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a ne : COMMITTEE, Formerly Known As : Emergency” Civil Liberties Committee _ Os a | APPENTIX SECRET ‘- REIGN 8 ABBOTT H. HOFFMAN _ DISSEMINA rr NATIONAL EMERGENCY CIVIL LIBERTIES : a aN. I MG =-“Muide to Subversive organizations and _ Publication—:y-revised ‘and published as of December 1,.- :°...- .- -. 1961, prepares 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: ; a s+ 7c. "Emergency Civil Liberties Committee: TR ae ae a an "1. ‘The Emergency Civil Liberties Committee is. an hope et organization with headquarters in New York,~o--. . whose avowed purpose is to abolish the ee > House Committee on-Un-American Activities. re ro and discredit the FBI. * *-* —: > — .7-. Phe committee finds that the Emergency - oe : aL _.. 4a.. Civil Liberties Committee,:established © tt 7 oo CUR Sin' 1951, although representing itself - Te - “Bs @ non-Communist- group,-actually - - operates as a*front for the Communist Party... ow tees - It has repeatedly assisted, by means of a 2 funds and. legal aid, Communists involved . tease “in Smith Act violations and similar legal - proceedings. One of its chief activities has been and still is the dissemination of voluminous Communist propaganda material. (a> -_ S| FRANK WILKINSON was-called as a-witness when = — a i oY he &ppeared in Atlanta as a. representative ~ =~" ~~ ce .°'...: Of the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee is. _ ' to propagandize against the Committee <oc-0.= a - on Un-American Activities and -to-protest —-“—~—— : a its hearings; --In-1956 WILKINSON was--c--- °°: woe - _ ddentified as a Communist Party member by> ae - & former FRI 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," Thie also became his stock reply to questions ~ od. - SECRE®,: NO FOREIGN a re CG DIS TNA TION |