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== The National Lawyer's Guild, Historically ==
== The National Lawyer's Guild, Historically ==
As said by the [[House Committee on Un-American Activities]] (September 1950) The [[National Lawyers Guild]] (NLG) was organized in 1936 by a caucus of [[Communist Party USA]] (CPUSA) lawyers assisted by the International Labor Defense, an American agency of the [[Comintern]] (Communist International). The NLG remains an active affiliate of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL), an international Communist front which operated under the control of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. <ref>Harvey Klehr, ''Far Left of Center: The American Radical Left Today'', (Transaction Books, New Brunswick, 1988), p. 161.</ref> The International Department took over the old Comintern that was disbanded by [[Stalin]] during World War II. A study prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency at the direction of the House Intelligence Committee in 1978, reported that the IADL:
As said by the [[House Committee on Un-American Activities]] (September 1950) The [[National Lawyers Guild]] (NLG) was organized in 1936 by a caucus of [[Communist Party USA]] (CPUSA) lawyers assisted by the International Labor Defense, an American agency of the [[Comintern]] (Communist International). The NLG remains an active affiliate of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL), an international [[Communist front]] which operated under the control of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. <ref>Harvey Klehr, ''Far Left of Center: The American Radical Left Today'', (Transaction Books, New Brunswick, 1988), p. 161.</ref> The International Department took over the old Comintern that was disbanded by [[Stalin]] during World War II. A study prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency at the direction of the House Intelligence Committee in 1978, reported that the IADL:
:"has been one of the most useful Communist front organizations at the service of the Soviet Communist Party....In the 31 years of the IADL's existence, it has so consistently demonstrated its support of Moscow's foreign policy objectives and is so tied in with other front organizations and the Communist press that it is difficult for it to pretend that its judgments are fair or relevant to basic legal tenets."
:"has been one of the most useful Communist front organizations at the service of the Soviet Communist Party....In the 31 years of the IADL's existence, it has so consistently demonstrated its support of Moscow's foreign policy objectives and is so tied in with other front organizations and the Communist press that it is difficult for it to pretend that its judgments are fair or relevant to basic legal tenets."