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| Office Mem W + UNITED a1, OVERNMENT Tolson DATE: 12-29-55 - Bourdnga = Nichol: TO Mr. L. V. Boardman ce - Boardiian Belmont - 1 Nichols FROM i: . BB nomt c Mohr Hr. A. H. Belmont ) Bediment pies : - Rosen Rosen Pia UNICK (ACLU) paubiser diver yeveed — INING (LALSRWAL SiCURITY) jolene Gandy By my tenoraidum to you daved 12-2U-55, an SAC letter was attached for appreval instructing the field that e.iwership in, reference to, or docusentation of the ACLU, should not ve included in investiz reports prepared oy the bureau except such references as pertiin to the Los Angeles Chapter or meubership thercin. The Director comcated "I would want further jus cation for such action. Our vr .ce to sembership in aCLU deusn't brand such sicmocr as subvergive nor tie’ .GiU as such. It is, however, well known that iicmvers of sCLU nave been posi- tive in their efforts in behalf of subversives such as vieir o.F.ACLU man and more recently efvorts in behalf of Fittsburgh convicted Comuunists." The Director, thereiore, cid not approve the sending of tne SAC Letter. Une osgirsbility of ducumoutin, all chapters of ACLU by usi ia Comaittee: on Un-American Activities (UCuA) factors must ve considered. ‘The Bureau haus never ion of the ACLU or its chapuers; tner it i prevare a docuieintation of the uU for util in veports.going outside the Bureau. Consequently, it has to rely public sourte material aad the only such material ev ilsvie is the by the CCUA, ‘hile veports containing this citation aturioute the waterial the vutside the Bureau cubation an citavion the ‘follo. conducted ano 5 not in a to the CCUA, st exverivnce hes shown that indivic enda.senent of it by the } vidu Ll is participati in suoversi activities, in reporting; office will have sore 4 nt sud concrete a 3 such tivity other than membership in the aGbus iv not, “hon the office sould nob report avsdoership in the aCiU glen es an instauce of subversive activity because menbersnip in the ACLU per se cannot be construed as suvversive. The Burcauts cosition and knowledge regurding the Los An: celes [chapter differs frou other ACLU chapters in that th e Go wunist influ- tence in tue Los fl Mes ster is specificatly docume: ted in the CCUA'S ACk9 report. ern ‘ector, Northern Caiifornia Branch, “ACLU, has openly attacked the sureau and its Lnclosure 6.7.0 2 4- 3-66 o™ 6/- fb “S7/ JHE: emk:sad + { 42): \b° we 17 JAN 4 191 4001 } 8