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t 4 ide . AEN re seat ng Abbott Hower. @fo"faan q APPENTIX ‘1. NATIONAL EMERGENCY CIVIL LIBERTIES COMMITTEE, Formerly Known As Emergency Civil Liberties Cornittee e "Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications", revised and published as of December 1, 1961, prepared end released ty the Committee on Un-American Activities, United States House of Representatives, Washington, D. C., contains the following concerning the Emergency Civil Libervies Cormittee: "Emerzency Civil Liberties Committee "). ‘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 as @ non-Commaunist group, actually operates as a front for the Communist Party. It has repeatedly assisted, by means of funds and lese2l aid, Communists involved in Smith Act violations and similar legal proceedings. One of its. chtef activities hes 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 Emergency Civil Liberties Committee to propagandize against the Committee on Un-Americen Activities and to protest its hearings. In 1956 WILKINSCN was identified as a Communist Party member by a former FBI undercover agent within the Party. Summoned at thet time to answer the allegaticn, his reply to a11 questions was, "I am answering no questions of this committee.’ This also beceme his stock reply to questions ‘ we, + .