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The '''National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee''' was founded in 1951 by the [[Communist Party USA]] as an alleged alternative civil rights advocate group to the [[American Civil Liberties Union]] but in reality, it was designed as a Party legal attack mechanism aimed at America's [[national security program]].<ref>Guide To Subversive Organizations and Publications and Appendixes, HCUA, December 1, 1962, House Document No. 398, pp. 69-70, citing HCUA,[[Annual Report for 1958, HCUA]], House Report No. 187, March 9, 1959, pp. 34 & 36; and SISS, "Handbook for Americans'', S. Doc. 117, April 23, 1956, p. 91</ref>. The NECLC did not require an oath denouncing Communism, which the group believed the ACLU required. [[Edith Tiger]] was the director of the NECLC from from 1968 until it merged into the [[Center for Constitutional Rights]] in 1998.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/30/nyregion/edith-tiger-83-a-proponent-of-liberties-for-the-dissident.html?pagewanted=1 Edith Tiger's obituary]</ref>
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The '''National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee''' was founded in 1951 by the [[Communist Party USA]] as an alleged alternative civil rights advocate group to the [[American Civil Liberties Union]] but in reality, it was designed as a Party legal attack mechanism aimed at America's national security program.<ref>Guide To Subversive Organizations and Publications and Appendixes, HCUA, December 1, 1962, House Document No. 398, pp. 69-70, citing HCUA,[[Annual Report for 1958, HCUA]], House Report No. 187, March 9, 1959, pp. 34 & 36; and SISS, "Handbook for Americans'', S. Doc. 117, April 23, 1956, p. 91</ref>. The NECLC did not require an oath denouncing Communism, which the group believed the ACLU required. [[Edith Tiger]] was the director of the NECLC from from 1968 until it merged into the [[Center for Constitutional Rights]] in 1998.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/30/nyregion/edith-tiger-83-a-proponent-of-liberties-for-the-dissident.html?pagewanted=1 Edith Tiger's obituary]</ref>
  
 
==NECLC 1989 Annual Bill of Rights Dinner==
 
==NECLC 1989 Annual Bill of Rights Dinner==
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According to an article in the November 28, 1989 issue of the CPUSA newspaper ''"Peoples Daily World"'', "Civil Rights Defenders to be Honored Dec. 1"'', the following people were to receive awards from the NECLC:  
 
According to an article in the November 28, 1989 issue of the CPUSA newspaper ''"Peoples Daily World"'', "Civil Rights Defenders to be Honored Dec. 1"'', the following people were to receive awards from the NECLC:  
  

Revision as of 23:52, 8 November 2010

The National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee was founded in 1951 by the Communist Party USA as an alleged alternative civil rights advocate group to the American Civil Liberties Union but in reality, it was designed as a Party legal attack mechanism aimed at America's national security program.[1]. The NECLC did not require an oath denouncing Communism, which the group believed the ACLU required. Edith Tiger was the director of the NECLC from from 1968 until it merged into the Center for Constitutional Rights in 1998.[2]

NECLC 1989 Annual Bill of Rights Dinner

According to an article in the November 28, 1989 issue of the CPUSA newspaper "Peoples Daily World", "Civil Rights Defenders to be Honored Dec. 1", the following people were to receive awards from the NECLC:

Previous Recipients of the Tom Paine Award include:

People Barred From Entering the Country under the McCarren-Walter Act mentioned in the article:

Key Paragraph About Barney Frank and his work to destroy the McCarran-Walter Act of the Immigration and Naturalization Act:

"Edith Tiger, NECLC director, said Frank was chosen to receive the Tom Paine Award in recognition of his role in the successful effort to end "the shameful and unconstitutional" practice of barring people from the United States because of their political beliefs. Frank was in the forefront of the 1987 legislative battle to maned the McCarran-Walter Act, which had been used since the McCarthy era to stifle free speech by denying entry visas to individuals whose views are deemed unacceptable by the U.S. Government".

