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Office Mem UNITED STA ERNMENT 1O : Mr. L. V. Boardman 195 cc - Boardman FROM Mr. A. H. Nichols Belmont Si7.00 Rosen Winterrowd Tele.Room Baumgardner INFORMATION CONCERNING (INTERNAL SECURITY) Holloma Sutthoff )a Bufile 6l-190 Kleinkauf PURPOSE: To consider the question whether the American Civil Liberties Union (AcLu) on a national level should be documented C in various types of Bureau investigative reports.. BACKGROUND : AA . Cordfal The AcLu has not been investigated by the Bureau. relationships have been maintained between the Bureau and various officials of the AcLU. The AcLu does .not concern itself with the question of guilt or innocence of a person but maintains its policy is'to defend the civil iiberties of an individual regardless of. political party, organization, denomination, race or nationality to which a person belongs. While some of its activities such as that relating to the Smith Act and other so-called "repressive" legislatio la subversive organization. The l949 report of the California Com- mittee on Un-Americen Activities (ccua), page 270, states "American Civil Liberties Union: l. Cited as heavily infiltrated with Com- munists and fellow-travelers and frequently following the Communist line and defending Comnunists, particularly in its Los Angeles Unit. 3 Approval was granted by memorandum C. H. Stanley to A. Rosen 2/9/55, captioned "security of Government Employees, Documentation of the Los Angeles Chapter of the American civil Liberties Union" for Bulet dated 2/9/55 to be transmitted to the t three California offices authorizing them to utilize above citation by including certain statements of modification immediately at the beginning and end of it, only in documenting,the Los Angeles Chapter of the AcLu (llyO-0-ll29/). This documentation was later amended' anc. approved by memorardum c. H. Stanley'to A.-Rosen and' letter to the california offices both dated 6/3o/55 under'the. same caption (l40-g) Pages 3-4 of Newark report dated 12/l/55, captioned 'N. Teachers Defense Committee, Internal Security - c" (100-4l9297-4; suspected Communist front group, refers to the documentation gf' ACLU as set forth in the 19l8 report of the ccuA. While this! Encl6s 13 .j0N 17 1956 JHK:mab SENT DOVCTOR (8) 1.. 1006