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WFO 161-2419 C 1 ELN:cjl a 1 On October 26, 1964 {cer 2s Typist, Office of Security and loyee Conduct, Depart- bIC ment of Agriculture, advised SA hat her files contained no recerd regarding the appointee. The records of the Protective Regaam® Section, ns nt of Treasury, reviewed + appointee was issued a ag issue on December 6, The records uation concerning appointee. b2 Lger—yitrised in 1941 that at a meeting held BID on May 1, , at the Bar Association of the City of New York, ABE FORTAS of Yale was appointed a member of the "Committee on Ferm Problems of the Nattenal Lawyers' Guild" (NLG). b2 Cerrizise advised that ABE FORTAS was listed »7D among the members present at a meeting of the National Executive Board of the NLG held on February 19, 1938, at the Hotel Williard, Washington, D.C, b2 b7D also advised that ABE FORTAS of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, D. C., was listed as a member of the Committee on Public Utilities of the NLG on May 17, 1938. be In 1941. advised that ABE FORTAS, National b7D Bituminous Coal Commissioner, W D, C., had resigned from the NLG on October 9, 140, [vas not available for recontact during the current Investigation. The July, 1937 edition of "News-Letter," of the NLG, according to the recoréd of the Houge Committee on Un-American Activities, listed ABE FORTAS as a member of the Committee on Farm Problems of the NLG. The NLG was cited as a communist front by the Special Committee on Un-American Activities, House Report 1311 on the CI Political Action Committee, March 29, 1944, Page 149. SERRET,