Politics general files--front organizations and fellow travelers, 1935-1980.

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Politics general files--front organizations and fellow travelers, 1935-1980.

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The records document Consumers' Research's interest in identifying organizations and individuals whose activities were seen as communistic, leftist, or subversive. The series was used for reference and gathered to uncover the links between various individuals and organizations. Included are newspaper and magazine clippings, correspondence, periodicals, and memoranda. Letters are mostly from F.J. Schlink and concern Consumer's Research's attempts at supplying the FBI, the Pentagon, and The House Special Committee on Un-American Activities (Martin Dies, chairman) with information on leftist activities. The Front Organization files include organizations interested in civil rights, social justice, refugees, writers, Vietnam, European turmoil in the 1930s and 1940s, the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, women, USSR, labor, and other organizations. Included are files on the Institute of Propaganda Analysis, League of Women Shoppers, the Public Affairs Committee, and the American Association of Scientific Workers. Also includes the Attorney General's list of Communist or Subversive Organizations. The Fellow Traveler file consists of records on several hundred individuals CR linked to "subversive" ideas, actions, or organizations. The file contains a miscellaneous section and an alphabetical section. Some of the individuals with large files include Dr. Edward U. Condon, J. Robert Oppenheimer, I.F. Stone, Dalton Trumbull, and Henry Wallace.

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