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NY 100-161 5 My APPENDIX * a4 ae 1. | oy NATIGNAL EMERGENCY CIVIL LIBERTIES = COMMITTEE, Formerly Known As F Emergency Civil.Liberties Committee . The "Guide to Subversive Organizetions and ' Publications", revised and published as of December 1, 4 1961, prepared and released by the Committee on Un-American Activities, United States House of Representatives, Washington, D. C., contains the following concerning the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee: "Emergency Civil Liberties Committee "V. 'The Energency Civil Liberties Committee is an — organization with headquarters in New York, a whose avowed purpose is to abolish the EOS House Committee on Un-American Activities Las and discredit the FBI, * * * — The committee finds that the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, established . in 1951, although representing itself aS a non-Communist group, actually operates as a front for the Communist Party. It has repeatedly assisted, by means of funds and legal aid, Communists involved ; in Smith Act violations and simi':: legal . proceedings. One of its chiet acvivities ene has been and still is the dissemination ys of voluminous Communist propazanda > , material,! 'FRANK WILKINSON was called as a witness when —— he appeared in Atlanta as a representetive of the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee to propazgandize against the Committee on Un-American Activities and to protest oe its hearings. In 1956 WILKINSON was K - identified as a Comnunist Party member by a former FBI undercover agent within the Party. Summoned at that time to answer the allegation, his reply to all questions was, "I am answering no questions of this committee. Thie also became his stock reply to questions SEORET - 50- eRe tym dy rere ta” pamegne consne ty SPMERY SMES Set Re Damme ne ae ene