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a a ce wR ee ee re wae me ewe ete CONFIBENTIAL ®) - Abbott Howard Hoffman APPENT IX 1. at py . ores Mee ts 7. Sey wey de he a NATIONAL EMERGENCY CIVIL LIBERTIES COMMITTEE, Formerly Known As Emergency Civil Liberties Committee The "Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications", revised and published as of December 1, 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: ; i "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 committee finds that the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, established in 1951, although representing itself &s 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 similar legal proceedings. One of its chtef activities has been and still is the dissemination of voluminous Communist propaganda material. ! ‘FRANK WILKINSON was called as a witness when he appeared in Atlanta as a representative of the imergency Civil Liberties Committee to propagandize against the Committee on Un-Anerican Activities an& to protest its heavings. In 1956 WILKINSON was identified as a Communist Party menber by a former FBI undercover agent within the Party. S ommened at that time to answer the allegation, his reply to all questicns was, "I am answering no questions of this committee. This also became his stock reply to questions CONFIRENTIAL a3= - ne ee a NEN CE ce SOME TR: