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. ° C .. \. 7 Abbott Howard Hoffman APPENT IX 1. 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 ant Activities, United States House of Representatives, oes Washington, D. C., contains the following concerning the ad Emergency Civil Liberties Committee: "Emergency Civil Liberties Committee "1. ‘fhe Emergency Civil Liberties Committee is an organization with headquarters in New York, whose avowed purpose isto abelish 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 od operates as a front for the Communist Party. aed It has repeatedly assisted, by means of funds and legal aid, Communists involved Se in Smith Act “violations and similar legal = proceedings. One of its chtef activities - has been and still is the dissemination _ of voluminous Communist propaganda ue material.'! if ‘FRANK WILKINSON was called as a witness when he appeared in Atlanta as a representative —-—- of the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee to propazandize against the Committee on Un-American Activities and to protest its hearinzs. In 1956 WILKINSCN was identified as a Communist Party member by - 4 & former FBI undercover agent within the : Party. summoned at that time to answer t the allegation, his reply to all questions WAS, | "I am answerinz no questions of this committee." Thig also became his stock reply to questions 4