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'''Ad Hoc Committee of Concerned Citizens''' was a [[Communist Party USA]] front.

==Background==
A very strange and interesting full page ad appeared in the [[New York Times]] of >>> 1973?, published by a group calling themselves the "Ad Hoc Committee of Concerned Citizens", Treasurer [[Anton Refregier]], 111 Broadway, Room 300, New York City, NY.

It was concerned with the actual and perceived actions of the anti-communist, anti-appeasement organization known as the [[Jewish Defense League]] (JDL), formed by assassinated Rabbi [[Meir Kahane]] to protect Jews in America from anti-semitic violence, and to support the safety of Israel. Kahane was murdered by a man many assume was an Al Qaeda assassin,     , 1992, perhaps the first Al Qaeda attack on U.S. soil.

The Ad Hoc Committee was formed by the [[Communist Party USA]] (CPUSA) because there were so many identified and open members of the Party in it, that it could only have been formed through the CPUSA membership/sympathizer network. No other group could have reached so many old CPers, many of whom were unknown to the younger radical groups.

There was a heavy presence of entertainment and [[Hollywood]] Party members and supporters, as well as red artists, labor leaders, several identified Soviet spies/agents, and members of CPUSA fronts, including:
*[[Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade]] (VALB)
*[[American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born]] (ACPFB)
*[[Jewish Cultural Clubs]] (JCC)
*[[Committee for Constitutional Liberties]] (CCL)
*[[New World Review]] (NWR)

Other groupings included CPUSA attorneys and sympathizer lawyers, CPUSA professors, CPUSA clergy and sympathizers, a few assorted marxists, and leaders of the Hanoi Lobby who were listed with their own organizational affiliations (WILPF, WSP, WPC etc.)

