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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
FREEDOM OF INF ORMATION/PRIVACY ACTS SECTION
COVER SHEET
SUBJECT: American Civil Liberties Union

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/"l " / ».. IA_  Hollows n __._.. p, 1___ 92,i Ge ___"_Herbert Monte bevy, Counsel for the Ameriean Civil . gLiberties _Union, came by to see me recently while he J3, in Washington? lHe has submitted his resignation and contemihtes leaving the Union aro dcI the first of January. He will still keep his interest and will endeavor to beof any possible assistance to the Bureau in matters which we are interested
Y in. I naturally thanked him for-his assistance in the past and told him we would 3I L_._ B. Nichols _  : 4:3. &#39;|01.192r&#39;a .
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X -&#39; He then stated that last June, Louis Joughin, Assistant Directorof the American Civil Liberties Union, had written the Bureau regarding an -incident which had caused some of them at the_Union t9_ be somewhat concerned.He then pointed out that the wife of Profeszicii V was accosted on
the street after she came out of a store by two FBI Agents who sought to interyiew D
her. Joughin. had written a letter to the Bureau regarding the incident for the 4ipurposo otzggs_:c?3$r;t_ai_nir1,W whether the actions of the Agents were proper. It appears itthat both and his wife have protested to the American Civil LibertiesUnion.  ACLU! of the actions and _the ACLU was seeking to ascertain whether theyshould take any interest in the i _ case.
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Levy stated that Joughin got a nhort letter back admitting that E~.
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Mrs, T was contacted but pointing out that the Director was precluded from--_.,,___..iifurnishing any i.-&#39;i.t"ormation in view oi the confidential character of the files. Levy I.asked if I coulzi not look into the matter and tell them whether the action was prpper
or improper. I toiri him that I did not recall the matter but that it seemed to rrie
action as impropc r. He then asked if there was any way whereby we could t-iabioratellthat the phraseologv of the Director&#39;s letter indicated that we did not regard the
on this in further det_a_il_. He stated there was no inclination to be critlr"1tl0.t&#39;the
Bureau but that the ihad made quite a case and an honest doubt had ariseas to why we had n<>T¢s1T»??m an appointment and see.-n Mrs. I under. more _
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Memorandum to Mr. &#39;Iolson _i&#39;rLm_L_.._zB. NicholsRE:92_ I.._ 5"3¢U?l1_&#39;§Y t?§4;11"eT¥3l£i3_:_-___
You will recall this "is the cane wherein there was a delay in
was conducted as 2. part of our program whereby we seek not to interviewindividuals in their own homes or offices. Mrs. Twas reported by con-fidential informants as being a member of the Communist Party in 1934-42and 1944. Inform-ants have reported she was in contact with Friends of theSoviet Union on February 17, 1941; member of Joint Board of the TeachersUnion in 1941; member of American Association of Scientific Workers from1941 to I943; employed 1944, 1946 and 1947 by the Jefferson School of SocialScience; that she -had invoked the Fifth Amendment in appearances before theconducting interviews on the part of the New York office; that the interview
McCarthy Committee on May 25, l953, and June 19, 1953; and in January, 1955,the State Department had declined to issue a passport to her husband and herbecause of their refusal to furnish a non-Communist affidavit.
I think the thing to do is for me to tell Levy confidentially forhis own information and guidance that there were certain matters we wantedto resolve; that we felt it inadvisable to go to either her office or her homebecause we anticipated an antagonistic reception, so in all fairness we wantedto do what we could to resolve certain matters it we could avoid any controversthat since she had previously invoked the Fifth Amendment, there was not toomuch likelihood that she would furnish information; however, to resolve doubts,if she acted in good faith and was sincere, we thought she would take no offenseif we approached her on neutral gound without advance information; that if shedeclined to talk, no harm would be done and that here was another illustrationt. t with some people it simply does not pay to be polite and kind. I would liketo give Levy her Communist Party Card #26195 in I944; however, I think thisould §92ir_nproper and would not do so.
