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CONFIDM.TIAL ‘ Youth Int: ‘tional Party, Also Known » Yippies @) Internal Security - Miscellaneous ‘ a APPENDIX - ae bs . sant . : : wt | NATIONAL EMERGENCY CIVIL LIBFRTIES * | COMMITTEE, Formerly Known Ayo Fmersency Civil niberties Committee 4, ’ The "Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications", revised and published as of December 1, 1961, prensred end released by the Committee on Un-Amevicar. Activities, United States House of Representavives, Washington, D. C., contains the following concerning the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee: "Emergency Civil Liberties Committee "1, 'The Emergency Civil Liberties Committee is an organization with headquarters in New York, ; whose avowed purpose is to abolish the < House Committee on Un-American Activities : and discredit the FBI. * * * The conmittee finds that the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, estabiished . 1:1 1951, although representing itse2f Pg me és a@ men-Communist group, actually os operates as a front for the Communist Party. It nas repeatedly assisted, by means of __ funcs and legal aid, Communists involved in Smith Act violations and similar legal BPioesedings., One of its chief activitcle: - has veen a7¢ still is the dissemination * of voluvninous Communist propaganua ye wecerial.! ‘TEANK WILKINSON was called as a witnes¢ when he appeared in Atlanta as a rerresentative of tos Emerzency Tivil Liberties Comaitvee VG propazgancize azeinst the Committee on Un~Americen Activities and to protest _ its hearings. In 1956 WILKINSON was 7 identified as a Communist Perty member oy a former FBI undercover azent within the Party. Summoned at that time to answer oN the allegaticn, his reply to a21 questions was, = : "T am answering no gestions of this can wittee.' - Thig also became his stock reply to questions | ii : ~3- us / CONFI ayer AL Ral