==Text of the Ad==


==List of Sponsors==
*Rev. [[Paul Lehmann]] - [[Union Theological Seminary]] (UTS) - veteran supporter of CPUSA fronts and causes. One of several key leftist clergy who graduated from the Union Theological Seminary.
*Rabbi [[Roland B. Gittelsohn]] - Temple Israel, Boston, a leftist rabbi who sponsored numerous CPUSA fronts and causes [[Roland Gittelsohn]]
*[[Ruth Gage-Colby]] - [[WILPF]] ([[Women's International League for Peace & Freedom]]) - veteran communist fronts and causes supporter, from the heavily CPUSA-influenced, if not dominated (in the 1960's/70's) WILPF; the Trotskyite [[Socialist Workers Party]] (SWP) front, [[National Peace Action Coalition]] (NPAC); and many other communist fronts.
*Prof. [[Howard Parsons|Howard L. Parsons]] - longtime CPUSA frontman in academia and in "peace fronts" including the Soviet [[World Peace Council]] and later the U.S. affiliate, the [[U.S. Peace Council]].
*[[Maxwell Geismar]] - historian, a longtime "independent" marxist, pro-Castro propagandist, etc.
*Prof. [[Dirk J. Struik]] - MIT, open member of the CPUSA
*[[Stanley Faulkner]], Esq. - one of the oldest "communist" cause attorneys around. His record included both CPUSA and SWP fronts and causes. He specialized in both Communist and Arab "war crimes tribunals" trying the U.S.
*[[Al Giraldo]] - Asst Secy DC #9, Brotherhood of Painters, [[AFL-CIO]] (DC #9 = District Council #9)
*[[John Pappademos]] - Treasurer, [[Local 1627]], [[AFT]], [[AFL-CIO]], identified and then open CPUSA member from [[Chicago]]
*Dr. [[Bernard Mandel]] - educator
*[[Anton Refregier]] - artist, and id. CPUSA member (one of the top CP artists/cartoonists, as well as [[Rockwell Kent]], [[Philip Reisman]], [[Hugo Gellert]], [[Charles Keller]], [[Oliver Harrington|Ollie Harrington]], [[Anthony Toney]]
*Dr. [[Herbert Aptheker]] - Bryn Mawr College, and theoretician of the CPUSA
*[[Angie Dickerson]] - WPC, id. CPUSA leader for Pennsylvania and Delaware
*[[Anthony Toney]] - Artist, id. CPUSA member
*[[John Abt|John J. Abt]] Esq. - id. CPUSA, [[National Lawyers Guild]] (NLG); member of the Ware spy ring during WW2<ref>The Venona Secrets:Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors", Regnery, Herbert Romerstein & Eric Breindel, 2000</ref>. (Also contains information on id. spy, CPUSA member [[Victor Perlo]].
*[[George B. Murphy, Jr.]] - journalist, id. CPUSA, from an old black radical family out of Baltimore
*[[John Howard Lawson]] - author, id. CPUSA, and leader of the Soviet/CPUSA penetration of the movie industries in order to get Soviet propaganda into films. One of the "[[Hollywood 10]]" "[[Hollywood Ten]]" mainly hostile Party witnesses before HCUA during hearings on communist penetration of the entertainment industry and especially Hollywood.<ref>Communist Activities **** in Los Angelese, HCUA, Hearings, 1940</ref> {CITATIONS}
*[[Sue Lawson]] - author
*[[Jessica Smith]] - writer, wife of two identified Soviet spies, [[Harold Ware]] and [[John Abt]]; leader of many pro-Soviet CPUSA fronts and publications including [[New World Review]]. Also in the Romerstein/Breindel book.
*[[David B. Kimmelman]], MD - longtime CPUSA supporter
*Dr. [[James Jackson|James E. Jackson]] - [[Goddard College]] - leader of the CPUSA
*[[Helen Foster Snow]] - author, wife of the late Maoist propagandist [[Edgar Snow]]. One of the top American supporters of [[Mao tse-tung]]
*[[Isidore G. Needleman]] Esq - longtime id. CPUSA member
*[[Eugene W. Moore]] - writer
*[[Walter Lowenfels]] - poet, id. CPUSA member
*[[Paul Novick]] - Editor, the CPUSA publication [[Morning Freiheit]], id. CPUSA, later associated with the CPUSA publication [[Jewish Currents]] and [[Jewish Affairs]]
* Mrs. [[Lillian Moore]]- Social worker
* Rev. [[Willard Uphaus|Willard E. Uphaus]] - 5th Amendment CPUSA member. Top fronter in "peace" camps and "Fellowships", re pro-Soviet propaganda operations {CITATION}
