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a EXERGENCY CIVIL LIBERTIES COMMITTED The "Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publicetions", revised and published es of December 1, 1961, by the Comittee on Un- © American Activities, U. S. House of Representatives, documents the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee as follows: "To defend the cases of Communist lawbreakers, fronts have bee devised making special appeals in behalf of civil liberties and reaching out far beyond the confines of the Coxmmist Party itself. Among these organizations are the * * * Energency Civil Liberties Comittee. When t Communist Party itself is under fire, these fronts offer a bulwark of protection.” (Internal Security Subcomaittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Handbook for Americans, ~ S. Doc. 117, April 23, 1956, p- 91) A source advised December 21, 1957 and January 6, 1958 that LEONARD BOUDIN, constitutional lawyer and legal counsel for Energency Ci Liberties Committee, made a speech December 20, 1957, accepting the Phil delphia Associates as a group to work with the national organization. 1 occurred at a Bill of Rights Day celebration sponsored by the Philadelph Associates, Energency Civil Liberties Committee, at the Adelphia Hotel, Philadelphia. . ised on Mey 23, 1962, that the Philadelphis < in the p.:v two years, have no current maintain a-neadquarters in Philadelphia. A second source = Associates have not bee: cc active membership anc .: noc ” ro - 16 -