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_ The American Cixil Liberties Union recently criticized the 1933 "zderal
Immunity Law, as
constitutionality. &#39;
The high court heard the appeal of William Ludwig Ullmann, convicted S
contempt last March for failing to testify before a federal grand jar: inYork City investigating torld war II espionage, although granted immunity f
prosecution.
Patrick murphy Malin,
groupfo sole interest was
was beinv tested for the first time in the Ullnann case. He emshasize D _
ACLd&#39;s statement was not a
espionage.
"&#39;The 1951» immunity la
coxrt, immunity from prose
rely on their constituti;
to give testimony to ccnzr
_ "The ACLU opposed this._t was violative of ciiil
objections are based on th
grant, the
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&#39; about Communist activiiiesnal privilege against self-incrimination inACLU executive director, said that the civi
the constitutionality and wisdom of the 195i
criticism of the grand jury&#39;s investigetiqn
w establisheg chat, following the-approval
cuticn can be granted to persons who could
essional committees and grand juries.
law when it was first proposed, because re
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"It is not clear, under this law, whether witnesses who accept in:
;ne courts may hold that the immunity grant-does not cover state mafserl testify before federa1&#39;agencies will also be protected against state 1*
Congress had no right to l
give possible incriminatin
the fair procedures of due
being observed.
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of various courts should still apply, tbs: "
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Fith E<2;i1vn pr1vlwT. 3 H ova V9 " f "&#39; H JU» J_ 3c92F, u » cves,-cn whether
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heard len;. ; te:t_nc :7»: a larqe nunoer of ex-Hcmnxnists who have described
naterial available."
DAAETE SUIT FT1:D IN 5E&#39;IAL OF °CL FA¬ILITTC$ TU ¥F§C- 92.{;.=l Q/! » _ .
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fully the er rations 6; e communist Béréy, and there is a plethora of other
cld-Negro girl who ans neniea hitissicn to tH SouA claim for QICQO dtnfgus. charging r1cal aticn arainst a 9-year-
Pazalena, a1i;cr:ia-1,1,. -4 &#39;;92..__,,. . ._ .-_-w ..~. »-&#39;.. &#39; .¢ - &#39;-~ . ..r..-_ ..L&#39;» ~92 --~,haic1n=l L; re, £8: .l-ed .=cen.,y e_a1ns. ne u
Mildred ~cC;n lehnscn, cc
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 branch of the American Civil~-~.-I-.-HP ».-" &#39;>,-vv e...-92 L.- _. ... ._ . .-._.....»..Yl"~.-
by Aicrney Hugh R. Hanes&#39;for the Seuthern California.. -Cuu.l 72::-4C&#39;..Y&#39;15  ..2&#39;S
zizpfed daughter, Sunan
Liberties Union, charges that Susan was prevented
from entering the-pool last Aug. 2 afner a neighbor, John Abectt, had purchased. , .tlcxets LOT his two daughters and Susan.
Beth a clerk and an assistant manager of the pool told Abbott that Susan
"won&#39;t be allowed in the noel" because of a Department of Recreaticn "rv»"
barrin e rces ihe ccnnlaint said. ! . _
_ - hrs. Johnson, who adopted usan from a German orphanage in l9¬2,_said she
appealed co Dcn Dollison, assistant City manager, who said there was no wriiben
authority ¬:r the "rule" tub refused to guarantee that the incident yould not
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_ Susan was brought £0
the purpose of removing
Johnson said.
The inc1denb_causedU.S. at the request of the child&#39;s godmother far
frcm an atmosphere of racial discriminat1un, ura-
pain and anguish, hurt iselings and suf
South Pasadena City Council,
~ Named as defendantssaid.
in the claim, E
city manager; nayvr Jcssth iartsch; Robe
nent of hecreainn; Neil
and_tuo pool employees.
p .iF3-EKA - HCornell. rana"e
I¥A7JH PRU C5H??OFTSusan "much embarrassment, humiliation, chagrin, nan
faring," the complaint, subnitted to t
asides Dollieon, were: Frank Clcugh,
r Sriler, sunerintendent of the Dena
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A"I.U IN CUnST GUARD 5ECb?ITY CAELS Vwtal
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denzsicn a¢;!ies cra~ &#39;* "rvr"sl"ewuL0
the Arerican Civil LiE=ri;w:
govern1enL&#39;s encltyee ;:*n and van
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The 2-1 6 sin in ihe cw =,¥n¢wn
ciicn hrzu. t several rsr&#39;""* "#1 e
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xe seamen cf&#39;"~ed -Pa: -L. . ..rx..~.. ~,__ &#39;92
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that the rugulntitns were c;n5titutionthat its Ssurccs of information u nld dry up it names
known.