June 1992 NECLC Letterhead/Letter

In June, 1992, the NECLC sent out a letter, signed by its Director Edith Tiger asking for donations and the renewal of memberships to fight so-called attacks on privacy, the closing of the "line between church and state", increasing censorship, etc. This packet included a history of some of the cases that they fought in the early 1990's, as well as lists of key officers, staff, counsels, their Executive Committee, and National Council members.

These lists were a veritable "who's who" of the marxist legal network, leftist sympathizes including some closely allied with the Communist Party USA CPUSA and other communist causes (Cuba, Nicaragua and El Salvador, etc.). While the NECLC's CPUSA members had been dwindling due to deaths, there was still a very dominant CPUSA member/supporter faction in it. These people also were leaders of other CPUSA-influenced if not dominated organizations including the Fund for New Priorities in America FNPA, the National Lawyers Guild NLG off-shoot, the Center for Constitutional Rights CCR, and the Institute for Policy Studies IPS, funded by Communist Party member and possible Soviet agent of influence, Samuel Rubin of the Samuel Rubin Foundation.

The NECLC was one of the older CPUSA legal fronts, the National Lawyers Guild NLG being founded in the 1930's, while the NGL creation, CCR was a child of the 1960's and had a more diverse membership of communists, marxists, socialists and left-liberals. However, over time, its parent body, the NLG, had also changed from a purely CPUSA-dominated organization to one with a broader representation of marxists, leftists and liberals. In some cases, the memberships of the NLG and CCR were identical, much like that of the NECLC and the older NLG was at one time.

One problem with providing CPUSA identities and affiliations after 1975 was that the House Internal Security Committee had been abolished and its files illegally sealed for 50-75 years, thus depriving the public of one of the two congressional internal security groups that held hearings and published reports on the CPUSA, the SWP, WWP, etc. The task of providing information on the CPUSA, its members, supporters, activities and fronts, fell largely to individual members of the House of Representatives (McDonald, Ashbrook, Ichord, etc.) to put reports into the Congressional Record which gave current and historical information on who these people actually were. Many of the listed members of the NECLC will show up in greater detail in Congressional Record items about the National Lawyers Guild NLG, the Center for Constitutional Rights CCR and even on the NECLC. Other insider information will be found in issues of [Information Digest]] and in the newsletters COMBAT, TOCSIN, Pink Sheet on the Left and The American Sentinel, and the national conservative weekly Human Events.

NECLC STAFF: already listed: Tiger, Krinsky, Lieberman, Copeland

Office of the General Counsel:

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Of Counsel to the Firm:

Legal Counsel, Miami:

  • Ira Kurzban - a leading immigration attorney, esp. for Haitian refugees

Legal Counsel, Philadelphia:

  • David Kairys - self-described communist, very smart, who handled the racial discrimination case of FBI agent Donald Rochon and nearly obtained through government stupidity, a complete list of all FBI agents, with names, addresses, background information and Social Security Numbers, which would have been one of the KGB's greatest intelligence coups. This was stopped by former FBI agents who sued to stop the disclosure of this list on national security grounds]][6].
  • David Rudovsky - partner of Kairys and just as radical

NECLC - Executive Committee:

NECLC - National Council [The list on page 15 of this mailing is missing a few news of the National Council found on the actual letterhead of June 1992. For purposes of completeness, these two lists have been merged. All organizational identifications have been listed by Keywiki.org in order to further identify who these people are and where they work/organizations, etc.]

Additional names from the June 1992 letterhead of members of the National Council not contained in the list above:

(NB: As an example of the interlocking memberships of far-left and communists organizations by key individuals, we find that as of July 2005, the following NECLC leaders/members were also leaders/members of another hard-left organization, the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, Inc. LCNP, as found on their website www.lcnp.org.:

Many of these people, plus others in the LCNP, will show up in other Communist Party fronts including the National Lawyers Guild and its creation, the Center for Constitutional Rights, originally known as the Law Center for Constitutional Rights LCCR, the latter cited in a 1975 SISS hearing[15].

Many of the NECLC, NLG and CCR leaders/members will also show up in the Hanoi Lobby CPUSA-influenced, if not dominated Lawyers Committee on American Policy Towards Vietnam[16].)