*[[A. Mayers]] - Pres., [[Local 848]], Brotherhood of Painters, [[AFL-CIO]]
*Rev. [[William Howard Melish]] - longtime id. CPUSA member and one of about five CP clergymen (Melish), Lehmann, [[Morford]], etc.
*[[James Boyle]] - General Organizer, [[Bakers Local #3]] (AFL-CIO)
*Mrs. [[Edythe Kimmelman]] - sculptress
*[[Joseph Brandt]] - VALB; Public Relations - [[Daily World]] (DW), the CPUSA newspaper; id. CPUSA
*[[Len DeCaux]] - author, id. CPUSA
*[[Elizabeth Moos]] - educator, id. CPUSA
*[[Joe Norrick]] - Steelwork and supporter of the CPUSA, if not an actual member
*[[Maury Colow]] - VALB, artist, another CPUSA front supporter
*[[Sam Pevzner]] - Director, Jewish Cultural Clubs, and id. CPUSA member
*[[A. L. Roballo]] - Busines Agent, DC #9, Brotherhood of Painters, AFL-CIO
* Mrs. [[Ruth C. Norrick]] - writer, and CPUSA supporter
*[[Louis Weinstock]] & [[Rose Weinstock]] - DC #9, Brotherhood of Painters, AFL-CIO; longtime open members of the CPUSA
*[[Jack A. Smith]] - Managing Editor, [[Guardian]], the maoist-oriented U.S. radical weekly
* Mrs. [[Julie Steinberg]]
*[[Irving G. Steinberg]] Esq.
*[[Alvin R. Warren]] - VALB, Ossining [[PCPJ]], a part of the Hanoi Lobby
*[[Jack Spiegel]] - trade unionist; Chairman, [[Chicago Peace Council]] (CPC), longtime identified member of the CPUSA and the CPC has long been identified as a CPUSA front based in Chicago, and part of both the Hanoi Lobby and the Soviet front, the World Peace Council (WPC)
*[[Win Stracke]] - entertainer, writer
* Dr. [[Louis Diamond]]
* Mrs. [[Nan Ross]]
*[[Paul L. Ross]], Esq. - longtime leader of the CPUSA front known as the [[Citizens Committee for Constitutional Liberties]] (CCCL)<ref>see: Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications (and Appendixes), HCUA, Dec. 1 1961 page 42 for citations)</ref>. Also see related HCUA hearings on CCCL.
*[[Howard D. Langford]], PhD
* Mrs. [[Beatrice W. Langford]] - social worker
*[[Sonia Epstein]] and [[Harry Epstein]], MD - Longtime CPUSA members/supporters, esp. [[Harry Epstein]]
* Prof. [[John Somerville]] - longtime CPUSA fronts supporter
* Prof. [[Stanton Ling Davis]] - another longtime CPUSA fronts supporter
*[[Conrad Balfour]] - [[Urban Coalition]], [[Minneapolis]]
* Dr. [[Hyman Lumer]] - longtime CPUSA leader associated with their publication [[Jewish Affairs]] and [[Political Affairs]]
*[[James S. Allen]] - publisher, longtime supporter of CPUSA fronts
*[[Ethel Alper]]
* Prof. [[Derk Bodde]] - oldline maoist oriented leftist, active in the early anti-Vietnam movements on campus
* Rev. [[Lee H. Ball]] - longtime supporter of CPUSA fronts
*[[Philip Reisman]] - artist, and id. CPUSA member
*[[Liane Bidwell]] - social worker
* Dr. [[Jacob Levenson]]
*[[Harry Freeman]] - journalist, and Soviet agent (posed as a journalist for Soviet publications)
*[[Victor Perlo]] - economist, id. Soviet spy from WW2 in the Perlo-Abt spy ring. See "The Venona Secrets" for details.
*[[Julius Cohen]] Esq.
*[[Samuel A. Neuberger]], Esq.
*[[Jan Gordon]] - student
*[[Lucille Berrien]] - [[National Welfare Rights Organization]] (NWRO), [[Milwaukee]] and identified in the CPUSA's paper the [[Daily World]] (DW) of       197? as a member of the CPUSA, an identification that had not been made public before. {CITATIONS from DW and The Pink Sheet}. Also a member of the Hanoi Lobby/PCPJ.
*[[John Eklund]] - Un. of Wisconsin, and member of the CPUSA youth group, the [[Young Workers Liberation LeagueL]] {CITATION}
* Dr. [[Joseph E. Garai]]
* Mrs. [[Selma Garai]] - psychotherapist
*[[John Gilman]] - Midwest Chairman, [[PCPJ]], and longtime identified regional leader of the CPUSA, esp. for Wisconsin. Hanoi Lobby leader in the Mobes and PCPJ.
*[[Staten Island Peace Coalition]]
*[[William C. Davidon]] - [[RESIST]] - professor at Haverford College and self-described Quaker who was an earlier leader of the academics who formed the Hanoi Lobby
