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5Vvrrereener tse rr 7 . ortonas roe wo. 10 ( { solo-108 rf . j Ge OH. EEG. HO. 97 Tolsa; UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT - ish f Memorandum ovpocsm SERED TO JJ -Mr. Bishop page. 11/18/70 RKESSON - Foi! 23, DATE OF REVIEW - sunject: LILLIAN HELLMAN ipee. A —_ ; The 11/18/70, issue of the "Washington Post," in an article entitle tT'Clark Scores FBI Over ‘ideology, * Lack of Diversity, noted that playwright Lillian Hellman was the principal organizer of the Committee for Public Justice, an organization described as being formed to counter what it deems repressive ;|tendencies in America, and to which former Attorney General Ramsey Clark belongs. In response to the Director's request, our files were reviewed on f y From -M. APE" CLASS. & FXT. rY_6p - LBS ey & vn NN Hellman and they reveal) the following information concerning her, = = 5 \ Our files reveal numerous references on Hellman who was born on ite! 6/20/05, at New Orleans, Louisiana, and ¢ who is the subject of a closed security- ae E «< ° jltype investigation initiated by us in 1943, She was carried as q.key figure from “Spu.\ | 1943 to 1947 and was maintained on the Security Index until October, 1955, Our _ € > Seq investigation developed information indicating that Hellman was active in the S33<238 Cammunist Party (CP) movement during the late 1930s and continued to be a stron f Supporier of the Party until 1945. in May, 1952, she testified before the House ; } Committee on Internal Security (HCIS) that she was not a Party member at that fi time, but refused to answer questions relating to her Party activities prior to _ two years previously on the grounds that her answers might be “self-incriminating Hellman was active in 18 organizations cited pursuant to Executive der 10450, 15 organizations cited by the HCIS, and 6 organizations cited by the -L2i\ California Committee on Un-American Activities, Such organizations included 2 ) the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, and the National Council of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions. . ‘i - Mr. Sullivan 1 “fir, Brennan 1 - Mr. Bishop -1-M, A, Joness DEC 3 1970 yy _ Xero CONTINUED - OVER rs ‘ “ SYDECIOWD (“ee Pagtt LR 7}