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-- =~=> ~v 1Ls unoelieva-_a wJut
procuring prcci any more than those of
.1 "1l92f- -Z-But sure lfi i tJ1, apparentlybecause of the FBI insistence
of the informers becmwe
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tion", but assuming its truth for purposes
no" to whether-
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nd of informati
rying some of
the result will
iicials are newthe existence of a system or
t be preserved even though
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re assumed that this duterainatien will remove from the investigative
st1o ingree, a srrtein kion and that, in the future,
prevent able officials Ikun
helpless to procure pres? for..- -P ..is better that these agencies aUl;¬F 5uL$
handicap tbs? .-u the n;%i: hf 7&#39; a Fewest 1@"=RE C
uhich&#39;has always been considered their
the long run
taletearing.
risk programno5hing.but beneficial re
It is a matter of puolicdirected at government employees has beeuating a doubtful system of secretinnocent men. The objective cf perpet
likely to bear u;~n the innocent as we
a degree of
ment here of
The
securityCourtimfairness to the merchant
the ancient standards of
expressed its fear that
prcirsd night he set up withbirthright. I
sults will come
record that th
ll as upon the
seanan involve
due process."
if these regulasentry shall be denied that
ndeed, it may well Le that in
from a lessening of such
e somewhat comparable security
n used to victimize perfectly
informers
so highguilty and carrying&#39; uebandcn-d cannot justify an
tions couldte sustained, a
the same denial of due process affecting even
a larger g::;g of citizens, such as railroad workers,
facilities, sic, Admitting the pcssib
may not hold its own against malcvolen
"IL may be pC1EiCl¬ that we have
ticnal freed;n and iidividual riches
totalitarian discipline are prepared
civilian enploynents as well.. but our
Inthe event of war we may havecperators of transportation
ility that our system of constitutional right
5 totalitarians. the Court stated:
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waterfront, poison in our water systems, and send in
machines.
"But the time has not ccme when we
modeled on that of the Coznnnists. Buframers of our Cnstituzion. It is th
Commenting on the important decisl
Halin said:
This decision new confirrs what t
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forward
ceedh.;a, t?":&#39;h
Court L"S fuf2.T*2 se"ur
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ace rignts 0; Cue
=r" in does not "
ieciie, na:ely, whether a zcve
z:.iua1ion in sec
deals solely wit
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plants who havedue process.
prccess to tho
irity proceedin
wh
zzpan ?% . riinth the person
e:nievm;nt, s
3CC?;5 an classreached an aae when our -y.t_m f titu-
cannot hold itsto infiltrate not only our public service,own against those who, under
to anticipate Slack Tom expl1.ions on every
all important industrial
have to abandon a system of liberty for one
ch a system was not that ordained by the
a latter we are sworn to uphold."