*[[A.B. Magil]] - longtime supporter of CPUSA fronts and causes; id. CPUSA
* Prof. [[Philip S. Foner]] - longtime CPUSA supporter; id. CPUSA
* Prof. [[David H. DeGrood]]
*[[Frank Phelan|Frank M. Phelan]] - Printing Tradesman
*[[John Pittman]] - Co-Editor, (Daily World), CPUSA writer
*[[Jarvis Tyner]] - Chairman, [[Young Workers Liberation League]] (YWLL), CPUSA Vice-Presidential candiate, and leader of CPUSA youth arms since 1965.
* Mrs. [[Eleanor Crain]] - longtime CPUSA supporter, member of the marxist radical therapists; id. CPUSA member
*[[Irving J. Crain]] MD - also a longtime CPUSA supporter
*[[Julius Zupan]] - DC #9, Brotherhood of Painters, AFL-CIO
*[[Sigmund Eisenscher]] - id. CPUSA leader from Milwaukee
*[[Esther Carroll]] - [[Local 22, ILGWU]], AFL-CIO, longtime CPUSA supporter (CITATION}
* Prof. [[Ephraim Cross]]
* Prof. [[Denise Levertov]] - a marxist poetess who supported both CPUSA and SWP fronts and causes
*[[Mitchell Goodman]] - draft resister (Check on member of "Catonsville 7")
*[[Irving B. Simon]] - Graphic Arts Consultant
*[[Russell N. Chase]] Esq.
*[[Eugene S. Bayer]] Esq.
*[[Pete Seeger]] - Musician, admitted former member of the CPUSA; continually open supporter of communist parties, fronts and causes including the CPUSA, SWP, [[The Guardian]] [[Guardian]], Hanoi Lobby, etc.
* Rev. [[W. Christoph Schmauch]] - one of the leaders of a non-cited CPUSA front roughly entitled "The GDR-US Friendship Society" (CITATION correct title)
*[[A .Wise]]  & [[E. Wise]] - [[ILGWU]], AFL-CIO
*[[Alice Childress]] - Writer; and supporter of marxist fronts
*[[Gedalia Sandler]] - Jewish Cultural Clubs, CPUSA organizations which try to infiltrate the U.S. Jewish community or to provide a pro-communist voice there<ref> Pamphlet, "National Conference for a Drastic Cutback in Military Spending, April 5-6, 1975, Chicago, id. her as "General Secretary, [[Jewish Cultural Clubs and Societies]], NY</ref>
*[[Franois Silverman]] - [[PFP]], most likely the CPUSA political organization [[Peace and Freedom Party]] (PFP)
*[[Lottie Gordon]] and [[David Gordon]] - VALB, both veteran CPUSA supporters
* Rev. [[Peter Hans Christiansen]] - supporter of some CPUSA fronts<ref>Pamphlet, "National Conference For A Drastic Cutabck in Military Spending", April 5-6, 1975, Chicago, id. as [[Unitarian Universalist]] Minister, Los Angeles, Cal.</ref>
*[[Joseph North]] - Author, Editor, longtime CPUSA writer/editor/correspondent for their newspapers
*[[Chaim Suller]] - Co-Editor, [[Morning Freiheit]], a CPUSA newspaper aimed at Jewish Americans
*[[Holland Roberts]] - (ARI), [[American-Russian Institute]], a CPUSA propaganda operation promoting the Soviet Union as a friend; id. CPUSA member<ref> 1949 Report Un-American Activities in California, California Senate Factfinding Subcommittee on Un-American Activities", Pages 429-432, as referenced in the "Fourteenth Report UUAC 1967, Page. 37</ref>
*[[Sally Cooper]]
*[[Michael Zieper]]
*[[Dena Beers]]
*[[Sol Londe]] MD - supporter of CPUSA fronts and causes
* Rev. [[William T. Baird]] - supporter of radical causes (CHECK CHICAGO)
* Mrs. [[Alexander Trachtenberg]] - wife of one of the top CPUSA leaders
*[[Nina Goldstein]] - Pres., [[Miami Benevolent Society]]
*[[George H. Hickerson]] - [[Morningside Renewal Council]]
*[[Abe Zuckerman]] - Shopworkers, and veteran CPUSA supporter
* Prof. [[Horace B. Davis]] - long associated with the CPUSA in the South, and had a Scholarship named after him, whose board was loaded with CPUSA members<ref>Initiating Sponsor, [[American-Korean Friendship and Information Center]] (AKFIC), 1973 booklet for this pro-North Korea front. Davis is listed as "author, Massachusetts", as Exhibit 230, PP. 3877-3880 in "[[National Peace Action Coalition]] (NPAC) and [[Peoples Coalition for Peace & Justice]] (PCPJ) - Part 4, , Hearings, House Internal Security Committee, July 20-22 & June 17, 1971</ref>
