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DEMONSTRATIONS (-ROESTING UNITED STATES Cc ; nn i at 7 Se cee get INTERVENTION IN VIET NAM ’ to TTRGENCY CIVIL LIES=TIES COMITIEES 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 Energency Civil Liberties Comnittee 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 4 bulwark of protection." a (Internal Security Subcommittee 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 Emergency Civ: Liberties Committee, made a speech December 20, 1957, accepting the Phila. delphia Associates as a group to work with the national organization. Th: occurred at @ Bill of Rights Day celebration sponsored by the Philadeiphis Associates, Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, at the Adelphia Hotel, Philadelphia. A second source advised on May 23, 1962, that the Philadelphia ~ Associates havé not been active in the past two years, have no current active membership and do not maintain a headquarters in Philadelphia. ©