on, ACLU executive director. Patrick Murphy
he ACLU told the Coast Guard some years ago,
It represents a wajor sap
39 involved in security pro-
=cde tie querzion which the U. S. Supreme
rrment employee can be denied
1--1
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0 is privatei employed,
to crossezamine in oznar
uch as the security program
ified government data."I"r;92"-9
these tales to the inv1S@i1g1ng
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FROM &#39;Hr. A. B. Belmont /,i - ~. °&#39;_ Parsons ____
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1   1"" &#39;"*  - ~ =- r1"- r-v "r 1 - Pi. .3 71..  _ L S. ii-&#39;-"mm3*AmnnlCAn tlVlh hlbodilno union  ACLU! :Q§f§$;§r £$Lme__
lnEuRMATloN concenninc  iiinnnit 3mCURITY! 7. 1@%Wuf &#39;FBI File 61-190 *e*" SL3?"-
Bv my memorandum to you dated 12-2U-55, an SAC letter was
to, or documentntion of the ACLU,
reports brepared by the Bureau ex
Los nngeles thupter or nemoezshi
would want furtner
.JIUb¬rbh1J! in
tive in their
The Director,
n"LU by using b . J
citation the&#39;following fuctors must be considered. The bureau his
ACLU or its chapters; therefore,
cumentation of the AUhU for utili
au. Consequently, it has to rely
material and the only such material av iluoie lS the citation
While zeports c0ntuinin5 this citation attribute the uaterill
shown that iHUlVl&u;l¢ outside the Bureau
der the use of the Lia; J-.l...i;llbU.&#39;l}iQIl-.conducted an investigation of the
in a position to yrepnre n do
reports going outside the Burenot
in
public sourte
by the CCU$}
COthe CCUA, pest experience has
reading Bureau reports will coneitner , n
Ju,t_ilcution
92L..U dO< £,11&#39;t DI.lJ,1Ll
efiorts in behalf of suuversives
and more recently efforts in behalf of Pittsbur
.pprove the se thereiore did not 7should not o
cept such rel
for such acti
such t moor alncluded n lnV6Stl¢ tive
rences as e t ln to n
Director OMAQUEGJ "I
lth regard to the dssirwbility of dUCUm;AtlHD all ehnyt
" th   .e taiincrnla oomnittee on Un-American Activities
end.o,_-se.ue11t of it by the FBI.
Ifan individu l is par
all pronebility the reportiné off, L _. Utr ._- ce to
suovor-_v r the n s
as such. It is, however, well known that members of nCLU huve been posi
&#39; such us their o.F.nCLU man
gh convicted Communists."J
attached&#39;for approval instructing the field that menbership in, reference. _ _.e ._ x i . f ,a .
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a nding of the SAC letter.
ers ofUCUA!
never
it is
nation
upon
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ticipnting in subversive ectivities, in
ice will have more pertinent and concrete
information re5srdin; such JCtlVitV ether than membership in the ittu.
lf not, when the ofiice should not
as an instance of subversive acti1 1per se cannot
hebe construed as SU¢VCFSiV¬¢yregort membership in the ACLU alone
vity buCHuS6 membership in the RCLU
1 bureau&#39;s gosition and knonledge regurdin; the_Los_An§elesChapter differs fqom other ACLU chapters in that the tommunistinflufzence in the Los Anfles chdhter is soecifically docume ted in the toUn&#39;s

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Uhapter of the American Civil Liberties Union."&#39;emorandum~Ior_Mr. Boardman» L U  I C;
1p8FatiOnS. Consequently, the Bureau&#39;s position is sound in approving
hodified versions of the CCUA citation which were transmitted to the
3 California offices by Bulets dated 2-9-55, and 6-30-55, captioned
The only specific instructions furnished to the Iield con-, ,
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practice, however, the field does not refer to or docun
in the case of the Los Angeles ACLU chapter. In some&#39; cit:
in the case of the Newark report described in referenced menoACLU, or one of its chapters other than the Los Angeles
documented by the CCUA citation. It was with this typemind that we proposed to correct this lach oi uniiornity in d
the ACLU by the instructions set forth in the recommend
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n*t be included in future investigative reports except such reierences ispertain to the Los Angelcs chapter, or membership therein, be approved.
