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: a (E00) EES er py ‘s «ts . dsl ee Ha Ue seme © NAT.COTAL EMERGENCY CIVIl .ISERTIES , COM ITTEE, Formerly Knovn A: ° . Bnevsency Civil Liberties Conmitiues y . . ; “5 The "Guide to Subversive Orzanizavions ene Publications", revised enc publisheé as of December i, 1961, prepared and relec.sed by the Couzittee on Un-American: Activities, United States House of Representatives, Wascington, D. C., contzins the following concerning the Eme>gency Civil Libertics Committee: - "Emergency Civil Liberties Committee "1. 'The Emergency Civil Liberties Committee is an organizetion with headquarters in New York, whose avoved purpose is to abolish the House Committee on Un-American Activities ' and discredit the FBI. * * * . The committee finds that the Emergency — Civil libercvies Commitvese, established ; in 1951, élthousn representinz itself as @ nor.-Comnunist group, ectuelly MS operates cs a front for the Communist Party. ae It has repeatedi:r assisted, by mezns of en funds ard legal aid, Communists involved . in Smith Act viclations and sisilar legal . proceedings. Orne of its chier ectivities ‘~- has beer ead still is the dissexinatior 7 of volurinous Communist propaganda Ye material.’ a ' FRANK WILKINSON was callec as a witness whan he appeared in Atlanta as & representative — of the Emergency Civil Liberties Comrnittee to propazéadize agéinst the Comnittee on Un-Ar:erican Activities and to protest its hearints., In 1056 WILKINSON was idencvifiedc as 2 Communist Varcy menoer by a former P3E undercover ascent withia the Party. Swarrned at that time to answer the aliezetion, his reply to ell questions was, "I am answering no guestions of this ecumittee.' This also became his stock reply to questions “go