Present Status of Subversive Activities Control Board.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communist parties.

Constitutional law.

Executive orders.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (17 pages) : digital, PDF file

monochrome

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1974.

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Summary:

Discusses P.L. 90-237, which amended the Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950 to accomplish disclosure of Communist-action and front groups without requiring individual self-registration. Reviews Executive Order No. 11605 granting the Subversive Activities Control Board (SACB) responsibility for determining subversive organizations to be listed by Attorney General for use in screening applicants for Federal employment; and outlines debate over its constitutionality. Reviews H.R. 9669, to replace SACB with a Federal Internal Security Board. Summarizes FY73 exclusion of SACB from further funding, and subsequent termination of SACB in 1974.

Notes:

CRS Report.

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Microfiche version: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Present Status of Subversive Activities Control Board

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