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y MAILED. SEP 23 1965 NAME CHECK September 88, 1964 —~Sup inet f UM EEE ALT. INFORMATION CONTAINED i EIN P yaw 2 YS: Aseistant to the should yeu desize the (101-165; 161-2860) Oricinal and 1 - Department of State (CU/ECS:AA) equest received September 8, 1965 jv“ ADS rrr : (4 ) fy ie hd NOTE: Fortas investigated by Bureau under the Hatch Act in 19/12, at which time he was director of the Power Division, Department of the Interior, based on his name appearing as a member of the washington Committee for Democratic Action (WCDA), which was later cited pursuant to Executive Order 10450, Fortas interviewed by the Bureau in 1942 and denied membership in JCDA but admitted former membership in the National Lawyers Guild, while at Yale Law Schhob, from which he graduated wlth nonors in 1933. Acquaintances considered him a liberal but not communist. He later served as defense counsel for individuals and organizations with qvestionable loyalty, inclusing the Joint Anti-Fascist Refuge Committee and the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, both designated pursuant to Executive Order 10450, [o{- bO ~ (aes caf Wo nai aalet NCU? REG2L | ae A! SEP 23 1bb This document contains neither recommendations nor conclustons of the FBI, [tts the pro the FBI, loaned to your agency, »t and rts contents are not to be distnbuted outside your agency, us reply ts result of check of FBI investigative files. To check arrest records, request must be submitted to FB Identification Division. ungerprints are necessary for positive check. a: Go VA