Word: mccarran
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SACB was established by the Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950 (the McCarran Act) which was passed over President Truman's veto during the early McCarthy era and the Korean War. This legislation empowers the attorney-general to order "Communist-action," "communist-front," and "Communist infiltrated" organizations to register as such with his office...
...dangers of the SCAB's powers are multifold and its benefits to internal security are imperceptible. As the courts have already held in the case of the Communist Party itself, the McCarran Act is a patent violation of the Fifth Amendment. This logic clearly should protect any organization or any individuals that the SACB might order to register...
Under the McCarran Act of 1950, organizations which are labeled "communist-action" or "communist front" groups are required to register with the Attorney General. Upon request of the Attorney General, the SACB determines whether an organization is such a group and whether individuals are members of any groups so labeled...
...urging students to attend the hearings "to call attention to the need for repeal of the McCarran Act," Kotz said
...American Communist Party is not the agent of any foreign power, Miss Flynn maintained. Its link with the Soviet Union is stated only in the McCarran Act, she said, and this link is based merely on findings of the House Un-American Activities Committee. "There has never even been the slightest attempt to prove the link legally," she insisted; "if we agree on something, it doesn't mean we are taking orders...