* Rev. [[Richard Morford]] - longtime id. CPUSA member
* [[Ed Topp]] - Business Agent, DC #9, Brotherhood of Painters, AFL-CIO
* Prof. [[Paul Crosser]]
* [[Max. R. Naiman]], Esq.
* [[Hugo Gellert]] - Artist; longtime id. member of the CPUSA
* [[Harry Gottlieb]] - Artist, id. member of the CPUSA
* [[Sara Gottlieb]] - wife of Harry Gottlieb
* [[Paul Kaye]], LS
* Mr. [[I. Herman]]- Shop workers (there was a [[Irving Herman]] who was a veteran CPUSA member
* Mrs. [[I. Herman]]
* [[Alexander Svenschansky]] - Businessman
* [[Alva Bessie]] - [[Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade]] (VALB), a cited CPUSA front; Writer; member of the CPUSA Hollywood writers and producers known as the "[[Hollywood Ten]]"
* [[Samuel Leibowitz]] - President 22 affiliated [[Fraternal, Cultural & Social Clubs]] of [[Florida]], an organization controlled by the CPUSA with a possible direct relationship to the cited CPUSA major front, the [[International Workers Order]] (IWO)
* [[Arthur Zipser|Arthur M. Zipser]] - Shopworker
* [[Bernard Weller]] - Businessman, 5th Amendment on CPUSA membership 
* [[Allan Kaufman]] - Pressman, [[Local 1583]], [[AFSCME]] AFL-CIO
* [[George Boas]]
* [[Joseph Schwab|Joseph S. Schwab]] - Teacher
* [[Morris Colman]] - Art Director
* [[Mike Welch]] - [[Southern Cultural Education Fund]] (SCEF), a cited CPUSA front. Welch has been a veteran supporter of CPUSA fronts and causes since the 1970's.
* [[Michael Honey]] - Southern Director, [[National Coalition Against Repressive Legislation]] (NCARL), a cited CPUSA front, the direct successor of the former [[National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee]] (NCAHUAC) and its successor, the [[National Committee to Abolish the House Internal Security Committee]] (HISC). 
* [[Katherine Popper]] - wife of [[Martin Popper]]
* [[Martin Popper]] - Esq. Id. member of the CPUSA and member of their legal front the[[National Lawyers Guild]] (NLG), among other CP legal fronts
* [[Sue Kling]] - [[Jewish Cultural Club]] [[Chicago]]. id. member of the CPUSA of Chicago/Illinois and wife of [[Jack Kling]]
* [[Jack Kling]] - [[Jewish Cultural Club of Chicago]], open member of the CPUSA of Chicago/Illinois
* [[Zolman Emvanitoff]] - President, [[Chicago Jewish Cultural Club]] (Jewish Cultural Club)
* [[Max Friend]] - Chicago Jewish Cultural Club and id. CPUSA
* [[Bernice Diamond]] - Shopworker
* [[Jack Weiman]] - Teacher
* [[Pauline Rosen]] - [[Women Strike for Peace]] (WSP), founder of the CPUSA and key leader of the various [[Mobes]] Vietnam protest united fronts
* [[Hyman Steinberg]] - Businessmen, [[Jewish Cultural Club of Hartford, Connecticut]]
* [[Jack Bjoze]] - VALB
* [[Joseph M. Garcia]] - Businessman
* Rev. [[Gerald F. Gilmore]]
* [[Lous Zemel]] - Businessmen, longtime supporter of the CPUSA and its fronts. Key plaintiff in the case ""Zemel v. USA"
* [[Saul Silver]]
* Prof. [[Louise Pettibone Smith]] - longtime CPUSA fronts supporter
* [[Harold Lund]] - (AASW) [[American Association of Social Workers]]
* [[Robert C. Ekins]] - Schulptor - veteran CPUSA supporter
* [[Saul M. Shapiro]] - VALB, Merchant
* [[H. C. Steinmetz]] - AFCR
* [[Ann Langford]] - Chicago politician and supporter of CPUSA fronts
* Rev.[[Stephen Fritchman|Stephen H. Fritchman]] - identified member of the CPUSA; took the 5th Amendment regarding any membership

"Many sponsor names were received too late to be included. The Committee regrets these unavoidable omissions. (Organizations, professions and posts listed for identification only)."

Clip-Out "contribution" section which says: Make contributions payable to: "Ad Hoc Committee of Concerned Citizens", or "Treasurer, [[Anton Refregier]], 111 Broadway, Room 300, NYC, NY.

==References==
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