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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. 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: