NATIONAL COUNCIL, ETC. v. SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES CONT. BD.

No. 13260.

322 F.2d 375 (1963)

NATIONAL COUNCIL OF AMERICAN-SOVIET FRIENDSHIP, INC., Petitioner, v. SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES CONTROL BOARD, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided May 16, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. David Rein, Washington, D. C., for petitioner.

Mrs. Lee B. Anderson, Attorney, Department of Justice, with whom Mr. Frank R. Hunter, Jr., General Counsel, Subversive Activities Control Board, Messrs. Kevin T. Maroney and George B. Searls, Attorneys, Department of Justice, and Messrs. Charles F. Dirlam and Peter P. Hanagan, Attorneys, Subversive Activities Control Board, were on the brief, for respondent.

Mr. Edward J. Ennis, New York City, filed a brief on behalf of American Civil Liberties Union, as amicus curiæ.

Before BAZELON, Chief Judge, PRETTYMAN, Senior Circuit Judge, and DANAHER, Circuit Judge.


PRETTYMAN, Senior Circuit Judge.

This is a petition to review an order of the Subversive Activities Control Board, which, having held petitioner to be a Communist-front organization within the meaning of Section 3(4) of the Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950,1 ordered it to register under Section 7 of that Act.2

Under the statute a Communist-front organization is one which (a) is substantially...

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