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EMERGENCY CIVIL LIBERTIES COMMITTEE The "Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications", revised and published as of December 1, 1961, by the Committee 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 been devised making special appeals in behalf of civil liberties and reaching out far beyond the confines of the Communist Party itself. Among these organizations are the * * # Emergency Civil Liberties Committee. When the Communist Party itself is under fire, these fronts offer a bulwark of protection." (Internal Security Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Handbook for Americans, S. Doce 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 Bmergency Civil Liberties Committee, made a speech December 20, 1957, accepting the Philadelphia Associates 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 Tliberties Committee, at the Adelphia Hotel, Philadelphia. A second source advised on May 23, 1962, that the Philadelphia Associates have not been active in the past two years, have no current active membership and do not maintain a headquarters in Philadelphia. neither recommendations nor rat arty of the : tie the prepecty Aysions of the FRI. | pep ao it ents ur and js Joaned to your vgerey tt and its ut . ed . agence ” - cet to be distributed outside your 88° a wphis dacument contains et dh rire Eictiidtatentae diate ly mph a ttyl lO late inl Ton, a 5 ee heme