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  1. ↑ Guide To Subversive Organizations and Publications and Appendixes, HCUA, December 1, 1962, House Document No. 398, pp. 69-70, citing HCUA,Annual Report for 1958, HCUA, House Report No. 187, March 9, 1959, pp. 34 & 36; and SISS, "Handbook for Americans, S. Doc. 117, April 23, 1956, p. 91
  2. ↑ Edith Tiger's obituary
  3. ↑ Committee on Un-American Activities: Annual Report for the Year 1961, HCUA, House Report No. 2559, pp. 62-23
  4. ↑ name of book to be added
  5. ↑ The Venona Secrets, p. 381, chapter footnote 77: See Victor Rabinowitz, "Unrepentant leftist: A Lawyer's Memoir", where he admits Party membership while doing his best to conceal the dates or its significance."
  6. ↑ Washington Inquirer article, "Disastrous Security Leak Possible in Rochon vs FBI Case", by Max Friedman, pp. 1 & 7, August 12, 1988
  7. ↑ The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors, Romerstein and Breindel, Regnery, 2000
  8. ↑ The Venona Secrets, p. 381, chapter footnote 77: See Victor Rabinowitz, "Unrepentant leftist: A Lawyer's Memoir", where he admits Party membership while doing his best to conceal the dates or its significance."
  9. ↑ Trial By Treason: The National Committee to Secure Justice for the Rosenbergs and Morton Sobell, HCUA, House Doc. No. 206, Aug. 25, 1956, p. 131
  10. ↑ The Theory and Practice of Communism, Part 3, ExpoCuba, House Internal Security Committee, HISC, Hearings, Oct. 17 & 18, 1973, pp. 2234, 2237 & 2247; 2234 & 2237 being letterheads of the Committee for the 20/26 and 2247 being: Sandra Levinson, Center for Cuban Studies, (1) listed as a member of the Executive Committee of the NECLC, letterhead dates 1/15/73 (NECLC "has been previously cited"), and (2) Director of the Center for Cuban Studies, was the only one present at the time of the bombing of the center in New York City on March 29, 1973, "Guardian", 4/11/73, p. 8, (The Center for Cuban Studies has been previously characterize), p, 2247.
  11. ↑ Subversive Influence in the Educational Process, Part 6, pp. 693-698, Hearing, March 27, 1953, SISS; HCUA, Investigation of Communist Activities In the Albany N. Y. Area, Part 3, Hearings, April 7, 1954, pp. 4341, 4344 & 4345, and Part 4, April 8, 1954, p. 4365; and Hearings, Investigations of Communist Activities in the New England Area, Part 3, March 21, 1958, p. 2399, resp.
  12. ↑ Subversive Influences in Riots, Looting and Burning, Part 2, Hearings, Oct. 31 & Nov. 1, 1967, HCUA, pp. 939-940, 1001 and 1095 wherein on p. 940 Lynn was identified as "the counsel for the Progressive Labor Movement PLM at that time"; speaker at the 7/28/64 rally (p. 1001) sponsored by the Harlem Solidarity Committee, identified as a front of the Progressive Labor Movement but claimed to have been "initiated" by The Spartacists, a Trotskyite splinter faction (p. 1094). The PLM later became the Progressive Labor Party PLP, the oldest existing Maoist party as of 2010.
  13. ↑ National Peace Action Coalition (NPAC} and Peoples Coalition for Peace & Justice {PCPJ), Part 1, Hearings, HISC, May 18-21, 1973, P. 1804.
  14. ↑ Communist Legal Subversion: The Role of the Communist Lawyer, Report, House Report No. 41, HCUA, Feb. 16, 1959, pp. 61-63.
  15. ↑ The Nationwide Drive Against Law Enforcement Intelligence Operations, hearings, Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, Sept. 18, 1975, Testimony of Frank J. McNamara, pp. 36-37
  16. ↑ Subversive Involvement in the Origin, Leadership and Activities of the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam and Its Predecessor Organizations, Staff Study, House Internal Security Committee, 1970, p. 22 and referred footnote 303
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