NLG ping. Frank is a longtime ACLU activist.
Re Frank and the ACLU. Typical comingling of an old Communist Party USA legal front, the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), now controlled by newer generations of Marxists, communists, hardcore leftists and America-haters, and the ACLU, still led by newer generations of hardcore hate-America, anti-police/intelligence, and gullible liberals.
The whole story of Frank Donner (Yale Un. ACLU Surveillance project and the CPUSA), Frank Wilkinson (CPUSA and NCAHCUA/HISC, etc).
Two great books on the role and strategies of CPUSA and other Marxist radical lawyers that you must have in order to understand “legal subversion”, are:
“Radical Lawyers: Their Role in the Movement and in the Courts”, Jonathan Black, editor, Avon ppb version 380-00296-125, Discus version, later 1971. Kunstler (poss. covert CPUSA member, definitely one of their top legal front men); Arthur Kinoy - CPUSA; CPUSA/Maoist Henry di Suvero - So. Cal. ACLU; Beverly Axelrod, CPUSA; Kathy Boudin - SDS Weathermen; the brilliant but always dangerous leftist Michael E. Tigar; CPUSA George W. Crockett, Jr., (judge, then US Rep. from Michigan, communist ideology buddy of Rep. John Conyers Jr (D-Mich); att. Charles R. Garry, CPUSA and the lawyer for whom Hillary Clinton worked on the “Black Panther Torture/Murder” trial in New Haven, Ct; and Jonathan Lubell, CPUSA.
Also see the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities reports on the NLG, “House Report 3123 on the “National Lawyers Guild” as the legal bulwark of the Communist Party, Sept. 21, 1950, originally released 9/17/50 and a later one embedded in a HISC hearing in the early 1970’s.
“Investigating the FBI: A Tough, Fair Look at the Powerful Bureau- Its Present and Its Future”, ed. by pat Watters and Stephen Gillers (I believe taught at the leftist John Jay College of Criminal Law), with an introduction by Tom Wicker (NY Times resident liberal leftist, just right of hardcore NYT columnist Anthony “Mr. Hanoi” Lewis). “A book of the Committee for Public Justice (CPJ), a CPUSA/mixed reds/leftist project led by old CPer Jessica Mitford, CNSS/IPSer Morton Halperin, etc. Ballantine Books, pp. New York, 1973/ first printing 1974. Includes such leftist/CPUSA members or supporters as Vern Countryman - Yale and his CPUSA mentor Prof. Thomas I. Emerson (Yale Un), Frank Donner (CPUSA/ACLU - Yale), and CPUSA sympathizer/disinformation specialist editor of the old Marxist “The Nation”, Victor Navasky. Ex-FBI agents/turncoats.
To quote the great philosopher Blutarsky in “Animal House”,
“Nine Years of College was not wasted” re my knowledge of these books/hearings.