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...SACB was established by the Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950 (the McCarran Act) which was passed over President Truman's veto during the early McCarthy era and the Korean War. This legislation empowers the attorney-general to order "Communist-action," "communist-front," and "Communist infiltrated" organizations to register as such with his office...
Severe Sanction. Section 6 of the act provided that any member of a Communist-action, Communist-front, or Communist-infiltrated organization who uses a U.S. passport, or even applies for one, is guilty of a felony and punishable by a maximum $10,000 fine and five years in prison. In early 1962, several months after Section 6 became law, the State Department revoked the passports of leading American Communists, including those of Party Chairman Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, 74, and Herbert Aptheker, 48, editor of the Communist monthly Political Affairs. Miss Flynn and Aptheker sued the State Department, charging an unconstitutional...
...denials that Oswald was the assassin. Both Buchanan and Lane have received smash play in the Eastern European press, whose line has always been that Kennedy was the victim of a three-way conspiracy among Southern racists, Pentagon generals, and the nasty CIA. Two months ago, Lane, addressing the Communist-front International Association of Democratic Jurists in Budapest, declared that the killer or killers, whom he has described as "motivated by diseased minds," are "still running loose...
Adam Schweig, a member of "Advance," a youth organization which is being tried for alleged Communist-front actities under the Act, quoted President Truman's statement that the Act "puts the government in the thought-control business...
When Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy filed an order requiring Advance, an "organization of progressive youth" to file as a Communist-front group pursuant to the McCarran Act of 1950, he cited as evidence a number of issues on which the Advance position ran parallel to that of the U.S. Communist Party. These included...