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NY 100-161445 APPENDIX - ae THE GUS HALL - BENJAMIN J. DAVIS ' Dp F DEFENSE COMMITTEE | — — that GUS HALL, f General Secrctary, nite ates of America (CP, USA), stated on March 26, 1962, that the Party will form a new committee known as the Gus Hall - Benjamin J. Davis Defense Committee (H-0DC). The purpose of this committee is to raise $100,000 for the defense of HALL and DAVIS. - eee « ™~ owe : . HALL and DAVIS were indicted by the Federal Grand , ot Jiiry, Washington, D. Ce, on March 15, 1962, charging them with violations of Sections 768 (h) and 794, Title $0, United States Code, in that they, as General Secretary and National Secretary, CP, USA, respectively, and as members of the National ware bie hes Board, wilfully and unlawfully failed to register b 4 for and on behalf of the CP, USA, with the rf _ Attorney General, The indictment agains t DAVIS, who died on August 22, 1964, was dismissed October 9, 1964, in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, and the indictment against HALL was dismissed in the same court on May 4, 1966. Through a suitable pretext by a Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on December 13 1968, it was learned from WILLIAM L. PATTERSON, 101 West 143th Street, New York, New York, that he (PATTERSON) is Chairman of the H-DDC and that he uses his residence as its headquarters, PATTERSON stated that although the indictments against HALL and DAVIS have been dismissed, the H-DDC would continue to fight against the Smith Act and for the Smith Act “victims” as well as for other “victims" of official "persecutions" by Federal, State and Local Governments which seeks to “offend liberals". - y) D Chairman of the New York District CP.