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FN-9350 (Rev. 7-16-83) ra . q oT ~ McCarthyie Report / 1958 Bulletin editoriat said of the ‘American Friends Service Committee: “It can get in with its ministrations where many other organizations cannot pene- trate because it is well known to have no political objectives... It is one organ- ization nobody wants to investigate—it operates in a goldfish bowl... .” Now somebody has “investigated” the AFSC, if it can be called that. The Senate Internal Security Subcommittee his put out a 64-page report dealing with Cpmmunists and propaganda. One un- @dbcumented paragraph in it makes out that the American Friends Service Com- mittee is “a transmission belt for the Communist apparatus.” The paragraph sa:’s the AFSC “shel- ters half the pacifist groups. ” Lest.there be any doubdi, the AFSC is a pacifist or- ganization. It has been devoted to the tause of peace since its founding. It de- nies “sheltering” any organization. But what does the charge mean, anyway? here's no explanation. + One Marion Miller, a former FBI un- @ercover agent in the Communist Party, fs quated as h = testified thet “muck ofthe propaganda literature. of the Peace (ount Clipping in Space Below) _organization, | Committee was written within and dis- tributed by this AFSC, well known as a transmission belt for the Communist ap- paratus”” Miss Miller’s testimony is well known to the AFSC. She related that Commu- nists used AFSC literature in the early 1950s because of the respectability of the AFSC and its separation from the Com- munists. The AFSC brough: ail its major publications of that time to her and asked her to identify the one or ones that had been so used and she could not, says C>- lin Bell, AFSC executive secretary. . The service committee believes .it possible that some Communist-connect- ed group could have used its literature, It. doesn’t know one way or the other. Neither, aprarentiy, does the Senate sub- committee, or it would have said so. Ev- en if this couid be proved, however, what would it tell us about the AFSC? It would simply prove that Communists use other peopie's pacifist literature. Innuendo-laden charges of the sort found in the subcommittee report de- serve the most meticulous documenta- tion. None is supplied. The result is the bs MecCarthyite sme: Undicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) p.16="The Evening —Bulletin" Phila.,Pa. 7/16/65 star Author:editorial Eattor:M.B.DICKINSON ‘Title: ‘Character: or Classification: Submitting Office: {C0 Being investigated vormyer