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T0 " I Mr. L. V. Boardman A nun. December I..¬>,wfT|"§I&#39;:*:df_E&#39;,~&#39; 195 4 i v g-- in _  F, Tnrlm______~ &#39; &#39;. - Mob _ _ &#39;1°M Mr. A. n?,s§i;%nt 00 - Boardman wé@:;§&#39;- /f -~ Nichols w~#-~ :§ ;/F Belmont §f::*&#39;"BJFg= AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNICH Rosen&#39; - ;3;=r;;»;:m-eINFORMATION CONCERNING  INTERNAL SECURITY! Baumgardner HMhmn__Bufile 61-190 Sutthoff ®Mv_-&#39; _ Kleink uf < - 4 J_A PURPOSE: - 8
Yr!:2. .43., To consider the question whether the American Civil  e&#39;_4/&#39; Liberties Union  ACLU! on a national level should be documentedif n iawbf in various types of Bureau investigative reports. p I. TV&#39; . 1 ~ - &#39;. _.._1 _. _
; -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 policyY is to defend the civil liberties of an individual regardless of political party, organization, denomination, race or nationality toBACKGROUND:   .n»~ *}1c< &#39; The ACLU has not been investigated by the Bureau. !Cor§alI
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i which a person belongs. while some of its activities such.as that //
. -5 give aid and comfort to the communists, the ACLU cannot be classed aswh@;. a subversive organization. The l9h9 report of the California Com- fmama mittee on Un-American Activities  CCUA!, page 270, states "American _.Q ,. relating to the smith Act and other so-called "repressive" legislatid
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&#39; ? civil Liberties Union: 1. Cited as heavily infiltrated with Com- T ii munists and fellow-travelers and frequently following the Communist f :3 _ line and defending Communists, particularly in its Los Angeles Unit.; california Committee on Un~American Activities,Report, l9h8,pp.l0B4L%Y,@ Approval was granted by memorandum C. H. Stanley to f; rA 5. A. Rosen 2/9/55, captioned "Security of Government Employees, &#39; 1;,_" Documentation of the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Civil_ - 1. Liberties Union" for Bulet dated 2/9/55 to be transmitted to the I /Q» three California offices authorizing them to utilize above citation /I by including certain statements of modification immediately at the 5i beginning and end of it, only in documentingpthe Los Angeles ChaptenEd of the ACLU  lhO~Oll29h!. eThis documentation was later amendedanm_5* approved by memorandum C. H. Stanley to A.~§osen and letter to the F. Q 1 California offices both dated 6/30/55 under the same caption  lkjft. _N
a - . _Pages 3-h of Newark report dated l2/l/55, captioned ?NQTeachers Defense Committee, Internal Security - C"  l00~hl9297#h,suspected Communist front group, refers to the documentation ?f £§"~"ACLU as set forth in the l9h8 report of the CCUA. While this, .;*#q=I . -1  - .~ _ &#39;1 I -- -1 _ I rv -I A ~ &#39; &#39; I 92T"!&#39;1."-? 92 I 3,  &#39;   92,_,&#39;_4- MnmbH7 {EQRm¬éi4UITiJJgG.I7.  I IA -1 "" st,x/&#39;1 _:..1 ~.&#39;C&#39;.7&#39;OR --/&#39;_&#39;.n_ .. 1 A 1 / .2 .. ,2 1 , 51: i ;f  ----- 
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documentation is public source material, it is believed that the.
practice of referring to and documenting the ACLU in reports is miundesirable. Bufiles fail to reflect that the field has ever &#39; i
been instructed not to refer to or document ACLU; consequently,the report in question is not incorrect. _Copies of rerep were &#39;*disseminated locally per instructions relating to investigations Q 1of Comunist front organizations contained in Section BYE of the &#39;
Manual of Instructions. To have Newark submit amended pages to_this report deleting this information would also require Newark M
to write each local agency which received a copy of the report
advising that agency to delete the data. It is believed this
should not be done. Present Bureau policy precludes the fOPW8Pdfing of amended pages to outside agencies for insertion in reported i
disseminated  sac Letter 55-23  b!, 3/16/55.! if! .
. 6;It is believed desirable at this time to instruct &#39; , Q
the field that membership in, reference to or documentation of -,&#39;y
the ACLU should not be included in investigative reports, except S
as noted above relating to the Los Angeles Chapter. Accordingly_;p4
there is attached an SAC Letter so instructing. ._,.
U .RECOMMENDATIONS: Q ./
1. That the afore-mentioned Newark report remain as i§I?%If you approve, this memorandum should be returned to Supervisor Q QJ. H. Kleinkauf, Room 170b, for appropriate dissemination of the i -
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transmitted to the field.
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Director L. B. Nichols for his comments.
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