released by the Committee on Un-American Activities, United States House of Representatives, Washington, D. C., contains the following concerning the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee: “Emergency Civil Liberties Committee a "1, '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 and discredit the FBI. * * * The committee finds that the Emergency Civil Yiberties Committee, established in 1951, although representing itself as & non-Communist group, actually rte! operates as a front for the Communist Party. ans It bes repeatedly assisted, by means of funds and legal aid, Communists involved in Smith Act violations and similar legal proceedings. Cne of its chtef activities bag been and still is tne dissemination of voluminous Communist propaganda material.'! ; . ‘FRANK WILKINSON was called as a witness when - a he appeared in Atlanta as a representative ; of the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee : _ to propazancize against the Committee 4 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. Swnmoned at that time to answer the allegation, his reply to al1 questions was, "I am answering no questicns of this committce.” Thie also became his stock reply to questions ~ 3-