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It looks, sounds, and smells just like a successor to the Communist Party’s “FOIA, Inc.”, a “transparency” front named “Freedom of Information Act, Inc.” Don’t have the names right in front of me but it was headed by people close to the CPUSA. It’s close-time relative was the “Committee for Public Justice”, founded by former CPUSA member and still sympathizer Lillian Hellman, and aided by CPUSA id. member lawyers and other mixed reds and far-left liberals.

Committe for Public Justice (CPJ): Formed in 1969 by Hellman, Hannah Weinstein (producer), and Jerome Weisner (MIT president), run by attorney Stephen Gillers, recruited Roger Wilkins (DOJ civil rights unit), Blair Clark (CBS), Ramsey Clark (former AG), Robert Coles (psychiatrist), Norman Dorsen (ACLU counsel), Burke Marshall (Kennedy associate, Clinton associate at Yale), Robert Silvers (NYT Book Review), Telford Taylor (Nuremberg prosecutor), Harold Willens (Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace).

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In October 1971, CPJ organized an anti-FBI conference at Princeton. Speakers included Robert Sherrill, Vern Countryman, Fred Cook, Aryeh Neier, Thomas Emerson, Victor Navasky, Frank Donner.