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of Organizations EMERGENCY CIVIL LIBERTIES COMMITTEE “fhe Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications," Yevised and published as of December 1, 1961, by the Committee on Un-American Activities, ty, gec-Ys Ss House. ofsRepresentatives, docuxents the-Buergency Civil Liberties Committe as Yollows: . "To defend the cases of Commmist lawbreakers, fronts have been devise making special appeals in behalf of civil liberties and-reaching out far beyond the confines of the Communist Party itselfs- Among these organizations are the * * * Emergency Civil Liberties Committes. When the Commmist Party itself is under fire, these fronts offer a bulwark of protection." * . _ (Internal Security Subcakmittee of the Senate \dudiciary Comittee, Handbook for Americans, | Se Doce 117, April 23, 1956, pe 91) A source advised Decenber 21; 1957 and January 6, 1958, that LEONARD BOUDIN, constitutional lawyer and legal counsel for Buergency Civil Liberties as a group to work with the national organization. This occurred at a Bill of Rights Day celebration sponsored by the Philadelphia Associates, Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, at the Adelphia Hotel, Philadelphia. Committees, made a speech Necenber 20, 1957 accepting the Philadelphia Associates K& second source advised on May 23, 1962 that the Philadelphia Associat have rot been active in the past two years, have no current active membership an . @o not maintain a headquarters in Fhiladelphia. .