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onmns e- e> Office Menu * UNITED STAsee —.. ERNMENT ///' TO «Mre L. Ve Boardman pate: Decenber 20, °% Ly . 195 FROM 'Mre As 1 Glo : co = Boardman . , - Nichols > Belmont Sizoo soot! AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNICH Rosen Vinterrowd — INFORMATION CONCERNING (INTERNAL SECURITY) Baumgardner tellomn Bufile 61-190 Sutthoff Gandy ——- Kleinkauf Yi 74 ; PURPOSE: : To consider the question whether the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on a national level should be documented © in various types of Bureau investigative reports. BACKGROUND: 4 . The ACLU has not been investigated by the Bureau. Cor al ‘ relationships have been maintained between the Bureau and various officials of the ACLU. The ACLU does not concern itself with the | question of guilt or innocence of a person but maintains its policy is to defend the civil liberties of an individual regardless of. | political party, organization, denomination, race or nationality to | which a person belongse While some of its activities such as that a _* \ypelating to the Smith Act and other so-called "repressive" legislatio’ { |etve aid and comfort to the Communists, tbe ACLU cannot be classed aa «ads | [a subversive organization. The 1949 report of the California Com- ‘ Sravia mittee on Un-Americen Activities (CCUA), page 270, states “american t Civil Liberties Union; 1. Cited as heavily infiltrated with Com- munists and fellow-travelers and frequently following the Communist / 4 _ line and defending Communists, particulerly in its Los Angeles Unit. ), | (California Committee on Un-American Activities, Report, 194.8, we LOE \ i e " Approval was granted by memorandum C. Ho Stanley to i ©. Ae Rosen 2/9/55, captioned ‘gecurity of Government Employees, mo ' pocumentation of the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Civil | Liberties Union" for Bulet dated 2/9/55 to be transmitted to the | } {. three California offices authorizing them to utilize above citation ) by including certain statements of modification immediately at the iN beginning and end of it, only in documenting;.the Los Angeles Chapter, i of the ACLU (U0-0-1129,). This docymentation was later amended anc. {approved by memorardum Ce He Stanley ‘to he Rosen and letter to the “ ¥: galifornia offices both dated 6/30/55 under’ the. same caption (Ayo=9- ha i Pages 3-, of Newark report dated 12/1/55, captioned Ne i Teachers Defense Committee, Internal Security - Cc" (100--41929 7b; suspected Communist front group, refers to the documentation gf AGLU as set forth in the 1948 report of the CCUA. While this/ hn 2 Rs x : Encl dire JHK :meb |! (8) 1